Beltek 2008 Starts in 2 Days

Shawn | July 30, 2008 in Art, Music | Comments (0)

Tags: beltek, edm, electronic dance music, maine festival, Music

Beltek is Friday and I have a half day due to reaching my plan this month (yay me!), so I am psyched to be up & outta here early on Friday. It’s about a 2 and a half hour drive, maybe closer to 3, to the spot. So far I am all by myself on the ride there. I’m leaving Westbrook between noon and two depending on what’s going on. If anyone reading this is in my vicinity and needs a ride there, drop me a line here and let me know.

If you are planning on being there, I’ll see you there!

If you are not going… you really should.

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Painting Catches Baddie

Shawn | February 8, 2008 in Art | Comments (0)

Tags: Art

Artist Nick Wildermuth was held up at gunpoint by an armed robber, painted a picture of him from memory and within a week the baddie was nabbed, identified from the painting…
Read the article here @ Juxtapoz!

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An Achievement I Seem to Have Forgotten

Shawn | September 14, 2007 in Art | Comments (0)

I submitted some slides of my first few completed works from my senior series in the fall of 98 to then Maine Coast Artists Gallery (now Center for Maine Contemporary Art) in Rockport, ME. My professor and mentor Anderson Giles recommended that fellow senior art student Ken Lund, and I send slides to be considered for a juried show for emerging young artist students of Maine colleges. I mentioned that I sent samples out to a few other graduates. They told me not to hold my breath, they had all tried out for the exhibit and were declined.

To our surprise and delight, both Ken and I were selected to hang works in the show among twenty or so other artists from all over the state. One of Ken’s was selected, and 3 out of the 4 works I submitted were picked to show from March 4th – April 3rd, 1999. The exhibit was called Next Generation. I was pretty excited. (more…)

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Chris Ware

Shawn | September 12, 2007 in Art | Comments (0)

“I arrived at my way of “working” as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the deliberately synthetic way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I “draw,” which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world. I figured out this way of working by learning from and looking at artists I admired and whom I thought came closest to getting at what seemed to me to be the “essence” of comics, which is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons as visual approximations of the way we remember general ideas, and I try to use naturalistic color underneath them to simultaneously suggest a perceptual experience, which I think is more or less the way we actually experience the world as adults; we don’t really “see” anymore after a certain age, we spend our time naming and categorizing and identifying and figuring how everything all fits together. Unfortunately, as a result, I guess sometimes readers get a chilled or antiseptic sensation from it, which is certainly not intentional, and is something I admit as a failure, but is also something I can’t completely change at the moment.” read the full interview here