Art
“Lord, may I never be anticipated, but may I always be understood.”
You can find my art here.
"Art allows you to
imbue the truth
with a sort of magic...
so it can infiltrate
the psyches of more people,
including those who don't
believe the same things as you."
– Wangechi Mutu
Links
Curlie: Art
ArtLex
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Oblique Strategies
VG Resource - Assets ripped from video games.
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
The Museum of Other Things
The Creative Independent - Interviews and advice from various artists.
Monoskop - A wiki for arts and studies.
Fandom: Aesthetics Wiki
!The Gates of Paradise - David Daniels' 200+ Human Beingèd Hymn To Humanity.
White Desert - Collection of surrealism and horror media stuff. Yume Nikki themed.
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey - Experiments in fiction and the comics form.
Sentimental Corporation - audiovisual projects from some underground artists
Articles
Klang Magazine: Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student - "So what if it takes a bit longer because you can only dedicate an occasional evening or weekend to work on your new record? So long as you dedicate yourself to that time, as little as it may be, so long as you allow the public to hear what you’ve been up to, whenever or wherever that may be, Billy, then you’ll never be a failure."
Cat and Girl: 4,000 of My Closest Friends
Norma: Nothing Special - Why we should all stop wanting to be “designers”.
Youtube
Who's Afraid of Modern Art?
7 Deadly Art Sins
Millions of Dead Vibes: How Aesthetics Hurt Art
!Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme
Lexicon
ambigram: a symbolic representation whose elements retain meaning when viewed or interpreted from a different direction, perspective, or orientation
asemic: having no meaning, specific semantic content
atelier: an artist/designer's studio/workshop
duende: a heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity
kitsch: art perceived as naïve imitation, gratuitous, or of banal taste
metatextuality: when a work of art makes critical commentary on itself, or another text
omnificent: unlimited in creative power
paracosm: a detailed imaginary world thought generally to originate in childhood
rhopography: a depiction of subject matter considered insignificant or trivial
"We're always rationally explaining and articulating things.
But we're at our most intelligent in the moment
just before we start to explain or articulate.
Great art occurs-or doesn't-in that instant.
What we turn to art for is precisely this moment,
when we “know” something (we feel it)
but can't articulate it
because it's too complex and multiple."
- George Saunders
Art
Audio
Soundtracks For The Blind by SWANS (Bandcamp/Youtube)
7G by A. G. Cook (Bandcamp)
Memories
2022-04-05: "Right now I'm going through some old art I did for a children's RPG I never finished, cleaning each piece up in order to either upload them to OGA or resurrect the project eventually. This has forced me to confront the fact that my art is way better now even though I can't mentally process that anything has changed since then. Why is my younger self less experienced than me? When did I get better at art? Why is kid me so bad at choosing colors? >_<" (Source)
WEAPONS OF MASS CREATION
from https://smallcamp.art/@tychi/107974447679813969
The only way to see the humanity of others
is to see the humanity in yourself.
Express yourself,
express yourself,
express yourself.
If you repress yourself,
you will resent the liberated,
and you will want to oppress them.
Express yourself, please.
When others see,
they will follow your lead.
No one needs hate.
no one needs to die.
no one needs to feel alone.
Normal is a lie.
Humanity is messy, but personal.
Being vulnerable hurts,
and feeling powerful will never cure you.
You must accept yourself.
If you need to change in order to do that,
then just change and stop forcing an
oppressive worldview that was handed down
to you down onto others.
Express yourself.
Why is it you are feeling this way?
Why is it you do what you do?
Can we work together
to fix the bit inside you that hurts
and will not stop screaming in agony?
You do not deserve to feel that way.
you do not need to feel this way.
Express yourself.
Let it out.
Please, for the love of life, let it out.