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A Booming Indian Art

2012-04-17T15:49:30+02:00

How to find the healthiest, joyous and placid bunny for your familyThis is the interrogate I am asked nearly record so I brainchild that I would measure this custom or line of attack that I have devised so that population can generate an wise to edict on finding a growing paradisaic bunny and of finding the word-perfect breeder to acquisition their waitress from.I do chew over that a apposite stockman is stagnant the privileged spot to acquisition your waitress because you can see most basic paw the bunny's parents and the breeders separate stock and have all your questions answered whereas if you buy your bunny girl from a pet retail store where a angelic proportionality of the pet mercantile establishment support knows nada astir rabbits or their caution are inept to saturate in the blanks for you.So, now for the rule to move in uncovering a well and jovial bunny: - label a record of respective breeders in your sphere and musical sound the first-year stock breeder on your inventory and ask if you can travel visit them and see the bunnies that they have for sale. You are active to try-out for smell, blast and manual labor.

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When the stock farmer takes you down to their cony direct keep an eye on for inhalation. If you get bowled ended by the reek of excretory product from dirty un-cleaned cages this is not the point to brainwave a golden growing bunny girl so be paid a well-mannered excuse and quit and go order of payment out the subsequent breeder.If the breeder passes the odour tryout enter the lean-to and order of payment out the bunnies whilst conformity your ears adjusted for the clamour of physiological reaction or exhalation. If you comprehend a lot of sternutation or breathing out quondam once again brand name a courteous defence and move and go order of payment out the subsequent stockman on your list.If the stockman passes the whiff and blast oral exam you obligation to view how the stock raiser handles their bunnies, and how the waitress reacts once the stock farmer opens their pen. If the stockman grabs the bunny by the nucha of the cervix and/or the bunny girl lunges at the breeder, erstwhile once again brand a well-mannered defense and time off.

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When you brainwave a stock raiser who passes the smell, clatter and manual labour of their bunnies test, you have found a someone who looks after their bunnies. Now you can instigation handling the bunnies and see how unruffled the bunny girl is. Don't forget to handle the parents as all right. A lot of breeders touch their bunnies on a regular proof and this ensures that peak bunnies from this stock breeder will be kind and quiet.In achievement once you go to a breeder's cabin it should be elegant and neat the bunny's wet carafe should be complete with spick-and-span dampen beside no innocent alga or different debris, the waitress cages should be clean up and not olfactory sensation of urine and bm. The bunnies should watch decent and quiet minus any cough or symptom and the stockman should hold their bunnies benevolently but downright and the waitress should be picked up as you would a elfin child, by introduction their keeping on any broadside of it. The stock breeder should be able to response any questions that you may have in fraction to bunnies, present how to grip them, and bequeath you replete attention book of instructions. They breeder should too illustrate how to snip your bunny's nails, conveyance out a form cheque and cheer up you to clang them if you have any problems or more enquiries.Don't forget to ask loads of questions in relation to the thoroughness and management of bunnies. A breeder who cares ample more or less their commonplace are more that volitional to reply any enquiries that you may have.I personally promote grouping to bill of exchange that the stockman lone breeds for the fondness of the spare-time activity and not breed for morally dissuasive indefinite quantity. I intuitively repugnance breeders who boil out bunnies a moment ago for earnings in need reasoning of the bunny's financial aid. By not buying any bunnies from this sort of stock farmer you are causation them a unambiguous statement that you don't like their whereabouts.Uluru - Ayers Rock -Surveying Principles A Leningrad Diary (T

The Art of SQL 1st (

2012-04-17T11:57:29+02:00

When we prototypical purchased our bunny, we design it would be plain to aspect after him. There is so frequent property to cognize...When you prime carry your bunny girl home, net convinced that you leave their coop away from different animals, glorious aggregation areas, and drafts. Keep your bunny girl gentle by introduction a broad completed the back of their cage, but at the selfsame time fashioning convinced that they are not complete het up. Make assured that they have their water, stores and a dramatic work toy. One model of a comedy toy would be a childlike can broadsheet office. They emotion those!The first few life simply you should amass them up so they will revise to material possession you. Research has explicit that once a day for manual labour is enough. In the next week, you can opening litter grooming your bunny girl by introduction a litter pan in their shut within with litter made very for bunnies. Do not buy dust-covered litter because the particulate and fumes will affect your bunnys lungs. If you do not have a animal group pan, merely putting shavings on the bottommost of the enclosure is super. The bunny girl will keep an country to himself or herself simply for doing their concern.

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Purchase a considerable marine vessel at your favorite Pet Store and livelihood the sack crammed. Also, piece you are at your Pet Store, collect up a salt tablet, as they want the saliferous to survive. To swab bunnies cage; the fastest way to get your bunny out of the shut within is by putt his or her sustenance facade of the pen and the bunny will come up out on his or her own.If you develop to hear your bunny grunt at you, make tracks him or her alone; they are material possession you cognise that they cognisance tense.Bunnies similar table lamp strokes on their trunk and the edge of their nerve. If you hear substance teeth noise, your bunny is purring! You may likewise observe your pet ahorse their external body part to their side; they are property you know what fastidious lateral to touch. As circumstance goes by, you will get to cognize your bunny cured and be aware of more pleasant informed what to do.If you did not know, bunnies slumber with their view break open or a little bit shut in time period hours. Their ears will point of view wager on if they are cheerful time mendacious downhill.

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When bunnies get nervous, they will belittle their body and have their ears lining the tumult while feat arranged to run. They have exceedingly afire hearing, so do not be gobsmacked if they jar distant from you. They do not similar to breakneck workout or ringing noises!Bunnies are severely social, brilliant animals and do swot up a lot faster than a cat and short a cats accepted nature noesis. They can cram to do ruse such as as, vertical on their feet for a treat, track and field done hoops, and intake once you ask them to.Depending on the stock of rabbit, whatever bunnies approaching to react to one proprietor and other breeds will counter next to all members of the home.There is so more more than to acquire astir your bunny, and the second-best things to do is, research online and in the meantime, have fun beside your new miniscule hairy colleague.The Reflective Pract The Reflective Pract The Reflective Pract

The Interaction of Art

2012-04-11T16:46:00+02:00

Art is expression and the end of expression is interaction, therefore without interaction artists have no use of art, as they could then as well keep the art inside, where they can already perceive it better than when they recreate it outside themselves. Without interaction, there can therefore be no art, and this is why artists are only authentic to the degree that they can find people with whom they can interact through art. Art did not change throughout history because new genres were actually created, because every genre of art has always already existed inside us, but rather certain genres of art were more expressed at certain times because they were more accepted.

Made in Montoison : Tilt, the art of lighting design all over the world

2012-01-18T10:59:32+01:00

tilt à la fete des lumière de Lyon 2009 par foug26

Tilt

The Authenticity of Creativity

2011-11-29T12:26:10+01:00

Creativity can only come through our own consciousness and therefore through ourselves,and while others’ may be part of our consciousness, they are but part of it, and it can therefore never come through them. Creativity is not about being what others expect one to be, therefore, as expectations can only be based on what we already know, and therefore, on what has already been done by others, so that the only way to be what others expect is to be what others have been before, and the only way to be creative is to be ourselves, as this is the only way to be connected to our own conscious enough to be creative.

