Hidden Identity

The artist isn't listed, but I found this interesting due to the fact that it takes an ordinary space/ object in society and changes the perspective in a second. Take a look.

http://www.dyrmdaily.com/111/my-new-digital-camera-joko-vfx-5000/

-Jose

Caleb Charland

Looking at Caleb Charland's photography I thought they might be manipulated in photoshop, but apparently they are not. Caleb captures motion in time so beautifully.

-Jose

http://www.calebcharland.com/

Engineering and Art at its greatest.

Theo Jansen a Dutch artist constructs these so called animals, which are self aware of its surroundings. The engineering and creativity of these creatures is impressive. I really like the mechanics of the axle of the animals. Take a look! http://www.dyrmdaily.com/597/beach-monsters-by-theo-jansen/

-Jose

The Avengers!

I first learned about Comic Con from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on the Conan O’Brien show, good stuff, you should youtube it, maybe.. unless you’re easily offended, in which case, don’t. Anyhow, I have since learned a little more about the event, Comic Con International is a yearly comic book convention held in San Diego. The convention includes comic books, drawings, paintings, jewelry, sculptures, science fiction, movies, television, pop culture elements like anime, animation, toys, games, etc. It sounds like a lot of fun! It just happens that the convention was held this past weekend and I couldn’t help but Google what new things it had to offer. (Yeah, that’s the truth.)
There’s a lot of cool new stuff presented but what stuck out for me was The Avengers promotional art coming out. Next year the new Thor movie and the new Captain America movie are coming out and I’m kind of excited about them. (Yeah, that’s the truth.) This year at Comic Con they debuted some of the promo art for the movies and I have to say, I was pretty impressed. To quote the writer of the article, they are “they drenched in bad-assery.”
So if I haven’t scared you away, here is the link to the Captain America promo:
http://www.ugo.com/movies/marvel-releases-new-captain-america-art-san-diego-comic-con-2010
And here is the one to Thor promo:
http://www.ugo.com/movies/thor-promo-image-released-san-diego-comic-con

The actual “The Avengers” movie won’t come out until 2012 so I bet next year’s Comic Con will have some great stuff for it!

Nancy

Off to KC

I really enjoyed all that Kansas City had to offer. I had never been to the Kemper Museum before, I had previously heard really great things about it and after seeing it in person and viewing the different galleries I was very impressed with such a wide range of differing styles of 2D and 3D art. My favorite part of the trip was probably traveling downtown to the individual galleries, where I stopped at Monika's Gallery, in which her layering of color and movement was very beautiful. Then we moved down a few blocks to the Blue Gallery, where it featured several female artists all of which promoting their femininity. We ended the trip with a great dinner at Olive Garden, talking about what all we saw! All in all it was a great experience and I plan to go up again soon.

-Mandy

A whole new way to finger paint

Italian artist Guido Daniele has found a unique way to display his painting talent: by using other people's hands as living canvases. He transforms hands into an entire zoo of animals and objects, from flamingos to trees and corals. His attention to detail is incredible; particularly his treatment of texture. From feathers to scales to fur, his animal hands border on the photorealistic.

His website is www.guidodaniele.com, where you can the hand art and his other work, including a 1986 exhibition of airbrushed texture paintings. These show he's been developing and refining his treatment of texture for many years.

Neil

3D graffiti

These videos have great presence. One of the comments on the first one said that there's a nice "hush" in them.

The animator makes graffiti 3D and suspends it urban environments. Then...they use a handheld camera to walk around, getting closer to the form. All very Sector 9. Make sure you watch some of the other ones too.

http://vimeo.com/13084859

-Seth

Kansas City

The Kansas City trip was indeed a blast when all was said and done. Besides walking in the heat, I enjoyed the Kemper Contemporary Museum and the Blue Gallery in Kansas City's crossroads arts district. I thought it would have been bigger though seeing it from the outside. I particularly liked the "Reflections" exhibition at the Kemper. There was a nice 3D piece by a Japanese artist of two geishas was interesting.

