Posted in Misc on Jan 28th, 2009
The theme for FotoFest 2010 is “contemporary work about the United States” and will be curated by invited curators (so you can’t submit to that one). However ,there are many galleries (non-profit, commercial, artist run), corporate spaces, retail spaces and restaurant that also show art and you can apply to them by a juried [...]
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Posted in links on Jan 24th, 2009
New feature for this blog. On Fridays I’ll try to post links to a variety o thangs…
Photography:
An audio interview with Roger Ballen for Lens Culture
Maps:
Placenames – more romantic if ya don’t know what they mean?
Heavy Metal all mapped out
If you every wanted to see a map of European languages
Design:
Car -o- wood
New watch, if [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 16th, 2009
A year ago, I posted a link to Murray Gell-Mann’s TED talk called, Beauty and truth in physics. In this talk Gell-Mann talked a lot about about symmetry.
Basically “things” with some form of symmetry have characteristics that don’t change under certain transformations (read “change”). Beautiful. Symmetry goes way beyond most people’s [...]
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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jan 14th, 2009
Here are some images from the January First Thursday gallery openings in Portland.
Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR) has a show of the work of the late Drake Deknatel. This exhibition is called “Berlin Portraits.” In The Oregonian, Brian Libby wrote: “One feels pulled by these paintings into a grimy but [...]
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Brad Temkin is having a show at Blue Sky Gallery (122 NW 8th Ave, Portland OR) for the upcoming 1st Thursday (6-9pm on January 8). Brad is a wonderful photographer that I meet years ago at FotoFest in Houston. His work continues to amaze me.
Brad Temkin and Tony Mendoza will present an artist [...]
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