… by Nina Simone.
On top off being one of my favorite songs, this video is really creative!!!
The YouTube entry explains that:
“this was done for a motion graphics class in the SVA MFA Design program. The assignment was to create a music video using just type and typographic elements in black and white. The song choice was up to us.”
Found on VegBox-recipe blog. (Cool site by the way!!!)
Video also here.
Still in the food category…
9×12 inches. Acrylics on thick paper.
I’ve been wanting to paint more lately, but I wasn’t inspired by anything. I didn’t have a great concept, there were no photos I wanted to interpret, it was raining outside and made me kind of uncreative. But Justin nonchalantly suggested I should try painting still life. I think most of the time still life paintings are boring. But I thought to myself, what the heck… I have nothing else better to get into.
I looked around the apartment, found these blood oranges and sliced them up. I made 2 small paintings of 4.5×6″ of acrylics on essentially really thick paper.
Here’s a quarter of the blood orange.
Here’s a more lateral view, showing the various slice skins.
Once I was done, I ate them.
Do you ever feel like you need something and have a perfect idea of how it should look like or how it should work, but you can’t find anything like it stores? That’s what happened to me when I decided I needed an earring rack. Somewhere to hang my earrings on, instead of having them all tangled in a box. It drove me nuts!
And so I started looking around in various shops and online, without finding anything that looked like what I had in mind. Maybe I didn’t look in the right places? You tell me.
Basta! (”that’s it!” in Italian) I decided to make my own. After a few concept trials (in my head) I decided to go with a simple electrical wire and small wood dowel design.
I made a basic drawing not forgetting the vital elements to beat gravity, I took some fairly small pliers, a wire cutter and on I went! Trying to figure out how the whole thing would stand and stay standing, with my tongue sticking out like a kid, stepping away and coming back to it with fresh ideas every few minutes, like an artist.
It’s far from being perfect! It’s got some funky details and is *almost* very straight.
But hey, now I can eyeball, pick up and put back my earrings neatly in seconds.
I feel like I invented something.
Today, I was still feeling sick and decided not to go to a party I was invited to, in order to keep my germs for myself. I then had to create projects to keep me entertained. So I did the dishes, I put my pile of clothes away, I entered some pictures in my genealogy tree and I painted.
I thought of a concept a while back, not claiming to be unique, but at least interesting to me. I’m just starting to explore it…
Here’s the concept: apply a layer of paint and put bits of tape on it. Let dry. Apply another layer of paint and more bits of tape on it. Let dry. Apply another layer of paint, etc… So that when all is dry and you peel off the tape, it reveals the layers you “saved” with the tape.
Here’s my first attempt: a very spiky flower. I want to make more!
PS: I need to take pictures of my “art” with a tripod!!
One of my urges lately is to create. To be artistic. I used to choreograph and paint all the time and now I’m not. I’m not closing my eyes anymore, to visualize something and make it happen outside of my brain. I still don’t really have the need or energy to get back into creating movement, so I decided to take out the paint brush again.
Since it’s been a while I haven’t dipped these tiny little hairs into the wet paint, I decided not to go free flow and to actually use somewhat of a model. I don’t really have a style, I don’t have a “stroke”, I like painting things that look like something or that is completely abstract or that is the fruit of a concept without an aesthetic purpose. But in this case, it’s the picture of a very small street in the old Nice that inspired me.
I actually started this painting months ago. I looked at it, put it away, added some more stuff, put it away again and finally tonight I took it back out to make the final little color changes and accents I wanted to add.
You’ll see that I simplified a lot of details and only kept the ones I found interesting. I also was true to the color scheme but not to its arrangement. I added a little bit of texture to the wall, so that they wouldn’t look like I just filled in a coloring book.
The colors of the photo of the painting are not quite true to the original hues, but pretty close.
I’m not sure what I think about it yet… I just know that it doesn’t hurt my eyes and it felt good doing it… so I guess I’m pretty satisfied.
So, I was going to blog about something completely different… a dead rat I found on the street yesterday. But when I saved the rat pictures in my “miscellaneous” picture folder, I rediscovered this other picture I’ve always found interesting. Not because of the quality of, but because of the subject and the story behind it.
A few years ago, I was eating fries. French fries, made at home, probably not from scratch. Me and my roommates were chatting and munching. I pour some ketchup on the side of the plate. More talking, more munching, mmm. I love my fries with ketchup.
I look down to my plate to see how I’m doing on the ketchup level, and holly shit what do I see?
A face! I drew face! I drew a face in ketchup with fries! Not looking! Not intending to!
Immediately I grabbed my camera and tried to take a few shots. Given the low light and my shakiness, the shots didn’t turn out very good, which is why I turned it into a more dramatic black and white version.
Looking at it more, I think it looks like a Native American, almost smiling. Hmm, but it could also look like a TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). I don’t know… what does it look like to you?
Oh and by the way, this is the photo I was originally going to post. Poor rat. It was pretty cute.
Wow, this is brilliant! It’s an herbal shelf where you can grow your seasonal herbs on your wall!
I really love the idea that you can grow something you can then eat off of a decorative frame in your living room or kitchen. Great alternative to just having a plant in a corner!
The only challenge (for us) is to find a piece of wall getting enough sun throughout the day.
I also couldn’t quite figure out how much it costs.
I started rehearsing with Loose Change Dance Co. twice a week for 3 weeks now. It’s a LOT of fun!!! We are learning choreo like crazy! Love it!!!
Pictures taken by Sandy Lee.