a Dance-Mad schoolgirl has won a place at the prestigious Royal Ballet School.
Ella Berry, from Limes Park, Basingstoke, was one of hundreds of girls who applied for a coveted place on the school’s Junior Associates Programme.
SOURCE: Modern Dance News – Read entire story here.
athos smart performance workout gear analyzes biometrics in real-time
smart clothing that tracks muscle effort, providing actionable insight on your mobile device.
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Adult Coloring Book by Ryan Hunter
I know this has recently gone viral as half of the people on my facebook friends list have probably shared it over the past few days, but for the 3 of you out there who haven’t seen the Coloring Book for Grown Ups, here it is. It’s an adult activity book with a variety of challenges and tasks to complete which could either make you laugh or cry, depending how your life has turned out. It is currently the best selling comedy book on Amazon.
Here’s a few pages of Coloring for Grown-Ups: The Adult Activity Book by Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen.
Draw your own friends! 
I have narrowly avoided a few of those obstacles!
Yeah, I like this one! Argh! Bloody smart phones!
Here’s one for the guys (I haven’t seen the whole book yet so I don’t know if there’s one like this for the ladies).
I thought I would be a different person, but I can’t complain.. and who would listen anyway?!
They’ve also released two other funny coloring books for adults called “Coloring for Grown-Ups Holiday Fun Book” and “Coloring for Grown-Ups College Companion” which can also be found on Amazon.
SOURCE: Art News Blog – Read entire story here.
Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard immortalised in oil painting showing he’s a leader … – Mirror.co.uk
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Liverpool's Steven Gerrard immortalised in oil painting showing he's a leader …
Mirror.co.uk Painted by one-time faker John Myatt who was at the centre of the 20th century's biggest art fraud, Gerrard has been depicted in the style of 18th century British portrait artist Joshua Reynolds and is one of five leading World Cup stars to be … Europe's football stars Pirlo, Gerrard, Ronaldo and more immortalised as fine … |
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What The “Lower” Art Market Means
In a previous blog post I mentioned The Long Tail. If you’re not familiar with The Long Tail, it’s Chris Anderson’s way of explaining why Amazon (and other web companies) were able to overtake some of the big retailers and become mega successful off of selling high volumes of little known work. See this image below.
In Tapping the Lower Art Market, Brian Sherwin hits this idea on the head for artists.
- Make affordable art.
- Make lots of it.
- Sell it to as many people as possible.
WHO CARES if you can’t sell at Art Basel or at the Gagosian gallery? Who cares if you can’t sell a piece for $100,000? There are other ways to make money as an artist. TAA blog is full of these stories. Just check out Natasha, or Michael or the half-dozen artists we’ve profiled on the Creative Insurgents Podcast.
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ArtsBeat: Drummer’s Injury Sidelines Kings of Leon
After the band’s drummer suffered broken ribs in an accident, Kings of Leon has canceled nine shows.
SOURCE: NYT > Music – Read entire story here.
Honest Interiors
Take a peek into the real homes of real people. From modern design to antique decor, these beautiful homes are truly inspiring.
SOURCE: Barnebys: all auctions in one place – Read entire story here.
NYC CONNECTION with Jessica Thalmann
For the second chapter of the NYC Connection, our very own Jessica Thalmann takes on Carrie Mae Weems’s stunning retrospective at the Guggenheim.
As the first solo exhibition for an African-American female artist at the Guggenheim, Carrie Mae Weems’s retrospective is long overdue. Paired with a main sprawling exhibition on Italian Futurism, I questioned some curatorial choices when walking through the Guggenheim’s dizzying architectural rotunda.
“Three Decades of Photography and Video” opens on a strong note, with Weems’s renowned Kitchen Table series. In 1990, Weems staged a series of black-and-white scenes at her own kitchen table, starring herself, alone and with other models. Though using the guise of self-portraiture, the exquisitely printed silver gelatin prints seem more acerbic and sad; similar to Cindy Sherman’s “Film Stills” in tone. But it is the inclusion of framed text pieces to accompany the images that really adds another dimension to the work. Using the fictional voice of the female protagonist in each picture, Weems explores the complexities of race, class, and gender in the story of a black woman who was defined not just by her relationships—as a lover, mother, breadwinner, friend—but by her comfort with solitude. The power of the text elevates the images, and gives a fresh perspective to one of her most legendary series.