The owners of the Blue Gallery had a dog there named Stella. She played with the group and was just being absolutely adorable. After finishing up observing, I'd have to say going to Olive Garden was definitely the highlight of the day. The ride to KC and back to Wichita was fun also.

Cetonia B.

Kansas City Trip- BG 3

I had a great time in Kansas City visitng the museum and gallerys. As much as Monika may not like hearing this, I did enjoy myself more just hanging out with anyone, than I did at the museums. Don't get me wrong, great stuff and it was nice to look at, but being with everyone made it much more fun!...espeically the food at Olive garden... mmmmm. Glad we all got the chance to go!

Brooke Gluszek

Are you a victim of boredom?

I don't know about you, but I constantly hear that there is nothing to do in Wichita. But that can't be further from the truth. There is tons of stuff to do here, you just need to know where to look. There's Tuesday night comedy reviews, dance lessons, concerts, poetry readings, festivals, First Fridays, Final Fridays, demos, artists talks, book signings, and occasional ball, and tons more! One way to start is picking up the GO! Wichita section in Friday's Eagle newspaper. The GO! has many wonderful listings, maps, reviews, etc. It features schedules, locations, times, and cover charges on Final Fridays and First Fridays. Next is checking out ROKICT.com for weekly events. When I say that there is always something going on, this is the place to check out. Of course, you can always check out Facebook. ROKICT.com is on there (Jared ICT Brinkman), Rock Island Live, Vagabond, First Friday (Adam Hartke Records), James Gates(Local Comedian), Final Friday listings, and so much more!

So what's going this weekend?
Wichita Art Museum
1400 W. Museum BLVD is having Family Artventure. It's Free admission to the museum every saturday, all year round. Artenture is from 11am-3pm and it's fun that the whold family can join in. Tour the galleries for inspiration for the featured project of SUMMER LANDSCAPES before heading down to the family studio to create your own work of art!

American Cancer Soceity's Annual Cattleman's Ball at Old Cowtown Museum. Saturday 5pm-12am. Tickets are now on sale at www.cattlemansballwichita.org. Enjoy two great meals, open bars, live and posted bid auctions, multiple live entertainment acts, a bachelor/bachelorette auction, old west games and much more! Don't miss out! They'll be introducing the new Human Slot Machine as well!!!
Please call for RSVP and tickets.


RADIO CITY, Antibacterial Cereal, Hot Dog Skeletons at Rock Island LIVE
101 N. Rockland.

Radio City - http://www.myspace.com/radiocitymusic

Antibacterial Cereal - http://www.myspace.com/antibacterialcereal

Hot Dog Skeletons - http://www.myspace.com/hotdogskeletons
...
$5 +21 to enter.

POND PARTY at The Vertical Violet 665 N. Volusia.
This is there version of a music festival - 2 days of tunes, food & friends!
Indoor & outdoor performances by some of our favorites!

SCHEDULE:

...Saturday, July 24th

3pm-PARTY STARTS
4pm- JOSH HAFNER (O)
5pm-TAYLOR MARTIN BAND (I)
6pm-RYAN WINDHAM (O)
7pm-THE KING & THE THIEF (I)
8pm-AARON LEE MARTIN (O)
9pm-DIGNAN (I)

Sunday, July 25th

10:30am-BRUNCH BEGINS
11:30am-WORSHIP IN THE BACKYARD (O)
1pm JASON & KATIE HENDRY (O)
2pm-RYAN STOLDT (I)
3pm-JORDAN DEE MINNIS (O)
4pm-I HEARD A LION (I)
5pm-MIKE ADAMS (O)
6pm-ZSA ZSA KETZNER (I)
7pm-JENNY WOOD (O)
8pm-HOLY MOUNTAIN (I)

(O)= outside stage
(I) = indoors


A donation of at least $5 PLZ for the touring acts.

