Category: Aestheticismo…

  • All Systems Go! (?)

    Florida State University’s Krentzman Gallery is currently hosting “All Systems GO! the space show” curated by FSU Instructor and Alum, John Lytle Wilson. The show is comprised of works by artists found by Mr. Wilson on places like Myspace and is largely dedicated to imagery and sculpture depicting sci-fi and outer-space elements. An eclectic showing,…

  • Hotel Chevalier

    Love him or hate him, Wes Anderson is an original storyteller. I’ve been a fan of his for years and have much respect for his humor, wit and imagination. I was upset to hear that his short film, “Hotel Chevalier” would not be released with the theatrical screenings of his new feature length film, “The…

  • I gots me an iPhone!

    I took a promotion at work recently. One that requires me to be on call, 24-7. So after years of resisting joining the “cel phone culture”- I have finally caved- I bought an iPhone. I have to admit that it is pretty frikkin’ sweet! With some exceptions… For starters, FedEx botched the delivery… Setting up…

  • Portrait of the artist as…

    … a thirty-something hack. Micron on cardboard.

  • A Tremendous Ending!

    I have just finished my first year of teaching Drawing and Painting at FSU’s Union Art Center. 2 sessions of 2 classes a semester, and there has been no end to the talented individuals who sign up to take it. Mostly they are people who have some degree of skill but are uninterested in taking…

  • Flight 4 Preview is up!

    Flight, the comics anthology series created and edited by Kazu Kibuishi, has posted previews of the twenty-five works contained in the new volume which should be on shelves this week. While not technically a “themed” anthology, it is devoted completely to the publication of original comics- that is to say, it’s not like anything you’ve…

  • Better late than never, I guess…

    Not that it’s news to anyone, but Doug Marlette died last week in a car accident in Mississippi. Best known for the creation of the nationally syndicated daily newspaper strip, Kudzu, he was also a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist. I’ve enjoyed his editorial pieces for years, but Kudzu was never my taste. Having grown…

  • I identify with that!

    What can I say about Chris Onstad that hasn’t been said already in a thousand other places- this guy practically gets more press (relatively speaking, that is) than Paris Hilton, just for doing a lo-fi webcomic (to be honest, a guy who lives with his mother, and who only washes on Sunday and eats potted…

  • more coincidences

    So for all of my crying about the thin line between “commercial” and “fine” art, I was extremely amused to find the above strip by Mr. Paul Southworth. For those of you who don’t know, Paul Southworth is the creator Ugly Hill. Ugly Hill is a webcomic dealing with the lives of the Bros. Killgore,…

  • Rick Griffin gets his due!

    One of my earliest artistic memories comes from my parents house in Miami. My dad had converted his garage into a workshop where he spent time on weekends doing carpentry work or building compositions out of stained glass. It was also where he stored his surfboards. In his workshop though, he had a space on…