Tribute to International Klein Blue (IKB)

IKB was developed by French artist Yves Klein during his search for colors which best represented the concepts he wished to convey as an artist during the late 40's.

Last month in the San Francisco Church in La Paz I came across this crazy blue crucifix painted in striking IKB. I wonder what Klein would have thought if he came across it on his travels.

Music on a grey day – sunny day – any day?

A friend put me onto the band Orba Squara which if anyone could put sunniness into a song they just might be able to. Best listened to when you need some cheering up.
  
The Trouble with Flying – was shot using time-lapse video is taken from the USA.  Shooting in New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, California and Oregon.  I definitely plan to add it onto my next roadtrip mixed tape.

 

Procrastination who me – yes you

One of my key skills often during my working day is the subtle art of procrastination especially when say I have a massive marketing report due in the morning. Or when I am sitting here dreading the next facebook status update or tweet I need to send for work. I play with this site Generatus – essentially it a social networking status generator. Which when you think about how much time you wasted over the years trying to think of something suitably witty, funny and original for your status on Facebook or Twitter?

This solves the problem. You just pop your name in the field select your sex and then click generate. For instance when I click on generate might get:

“…….has enemies. Good! That means she’s stood up for something, sometime in her life.” Or perhaps

“……. has tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and she has succeeded fairly well.”

Or “…….. never underestimates the power of stupid people in large groups”
Hours and hours of entertainment well five minutes at least

The Sketchbook Project 2011

Much like starting actually starting a blog, I’ve also been mulling over whether or not to sign up for The Sketchbook Project: 2011 and finally I took the plunge.

So what is it, well according to the projects tag line ‘It’s like a concert tour but with sketchbooks.’ Basically, you sign up they send you a Moleskine notebook and you have a until January 2011 to fill it according to the theme you’re assigned, which can be anything from ‘Facing forward’ to ‘Capture the flag’; from ‘Great hopes and massive failures to ‘I’m sorry I forgot you’. Now while I think my favorite theme was ‘I’m sorry I forgot you’ I signed up to do ‘If you lived here’. Now I just need to wait for the moleskin to arrive and to just start.

Once received by the end of January 2011, all the notebooks will go ‘on tour’. They get exhibited in galleries and museums across the US before they enter the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Art Library. For the first time this year, artists get to keep track of their notebooks as they travel the country and they get to see how many people have looked at their work.

I am sure to be posting more on this as I get more into the project

Hello world!

Finally after much procrastination because well we I am exceptionally good at it. I have bitten the bullet so to speak and am starting this blog, if nothing else it will be a place to put down all that is inspiring to me, and well occasionally the stuff that I am making, doing seeing out there in the world around me.  So I hope you check in every now and then to see whats happening in my little corner of the world.