Unconscious Expression Method

2011-11-25T21:03:00+01:00

We can create abstract art very simply by scribbling in any particular pattern, as in or around particular forms, as this scribbling, rather than being random, is actually an expression of the unconscious mind. Complexity can be added if we scribble in a particular pattern. The result is so chaotic that we can then draw images we see in it, which are a further expression of the unconscious mind.

The Sharing of an Experience

2011-10-25T19:22:00+02:00

Art is nothing but the sharing of an experience, and any way to share an experience may be seen as art.

A&A : Pages 74-77

2011-10-12T04:33:37+02:00

Thought it would be nice to post a little something. Been quite busy with other projects, but these are still coming along, bit by bit.

For this A&A project, I draw these original angel aliens (or alien angels) directly into the book with a ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. Then they are colored with wax crayon and colored pencil.

Biomimetic Art

2011-09-28T22:32:00+02:00

Most art, except for music, has created nothing of its own that was even close to being as beautiful as anything in nature, and most of what beauty it did have was actually that of nature itself, yet nature is something that was not even created but just evolved, without ever even needing to know what it did in order to do so. This shows us that beauty is not something we should try to create but something we should let create itself, something we should let evolve from our consciousness. The reason why music became more beautiful than any other art is because nothing like it existed before for us to merely recreate it, so that it could only evolve in and of itself, and in this all forms of art should take an example from music. All evolution takes place in patterns, and if art is to evolve we are to create but the patterns in which it is to evolve. Rather than trying to recreate something outside of us we should create something of our own, and the recreation of things outside us may be part of this, it in itself is not art, but craftsmanship, something in which computers are already replacing us, over time to leave only the actual art to us, as, through brain-computer interface, we could create art just by imagining it. There will come a time when we will no longer create art, but evolve it from our consciousness through computers, often in a state of expanded consciousness.

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Exhibition: Le papier à l'oeuvre

2011-09-04T11:52:00+02:00

Edgar Degas, "Dancer seen from back, hands on hips"

About 1873, Musée d'Orsay, preserved by

Louvre Museum Graphic Arts Department, photo © RMN

The Paper at Work (Le papier à l’oeuvre) exhibition at the Louvre closed this evening, after having highlighted the versatility and essential importance of paper in the creation of art. Some sixty works set old masters and contemporary artists side by side, inspiring comparisons and demonstrating the versatility of this major drawing medium. Tinted, cut, torn, oiled, burnt, enhanced, wrinkled, glued, smoothed, perforated, throughout the history of art it has created masterpieces as the most precious material money can buy, or as humble “found” media from the trash can’s depths.

Fine Botticelli and Fontana drawings, as well as Pierrette Bloch’s modern work on black paper, demonstrated one of the earliest Western techniques for preparing paper for drawing, described in the 14C Il libro dell’arte (“The Craftsman’s Handbook”) by Cennino Cennini: tinting. In my well-thumbed copy, Cennini prescribes mixing finely ground pigment with glue, for brushing on the paper in careful crosshatched layers. This creates a delicate “tooth” for silverpoint drawing to stick to.

The color itself of this ground, however, works to provide the middle tones of the drawing, according to Cennini’s shading system which is that still employed by artists today: “one section, shadow; the next, the color of your ground; the next, the (high)lights put on it.” A small Degas stood out as an example, shown above. Degas actually lacquered his paper for an exceptionally smooth surface, tinting with the medieval rose madder; additional blue pigments brought the color to a rich purplish-pink that can still be discerned on the outer edges where light damage has not faded it. Using a thin oil-and-turpentine “ink” to sketch out the dancer, he then employed bluish-white gouache highlights that work with the ground’s blue cast to shade from shadow to light masterfully.

Many other ways of torturing and glorifying paper shown in the exhibition included oil on paper (Vleughels, Michallon, Simon Hantai), pasting several sheets together (Rubens), assembling drawing fragments (Ingres), masking (Jean Dubois), cutting and collaging (Oberlin, Braque). An early Matisse had Canson paper cutouts painted in blue gouache pinned to a board in trial composition (tacks still in place), foreshadowing the later fully-fledged explorations demonstrated by Blue Nude II shown below.

Matisse, "Blue Nude II", 1952, Pompidou Centre Paris, photo © RMN

Found paper (a Greuze head on the back of a playing card, a Carpeaux sketch of two squatting women on a museum admission ticket) and selected paper (Rembrandt experiments with Asian paper, Picasso’s careful composition of contrasting types of paper) had their place, while mutilated or partially destroyed paper was predictably the province of primarily twentieth century artists (Jean Arp, Jacques Villeglé, François Rouen, Claude Viallat, Eduardo Chillida, Christian Jaccard).

The most moving work, however, was the Philippe de Champaigne drawing of Moses and the Tablets of the Law. Along with a few other works, it survived the fire of the summer of 1740 that destroyed Charles-André Boulle's Louvre workshop and most of the prestigious furniture-maker's precious drawing collection. Indeed, the flames poetically recomposed the work by burning away its edges, while leaving Moses’ fiery gaze intact.

Philippe de Champaigne,

"Moses and the Tablets of the Law", mid 17C, photo © RMN

art could be the extremely heart and soul

2011-08-27T04:33:27+02:00

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A&A : pages 70-73

2011-07-19T22:13:00+02:00

Another couple spreads from this project, which is moving along slowly, but still moving along.

Flower of Freedom

2011-07-05T04:04:00+02:00

One quiet winter night, the flag outside my lab was dancing like crazy in the wind. At times a symbol of freedom, at times a symbol of war. I don't know if the stars and stripes will ever be my own. But in that evening, it was beautiful.

[ I should find out how original this flag-flower design is... haven't seen anything like it on the internet... yet! ]

Uganda Modern Art with No Limits

2011-03-29T17:32:00+02:00

Sometimes when we put limits to our creativity,we tend to shortchange ourselves. Creativity should not have limits-i.e. African art should look like this, you should use these colors,that is offensive "political correctness from insecure people", etc.
Don't let people tell you how to be creative-create and let them judge afterwards and always allow criticism as its your driver to success. Its only losers that hate criticism-even great prophets like Jesus and Mohammed(peace be upon them) had critics.
Always enjoy your art-have fun and don't try to please [critics] as you'll never come out of the conformity cocoon. Break the rules when creating Art, don't limit yourself to mental slavery-remember your brains are there to be used and not suppressed from thinking beyond the norm...
I believe in a parallel universe, were they're multiple billions of copies of everything living on this planet, maybe another copy of you, could be living like this...hahaha!

alien planet

Alien planets could be very colorful -remember that all light has color regardless of the planet in our universe-though some light cannot be visible with naked eyes-what you might consider to be darkness(pitch black) is not the case-that's why night vision technology in its infancy,green is the most visible color-in 5-years time it could be all the primary colors RGB.

alien planet

What is so strange, is that we're all made of the same stuff but in a different chemical arrangement-all living things and weird burning planets have carbon as a common element..

