Napkin
If creativity were a thing we could turn on and off (or for that matter, a thing we had any control over whatsoever) making a living as any sort of artist might strike less fear in the hearts of our…
Continue Reading →Surface Magazine's 10th Annual Avant Guardian Competition
During college I had a brief love affair with a manual Nikon and a hopeful image of myself as the next Annie Lebowitz. Sadly, due to my inability to hold my arms still, an inherent aversion to darkrooms and irreconcilable…
Continue Reading →A Mighty Heart
Whatever good or bad can be said about Angelina Jolie surely has already been written, but her sincere effort to portray Mariane Pearl, wife of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl in the narrative film A Mighty Heart should be…
Continue Reading →Conscious Alliance
I love concert posters. Half art, half music, and normally cheap enough to shamelessly store away once your next favorite band/artist needs wallspace, the concert poster definitely has earned its spot as the number one choice for temporary decoration. However,…
Continue Reading →Sneak Peek: Jen Bekman's 20X200
Murketing (penned by NYT columnist, Rob Walker) has a fantastic interview with one of my favorite gallerists here in NYC, Jen Bekman, focusing primarily on her new project 20X200. As the name suggests, 20X200 consists of print, photographic and mixed…
Continue Reading →Noelle Allen: Chicago
I never imagined anyone taking artistic inspiration from high-school biology classes...but then again, I never imagined finding inspiration for anything other than a good nap. While I was staring vacantly into space as my teacher tried to placate the Creationists,…
Continue Reading →Matt Morgan
In art and design, finding simplicity is rarely a simple process. The concept of removing the unnecessary sounds easy enough, but in order to really succeed, the artist/designer is often required to sift through piles of very complex concepts in…
Continue Reading →oneonenine
It's 83 degrees in Boulder today -- a temperature that's been slow to surface in comparison to the instant heat of a year ago -- and all of this direct sunlight has set me to thinking about summer reading. Since…
Continue Reading →The Graffiti Project
It's something you have to see to believe: four famous Brazilian graffiti artists, Nunca and Nina Pandolfo and duo Os Gemeos have been working for the past few weeks on covering the medieval Scottish Kelburn Castle with their colorful, signature…
Continue Reading →Mulheres Barbadas: Sao Paulo
Any artist who encourages me to take his/her art without having to exchange an amount equal to what I owe in student loans gets four stars in my lil' book of People I Want to Know Forever. Mulheres Barbadas are…
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