Alexander is great

museumuesum: Stephen Pacuk affirmation, 2013 emojis, dimensions...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:48 -0400

museumuesum:

Stephen Pacuk

affirmation, 2013

emojis, dimensions variable

Sometimes there is no difference between the jogging and art art.

freeindie: Feel like this?

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:28 -0400

freeindie:

Feel like this?

Great job itchy hedgehog! Your the best.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:30:20 -0400

Great job itchy hedgehog! Your the best.

This is the best animation I’ve seen in years.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:00:31 -0400

This is the best animation I’ve seen in years.

Just a good guide to pens.

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:16 -0400

Just a good guide to pens.

This is going to be less funny when all the bees are dead. But...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:37 -0400

This is going to be less funny when all the bees are dead. But right now its amazing.

helloyoucreatives: So that’s vlogging. Vloggers are the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:17 -0400

helloyoucreatives:

So that’s vlogging.

Vloggers are the worst.

stryker: Never forget Marissa Mayer’s backwards laugh.

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:52:46 -0400

stryker:

Never forget Marissa Mayer’s backwards laugh.

I tried so hard to get a picture of a pug practically driving a Mazda miata (the teensiest of teeny convertibles), but the human glared at me while we were driving. I could tell the pug was disappointed he didn't get his due internet fame.

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:50:02 -0400

:( This is a sad day for humanity. I appreciate your effort though.

dannybrito: The only snap chat I’ve ever screen shot

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:29:39 -0400

dannybrito:

The only snap chat I’ve ever screen shot

explore-blog: How creativity works – associative vs....

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:27:19 -0400

explore-blog:

How creativity works – associative vs. bisociative thought, or habit vs. originality

Bill Oddie’s ‘BankWatch’ is a really good...

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:38:22 -0400

Bill Oddie’s ‘BankWatch’ is a really good attempt at a viral video. Good message of responsibility combined with satirical LOLs and Bill Oddie getting evicted from HSBC.

Sign this petition to pressurise HSBC to stop profiting from rainforest destruction.

woodythedog: Cool Story Bro. Good GIF

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:30:31 -0400

woodythedog:

Cool Story Bro.

Good GIF

thejogging: Jogging presents ‘Soon’ an exhibition at the Still...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:39:31 -0400

thejogging:

Jogging presents ‘Soon’ an exhibition at the Still House, opening Friday May 24, 2013 from 6 - 9:00 pm.

After party music provided by Slava.

http://enterstillhouse.com/
http://thejogging.tumblr.com/
http://soundcloud.com/slava

‘Soon’

For most, the trip to the Still House is a lengthy one, poetically punctuated at the end of Brooklyn’s Van Brunt Street by a view of the Statue of Liberty standing in the Hudson River. Upon congratulating yourself for completing an hour-long MTA commute, one wonders how exponentially more relieved America’s immigrants were upon seeing that 19th century landmark after boating across an infinite expanse of water for weeks on end. Could our great-great-great-grandparents have imagined the industrialized country they’d build and the habits of consumption and production they’d pioneer would become so powerful, so globally ubiquitous that future residents would be returned to that same infinite aquatic expanse? We are potentially the first generation of people to begin making down payments on a hellacious environmental check that has long been deferred. Historically we owe the situation we are in to a false sense of permanence about our economies, lifestyles, and even our species itself. There is a pervasive sense of temporality in our present moment, though. We comment “you only live once” on videos of viral celebrities that disappear as quickly as they emerge, using cell phones that are obsolete within the year we purchase them. Through one lens, our digital lives are training us to care less about permanence, to focus our attention on the fleeting beauty of connectivity. But it’s hard to live in the moment, and the devices that could teach us how to do just that more often than not separate us from the reality we seek through them. There is a togetherness in the approaching catastrophe, one that threatens to level all political and religious difference as surely as it threatens to nullify the entirety of land space and the national distinctions that geography provides. It is perhaps more difficult to acknowledge the uniformity of the fate we march towards than the imminent catastrophe itself; to change is to admit defeat. Still today, when it rains, the waves crash freely into rocks feet away from Fairway Marketplace, tickling organic paninis on the unprotected patio eating area with a reminder the destruction they recently wrought. We imagine a time (perhaps now?) when Jogging will no longer need to labor over combining food items in irreverent ways to make sculptures, a time when the Atlantic Ocean will carry goods from Fairway up to the fourth floor, into the Still House, and create our work for us. Until then, we anticipate that impermanence in the art we create. Today’s lifeguards will be tomorrow’s installation photographers.

Introduction to Jogging

Jogging is a context-driven art project consisting of 15 team members based in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Oslo. Founded by Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen in 2009, Jogging started in response to the attention economy, lamenting the way laborious, long term artworks were drowned in the deluge of information flowing through the social media networks. A photograph of an artwork that required months of labor is given the same gravity as a photograph of a high school friend’s lunch decision, leading the artists to strategize more effective ways of creating and dispersing art in light of their mediated environment.

