tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57406976229090504142012-01-19T16:52:00.176-05:00Philadelphia, Artists, Inspiration, Home Repair, Home Improvement, Gardening, Crafts, Design, DIY, LoveThe Seahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059590551519776709noreply@blogger.comBlogger1011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740697622909050414.post-48325167110058892332012-01-19T16:52:00.000-05:002012-01-19T16:52:00.224-05:00

 (source) One of the first classes I taught out of graduate school was a course called "Photo Process Workshop". In the course students learned a variety of alternative and experimental processes, including cynaotype, van dyke brown, cliche verre, modern tinype, book binding, appropriation, installation, ...the list goes on and on. Anyway, we all know what old photographic processes look

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  The Piano Lesson. I don't have a lot of words. But I am seeing a lot of great images.  Here, Anthea Hamilton - Enjoy! Dance. Gate.

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   Apophis I wrote myself a note last year - (hehe, I love the calendar change...) okay, it was really only a few months ago- to make sure to share the work of this artist, John Jerome O'Connor.   And here it is! The artist writes about this piece above: " Conceptually, this work is my attempt to visualize a prediction, by NASA scientists, that an asteroid called Apophis will strike

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 Amalfi Coast, Italy Bravo's floor tile took me to letterpress journals, to floating scarves, to books of frabric samples, takes me back to - floor tiles. I was lucky enough a few years back to study philosophy in Italy for a few weeks (what up Lacan!), even luckier was when it was all over I still had parts of my brain intact and a couple of extra weeks to do all those things of the body

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(source) The inspiration for this post came from a few different directions. Last week The Sea celebrated a birthday. Let's just say I "put off" (read: kind of forgot) birthday shopping until way way late. Luckily beautiful girls make it easy to buy them beautiful things. The Sea loves the aesthetic of life. If The Sea could have one of everything in a simple repeating pattern and a vintage

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Fallen Sheet- 1940s Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Somewhat Gay and Graceful - 1942 Manuel Alvarez Bravo- Laughing Mannequins - 1930s I can't find my mind, can you? After a particularly busy start to Fall (... a particularly long break in blog posting...) and a particularly long night - nothing makes me feel better on this lovely lost Sunday afternoon then to look

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(Dana McElroy) So you may or may not have put it together yet - but here I'll give it to you straight - I am involved in a new project! An artist-run exhibition space located right here in Philadelphia. We call ourselves Napoleon, and hope to bring the city of brotherly l0ve a whole cornucopia full of delicious little tid-bits for mind, body and soul, over the months to come! This month we are

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(source) Iain McKell - The New Gypsies (source) Simply gorgeous. Makes me hungry. You? See it at Clic Gallery, NYC. Opening August 29th through October 2nd. (source)

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(source) Last Wednesday's post on Jon Rafman got me thinking. Rafman, to remind you, collects images taken by the Google Street View team and re purposes them as his own through the action of editing. His message is made his by those images which he chooses to include, and those images which he chooses to exclude. In this way you could consider images part of a universal visual language, ie. the

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(source) Lack of privacy never looked so good! For this week's Wednesday Work we bring you Jon Rafman. An artist out of Montreal, Canada, Rafman uses Google Street View as his image-capturing device (his camera). A concept which begs the question: what is a photographer? What is a photograph? As photographers, are we artists, or are were curators - editing a collection of images made by the

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(source) An Exhibition of Sculptures from Richmond, Virginia from Daniel Klaas Beckwith infinite fadeaway: Invisible objects where Heisenberg's uncertainty holds; and things may not be viewed and named simultaneously. The continuation of understandings or curiosities, taken as a halo to be worn out. murder Knowledge is entertainment alone, and honesty is all that exists. Opening: TONIGHT:

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Matt Allison via Culture HallEver want to find a whole bunch of good new art to look at online fast? I know I do. So I was psyched when I found a link to this online resource, Culture Hall. Culture Hall is a "curated online resource for contemporary art" where you can dig through a plethora of online portfolios. Artworks are organized not only by artist's name, but also by genre- making it easy

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(source)The Future of Love(-or- The Story of Cap't Capianna)by Tamsen Wojtanowski5"x8". soft cover. 19 pages. 2011.See it here.

