Tag: art

  • Matthias Ott on publishing

    Matthias Ott: Longtime readers will recall Stop worrying, hit publish. Ott’s post is a great example of the point he is trying to make. In the post he is simply relaying a story he heard on a podcast. Of what value could that be? By sharing how that story moved him, he moved several others.…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #96: September 9, 2022

    The end of a dry, busy summer Three months is a long time to go, even for me, without publishing a post in this series of links. But this summer has been extraordinarily busy at work – in a way that consumed a lot of my creative and just overall energies. But of course, I’ve…

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  • Humans, making things, and art

    Kevin Kelly: Humans are born to make stuff. We almost can’t help it. Place us in an empty flat plain and we’ll start building things. Put us on a dried lake bed in the middle of the desert and we’ll build things, take them down and build different stuff next year. We make tools, which make other tools,…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #95: June 16, 2022

    It has been over a month since I posted a list of a links. I’ve been very busy lately. In some ways that’s good, in other ways not so good. But, do you know what is always good? Links!

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  • Audio: Starting and finishing

    Recorded on February 18, 2022 Join me as I scan some photos and chat about starting things and finishing things. Are you dealing with the same thing? Write a comment! (Audio clip unfound. I’ll try to restore this file in the future.)

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #83: July 8, 2021

    If you’re near Endwell, NY you have to eat here With the holiday I stayed off the computer as much as possible as per usual. I have some great links in the hopper but they may take a week or two to get onto these lists as I process them. Here are this week’s links:

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #81: June 17, 2021

    Saved this garter from the lawn mower A busy spring is coming to a close. A pool, garden beds, lawn care, work, side work, art, the gallery, photography and so much more going on all at once. But somehow it felt very balanced. I’m happy about that. Scratching every itch. This week I have a…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #78: May 27, 2021

    I missed last week due to being very busy at work.

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  • James Gurney on NFTs

    James Gurney, in a reasoned post explaining NFTs to his rather large art-focused audience: Does it make sense for every artist to leap into NFTs right now? I don’t think it make sense for me—not yet anyway, until there’s a better solution to the environmental issues. I’m beginning to appreciate people who don’t have quick, one-side-or-the-other,…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #66: August 18, 2020

    Great list this week. See other lists. I wish somehow these lists were exhaustive and complete but they simply aren’t. There are so many great things I stumble across day-to-day and file away to get to. And I get to some of them. And I remember some of them. And these are those items.

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  • Stolen by Adrian Brandon

    Adrian Brandon: This series is dedicated to the many black people that were robbed of their lives at the hands of the police. In addition to using markers and pencil, I use time as a medium to define how long each portrait is colored in. 1 year of life = 1 minute of color. Touching…

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  • What I saw this week #59: August 23, 2019

    At this point, the WISTW posts are woefully inaccurately titled and inconsistent in their schedule. The following are a few things I’ve seen recently that you may enjoy – but were certainly not just from this week. Now, to think about what to rename this series of occasional links.

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  • The Berthe Morisot exhibit, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia – January 2019

    The Berthe Morisot exhibit, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia – January 2019 Seeing this post from Kottke spurred me to invite my Dad and a friend to quickly drive to Philadelphia to see this exhibit before it closed. I’m very happy that I did. I urge you to look into Berthe Morisot.

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  • A new brand identity for The Watercolor Gallery

    I’m excited to start a brand-new series here on my site — The Grand Brand Design Challenge. I’m equally excited to be starting this series with a personal project I’ve been working on since 2010, The Watercolor Gallery. Read more about The Grand Brand Design Challenge on its own page. I’ve only taken the time…

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  • I interviewed New Zealand based artist Rebekah Codlin

    Over on my other site, The Watercolor Gallery, I interviewed Rebekah Codlin about her journey into art. Her realistic portraiture is amazing. If you’re into that sort of thing go ahead and check it out. This is the first interview after a 22-month hiatus from publishing interviews. Far too long. But the process of restoring…

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  • Wallace.dog

    Local friend Jeremy Brown has a cute animated comic that he publishes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It is called Wallace.dog. If you follow him on Instagram you can see behind-the-scenes how much work it is — often starting long before sunrise. I urge you to check it out.

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  • Summa Scene, Downtown Scranton – January 2018

    Summa Scene, Downtown Scranton – January 2018 Saw this tag walking back in the snow to the office after a client meeting. Thought it ironic.

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  • Paper Caves, Honesdale, PA – December 2017

    Paper Caves, Honesdale, PA – December 2017 Goregous, immersive art exhibit.

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  • Smartify

    Smartify: Smartify is a free app that allows you to scan and identify artworks, access rich interpretation and build a personal art collection in some of the world’s best museums and galleries. Gunseli Yalcinkaya, writing for Dezeen, calls it "a Shazam for the art world". This is cool. Can’t wait to try it out. /via…

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