tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:27:08 +0000manifestosArakawa and Ginsnature adaptingjob trainingfound art in imageswelcome backearlier than earlyfound art and found filmsearth prayerfashion tragediesfound art animalsbronze scuplture processblogging lingobee amazedAG3 conferencesurvival techniquecelebration of DADAbook review on economycar maintenanceWhat is it about abandoned gloves?job descriptionlost and lonely shoesmash-up of a decadeArakawafound art in school bindersustainability"found" artfunguschicken architectureabsurd but trueadvantages to letting it soakLady Gagafound art fungiAttention Deficit Disorderlizard tailsFound poemenvironmental disaster stressword collectionfound art fridayBee wrangling in spring timeafter the rainpeople are great afterallfound artbuilding thingscreative alternativesfun with reptileswhirligiggingHaitian living godsbreathingchicken languagemore tales of abandoned glovesboy character appreciationNew York Cityoil spill reliefart educationfortune cookies/found poemMadeline Ginsgrowing anyway anyhowphotohonoring Louise Bourgeoisthis and thatmoultingHaiti quakes in painfinding art where it finds youa piano manmothers and chickensas drawn by The Art Rangerhttp://artranger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)Blogger128125Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with Live.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-304369165972078076Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:27:00 +00002012-01-27T15:27:08.982-08:00after the rainlost and lonely shoesfound artDear Blogofolks, We are already seeing the sprouts of spring after being able to spot some rain paintings. Then comes a triplicate from Jim Lindenthal, which links with The Squashed Abandonded Glove Series and its many cousins:http://artranger.blogspot.com/2010/10/saga-of-squashed-abandoned-glove.html Insert juxtaposition by Art Ranger with a bluesy soundtrack "http://artranger.blogspot.com/2012/01/found-art-friday-74.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/cNyyj9etRro" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-3536779616348562743Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:29:00 +00002012-01-20T10:29:19.916-08:00 Dear Blogoshpere,  Right around when the Art Ranger has decided that she is tired of the self-imposed obligation of Found Art Friday and thinks it is time to put it aside for a while, some  great materials arrive. This is the whole point, that as you go on living in the world with image consciousness, art multiplies. From Daniel Hastings of the Bay area. "It was one of 4 that was being http://artranger.blogspot.com/2012/01/found-art-friday-73.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/TQFJSPQ8juk" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-7604071640141689530Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:49:00 +00002012-01-13T10:49:54.769-08:00 Welcome to Found Art Friday, Today the "art" that was designated as Art is this 2 minute hero journey from our recent adventure in the rainforest: http://vimeo.com/35015227 Billions of years before humans walked the earth, insects were doing their own agriculture. http://artranger.blogspot.com/2012/01/found-art-friday-72.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/F_7pTSlCHuY" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-7216772757165566817Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:25:00 +00002012-01-06T12:58:36.562-08:00sustainabilityfound artfungusGreetings Blogoshperians, And Happy New Year! This first 2012 Found Art Friday begins with a hello from Sonya Devine's Soba drink. (Perhaps an eerie leery cheery consumer confidence indicator)? Now the Art Ranger shall begin to blog on about where she was recently out on the range in the amazing country of Costa Rica. The following are fungi from the rain forest that caught our eyehttp://artranger.blogspot.com/2012/01/found-art-friday-71.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/drThU25BVQs" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-6965462312110169183Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:26:00 +00002011-12-16T18:27:57.045-08:00Dear Blogospherians, Here we go again!  Today's found art is nearing the shortest day of the year and thus we share our Frost Paintings.      And the daily warming. With images of daily happenstance. For a few months now, The Art Ranger will be in hibernation of the image.  She will collect vitamins and instead celebrate/ wrestle with the word for a while while replenishinghttp://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/12/found-art-friday-70.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/ued_byEgb8M" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-2500739382211771422Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:21:00 +00002011-12-09T17:01:24.819-08:00 Dear Members of The Department of Homeland Inspiration, Here, we celebrate the unexpected moments that can be the stuff of "Art": "Sunlight Hieroglyphics" found by an Art Vigilante in the Bay Area who waited for optimal light bouncing off windows onto a shrinkwrapped construction surface: Which seemed to go so well with a swell set of tooth Xrays Friday Errands from Anony Mous http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/12/found-art-friday-69.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/eJB7DnSlfo0" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-7699644977628493877Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +00002011-12-02T05:00:15.649-08:00found artDear folk of the Department of Homeland Inspiration, Today's Found Art begins with an observer in the bay area who sent "little bits of wonder" #1 It's great to have your backpacking trip without even leaving the parking garage.  And speaking of garages. An artist in Melbourne, Australia is creating 3D paint garage enhancement. Then, low and behold (where did that expression comehttp://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/12/found-art-friday-68.