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(source) I am a lover of film - good ol' fashioned hard and slow and wet photo process methods. The true power of digital - well beyond the fact that is is "easy" (I am aware of the misnomer) - is the power of digital photography as a new media, a new way of seeing the truth that lies before us.That is precisely what June Yong Lee does with his series, Skin. Taking photographs of an individual's

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(source)Hilary White. Big deal round Fishtown this winter, with a beautfiul showing at Part Time Studios. 2D - 3D. Currently with work at Sweet Jane Vintage. Invigorating in person - so you should go.Sweet Jane Vintage/ 1820 E. Passyunk Ave., Philly, PA 19148/Tues-Sat 12-8, Sun 12-6.PS. Images look better when you click on them, than they do in the body of the post. (source)

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Nebula Christopher Hartshorne This week's Wednesday work is Philly's own Christopher Hartshorne. Walking those winding, unassuming stairs up to the second floor of the "Vox building", (a derelict property, just north of China Town, that has been re purposed housing apartments, at least one suite of textile factory-type work, and a myriad of artist-run spaces, including: Vox Populi, Tiger

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(source)Commandeering the blog reigns here, to send another message of rebirth. (Didn't we do this last year?) Rebirth, rejuvenation, invigorate, stay hydrated. It seems I have a cycle, dear readers, to suffocate in June. But alas, what can you do? I did, I read a self-help book. (It made me feel less crazy - bonus.) In lieu of falling prey to any more inspirational gurus, I call to you - it's

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Circling around to the grand unvieling of our big news, in excited anticipation we would like to "set the stage" with images from Hiroshi Sugimoto's theatre series. Shot with a large format camera in the late 1970s/1980s - Sugimoto captured in a single image the entirity of a movie watching experience. (So it is not an empty theatre or a blank screen, but a theatre which has both been filled up

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This past Saturday was "National Record Store Day", did you all attend to your neighborhood favorites? After feasting on bagel sandwiches overflowing with mozzarella cheese and marinated basil and tomatoes, we stumbled into a fairly new used records&books on 9th, down in Philadelphia's Italian Market. I couldn't decide on a record. But I did pick up a few used books. One, Susan Sontag's novel "

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Do you see that little eye? From Nayar's website: "Yamina Nayar's work explores an intersection found between photography, sculpture, and the constructed moment. Her large-scale photographs are made from sculptures built in the studio on tabletops from found and raw materials, and documented with a large-format camera. Nayar's works draw from historical sources of art and architecture, and

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That's all. We have an awesome bike cubby - in our house! And I want to keep it forever (the bike cubby that is - not so much the house, not forever).Is it spring where you are yet?Don't forget your helmet! Where's your U-lock? Do you have your lights? both front and back? And while you are preparing, brush up on your bike safety, here.Yippeeeeee for fresh air commutes!

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(source) I couldn't resist the image above because we have a similar one at home, both the blanket and the mutt. Check out misc-miranda, thrift and vintage fashion blog, and the original home of this wonderful photograph.Are you all staying warm out there? I know there has blown quite the snow and rain around the country, though I have to say - we are enjoying some lovely mild weather here in

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"One Foot In..." five color (screen)print He's a common fixture in my neighborhood. I see his work at the same studio almost every First Friday and fall in love with it again every time. He's Adam Smith. Of www.dearadamsmith.com and at Part Time Studios here in Fishtown. "Nobody Ever Really Dies"Three color screenprint on French Poptone paper.  12.5" x 19" Thrillist just told me that you

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(source)I've got my boots, now I need my coffee and my chocolate. Winter rain - ugh. But such a beautiful gray.