ENCHILADAS Saturday PM
BRUNCH Sunday 10:30AM
POTLUCK Sunday - We will be firing up the grill & cooking burgers & dogs.
(If you don't eat meat, bring some veggie burgers or dogs & Breck will cook them for you) Bring anything you would like to add to the grill or to the side dishes, salads, snacks, desserts, drinks, ect. More cups, plates, napkins, ice, ect. are all welcome as well.

21+ Be responsible (BYOB OK)

IF YOU ARE UNDER 21, DO NOT PLAN ON BRINGING OR CONSUMING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON THE PREMISES
Time Today · 7:00pm - 9:30pm

ICT Roller Derby at The Cotillion
11120 West Kellogg Street
Wichita, KS Doors open at 6:00, bout starts at 7:30.
Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Buy advance tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/120008
...
Kids 11 and under FREE!
21+ to drink
Special half time guest! A portion of the proceeds go to support Biker's Against Child Abuse. With proof of membership to BB/BS, Bigs and Littles get in for a combined price of $10.


Comedy Hullabaloo at Kirby's Beer Store Tuesday 9:00pm-11:30pm.
Crazy comedy review!

DJ Carbon's Wednesday Night Dance Party!
July 28 at 9:00pm - July 29 at 2:00am
Rock Island Live
101 N. Rock Island
Wichita, KS
Every Wednesday at Rock Island Live, DJ Carbon throws down some of the hottest jams known to man! You better bring your dancin' shoes because you're gonna need em'!

Half price drinks!
+21 to enter
FREE!!!!!!

So here is just sample of what's going on here in Wichita. There is a ton of more events that are listed. Next time you find yourself getting restless or hear someone say that they are bored, just check out these sites and I guarantee that you will find something. Or if you are feeling adventurous, grab your friends and just head down to Old Town or Delano District for hot local bands and cool hangouts!!

Have a super weekend and hope to see you all out and about!!
-Heather

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School in Wichita

In Brooklyn Molly Crabapple began Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School in 2005. It quickly exploded into an international franchise. A Dr. Sketchy's event is part burlesque cabaret, part life drawing class. It is a mixture of all things vaudeville, burlesque, cabaret, and hand-drawn. 'Art monkeys'(artists that attend) are treated to exotic modelling scenarios in a fast-paced environment, drawing contests during the breaks. So if you want to expand your horizons on life drawing, keep your eyes open for listing of Dr. Sketchy. If you visit the site, they will provide a list of where all of the branches are located.


Read more: http://www.myspace.com/drsketchywichita#ixzz0u5PAuNO6
Or Blank Page Studio


Heather

Mood lighting anyone?

So as I was browsing Notcot.org, I discovered Andrej Belic's scuba photography. Andrej is a part-time Austrian photographer, and has photographed dives from his travels around the world. While this imagery brings back fond memories of Pixar's "Finding Nemo," I think it also shows a particular attention to composition and lighting. There are mysterious scenes of rusted ships' hulls peaking through dark and murky water, and glimmering shoals of fish, not to mention camouflaged crabs and crabby sharks. It kind of makes you want to go on an adventure...Climb to the top of Mount Wanahaukalugi or something.

If you'd like to check it out, his website is at http://www.abelic.net/. I also found an interview with him at http://askthephotographer.com/2008/03/25/going-to-the-depths/, where you can see a little more of his work and his process.

Neil

playground apartments: Tokyo

I found this link in Brooke's link to the toothpick art gallery:

http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/04/05/tokyos-reverse-destiny-lofts/

They are apartments in Tokyo designed to look like the inside of a fast food Play area. The designer says that the apartments are designed this way - with limited space inside that requires bending and cramming - to heighten instinct and enrich the quality of life.

Seems like a nice way to say there's no room in Tokyo...everyone lives in tiny apartments. Fun!

-Seth

Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?

(That’s from a song by the way.)