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/h8_cMdUOzWQ" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-49892373375626838Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +00002011-11-18T08:00:03.293-08:00 Dear Humans, Art Ranger is in range, seeing what can be seen with her eyemind, but how about you and you and you? We are sizing each other up And two moments from Mr. Noah Lindenthal (From the school binder - what's a mother to do? except savor it) Send us the gross, the groovy, the mysterious moments of your daily view: FAF@homelandinspiration.org http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/11/found-art-friday-67.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/ZWIqA9AXFgs" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-49254239216529330Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:03:00 +00002011-11-11T08:07:05.881-08:00 Welcome to the Department of Homeland Inspiration! Today's Found Art Friday opens with two images by Wick Alexander, an extraordinary painter and lately aggregator of Pioneer Modernism http://www.wickalexander.com from the album called "Nevada" Autumn Equinox at Hoover    from Gentleman Jeff somewhere outside of Johannesburg, California  Mohave Desert  One more for our PATINA http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/11/found-art-friday-66.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/fqEeB0bUbLA" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-4506276946166472054Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:59:00 +00002011-11-04T10:59:29.696-07:00 Dear blogo visitors,  Today's Found Art Friday means we need to clear our desktop at the same time as offering A short History of The Department of Homeland Inspiration.  Aren't there are things you've seen that make you wish you had a camera at that moment? <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/11/found-art-friday-65.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/aF3L59xlOJ0" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-3330402571489053885Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:18:00 +00002011-10-31T17:18:30.536-07:00 In honor of Halloween, we're going to meditate on the word gross. Don't know about you folks, but it was disappointing around age ten to find out that the word gross had another meaning or two. Bushels of peaches or turnips. A farmers almanac sounding relic. We liked gross for under-the-bandaid, barfy, moldy warty things, with over-sized sticky, icky, slimey parts that are the wrong color -http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/10/gross.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/3TeN7C9_pwo" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-2640835318094256773Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +00002011-10-21T05:00:14.357-07:00found art Welcome to The Department of Homeland Inspiration!  For today's contributions, we have a continuation of tree appreciation. This one from Jim Smith in Torrey Pines (shhhhh) State Park: Another from Bonnie Hotz of the Central Coast: "Are those two different sized boobs and the hole is where we make deposits to the heart?" Wow - have you made any heart deposits lately?  Or set up your http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/10/found-art-friday-64.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/5cGK31K6aTI" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-1710552825701888866Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +00002011-10-14T11:30:01.324-07:00found art animals Welcome to Found Art Friday 63. For this week's images, The Art Ranger notices a cornucopia of animalia, so here is our inquiry: Why do photos with animals evoke narrative so easily? Whole greeting card companies have sprung up. It was out in front of the bank in Seaside, where the Art Ranger spotted This Dog on the dashboard of a sunburned maroon Izuzu truck. We knew instantly that her name http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/10/found-art-friday-63.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/uC5KEqk03QM" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-481648947156555938Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:48:00 +00002011-10-06T18:48:36.876-07:00 Welcome to the Department of Homeland Inspiration! Before we go a blogging, let's thank Steve Jobs right this instant for being so amazing and for innovating the infrastructure for us to even have this dialog around images. This this week's Found Art Friday is dedicated to trees. Trees gathered from walks.  Since settling in the Salinas, California region approximately five years ago, http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/10/found-art-friday-62.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/f3KEOqqJUNU" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-2659834547720249629Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:31:00 +00002011-09-30T09:31:44.374-07:00 Welcome to the Department of Homeland Inspiration. This week's entries all happen to be from the Art Ranger's locale in Monterey County, California. Above, a sighting on our way to the Monterey Jazz Festival where we sat on the lawn leaning against a fence and listened to Soul  Rebels and Dumstaphunk and ate chicken on a stick. Once and a while, one person's series of images takes over thehttp://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/09/found-art-friday-61.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/eR8pNssnDX0" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-2646622351097174828Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:18:00 +00002011-09-23T16:18:37.855-07:00building thingsWelcome back or to and from, The Department of Homeland Inspiration.  Today, the Art Ranger is busy turning a big huge new age and not spending time with her computer or arranging fond Found Art Friday photos. Today's post shows some of the recent projects from studio where she conducts her practice as a professional artist who specializes in three dimensionality.  Lately she has made some http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/09/output-and-input.