Fathead Graffiti

Originally uploaded by funkandjazz.

san francisco graffiti

There’s a great flickr photo set by funkandjazz featuring no less than 1,604 photos on san francisco graffiti. It’s good to that someone is documenting this style of art because it’s ever-changing. Lots of good colour.

How do you feel?

Information artists Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar are measuring bloggers feelings and mapping them onto an interactive landscape.

We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.).

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day.

At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds.

Microsofts Zune Viral Campaign

Rocker pheonix?

There’s a fluffy bunny too.

comingzune.com

Nameless

acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 36″

The layers of paint and the strings of my thoughts all tie together. The empty space near the golden section, represents the idea that not any one thought is complete in my mind. There will always be room for more thought. One idea flows to the next. Fleeting forms of what I thought were in my mind, quickly turn into something completely different. When I let my mind wander, wonderful and scary ideas come to mind. This is how I like to think when posed with a creative challenge whether in business or in my personal work.

Darkness

acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 36″

I was in a mood when I painted this. A deep, complicated mood. Sometimes I rely on the gym or playing lacrosse to vent but usually painting is the best medicine for this state of mind. I just let it become a free flow of emotion. I cranked some u2, Achtung Baby and began painting the entire canvas black. When I look at this painting it reminds me of my raw emotions but not any specific thought or memory. Just emotions… anger, frustration, sadness, worry, anxiety… the funny thing is, I have no idea what inspired or created my mood. So I guess it was good therapy.

Forest

acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 36″

I enjoyed painting the forest.

I was looking for the feeling of comfort. My friends and I played in the forest a lot when we were kids, making forts or playing mysterious games in which we all had secret powers. As I layered on the paint the whole experience evolved my thoughts to “how are we all like forests?” I found myself peering into the painting and literally losing myself in my own layers of thought. I think everyone calls it day dreaming. That is a comfort to me and an nice escape from reality.

Are they crossing the line where consumer generated content is concerned?

If you haven’t heard, lonelygirl15 on Youtube is indeed, NOT THE REAL THING.
In fact, a couple of basement filmakers have created the storylines, whom by the way, claim to be just like the average youtube contributor trying to gain attention. It’s easy to say now but I always thought it seemed pretty clear that this video (one of two that I ever bothered watching and only because of the hype) were a little too polished in comparison to most. Which makes me think that most subscribers must have known it couldn’t be real. Of course, watching a young, beautiful girl hang out is intriguing to a lot of people for many different reasons, (some not so nice).

Anyway, this video is really beautiful and I believe in promoting artists that are truly talented. So, you can safely say that I’m not offended by their tactic and congratulate the “little guy” for gaining national attention… of course I have not seen all of their videos and hope that they never crossed the line with the content.

Dad

acrylics on canvas, 24″ x 36″

My father always managed to scare the bejeebies out of me with this look. Who wouldn’t want to capture this childhood memory. It still puts me in line.

To my brother’s trepidation, it hangs above our parents mantel.

TEMPER TANTRUM

coloured pencil on paper, 20″ x 20″

A sketch of my boy. I wanted to capture his temper tantrums so we could all laugh at it later.