Just an Update

Working on new images right now, not resolved yet, but I foresee success. Still exploring the way nature is constructed and referenced through different media, but mostly through paper. This often ends up looking like fantasy landscapes and such, mostly because of the abstraction and lack of visual depth. More images coming soon...

For Annie Leibovitz, a Fuzzy Financial Picture by Allan Salkin at NYT

Click Here for the Full NYT Article
Say it ain't so! Annie Leibovitz is in dire straits over a loan gone bad with Art Capital Group, having allegedly offered her Greenwich Village townhomes and negatives as collateral!
Some advice for all creative professionals out there, don't ever offer your life's work as collateral, and NEVER your negatives and rights to your own images. Offer something that you can live without. Negatives are a photographer's bread and butter; many successful artists could take a tip from Damien Hirst who is known for carefully manipulating the art market to his advantage through strict control of his own work. He won't even allow a dealer to sell his work. Rumors claim that in this way Hirst has amassed a fortune close to a billion dollars from his artwork. Hopefully Ms. Leibovitz will pull out of this somewhat unscathed, perhaps there will be companies that see this as an opportunity to contract Ms. Leibovitz for more elaborate work, as the article mentions this is what Getty Images jumped on the bandwagon to do. I am looking forward to seeing how this issue pans out for her come the Sept. 8 deadline.

more on Hirst

TED.com: Margaret Wertheim

How do you merge mathematics, feminine and domestic craft, environmental activism, and coral?
Margaret Wertheim presents her project of crocheting coral to visualize the connection between hyperbolic geometry and organic forms. Here she is advocating new teaching approaches that bridge play, cerebral concepts, and artforms in an effort to discover new forms of presentation and representation within various scientific fields, expressing her belief that creative processes serve as catalysts to the evolution of ideas.
CLICK HERE to view her discussion.

New Tim Burton MoMA Show: Upcoming

Read a NYT article about an upcoming exhibit at MoMA on Tim Burtons artwork and films. 

Also, click here to view the MoMA site of this exhibit. I can't wait to see it, love Tim Burton. 

New Womanizer: Please Watch, It is totally worth it

Directed to this video via Perez Hilton, yes, I visit his site on a regular basis.

Printing compliments of Etsy

I love this etsy video, haven't silkscreened with emulsion before but would like to try. The vid is pretty humorous as well, which is a necessity if I am to learn anything. I've been searching around the internet trying to figure out interesting ways to produce promotional copy for myself. Have graphic designer on the job, Casey Moosman, so now I'm thinking about how to produce these. I love the idea of pieces that are handworked, but I'm not sure how plausible it is, if I do it right I think I could come up with something memorable.

More from the Dusseldorf school

Awesome landscape photographer here.