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Wild&Crazy Art #2: Martin Creed

2010-10-22T07:54:00.000-04:00

Martin Creed (16 January 2008) from Slade on Vimeo.

(from Wikipedia)
Creed is perhaps best known for his submission for the 2001 Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery, Work No. 227, the lights going on and off, which won that year's prize. The artwork presented was an empty room in which the lights periodically switched on and off. As so often with the Turner Prize, this created a great deal of press attention, most of it questioning whether something as minimalist as this could be considered art at all. Artist Jacqueline Crofton threw eggs at the walls of Creed's empty room as a protest against the prize, declaring that Creed's presentations were not real art and that "painting is in danger of becoming an extinct skill in this country".^[1] In 2006 Martin Creed presented an extensive exhibition with sculptures, videos and performances titled I Like Things with Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan.

Wow! Cool Blogs for Geeks!

2010-10-08T07:25:00.000-04:00

http://bigthink.com/blogs

anybody still reading this?

2010-09-24T08:11:00.003-04:00

I just uploaded a bunch of new pictures to Flickr, Mom.

Graham's birthday
Los Angeles trip
Elias' first day of school

Weird, Cool, Bizarre Art #1

2010-08-16T15:33:00.000-04:00

Marc Quinn's Evolution Series
Scroll through to see the whole thing.

6 foot sculptures in pink marble depicting the development of the human fetus...
Would you have them around your house, or in the garden?

Join in the Jack Vettriano Controversey!

2010-07-21T17:41:00.000-04:00

http://www.jackvettriano.com/southbankshow.php

Hey! Watch this vid for an entertaining lunch break...

So, what do you think? Should the painter of "The Singing Butler" be recognized by the Art Establishment, or is the job of the Art Establishment to only present challenges to the public? And are these paintings good, or really just schlock, on par with big eyed crying children art?

Legos for Grownups @ TED

2010-06-28T15:34:00.002-04:00

I'm not sure how John missed this one...but he came to mind 1st thing when I stumbled upon it!

Overcompensating

2010-06-24T22:21:00.001-04:00

Four months with no photo uploads, but 91 new pics uploaded today. Check them out.

Hilarious Caricature Video

2010-04-27T16:04:00.002-04:00

...and the laughter rang out through the halls...

Haloscan is gone, Echo is going

2010-03-12T19:11:00.004-05:00

Well, the old Haloscan commenting system is gone, replaced temporarily by Echo, a new commenting system that would cost $12 a year if I wanted to pay. But I don't, so it will expire and stop working on 3/21.

All the old Haloscan comments will then disappear from the blog. But they are not gone - I have archived them all! However, there is currently (and likely never will be) an easy way to import them into Blogger comments, so they will remain unreadable on the blog.

For future comments, the Blogger commenting system should be working on new posts (at least). Thanks!

Flower...

2010-03-09T09:13:00.003-05:00

...As seen today on Wikipedia:
http://thatgamecompany.com/games/flower/

What do you think, folks? Is this something you'd play?
It's kinda interesting, the use of video games for meditation and emotional therapy.

snow photos

2010-02-11T10:04:00.004-05:00

In five days we had two 20" snow storms. That's a lot of snow!

And there's more!

Christmastime photos

2010-01-03T18:41:00.001-05:00

Check out the new set.

T’was the night before C’thr’ishm’sh

2009-12-11T09:53:00.004-05:00

"Ph’nglui mglw’nafh C’thr’ishm’sh
R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!"

fall photo dump

2009-11-27T12:04:00.004-05:00

147 (I think) photos from this fall:

Soccer 2009
Baltimore Zoo
Halloween 2009
Disney World 2009
Disney Cruise 2009

Spot the 2 Cool Dudes

2009-09-09T07:57:00.003-04:00

Hint: Front Row!

some new photos

2009-09-07T09:06:00.004-04:00

Hundreds of new photos since the last photo update.

Includes:
Day Out with Thomas
Elias' Birthday
Brandywine Park and Zoo
Graham's Birthday
Beach Trip
North Carolina Trip

Nude Sketch

2009-08-25T05:43:00.003-04:00

Odosketch.
Check it out, you can sketch right in the browser!

Dick Turgidson

2009-07-13T11:18:00.004-04:00

"Ah... If the pilot's good, see. I mean, if he's really... sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... Haha! You oughtta see it sometime, it's a sight. A big plane, like a '52, vroom! There's jet exhaust, flyin' chickens in the barnyard!"

thoughts about Dick Cheney

2009-05-22T00:20:00.004-04:00

(During free breakfast at hotel)

"Daddy, I can't hear the TV over all the noise."

"That's because they turned the sound off, Elias. They put the words up so you can read what he's saying."

"What's he saying?"

"Nothing, really. He's just an angry old man who is trying to justify his crimes."

Homo floresiensis back in the news

2009-05-07T10:03:00.004-04:00

Hobbits 'are a separate species'

Two new papers in Nature argue that the skeletons of diminutive humanoids found on the Indonesian island Flores in fact belong to members of a different species than Homo sapiens, and are not diseased individuals as some have hypothesized. The papers do not address the issue of whether they made cozy homes under the ground, or whether their unusually large feet were, in fact, hairy.

Interesting news, but mostly I just wanted to use this picture.

even more flickr uploads

2009-05-02T08:38:00.001-04:00

From our other camera (Wendy found the special USB cable).

massive flickr upload

2009-05-01T22:36:00.002-04:00

I finally got around to uploading the last few months worth of photos. Enjoy (and don't miss Steamtown, the Horseshoe Curve, and the Gallitzin Tunnels)!

My Kid Could Paint That

2009-03-16T16:00:00.002-04:00

Hey ye folk with kids, have any of you seen this movie? Check it out! What do you think? Was there an adult hand in a lot of the work? (My vote is...yes). And it's never too early to get some big huge canvases for the kids! They could put themselves through college!

no photos

2009-02-15T09:15:00.003-05:00

After finishing a huge job at work, I was finally going to take some time and post photos of the kids. But it turns out we have only taken eight pictures since Christmas time and only three with kids. Each of these three has Elias in his underwear, so to save him from future embarrassment I'm not posting those. Instead, here are three of the non-kid pictures: They are photos of a beautiful Lego castle that Graham and I built one morning in January.

reflecting on the first full day of the Obama administration

2009-01-21T23:16:00.002-05:00

Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?