Blogs about: Aesthetic Experience
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Restored Radios exhibit | reception Friday Nov. 16
As a print designer and letterpress printer who often pines for some of the aesthetic qualities of yesteryear (like movie theatres located on streetfronts instead of suburban asphalt acreage, neighbor… more →
Side Spur Ramblings
Presentation: "High Fives and Neil Young for the Road" by Elaine Claire Villacorta
wrote 2 months ago: View this document on Scribd Please read the abstract here. The live-tweeted proceedings of the pres … more →
Great art grabs you against your will and...
wrote 2 months ago: Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet cl … more →
High Fives and Neil Young for the Road: Lynda Barry’s Writing The Unthinkable as Esthetic Experience
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wrote 2 months ago: An ode of epic proportions to a sickly native dog who responded extraordinarily to Neil Young’s albu … more →
About
wrote 3 months ago: I am an artist and creative coach. I create masks, workshops and performances that are intimate, per … more →
The Goal is to Forget the Goal
wrote 4 months ago: On New Year’s Day, my brother sent me this photo, attached to an e-mail that read, “you don’t … more →
Writing in the Toy Department: The Beautiful Play
wrote 5 months ago: “Sports,” said the late boxing writer Jimmy Cannon, is the toy department of life.” The implication … more →
In The Beginning There Was No Beginning
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wrote 5 months ago: Did basketball begin the night Naismith finished writing up the thirteen rules or did it begin the n … more →
In the Beginning Was the Handle: A Story of Dribbling in Heavy Traffic
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wrote 5 months ago: Which came first, the comforting feel of the ball in my hands or my ability to keep it in my hands? … more →
Where Anything Happens: The Dreams of Moneyball and the Beauty in the Unreasonable
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wrote 5 months ago: Moneyball tells the apparently simple story of how a failed ex-major leaguer finds redemption and th … more →
Comics and Interpretation
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wrote 6 months ago: I wrote this over a week ago and could have sworn I posted it! Apparently, I was deluded. Anyway, … more →
[Outer] Scan Experiments
wrote 6 months ago: A few months back I stumbled upon a method of scanning where the scanning lid, when left open, creat … more →
Restored Radios exhibit | reception Friday Nov. 16
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wrote 6 months ago: As a print designer and letterpress printer who often pines for some of the aesthetic qualities of y … more →
A Definition of Art?
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wrote 6 months ago: “Art is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two ba … more →
Data Bending Experiments
wrote 6 months ago: Some simple JPG editing techniques using Textedit. If you want to play around with it, its pretty e … more →
The Aesthetic Experience of Marching Band
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wrote 6 months ago: Marching band took up nearly my entire life during the summers and autumns of my high school years. … more →
The Arts and Economic Development
wrote 6 months ago: The Grove City Arts Council is one year old this month. Five of us gathered at the local coff … more →
Media Lust.
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wrote 6 months ago: It is in our human nature to find pleasure in something other than our broken lives. That is why en … more →
Why I Love Making Sacred Art
wrote 6 months ago: Sarah working on the Virgin Annunciate. This past Saturday, I spent the day at St. Elizabeth Ann Set … more →