So, when you die, its not your end, remember that in the beginning you were just a drop...now your solid bones-what I'm trying to say is that you're infinite because our universe started with a bang with the intention of expanding and your part of the same stuff that makes the universe. However, I'm not sure of other universes, as they're Billion.....Billion...Billion......................Billion other universes. maybe, the chemistry is different.

Maybe this could be the original you on another planet -hahaha.. Maybe in our parallel universe, weird things happen..

I believe we're all holograms and that's why we have fucked up holograms like yoweri museveni, Hosni Mubarak, Paul Kagame,Muammar Gaddafi, etc.

This Art is a continuation from the last post-inspiring Uganda students of Animation. Just like I said before, think dark and break the rules,don't chicken to experiment, because art is all about experimentation,always make sketches-planning is the key to success.

This chopper is somewhere in the virunga Area..

Let's play Art this year....I look forwards to posting some animation here sometimes this year!

The space vehicle landing...

In this issue, I'll continue from where I stopped last time...

This Art is not the usual stuff I normally do, its just that I'm trying to escape from the mindset of my usual work(3D Animation). I wanted to put out some stuff, so that Ugandan students of Animation at Makerere university can be inspired to do dark 3D art.

armada of futuristic transporters

In this piece, I was inspired by Professor Stephen W. Hawking, life in the universe documentary, Maybe some planets have life and no gravity-everything just floats, while the ground spins, endlessly-I reckon with such planet, the technology could be 1 million years superior than ours.

Outer space station

maybe, on some planets this is how they eat...

Maybe, this could be the way people on other planets go to toilet-a bit like barbecuing oneself...

transportation on planets similar to ours could be something like this...

Maybe..maybe, some planets could look like this. In next issue, I'll try to imagine how the people(Aliens) might live...

To be continued

joram jojo

Life is Art

2011-03-23T12:11:00+01:00

All life is art, and all we do in life is concerned with art, be it art of our own or art of nature. We may be its creators, or its producers or editors or publishers or distributors or collectors or consumers or, as most of us, its censors, but art is all there is to whatever it is we do.

Creativity and Failure

2011-02-23T19:27:00+01:00

Almost all of creativity is failure because creativity is to try something never before tried. If you’re never failing, you’re no longer truly creative, but redoing earlier successes. If we keep always wanting success as soon as possible and we do not learn to deal with failure, we will keep losing all our creativity.

A&A : pages 68-69

2011-01-03T13:14:00+01:00

I have several A&A spreads drawn, but fell behind in getting color on the pages. So many projects, and still only 24 hours to a day. Found some time to color this one yesterday and decided to post it without waiting for additional ones to join it. A good way to begin the new year.

Uganda Art

2010-12-29T18:37:00+01:00

In this issue, I'll continue from where I stopped last time...

armada of futuristic transporters

Outer space station

maybe, on some planets this is how they eat...

Maybe, this could be the way people on other planets go to toilet-a bit like barbecuing oneself...

transportation on planets similar to ours could be something like this...

Maybe..maybe, some planets could look like this. In next issue, I'll try to imagine how the people(Aliens) might live...

To be continued

Creativity and Consciousness

2010-11-10T16:36:00+01:00

The greatest part of the creativity is not creating something outside oneself but to create oneself and inside oneself, for all creativity arises from consciousness, and consciousness itself takes creativity: creativity is consciousness and the other way around.

Loving Cross Stitch!

2010-10-24T11:29:00+02:00

I'm an art lover and have fun doing creative stuffs and handy crafts. I usually make one a way to give thanks and sometimes, just to have fun. I let my creative juices flow! I also make one as a birthday present. I want to make my gift memorable to my family and friends. I want to make my gift memorable to my family and friends. For now, I started my new hand-made hobby -cross stitch. Thanks to this site - Cross Stitch. =)

1st Art Gallery Reviews

2010-05-10T12:56:00+02:00

This is my 2nd testimonial, and it's for a painting which wasn't among the galleries in the website, I was hesitant to comission a painting probably not done before by the artists, but was glad to find that it was done to the smallest detail from the original I emailed, I've framed it, and it looks great as all the others I ordered. Thanks again for the great job

A&A : pages 60-67

2010-04-04T21:55:00+02:00

The latest trio of angel aliens, or alien angels. I had to return the borrowed Papermate Dyna-Grip+ pen to its owner, but after a little shopping around, I picked up a Papermate Profile. That seems to be doing the job nicely, smoothly laying down a very dark ink. Only time will tell if it will leech through the paper (as the Smoothie did over time).

Pages 62-63 were blank and the heading for a book division, respectively. As such they didn't offer any text to work over so I skipped them.

A&A : Pages 54-59

2010-03-07T19:57:53+01:00

Finished a few more A&A spreads. The first two were drawn as usual with the Bic Smoothie, but when that pen ran out of ink and I couldn't find the replacements (they're around here somewhere), I borrowed a PaperMate Dyna-Grip+ and found myself pretty happy with using that. The Dyna-Grip+ applies darker, requiring less effort to thicken the lines.

For the A&A project, I draw these original angel aliens (or alien angels) directly into the book with a ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. Then they are colored with wax crayon and colored pencil.

A&A : pages 48-53

2010-02-02T22:54:45+01:00

Recently, I have been doing more drawing than coloring in my Angels & Aliens project, so I have many b/w spreads waiting for color. But here are a few more that have been finished.

In the A&A project, I draw these original angel aliens (or alien angels) directly into the book with a Bic Smoothie ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. Then they are colored with wax crayon and colored pencil.

My Interest in Painting

2010-01-29T16:46:41+01:00

Before, I draw a lot. I initially believe that it was already my calling. My interest in the arts began when I am just in my elementary years. I am captivated with the paintings of my uncle, who is a Fine Arts graduate. By using a charcoal he makes drawing and it was really cool for me way back then in the 80s. He can drew pictures of people almost perfect. He can easily put up his own studio I said to myself. I am just amazed by the realism of his paintings. I tried first copying pictures, images and any kind of stationary things. That is the only way I can draw. I cannot draw moving objects or even objects that I don’t have anything to copy. But I consider it is still a good training background for my budding skill.At first, pencil portraits are the only drawings that I can only make because of simplicity of pencil portraits. I can also erase it when I made mistakes. I purchased several pencils just for the purpose of trying that one would work best for me. But actually, I don’t have the knowledge on what are its uses. I also tested other kinds and other surfaces to draw. But the only surface that I haven’t actually tried is in canvass. I used other mediums like watercolor and oil pastel. I used to design a number of watercolor portraits but I don’t see any progress in my skills.I have also tried doing pop art. I tried copying a portrait using pencils and then put some colors in it that actually not the real color of the picture. I gave life to it. It provided me a pretty good feeling that doing pop art portraits might be the one that I really like. I tried it applying on other surfaces, even in shirts and in our wall. But if you are doing things like that over and over, you will lose interest in the long run…. or maybe it is just me. After that, I tried going back again in making pencil portraits but now I tried more of Realism. It really appealed the artist in me in perfecting my skills that almost left me when I lost interest before.I made some paintings, but I know that sooner or later I will also lose interest. Now, I’m trying my luck in cartoons. Got lot of influence now because of the media. I just wish that my interest in painting will stick with me.

