Dream Logic

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Dream Logic - Jay Gidwitz’s Posterous

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:21:13 -0500

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Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:16:58 -0500

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From the Artist Statement:

The exhibition of Dream Logic, was my senior thesis show in 2009. It contained some of my best surrealist work up until that point, created with photography and digital painting in Photoshop. “Surrealism” denotes a type of dream like imagery in art work as well as a specific movement of which Andre Breton was leader of until his death. And then of course there was Dali, who claimed he was surrealism - which was probably true.

Realistic & impossible dream-like imagery has probably existed since humans have been creating art. Many of my teachers insisted that while my work was “surrealistic,” it was not “surrealism.” Dream Logic sums up this work. It is meant to indicate an attitude toward creativity and the creative process, as well as work that is “dream-like” in nature without any of the Freudian baggage that surrealism was associated with.

My aim is to capture the surreal and mysterious world of dreams and the unconscious, the images that appear as you float towards the periphery of consciousness.

Most of the art here is new media: a mixture of photography and digital painting, or digital art.

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Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:16:32 -0500

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From the Artist Statement:About Dream Logic

The exhibition of Dream Logic, was my senior thesis show in 2009. It contained some of my best surrealist work up until that point, created with photography and digital painting in Photoshop. “Surrealism” denotes a type of dream like imagery in art work as well as a specific movement of which Andre Breton was leader of until his death. And then of course there was Dali, who claimed he was surrealism - which was probably true.

Realistic & impossible dream-like imagery has probably existed since humans have been creating art. Many of my teachers insisted that while my work was “surrealistic,” it was not “surrealism.” Dream Logic sums up this work. It is meant to indicate an attitude toward creativity and the creative process, as well as work that is “dream-like” in nature without any of the Freudian baggage that surrealism was associated with.

My aim is to capture the surreal and mysterious world of dreams and the unconscious, the images that appear as you float towards the periphery of consciousness.

Most of the art here is new media: a mixture of photography and digital painting, or digital art.

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Can "Complementary" Currencies Save Us From the Next Crash?

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:04:38 -0500

In the wake of a global meltdown that exposed the fragility of our financial system, it’s understandable that many people are suspicious of the stability of our centralized monetary systems.

“We have had 97 major banking crashes over the last 25 years, and we have 178 monetary crashes over that same time period,” says Belgian currency expert Bernard Lietaer. “Would you not say that’s a sign of something being repeatedly unstable?”

As a result, Lietaer and others are advocating for “complementary” currency systems—alternative monetary devices that run parallel to centralized currencies. These can take the form of local currencies separate from the government, or even organized barter arrangements.

One example of such a currency, says Lietaer, is the Wirtschaftsring (Wir), which was established in 1934 and is used by 75,000 businesses in Switzerland alongside the Swiss franc. He says the Wir has played a crucial role in stabilizing Switzerland’s economy: “When you have a recession, there are not enough Swiss francs around to buy things. The number of participants and the volume of transaction in Wir increases, spontaneously, because that’s what’s available. People don’t have to have a credit line with the banks in order to purchase things.”

Lietaer says that larger complementary currencies can also play a social role. The Fureai Kippu is a Japanese communal currency that supports the elderly. One unit is equal to one hour of service to help an elderly person with tasks that are not covered by the national health care system in Japan. The Fureai Kippu parallels the national system on a local level, tracked as a savings account via two computerized clearinghouses. “If you were trying to do that with conventional money, it wouldn’t work. Japan would go bankrupt!” says Lietaer.

So, why haven’t other countries taken a hint from the Swiss and Japanese? New York University media studies professor Douglas Rushkoff attributes dearth of open source currency to “centuries and centuries of programming.” Our current system of centralized monetary instruments, explains Rushkoff, dates back to the Middle Ages, when peer-to-peer economies flourished. As local currencies thrived, so did the middle class—threatening Europe’s aristocracy. Financial experts, hired by the rich to halt the threat, suggested that local currency be outlawed and replaced with a single form of money dubbed “coin of the realm.”

“That’s the system that ended up getting passed down to us today,” says Rushkoff. “It’s part of a six or seven hundred year push for centralization of power.” Now, he says, the emergence and prominence of the Internet can allow us to return to peer-to-peer exchanges. “People are starting to realize they can sell things to people through the ‘net—they don’t have to work for a company to make money.”

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Grow Up - ReflectionOf.Me

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:46:14 -0400

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Felideus

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:38:40 -0400

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Great illustration and mystically themed artwork.