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Defy these mother nature.... just try. Sorel Cate The Great Sperry Top-Sider Pelican Boot Keen Snowmass Low Boot Until the Northeast gets over this spitting snow vehemently phase, we're just gonna have to wait it out. In the mean time, stay safe and please people, protect those tootsies!

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(source)Where to begin? Tora Greve was mentioned a few weeks back on a blog I follow fondly, Fine Little Day - and while I am not in the practice of re-posting, it piqued my interest, and I had to investigate more.Tora Greve is an artist residing in the Netherlands, hand weaving these wonderful, weird, intriguing tapestries. Her site is largely committed to the Sirius Solar System - an

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(The Bills) The History of Western Subcultures in the 20th Century (And a shout out to the Twins - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!)

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Light!, Composition! Perspective! Oh My! It's never quite been done as Robert Wiene has done it, in his film noir: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. (1920.)Having been said to be the inspiration for such contemporary film titles such as "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus", this film does not employ CGI, or any computer manipulation of the sort; this is real live set building, (tonal ranges painted in

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(source) "I have a dream today."(If you've never read the full-text, you should. ...Today is a great day to do it!)

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No, I don't speak French, but hearing it makes me blush. Yes, I do love minimalistic, geometric, pastel, low-fi, etc... reminiscent of Paris in the Springtime.... GUSH! L’envers du corps II, 2009huile sur toile (oil on canvas)170 x 170 cm St. Peter-Ording, 2010huile sur toile (oil on canvas)100 x 140 cm Perspective cavalière IV, 2010écoline sur papier (ecoline paper)70 x 50 cm Légère

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I was recently approached to do a fun photo shoot for a friend. To my surprise, the incorporation of a mask was at task. The search for just the right thing was much more interesting than I'd hoped, as I found all of these (and more!) along the way: theNakedParrot.com I had no idea the prevalence of handmade masks available for purchase online was so vast!:   Birch bark brown owl bird

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(Sharon Core) Though I referenced antique Baroque paintings in my last post about Alan Lightman's book, Einstein's Dreams, it should be noted that it was actually a contemporary still life photograph that I used as reference. (Marian Drew) The still life photographs of Sharon Core, Marian Drew, and Laura Letinsky, are gorgeous. (Laura Letinsky)Let's go eat a watermelon.

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(source)If you have not yet read Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams, I encourage you to do so at your earliest convenience. Not only a masterpiece of prose, bending simple words in the most fantastic of ways, it acts as a beginner's guide to metaphysics. Lightman explores time and the ideas of its passage (or rather its cyclical recurrence, or rather that it's sporadic, or rather that...)***

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(source)I am not a big advocate for saying one needs to change. (Or believing that one can change.) Especially not change for change sake, say every year around the 1st of January.What I am for is realizing what we're working with, what our strengths and weaknesses may be, and what kind of energies we have that we would like to see bend in some other direction than currently bent - - -(source) I

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(source)Taken directly from the info section at their shop site:"Banquet Atelier & Workshop is a Vancouver-based studio, creating inspired learning for families everywhere. We are currently obsessing over handmade quilts, making blood orange marmalade, Eastern European folk costumes, Maira Kalman, the boreal forest, homing salamanders, and growing succulents. But that's just this week."...I'm in

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A couple of weeks ago, we were lucky enough to see the work of Jennifer Angus, up close, and in person. Let us just say, was that real? These ornate objects are so meticulously curated, the composition, oooh!, the colors, ahhh! the beetle wings, eh?Her installation is part of The Philadelphia Art Alliance's "The Sitting Room: Four Studies" which also includes installations from Ligia Bouton,

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It's about that time around here - time for lunch! Almost (but not) more than eating my lunch - I love preparing my lunch, styling my lunch; and looking at pictures of lunch once the eating is done. You can see my measly offering up above (we're talking some serious constraints here in accessibility and styling - the carrots would not agree to be shot head on: I'll have to check their contract)

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(source) 1. Listen to records, LOUD...2. while staying up much too late...3. drinking PBC beer or liquor drink of your choice...4. gluing found objects ...5. to precisely cut out paper shapes...6. getting glitter all over the rug...7. make dinner at midnight...8. eat ice cream at 2am...9. and watch Hellboy II on Netflix Instant...10. go to bed naked. ******(but don't forget to set the alarm!!!

