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DAY THIRTEEN

When you think that there is nothing good left in the world you wake up to this.

February 9, 2010

You can say whatever you want but when you wake up and see a sunrise like this you know that the whole day is going to be good. I will always look at sunrises to lift up my spirit, and I got to say, today was a great start!

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DAY  TWELVE

When a door closes, another door opens. At least that is what they say.

February 8, 2010

And to that I say: GO COLTS!

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DAY ELEVEN

There is no one outside. It’s Super Bowl Sunday!

February 7, 2010

Actually, it’ll end up being around forty or so later this year. Not terribly original, the idea, but still.

Who needs Hollywood, huh? Marlene Dietrich will be the very first US-Amerikanerin star ever to be immortalised on the streets of her home town on a brand new “Walk of Fame” which will be unveiled during the Berlin film festival this coming week.

Ten stars will be awarded a star each year during the festival festivities from here on out, all with a link to Hollywood, I mean German culture.

Like walk the talk already.

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DAY TEN

Sometimes going green is not possible.

February 6, 2010

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DAY NINE

If we don’t pay attention it will fly away.

February 5, 2010

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DAY EIGHT

Sometimes they need to rest too.

February 4, 2010

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DAY SEVEN

Shadows. Mother Nature’s self portrait.

February 3, 2010

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Anybody can run up the Empire State Building’s 1,576 stairs in roughly ten minutes and sixteen seconds.

But not many would be willing to do it twice. And like five times in a row?

Damn. That takes devotion. Or profound mental instability. Or maybe a little bit of both. But like they say, somebody’s got to do it – whoever they are.

At 10:30 a.m., a loud fog horn sounded to launch a mad dash from the lobby – where Dold grabbed an early lead and never looked down.

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DAY SIX

Are business cards boring? No, they are not.

February 2, 2010

I recently changed my business cards, from the lame-o regular ones to these moo cards that are so awesome that I can not believe it. You can have each card be different. And they also serve as a “pocket portfolio” so you don’t have to be carrying books all around (at least until the iPad comes out, or something like it. Hoping Microsoft brings out its “Courier”) But first impressions are really important in my line of business and even tough people like to shop around prices most of them would like to see the style of that photographer before making a commitment. I highly recommend these card to anyone and everyone that has a business. You will not be disappointed.

I just don’t know what brought us here to Oh Art Oh Part 4. We weren’t even suppose to do a Part 2 or 3 never mind getting this far along in the game. We wonder more and more now a days if we really have anything to say. Even if we don’t we say it anyway and that is where we can find some fun. We hope you find some fun in our nothing to say too. Some don’t like what we say, some do and some don’t care. We are not troubled by the ones who don’t like what we say at all. ”My goodness,” we say, “we would be dead if we worried about people who didn’t like what we say, all of our life we have said what we want to say, got in trouble, shut up for a day, reflected on what was said, enjoyed every minute of upsetting the apple cart and ruffling the horses, and continued to say something even if we wondered if it were really nothing to say at all.”  Now those who like what we say are another story. We love them and many times when we are writing we think of them and if we can work them into the story we do. So here goes Oh, Art, Oh Part 4. Give us all a push I’m begging you Plumsky.

Who Hates Us The Most. Should we spend time on that when we really don’t give a shit.

Let’s play that little game, Who Hates Us the Most? Is it the collector?, nah he will always find something to put his money in as long as we allow such things to continue, Is it the museum, well maybe just a bit but then they have more stuff stored up all saying, “I am Art,” that they could continue for the next 100 yrs. Just hope they dust more often. Well then maybe it is the gallerists. Well now they of course would hate us as if we make nothing that appeals to the green crowd who likes to pass that germy, smelly stuff around then the too cool gallerists would be out of business.

 ”No,” as Emma just said, “I have gotten the most trouble from artists.”  They seem to hate art the most. They don’t like anything or anyone who questions art and art making. They all have so much something to say with paint and canvas, tool and junk or that is what they want us to think and everyone else who gets in the way. But all of this something to say doesn’t seem to get us up and out of the hot water that those who buy and sell all this something to say have gotten us into. You know those birds, we talked of them before. Those who prop up the Capitalist system. Those big money bitches who make the art world spin around. Off with their heads is the best art yet. So who is left OMG it must be the artist. Oh the artist who wants to keep this filthy system rolling around and over anyone whom it sees fit to do in, smash and flatten like a pancake with no egg.

