The Walker Art Center of Minneapolis is asking the public (Yes, that's YOU!) for your help!
Open Field is an experimental project of the Walker Art Center that invites the public to help transform our big, green backyard into a cultural commons. It’s a place to share experiences, interests, and talents and celebrate the creative assets and collective knowledge that abound in the Twin Cities.
We envision Open Field as a kind of intellectual, recreational, social, and artistic platform that we create with the public. We’re building an outdoor courtyard, a tool shed with equipment for relaxation and play, a weekly Drawing Club, projects with the artist collectives Red76 and Futurefarmers—two groups that are deeply engaged in the art of social engagement, collaboration, and the spirit of the commons—and a roster of conversations, workshops, and activities for all ages.
After I’ve had a little view on one person’s blog, I move onto the next and the next. All different. All fast, all immediate gratification. Pies, they need to be the same. I want a couple of bites, and I want to be done with it. I want to pop open my bag when I’m hungry and taste a little sweetness. I don’t want commitment. I want to be promiscuous with my food. I want to eat pie, but I don’t want a whole slice- I want to try other flavors too, but for just a little, and move onto another. If I have one slice, I may have guilt hanging over me all day. I want little pies, yes, with more pie crust than filling. 50 calories or less, no guilt. Eating pie slices makes me feel fat. Lolipop-Pies, perhaps this would work. Rotating flavors. Grab and go. In and out. Blackberry, pumpkin, apple, banana…my favorites. You see I am very slutty about my food. Yes this post revolves around lollipop sticks.
I can appreciate the incredible detail that was put into making and packaging these pie pops. I wish I had the same patience. I would probably get through making two pops and say "F**k it! I'm just going to make a whole pie." Although I do not foresee myself making pie pops, I would gladly buy one... or 50.
Love Letter is a project by Stephen "ESPO" Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program where 50 walls along a section of the Market Street corridor in Philadelphia were painted with love letters by 40 local and international artists.
The project will encompass 50 painted walls between 63rd and 45th street on Market Street, a documentary film with scripted elements, a sign school and shop that will provide training for area youth and free signage for businesses on the market street corridor, and 2 books documenting the project. One of the books will be a small paperback that will be distributed to area businesses free of charge, for them to sell to visitors. The other book will be a larger hardcover book that will document not only the artwork, but the neighborhood and the inspirations of the Love Letter Project.
I love this project and wouldn't mind seeing something like this in struggling Minneapolis neighborhoods.
List of completed murals, titles and where they are located - Link
Related Links: City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (official website) - Link Steve Powers official website - Link Steve Powers [wiki] - Link aloveletter4u on Twitter - Link
Even before my sons were born, I have been collecting children's books. So, as I was browsing my Twitterfeed this morning and feasted my eyes on the newly designed There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly book, I knew straight away that I need this book on my shelf.
Jeremy Holmes, with some guidance from Chronicle Books, designed and illustrated this visually and texturally stunning book and gave the classic story a fresh look.
555 KUBIK - "How it would be, if a house was dreaming"
The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers "Galerie der Gegenwart". Resultant permeability of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.
Related Links:
Production: Urbanscreen - Link
Art Direction: Daniel Rossa - Link
Extended version of this documentation - Link [vimeo]
Even before my sons were born, I have been collecting children's books. So, as I was browsing my Twitterfeed this morning and feasted my eyes on the newly designed There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly book, I knew straight away that I need this book on my shelf.
Creative genius Brian Dettmer carves into books and reveals the artwork inside creating three-dimensional masterpieces.