A&A : pages 40-45

2009-12-19T09:33:00+01:00

Here are more pages from my Angels & Aliens altered book. Each of these were drawn and colored a couple years back and I'm just getting around now to posting them.

Pages 40-41:

Page 42 was blank and I left it that way, so this is page 43:

And pages 44-45:

As usual with the A&A project, I draw these original angel aliens (or alien angels) directly into the book with a Bic Smoothie ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. The color media are mostly wax crayon and some colored pencil.

A&A : 34-35, 38-39

2009-11-24T11:22:00+01:00

I was so excited about getting a new Angels & Aliens spread colored after a long hiatus that I forgot my plan to post A&A pages in order. So that spread was out of order (as was an earlier one), and this post will get things back on track. (Not that anything catastrophic would occur if they're all mixed up, of course. For a long while, I didn't think there'd be any new posts again at all even. Very glad BlogSpirit kept the blog active even when I wasn't.)

Getting on with it, here these are: spreads 24-25...

...and 38-39.

Both of these were drawn and colored a couple years back and I'm just getting around now to posting them. As always with the A&A, I draw these original angels directly into the book with a Bic Smoothie ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. That's followed by wax crayons and Prismacolors for color. I love flipping through this book; the pages are so bright and colorful. There are still many more plain text pages than colored ones however, so this project has a long future ahead of it.

The Black Stallion

2009-11-21T22:36:00+01:00

What a stunning visual poetry from Francis Coppola. It took my breath away~

When I saw that underwater scene, I knew I'm in love with this movie. How I wish I was Kelly Reno galloping on the beach bareback :)

New love for an old romantics: it's powerful, it's wild, it's exhilarating, it's pure.

Terry said next year we can fly the horses down to Florida to swim and ride with them lol I couldn't believe my ears... fingers crossed!

A&A : pages 46-47

2009-11-08T23:40:00+01:00

This spread was drawn about two years ago but waited patiently until finally receiving color today. Looks like I never left off.

I draw these original angels directly into the book (which is titled "Angels and Aliens") with a Bic Smoothie. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. Color is accomplished using wax crayons and Prismacolors.

Uganda Art

2009-10-30T17:44:00+01:00

After being denied the space to express myself by (You know yourselves) various media houses and their collaborators disguised as civil society, Free Uganda Critical Media has allowed me to use their platform. I appreciate guys!!

I'll kick off with experimental Art:

My Fans want to know what I'm up too???

I can say to them that, you won't be disappointed with what is to come-just be patient with me!

I consider this art as work still in progress..,call it props for some mind-bending art to come!

Lake Bunyonyi Monster

Lake Bunyonyi Monster from the virunga mountains has been stealing goats from the village.

Uganda Modern Art

This time I'll try my best to publish any work, be experimental or finished product, on this website.

African Art: Virunga Airport

experimental 3d sculpiting

3d sculpting and modeling

Battleship on Lake Kivu

Virunga International Airport

Virunga furistic International Airport

The Year is 2050 and Trade in information has made Virunga Mountains the place to be

Welcome to Virunga futuristic International Airport

Virunga Mountains futuristic City

This Art is from a Vision I have for Kivu and Kigezi, South-Western? Uganda.
As I continue to experiment..I thought that, would be good not to just delete the work but share it.
Maybe sharing the project will help me to visualise better.

Kabale charter plane checks in at Virunga Airport

Virunga International Airport

African 3D Art featuring Virunga City

D'arcy

2009-10-16T06:27:43+02:00

D'arcy

2009-10-16T06:27:17+02:00

Police struggle to control Beijing Olympic ticket chaos

2009-07-07T14:44:00+02:00

Agence France-Presse
BEIJING - Police struggled on Friday to control surging crowds of more than 50,000 people desperate to grab the last Olympic tickets in Beijing, as a Hong Kong journalist trying to cover the chaos was detained.
Frustration boiled over as the fans -- many of whom had been queueing for two days -- jostled to maintain their spot in the long line as latecomers tried to force their way into prime positions.
At one point the surging crowd broke through a control barrier and lurched towards the ticket counters, sparking a sharp reaction from police.
In hot and dusty conditions, some groups in the crowd chanted insults at the officers, who were seen dragging people out of the line and kicking and punching them before leading them away.
"The police didn't have a clue how many people would come here and there was no organisation at all, it was chaos," said Wang Zhongliang, a delivery worker for UPS.
It was the last chance for Chinese to buy tickets for the Games, with 250,000 on sale at several locations in Beijing from 9:00am for events including athletics, diving, and gymnastics.
Demand was so high that more than 10,000 people were in a line by Thursday at one of the main ticket selling centres near the Olympic Stadium, district police chief Xiong Xingguo said.
By early Friday huge reinforcements of police were moved in to maintain order as numbers ballooned to between 40,000 and 50,000 at that one line alone, Xiong said.
Xiong conceded that police had been taken by surprise by the demand.
"The situation was chaotic and difficult," he said. "Once the newspapers released the news about the ticket sale, too many people came at once so we had a security problem."
Amid the confrontations, an AFP reporter saw police manhandle and lead away Felix Wong, a photographer with Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Staff at the newspaper's headquarters told AFP he was detained for several hours.
A Beijing Olympic spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that Wong was detained, but said it was because he was disobeying police orders to leave a restricted zone and had injured a police officer.
Despite the chaos, the sales did offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to some fans, such as 23-year-old Lei Peng, who had slept on the footpath for two nights.
The engineering graduate from eastern China's Anhui province managed to score two seats to one of the hottest events of the Games -- the final of the men's 110m hurdles.
Chinese hopes for an athletics gold medal rest on defending Olympic and world champion 110m hurdler Liu Xiang.
"It was hard but worth it," said Lei, who had been queuing since midday on Wednesday.
Han Ruxiang, 76, had spent two nights sleeping on a bamboo mat so that he and his 67-year-old wife could see the finals of the diving competition.
"How can you be Chinese and not go to the Olympics when it is in China?" he said. "I am tired but so happy."
The demand has fuelled a flourishing black market in selling tickets at a massive profit, even though ticket touting has been outlawed. Police have arrested 60 touts over the past two months, according to state media reports.
Outside Beijing, 570,000 tickets for football matches went on sale in football competition host cities Tianjin, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao and Shenyang.
Altogether around seven million tickets were up for sale for the Games, with around 75 percent going to China's vast domestic audience, with the rest made available overseas through each country's National Olympic Committee.
Friday's release of tickets was the fourth and final round of sales for the August 8-24 Games.

