tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post3807147646006498662..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: The Cai Guo Qiang (Almost) Nobody SawMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-85144546098608769252009-12-16T07:42:58.090-08:002009-12-16T07:42:58.090-08:00Thanks, everybody! Great suggestions. I can begi...Thanks, everybody! Great suggestions. I can begin searching and thinking now.<br /><br />I have no Chinese, alas. If I did, I'd visit China every year. <br /><br />I did go to the Fabric Workshop, which was clearly unprepared for how popular the event would be. The black-clad young art people in the front sent us to the elevator in the back, where the politest and most professional guard I've ever encountered sent us back to the front. Where people were being sent to the back. The floor where the scroll was being burned had filled up before the event at the Art Museum was over, and people were sent to the second floor for a simulcast. The image being muzzy and the room crowded, Marianne and I went out to dinner instead.<br /><br />A pity. But the art event belongs to those who show up early. And all praise to the Fabric Workshop for arranging the whole thing in the first place.<br /><br />As for Kyle . . . I've come to the conclusion that what he really really REALLY likes is to take pictures of people. So something like Fallen Blossoms, which even a duffer like me can get a good shot of simply by pointing and snapping, doesn't get his juices flowing. That's my theory, anyway.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-29195898149035788372009-12-15T10:56:38.188-08:002009-12-15T10:56:38.188-08:00When I first encountered Amy Cutler's art, I t...When I first encountered Amy Cutler's art, I thought that they must surely be illustrations to fables that Kelly Link wrote in an alternate universe.<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/y98juvg<br />http://www.tonkonow.com/cutler.htmlJeff Prucherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15061790664708806858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-35430091782307018302009-12-15T10:53:45.399-08:002009-12-15T10:53:45.399-08:00As The Iron Dragon's Daughter was the first bo...As The Iron Dragon's Daughter was the first book of yours I read, and subsequently had a huge influence on my young imagination, I can't say I'd be disappointed by another story from the same place.<br /><br />I'll second the <a href="http://www.waynebarlowe.com/" rel="nofollow">Wayne Barlowe</a>suggestion.<br /><br />Also maybe <a href="http://www.raycaesar.com/" rel="nofollow">Ray Caesar</a>, <a href="http://souvlaki.jp-ar.org/" rel="nofollow">Joao Ruas</a>, <a href="http://www.jamesjean.com/" rel="nofollow">James Jean</a>, to name a few more.Erin Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16103927760036849293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-5152552174187914402009-12-15T08:42:01.214-08:002009-12-15T08:42:01.214-08:00check out
Allan McCollum
http://home.att.net/~all...check out <br />Allan McCollum<br />http://home.att.net/~allanmcnyc/<br /><br />and <br />William Kentridge<br />http://www.sfmoma.org/media/features/kentridge/index.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532901616056603344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-80469551251968417382009-12-14T23:48:15.037-08:002009-12-14T23:48:15.037-08:00Chinese Artist Liu Bolin paints himself so that he...Chinese Artist Liu Bolin paints himself so that he blends into the background. If you look at the photos on these pages, none of them are photoshopped. <br /><br /><a href="http://thisisdiversity.com/articles/all/2282/chinese-artist-paints-himself-invisible/" rel="nofollow">Photos at Thisisdiversity</a><br /><a href="http://v1kram.posterous.com/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man" rel="nofollow">Photos at V1kram's Posterous.</a><br /><br />Another unusual artist is Julian Beever, whose paintings on sidewalks look three dimensional from a particular angle.<br /><br /><a href="http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm" rel="nofollow">Julian Beever's pavement drawings</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09355554009165741454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-65558240308955763972009-12-14T20:20:15.172-08:002009-12-14T20:20:15.172-08:00I haven't had a chance to see the book yet, bu...I haven't had a chance to see the book yet, but the few images I have seen from Wayne Barlowe's Inferno books including the novel God's Demon, are pretty amazing. I don't know if they tap into my mythic subconscious or whatever, but it's pretty affecting. Samples here:<br /><br />http://www.godsdemon.com/IMAGES3/IMAGES.html<br /><br />I want to get these books for myself for Xmas, but I am afraid my small stack of books filled with horrific demon pictures might not go down well with some of my family members while visiting for Christmas. Maybe a post-Christmas gift to self is in order.David Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09983230505509685792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-91746528161101311132009-12-14T18:46:02.462-08:002009-12-14T18:46:02.462-08:00Sooper video, Michael! Thanks!
Ditto the suggesti...Sooper video, Michael! Thanks!<br /><br />Ditto the suggestion of Remedios Varo.<br /><br />I used to have a housemate who was (and still is, I think) a pyrotechnics artist, but the only thing he has up on the web is watercolors. Neat watercolors, but they don't explode.Eileen Gunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142274562155993622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-26785365774418441922009-12-14T16:06:16.278-08:002009-12-14T16:06:16.278-08:00Hi Michael, I'm sorry I missed you and Mary A...Hi Michael, I'm sorry I missed you and Mary Ann there, like going to a big party and missing your friends. Not to mention, missing the huddling factor of 10 to the fourth power. But, I am so glad we all saw falling blossom. Did you go to the Fabric workshop Museum event? I wanted to but got too cold. <br />Let's make a trek to his studio in Brooklyn! Do you speak Chinese?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532901616056603344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-4231136695860584972009-12-14T09:08:40.388-08:002009-12-14T09:08:40.388-08:00Spend a day following link trails through devianta...Spend a day following link trails through deviantart.com, and your visual imagination will be exhausted and (hopefully) satisfied. Lots of amateurs there, some pros as well, and a really amazing amount of quality work.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17710199217121149910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-51468581105052902002009-12-14T08:10:49.027-08:002009-12-14T08:10:49.027-08:00Michael,
wow!
I was at the NJ book fair (yawn), ...Michael,<br /><br />wow! <br />I was at the NJ book fair (yawn), but MJ was there. Looks wild, some very carefully controlled chaos.<br /><br />HWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-84395939322512919432009-12-14T07:07:13.143-08:002009-12-14T07:07:13.143-08:00COOL. Especially the hawk. Thanks for the pics. ...COOL. Especially the hawk. Thanks for the pics. I wish I could've been there.Victoria Janssenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-48039244457857801352009-12-14T06:56:38.134-08:002009-12-14T06:56:38.134-08:00Kyle Cassidy blogged that he was there, too, but n...Kyle Cassidy blogged that he was there, too, but no photos. I'm glad you did.Ozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11874080106356780982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-47885381498388836172009-12-14T02:37:03.576-08:002009-12-14T02:37:03.576-08:00Had trouble thinking of anyone for a few minutes, ...Had trouble thinking of anyone for a few minutes, and then it all seemed obvious - Remedios Varo.<br /><br />http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=remedios+varo&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&start=0HANNAH'S DADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05877455489975811860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-35595127732578816542009-12-14T01:53:57.749-08:002009-12-14T01:53:57.749-08:00Alexis Hunter
http://www.alexishunter.co.uk/biogra...Alexis Hunter<br />http://www.alexishunter.co.uk/biography_alexis_hunter-2.htmlLaurel Lyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07892977488998382942noreply@blogger.com