Entries in Art (7)
Zelda Convention - July 18, 2011
Quotent Quotables - June 23, 2011
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Week of June 20, 2011
Every week, we list our recommendations of new music, books, comics, movies and TV to check out. This is Recs in Effect:
Slim pickins this week, y'all...
New Book
I'm a huge fan of Gallery 1988's Crazy 4 Cult series and have bought a handful of pieces and prints from the shows. The combination of brilliant talent, unique visions and beloved films makes it an easy sell for me. Many of these pieces are being collected for this book and I would highly recommend picking it up.
Zelda Convention - June 9, 2011
Quotent Quotables - April 23, 2010
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.
- Banksy
Music Memory Mondays: The Wallflowers, "One Headlight"
Song: "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers
Event: Misheard lyrics
One of the coolest things about art is its inherent subjectivity. What something means to you may mean something completely different to me. That possibility for myriad interpretations opens up any works - allowing it to be as emotionally resonating or coldly apathetic as the audience which witnesses it. And what makes such interpretation even more malleable is when the audience member is either misinformed or simply perceives something incorrectly. The piece of art - though that may be a lofty title to attach to it - that most reminds me of the transitory identity of art is The Wallflowers' song, "One Headlight."
To start - I'm not a Wallflowers fan; I don't own any of their music, I don't know any songs outside of this one and their cover of Bowie's "Heroes." I know that the lead singer is Bob Dylan's son and that they haven't really been around for the past decade or so. And "One Headlight" doesn't get as much radio play as it once did. But whenever I do happen upon it on the radio, usually on some "Best of the 80s, 90s and Today" station, I stop scanning the stations, listen to the song with a smile, recalling my incorrect reading of the song.
Verbiage - March 16, 2010
Today's word of the day is "impious" -
Impious
- not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- disrespectful