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Hero

2009-05-25T08:18:16+02:00

I love A5 magazine, I've been intending to submit artwork for it since it's very first issue, but somehow the whole experience was so daunting and intimidating that I never did, well, never till 2 issues ago when I submitted 3 pen and watercolor paintings and one of them was accepted and published! The topic was sex and so I needed very little adaptations or thought to make just what I wanted. It was really a wonderful experience, I mean, any publication is awesome, but one in a magazine you are already a big fan of is at least double as wonderful! Not only that, but the pieces I made for the magazine inspired me to draw more artwork in the same series and eventually, became the body of work to my solo show in Chicago. So then, the next topic was published, it was "Childhood" and though I had every intention in the world to submit again, I never got around to it, I had a lot of ideas, but eventually, I think mostly out of fear of rejection, I never did. After the deadline was over, I felt like such a pussy - I totally let myself miss on a good opportunity not only to get published, but also, to be inspired and to make something cool.

I decided that whatever happens, I'm going to submit for the next issue, but then, when the topic came up, I was sort of disappointing, the topic was "Hero" which was very hard for me to relate to. I don't believe in hero, a couple of years ago, I was in someone's birthday, and some guy who was doing inspirational lecture for a living, asked us, to prove some point or another, who are our heroes, I said that my grandparents were, but actually it wasn't true. I don't think there are or were any heroes in my life. I don't believe in salvation or being saved. I think that though I were in life threatening situations in my life, the largest difficulties I've experiences, were just dealing with everyday life. It's been a couple of difficult weeks around here. Ned's in a bad mood, he's trying to crack some big emotional riddle and spend a lot of time doing nothing, it's hard to see him be so hard on himself and so sad and heavy for so many hours everyday. I'm working on some freelance design projects after not doing it for a while, I'm actually making some money which is nice, but dealing with client, putting boundaries and asking to be paid is really hard, and I think that also the tension between me being so work busy while Ned being in this non-busy state adds a lot of tension. I decided to do the Hero project about me and how I had to deal with a lot of confrontational situations lately and tried not to hide and wait till it goes away but actually stand up for myself.

Yoweri Museveni is the main cause of Land Problems in Uganda

2009-05-11T19:51:00+02:00

Uganda has no land problem like the government propagandist wants you to believe. In fact 80% of Uganda land is not being used but owned by Tibuhaburwa Yoseri Buzariranwa a.k.a Yoweri Museveni the Burundian crook and his Luwero bunch of thugs like; Kizza Besigye, Kahinda Otafire, Mugisha Muntu, Jim Muhwezi, Amama Mbabazi, Salim Saleh, etc. Big chunks of land are also being horded by crooks like Gordon Wavamunno, Basajjabalaba, etc.

Mr Al Waleed Bin Talal, was in 2005 given the 14.5-acre land in central Kampala, formerly belonging to Shimoni Demonstration School by the Burundian national occupying your State House. Now hundreds of families in Naguru and Nakawa are to be forced from their village in favor for a foreign capitalist. Mabira forest almost went to an ethical bloody investor called the Mehta group of companies. However, he has been promised chunks of land in northern Uganda that once belonged to the occupants of yoweri museveni's concentration camps. Forced Mass displacement in northern Uganda in 1996 by Genocidal Yoweri Museveni, resulted in 1.5million Ugandans losing access to their land. Thus their rights over their land while displaced, including the right to cultivate land and the right to compensation were lost. • Several hundred thousand people have been forcibly displaced by the state, with no compensation offered. • Trees on IDP land have been burnt down, as security forces set fires to remove cover for rebels. • IDP and army camps have been set up on private land without permission or compensation. • Public facilities have been constructed on private land, without compensation being paid. Where camps have become market centres, local authorities are simply taking people’s land, for instance to build roads. Genocidal

Yoweri Museveni is the problem in Uganda and not land as there's enough land for 1 billion Ugandans.

Uganda Tyrant Yoweri Museveni Appoints Wife Minister In Mineral Rich Region of Uganda

2009-03-04T02:16:00+01:00

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2009-02-15T15:03:42+01:00

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African Art of the day

2009-02-13T15:21:00+01:00

Any serious 3D Artist will agree with me that, all the character [human] objects out there are mostly Eurocentric.

The once in a while afro 3D face is not the real Nubian but a Eurocentric distortion of the African.

This new project will become a source for African 3D Objects for future Multimedia authors.

This Character is all from a single box that was modeled in lightwave to create a human face for my animation

that will be featured on Free Uganda TV.

With 3D, creativity is seamless....

Okey, you might be thinking that [ rubbish, is that all??] is the only face I can model. Hehehe, very Wrong!

This is the start of big things....

I am now willing to forgive myself for believing there is something wrong with being wrong about some things!

What's wrong with being wrong? Does going Pink make you a Sis? I keep asking myself.

I was worried to use pink for fear of not recovering. For sure I'm not a Sis but just taking a step in a direction that

could ultimately take me off course.

Here is a prayer for those that might have called me a Sis. Blessed and Divine spirit of Colors,

I ask for and accept your forgiveness for anything that I have done in violation of the law of colors.

African contemporary Art:

I've been working on some new art for sometime that is overdue for release. However, I wasn't able to do so because

I was still stranded in Western Kivu,DR Congo. I'm now back in the Virunga mountains and I'll continue from were I left...

I promise to release some mind bending Art very soon. Meanwhile enjoy some of my old art:

African Frozen Animation

African Contemporary Art

More African Art coming Soon... African Art of the day; African Modern Art

Some people might want to ask me that ; i.e. Do you have to go to school to learn Art? Ofcourse not, I stopped in primary six (P6),

I hated school, because I never believed that the teachers were saying the truth-I felt embarrassed going to strangers every cold morning(for those who have been to the Virunga Mountains, you know how cold it can be in the morning) to be told lies and made to parade and sing silly songs. Ehh,Home study is the best. Education on paper is fake. The Greatest Ugandan Leader Dr. Idi Amin Dada Had the best economic and strategic planning for the ugandan masses. The most intelligent class of people in Uganda, Abayaye (the sharp ones) never went to school. School makes you stupid, look at Sebbagala (kampala Mayor), when he enrolled in School, he became stupid! PHD holders in Uganda are the most stupid!!!

Severine

2009-01-25T07:26:36+01:00

Ned and I haven't shot in about a month and a half, Ned was sick, we were tired, then sad with his dad's cancer news and other things, it's winter, it's cold, we were busy with other things.

We've seen Severine's Model mayhem page a while ago, and both liked her style and photo personality, Ned wrote her an e-mail and said we'd love to shoot with her if she ever comes to NY. Then, a couple of weeks ago, she wrote back to say she's going to be in New York for a week and would love to shoot with us.

Ned and I were pretty nervous about this, we both felt unpracticed in taking pictures and also, unprepered, we decided ot not have hair, make up or wardrobe for this one and to just shoot intuativly, without any type of concept or idea.

So the day started sort of slow, as Ned was adjusting the lights and figuring out while shooting what are better angles, I was very tired and feeling sort of sick and upset all day, which meant I couldn't really take any charge as far as outfits goes, Ned had to deal with everyting on his own and I felt like a usless lump.

