October 2011
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30 DAYS KAIJU TERRIFIC TRIO SAMPLER: Keith...
Artist Project Statement: I restricted my choice of subject matter to a collection of vinyl Japanese movie monsters, or怪怪(“kaiju”, “weird beasts”) and applied an array of techniques, things that I wanted to try, from a long list of notes and sketches. I photographed and sketched these kaiju in simple front, profile and three-quarter poses and then used the results as subjects of experiments in...
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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30 DAYS TRIPLE HI-FI SAMPLER : Tim Gerwing -...
Artist Project Statement: My name is Tim Gerwing, a co-founder of the 30 Days Project. I’ve been a musician most of my life, and I’ve always struggled with the idea “creativity” and “inspiration”. These were always words that made me feel like something magic should happen that somehow would transport me into fame, glory, and heights of...
Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
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30 DAYS ILLUSTRATED INK SAMPLES X3: Aya...
Artist Project Statement: I spent the first few days enjoying the spontaneous results of ink meeting water, and strong, dynamic brush strokes on rich paper. Abstract painting does not come easily to me, and learning to release control was very valuable. Pushing into the character of the ink on page after page, applications and images began to suggest themselves through specific ink events. I...
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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COMBATTING OPTION PARALYSIS = 30 DAYS PROJECT
30 Slices of the same pie… As an individual whose hands are in many creative pies, prioritising which one to bake first is a daunting and difficult daily task.  What to do, what to do… work on a blog, improve a personal website, plan new project work, draft exhibition proposals, outline plans for a book, and so on and so forth… As much as one would like to be proactive and...
Oct 11th
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11 Statements Around Art Writing: Click image...
Written by Maria Fusco, Michael Newman, Adrian Rifkin & Yve Lomax
Oct 10th
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Oct 4th
TRIPLE FACET READING
… “art history shows neither a steady perfecting of imitative techniques nor a steady dissolu­tion of all ties to reality, but a richly faceted palette of gradations, the totality of which constitutes the contribution of art to broadening human understand­ing far beyond the ‘givens’. The act of reading by W. Iser, 1978 The political unconscious by F. Jameson, 1981 Toward an...
Oct 4th
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