Carrie Mae Weems, from “The Kitchen Table Series”, 1990
It is clear that Weems’s strength is the combination of image and text. One of the most affecting bodies of work on view is her 1995 series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, for which she enlarged daguerreotypes of African-American subjects, colored them red, framed them and etched the glass with text overtop of the images. The source photos are archival, and might seem familiar to some as they have been used again and again as examples of racial taxonomy in the early beginnings of photography. (Coincidentally, some of the original daguerreotypes were even on display at the Met’s Photography and the American Civil War exhibition.) A portrait of a naked tribal woman in profile reads, “You became a scientific profile.” Superimposed on another photograph of an elegantly attired woman gazing frankly ahead, are the words “Some said you were the spitting image of evil.” The anger and bitterness are palpable, and bring out the best of what the photographic image and text can achieve together.
Carrie Mae Weems, from “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried”, 1995–1996
Weems’s Slow fade To Black is a series of blurred photographs of famous black female performers including Eartha Kitt, Nina Simone and Marian Anderson. The ironic title refers to the fading of celebrity and prominence of famed black performers, using the soft-focus mechanism of photography as a means to underscore its meaning. The triptych of large-scale images and black frames is elegant, sad, and tastes of bitterness.
I was, unfortunately, disappointed to discover the majority of Weems’s video work awkwardly placed above the clamorous museum café and store. The spillage of noise and rustling of bodies ascending from the open circular loops of the floor beneath was immensely distracting, and combined with the unwieldy installation of LCD screens along the curved walls, it was nearly impossible to have a genuine interaction with the work. In spite of this small curatorial awkwardness, I still left with the distinct impression that the exhibition is a real marvel. The exhibition is captivating, challenging, aesthetically distinct and, without a doubt, well-worth worth the inflated ticket price.
“Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video” is on view at the Guggenheim until May 14th.
Jessica Thalmann is a Toronto-based artist, curator and writer currently completing a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at ICP-Bard College in New York City. She has worked at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, TIFF, C Magazine and the Art Gallery of York University and has shown at various venues including the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Flash Forward 2010, Whippersnapper Gallery, Nuit Blanche and the Artist Project.
SOURCE: Art Bitch | Toronto art review and blog – Read entire story here.
The Past and Present of Mercedes Benz Racing Cars in One Monumental Sculpture by Gerry Judah
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Artists Claim Responsibility for Flags
The German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke submitted this video as proof that they hoisted two white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this summer.
SOURCE: NYT > Art & Design – Read entire story here.
Painting the Illusion of Distance—Is It Just About Perspective?
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This summer I've been traveling a bit, but of course it's never
as much as I would like. When I have
gotten to the beach or camped out over a long weekend, I've noticed that trying
to create the illusion of space—over valley peaks or a body of water—in a
landscape painting can be difficult! The distance over water is sometimes deceptive
and the atmospheric effects of air, light, and cloud cover in a valley can
really distort what I see.
Yes, you can solve some of these problems with a sound
knowledge of perspective. That is key for any sense of proportion in landscape
artwork. But you can also get a good sense of the space from where you stand to
the object in the distance a few other ways.
Reducing and massing together the forms, textures, colors,
and details you see in the distance helps make for a less fussy work, and
effectively recreates the way the eye sees.
Use scale to your advantage. This is a tried-and-true visual
cue for artist and viewer alike. I know it seems elementary, but it bears
repeating: the larger the object, the closer we think it is to us.
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A well-defined fore-, middle-, and background are also
really crucial when painting water or vast stretches of an object that is
fairly uniform. It might be that the texture you see in each of these areas
changes with the distance implied. But it could also be color or painting light
effects as they rest on different forms. It all depends on how you want to
breakup the space.
I got all these landscape painting tips from just one
section in Mitchell Albala's book, Landscape
Painting. I found it to be readable, with plenty of
great visual examples, and from an author who is foremost an artist-so I know
his advice is in keeping with where I want to go with my own work. I hope it is
the same with you. Enjoy!
And where have you been this summer? What challenges and
triumphs have you encountered with your painting and drawing? Leave a comment
and let me know!
SOURCE: Artist Daily – Read entire story here.