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Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Visiting Artist Lecture, Abelardo Morrell, Tonight!

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Dear Iceland, Your inhabitants produce some of the most unique art out there. I want to run to you with open arms, see your vast landscape, and chat with you about it.  But, I digress. We will, instead, settle for embracing you with eyes only, right here from home. Check Out: Land of GIANTS by Choi + Shine Architects Electrical Pylons!  I stumbled upon this at deezeen.com, a very

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(source) Abelardo Morrell is coming back to Philadelphia!!! -> To the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) on November 18th, 2010 @ 7:00pm! (source)I had the pleasure of hearing Morell speak at the PMA in the Fall of 2006, at the onset of my graduate study. I had studied photography in undergrad, had made many photographs, and thought a little bit about the life of those photographs in the

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A "Kitchen -Sink- Soup" Fall Edition! What to do with all that overwhelming CSA? The weather is changing, cold salads are on the outs - unless (!) They are accompanied by a warm bowl of soup (and a crust of fresh bread) of course!I had the good fortune to have a free chunk of time this weekend, a hankering, and with the CSA rotting - soup time it was.On the counter up top we have: red cabbage!

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Triumph! screenprint 12 x 12, 2010Pile screenprint 12 x 12, 2010Standard Disaster screenprint 20 x 30, 2010Crash screenprint 12 x 12, 2010Bag screenprint 12 x 12, 2010Down On The Ships intaglio 8 x 8, 2010Them intaglio 18 x 18, 2010Moon Viewing Point screenprint 20 x 15, 2010Go see Kozlowski's solo exhibition, Dear Tree Hugger, at The Print Center in Philadelphia until November 20th.

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(http://crochetbloke.blogspot.com/)Newly enamored with Crochet Bloke's blog - this is a red skull crocheted from butcher twine. Combine this post with others detailing how to cook fried flowers and lots of beautiful pictures - you've got my attention. Visit Crochet Bloke's blog, here and check out his Mr. Boo and Pumpkin Head patterns just in time for the holiday!

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Mary Kate McDevitt says do it...Buy it here.Do it here. A few weeks ago, this Tennesseean and this New Yorker went on a spur of the moment, outta the city trip to the apple orchard. (The Sea's first to a North Eastern orchard yet!) And it was every bit as magical as they're depicted.Now, I know the truth about apples... none will ever taste the same as the ones you pick yourself at the ripest

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(source)Every once in a while - you have the good fortune to meet someone inspired, and therefore - inspiring. Vincent Colvin is one of the most sincere, enthusiastic, un-ashamed-ly full of wonder and curiosity, person/artist (artist=person=artist (?) (different conversation all together)) I have had the pleasure of getting to know in a long time. (source)Recently relocating from Philadelphia

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(source)Today the Sea was born! And she doesn't know it yet, but we have planned a fun filled weekend staycation. Thats right, we are going to vacation - at home. Not the toughest thing to do when you live somewhere as fabulous and full as Philadelphia ... Don't want to give anything away - - - but for those inquiring minds, (Sea stay away) check out this link here and here, here and here, yum

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(source)A mixed media artist, painter, sculptor, installation artist - a mixed media artist who works with things like 700 lbs. of lead, making it into a book. A painter working with tar and emulsion, earth and concrete, and an eerie application of text. Anselm Kiefer.(source) (source)Keeping with our October theme, macabre and gray. Have you heard the term "vernacular architecture"? Its a term

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(source)...c'mon...do it.

