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I have not been producing much photography in the past two months. This morning at breakfast, I felt a pang of guilt when I laid eyes at the camera sitting on my table.
So, I wrote it a letter.
I have not been producing much photography in the past two months. This morning at breakfast, I felt a pang of guilt when I laid eyes at the camera sitting on my table.
So, I wrote it a letter.
My friend Stacy Wiedmaier recorded this video of The Harsh Desert’s opening gala. It is quite amusing listening to their conversation regarding which pieces are popular with what demographic.
The different paths an artist chooses to take in his eventual creation of art is a journey that has long held a fascination for me. The processes undertaken, the challenges faced, or the relationships that grew or suffered or neglected in the pursuit of art, some of the questions that not sufficiently explored when discussing most art forms.
Art permeates our lives and do have consequences, whether in the enthusiastic consumption of it or the joyful, pride-filled creation of it. We must not content ourselves in being mere passive consumers of art, but must be active explorers of its various consequences. Not only must we critique the art, we must also critique the profound effects it has in our lives.
Though plans for Copyfascism Watch were in the works long before its official launch, the logo made its debut even before the first post was drafted. In fact, the logo was created long before I had even settled the question of where will I be hosting the blog — I finally decided on hosting my blog in the Ludwig von Mises Institute Community, where I hope to differentiate myself from the copyleftists that make up the bulk of the copyfight.
Art by Jennika.
Jennika is an aspiring painter and she recently remixed my photograph War and Peace as a painting for a scholarship. Truly wonderful work.
After working for five incredibly long days and producing several pages of code revisions, an updated version of Creativist Pursuits went live early Monday morning. It is nearly identical to its previous incarnation, but this time it has dynamic content.
