Poverty is the strength of an artist. If given no other option and no hope of payment, artists will continue to create. The only way to stop them is to kill them. Dictators know this. Ideas are contagious. That is why free speech is the first to go when the powerful get hungry ( Read more... )

In case you need a red pill to counteract that blue pill, here's a LOVELY image from James Jean, a fantastic award-winning illustrator who has a steady gig as the cover artist to the comic series Fables. More recently, he did the CD and liner illustrations for a My Chemical Romance album. Buy his book if you want. It's the best thirty dollars ( Read more... )

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A letter from Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille ( Read more... )

Nice little piece of 'found art' on the way home the other night. I like that someone took the time to do this. I wonder where they got the cups? What do you think? Did anyone else see this? I think it's quite inventive. I wonder how long it took to do?


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