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Pissed Off Kids, 2009Series of 3-color screenprints 6.5 X 12.5" Testimony, 2009 Single-channel video(I really wish this had been called "Dinkin' Around" or "Hinkey Dinkey") Crudus Memoria, 20095 color screenprint 13X9" September is over, (was it ever really here?) and creative-costume-figuring-out has ensued. I truly love this time of year. It's the richest, most brilliant, macabre, and strange

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(source)I'm usually a jeans and t-shirt kinda gal myself, and whence the weather changes, a sweatshirt is added. In the office - layers and layers of button-ups and v-neck sweaters. Both wardrobe types which lend themselves well to anonymity, and a special skill that I have to be able to blend way into a crowd.It could be the pre-AM frost coming in my open window last night, well before the

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(source) While studying abroad in Rome a few summers back, I had the good fortune to be introduced to the Brothers Quay, both their work and the artists themselves, while participating in a philosophy course dealing with ideas of vision and rationality. (or was it reality, or realization??? hmm, it did begin with an 'r'. The whole experience a blur!) And I don't know if its the changing weather

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(source)There's no smile like a musical-made smile! Hope you all are enjoying the weather out there, and if singings not your thing, check out something kinda glum, here.

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Line Up. 2008.To pull directly from a press release: Lisa Sigal's work "lies at the intersection of painting, sculpture and architecture." The thing that attracts me to the work is the play of the artwork in and out of our "real" space - the space we inhabit both in the bodily sense and in the sense of this image up top, the "real" space of our work/play/live.Art lives in galleries. Art work

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Photo: Julie A. WenskoskiIt's that time. Leaves are crunching and orchards are starting their apple and pumpkin festivities. This week begins, in my opinion, one of the best month-long periods of the entire year. So, you ask, how do you start the week of the best month, the month of "it's AUTUMN"!?You spike the cider already... (source)Below, I've listed a recipe to get you started. It is quick

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(source)The Corrective Effects of a Brushfire 2009 mixed media on paper (source)Same Bad Habits 2009 mixed media on canvas (source)Hold That Tiger 2009mixed media on canvas Seonna Hong works as an illustrator and animation art director. Much of her animation work focuses on children's entertainment, though, her art is appreciated by kids and adults alike. I find a truly impressive combination

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(source) Retreat - already? Yes!I'm feeling like this canine here, ready to skulk alone and grumpy through the dark and vine-y woods.I am not bragging, (I am longing!), but I did used to live somewhere a lot like this pictured below. I'm just sayin' - I could leave out my back door, or even my front and be in the woods in a hop & a skip, I did not even need so much the jump.Today, I am achin',

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Woooooo - the WHIRLWIND of the last month! Where have we been? Its hard to remember, but a little run down and mash-up:We celebrated a birthday, with YUM cupcakes from Whipped. (Following a WOW, sweetest of the sweet, birthday scavenger hunt.)then ... summer ended,(source) Wouldn't these stars & moon watermelon be B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L at a romantic summer end picnic at dusk with all of your best

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we are xHEREXnew work byTamsen Wojtanowski@GrizzlyGrizzly319 N. 11th StreetPhiladelphia, PA 191072nd FloorSept. 1-30: OPENING: First Friday, September 3rd, 2010, 6pm-8pm.If you're in Philly, it'd be great to see you!

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Clark Sorensen creates some of the most interesting urinals I have ever seen!Art you can pee on... GENIUS! If you can stomach the price tag, you'll find something for your mother-in-law-to-be, and something for the punk-rock-kids-next-door: Has it been a sh*tty day? Hmmmmmmm, a hump day, definetely a hump day. If you'd like to see more of Sorensen's work, check out http://

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source"The Preserve": 2005Color woodcut : 62 x 37" : Ed. 15source"The Coal Mine": 1996Color woodcut : 62 x 37" : Ed. 15source"Argosy": 1998Color woodcut : 62½ x 37" : Ed. 15source"War Eagle": 2010Color woodcut with hand coloring : 37 x 73" : Ed. 15John Buck resides between Montana and Hawaii. He not only works with these beautifully detailed woodblock prints, he also works with wood carving and

