I'll pick you up...

and it goes like this:

Get off the internet

And put down your damn phone.

"Get off the internet.
That also means put down your phone and stop texting people you are not with.
Oh, and talking to you is difficult when you have headphones in 99% of the time. Chirp."

Shapes have fangs

And it looks a little something like this...

DeviantArt USED to be cool...

Listed as #3 of "Best Submissions Ever." Seriously..?

...until people found out about it. Such is life...

It's really a terrible thing how everything goes to shit when something goes mainstream. It gets filled up with idiots, kids, no talents, and they group together. There was a time when dA (deviantArt) used to have lots of great and talented ART on it...but since that time it has become a playground for 15 year olds that just got a their 'brand new shiny Rebel XTI from gramma!' and think they're professionals because they have a camera that can shoot, and they can far over-sharpen their shitty pictures with Photoshop.

What will they shoot? Well, MySpace photos of course. Then all their 60,000 MySpace friends will favourite their sweet medicine cabinet "slice-my-wrists" mirror secret-internet-fatty (SIF) photos and that photo will rise into "best photos of all time". What the hell?

The site used to be great for browsing actual art and talent but now it has just become an utter shit-hole. It's truly a sad thing because they have one of the best user-experiences for a website. I am very impressed with functionality and ease-of-use (which has been SERIOUSLY improved over the past several years). Now if only we can filter out the bullshit so the content doesn't suck.

I'd ask if anyone had recommendations on a good new art site similar to what dA used to be... but inviting more people to it is exactly the problem... so you should probably keep it secret.

Example of this problem:
Page 3 of Portrait Photography under "Best Submissions Ever"




This MySpace mirror shot fanboy brought over his collection of unknown internet groupies to make him popular. 7,525 favorites on THIS? Happy to see all this in an ART GALLERY. I hate the internet.

It's the SEARS tower

Sign this petition: http://www.itsthesearstower.com

Why? I'm not from Chicago and I don't even care about Chicago. This is about the principal of the thing. If someone tried to rename the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building I'd be pretty mad. You don't even have to live there to appreciate this... Let's just rename the Eiffel Tower, Rockefeller Center, Mount Rushmore, and the Vatican while we're at it.

And to fuel the fire further... The people that want to name it are from LONDON! They have 500 people moving in which make up 3.6% of the building! A company from another country wants to rename a famous American building.

They want to rename it to "The Willis Tower" which is part of their name. This is the worst thing I've ever heard of.

Sign it and stop it.

Frequent change of habit

It's interesting how often I go through such sudden change of habits. I play guitar, shoot photos, design things, build things; I do a lot of stuff... but, for some reason, most of it comes in storm-like bursts. I'll play guitar all day, from morning 'til night, for a few weeks straight. Then I'll put it down and touch it maybe once per week. I'll shoot and edit photos for a month or so, but then my camera will collect dust for the following month.

This strange habit is something that never ends and I'm not quite sure if I like it. I guess what this is supposed to say is, "I've found a routine I like. I would like to hold on to it, but I'm not sure what makes the others disappearing so suddenly in the first place." Would it matter to me if the feeling dissipated? The me-right-now says yes, but the me-in-the-future may not care. Which one is more important?

VOID: Empty Room

It looks something like this...


by christian robert-tissot

If anyone knows where this exhibit is...spread the word. Looks great to me.

I want to attend more of these...

So if you've ever been to something like this...



Let me know and be sure to invite me. This particular event was held at Pianos on March 25th. How could I have missed that? Anyway, it's pretty cool. I'm into it.

Morning Discovery

And it looks a little something like this...

New York Makes a Book!!

Attn: NYC people. Support the book, make a pledge, get a page, meet everyone in the end.


New York Makes a Book!! is an effort by Claudia Clyde, Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen. The target is amount $3,000.00. At the time of writing this, there are only 29 more supporters (aka. "backers") needed, and the current pledge amount is $2,214 with 11 days to go. You get your very own copy of the finished book, an entire page of your own to express yourself on, and everyone that collaborated will meet up at a bar after it is finished to celebrate.

Why is this a great idea? You get 100 strangers in NYC to create a total of 100 pieces of art, unrelated and undefined, compiled page after page... It might be faster to start with why this wouldn't be a good idea.

Help make the book happen: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nymab/new-york-makes-a-book It won't happen if it doesn't meet the required funding!

KickStarter is a new service that helps artists accomplish their goals without worrying about the money needed to get it off the ground. People who like the idea pledge money to see it happen. Notice I'm saying "pledge" and not "donate". Check out their site at kickstarter.com for more details.

I love this video

And it goes a little something like this...

Matt and Kim - "LESSONS LEARNED" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
from FVMMO FILMS on Vimeo.