Here are some images from the Burning Man festival, mostly from last week.
Giant Hummer. It's an artwork titled "Bummer."
Burning Man Festival, AKA "Black Rock City" viewed from the air
Giant panorama image from a distant tower
Bighweels for grown-ups! Right on!
My Graphic Design III class decided to make a loan to this woman, Editha Bamwenda, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to help her small business: a tiny cafe. I am bankrolling the investment with my own funds . . . but it is a very safe investment, I'll be getting my money back in monthly installments from Editha.
The class picked Editha because she has four children of her own to support, and because we could all imagine stopping in at Editha's little cafe for a nice soft drink on a hot day.
How could we imagine this?
Because of the photograph in the Kiva.org web site!
Just reading about Editha and her situation wouldn't have nearly the impact that seeing her sitting in front of her cafe in the photograph.
This is the power of images!
The work of Bigfoot always cracks me up. He's focused on his brand --- a goofy, cartoony image of the legedary Bigfoot monster of the Pacific Northwest . . . but there's also an earnestness about him and his ecological message that's touching.
Art? Craft? Technology? Politics?
All of the Above!
What I'm referring to is a backpack with straps made out of a new kind of fiber that generates electricity as it stretches and bounces. Backpacks like these could generate enough electricity to charge phones and MP3 players. The Army, among others, is very interested.
Art? If it's beautiful, yes.
Craft? Undoubtedly. Part of the history of textiles.
Technology? Yep.
Politics? If it changes the need for oil and coal, certainly.
The site A Million Little Pictures is hosting a national disposable camera exhibition. Here's how they describe it:
"We want to come to your city.
But you have to prove yourself first. We're sending out disposable cameras across the United States. People take pictures based on the theme of "adventures" and send them back to us. If your city (or the closest major city) gets the most participants, were throwing the show there!"
Try it! If all of you do it, we can get them to come to Duluth!
Ever wanted to be able to type like you write? For $9 Fontifier claims it will do it for you. I haven't tried it myself so I can't vouch for the quality. Interesting idea, though.
GET LOST is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary.
I always stay tuned in to the british grafitti artist known only as Banksy.
I love Banksy's wall paintings on the wall between Bethlehem, Palestine and Israel.
British artist Damien Hirst just sold a diamond-encrusted human skull, titled "For the Love of God," for the highest price ever paid for a contemporary artwork: one hundred million dollars.
Hurst's work often involves death as a theme.
Some other artists . . . who are NOT earning one hundred million dollars . . . had this response.
What will historians of the future think of this incredibly bizarre image:
An artists' site in Providence RI that watches out for artists living and working in old buildings that are being bought up and developed as Providence becomes a hip suburb of Boston.
Art In Ruins
Artist Tracey Snelling makes cinematic miniatures of everyday architecture with a dilapidated retro feel. Installations and photographs.
Her site is called The Little Art Factory.