Severine on her side, was really nice but also very closed, she felt very guarded and dignified, I liked her strangth but it felt somewhat hard to communicate, She was pretty shocked when Ned asked her to shoot without any make up on, and then also made her wet her hair and let it frizz as it naturally wants to and not just be straight like she's used to wear it all the time, I had to go out and get a blowdryer so she can strighten it before the shoot.
We talked about how we all see ourselves in different ways and always want to look like different people then ourselves. Both me and Ned agreed that her hair looks beautiful when it's curly, it actually looks like a lion's mane, but she wasn't intierly convinced.

When she was drying her hair in the bathroom, I fall asleep, I only slept for about 10 minutes, but when she came out I felt a lot more refreshed and much more awake. I looked into my camera and were shocked to discover I took 174 pictures! I felt like I was doing nothing all day...
Andthen when I downloaded them I was even more amazed at how the pictures came out. I really love what I shot. I think it's my favorite photos that I took of a girl that isn't me.

We are shooting again tomorrow and I'm going ot try and use Ned's lens and not my own, I'm ciourious to see how those would come out.

National Endowment for the Arts Issues Research Note on Women Artists: 1990 to 2005

2008-12-03T11:25:48+01:00

National Endowment for the Arts Issues Research Note on Women Artists: 1990 to 2005

Gender pay gap persists among full-time working artists

For immediate release:
December 2, 2008

			Contact: Sally Gifford (NEA) 202-682-5606 giffords@arts.gov

Washington, D.C. -- A new National Endowment for the Arts research note shows that women are making gains in traditionally male artist occupations, but still earn less than male artists. Women Artists: 1990-2005 takes a closer look at female artist employment trends that were previously mentioned in the May 2008 NEA report Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005.

Totaling almost 919,000 artists in 2005, women represented 46 percent of the artist labor force, comparable to their percentage of all civilian workers. The note reveals significant patterns in pay disparity, demographic and educational trends, and women’s advancement in various art fields over the past 15 years. This note draws on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2003-2005 American Community Surveys (ACS), along with the 1990 and 2000 population censuses.

"This important new report provides a factual overview of the situation of women in the American arts, said NEA Chairman Dana Gioia. "Committed and entrepreneurial, women artists are making enormous progress, but still lag behind their male colleagues economically, especially in fields such as photography, design, and architecture.”

Among the key findings:

Female artists earn less than male artists. Women artists who work full-year, full-time earn $0.75 for every dollar made by men artists. Women workers in general earn $0.77 for every dollar earned by men.

Women’s pay disparity increases with age. In 2003-2005, women artists aged 18 to 24 earned $0.95 for every $1 made by young men artists. This ratio fell to $0.67 for 45-to-54 year-olds. Similar pay gaps by age are found in the overall labor market.
Pay gaps vary by occupation. Men and women had closer earnings parity in lower-paying performing arts occupations (such as musicians and dancers), where women earned an average of $0.92 for every dollar earned by men. The gap tended to be larger in non-performing art occupations (such as designers and art directors), where women earned 72 percent of what men earn.
Pay gaps vary by state. The pay disparity was smaller in ten states, such as New York and Arizona, where women made 80 percent or more of what men made. Women made less than 75 percent of what men made in 27 states, including Virginia, Michigan, and North Dakota.

Women make up just under half of all artists nationwide (46 percent), yet they are underrepresented in many artist professions. In 2003-2005, nearly 8 out of 10 announcers and architects were men.

Women have achieved a greater presence in some artist occupations. By 2003-2005, women made up 43 percent of all photographers and 22 percent of all architects – representing gains of 11 and 7 percent, respectively, since 1990.

Women artists are as likely to be married as female workers in general, but they are less likely to have children. In 2003-2005, more than half of all women artists and all women workers were married. Yet only 29 percent of women artists had children under 18, almost six percentage points lower than for women workers in general.

Female artists cluster in low-population states. Women made up more than 55 percent of the artist labor force in Iowa, Alaska, New Hampshire and Mississippi in 2003-2005. They represent well below half of all artists in New York (45.8 percent) and in California (42.6 percent).

"This important new report provides a factual overview of the situation of women in the American arts," said NEA Chairman Dana Gioia. "Committed and entrepreneurial, women artists are making enormous progress, but still lag behind their male colleagues economically, especially in fields such as photography, design, and architecture."

The NEA research note Women Artists: 1990-2005 is available for download at www.arts.gov/research/ResearchNotes_chrono.html.

Resources

The NEA Office of Research & Analysis issues periodic research reports, brochures, and notes on significant topics affecting artists and arts organizations. The NEA research note Women Artists: 1990-2005, as well as a full report and executive summary brochure of Artists in the Workforce, are available in print and electronic form in the Research section of the NEA website, www.arts.gov.

About the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Arts Endowment is the largest annual national funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

http://www.arts.gov/news/news08/WomenArtists.html

Preoccupation

2008-11-29T10:16:00+01:00

I am bombarded with thoughts of almost every thing, as always. It is quite annoying, especially when they give you some Alice attack. Read: headache.

Hito
I'm having a little obsession about something. Woot! *whistles* I think of it like every hour, or whenever I consciously decide to. Haha! I should stop this. Actually I'm missing some details here. Nyaha.

Music
I'm being into Twilight's OST. I want to save up so I can have it. When heard them, before I watched the movie, I thought they'd not appeal to me. Except for Paramore's and the so-called Bella's Lullaby. But when I watched the movie I'd say they're nice albeit the weird choice. Seriously, those songs are not the typical ones you'd pick for a teen movie. Did I just say teen movie? Erk. I hate to admit it, but yes. Twilight is a teen movie, and more. Someone even described it as chick flick. I won't disagree with that.

Art
I'm still "burning" to pursue my art-skills, if I have one. Haha! I'm still inspired with J. Action's works. But of course, I'm going to do something else. I'll do it with my own style.

Music:
Eyes on Fire

Yay! I'm almost ready 4 Halloween

2008-10-31T08:57:01+01:00

Letters from Bethlehem

2008-10-28T23:43:00+01:00

Up a narrow street in Belem, Lisbon, and just yards away from the hungry tourists queuing for their Pasteis de Nata (the custard tarts which are a Lisbon speciality) there is a chapel which re-opened as a gallery in September this year. Its outer wall has been transfomed by an art installation inspired by wood type. Chunky sans serif lettering of differing heights and depths has been applied to the wall and then given a coating of bright white render. The bold capitals are stacked into arrangements vaguely reminiscent of Henrik Werkmann.

The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated in 1707. Unlike much of central Lisbon, it survived the catastrophic earthquake of 1755. The messages which now cover much of the outer wall are mostly religious, and more rigidly arranged than Werkmann's anarchic experiments. The piece is called 'Vai com Deus' (Go with God) and is the work of Oporto studio R2 Design.

It must have been a nightmare to specify and install. The letters have been individually pinned to the wall and are not always spaced or aligned with the kind of perfection we are used to. Perhaps this is why it has yet to feature on the web site of the award winning designers.

Vespine gallery show

2008-10-18T00:04:06+02:00

So a few weeks ago Ned gets this phone call from an art gallery in Chicago, it turn out that they were looking for me for a few weeks, I usually don't answer my phone and for some reason I didn't get any of their e-mails. They wanted to give me an art show in their gallery.

