TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Sifting through the Treasure Trove
For this last day of 2024, I had the idea of sharing my top-10 articles of the year. This is a treasure trove of a website, but with 4500+ posts, I need to bookmark the ones that I expect to revisit. With 253 just this year it proved impossible to narrow it down to just 10 (even with me re-reading all of them in the last month!), especially with the variety of resources amongst them.…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Pop Culture IS Culture
December 20, 2024 - "The best place to learn about a culture, to really uncover what they were about on a daily basis is to dig through its garbage." - Louis Leakey 1966 We're told there's a high wall between the high and the low, between pop culture and real art, and it is a foundational insummitable barrier that can be, only by the grace and choosing of the high end side of this fence, breach it. In illustration for example, breaking all the rules of the medium itself for its own sake, ends up being a bad illustration. However when you do this in "fine art" it's ART. This is a physical fact of each medium that almost entirely is what differentiates one from the other as a fact of how they are and what their goals…
PREVIOUS POSTS
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10 Things… About Talent
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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Artists On Art Online Magazine
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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LlamaGate 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Seattle Workshop
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Wacky Reference Wednesdays Contest
Monday, October 15, 2012
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Little Nemo in Google Land
Monday, October 15, 2012
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