Thought Containment Unit

May 30 2012 21:40

heksenhaus:

to answer a billion questions- i don’t use any photoshop filters.
i don’t know how to use photoshop, at all, and none of my own pictures are edited after being taken.
i have nothing against photo editing software, or artists who use it, but it’s just fundamentally not what i do.
now please stop asking because i really don’t feel comfortable talking about process and praxis in this space. 

He learned all of his visual art techniques at wizard picnics by keeping his mouth shut and ears open. Machete don’t text, and wizards don’t use Photoshop.

May 27 2012 19:48

tobia:

“Shantell Martin, a London-born artist whose line drawings adorn the walls of private homes and companies, has made her room in Brooklyn her canvas.”

» NYTimes.

Some people (including me) doodle on notebooks. Ms. Martin doodles on the world.

May 11 2012 21:20

shaneguiter:

TinType Photos Capture the 99% Conference in Vintage Style :: The 99 Percent

Everything old is new again - An internet-speed instant portrait studio where the final artifact is the result of nineteenth century tintype imaging technology.

May 03 2012 23:39
hydeordie: A little expensive for an app to tell me what post-modern-meta means.. “‘Demystify’, ugh. Either it speaks to you or it doesn’t. Maybe it’s supposed to be a mystery to you.” —Grumpy ol’ Thoughtcontainment

hydeordie:

A little expensive for an app to tell me what post-modern-meta means..

“‘Demystify’, ugh. Either it speaks to you or it doesn’t. Maybe it’s supposed to be a mystery to you.”

—Grumpy ol’ Thoughtcontainment

Apr 14 2012 18:33

The Night Watch

No, not the one from Game Of Thrones. This is a set of work-in-progress photos of one of P. J. Crook’s haunting acrylic paintings. Painting right over the frame brings the 3rd dimension into the work.

Mar 30 2012 22:35

MTV Revives 'Art Breaks'

hydeordie:

In its original incarnation, the series included work by Keith Haring, Doug Aitken, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf and Richard Prince. The new “Art Breaks,” to begin on April 2, will feature videos by emerging artists like Mickalene Thomas, Rashaad Newsome, Tala Madani, Jani Ruscica, and Mads Lynnerup. In a first, the artists, most of whom are in their 30s, were selected and commissioned through a partnership with MoMA PS1 and the arts organization Creative Time. The program will debut on MTV and MTV.com and have a dedicated Tumblr site at Artbreaks.MTV.com. Ms. Thomas’s video, titled “Ain’t I a Woman Portraits,” will begin the series on Monday; a preview is above.

There’s a Tumblr involved, looks super promising.

Paging Toyin Odutola, white courtesy telephone please.

Mar 26 2012 13:02
art-yearly: Abbot Henderson Thayer An Angel 1887 Thayer had a thing for painting angels with very human appearances. The model for this work is his daughter, Mary. In 1903 he would paint her sister, Gladys, as another angel in his Winged Figure Seated Upon a Rock.  

art-yearly:

Abbot Henderson Thayer

An Angel

1887

Thayer had a thing for painting angels with very human appearances. The model for this work is his daughter, Mary. In 1903 he would paint her sister, Gladys, as another angel in his Winged Figure Seated Upon a Rock.  

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Mar 23 2012 9:01

tobia:

Laylah Ali at her studio.

I love how methodical she is. Have always been inspired by that kind of precision and detail in her artwork and process, overall.

»art:21. 

I’m a sucker for exhibitions of art-in-process.

Mar 17 2012 22:14
artemisdreaming: Alphonse Mucha, illustrations from Le Pater (1889)   Original Lithograph, from “Le Pater” printed by F. Champenois and published by Henri Piazza in Paris, 1899. Le Pater, consisted of a series of seven drawings. The seven verses of the Lord’s prayer are presented with illustrations by Mucha. Images and description: szecesszio.com Mucha considered his publication Le Pater to be his printed masterpiece, and referred to it in The Sun of 5 January 1900 as what he had “put [his] soul into”. Printed on 20 December 1899, Le Pater was Mucha’s occult examination of the themes of The Lord’s Prayer and only 510 copies were produced.  wiki . Obligatory Alphonse Mucha reblog.

artemisdreaming:

Alphonse Mucha, illustrations from Le Pater (1889)

 

Original Lithograph, from “Le Pater” printed by F. Champenois and published by Henri Piazza in Paris, 1899.

Le Pater, consisted of a series of seven drawings. The seven verses of the Lord’s prayer are presented with illustrations by Mucha. Images and description: szecesszio.com

Mucha considered his publication Le Pater to be his printed masterpiece, and referred to it in The Sun of 5 January 1900 as what he had “put [his] soul into”. Printed on 20 December 1899, Le Pater was Mucha’s occult examination of the themes of The Lord’s Prayer and only 510 copies were produced.  wiki

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Obligatory Alphonse Mucha reblog.

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Mar 16 2012 9:52
tobia: I was so exhausted from having to draw out each of the sketches, scann them, upload them and finally synchronize them, that I simply went to makeagif and had the blasted thing do it for me. I wasn’t ready for another three or so hours of editing 20 frames/sketches for a custom gif. I simply require to see the entire movement in sequence to understand which moments will work, just how long the piece will last and how to time the loop.  This entire exercise is completely new to me, but I cannot contain my excitement (and apprehension). There is much work to be done, and intend on tackling this during break (as well as finishing my thesis edit, but that’s another story). This animation idea was also heavily inspired by seeing a video of the AKIRA pencil sketches, which I stumbled upon sometime last year. I was blown away by how they captured the motion of each individual character so seamlessly—even as rough sketches, and all of this was done in the 80s. It feels surreal, even as a rough draft! I’m working on my own with this small loop. It will not be nearly as detailed as, say, my fellow CCA grad, animator and textile genius, Kate Nartker, who takes her  compositions and makes them into video animations (incredible work, I know.) But I want to taste what it is like in some form, even tho’ my process is very amateur, I am learning a great deal from it. I cannot wait to when they are all drawn, scanned and edited to go. I hope to complete each frame drawing by the end of April (crosses fingers). Here’s hoping.  I’m so glad that her work is moving in this direction. This is going to be epic.

tobia:

I was so exhausted from having to draw out each of the sketches, scann them, upload them and finally synchronize them, that I simply went to makeagif and had the blasted thing do it for me. I wasn’t ready for another three or so hours of editing 20 frames/sketches for a custom gif. I simply require to see the entire movement in sequence to understand which moments will work, just how long the piece will last and how to time the loop. 

This entire exercise is completely new to me, but I cannot contain my excitement (and apprehension). There is much work to be done, and intend on tackling this during break (as well as finishing my thesis edit, but that’s another story).

This animation idea was also heavily inspired by seeing a video of the AKIRA pencil sketches, which I stumbled upon sometime last year. I was blown away by how they captured the motion of each individual character so seamlessly—even as rough sketches, and all of this was done in the 80s. It feels surreal, even as a rough draft!

I’m working on my own with this small loop. It will not be nearly as detailed as, say, my fellow CCA grad, animator and textile genius, Kate Nartker, who takes her  compositions and makes them into video animations (incredible work, I know.) But I want to taste what it is like in some form, even tho’ my process is very amateur, I am learning a great deal from it.

I cannot wait to when they are all drawn, scanned and edited to go. I hope to complete each frame drawing by the end of April (crosses fingers). Here’s hoping. 

I’m so glad that her work is moving in this direction. This is going to be epic.

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