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likeafieldmouse: Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69) “The story of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:50:20 -0400

Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)

“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.

First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door.

At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”

Then sad and awesome existed together in a series of paintings.

thepeoplesrecord: Outraged against austerity, students &...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:10:27 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Outraged against austerity, students & teachers in Philadelphia resist the machine of capitalism
May 17, 2013

Dozens to hundreds of Philadelphia students, teachers and school staff protested outside one of the city’s premiere high schools in an effort to fight proposed budget cuts to the district.

Wearing signs and handing out pamphlets to drivers, members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers lined the sidewalk outside the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts along South Broad Street Friday morning. The teachers are fighting a series of severe budget cuts proposed by the district to close a more than $300 million funding gap. The proposed cuts include ending arts and music programs, sports and cutting auxiliary staff like secretaries, librarians and counselors.

“With the austere budgets schools have received, schools will not be able to provide a high-quality education for Philadelphia’s children,” said Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. Jordan says the teacher’s union has been discussing labor concessions with the district. However, he says a concession that results teachers taking a pay cut is a non-starter.

“The school district is asking for salary cuts for all PFT members of anywhere between 5, 10 and 13-percent,” he said. “I don’t think that you’ll find employee in the school district and the PFT…who are going to tell you that they can afford to take that kind of pay cut.”

The teacher protest is just the first of many demonstrations planned Friday over the funding flap.

Students from Philadelphia public schools around the city have also walked out of class and are marching on the School District of Philadelphia and Philadelphia City Hall. Similar walkouts were organized last week by students, who also marched on the same spots.

District spokesman Fernando Gallard says staff will not stop students from walking out, but says officials have asked principals remind students that leaving early will results in being marked as cutting. “Schools will follow the district’s attendance policy and will take the appropriate action which triggers at least a phone call to parents to notify them of the student’s absence, a request for a parent conference at the school, or after school detention,” he said.

Students are using Twitter to organize and document their protests. The group Philly Student Union is promoting the hashtag #walkout215 as a digital rally point during the event.

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Philadelphia youth X challenges
Let’s teach them to be autonomous learners.

thelunchroom: Good Morning by Khari Mateen Good morning!

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:33:45 -0400

thelunchroom:

Good Morning by Khari Mateen

Good morning!

Today with the youth at RAPCS #lindoyes and #marquistst perform...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:35:27 -0400

Today with the youth at RAPCS #lindoyes and #marquistst perform and inspire!

imprecise: Alex Gardner

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:42:43 -0400

imprecise:

Alex Gardner

Jean-Luc Godard

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:10:13 -0400

Jean-Luc Godard

likeafieldmouse: Henrique Oliveira - Desnatureza...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:03:24 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Henrique Oliveira - Desnatureza (2011)

Bursting!

likeafieldmouse: Dan Beckemeyer - Systems (2009) - Illustrated...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:59:22 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Dan Beckemeyer - Systems (2009) - Illustrated skeletal system and hand-felted muscle mass on abaca paper

Brilliant use of textiles. Google ‘how to make felt’. Fairly awesome process.

likeafieldmouse: Bo Bartlett - Leviathan (2000) The Biblical...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:56:14 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Bo Bartlett - Leviathan (2000)

The Biblical tale of Jonah in the belly of the whale, reimagined in contemporary times.

Today’s exploration with artist Kira Dixon was off the...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:39:16 -0400

Today’s exploration with artist Kira Dixon was off the chain! Thank you Nebulus Flair!

laughingsquid: Land of Kaiju, Illustrations of Japanese-Style...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:48:06 -0400

laughingsquid:

Land of Kaiju, Illustrations of Japanese-Style Monsters by Chet Phillips

likeafieldmouse: Leonardo Ulian - Technological Mandala (2012)...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:34:19 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Leonardo Ulian - Technological Mandala (2012) - Soldered computer parts

Tech X Fine arts

Ikire Jones | Menswear X Fine Art prints

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:58:00 -0400

Ikire Jones | Menswear X Fine Art prints:

our very own friend joshua mays has done a square for him! check it out!

Photo

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:40:59 -0400

Texi-dermy

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:04:16 -0400

Texi-dermy

likeafieldmouse: Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters (1978-93) Artist’s...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:00:39 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters (1978-93)

Artist’s statement:

“I’m a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led to this vision went something like this:

Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?

And the answer:

You get a shining screen.

Immediately I sprang to action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed.

That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.”

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