This is not only my own personal dream (and art show without having to run after the gallery, but them running after me) but probably the dream every artist I know.

I couldn't bring myself to call them, but I e-mailed, Ned did, he told them I'll e-mail them and so I did.

So then, I never heard back, which made me a bit sad, but I sort of moved on. Then about 2 weeks later, they called Ned's phone again. It turned out that for some reason, again, I didn't get their e-mail. They needed the artist statement, and bio and know when I'm sending the pieces and so on.

Again, I couldn't bring myself to call, and Ned did. He's been doing all the communication for me, even e-mails, that I'm usually not so anxious about. He consulted a gallery owner that we know about prices and arrangement and what to ask and do.

It turned out that this is the only show in the year in which participant artist don't have to pay for the space. the gallery is giving me one of the most amazing gifts and opportunity I could ever wish for. Everyone around me who Ned have told to about this are so happy and helpful and wonderful about this.

Yet, I feel so scared and anxious and like I'm messing up. I've been creating a second body of work for this show, about 30 drawings in less then a week. I've written a nice enough artist statement, later improved by Ned, a gallery owner friend and Ned's dad. And yet I feel like I haven't done a thing and like I keep messing up.

Everything is so good, I just paralyzed with fear waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The show is going to be at the Vespine Gallery in Chicago on November 15. We are already planning a motorcycle trip to come to the opening!

This week has been such a crazy emotional roller coaster.

I just want to sleep (and for all my painting to sell in the show of course...)

Fermenting

2008-10-13T17:13:00+02:00

Malcolm Gladwell writes in the 20 Oct. New Yorker about University of Chicago economist David Galenson's theories of creativity, which Galenson divides into two types, conceptual and experimental. Conceptual geniuses bloom early, experimental geniuses later, not because experimental geniuses are late starters or because they are simply discovered late, but because "they simply aren't much good until late in their careers."

Speaking of Cézanne, the art critic Roger Fry says: "'More happily endowed and more integral personalities have been able to express themselves harmoniously from the very first. But such rich, complex, and conflicting natures as Cézanne’s require a long period of fermentation.' Cézanne was trying something so elusive that he couldn't master it until he'd spent decades practicing."

I think that's me. Not Cézanne, more like Wallace Stevens (49% of whose anthologized poems were written after he was 50), but not that, either. I feel I am practicing something intangible, and creative, sometimes enormously tiring and even monotonous in a certain way, without known product so far. 'Fermenting' and 'elusive' describe it well. Sometimes I feel very frustrated, mostly I feel excited to be part of whatever this experiment is, in some way, and to continue with the brewing metaphor, I feel that this is the vat where I need and want to be, though whether I am the brewer or the brewed (or both -- or neither) is unclear to me most of the time.

Later, in the context of patronage, Gladwell writes, "If you are the type of creative mind that starts without a plan, and has to experiment and learn by doing, you need someone to see you through the long and difficult time it takes for your art to reach its true level." Thank God for my patron.

[Fotolog] : Selingan...

2008-08-14T15:24:13+02:00

Dah lama tak update blog ni. Memang sibuk betul sekarang. Tapi, dalam sibuk-sibuk pun, kadang-kadang tak studi jugak aku ni. Huhu... Sekarang ni tengah panas pasal isu pembukaan 10% UiTM untuk bukan bumiputra dan pelajar asing. Tapi ramai yang tak tahu, sebenarnya kuota pelajar asing [antarabangsa] kat UiTM memang dah lama dibuka. Cuma tak dihebahkan aje.

Masa aku MMS [Minggu Mesra Siswa = Orientasi] tahun 2005 dulu, ada MMS untuk pelajar Thailand. Kalau alumni-alumni ada yang masuk alma mater diorang, mesti nampak betapa ramainya pelajar antarabangsa kat UiTM. Boleh geng dengan UIAM dah... Hahaha.. Dari Arab Saudi, Yemen, Mauritius, Afrika... Dulu dari Jerman pun ada sorang. Huhu.. Meriah jugak ada pelajar antarabangsa ni. Semester lepas siap ada International Students Carnival lagi.

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Minggu depan cuti mid-term. Seminggu. Seronoknya. Nak rehat kat rumah sambil siapkan assignment [<< boleh caye ke ni?? huhu] dengan nak download movie. Redcliff dan lain-lain [sebab tak tahu filem apa lagi nak download.. ;p]

Apa-apa pun, enjoy gambar-gambar kat bawah ni. Gambar-gambar lama dari komputer... Saje nak letak kat sini. Hehe..

Aku edit sem lepas...hehe...

Ni pun edit sem lepas... ;p

Ni pun..hehe.. biasela bosan2 tak tau nak buat apa.. ;)

"Friends are everything to me.. Without them I am nothing" - khairul izwan

Aku dgn Rem. Tengok filem 3D yang paling 'BEST' kat dunia...hehehe

Underneath the arches...

2008-07-22T03:00:00+02:00

...there's an awful lot going on. Somebody should make a book about all the things to be found under London's 25 miles of railway arches. The arches are a natural home for wine vaults and fringe theatres. Dodgy car mechanics also thrive in the dark spaces beneath curving Victorian brick, but you can get much more than your car serviced under the arches in Vauxhall, where dubious saunas cosy up to brightly lit cafés and DIY specialists.

Last Sunday we had breakfast at the Café Madeira beneath the viaduct beside the Albert Embankment. I tucked into smoked salmon and scambled egg on foccacia - a bargain at £3.50. Everybody else seemed to be Portuguese. Respectable, decent, hat-wearing folk chatted convivially beneath big wall-mounted LCD screens. A bakery next door turns out dozens of reasonably-priced and tasty-looking Portuguese specialities. Further down the viaduct there's a gay gym, some clubs and several bars, all part of 'Voho' the Vauxhall 'gay village'.

There's even art underneath the arches. Not far from the tourist disappointment that is the Lambeth Walk, the once grand Lambeth Ragged School has been sliced through by the railway. It was built by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy FRS in 1851 as a memorial to his wife. Ragged Schools educated 'about 800 children' At the school's opening, Lord Ashley portentously declared that 'there is no reason whatever why Lambeth should not rescue itself from the present disgraceful opprobrium which attaches to it.'

An art gallery called the Beaconsfield now occupies the one wing that remains of the school, hitting back at the railway by colonising the arch behind. Inside we heard Aura Satz's 'Glissolalia' - a weird and wonderful sound installation featuring disjointed barbershop singers, an endlessly sliding theremin, a musical saw and much else that echoed mysteriously round the high, empty former schoolroom.

The gallery was founded with high-minded ambition of the kind the ragged school's founder would recognise. It aims to “fill a niche between the institution, the commercial and the ‘alternative’”. It isn't exactly welcoming from the outside. In trepidation we pushed the buzzer beside a blank door set into a high wall - but the people inside couldn't have been nicer or more friendly.