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Serge Birault

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:21:45 -0400

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Untitled

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:20:15 -0400

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John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity (Via Reckon)

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:19:57 -0400

John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity

by Maria Popova

British actor The Anosognosic’s Dilemma,” arguably one of the most fascinating psychology reads in The New York Times this year.

Curiously, Cleese’s formula for creativity somewhat contradicts another recent theory put forth by historian Steven Johnson who, while discussing where good ideas come from, makes a case for the connected mind rather than the fenced off creative oasis as the true source of creativity.

Maria Popova is the founder and editor in chief of Brain Pickings, a curated inventory of eclectic interestingness and indiscriminate curiosity. She writes for Wired UK, GOOD Magazine, BigThink and Huffington Post, and spends a disturbing amount of time on Twitter.

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I buy this. Although from what Popova describes about Steven Johnson’s theory of creativity, it doesn’t sound incompatible with Cleese’s theory.

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That New Jersey Attitude

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:45:53 -0400

Everything is bigger in Jersey?

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Shadowtuga Photomanipulations

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:29:38 -0400

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Meats Meier Surrealism

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:00:06 -0400

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Meats Meier is currently a freelance illustrator and animator living in Downtown Los Angeles, California. He taught the first ever ZBrush course at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and is the author of the very popular “Introduction to ZBrush” training DVD produced by the Gnomon Workshop. Meats is also an award-winning digital artist (including two Expose’ Master awards) with over a decade of experience in a wide range of artistic fields. Meats feature film credits include “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” and “Hellboy” as a technical director and compositer. He has also worked as an airbrush artist, lead artist at a video game studio (Beyond Games), and has had a successful career as an independent artist and illustrator. Meier’s artwork is on the cover of numerous books, magazines, and web sites and he was honored with the prestigious “Maya Master” title by Alias at SIGGRAPH 2003. In 2006, Meats helped with the stereoscopic graphics for the cover of the TOOL album “10,000 Days” and now continues to work on animations along side Chet Zar and Camella Grace for their live touring concerts.

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Surrealistic paintings by Tetsuya Ishida

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:58:39 -0400

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Tetsuya Ishida (born in June 1973, Shizuoka) was a talented Japanese painter. The characters in his painting appear unhappy and often their bodies are in pieces or part of some machine or other object. Tetsuya Ishida died in 2005 after being hit by a train (possibly suicide) he leaving behind around 180 works created during his 10 year art career.On November 26, 2006, one of Ishida’s paintings, “Untitled” 2001, sold at a Christie’s Hong Kong “Asian Contemporary Art” auction for 780,000 HKD (over USD $100,000).

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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:50:52 -0400

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Artist Bio:

Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like ANOTHER PLACE, DOMAIN FIELD, and INSIDE AUSTRALIA. His recent work increasingly engages with energy systems, fields and vectors, rather than mass and defined volume, evident in works like CLEARING, BLIND LIGHT, FIRMAMENT and ANOTHER SINGULARITY.

Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate and the Hayward galleries, the British Museum and White Cube. His work has been exhibited internationally at museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Malmö Konsthall, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. Blind Light, a major solo exhibition of his work, was held at the Hayward Gallery in 2007.

Antony Gormley has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. His work FIELD has toured America, Europe and Asia. ANGEL OF THE NORTH at Gateshead, QUANTUM CLOUD on the Thames in London, and ANOTHER PLACE, now permanently sited on Crosby Beach near Liverpool are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. (bio)

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Committtee For the Surrealist Investigation for Claims of the Normal

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:32:38 -0400

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Hotel Clavijo

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:35:50 -0400

My name is Hotel Clavijo. In September I will be 5 years old.

I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my trademarked face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an icepack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do seventeen thousand now. After I remove the icepack, I use a deep-pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser. Then a honey-almond bodyscrub. And on the face (around the ™ Logo), an exfoliating gelscrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial masque, which I leave on fourteen minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older, which is absurd because I have not aged one second since my birth. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

There is an idea of a Hotel Clavijo. Some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity — something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze behind my Hotel Clavijo™ Sunglasses, and you can shake my hand and feel fine-art ‘Ultrachrome Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin paper’ gripping your hand, and perhaps even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, you’d be wrong. My life is fantastic beyond your wildest dreams. — Photographed September 2005 —

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Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:45:50 -0400

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mynameisconnor:

I never post this stuff but um this is yet an other direct link to my thesis-work. (Since completed.)

i adore this connor…this is really, really true.

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