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Existence Farm : ¡Viva la Revolución! Where's my GPS?
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Saturday, February 16, 2013. 161;Viva la Revolución! A fellow professor and I took students to see the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera show. Rather than willful assertion. I do not mean to be an apologist for Diego Rivera. Sometimes I just wonder if it is really fair to ask dead people to navigate our contemporary opinions and beliefs about their flaws and indiscretions, although I do acknowledge they are relevant to the. His work is an amazing navigation. Th...
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Existence Farm : Golf, Holofernes, and The Holocaust
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Sunday, July 1, 2012. Golf, Holofernes, and The Holocaust. Along with NASCAR and skateboarding, golf is a graphic designer's wet dream. Each page of a golf equipment catalog promises greater success based on grooves, shafts, material, grams, grips, and font (yes, font). Emblazoned on the header of one of the pages was the most amazing phrase:. 100% Fresh. Juicy. Sweet Technology. Also caught my eye: A seemingly random assortment of punched out letters litterin...
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Existence Farm : Skywater -- Making and Showing
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Monday, August 27, 2012. Skywater - Making and Showing. What's up with that? I don't sound like that. I wonder if the reader can pick up on it. Early this summer a friend of mine, Dominick Gheesling, who teaches photography at Valdosta State, related a fascination with a place called Radium Springs. Skywater 2012" will show at the Albany Area Arts council this September with an opening reception on September 6, 6-8PM. What does it say about who we are? This wa...
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Existence Farm : Sanford Biggers -- Issues of Race 2 of 2
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Sanford Biggers - Issues of Race 2 of 2. I was recently down in Sarasota, Florida, visiting a friend and artist, Michael Wyshock. Who teaches at the Ringling School of Art and Design and had the opportunity to see a lecture by artist, Sanford Biggers. That put everyone at ease. Or did it? His videos, installations, and performances show us what is. That may be a cop out, but I would say this guy is very much walking the Way. And us inc...
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Existence Farm : Guns, Django, Jackie, and My Recent Obsession with the Banjo
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Sunday, March 24, 2013. Guns, Django, Jackie, and My Recent Obsession with the Banjo. I have not felt inspired, as of late, to blog about it. A few months back, an old desire resurfaced. I struggled to suppress it. I attempted to reject it. But, damnit, I have always wanted to learn the banjo. I do not care that it is currently hip to play Americana. I would definitely buy a gun, too. Does that make me conservative? Does that make me a redneck? So, I am going ...
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Existence Farm : A Flag You Can't Wave, A House You Can't Inhabit, and One Giant Wing: Outside it's America
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Wednesday, February 8, 2012. A Flag You Can't Wave, A House You Can't Inhabit, and One Giant Wing: Outside it's America. Artist, Ira Hill, stopped by this week to visit with students and present us with a collaborative art project, Color My Flag with Freedom. Ira Hill and ASU students covered the graffiti with fresh red, white, and blue. Concurrently showing at the Albany Museum of Art, artist, Joelle Dietrick's The. Sherwin's Virtual Remix 05. A Flag You Can'...
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Existence Farm : I Got a Shotgun and a Real Nice Leather Bible
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Friday, March 16, 2012. I Got a Shotgun and a Real Nice Leather Bible. My wife recently asked the son of some friends of ours what he had gotten for his birthday, to which he responded, "I got a shot gun and a real. Nice leather Bible.". We tend to paint people with broad strokes for the sake of a laugh, and I suppose that's alright for the relief of social tensions and such. When it comes to comedy, where the line is drawn. Is a matter of taste. He had no say...
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Existence Farm : Down Here at the Billy Bob Bau Haus? It's all how you dress.
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Down Here at the Billy Bob Bau Haus? It's all how you dress. I came across an article on Inhabit. About a family, the tiny house family. Who lives in a 320 square foot house which looks more or less like a nicely finished shed. The idea is that the family, by living in a small but well-designed and well-furnished space, is living mortgage free in a beautiful setting. What if the car had been repurposed. As a guest bedroom? Joke is that ...
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Existence Farm : Tumbling and Weaving
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Existence is to artist as soil is to farmer. Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Nelson Mandela died. I watched a National Geographic slide show. I do not pretend to know a lot about Nelson Mandela, honestly. I mean I follow the news, but. Perhaps, too, the death of Nelson Mandela will remind us of the promise of an age and how that era seemed to end without notice. Perhaps 9/11 was the death blow, but it had dissolved prior to that. President Obama made a joke the other day that he was the first President ever ...