F Yeah! Art!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Art is so Money

Uncle Sam will pay you mad bling to design the next coin. Get paid, be famous, and have your art be the most collected art EVER.

Deadline is March 8th.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Concrete Hunk

a few links i found about our concrete hunk:

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/pcarch&CISOPTR=190

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=1676

http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=1165886458

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/5480/

http://pdxhistory.com/html/the_bon_marche.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bon_March%C3%A9_flagship_store

apparently the architect (john graham sr) also designed the space needle, the Westin, and everything above two stories in the Northwest

also home to Frangos :)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Greg Apodaca has worked as a digital retoucher in pre-press houses, design studios and advertising agencies in and around the San Francisco bay area since 1995.

Greg got his foot in the door of digital imaging through the world of photography. As an accomplished darkroom printer and copy-worker, he was able to merge a unique set of skills with computer graphic applications. His experience as an artist and freelance photographer gave him a real world view when retouching in 2d.

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

reality addendum

if any of you read my post a little while back about Scandalishious and her reality show video art, she wrote a really interesting article about it in Bust magazine:

http://www.bust.com/blog/2010/01/24/shaming-famewhores-part-i-on-becoming-a-famewhore.html

And even if you aren't interested in watching the show, the article provides an interesting commentary on the "famewhore" aspect of reality tv and its implications for female stereotypes.