Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sculpture Dad
I like to say that Ron Mueck is my sculpture dad...meaning that if anyone in the worldwide sculpture community were to take me under their wing and give me fatherly advice, I'd like it to be him. This is why:
Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Girl-crushery
From UrbanDictionary.com:
girl crush: feelings of admiration and adoration which a girl has for another girl, without wanting to shag said girl. a nonsexual attraction, usually based on veneration at some level.
I suppose everyone has their girl crushes, sometimes one each for various aspects of life, ie music, fashion, art, overall life...
My current art girl crush is Melissa Dixson, a New York City taxidermist. I first saw Melissa's taxidermy on Etsy and then again later, when I saw her blog while google searching for images of taxidermy. I obsessively read her blog as far back as my brain could stand.
My reasoning for girl crushery is first, who doesn't love a girl who does taxidermy? Thats so bad-ass. I love taxidermy, collect skulls, sculpt dead animals and I have a deerhead hanging in my kitchen that looks at me while I eat oatmeal...but could I actually do the deed of cutting into an animal and stuffing him(or her) back to life? Probably not, as I am a bit wussish about guts and whatnot. That doesn't stop me from taking photos every time I see a dead bird or hanging out in the Wagner Institute drawing the oldest crustiest taxidermy I think I've ever seen, but it does makes me respect/jealous of someone who isn't a animal guts wuss like myself.
Secondly, she seems to have great taste based on the random art and style bits that end up on her blog.
Thirdly, she seems nice...she doesn't just go out and slaughter animals for the stuffing. She makes sure she gets each one in a sustainable way.
Finally, she did a taxidermied fawn as Bambi, which was especially appealing, given my Bambi obsession of early last year, which hasn't really gone away...(Case in point - I am using Flower (the skunk) as the "model" for the skunk piece I'm currently working on....Justin says I can't use an animation as a model. I say he can kiss my bootie, I'm doin' it.)
Anyway, all this talk makes me curious to know who the other ladies girl crushes are..(Aub, I know a few of yours!) La, Aub, Laura...spill yo' girl crush beans!
girl crush: feelings of admiration and adoration which a girl has for another girl, without wanting to shag said girl. a nonsexual attraction, usually based on veneration at some level.
I suppose everyone has their girl crushes, sometimes one each for various aspects of life, ie music, fashion, art, overall life...
My current art girl crush is Melissa Dixson, a New York City taxidermist. I first saw Melissa's taxidermy on Etsy and then again later, when I saw her blog while google searching for images of taxidermy. I obsessively read her blog as far back as my brain could stand.
My reasoning for girl crushery is first, who doesn't love a girl who does taxidermy? Thats so bad-ass. I love taxidermy, collect skulls, sculpt dead animals and I have a deerhead hanging in my kitchen that looks at me while I eat oatmeal...but could I actually do the deed of cutting into an animal and stuffing him(or her) back to life? Probably not, as I am a bit wussish about guts and whatnot. That doesn't stop me from taking photos every time I see a dead bird or hanging out in the Wagner Institute drawing the oldest crustiest taxidermy I think I've ever seen, but it does makes me respect/jealous of someone who isn't a animal guts wuss like myself.
Secondly, she seems to have great taste based on the random art and style bits that end up on her blog.
Thirdly, she seems nice...she doesn't just go out and slaughter animals for the stuffing. She makes sure she gets each one in a sustainable way.
Finally, she did a taxidermied fawn as Bambi, which was especially appealing, given my Bambi obsession of early last year, which hasn't really gone away...(Case in point - I am using Flower (the skunk) as the "model" for the skunk piece I'm currently working on....Justin says I can't use an animation as a model. I say he can kiss my bootie, I'm doin' it.)
Anyway, all this talk makes me curious to know who the other ladies girl crushes are..(Aub, I know a few of yours!) La, Aub, Laura...spill yo' girl crush beans!
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Swell Season
The Swell Season featuring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
The cat's out of the bag, LG...this is it.
Ticket with your name on it.
Tuesday night, 8pm.
Radio City Music Hall.
XO AC
Thursday, January 14, 2010
AC helping Haiti
Ms. Aubrie Costello, is donating 50% of all art sales to help relief efforts in Haiti. Please check out her website at www.aubriecostello.com for details.
The Theatre, 2008
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Bring it back...
Today I saw a tweet by Art in the Age about John Paul Thurlow and the drawings of magazine covers he's been doing:
I love the idea of taking something so commercial and spending so much time making it your own.
I love the idea of taking something so commercial and spending so much time making it your own.
Monday, January 4, 2010
MMXoxo
Miss Olivia RaeNew Year's Weekend, OC, NJ
From me to you,
Happy New Year.
Let 2010 be the year of LOVE.
with 2,010 xoxoxo's
love love love ac
love love love ac
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