Image by Kelly Puissegur, borrowed from the Mexican Eskimo website.
I’ve been spending a lot of time on a well known genealogy website lately. Starting to build a family tree in as many directions as possible, for my daughter. She’s only 6 months old so by the time she starts wondering where she came from I should have some pretty solid work done.
image borrowed from deadbicycles.com
As of yet I have no idea who is behind this campaign/public art but it makes me just a little more proud of Richmond that this statement is being made here and that whoever came up with it lives here.
As a visual artist I’ve always held music in some higher regard. I experience emotion through music and admire musicians as clergy or counsel. My brother is a musician and he forwarded this video to me. I immediately loved this old man because I think I understand what music does …
Two very significant influencers in my own art, life, experience. It makes so much sense to know that Frost has this relationship with Marley’s music and that I might discover this connection on my birthday. I got clued to this over on Arkitip.
Though utterly lacking in festive levity, this video (posted on a friend’s Facebook page) is the most Irish experience I’ve had today. Shane MacGowan performs “An Irish Airman Forsees His Death” (Yeats).
“I’m a sucker for this type of thing.” I hear myself think it as I watch another beautiful video from some of the folks that produce the Sagan Series.
Two days later, I’m still watching this ad. And only now processing the interpretation of the “second half” metaphor as a more literal “second term.” Whether or not the spot is a well crafted “Thank You” from Chrysler to Obama for the bailout, it is a truly inspired piece of art.
Ironically, Eastwood fancies himself a Republican and the ad has inspired a groundswell of hypothetical pleas for him to run… against Obama.
Sometimes I get all worked up and stressed out. It’s easy to do these days. Then I remember that the cosmic probability that this little pocket of reality we call “the world” even came into being is essentially equal to nil, barely even more likely than 0 chance. But it …
Very few things can stop me in my tracks and blank all distraction, captivate me and consume my attention.
Detroit Bike City from Alex Gallegos on Vimeo.
Another really nice video via People for Bikes. Bikes = Smiles.