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All I have been able to think about in the past few weeks is fabric fabric fabric. I'm not talking fashion design, I'm talking fabric as a canvas, for everything I've always done, but with more possibilities...Crocheting fabric,Sewing, Serging, Shearing,Textile designs by way of screen prints,Dying fabric-y things, Okay ... you get the picture. It seems though, that the more I research fabric

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(source) (source)Big news from this past weekend - after walking with the dogs down to the neighborhood bike shop to pick up a new tube - I fixed my first flat, all by myself!I know, I know, not exactly rocket science or even an awesome show of physical strength, but it is those small victories, is it not(?), that put the sugar-free frosting on our mundane day-to-day.And it was! It was

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(source)Hope y'all have a great weekend! -drop it like a toppop it while it's hot-(summer is almost over... enjoy it while you can.)

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(source) (source)(source)Wafa Hourani is a Palestinian artist combining sculpture and photography is his current body of work, Future Cities.Paraphrased from a fellow blogger, "Future Cities deals with the social, political, and economic realities of Palestinian life to develop grim and apocalyptic predictions for the residents of the West Bank.Each building is a miniature light-box illuminating

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(source)Wouldn't you like to be here? Always lovely images from Fine Little Day. We missed last week's Wednesday Work - we were on vacation. Where have you all been getting away to this summer?

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This past weekend, I traveled to upstate NY. Upon my return to Philadelphia, I realized I had left my cell phone behind.OOOOhhh Noooo. Then I remembered that I'm returning there next weekend, so until then, I'll live free from social overload for one week. I think most people faced with this situation might not feel so free, they might feel a little more like lost.Pondering this today, I had a

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Have you all been to as many weddings as I have this wedding season? Maybe I am at that age, but even so - it sure seems like there have been A LOT of weddings this summer. Last weekend with an impromptu invitation to a wedding reception of friends in Ithaca, this weekend a little more stressful family affair farther upstate. (Really? My cousin that is soooo good at mimicking while whistling

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(source) Okay, so summer has been here for a bit. We've done the thing. Sweat the sweat, drank the drink, got out of town a bit, with more getting-out-of-town to get got.I don't know if you've heard about the East Coast heat wave, or maybe these are just the good old dog-days, but my anticipation of summer has turned into some dirt-encrusted heat exhaustion.I need a new pair of cut-offs.So I am

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Rupert and Leonard wait for the tram on their Swedish holiday.You've seen Matte Stephens' paintings and work whether it be for American Express, IBM, Disney or The Boston Globe - or from our last blog post - to name a few, but have you seen Matte Stephens' felted "action figures"?Mr. Owl and Uncle RutherfordFelted Action Figures.I am not usually all too interested in those things (styles, ideas,

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Sometimes, you need to work until you can't work any more. When we can see our 15 hour workdays turning into our dream, we tend to just keep on trucking. We ignore the signs that we might be working too hard, when stress levels are peaking and all muscles are aching.Then, all of a sudden, there's a little voice that says, "hey, yeah, you, the workaholic, please, Take A Break!"But, where do you go

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The worst thing on a hot summer day in July?Office work.Check out this site Office Art, celebrating works made at work. I especially love the image above by Maria Elena Murguia, and her description of the work even more."An unhappy office, two passive aggressive emails, and a crashing deadline fills one day to the brim, but later when it becomes still and dark, these melt away and become

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(source) Did you have a good 4th?Are you all staying cool out there? With mass amount of DIY home-improvement going on this past weekend (read: house interior in severe disarray = shambles; ie. clutter & crazy), this Monday all I want to do is sleep - and a cool white cube with clean white sheets sounds like the perfect place to do so.(source) This work by artist Chu Yun, called for women ages

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(source 1, 2, 3)Did I tell you we're moving?Yup. Packing and sorting and trashing GALORE! Hence, the theme of this week's Wednesday Work: the Posters of the WPA (Work Progress Administration). Felt fitting for all the heavy lifting we've been doing. (source) I chose this one especially for The Sea.I am sure you are all familiar with some sort of variation of the poster above, but are you

