Need a jacket? Check out the REI Jacket Sale and Clearance!
 

Lijit Search

Richard Sachs Cycles

A quick one while I’m away

Went to Stanford yesterday, to the Cantor Arts Center … many photos taken of naked people; of course, they were all made of bronze by Auguste Rodin, but still … way too many naked people. That’s why I’m a Cal fan instead.

Of course another reason is because UC Santa Cruz doesn’t do the football [...]

Burning Man snatches copyrights, authorizes censorship

Taking any photos at Burning Man? Planning to create any artwork from images you create while there? Better hope that the Burning Man Organization likes it, or they will seize copyright and force you to remove your work.

Came across an interesting article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding Burning Man. Turns out that the [...]

Poetry Friday

PASSOVER

“Art is what remains when the pot is broken.”                 —Chinese proverb

I know we are bound to the earth, and the cracked heart, old terra cotta, surrenders to vine.

Listen—I’ve seen wind stir the hair of the dead at Belsen, growing like art from the lacing grass;

what is terrible, even, rises. The [...]

Poetry Friday

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE END OF SOLITUDE, BEGINNING AGAIN:

A painter, thin with auburn hair, works before an easel While looking coldly into a meadow, her free hand Raises the red gauze of her dress then scratches the pink Spider bite that’s high up where her leg emerges From the charcoal shadow of [...]

Art vs. Copyright

Sita Sings the Copyright Blues

Boing Boing, Roger Ebert, and the Tribeca Film Festival all love Nina Paley’s brilliant cartoon, which links heartbreak, the Ramayana, and 1920s jazz. Copyright law, though? That’s another story. Find out why.

First things first. Sita Sings the Blues is a completely unique animated feature, mixing up personal pain, [...]

Mmmm … coffee …

I’m not quite caffeinated enough to make a comprehensive (or comprehensible) comment, but you really should go check out Christopher Niemann’s napkin-blog entry in the New York Times.

Coffee – Niemann Opinion Art Blog – Abstract City – NYTimes.com

Drink up!

Quote of the Day

A GENERAL SENSE OF BEING

The sense of being can’t be one solid thing. It moves constantly. It projects out and in, and it is very fickle. Nevertheless, there should be some attempt to relate to the overall situation, to a sense of the whole. It is like looking at a string of beads or [...]

I already told you once, It’s Not Porn!

Warning: The trailer below contains some nudity. If you don’t want to see it, then don’t look! It’s Not Porn – A Documentary (Trailer) from Cianna Stewart on Vimeo.

The initial trailer is ready for Cianna P. Stewart’s new documentary It’s Not Porn: Behind the doors of a modern pin-up company. As a reminder, the [...]

Drool …

VeloNews | Tech Report: The Campagnolo 11-speed Super Record group

In Feltre, Italy, this week, just 15km away from the memorial to Tullio Campagnolo at the summit of the Croce d’Aune pass, Campagnolo reintroduced its Super Record racing group.

Super Record was Campagnolo’s mystical racing group, but it has been decommissioned for more than [...]

Numerology

Got my copy of merkley???’s (that’s lowercase merkley followed by three question marks) new book 111??? today …

111??? is a large, heavy coffee table book, limited to 1111 copies, featuring 111 photos of 111 women posing nude in their 222 favorite shoes on 111 sofas flanked by 222 lamps in San Francisco; and it’s [...]