Yes, I have to say it is the artists who hasn’t any balls to cut the throats of those who make this system a go-go. Those who love their daily rich rub more than justice. Ugly worms creeping around, speaking the old art speak and doing the same old same old over and over again. Even your refreshing of the same old can’t fool us. You look groovy and 21st century but honey that crap is so old it smells like a dried up attic. Yes we know, its doing something to entertain the masses who like that which is oh so groovy. Something to keep them busy while the crooks seize all that they can, destroy the planet and ransack anything that they want.

This fullness of something it’s called shit in my book, it is done to keep us away from the real truth. Put together with a made up truth by those who prop up the system. Something to look at while you all wait for the seeing of angels swooping down making war not love on the inhabitants of the planet earth. RUN you say–nowhere to run–as they will sniff you out like a rat does some good cheese. Then slap, slat, slap plop you go. Dead as a doornail and twice as dadaist as any dadaist. Yap, but give a clap, clap as art is nice to fill in gaps, to block your holes, to mend your rips, good to have something to do now before we all get to the there and scream a lot. 

Guess What?

• Arts groups are hurting fiscally this year. Well Miss Jean did you know that nonprofit arts groups grew from 73,000 to 104,000 since 1998 and at the rate of one every three hours from 2003-2008. One out of three failed to break even on their budgets even in the best economic years.
• The arts follow the nation’s business cycle and depend on billions of dollars in consumer spending. researchers predict that the arts will hit bottom in 2011. (GOOD Clean up some of the messes.)
• Attendance at mainstream arts organizations is in steady decline. Unless of course they have groovy Thursdays where all get together and chat up one another, and toast to each others grooviness.)
• People are voting with their feet away from paying high ticket prices and more toward doing th arts. (yeah baby the last time I did Art he squirted all over my face.)
• Nonprofits are struggling for charity dollars. Living off the goodness of others is not really a wise things to do.
• Participation in the arts is increasing on the Internet, at ethnically and culturally specific organizations and at home as people create their own art. 

She’s a dip give her the flip. by Miss Emma Furbird

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08frick.html 

That will get you going. Read all about how the wall color transforms and makes the art stand out. Even the britches of Mr. Vincenzo Anatagi are awash with color. ” The coral amps up the green britches of El Greco’s portrait of Anastagi along with the brilliant whites of his stocking, and collar.” Thank goodness for the coral. Without it Anastagi would be so dull that he wouldn’t even be given a second glance. Oh what a coat of wall paint can do. I remember way back in the day there was a painter named fresh paint. That was fresh paints’ art to give a coat of fresh paint here and there. Maybe Mr. Fresh Paint was on to something. So where does this leave El Greco portrait. In the dust? Does Ms. Smith mean that it really never stood alone and out when it was on a white wall, a gold wall. If it takes a certain wall color to do this and then do that with a painting than what the fuck is the painting. Are we seeing the real painting or are we all a ga ga like Ms. Smith over the treatment of the wall color. Is someone playing a trick on us?

Here are a few of the funnies from that always funny Ms. Smith>

“The paintings seem to be freshly restored. They’re not. They simply benefit from the soft velvet coral, which sharpens details, brightens colors, clarifies compositions and deepens meanings. Suddenly this room stuns, becoming as never before one of the Frick’s destination galleries.

The East Gallery’s refurbishment also includes upgraded lighting and the addition of a large, comfortable cushioned bench. A good thing, since Frick-obsessed art lovers may need a seat when they realize that two of the museum’s best-known canvases have been relocated from their usual positions on the dark green velvet walls of the grand, emblematic West Gallery” Oh Heavens good thing as we might have more than a few swooners on our hand. All this way for nothing. Give me a seat so I don’t fall out on the floor in a fit of fainting. Art makes me tired I need a little snooze. The painting have been relocated, Oh Heavens to Betsy! I like them in this room not moved around. I always know where I am going to visit my favorite friends. Now give me a map Margaret.

El Greco’s “Vincenzo Anastagi,” center, rules over the refurbished East Gallery of the Frick Collection. The changes there, including a new coral wall color, are transformative.

Maybe next Ms. Smith will write about the floor finish, Oh, see it glow, I can see my face it’s so pretty, or the restrooms. I would like to write about who passed the mop and who is chairperson of the vessels. Now that would be writing about art in my mind. I always thought that Ms. Smith was a tad bit off.

Important art recycling program. You gotta have a gimmick. Oh Art Oh you’re just so darn pretty.

Is it Cheerios? Or Is It Art?

From the Hartford Courant 1/27/2010 (with some words in edgewise by Benny, Miss Jones and Moe.

