Things I want to do over summer …

1. Spend time with my family
2. Go to my secret place and let the feelings overwhelm me
3. Make my own canvas bag and decorate with drawings of cameras
4. Buy materials to make my own jewelry
5. Art Jamming: Create a painting based on the things I’ve collected
6. Learn how to bake a cake that doesn’t fall apart
7. Visit Taipei, Africa or some remote island
8. Buy Page One (or at least stay in there forever)
9. Watch the sunset
10. Fall in love ♥

Etsy Finds: Click Click Snap Snap

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The Lg Vintage Camera – Kodak Brownie Hawkeye: Flash Model … is absolutely stunning

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This is the “Polaroid Memory Breaks my Heart” necklace … it’s hand drawn and unbelievably cute.

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Lunastrella Instant Camera Print

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Camera Camera Case

Artist of the Day: Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter 

Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to attended a lecture by Marilyn Minter.  She talked us through her career, starting with the very first photographs she took of her mother and how her work has developed over the years. 

The subject matter of her paintings are familiar to all but she expresses them in  ways that we normally try to avoid.  “It’s a real thing … peoples feet do get dirty even if they are in really expensive shoes and no one really makes an image of that” … through her art she is telling ‘her truth’ by showing what goes wrong rather than the highly touched up images that we see today. 

Here are images of some of her work … (can you tell which ones are paintings and which are photographs?)

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Guess who this is …

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I really love this painting … there’s something about it that touches my heart

♥

I realized that there aren’t many images of her work online … I really liked her 100 food porn series and the work that she does on hardcore pornography especially because she was the first female artist to ever use this subject matter.

“If you have something to say … it will be heard.  You might be dead but it will be heard” — Marilyn Minter

Time for a Raise

Time for a Raise – Alvin Aronson

“This time piece fades through its 24 hour cycle with a series of digital LED inspired bas-reliefs. The white on white color scheme seems to reinforce the idea that time may not actually exist…”

via VVork