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What is Sculpture?

By On October 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I just got an email that contained a beautiful letter from one of my Sculpture professors. He wrote it to two grade school kids to answer the question, What is Sculpture? With brilliance and humor Mr. Lester Van Winkle did what few humans can, explain the unexplainable…

VCU Department of
Sculpture and Extended [...]

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Atomic Age Architecture Symposium in Chapel Hill

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Saturday August 2, at the Chapel Hill Museum from 9am to 4pm there will be a very cool sounding discussion about Modern Architecture in Chapel Hill. Sponsored by The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill.

I have to say that new Preservation Society Director Ernest Dollar is sure making old stuff exciting. Even [...]

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RIP Robert Rauschenberg

By On May 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 source: NY Times

This man is an important influence on my creative work. Such an amazing innovator. (Thanks for the link to that one @10ch)

Fearless Experimentation

It’s no secret that experimentation (and the failure that goes along with it) is at the core [...]

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Deconstructivist Gehry

By On February 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Much of my time in between going to art school and washing dishes was spent watching friends become architects. I felt a creative kinship with them. After all I was studying sculpture. A creative style with similar considerations. Basically what do to with three dimensional space. So my formal aesthetic values were seriously influenced by [...]

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Just Pay the Writers Fairly Dammit!

By On November 26, 2007 · 1 Comment

Have to say I was pretty confused about the details of the TV writers strike. But then I saw this video.

I was impressed that some actors and producers spoke out in solidarity. But now that the smart writers of The Daily Show have laid it out… I grok it. Viacom is [...]

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Help me write a Story

By On November 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I found this neat Ruby on Rails web app called Invent a Story. So I started a story with the word(s) National Enquirer. Basically you are given a few words to choose from and asked to write a sentence with it. Then other people are invited to add to the “story”. Here is my [...]

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YOU determine Radiohead’s Album Cost

By On October 2, 2007 · 1 Comment

The NYTimes is reporting that Radiohead’s upcoming album “In Rainbows” will be available for download Oct. 10. Only the entire album, in non DRM audio files, will be available for download. At the same time they are selling a box of vynl, cds, etc from their website.

Nothing new here ‘cept they will, [...]

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3D Paintings of van Gough: Virtual Dreams come True in Second Life

By On July 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

When I studied Sculpture and Painting in college I thought a lot about the intersection of painting and 3D objects. Combined was my dream of creating video as moving paintings. This video above, aka Machinima, called Watch the World(s) documents the creation of a virtual 3D copy of Vincent van Gough’s painting

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Listening to “Spirits in the Material World”

By On May 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Got my record player hooked back up. The first album I randomly selected to listen to was The Police’s Ghost in the Machine. The first song Spirits in the Material World strikes a cord with me. Here are the lyrics.

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
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Creativity from Distruction – Public Art

By On May 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We just learned that a popular and beloved peice of public art in Carrboro, North Carolina is gone. It was painted over suddenly. Read all about this on Orange Politics, The News and Observer, and The Carrboro Citizen. Here is my idea of what to do next. (cross posted from the comments [...]

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