Art & Questions (intersection of tags)
867 Art posts • 336 Questions posts • 140 in common
- How would you complete these three drawings?Help my class assignments to be exhibited in New York. Please like any (or all) of these three drawings. The drawings with the most likes on the Art of the MOOC Facebook Page, will be shown at the Creative Time Summit…
- What if everyone always made an origami creature out of every receipt?What if our culture made it a tradition that you always took your paper receipt and folded it into an origami? Forget that it would be pointless. Forget the time involved to do with with every transaction. This would simply…
- What would you write in wet cement?photo by marissandrew What would you write in wet cement? Guerrilla artist Uncustomary asks this question. (She answers with “you are beautiful” in her cement) A fun phrase to write in wet cement would be, “Carve your dreams on the…
- What is Renzo Piano saying?What would celebrated architect Renzo Piano be saying in this photo? He clearly looks excited to be sharing something.
- Does Christie’s think you are an art collector?Ever look at items on a website and then have ads for that website follow you around other places online? Christie’s the high-end auction house is stalking me on the internet. “Click on Calder” a Christie’s banner ad asking me…
- What do you think of your old artwork?Do famous artists feel weird looking back at some of their older artwork? Looking back at some of my college artworks, I realize how crappy they are. Even though I archive all my old work, there are pieces that don’t…
- During the Stanley Cup celebration, do searches for Golden Calf go up?With all the praising and glorifying of a metal object going on with the Stanley Cup, I wonder how much people realize our activities are rather like glorifying the golden calf in Exodus 32. Are there more searches for “Golden…
- Does the tooth fairy exist? Why not make up your own mythical creature?What happens with the tooth fairy misses an appointment? Mark Bazer covers the ridiculousness of the tooth fairy’s existence in “The day the Tooth Fairy didn’t come.” Ridiculous things are great. I want to make up new characters for particular…
- What could hold up such tremendous weight?(Photo by ifmuth on flickr) Balance an entire bridge on a river barge? As if that wasn’t enough weight, why not prop some railroad cars inbetween? Those railroad cars must have some sort of interior structure to hold all that…
- Is it real if I can only see it from one viewpoint?Ferruccio Laviani‚Äôs “Good Vibrations” is amazing. This is a real cabinet created to look like a warped scan. However, I‚Äôd like to see another photo with a different angle. Showing another photo will ruin the illusion, but it will also…
- Has Jackson Pollock lost his power?A selection of poem, “The New York School” by Joseph Bradshaw I can‚Äôt remember anything about the movie Pollock. I wish a bald Sigourney Weaver played the part of Jackson Pollock. That would make the film more memorable. I wish…
- What is an artwork you love?The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago asks for an artwork that you love. Happy Valentine’s Day! What are some artworks you love? We’ll be tweeting some of our V day favs, like “The Kiss” mcachicago.org/exhibitions/co‚Ä — MCA Chicago (@mcachicago)…
- How many artworks does it take for a series to become epic?An art series gets epic when there are 100 items in the series. Do you have any art series that has more than 100 photos? I have one. My HDR photos of Chicago is currently up to 190 photos. Let’s…
- Dark optimism or bright optimism?It’s weird how someone can call the phrase “Together, we’re fucked” to be optimistic. It’s a rather perverted look on optimism. Give Sarah Nardi’s article a read, “Artist Joel Fisher chooses to see the bright side.” The artist claims he’s…
- Can I speak Estonian? Ma ei räägi eesti keelt, mida mälu. Ma ei oska eesti keelt läbi Google Translate. Minu murre on Google Translate murre Eesti. Võin rääkida iga töö Eesti Google Translate olemasolu. Minu väga sõnad siin on tõend selle kohta vööri alla,…
- If you could live in Calendria, where would you live?There are 12 nations in the land of Calendria, one for each month of the year. Of which nation would you like to reside? Janurria Febrarian Kingdom of March Aprilaan Maysia Republic of Junistan The Julh Augustica Septembrila Octsburg North…
- Are you more likely to go to a symphony or a modern art exhibit? In a WBEZ interview about how techno music is like classical music, Mason Bates, composer-in-residence for both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, gives an example of how people are afraid of the symphony. At minute 11:48…
- Byliner.com doesn’t think bloggers are writers?Byliner.com is a pretty cool site featuring short stories. I wanted to join and post some of my short stories from my blog. I have good stories, right? However, on their “submit a link” page they say, “Byliner showcases new…
- Who should have a genius bar?In case you missed it, yesterday I posted about how other companies should have an experts bar. A few ideas come to mind: Disneyland and Wrigley Field. Read more about how this would play out at “Disney should have a…
- Why do you go to art museums?The Museum of Contemporary Art’s twitter account pointed me in the direction of a “Time Out Chicago” article about their new identity, “We are here at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” The commenting is closed on the article, so I’m…
- An instagram for etsy?There needs to be an easier way of selling on etsy. Their posting form is way too long. There’s a total of 14 fields to fill out. — Who made it? — Categories — Photos — Item Title — Description…
- Where are you?Do you tell any online services where you are currently are? Foursquare, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook Places? What happens when a service aggregates all the locations of your friends into one service? Find out at “Where are your friends?” on…
- What if trucks and cars were elephants and camels?Walking half asleep to work Engines growling Elephants and camels travel the street Thankfully they obey stop lights or they would run me over
- What brings you joy?What makes you joyful? Not just happiness. But joy. The comfort and pleasure of joy. We set out to answer that question a couple years ago in my bible study group. We were to write about what brings us joy.…
- Will the U.S. Capitol fly my Estonian flag?Dick Durbin is selling American flags for a mere additional $4.05, you can have your flag flown above the U.S. Capitol. Pretty rad. However, you have to PRINT out a pdf, and MAIL it in with a CHECK. What’s a…
- Is 12 noon pm or am? Is 12 noon pm or am? I always get confused. Who would be the best person to help me out? None other than the people at AM/PM gas stations. Here is a series of letters I have written for AMPM…
- Do you want support or understanding?Thanks to Kelly Ryan O’Brien for posting this on her Idols and Egos blog Yeah! I think this is why I always want honest critiques of my work. The past few months I’ve been thinking a lot about if I…
- Does all street art brighten a community?I respect good street art, but I also value public spaces. Can street art be a gift rather than just self-expression? Let’s talk about it.
- Should I take painting or ceramics?My local art center Lill Street starts their classes next week. They offer both ceramics and painting (and lots of other classes). I have a list of ceramics projects I’d like to do, but whenever I take ceramics, it totally…
- Why did Mat Kearney use a photo of me on his album?Somehow I ended up on Mat Kearney’s single, “Hey Mama.” I had to dig this particular photo of me out of my MySpace profile, so I’m not really sure why Mat Kearney’s people were trolling my MySpace profile for photos…
- What are polka dots? What do you think polka dots are? I like to think they are lots smiley faces. Or a group of planets. Or a circle party. Or bubbles in bubble tea. Other people online don’t have the same vision for polka…