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(source)Cupcakes are all the craze these days. From specialty boutiques to cupcake trucks popping up all over the city - cupcakes are being made for every occassion, birthdays and holidays, in lieu of big wedding cakes, even golf themed for father's day.This DEFY MONDAY I am thinking about next Monday, our first Monday in our new house (sure to be in shambles) and a bank holiday to boot. I won't

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(source) I won't tell you how I got there, but I have been thinking a lot about triangulation and refraction... Have you seen "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys"(2002)?(source) Dealing with topics like depression, incest, mortality, and overall general angst, the movie tells a coming-of-age story set in Catholic School. The scene that stuck with me (I'm bringing it back around now), is one where

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(cheri of scout holiday)Did you know we're moving? That's right. We've got to be all packed up and ready to go in 7 days! Suffice to say there is a lot to do and we can think of nothing more. Hence, this week's Wednesday Work: Home Design - images collected by Design*Sponge.Design*Sponge is a fabulous blog offering insight into beautiful homes, DIY craft and home projects, beautiful art, and

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So I don't know about you all out there, but you ever have that one packaged food item that lingers around the pantry and no matter how many times you think you've used it, another appears to take the last one's place? My omni-present packaged good: The Jiffy Muffin Mix. Sometimes blueberry, once in a while chocolate chip, often of the corn muffin variety - ALWAYS there! How to put this

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(source) This may be the most important DEFY MONDAY yet as it is the Looooongest Monday of the year! Today is Summer Solstice, the FIRST day of summer and an astronomical phenomena. (A fitting way to start the season, don't you think?) Today we are the closest to the sun we are every going to get, which makes today the day with the longest period of sunlight!How are you going to spend it?With

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(source)So, I am really into acessible art as of late. Art that I think I could make too... ok, well, at least art with a process that isn't way far over my head, or way out of my ability to gain materials for.Viola - the linoleum print, or linocut. No fancy materials, nor does one need a lot of materials. A process - that once you get past the idea of printing backwards - laying down those

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So, its my first season doing my own growing - and like most things I do for the first time, I am mucking it up. Hence, a lot of back-pedaling, doing a lot of research I probably should've already done.The advantage? I am going to share it here with you! As I learn things, you'll learn them too, and maybe you won't muck up anything at all when you go to start your own plot in the backyard.Today's

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What a better way to Defy Monday than to make some matching shirts!Its simple! All you need is:a friend (or two).iron on letters (Check out the hot pink sequined ones below).an iron.and, your combined imagination.(source)Heard a good joke? Have a secret nickname? Want to share with others your political views, relationship status, favorite sandwich recipe?Put it on your shirt!Its just like

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(source)Type the words "beer art" into Google's search engine and you end up with a lot of links to images like the one above. I don't know what I expected with a search like that, but innocent and star-y-eyed I thought to find something truly inspired. I guess I should have been shooting a lot lower.I was about to give up hope and let my dreams go of finding some beautiful beer art (though I

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Did you all see that post a couple of weeks back by The Sea, "Memorial Day Weekend Project Idea: Plastic Planter Pick-Me-Up"?Well, I am happy to report that after too many weeks on the road, I woke up early enough this morning to finally (!) take advantage of our budding Philadelphian urban garden.While its still too soon in our backyard for tomatoes, I was able to harvest some fresh arugula,

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(source)Its been a busy weekend here, and it's sure to be a busy week. We are fresh of the plane from Nashville, TN, homeland of The Sea. She is sure to catch you up on all the down South doings later on this week - but in the meantime....My fondest Tennessee memory from this weekend? The Thursday afternoon we spend drinking $2 bottles of New Belguim's Fat Tire, listening to a Regular who claims

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every...Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical type GasholdersIdris Khan2004(source)Idris Khan is a London based artist using appropriated imagery and a document scanner to create "all-encompassing composites, consolidating iconic cultural symbols of similar type into single 'super-iamges'."Khan records each individual image in a series of photographs or paintings, (or each individual page of music or

