More on Relationship in Creativity
September 14, 2010
Joshua Wolf Shenk has a new series on Slate.com on creative pairs, Two is the Magic Number. Accompanying a long essay is a 3+ minute video on John Lennon and Paul McCartney's creative relationship. Related to the previous post here on creative relationship evidenced by remixing, this article explores in depth the "myth of the lone creator". This is Part 1, here is Part 2, Part 3. Enjoy.
Interesting new web site
September 11, 2010
Take a look at this new web site I discovered a couple of days ago, Guided Imagery Collective. Jose Said Osio is a kindred spirit and his well constructed and attractive site is about his interest in guided imagery, art, wellness, and spirit. Check it out.
Beautiful and Strange
June 21, 2010
These photos by Anthony Wood caught my eye and my imagination. I found them to be strange and beautiful- surreal and evocative. This is Photoshop-ing that avoids over-use and shows how one can make fine art with the same tools that so often stray into harshness or kitsch. There are three sets of photos on the web site- Nudes, Angels-Visions-Visitations, and Trees. I found the Nudes to be most interesting but all three bear a close look. Enjoy.
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Modern Art with a Timeless Feel
January 8, 2010
I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and re-post a couple of items that were posted elsewhere this week. This post is about the art work of Mike Dacey who has a studio in Boston, Repeat Press, where he produces wonderful prints. Mike makes use of screen printing, vintage letterpresses and wooden type blocks to make designs like no other- both up-to-the-moment modern and also antique in look and feel.
Mike has been making posters for bands and other events and, as you will see with a visit to the studio through the photos of Meighan O'Toole at her blog, "My Love for You You…". Mike was also written up by Christine Liu, Correspondent for the Boston Globe, at the Boston Globe web site, boston.com where you will see an example of the wallpaper Mike has produced using his designs.
Full disclosure: I have known Mike for many years and visited his studio just last September. Congrats, Mike!
Drawing = Thinking: Milton Glaser
November 24, 2009
In the short video below by C. McCoy via Vimeo, Milton Glaser talks about the importance of drawing- while drawing, of course!
MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.
Fellini’s Imagination
October 24, 2009
"For me the world of my imagination is always closer to the truth than is the truth."
"If I wander around the world looking at things, it is only to reassure myself that the world I have invented is true."
Frederico Fellini (1920-1993)
Every issue of Life Magazine until the end of 1972 is available on Google Books for free. I did a search there for imagination and found this entry: From the July 30, 1971 issue of Life is an article by Dora Jane Hamblin on Frederico Fellini , the great Italian movie director. This piece is about the creation of his made-for-tv film, The Clowns. If you are familiar with his films you know how imaginative they are- perhaps some of the best examples of imagination in filmmaking. The Life magazine article has sketches made by Fellini as studies for this film.
Apparently, Fellini was greatly influenced the Jungian analyst Dr. Ernst Bernhard and by the autobiography of Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
A Short Video Trip
July 24, 2009
Peripetics by ZEITGUISED from NotForPaper on Vimeo.
This is a very imaginative, beautifully constructed video. There are several parts to it but all are connected by the wonder-ful surreal psychedelic imagery. Thoroughly enjoyable. 3:20
Happy Birthday, Marc Chagall
July 7, 2009
Born this day in 1887, French artist Marc Chagall created images based on emotional and poetic associations, and his early works, which predated 
Contemporary Painting from Tibet
May 17, 2009
"The Blissful Love Filling All Space"
Gru-Gu Choegyal Rinpoche
A show of contemporary painting from Tibet took place in Rome, Italy, in February and March of 2009 organized by the Italian NGO ASIA Onlus. Tibetan Visions Contemporary Painting from Tibet can be seen at a web site where the art is shown at asianart.com. There are eight painters shown, and fifty-one paintings. The painter's work shown is quite different, one to another. None of the work represented has the feel of traditional Tibetan painting, although several of the artists have a spiritual theme that is recognizable as Tibetan. I found the art here to be quite interesting in theme and style. I was particularly attracted to the work of Gru-Gu Choegyal Rinpoche, whose work is shown above here, because of the use of abstraction to portray states and experience- and perhaps because of the non-traditional approach to the traditional themes. Enjoy.
Happy Birthday, Dali
May 11, 2009
Today is the 105th birthday of Salvadore Dali (1904-1989), the Spanish artist who combined the newly emerging work of Sigmund Freud on the unconscious and sexuality and of the surrealist artists and writers of Paris to develop his own unique and powerful artistic vision. His work, like no other at the time, piqued my imagination when I first saw prints of his work in the 1950's. Knowledge of his work work seems widespread, so let this post honor his work and his memory. But if you are not familiar with the large body of dazzling, exciting work he produced, let this be the beginning. Enjoy.
Thanks to the Encyclopedia Britannica for the image and the links.