Tired of recycling all those old cereal boxes? Not to worry. There’s a great alternative coming up this weekend. New York artist Michael Albert a self-styled ”Cerealist” who makes collages out of cereal boxes will be at the Burlington Public Library Saturday to run classes on making modern pop art. (Albert’s whirl wind tour) will begin at 1 pm when the public is invited to a reception for the artist and to view 21 of his prints exhibited through-out the library. At 1:30 (grab all that cheese, crackers, cookies and punch) Albert will lead an “Artist’s America Program,” for families during which he will discuss his work, using the exhibition to illustrate his talk. (now please don’t just drop off the kids and go.) We would appreciate it if parents came and participated in the program also. At 1:50 we hope your head isn’t spinning all around at least you will get to sit down, Albert will conduct a cereal box collage workshop during which participants will be able to create their own collages. Those planning on attending should bring their own cereal boxes. (if you don’t have enough in your house call a neighbor.) Now here is one reason Miss Jones loves Michael Albert sooooo. At the end of the program Albert will sign free gifts of art. FREE ART!! Great! I got a few holes in my walls and free art is just the things to hide the unsightly mess. Cerealism is the name that Albert has given to a body of work (over 600) made from cereal boxes which in turn have become one of his trademarks. Ha, Ha, does he eat all that cereal? “He is particularly intrigued by cereal and the lure of the cereal aisle and set out to create at least one version of every cereal box he could het his scissors on. Well now Miss Jones certainly a way not to clog up our landfill with cereal boxes, the Cerealist collages are very bright and pretty and gives both the artist and the attendees something to do with their time while they await the end of the world. Albert likens this art to Picasso’s Blue Period.  Below is a few examples from Picasso’s Blue Period and an example of Mr. Albert’s work. Something is screwy here and we don’t think its Picasso. Do you? Here are a few facts about the Blue Period.

The Blue Period (Spanish: Periodo Azul)
•1900 -1904
•Monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. (Monochromatic Color: Different values (tints and shades) of one single color.)
•These somber works, inspired by Spain but painted in Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time.
•The blue period began when he learned about the death of one of his close friends.

The Old Guitar Player, 1903

 La Vie, 1903

Of Picasso’s Blue Period this is said, “His early years in Paris (1901-1904) coincide with his Blue Period. It is called  the Blue Period because most of his paintings were in shades of blue and blue-green and also because of  his general mood at this time. The subjects of these paintings were prostitutes and beggars. Blindness and destitution were an integral part of this theme of paintings.”

This is a piece from Mr. Albert’s Blue Period so he says on his internet site. 

I don’t know this doesn’t look like a blue period work to me. “Unless of course,” Miss Agnes added, “the artist was blue when he made this type of art.” Get it he was in a very blue mood when he created so many beautiful pictures.

“Oh, please, please” Miss Mary May is saying. “Can I get in on the act. Now I am no Blue Period artist, nor am I a cubist but I like to play dress me up and take me out. Here is what I have done in homage to Mr. Albert’s visit to Burlington Connecticut. See it ,you will like it, and can buy it for $500.00.” I did another dress in green it is from Fruity Freakies cereal box and is lovely for summer time wearing. It even has a very large hat to keep the sun off my head. Queerartist told me I could only show one dress so I chose my Crazy Cow creation.   

In your career. Some facts for the misguided.

“Art and Fine Arts Graduate School Programs-Masters & PhD Degrees.”

“Graduate programs in the Fine Arts emphasize creative and technical skills and some even prepare students for the business aspect. Concentration choices abound. Students that earn a maters (MA) or PhD degree in fine arts often go on to be painters, sculptors and photographers, while others go on to become professors. When our students become artists they then must spend years of unlearning all that has been drumed into their little heads on how to make some art. Otherwise they will make art that looks like everyone elses art or like what the professor told them is how to make some art.”

Cuban artist Carmen Herrera said it so well, “The hardest thing was to move away from all the academic training I had.”

“silver” © copyright Earl Chuvarsky

acrylic on canvas

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DAY FOUR

When you are a part of a team, the team becomes a part of you.

January 31, 2010

I know, I know, that’s some space age team playing on the foosball field but  the idea of being a team still is present. Have you ever been a part of a team? The you know that the “team” becomes a part of you, and if the “team” is really good then you become more like family. And it doesn’t matter what kind of team you are part of, it can be from the workplace, from school, family, anywhere. When you are part of a team you feel better because everyone is working for a same goal and you know how each and everyone in that team feels about anything. When you are in a team, you can become family.

The Boulevardier has some very beautifully stunning photographs posted under the title, of absence and whispers, part 1 by the Cake & Eat It Collective.

From the Cake & Eat It Collective site, ” We create installations, happenings, performances and visual art that deal with the intersection of gift economy, fashion, anarchism and queer identities.” Check them out. See what these fabulous young artists are doing.