ACC June Recap: Summer Of Share
Most of our world’s problems stem from a few people not sharing the majority of the planet’s resources equally across the board. They cause wars, disparity, scarcity, genocides, famine, crime and all the fun things that come with it… World of Shit. Out here on the stolen territories we call North America, we sit comfortably as the world suffers. Some of us immigrants, now living on the land of those who forced us out of our own and forced themselves on others’. One of the first stories we learn as children is the one of Adam and Eve and their share gone wrong. They make us pick sides and hate each other over religion, colors and football games. It’s a world gone mad where man is attempting to own every single aspect that comprises our planet. An elephant cried, a mouse died and a cheerleader shot a baby rhino for a selfie…
The word share is losing its value. We used to share values; now we share media on the Internet. Our values became the Internet. What we share on the Internet is totally fucked for the most part (just take a look at your Newsfeed). “Hey man, I shared his corny new rap video on my wall, I’m a real supporter so please don’t say I’m a hater, k?” When we are not basking in the reflective glory of “our team” winning or deflecting failure when that team does bad, most of us spend a lot of time speculating over other people’s shitty lives and their shortcomings. What we portray online is basically our magnified insecurities cleverly masked by overcompensating with something that might give us some worth. The plate of fancy food, the new sneakers, a pretty sunset, the selfie with the new batch etc, etc… We want people to share these detached moments via smartphone. We want them to associate to our basicness. “Hey, me too, dude…” “I smoke wax too, man.” “Hey, look, I also have an Olympus Stylus Epic…” If you think I’m talking about this as if I’m an exception to the rule, you are wrong. If you think that you are an exception to the rule, you are also wrong. We are all victims of culture. This is just my testimony…
Share City…
Rideshare Bae
The share whisperer…
Sharelock Holmes…
Life is like a cake: SHARE…
Slick Shaer…
Bought these for Ski Mask Boris… Sharing is caring.
Share chien BROXE
123456789 Fuck pride… ▀ *RESPECT~~~~~~~~ Share.
Share the wall…
Truck share…
Share a slice…
Share the water…
… and the neighbor’s street pool.
I like turtles…
Share the realness…
Some people don’t like sharing so they have gates with mean dogs behind them…
Share a tattoo with your bae on a random whim because BROXE!
Fireworks, better when shared…
Share la nature et la nature va share…
Share?
Respect!
Share transportation because you are not better than anyone…
Networking with Earth Crusher. Selling out for money… Not sharing secrets.
Caught this fool slippin’, counting his cash in the middle of the street…
So did the ticket lady… Bad share Karma…
Share the sidewalk (but only for the weekend)…
This is where she shared it with me…. In one of them boats…
Been posting shoelfies since 2008, back in the forum days…
Sharing my smartphone knowledge with Kurt so he can also join the share world…
Share towers…
Sharing a moment with napping owl >
Humans are weird.
Pourquoi j’ai share? Les yeux…
Share a Fido customer service experience with Bobbi in an alleyway…
Share palace…
Share team SKRONG…
Concerned share…
One too many shares…
Summer of share…
Unfortunately, some people just don’t know how to share. They never done it and they probably won’t start now. Don’t take it personal, it’s probably just they way they where raised. If you’re the sharing type, avoid these people because the world isn’t going to change any time soon. Attempting to convert these people is futile. Save your energy and resources for the like-minded who will appreciate your generous gestures. One of the biggest mistakes about sharing is expecting things in return. One must share because he genuinely feels like it, not because he hopes to get things in return. That is a false way of sharing that will leave you disappointed. Sharing is an act of compassion. We share because we are human. We share because we are capable of love.
After seven years, all the cells found in your body have been completely replaced by new cells. In essence, this means that every seven years you have a totally new body. The hair, the skin, the cells in our brain and organs have all been replaced. All you are left with are memories. This is why memories are so important to us as humans because it’s the only way we can preserve what we once where. This is also why video/photography is such a big part of our lives, because we get to save these moments and easily share them with others.
I guess this is why I’m obsessed with photography because I just want to share with the rest of the world as much as possible. I can only physically fuck so many girls and spend time with so many homies. I can only give away so much of my limited resources away. This is my attempt of sharing virtually and through print with those who can’t be there physically at the moment when I took the picture.
My name is Stan Troitsky and I’m a Victim of Culture. Most of the photos above can be found on my Instagram. You can also peep my more serious work on my personal site and Flickr. I share my life with you and I want nothing in return. Hope you have a good summer. Respect!
SOURCE: MOOK-LIFE – Read entire story here.