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The first piece you posted makes me think of what us bears fans will be doing when Marshall gets arrested this season. Looks kind of like a person at night on all fours crying and vomiting.
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Saw this on Yahoo. The guy claims they are done with ballpoint pens. I am not an artist so I have no clue if they are real or not. If so they are amazing, but many people are skeptical. What do some of you artists think?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trendin...alistic-pictures-ballpoint-pen-165204874.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trendin...alistic-pictures-ballpoint-pen-165204874.html
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video won't work in my neck of the woods. I'll see if I can find it elsewhere as it sounds interesting.
After viewing a lot of his work I can't see why anyone would discredit it. Looks legit to me...great technical artist with ballpoint (extremely talented) but in my opinion very boring subject matter. I have actually seen artists who have worked with the same medium who's works are even more exact to the images and photos they are portraying. His aren't exactly perfect..very strong but not perfect.
Gotta remember also artists like him aren't working from memory or imagination. They are tracing and copying images. There is nothing wrong with that at all as I am not trying to discredit the artists talents. It does make the process slightly easier. Many of the critically acclaimed artists and their works come from tracing..including the Renaissance artists we all celebrate ie. Michelangelo's Sistene Chapel.
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check reddit
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http://games.yahoo.com/photos/aweso...-slideshow/starry-night-photo-1348089564.html
this must take forever.
this must take forever.
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i love etched a sketch work. an old friend of mine did one if us hanging out in the room where he was doing the etched sketch. took him about 8 hours and it was brilliant. he was talented to all hell. one of those guys who can solve puzzles in seconds or minutes like rubix cubes and that sort of stuff. he always amazed me.
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When I was in Toronto last year I went to the ROM and they had cool exhibt on iPad and iPhone art from David Hockney. Some of the video's showed the process in real-time (or speed up for the complicated ones). Amazing stuff
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Lonnnnnng overdue follow-up re the Lichtenstein exhibit at the AIC. In short, one of the BEST curated exhibits by the AIC in years IMO---really masterful, thoughtful job of executing their ideas BUT simultaneously the absolute WORST exhibit experience I have ever had in my life in any city. Hands-down the worst art museum experience EVER.
They simply have to man up and take a stand at the AIC---they need to go back to the old system where everyone non-member pays Gen. Admission to get into the museum and then pays extra to get into the special exhibits. This charging everyone more upfront and therefore allowing everyone into the special exhibits if they want is a complete and utter CLUSTERFUCK which reached it's apex of suck at the Lichtenstein. People who wouldn't have ordinarily given two shits about seeing these types of special exhibits now come in because they can and that kind of museum democracy I don't disparage at face value but I do in light of it being the 2nd decade of the 21st Century and people having the social graces and manners of fucking bonobos in heat all day. My god people! THE PHONE CAMERAS!
This was hands-down the worst I have ever seen it at any art exhibit. Like I almost was in despair I didn't have my iPod with me to put on some Classical and drown them out and because I couldn't put on a cell Classical radio stream because the AT&T coverage that deep into the museum was pointless. People seemingly more interested in taking cell phone pics than taking in the actual art. Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful. And to make matters worse this was absolutely the worst exhibit to have so many people trying to take pictures because about every third work had signs which EXPLICITLY said that photos were not allowed of that piece which since people didn't give a shit and weren't reading the provenance cards anyway meant they kept having to have guards come over and tell them they had to erase the pics in front of a Museum witness. And this happened over and over and over in gallery after gallery after gallery. There has literally never been an exhibit to my knowledge that had to have so many security guards stationed---it was insane. But this was the price to pay for getting the pieces on loan to flesh out the envisioned exhibit so thems the breaks. I mean, I just don't get it---I never grew up taking pics at exhibits so this compulsion is completely foreign to me. I go to see art, to read every piece of text posted, and to follow the course of the exhibit not listen to headphone tour hotspots (and boy did I think they were the worst until the past few years with cell phone camera bastards) or whip out my phone and try to snap a pic of every other goddamn piece of work. MADDENING!
As you can tell, I had many BAD FEELS about this legion of people who I feel ruined the museum-going experience for me, me, ME!
They simply have to man up and take a stand at the AIC---they need to go back to the old system where everyone non-member pays Gen. Admission to get into the museum and then pays extra to get into the special exhibits. This charging everyone more upfront and therefore allowing everyone into the special exhibits if they want is a complete and utter CLUSTERFUCK which reached it's apex of suck at the Lichtenstein. People who wouldn't have ordinarily given two shits about seeing these types of special exhibits now come in because they can and that kind of museum democracy I don't disparage at face value but I do in light of it being the 2nd decade of the 21st Century and people having the social graces and manners of fucking bonobos in heat all day. My god people! THE PHONE CAMERAS!
