A rare, quiet moment before an evening daddying. A quick shower, then its the old tickles, screams, and squeals routine, "The Flying around looking at things song," Some "Naked baby running time," and then a few bottles, a couple of diapers later...
mmm Yummy yummy
Then its time for some quick studying, and Ready for school tommorrow!
For those of you who think artist's dont work hard... lol (And whom I havent managed to convince yet...;)
Just Another Monday... 8am: Workin on the Car with Mark :)
An oil change, new ignition coils and plugwires, a quick scrub on my battery terminals and its good as new. Again :) At 180k, thats pretty re-Mark-able. lol ;) Anybody need a mechanic?
I just signed the lease on my new studio and workshop in downtown Phoenix!! It is a co-op of about 10-12 artists, but it is huge warehouse and we're each have a huge chunk of it. I am hugely, HUGELY excited. Not having dedicated studio space has been a huge barrier to production; I dont want to make a mess at the home studio, cant get paint on most things, and having to tidy to some level of presentability every time time I have a client come over for a consult.
Now that I have dedicated, mess-making, paint-slinging, painting-stacking, hammer-cut-saw-dust-freindly workshop space, life will be much more beautiful.
MMMMMM Yummy, space... (I have to get a "caution: men at work" sign.
I was invited to do some body painting for some of the promotional models at the 944 Magazine 8yr Annivesary party at the W hotel.
It was great! Lots of people walking around having fun, and I was able to do some awesome body painting for the models. Then by the time we were finished people were queuing up to get themselves painted!
I wish I had gotten some more pics, but here are a few that I did grab...
Promotional models
Some volunteers :) More can be seen at www.944.com
Today Im posting a little off topic- This post is neither art, nor life, but rather another realm altogether that I work often work with but rarely comment on: Marketing
I guess it relates in that it takes art and makes it a part of our life in a different way. As artists, in addition to being our own managers, we are also manufacturers, distributer, marketing team, sales person, public relations, legal department, fulfillment, and often delivery service for our goods. (Man we need to outsource!) Anyways...
The Folks At Sony Pictures have taken viral marketing a step further with their new picture "2012"
With their marketing campaign, at no small production expense, they have essentially "produced" a creatively engineered an alternatively reality.
Im not saying it is a bad thing- I think it is great marketing! And it honestly looks like a good film- honestly, something is needed to differentiate a half way decent film from the continuous sludge of garbage hollywood is grinding out these days.
But Take A moment, Check this out::
Click the links a litle bit ((and make sure you check out the video at: http://www.thisistheend.com/2009/01/welcome-to-the-apocalypse.php ts hilarous)
Allow yourself to be pulled into the environment created, be impressed, get excited- it's great material, and it does make you veeeery excited to see the movie...
Now take another moment and step back, observe these effects, and look closer at what they have achieved here: An entire reality built around the up coming movie.
Privately produced videos distributed through Youtube, their public reactions, and several websites tout: +A book that was never written (or was it?) +An international research and conservation organization that does not exist with a history that never occurred.(or did it?) +Professional, academic endorsements never made (or were they?) by people who do not exist (or do they?) +A grassroots awareness movement led by an avid (albeit suspciously media-savvy and technically gifted,) fanatic named Charlie Frost (using the internet as his own AM talk radio station to answer questions and disseminate information bout the the truth or myth of government plots, survival measures, multiple spiritual historial (And psychic)revelations predicting the end of the world, and several scientific theories speculating on its cause.
What's the point you ask? Well to me, its easy to see how if someone lived inside of their computer, you could think it was all real. (If a gullible person happened upon these vidoes, googled the keywords, watched the "research presentations," if it wasnt for the fact that the "fanatic" portrayed is played by Woody Harrelson, we'd be worried!!)
Now lets revisit that: "someone who lives inside of a computer." hrrrm... When was the last time you talked to your mom in person? Read a newspaper? When's the last time you got some world news first-hand? Or from a reputable, impartial source?(That could be 10 or 20 years for some of us...)
Has it gone too far? Or does it offered insight into how far it can go...
I remember the feeling I got when I first saw the planes crashing into the WTC... I was like "WTF"(no pun intended) thats a crazy idea"- and then I went to class.
To me, this campaign illustrate how easily a few websites can present some carefully choreographed and well presented fiction, and make it look veeeery compellingly much like fact. Incorporating current news events, popular science fiction, some micheal crichton novel premises, create an entire environment simulationg "real life" occurences.
Trying to get fat via cupcakes, but I move around too much, so I suck at it. I draw and paint and write a little bit, love a LOT, and barely sleep. Tend to be pretty funny sometimes, when I'm in the mood.
This blog is for my personal opinion and orneriness. You're welcome to read.
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