20081009Thu
When we imagine a creative act, we picture a prologue of frustrated brainstorming followed by a sudden spark of unrestrained brilliance. Such a story fails to celebrate the vital evolution of ideas from continued effort over time.
20070613Wed
An art movement in the 1910s reacted to the horrors of the Great War (aka WWI) by railing against all semblances of logic, order, or meaning. I think it’s back.
20070511Fri
What is the business of artists? Are we brilliant creators, fashioning the world into our own mad fantasies or are we discoverers, research scientists of pre-existing aesthetic patterns? And what does this have to do with the Wizard of Oz?
20070509Wed
In addition to well navigating the sometimes dangerous territory between playful and melancholy, “Reprise” has succeeded in getting Joy Division’s “New Dawn Fades” permanently stuck in my head.
20070427Fri
When I lived in Indiana, I dreamt of San Francisco as a Bohemian paradise of art, love, and radical politics. Though my fantasies lacked specifics, I could have easily been thinking of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which begins today.
20070416Mon
It turns out that Sao Paulo wasn’t joking back in December with their billboard ban. As the ads have come down, a boneyard of skeletal billboards have been left in their place.
20070129Mon
A broken storefront, left shattered by a car accident, was covered in silent flats of heavy particle board when he arrived. A skinny, white guy in a skinny, white t-shirt, he seemed an unlikely suspect for what was to come next.
20060706Thu
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of signal, but I think noise has gotten a raw deal. Modern science has a great formula for determining a signal-to-noise ratio with the intention of getting this number as high as possible. Yet, I believe that the optimal ratio may be lower than 1:0.