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(source)The way to work can DEFY Monday too! I am lucky enough to ride my bike past this water tower everyday on my way to the office and everyday I enjoy it. All the history and industry and manmade relics, all long since forgotten, serve to create a very malleable landscape full of very real potential. This side of the city feels accessible to my hard work, I could nail a board here, tie a

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Last weekend we headed off to Chestnut Hill's Laurel Gardens to redeem our gift certificates for all things plantable.  Now we have Squash, Zucchini, Melons, Tomatoes, Arugula, Cucumber, Kale, Rosemary, Chives, Basil, Cilantro, and Mint, Oh my! Then came the conundrum... Where to plant all these yummy, pretty things? Not in the ground, for, we are moving next month! (plus, lil pitbull Leroy

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The BonfireThe newest print, full color woodcut, 2010(Source)The Deep Blue SeaSeries of 22 prints, color woodcuts, 2008-2009"The Iceburg"(Source)"Magic Carpet"(Source)Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth of Pittsburgh, PA make up the collaborative efforts of one of my favorite print-making outfits, Tugboat Printshop. I often cannot believe my eyes at the amazing attention to detail that these two put

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Made With Awesome

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So this weekend we are looking to make our current backyard from a 'before' into an 'after'!Have you heard about Philadelphia's Groupon? Its a great web-based service that presents its members (membership is free) with daily area coupons.We were lucky enough to snag coupons for Laurel Hill Gardens, $100 worth of gardening tools and supplies for only $50! And this weekend we plan on cashing them

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(photo source) Okay, okay, so I know it's not a 'Wednesday Work', or even a 'DEFY Monday' - no, it's a 'thank-GOD-it's Thursday!'. I just couldn't help but post this lovely wallpaper from Fine Little Day. Wouldn't a thoughtfully placed strip of that look wonderful in a room?Did we tell you? We're getting a new apartment in July! A dump! = A clean slate, with full permission of the landlord to run

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Perfect for the increasingly good weather, is the work of Johnathan Levitt (of one of our favorite blogs, Grass Doe) not only does he photograph beautiful places, he photographs beautiful people, and beautiful food as well. You can find all of the photographs posted here, and many more, at Johnathan's website, here. From what we can gather, Levitt works in New England, where he received a

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For you it may be the idea of Atlantis,I was always drawn to the idea of the Amazon woman,(photo source)Whatever it is out there that gives you a sense escape, I am here to tell you now - you need look no futher! Better than fantasy - the beautiful future already exists! You need only to head North (or South) on Rt. 81 and get off in Ithaca, NY.(photo source) Today for DEFY MONDAY- we say MOVE!

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After it took me weeks to finish the requested 'flaming tiger' sweatshirt embroidery project last year, I decided to take a hiatus for the sake of my needle-pricked fingers, (I know, get a thimble!,) I've recently been looking to pick up a new embroidery project, and yesterday I happened onto some fine manly inspiration: (Greg in D.C., this one's for you:)So, what do you get when you cross

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(photo source)I don't know about all of you out there, but Mondays are not shooting stars as much as they are like meteorites for me (weekend stars falling out of the sky at break neck speed and crashing to the cold hard ground.)...Thus prompts our new section of the blog: DEFY MONDAY.DEFY MONDAY encourages you to take the weekend with you - into the work week, to dredge up all of those

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(photo source)So Shepard Fairey came to Philadelphia to art-up our local coffee shop. (Magnifique iced coffee if anyone is looking.)(photo source)As we sip the delicious brew, sitting on that stoop right there on the right with our pups, I couldn't stop thinking about Jean-Michel Basquiat.Fairey started with OBEY in the 1990s, after a stint in the BFA program at RISD.Basquit died an international

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Check out the work of Thomas Doyle! Reminds us of photographer Gregory Crewdson, but not of Joel Peter Witkin. The photographs are dy-na-mite! But the work is actually that of sculputral object. This work makes me yearn for summer,(even though they're kind of creepy) (what does that say about my summers?). So what do you prefer object or photograph?

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