Click to view these works of art in of absence and whispers, part 1.  We here at AFQOTP can hardly wait for part 2.

To check out more of the postings on this site click HERE.

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DAY THREE

There are smiles everywhere, for those who want to see them.

January 30, 2010

This was inspired by a photo that I saw somewhere, that was inspired by the American Express commercial. But anyways, inspiration aside I always think that even when your’e feeling down, or think that there nothing good about the world, you should first open your mind and see that even the simplest tings can bring a smile to your face. That somewhere, someone is smiling and that is something to smile about. Open up your mind, sometimes a smile can come from the strangest of places.

Below is my final paper for the course:

Source of the Hudson: Landscape, Theory, History with Professor Lytle Shaw

A PDF of the course description can be found here: The Source of the Hudson: Landscape, Theory, History

I will present this paper at the following graduate conferece:

Click on a link below for a pdf version of my paper!

Paper – American Progress and National Identity: An Allegorical Representation of Sustainable Expansion

Your feedback is important to me.  Many thanks for your interest!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Date: Friday, April 2, 2010

Deadline for Abstracts: February 1, 2010

Official Website: http://nyugeoconference.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/literature-and-the-mass-produced-image/

New York University’s English Department will host a graduate student conference exploring the fate of literature in the age of the reproducible image. The nineteenth-century emergence of photography, a medium which Walter Benjamin referred to as “the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction,” coupled with the subsequent development of the motion picture, irrevocably shook not only the art world, but also the literary. This conference aims to uncover the affinities, negotiations, and interrelations between literary texts and visual media like photography, cinema, and the more recent medium of digital imaging and video. Investigating these issues from the perspectives of both literary and visual culture, this one-day event aims to bring together new work being produced by graduate students studying literature, cinema studies, visual culture, the history of media, and social historiography.

We will be focusing on a number of related questions including (but not limited to): How has the development of visual media affected literary aesthetics? In what sense has the vocabulary of film and photography been appropriated from and by literary culture? How do motion and pacing – elements inherent to cinema – reveal themselves in creating and staging action, plot, and character development in literary narrative?

Other possible topics include:

• Photographic representation in literary texts
• Literature as motion: imagery and the mind’s eye, storytelling and motion
• Cinema, literature, fragmentation and non-linear chronology
• Descriptions of photographs within literary works
• The ‘urban’ and its centrality to cross-media works
• Modernist critique/appropriation of visual culture
• Art, the avant-garde, and experimental motion/stop-motion
• The function of written text in a visual medium
• Depictions of movies and movie-going in literary narrative
• Film vs. Literature: ‘high art’ in the era of mass culture

Please send abstracts (400 words) to nyugeo.conference@gmail.com by FEBRUARY 1, 2010. Abstracts should include your name, contact information, paper title, and a short bio with your institution & department affiliation and year in graduate school. Please specify any audio-visual requirements. Panel proposals are also welcome for panels comprised of 3-4 participants; in your proposals, please include panel title and brief description (limit 500 words) as well as a list of papers with corresponding abstracts and speaker information.

Conference organizers: Yair Solan, Kathryn Bullerdick and Blevin Shelnutt.

This conference is sponsored by the New York University Department of English, with financial support provided by the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science.

Some Lady GaGa superfans had the amazing idea of making cookies dedicated to each of her outfits, which means that these are all I will be eating for the rest of my life. Two of my favorites:

Almost enough to make me wish I were good at crafts.

“A full version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent expressionist epic was found in Argentina in 2008, and after months of painstaking work, what is possibly Germany’s best-known movie has now been restored to almost its original state.”

“It will be shown at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on February 12 as part of the 60th Berlin Film Festival, with simultaneous gala screenings in Berlin and Frankfurt, with an orchestra playing Gottfried Huppertz’s original score.”

Als Fritz Lang 1924 New York besuchte, war er überwältigt. „Allein der Anblick von Neuyork bei Nacht müsste genügen, um dieses Fanal der Schönheit zum Kernpunkt eines Films zu machen“, schrieb er nach seiner Rückkehr enthusiasmiert in einem Berliner Film-Magazin.

Click on over to the Boulevardier and check out some of the new great ad campaign art that is being done for the International Bash Back Queer liberation Convergence 2010.  This convergence will be held in Denver May 27th-May 30th. 

Check out ad campaign for the bash back 2010 convergence, and bashback call for workshops. You know its going to be sexy.

created by a graphic design student from singapore, and took 2 weeks to plan and 2 weeks to produce

this is sick!