Ogden Arts Festival This Weekend

I’ll be exhibiting a poster about future art this weekend at the Ogden Arts Festival.

The Details

June 29–30
Opening Reception Friday June 29 18:00–22:00
At the Union Station.

John Amazes Again, It Isn’t His Fault Though, It Is Science.

Yester day was the official start to summer and my brother John politely reminded me that the summer solstice is really the end—every day from here on out gets shorter. He is taking summer classes though so while he goes back to work the rest of us get a little longer to enjoy it. With his brief summer vacation he was able to put a sample of the work he did last spring for graduate school.
Here is the link to that site Scribbles
& here is the link that grounds this admiration in science

Learning To Love You More

http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 2000 people have participated in the project

Miss Larn alerted me to this site that has a series of assignments given by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. I love the idea behind the assigments and I’m looking forward to working on this one. recording a guided meditation tape
Take a look around and find an assignment you can work on.

Thanks Lauren for the heads up on this one.

Paris Je T’Aime

Okay So… I went to this movie last night already convinced I’d love it, and I did. It is the type of film everyone needs to see at the end of each Arrondissement I wanted to applaud! While not every performance was stellar you can’t be disappointed, And no matter how jaded or biased you are toward love you are sure to come away smiling. Check it out then make some crepes. Paris…dans l’attente de visiter.

No One Belongs Here More Than You

No One Belongs Here More Than You

I love this site, I went through the entire site and I never do that!

A Really Great Photo Shoot

Denis Darzacq

One of the coolest alphabets I’ve seen

http://www.mmparis.com/thealphabet/index.html

Criticism for the 337 Project in Salt Lake City

I wish they would change the name of the project to The Shark Sandwich Project, that way all other critics could give it the appropriate two word review it deserves.

I am however impressed with it as a marketing campaign and must give Adam and Dessi Price kudos for that. This was a very nice creative way to get a few thousand people to know about your the upcoming super cool “two-car-garage-passive-solar-urban-living-lofts.” They have said that they wanted to live in a NYC type atmosphere so I guess they decided they would have to build a crack house, kick out all the artist, raise the prices, and let the yuppies move in! congratulations to them again for the completion of the crack house.

BUT! Please spare me the pain of hearing the term artist associated with this project. Of the 140+ people they have labeled artist at most 2 maybe 3 could qualify to be called such. Just as I wouldn’t qualify to be a doctor simply because I walked into a hospital with a stethoscope, so the participants of this project are as far from artist as I am from a doctor—a few more years of dedicated schooling and residency will do them some good.

And Finally My Cry to KEEP UNDERGROUND UNDERGROUND! it just isn’t pretty when one tries to bring it into the light!

337 Project » Salt Lake’s Attempt to Integrate ‘Art’ Into the Community—at Least for a Little While

This post was originally supposed to be serve as announcement about an upcoming art project 337 Project Which opens May 18th in Salt Lake City, but instead I feel like a pre-critique must be placed on the project. My comments are by no way intended to injure or offend the organizers of this project, instead I hope they make artist in general question what it means to create and really what are the goals that should be strived for. This pre-critique will cover three main things I have problems with—including: What the project communicates beyond the individual artist messages, The complete lack of an Objective, and third No spaces between words.

Afraid of Art/Artist But Don’t Want to Be Seen An Artophobe

Everyone has seen graffiti at some point in their life, yes even if you live in provo. but whether you view it is as art or nuisance depends on your education, background, or relationship to the property where it is present. I could keep going on this but this topic is better reserved for another article about graffiti. Instead I want to point out the convenience of this project with regard to it being in and around a building scheduled for demolition. The message being portrayed from this
is one that says art is frivolous. That statement, and this project are doing more to injure art than any spray-paint-vandal, or fascist regime ever could. The injury comes in the form of an accepting of the idea of Trial Runs or Safe Art. This idea of—I’m willing to let you “artist” create something, since I’m going to throw it away anyway—is not alright and devalues not only the individual artist but the art community in general.

Even the Non-Objective Artist had an objective

In our art starved region of the west this project illustrates just how many artist and how few patrons there are. 114+ plus artist who are desperately seeking recognition, voice, or simply something to fill their time with. I fear that this push with no real objective or theme will either a. turn the 337 into a craft fair featuring street artist, or b. create something that resembles a train wreck.

Your Voice is Stronger With Good Type

Perhaps this is case of hypocrisy, but then my site is really only read by 3 people and not meant to serve as a community invite, but the website 337project.org could be better. And as it appears that it will last longer than the actual building perhaps added emphasis into the website would be a better investment.

With all this said I’m really excited for them to open the doors on the 18th and prove me wrong

I invite everyone (all three of you who read this blog) to make an effort to be there on the 18th, unless you live in texas for example. The opening event should be a lot of fun and I’m interested to see if they truly changed the building into something that’ll compliment Art or grossly represent visual vomit attempting to call it self art.

Typographic | Nepotism

My brother John has been working on some really interesting RGTC Randomly Generated Typographic Compositions. The results are quite interesting and are worth checking out here.