NetNewsWire

If you don't have an RSS reader already, NetNewsWire is great. I love it because it compiles all of my blog subscriptions, news, recipes, etc. into one application and it has the option of saving "clippings" so just drag and drop into the clippings folder to save anything that sparks your interest. They even have a version for the iPhone. It syncs all the read and unread articles, so whether you view it on your computer or your iPhone, you're reading from the same source. Anyway, it's free and super easy to use, and great for our morgue project.

Once you get it, you can subscribe to Connected Dots. ;) (and my blog... which is pineapplesoju.blogspot.com)

Check out this site too... Miwa Yanagi. This is a link to her "My Grandmothers" series where she portrays in digitally rendered photos young women 50 years from now based on interviews. I love the concept. Japanese women outlive everyone... their average life expectancy is around 83 years old. She explores gender roles in Japan and shows how young girls have visions of their future that differ from what society imposes - the housewife who has no life outside of her family and her home.

Jessie

Morgue help

Fffound! is a website that I use very frequently to find images on the web. This site is a great tool because people post thousands of photos to the site daily. The best feature of the site is that it is easy to navigate and when you find a photo that peaks your interest, it pulls up other photos and images that the site thinks you might like. It can be a similar image, theme or concept. Also you don't end up getting the same boring images that you pull up in google search, most of the work is artistic and there are also links for all the photos to take you to the blog or website that the photo was retrieved from. Sometimes you luck up on drawings from great artist also. Enjoy!

Website: Fffound!

Iman Person

Daniel Zeller

I first came across Daniel Zeller’s drawing in the book Vitamin D, which is in the GSU library. His drawing was on the last two pages of the book. The image was completely overwhelming for me. I was amazed by the repetitive, mathematical, yet organic nature forms. I think there is so much energy in his drawings and they pull the viewer into a different world. The intensity of the line work and the colors creates an optical illusion if you stare at the drawing for a long time. There is a great video on Youtube, where he talks about his process, imagery, influences, ect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkOugfDO50

Show Next Weekend

I'm in this show at Aurora on Friday. You should come.

- Truett Dietz

Dan Eldon

“To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near, and to record in details with the eyes of a child, any horror, beauty, irony, traces of utopia or hell.” – Dan Eldon

This morning I woke up at 5:30 full of energy and let myself be led in different directions, stumbling upon a memoir entitled “The Journey is the Destination: the journals of Dan Eldon”- Dan Eldon is a young artist and photographer who’s short 22 years of life were filled moment by moment with documenting the world around him- visiting over 46 countries and impacting countless lives. I found the next four hours consumed in the world of creative activism and filled with the profound desire to stimulate positive change in the world through my art... the world is so beautiful and so brutal- both are to be remembered and exemplified in order to truly view life in its entirety. At an exhibition of Eldon, one woman said what we need to remember about Dan is what one young man can do when he has the courage to follow his intuition... These words went through and through me. His raw and pure passion has been extremely inspirational to me and I've attached a few of his photo's and I encourage all of you to check out the pages of his journals at http://www.daneldon.org/. Enjoy.
Love, Heidi Anne

Travel Photography

I've recently made a habit of taking snap shots of any interesting place I come across in my travels, using either a cheap digital camera, or the camera on my cell phone. I'm very interested in the way nature reclaims man-made spaces and I find scenes of this occurrence to be particularly beautiful. I think the simple act of photographing what you see, specifically what you find interesting, not necessarily the obvious shot, says a lot about yourself, and can help inspire your artistic practice. I hesitate to call this "photography," as I make no claim to have any skill or proficiency in that field, but rather an extension of my eye, a way of remembering things. So here are some pictures from the last few weeks...

- Truett Dietz

Image from the American Museum of Natural History

My favorite thing in the Museum of Natural History in NYC. I grew up in New Jersey, about thirty miles from the city. We would go on class trips once a year to the museum. I went back this summer and was happy to see this display was still in place. Each of the objects are huge. The acorn, for instance, is the size of a large beach ball. As a child, it made quite an impression.  It was probably was no accident that I ended up making similar sized ant sculptures years later.

http://www.amnh.org/