Troemel and Christiansen used discarded objects and installation materials left over from the exhibitions they hosted at their Chicago apartment gallery, the now closed Scott Projects (2008 - 2009). Materials would be found, sculpted as new artworks, photographed as installation images in the gallery, posted to Tumblr, and then physically discarded, leaving only the digital image behind to be shared and reused online. Jogging’s title refers to the speed the two artists produced artworks with, running through themes in content and media with an indifference to immediate cohesion, preferring to allow patterns in meaning to become evident to themselves and their audience over time.

Seeing the way their sculptures-turned-Tumblr posts essentially functioned as images, the artists reached a turning point in late 2009 when they would occasionally cut out the middleman (physical objects) and proceed to digitally composite the Google Image Searched products, textures, and scenes together, titling the resultant works as sculptures, paintings, installations, and all else. These digitally altered images were then posted on Tumblr alongside “straight” installation images, as well as digitally edited installation images of objects the artists physically constructed. Rather than contextualizing the discrepancies between textual descriptions and visualized realities as an extension of the Pictures Generation’s long-running attack on the notion of photography as an indexical medium, Jogging instead sought to position these discrepancies as an extension of artists’ autonomy to render work more freely in a mediated environment where the ubiquity and malleability of digital images offered an alternative to the material and monetary limitations of strictly physical works.

After a brief hiatus in 2011, Jogging energetically returned in 2012 with an expanded team of like-minded artists. These core members include the project’s founders as well as Andreas Banderas, Andreas Ervik, Aaron Graham, Artie Vierkant, Andrew Christopher Green, Evan Drolet Cook, Haley Mellin, Jesse Stecklow, Joshua Citarella, Justin Kemp, Masood Kamandy, Rachael Milton, and Spencer Longo. With the added help, Jogging’s increased post rate attracted the attention of a widespread audience beyond the art world, propelling the project to the top 1% of Tumblrs in terms of followers. Soon after, Jogging started accepting moderated submissions from anyone interested in participating. Hundreds of people have since submitted work to the project, working from and evolving the visual trends set forward by members.

The context-specific approach Jogging started with through the use of Tumblr as means of making art in the attention economy has now expanded into a variety of other contexts –including stock photography, books, outsourced material production– and continues through this exhibition at the Still House.

MOMENT IN HISTORY

Welcome to Google Island

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:08:49 -0400

Welcome to Google Island:

I realized I was the only one aboard, and the boat was driving itself.

It hit the shore at first light, approaching from a perfect angle that allowed the sun to just peek out over the back of the island. I hopped over the side, and watched as the boat slowly put itself into reverse, turned, and headed back out to sea.

“Hello.”

The soft, froggy voice startled me. I turned around to face an approaching figure. It was Larry Page, naked, save for a pair of eyeglasses.

“Welcome to Google Island. I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here. Search history. Health data. Your genetic blueprint. One way to express this is by removing clothes to foster experimentation. It’s something I learned at Burning Man,” he said. “Here, drink this. You’re slightly dehydrated, and your blood sugar is low. This is a blend of water, electrolytes, and glucose.”

prostheticknowledge: Anish Kapoor in Berlin: ‘in short,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:07:38 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

Anish Kapoor in Berlin: ‘in short, Britain’s fucked’

Sad but true statement comparing Britain to Berlin on the arts - via The Guardian:

The British-based artist says the exhibition, entitled Kapoor in Berlin, is the best show he has yet put on, which may have much to do with the fact that he feels Germany demonstrates a huge degree of respect for the arts – in stark contrast to Britain.

“Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists,” he said, in an exclusive interview with the Guardian, adding that that attitude could “not be more different” from the British perspective.

“In Germany, it seems that the intellectual and aesthetic life are to be celebrated and are seen as part of a real and good education, whereas in Britain, traditionally – certainly since the Enlightenment – we’ve been afraid of anything intellectual, aesthetic, visual.”

These perspectives were reflected in the two countries’ drastically differing policies on financial support of the arts, he said.

“In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It’s completely scuzzy. The UK has two things, the arts and education, and both of them it pushes into the corner. It’s the hugest, hugest mistake. Why do British ministers meet anyone from the arts other than to cut them? Compared to Germany, Britain has got quite a long way to go there, frankly

“In short, Britain’s fucked.”

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"Always do good”, “Try to do some good” or “Be good” might have been..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:53 -0400

““Always do good”, “Try to do some good” or “Be good” might have been previous drafts of the motto before they concluded that goodness was as impractical as malevolence was distasteful and decided on “Don’t be evil” as more realistic in a modern business environment. “Settling for one notch below altruism” is all the slogan really means.”

- David Mitchell on Googles and Amazons tax dodging.

‘Deep Blue Sea’ by Grizzly BearThis song makes everything ok:...

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:11 -0400

‘Deep Blue Sea’ by Grizzly Bear
This song makes everything ok: ‘Deep Blue Sea by Grizzly Bear’

[pop punk veterinarian voice] let's open this fucking pet up

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:22:57 -0400

artworkofkatiebarron: I drew this during my Contemporary Art...

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:20:14 -0400

artworkofkatiebarron:

I drew this during my Contemporary Art class…