This was hands-down the worst I have ever seen it at any art exhibit. Like I almost was in despair I didn't have my iPod with me to put on some Classical and drown them out and because I couldn't put on a cell Classical radio stream because the AT&T coverage that deep into the museum was pointless. People seemingly more interested in taking cell phone pics than taking in the actual art. Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful. And to make matters worse this was absolutely the worst exhibit to have so many people trying to take pictures because about every third work had signs which EXPLICITLY said that photos were not allowed of that piece which since people didn't give a shit and weren't reading the provenance cards anyway meant they kept having to have guards come over and tell them they had to erase the pics in front of a Museum witness. And this happened over and over and over in gallery after gallery after gallery. There has literally never been an exhibit to my knowledge that had to have so many security guards stationed---it was insane. But this was the price to pay for getting the pieces on loan to flesh out the envisioned exhibit so thems the breaks. I mean, I just don't get it---I never grew up taking pics at exhibits so this compulsion is completely foreign to me. I go to see art, to read every piece of text posted, and to follow the course of the exhibit not listen to headphone tour hotspots (and boy did I think they were the worst until the past few years with cell phone camera bastards) or whip out my phone and try to snap a pic of every other goddamn piece of work. MADDENING!
As you can tell, I had many BAD FEELS about this legion of people who I feel ruined the museum-going experience for me, me, ME!
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Yes, yes, they do. This was #exhibitFAIL and also #humanityFAIL.
You can not believe how many people I saw that would take a pic of one piece that was off limits photographically then got told they couldn't keep the pic by a guard who would then also point out the signage with you know? The fucking image of a camera in a circle with a slash through it? Then less than 5 mins later the same person would after taking some pics of some allowable pieces then go ahead and take pic of another piece where it was forbidden over and over again like a fucking Pavlovian response for morons. I was literally like if I don't get away from these fucking dillholes, family and friends may read about me on the 10 o'clock news.
I pray the National Gallery (where the exhibit is now), then the Tate Modern, and then the Pompidou have better luck with the fucktards.
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That's pretty much how I feel about every museum I go to nowadays.
I was so glad when the GF and I hit up House on the Rock on a Tuesday... felt like for the most part we had the place to ourselves (with a couple of exceptions)... could stroll through at our own speed and spend time looking and reading the things we wanted to.
I was so glad when the GF and I hit up House on the Rock on a Tuesday... felt like for the most part we had the place to ourselves (with a couple of exceptions)... could stroll through at our own speed and spend time looking and reading the things we wanted to.
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That sucks Bookie, I was sorry to have missed the exhibit but if what you say is true it would have pissed me off to have paid good money to be cattle car'd in with the rest of the apes. It would have been way too distracting for me to really take anything in and would have probably ruined the entire experience for me and I'd probably have a sour Lichtenstein prejudice, unfairly.
Anyone have any opinions on the soon to open Steve McQueen exhibit? I guess it's supposed to be pretty good separate from him acting. Also, one of their other exhibits "Film and Photo of New York" looked interesting if for nothing more of a glimpse of old timey new york. Anyone peruse it? And of course if I go I won't be missing the Burnham Library Centennial. Of course, I keep saying I'm going to go and have never made time, now who knows when I will actually have time. Do they charge for babies? Do they even let them in?
Anyone have any opinions on the soon to open Steve McQueen exhibit? I guess it's supposed to be pretty good separate from him acting. Also, one of their other exhibits "Film and Photo of New York" looked interesting if for nothing more of a glimpse of old timey new york. Anyone peruse it? And of course if I go I won't be missing the Burnham Library Centennial. Of course, I keep saying I'm going to go and have never made time, now who knows when I will actually have time. Do they charge for babies? Do they even let them in?
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Are you afraid they won't let you in?
Seriously though, pretty sure that won't be an issue. Under 14 it's free. Just as long as the baby isn't making a ruckus it will be all good. In my experience if you're rolling a baby around in a stroller they'll generally sleep for a pretty long time. At least a few hours at a time. If they do wake up, give them a bottle or boob and when they're done they'll likely go right back to sleep.
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Interestingly enough, I still like to fall asleep that way.
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Yeah I laughed at your first line.... haha. I assumed the rest was true, and she's been awesome so far so I'm not really worried about the ruckus, I just don't know the decorum, and I know a lot of the Baby SUVs that people like to have out in public can start causing problems and policy changes. We didn't get a really big one though for that reason, I hate them. I'm taking December off and plan on bringing her in to work next to the AIC, maybe I'll make a day of it and take a stroll through.
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Just be careful on the size of the diaper bag you bring. There are bag size restrictions. Technically bags aren't allowed, but purses of a certain size are and I think they would, for this purpose, probably consider a diaper bag a purse.
Checkout the guidelines tab.
http://www.artic.edu/visit
Checkout the guidelines tab.
http://www.artic.edu/visit
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Well shit, that's a good link, and very good to know probably for a lot of places going forward that I hadn't though of. I have an Eddie Bauer diaper backpack which I bet they would throw a fuss about because it's not a bag or a purse. It's acutally really really nice and has everything a good diaper bag has but only is a backpack because I have a bad back. Gonna have to make sure to remember this when going to public outings like this.
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AIC is one of the few places I've been to that have bag restrictions like this. Most other museums I've been to in Chicago it's a non-issue.
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Looks like worst case scenario I may be able to just check it with them, but I would hate to need something and have to run back to the check. I'll figure it out, thanks for the heads up.
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