An article came out this week about a study on some of Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings, the Mona Lisa being one of them. Da Vinci used a technique in his paintings called “sfumato” (new term for me) in which he basically used various layers of paint to give his paintings a certain quality. On some of his paintings, Da Vinci used up to 30 layers of paint. Some of the layers were about the half the thickness of human hair.

Well, in order to understand his use of this technique, scientist used a super duper high-tech tool to study Da Vinci’s paintings. This tool can actually determine what pigments Da Vinci mixed for each layer of paint.

So a machine can tell me what Da Vinci mixed in each of the 30 individual layers of paint? Wow.

I don’t know what my inner nerd is more fascinated, with Da Vinci’s technique or the super duper high- tech tool.

Here is the link to the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100717/ap_on_sc/eu_france_da_vinci_8

Nancy Mendez

Sleeping in the Gallery

A while back I read about a contemporary Chinese artist Chu Yun, who created what he calls a human sculpture by inducing sleep. The work is titled, "Sleeping beauties in the New Museum," and was featured at New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” exhibition of emerging artists from April 7 to June 28 in 2009. . He set up a recruitment to look for females between the ages 18 and 40, interested in just sleeping in the gallery for $10/hr. Over 170 women responded to the ad and about 50 were asked to audition at the museum.

Yun also had staged the work in London in 2006 at the Frieze Art Fair, an exhibition that also featured a woman with Down syndrome sitting in a chair. Italian gallery owner who saw Yun's piece bought the rights to reproduce it for £12,000(That's about $18,432 U.S. Dollar's!)

Basically in this "human sculpture" all these women have to do is sleep in the gallery from noon to 6 p.m. as noisy visitors, unrestrained by any sort of barrier or rope, look on and try not to touch them. A sleeping pill was encouraged, but not necessarily required for legal reasons. The women are legitimately sleeping but not pretending. It's not a performance, just pure sleep.

Not bad getting paid $10/hour just to sleep in a gallery!

Links to the articles

http://cjarchives.jrn.columbia.edu/article.asp?subj=arts_culture&course=arts_culture_seminar&id=2426

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/02/sleep-and-be-art-chinese-artist-chu-yun/

Cetonia B.

toothpick art- BG

This guy's work is crazy! He has been building architecture replicas out of toothpicks since the 4th grade! He was even offered $40,000 for his work, but refused because he said it is apart of his life, talk about having the love for art!...sorry sir, give me the money!

http://www.lostateminor.com/2010/07/15/san-francisco-made-from-toothpicks/

Brooke Gluszek

Work of Art: The Next Great Artist

Recently I've been watching this show on Bravo, called "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist." The show is basically an art reality competition in which 14 up-and-coming artists compete through challenges for a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a cash prize of $100,000. The skill range of each artist varies as well as the area of art they are focused on (painting, sculpture, performance art, printmaking).

It's interesting to see how the artists/contestants handle the challenges thrown at them with the small time frame they are given to finish their pieces and the judges interpretation of their art in the critiques.

If anyone's interested, a new episode airs every Wednesday night at 9pm on the Bravo channel.

There is a new episode coming up tomorrow!

You can find more info at http://www.bravotv.com/work-of-art

Cetonia B.

World Cup Final

Today is the World Cup Final! The Netherlands vs. Spain in South Africa. I’m cheering for Spain from behind my laptop while I do homework. The World Cup is a month long sporting-extravaganza that brings together 32 teams from around the globe and they play for the honor of winning the World Cup. (I’m getting to art, promise). It would be amazing to get to go to at least one of these games, especially in the semi-finals or the final game but I’ll take what I can get if anyone is offering. Art, right!

