January 2nd, 2011
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Well, it gets you the fact that shoulder to shoulder, all of us would fit into the entire city of Los Angeles (thanks to TWBE on this one). Not sure what that means, but it seems like a lot of shoulder to shoulder action.
We are about to hit a population of 7 billion, and without China and India, we are at about 4.5 billion. National Geographic, still the best magazine ever, has a fantastic feature on the population of the world. The tagline: “By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?”
Do you want children now?
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September 15th, 2010
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When economies are down, the art market goes down. Pretty simple. Art is a luxury-luxury item, nobody really needs it, but its sure great to afford it. Damien Hirst has made an absolute killing selling his artwork, and being that he is alive, he is one of the few artists to ever actually see their work and fame reach ultimate heights. This doesn’t happen without a lot of controversy.
The Economist has a great feature on the market for Hirst, with the great tagline “How the bad boy of Brit-Art grew rich at the expense of his investors.”
And there is this opener, “IN 2008 just over $270m-worth of art by Damien Hirst was sold at auction, a world record for a living artist. By 2009 Mr Hirst’s annual auction sales had shrunk by 93%—to $19m—and the 2010 total is likely to be even lower.”
Click on the link above to see the article in full, its very interesting.
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May 19th, 2010
“Dane Johnson” posted from: The Citrus Report | Art, Culture, News, Graffiti, Music, Street Art, Clothing, Politics, Reviews
The Appropriation of Bad Luck
By j.frede
Los Angeles based artist Dane Johnson is preparing to present a new body of work that takes a close look at people’s bad luck. Paper features photo real-ish paintings of discarded lottery tickets found and collected from around the Los Angeles area since 2008. When I asked him about his motivation for the series Dane explained that it began when he moved to Los Angeles and noticed millions of discarded scratch off lottery tickets all over his Hollywood neighborhood “So I just started collecting them because they looked so great. Aesthetically they are really interesting. They go from being a slick hardedge painting when they are purchased to a messy abstract one when the ticket is played. Everyone scratches off their tickets differently so you are left with unique fingerprint of a moment in time when someone was taking the leap and playing this game of chance.”
The largest of the Lotto Series paintings are 4’ by 6’ acrylic on canvas and the smaller works are gouache on 11” by 16” paper and are painted slightly larger than the actual tickets themselves “ There isn’t any masking involved so it definitely has a hand made look to it. I try my best to make them perfect but it never works out that way. Some people thought they were actually tickets just glued to a piece of paper. Which would be a much easier option but a big part of my work is spending time with these images.” The exhibition will consist of more than a dozen works from the series.
Dane Johnson’s work has long been influenced by chance especially the visual world around us. “We have so many pictures all around us and I have always tried my best to be engaged with my surroundings but there are things that get missed. Things like garbage on the ground, forgettable ad campaigns, magazines, newspapers etc. Those images can have just as much meaning as a slick Nike ad or a show at MOCA…They just need to be considered differently, or just considered period. I try to reframe the way some of these things are looked at.” Johnson continues, “There is so much that you can possibly see, everything there is to see, so it becomes about curating your surroundings. Seeking things out. Putting yourself into positions where you are making connections to what you are looking at. Sometimes it is successful and sometimes it fails but it is the engagement in the surroundings that is interesting to me.”
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August 16th, 2009
Shinganist 6Pages Feature in FLJ Issue #7.About Shinganist, Usugrow and Toshikazu Nozaka Interview, and Shinganist SF Show report. also Shinganist website was updated and photos from Shinganist london show was posted in the Shinganist blog.
8/5から配布中のFLJ #7にシンガニスト６ページ掲載中です。シンガニスト詳細、薄黒、野坂稔和インタヴュー、SFでのショウのレポートが掲載されてます。また、シンガニストウェブサイト更新しました。このブログにはロンドンでのショウの写真も追加しました。
FLJ www.fljtokyo.com
SHINGANIST www.shinganist.com
SHINGANIST London show 1, 2, 3,
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