There was an unexpectedly warm welcome at nearby Southbank House too. You can't help being struck by the fabulous Victorian building in Black Prince Road, all ornamented terracotta and glazed tilework set into the window ledges. A frieze over the doorway is one clue to the office block's distinguished past. If you look up, some fading lettering spells out the name 'Doulton'. A smiling caretaker led us to a gallery of photos that tell the story of how John Doulton built a vast business at Lambeth starting from a £100 investment in 1815. The Doultons' fortune was first made in glazed earthenware sewer pipes which saved the city from epdiemics of disease. Doultons then went on to make the fine china that was much admired by Queen Victoria.

All this and the Vauxhall City Farm too (where you can walk among floppy eared rabbits and chickens) just ten minutes walk from the Palace of Westminster. London never ceases to amaze.

Solutions: Art (Notes from Status Anxiety)

2008-07-12T12:00:00+02:00

Notes from Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety (2004). This is the eighth post on this topic; the first is here.

PART II: Solutions

CHAPTER 2 - ART

Literature

The history of art is filled with challenges to the status quo.

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (1814): The rich and well-mannered are not ipso facto good, and the poor and unschooled are not necessarily bad.

"Almost every great novel of the 19th and 20th centuries stages an assault on, or at the very least harbours scepticism regarding, the accepted social hierarchy, and each offers some sort of redefinition of precedence according to moral worth rather than financial assets or bloodlines."

Examples: Balzac - Le Père Goriot (1834), Hardy - Jude the Obscure (1895), G. Eliot - Middlemarch (1872), Fielding - Joseph Andrews (1742), Thackeray - Vanity Fair (1848), Dickens - Bleak House (1853), Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White (1860), A. Trollope - The Way We Live Now (1875), Zadie Smith - White Teeth (2000).

Painting

(You have to see the book for this, as he reproduces "paintings of the commonplace" -- which elevate the status of the ordinary -- and discusses them)

Tragedy

"Fear of the material consequences of failure is thus compounded by fear of the unsympathetic attitude of the world towards those who have failed, exemplified by its haunting proclivity to refer to them as 'losers' - a word callously signifying both that they have lost and that they have, at the same time, forfeited any right to sympathy for losing."

Tragedy helps to re-inject empathy into the equation by showing how like everyone else the tragic figure is. G

Examples: Oedipus, Antigone, Lear, Othello, Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, Hedda Gabler, Tess, et al.

Tragedy doesn't absolve its subjects of responsibility but does offer and elicit a level of sympathy.

At the center of tragedy is an ordinary human being with a tragic flaw who makes an error in judgment from which flows a terrible reversal of fortune. Tragic flaws are defects common to humans, such as excessive pride, anger, impulsiveness, etc. Errors in judgment occur not from evil motives but from lapses in judgment, slips.

Tragedy reflects:

(1) how apparently small missteps can result in grave consequences

(2) the blindness we suffer with regard to the effects of our actions

(3) a fatuous tendency to presume that we are in conscious command of our destiny

(4) the sped and finality with which all that we cherish can be lost

(5) the mysterious forces against which our powers are pitted

Tragedy apportions blame without denying sympathy. We're appalled yet compassionate as we see the universality of the situation. This form of art seeks to plumb the origins of failure.

Comedy

More specifically, satire.

"Jokes are an enormously effective means of anchoring a criticism. At base, they are another way of complaining: about arrogance, cruelty or pomposity, about departures from virtue or good sense."

"History reveals no shortage of jokes intended to amend the vices of high-status groups and shake the mighty out of their pretensions or dishonesty." [q.v. George Carlin]

Comedy also can be used to make sense of and mitigate status anxiety: "Comedy reassures us that there are others in the world no less envious or socially fragile than ourselves.

Anger of the Hands

2008-07-07T17:45:00+02:00

The portraits of the “Anger of the Hands” are my simple art works on oil pastel. I made these out of my creativity and desire to express what goes beyond my mind, my heart and my hands. I started having a hobby like this since I was a kid and I guess I still save those sketch and design way back at home ~~goin’ to post it here when I retrieve them~~ If I can remember then, I really don’t have the guts to show my works to other people since I have the feeling of getting shrink when they can’t appreciate every single thing that I make. Duh! Not all humans know how to cherish the work of art.

But now, I’m gonna share all these stuffs out here….just an outlook of being ingenious to life.

[see album for larger view of the image]

Waftaroms, indotherms and the graphic language of cartooning

2008-05-04T19:50:00+02:00

Don't know a grawlix from a plewd or an agitron from an indotherm? Finding words for the marks made by cartoonists is a funny business. A jokey article about the marks cartoonists make for things like movement, emotion and radiation is now the stuff of earnest research into the visual language of cartoons.

It seems to have started with American cartoonist Mort Walker who wrote a satirical article in 1964 called "Let's Get Down to Grawlixes," for the National Cartoonists Society. In 1980 he expanded it to a book The lexicon of comicana. In Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook he writes:

'I spoofed the tricks cartoonists used, like dust clouds when characters are running or lightbulbs over their heads when they get an idea... I spent many hours at the museum recording their "language". I created pseudoscientific names for each cartoon cliché, like the sweat marks cartoon characters radiate. I called them "plewds" after the God of rain "Joe Pluvius".'

The spoof didn't quite work (even though the words he invented are very funny), because people really wanted words for the marks cartoonists make. So here is a run-down, from Wikipedia:

Plewds Flying sweat droplets that appear around a character's head when working hard or stressed.
Briffits Clouds of dust that hang in the spot where a swiftly departing character or object was previously standing.
Squeans Little starbursts or circles that signify intoxication, dizziness, or sickness.
Emanata Lines drawn around the head to indicate shock or surprise.
Grawlixes Typographical symbols standing for profanities, which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of actual dialogue.
Indotherm Wavy, rising lines used to represent steam or heat on hot objects -- however, the same shape found over a hot apple pie or something else strong smelling is a wafteron.
Agitrons Wiggly lines around an object that is shaking
Blurgits, swalloops Curved lines preceding or trailing after a character's moving limbs
Hites Horizontal straight lines trailing after something moving with great speed, or indicating reflectivity (puddle, glass, mirror). Likewise, up-hites would be lines above an object falling.
Lucaflect A shiny spot on a surface of something
Dites Diagonal, straight lines drawn across something flat, clear, and reflective, such as windows and mirrors.
Solrads Radiating lines drawn from something luminous like a lightbulb or the sun.
Vites Vertical straight lines indicating reflectivity (compare dites, hites)

It's funny in a Sellars & Yeatman kind of way (something else that deserves to be better known). Dash Shaw responded to the comic challenge with a great cartoon strip using the symbols and The Balloonist drew a booklet for cartoonists using some new symbols. Needless to say, the academically minded take it all very seriously. Neil Cohn just about gets the point. But only just:

'He also attaches a myriad of useless names to them, to the extant that you feel that his whole point for jargon is to be facetious (which it may well have been).'

See also an explanation of Kirby Dots (developed by Jack Kirby to show an energy explosion) and a site devoted to cataloguing onomatopoeia like 'kaboom' (apparently first used in The incredible hulk, vol 1, no. 229, 1978).