In the 60's my sister and I went to California. We went to the beach and went shopping, and we went to the zoo. This was quite a bit to do for small town girls.]]>
The other part of the stories is our parents had been divorced, our father remarried and we were visiting him in California for the first time. I remember we were excited, but it was kind of weird too.]]>
The Creative Commons is a way to share your artwork with others, without giving away all of your copyrights. The video embedded below describes more about this.]]>
More videos about the creative commons are here »
Do you think more artists should make their work available in the Creative Commons?
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Here is a picture of my grandpa on the street corner of Biwabik, MN. He's smoking either a Camel or Chesterfield straight. He worked in the open pit iron ore mine changing heavy truck tires that were taller than him. My mom says he drank, probably most men did then. He seemed like a tree to me. ]]>
This is an example of the studio set up I had for shooting most of the photographs for the Feathers Series. There's a digital camera in there, the Canon 20D, and North Light Sunspots for illumination.]]>
Since you asked, I am really happy about the birthday cake. I think I'm 2 or 3 years old there.]]>
Around 1993 or so, while hiking in the California hills, I had the idea that images like this could be made into beautiful mandalas. I love to hike and while hiking would look and look at the all the amazing stuff around me. hmmm...
The image here is an example of one of the first photographs I created to make mandalas from.
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Bjorn Lomborg analyzes the biggest problems we have on the planet, and discusses which should be solved first. Part of the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference at Monterey, CA. View it on iTunes.
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Here is a photographer I love -- Abigail Feldman. I met her at Photolucida in April of 07. Her work is so beautiful, and intimate and real. As you can see here in this picture the colors are amazing, and the actual prints up close are even better.
She is having a show at Kegan Ales, a micro-brewery in Kingston, NY Feb 2nd through March 30th 08.
]]>2. I have never been outside the contiguous 48 states, but have driven across the country on my own 5 times. One of those times, driving 1991 Honda Civic hatchback heading back to Monterey, California just crossing the AZ/CA border -- no gas. So I said, I need 10 bucks to get from here to home. A couple miles later I saw an old man next to his pickup, stopped to see what he needed. He offered $10 if I would give him a ride to his house to pick up some tools. It turned out to be a fantastic ramshackle desert rat estate... yes, I made it back fine with a few cups of gas in the tank to spare.
]]> 3. My ancestors are Finnish and Swedish from Northern Minnesota.4. There is a bar and sauna on the main street of my grandmother's home town, Biwabik, MN.
5. I rode a bay horse named 'Jim' in the 4th of July parade in 1975 down the brick paved main street of my home town, Ashland WI (pop. 10000 at the time).
6. Patrick T. drove my Honda Element up Canyon de Chelly, we got stuck in the sand, dug ourselves out and really had to baha to stay afloat on the way back out. My car was packed to the roof with stuff since I was moving from Boston to LA. Lampshades were falling in our laps. We laughed only a little bit!
7. My girlfriends and I used to wear bad fitting second hand 'vintage' clothes and smoke hand rolled cigarettes in the middle of winter in 1983 on the edge of Lake Superior.
8. My husband, Otan and I love the movie Broken Trail with Robert Duval. We've watched it, how many times?
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]]>But take out the galleries, take out the big money, take out the museums, and the demands change. The conversation is me to you, you to me. The scale is more human. It becomes important to be real, and not be pushing some big idea of yourself or your work.
So, the question is, who is the artist communicating with when they conceive of and produce their work. Is it you?
What have your experiences been with artists? What would you like them to be?
]]>The first rule is so important, it's rule 0:
0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.
Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will be. But if you wait until then, it's going to be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don't fool yourself into believing it's going to be here forever. It won't.
Read more at Seth Godin's blog »
I think for digital artists, the new thing is here. You or I can make copies of the digital work and each copy is as good as the original. The reason artworks were sold in limited editions in the past is that the means of producing the work wore out from use as the artist made the final piece. Think of a printing stone (a lithograph, literally 'stone' + 'drawing'). With a lithograph, after a while the printed image got less and less precise, until it was no longer satisfying.
With my work there is no factual reason to limit the edition. Does not mean that I have not wanted to -- thinking that doing so would increase the value of the work. But I would have to place a severe limit on the work - 20 copies is considered to be about the right amount. That means only 20 people in the world could have the work. And the price I had to charge meant my friends could not afford the work.
But I wanted my friends to be able to have these works, and I wanted you to be able to have them too. Just viewing the full-resolution digital file on the screen is amazing. I have see these images that way hundreds of times, and I still go batty when I open up the original file and view it on the screen. And until now, maybe 5 people in the world have seen them that way.
So I decided to make the full-resolution digital files available to you. Do think this was the right decision for me as an artist? How do you feel about having these files available to you? How can I help you work with the files once you do download them?
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