damien frost is a pretty rad guy and artist type. he has a bunch of websites, check them out or google him if you like.
he has a new project happening. for arty types. join if you want. much fun and communal image generating. here's the link.
http://www.1015saturdaynight.com/
Friday, July 18, 2008
what am I supposed to say to that?
the earth and its strange little buzzing people and the wonderfully strange connections we have.
but, again, what am I supposed to say to that??
it's easier to draw a picture. I'll upload soon.
but, again, what am I supposed to say to that??
it's easier to draw a picture. I'll upload soon.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
LAZY.
oh my gawd a month and a bit can go pretty fast.
So there are a few of artist book ideas I still have in my head. Not many are reflective of anything to do with my personality or myself. Its just, work. Sometimes that troubles me. The creation is no less sincere, but sometimes I struggle with the fact that not all the things I create have an intencity to their meaning. Or they no meaning at all, aside from aesthetics. I was born in the wrong era tbh.. I love Gaudi and Art Nouveau... . Anyway.
The past year has pretty much shown me I have 'self portrait self exploration self ... putting myself on paper' - phobia. I couldn't think of a more boring or over thought subject than myself. Wondering too much can always ruin the magic for me, and 24 years has been plenty of time to lose interest in myself.
So. Artist books once again. I dig the idea of some scrolls.... first I wanted to make a flip book but couldn't get past a love for wanting to include something kind of steampunk feel about it.. I love antiques roadshow btw. boy and I often devour pizza watching the awesomeness that is antique nerds and old world craftmanship.. so on that show they sometimes have these.. amazingly wonderful movie book players. that rotate massive rolls of imagery on individual cardstock while you look through a viewer.. intensely gorgeous. But unrealistic knowing my own time and dedication to completing projects.. I'd always be disappointed with how small it would turn out.
So looking through google image brought up some pretty scroll books. Tiny things. Handheld but still capable of rolling up well over a metre of paper I can assume? Books began as scrolls after all. So I think this is the way to go.
see pics for somewhere close to the concept:
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2002/14jan02/images/14page8.jpg
There is a massive loot of individual artist books to be made via the rubbish that is myspace/facebook/etc but I will leave that for next blog when I have some examples.
lastly; how awesome is this?
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/socal/ng.jpg
So there are a few of artist book ideas I still have in my head. Not many are reflective of anything to do with my personality or myself. Its just, work. Sometimes that troubles me. The creation is no less sincere, but sometimes I struggle with the fact that not all the things I create have an intencity to their meaning. Or they no meaning at all, aside from aesthetics. I was born in the wrong era tbh.. I love Gaudi and Art Nouveau... . Anyway.
The past year has pretty much shown me I have 'self portrait self exploration self ... putting myself on paper' - phobia. I couldn't think of a more boring or over thought subject than myself. Wondering too much can always ruin the magic for me, and 24 years has been plenty of time to lose interest in myself.
So. Artist books once again. I dig the idea of some scrolls.... first I wanted to make a flip book but couldn't get past a love for wanting to include something kind of steampunk feel about it.. I love antiques roadshow btw. boy and I often devour pizza watching the awesomeness that is antique nerds and old world craftmanship.. so on that show they sometimes have these.. amazingly wonderful movie book players. that rotate massive rolls of imagery on individual cardstock while you look through a viewer.. intensely gorgeous. But unrealistic knowing my own time and dedication to completing projects.. I'd always be disappointed with how small it would turn out.
So looking through google image brought up some pretty scroll books. Tiny things. Handheld but still capable of rolling up well over a metre of paper I can assume? Books began as scrolls after all. So I think this is the way to go.
see pics for somewhere close to the concept:
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2002/14jan02/images/14page8.jpg
There is a massive loot of individual artist books to be made via the rubbish that is myspace/facebook/etc but I will leave that for next blog when I have some examples.
lastly; how awesome is this?
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/socal/ng.jpg
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