“Knowledge was clearly the crucial foundation of the judgement to come. The second crucial component in the drama of criticism, the reagent that got you from the knowledge to the judgement, was taste, or sensibility.”

A critic’s manifesto.
[Art / Creativity / Inspiration]
I’ve gotta say - The New Yorker never fails to disappoint. Catching up on some reading over the weekend, I stumbled upon this gem on criticism. My favorite bit? The above quote.

This is your face on drugs: An artist explores creativity under the influence  Bryan Lewis Saunders took everything from Xanax to crystal meth before completing self-portraits. When asked about how perception of the drugs impacted the artwork, Saunders said,”Self-portraiture is biased in its very nature. The more informed the bias, the more interesting the image is, usually… If I was to attempt to render the same exact image on each different substance in essence denying what the drug means to me personally, the only thing I would be expressing were the degrees in which my motor skills, or visual processes were effected thus entirely undermining the purpose of doing a self-portrait in the first place.” Oh, and the portraits themselves are pretty rad.

This is your face on drugs: An artist explores creativity under the influence 

Bryan Lewis Saunders took everything from Xanax to crystal meth before completing self-portraits. When asked about how perception of the drugs impacted the artwork, Saunders said,”Self-portraiture is biased in its very nature. The more informed the bias, the more interesting the image is, usually… If I was to attempt to render the same exact image on each different substance in essence denying what the drug means to me personally, the only thing I would be expressing were the degrees in which my motor skills, or visual processes were effected thus entirely undermining the purpose of doing a self-portrait in the first place.” Oh, and the portraits themselves are pretty rad.

Source fastcocreate.com

Regrets as street art.  Started earlier this year, the artist behind the Regret Project takes peoples regrets and turns them into pieces of art around NYC. It feels like a bit like Frank Warren’s project, Post Secret, in that the regrets are often intimate and anonymous. So why regrets? Says the artist, “My hope is that getting our regrets out into the open (albeit anonymously) will be a cathartic experience and might strike a few individuals that come across them. Perhaps they will even act in a way that better represents the people they wish to be.”  High-res

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Regrets as street art. 

Started earlier this year, the artist behind the Regret Project takes peoples regrets and turns them into pieces of art around NYC. It feels like a bit like Frank Warren’s project, Post Secret, in that the regrets are often intimate and anonymous. So why regrets? Says the artist, “My hope is that getting our regrets out into the open (albeit anonymously) will be a cathartic experience and might strike a few individuals that come across them. Perhaps they will even act in a way that better represents the people they wish to be.” 

(via rosiesiman)

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The naked world of Spencer Tunick.  For 20 years, Tunick has been photographing large crowds of people in the nude. As Alan Taylor writes, “he aims to create an architecture of flesh, where the masses of human bodies blend with the landscape or juxtapose with architecture.” The Atlantic’s In Focus has pulled together 30+ of his most famous images. (Note: Potentially NSFW depending on how cool with nudity your work is.) High-res

The naked world of Spencer Tunick. 

For 20 years, Tunick has been photographing large crowds of people in the nude. As Alan Taylor writes, “he aims to create an architecture of flesh, where the masses of human bodies blend with the landscape or juxtapose with architecture.” The Atlantic’s In Focus has pulled together 30+ of his most famous images. (Note: Potentially NSFW depending on how cool with nudity your work is.)

Source The Atlantic

Quite possibly the best wedding invitation I’ve seen. The design and use of parallax scrolling are enviable and the love story might just make you shed a tear. While I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Jess, I managed to convince Russ and his former band (The XYZ Affair) to come play a Friday acoustic show in my office during the Summer of 2008.  High-res

Quite possibly the best wedding invitation I’ve seen. The design and use of parallax scrolling are enviable and the love story might just make you shed a tear. While I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Jess, I managed to convince Russ and his former band (The XYZ Affair) to come play a Friday acoustic show in my office during the Summer of 2008. 

Museum of Endangered Sounds.  SaveTheSounds is an online gallery of the sounds of yesterday - including your favorites like the AOL dial up sounds, Pac Man and more. As my friend Mark  (who sent this to me) said, “it’s not necessarily nostalgia, but a recognition of things that are slipping away… even if we’re not sad to see them go.” High-res

Museum of Endangered Sounds. 

SaveTheSounds is an online gallery of the sounds of yesterday - including your favorites like the AOL dial up sounds, Pac Man and more. As my friend Mark  (who sent this to me) said, “it’s not necessarily nostalgia, but a recognition of things that are slipping away… even if we’re not sad to see them go.”