What inspired me to create today
Sometimes we see a photograph of some dunes in Africa and we think that the splendor of such a photograph is its exotic quality. I think more important than exoticism is significance – what it signifies to the artist and then to the viewer. I love the captures of mundane [...]
Don’t let a couple of cubits of water get between you and inspiration
Sculptor Jason Taylor has begun what he hopes will be the world’s largest underwater scuplture garden. 400 statues of human figures have been erected thus far in a national park in Cancun. Some of the [...]
Everything is Illuminated
Obama welcomes Indian PM Singh to the White House
By AP/Susan Walsh. This picture is so good. Not a thing astiring. All attention fixed the guest of honor. Even the much lauded Mr. Obama looks reverent.
Tim Burton Collection
It’s getting cold out. In Washington DC, it sometimes rains for an entire week during late Autumn. What is an art-geek to do?
Art Trips
NY – MoMa is going to set up a Tim Burton retrospective of his works, paintings, photos, storyboard and stories. According to the New York Magazine, his films [...]
La vida es sencilla, somos quienes la complica. La belleza tambien es sencilla, somos quienes la ensucia. He encontrado a un fotógrafo completamente original y su originalidad se debe precisamente a que haya sabido coger en las manos la belleza sencilla. Completely unostentatious, I give you Chema Madoz, whose name reminds me of Mago de [...]
Dark Corners
- What’s the place like?
- Good. Good. Full of dark corners for doing dark deeds. – Love Actually
Last night we went to dinner at Saigon Bistro, a little DC gem of a Viet restaurant, conveniently off the Red Line metro. I am addicted to their food especially the shrimp vermicelli. As usual, the food [...]
Progress
…is made by putting one foot in front of the other. Sprinting is enticing to me, you get a rush and it comes fast. I sound like I regularly strap my arm down and flood it with an exciting elixir.— But I mean all that metaphorically. I am re-learning what it is to be not [...]
Nature, in every way, inspires us. Louis Khan apparently said that “to express…give presence..we must consult Nature.” Because we need only follow Nature’s design and we will find where we should put this piece and that piece. Perhaps writing is like that too.
” Even a brick wants to be something,” Kahn said. “A brick wants [...]