I’m most interested in Graphic Design and in particular web design, advertisement and logos. (Don’t ask.) Anyway! In 2014 the World Cup games will be held in Brazil and the logo for this championship was recently reveled. There’s been a lot of talk, some people like it, some people don’t. I personally really like it. I think it’s simple but it conveys a lot. It’s basically the World Cup Trophy being formed by hands coming together. The trophy is in the colors of the Brazilian flag. I also see the fingers on the hands as trees and when I think of Brazil I think of rainforests so I feel like that adds to the logo and really shows a little more about Brazil. The logo seems bright and happy, which is something I associate with Brazil also because of Carnival. But that’s just my opinion.

Here is the website:
http://abduzeedo.com/logo-discussion-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil

It shows a short video over how the logo was introduced. I think the last 20 seconds of the video are pretty cool because they show how the design came together. Below the video is the final design. Below that are some opinions, mostly negative about the log and if you scroll a little further you’ll see designs for past World Cup logos.

Happy World Cup!

Nancy Méndez

Donating Art

Last week while I was setting up for my art show at Melange, Leslie, the owner,told me that due unforseen circumstances that she must move by the end of the month. I was shocked to hear this and how her land lord has treated her. Leslie has always supported me, gave me a place to show my art, and always brightned my day every time that I saw her.
So to help with moving cost and whatnot, we are having an art auction and party at the Garage Bar at 579 West Douglas in the Delano District. The auction will be on July 18. Art will be available to preview from 1-5 and then music and auction from 5-8pm. If you're interested in donating, please stop by Melange Jewerly store at 617 West Douglas. You can also friend Leslie or me on Facebook or view the Moving Melange Event on there as well.

Supporting Local Arts and Local Businesses

Heather Powell

Miller High Life Redesigned: BG

So in this article it has photos of the new design of the packaging of Miller High Life. In the article it states how people generally percieve Miller High Life as "below premium." So they came up with a new design to grab peoples attention and make them think differently. Most of the bloggers on the website only had good things to say about the new design. However, I do not feel as if the new design helps it. To me it screams old and outdated, not something you would want to drink!To me it is not a modern look, but I suppose they are not trying to grasp the attention of 21 year old girls like me, I mean...I definatly wouldn't pull out a Miller High Life out of my fridge for a beverage of choice... Any thoughts on this?



http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/06/miller-high-life-redesigned.html

Brooke Gluszek

Cleveland Public Art

Hi everyone. How's the 50 drawings going? Last night I refined my drawings from the week, and overworked one...today I'm starting the new project. I'm excited to see what all will come out when I start playing with the form.

I'm sharing a link found in notcot.org, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Mark Reigelman was selected by the Musuem to construct a temporary work for the outside entrance of the greco style museum. According to the gallery statement, this was a "risky" piece.

The piece - called 'White Cloud' - is close to a hundred 8 foot weather balloons, tied to steel poles, situated on either side of the grand entrance.

I'm not sure if the museum calls it risky simply because it has dynamic elements or because it is not classical and condescending enough to stand alongside the outer walls of the building...

Whatever the case, the piece was installed a week prior to the Summer Solstice event being held at the museum. Those involved in the project were dismayed by strong winds that, er...unsettled the balloons and even bent one of the steel poles. Apparently, thunderstorms and wind got so bad the night before the solstice that it was decided to have the project dismantled the morning of the event. No one that attended the actual solstice party on Saturday saw Reigelman's piece.

The museum is calling this decision one that inspires artists to take creative risks, even if the work can only be experienced for a short time. This is a nice, tidy way of concluding what sounds like must have been a challenging installation to keep up.

Still, I'm more interested in why the balloons were not allowed to stay where they were. Aesthetics beat performance in this case. If two or three of the balloons were missing, another stuck in a tree, a different idea would be reached.

let the work be...

The curators chose a dynamic piece for display, so they must have wanted something to break up the symmetry and static building front. But the choice to dismantle the piece was made before it could become TOO dynamic.

http://www.clevelandpublicart.org/projects/completed/white-cloud


-Seth

Corey Rausch

This is an artist from my little hometown. I doubt anyone will be into this kind of art, but he's my favorite artist, so I thught I'd share!
http://www.earlkuhn.com/