When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Kinda makes him sound like a huge lecher considering his paintings. But still made me laugh.

It's good to know I still got that "art bs" still going strong ( Read more... )

I have been horrible in general with getting on my computer as of late (including checking LJ). When I get home I find I just want to be home - and not beholden to the siren of cyberspace. So I have been lazy in the extreme when it comes to checking up with LJ ( Read more... )

Over at wurds someone brought up a 'movement' called Primitivism to counter that artists aren't needed and are in fact, inhibiting society's growth. How are they doing that? They exist.

( Now before my heads blows off, I'm going to try to, as nicely as I can, put forth a few things that these ppl should think about. )

Have you heard? Someone is defacing ... the defacers street artists!
Link to the storyI find it totally ironic that most people are offended that someone dare deface graffiti. Isn't the whole 'street art' movement about how transiant the works are? Like turn a corner one day, it's there but it might not be there later. I kinda agree with some of ( Read more... )

I've been decoding reading this book, and it takes a while to process cause the entire book is written like a textbook - a textbook written by a snotty professor who is full of himself and uses his language to make himself feel important. But I keep reading because of the ideas he says are really intruging. Here's one excerpt that I found cool ( Read more... )

I am posting this to show off a new icon ...

...how do you like that? :-p

Today I took this picture that I just absolutely love. It's a digital picture taken inside of Mass MoCA, and it features nyrnym359 and yukarichan as the two figures. Although I think the photo works because you can't see any details on the figures -- they are of questionable gender, race, etc. It was a spur of the moment photo, which just happened to have the most ( Read more... )

I am a icon-making machine. I have made like 10 new icons in the past few days ... with several i'm working on. I need to find someplace to post them, cause yeah sitting on my comp doesn't really do much for 'em ( Read more... )

( crap you probably won't care about )