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/DI3To0S-mHQ" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-7743583411448692942Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:04:00 +00002011-09-16T14:04:48.065-07:00found artWelcome to Found Art Friday at the Department of Homeland Inspiration!Here is an "official" place to notice that "art" can show up almost anywhere. What if TGIF were Thank Buddha it's Friday? or thank Allah it's Friday, or thank Anarchy it's Friday?First off, some offerings from our friend from the neighborhood, Maggie, otherwise known as "Aunt Madge". She's made a business of creating bronze http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/09/found-art-friday-60.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/ZLzFUg6Er14" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-3679002008981200550Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:34:00 +00002011-09-09T16:34:21.934-07:00found art Welcome back to Found Art Friday, founded on the wonderment of going about our business and happening upon imagery: from our beekeeper friend, Susan Needleman: 2 bees, one flower  Now here are 2 from Bonnie Hotz Let's hear it for Vegan Taxidermy!  And look who is walking whom.  (Geez I hope she wont need bunion surgery) And from Robin Brailsford who accidently found a moviestar  barn owl http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/09/found-art-friday-59.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/D1XIZZotgyw" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-6417284558564105057Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:14:00 +00002011-09-07T09:14:04.102-07:00found artWelcome back to The Department of Homeland Inspiration! Remember when labor day week-end carried that back-to-school poignancy.  New yellow pencil smell in the bedroom shag from sorting the materials and filling the soft vinyl pencilcase,  new without all the graphite dust and spilled shavings yet. Not sleeping due to all the anticipation, looking forward yet slightly dreading the first day. http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/09/home-on-range.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/Fs27adw8B30" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-5010613709800245794Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:14:00 +00002011-07-08T12:14:26.295-07:00found artDear Blogofolk, Today's Found Art will be the last serving for a while:  the Artist will officially be At Large and replenishing her points of view.  Good for the soul - won't you do it too and join us down the road?  Adorning the top of a trashcan in San Francisco.  Okay, we're still wondering - who? what? why? So deliberate and extra-terrestrial with extra syrup even. And from a friend in the http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/07/found-art-friday-58.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/wi6nTsZoqmo" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-7096922152962898655Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:49:00 +00002011-07-07T08:49:30.571-07:00word collectionHeck,  Friday is gone and now it's already Thursday again.  After our one year and a half of service at The Department of Homeland Inspiration, we have received a badge in the mail that is hard to read which means, we will have to explain it to folk.  This will be especially useful while The Art Ranger, A.k.a. Artist At Large is going to be out on the range for summer recess from July 9th until http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/07/words-of-wednesday-were.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/QtiFyeaGa8I" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-6621090199094630211Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:20:00 +00002011-06-24T16:20:26.998-07:00found artWelcome to Found Art Friday where we gather to share some visuals of momentary appreciation. Hereby witnessed by Bonnie Hotz in Salinas while maintaining the rose bush  -   blindly singing for our supper or hungering for love?  A literal representation of parenting.  Differently fuzzy and pink from Aunt Madge in Colorado: "Hatching poppy or ((inspiring dinner jacket design)). There was a roving http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/06/found-art-friday-57.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/soGVMuNUt4w" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-6279672272281645938Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:42:00 +00002011-06-17T16:42:22.638-07:00found artWelcome to Found Art Friday, Nearing the longest day of the year, what we aggregate here are series of images collected and shared that seem to manifest before our eyes or our minds in an artful way.  A moment plucked from time. This Brewers Blackbird captured by Jim Lindenthal, strutting his stuff at the beach Makes Art Ranger think that these two were "birds of a feather" The above was http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/06/found-art-friday-56.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/K-SWavhH4hk" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-5810853048484786769Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:40:00 +00002011-06-10T14:40:52.028-07:00found artWelcome to the Department of Homeland Inspiration! In case you've just arrived, what we seek to bring you here on Found Art Fridays is a collection of visual art and language that interprets the surround, enlivens our awareness as beings in the world.  There is Art in museums and galleries and books and then there is art as it leaks into everyday life. Due to last week's loss of circulation, http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/06/found-art-55.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/Q8455wyCP70" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334027968628966799.post-1791021690949726249Fri, 27 May 2011 23:21:00 +00002011-05-27T16:21:12.806-07:00"found" artDear Visitors, To the Department of Homeland Inspiration.org. Today's Found "art" Friday arrives as follows. Soon we'll have to re-introduce and refine this coagulation of Found Art Bloggering because a local newspaper owned by USA today would like to "pick it up". Art Ranger has been doing her appointed job of watching out for art and ART (that is out there (and in there) and over there).  And http://artranger.blogspot.com/2011/05/found-art-friday-54.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Artist At Large)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandInspiration/~4/RUHDNQ6pL00" height="1" width="1"/>