February 2011
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15 Questions About Art :: Adrienne Vita
Adrienne Vita of Arcane Arts is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her love of the sea, nature, animals and architecture are largely influenced in her art. Her work consists of illustrations in ink, watercolors, cut paper, gouache, and acrylics; depicting scenes of unusual environments, ethereal in nature and all things imaginary. www.arcane-arts.com ***** What is your earliest art-related...
December 2010
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LOOK AROUND YOU prints for sale online
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November 2010
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15 Questions About Art :: Andy Paiko
Andy Paiko is a glass artist, sculpture and designer.He is one of the founding members of The Central Cast Glass Artists’ Studio. He resides in the Pacific Northwest where he continues to study new methods coloration,patterning and form.
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What is your earliest art-related memory?
Building sandcastles at the beach with my mom.
Who has had the greatest influence on your work?
My...
June 2010
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15 Questions About Art :: Andrew Holder
Andre Holder grew up in San Diego for the most part. Graduated from Art Center College of Design with BFA in Illustration.Andrew has shown in Sydney, Tokyo and London among others. Some of his Clients are Roxy, Urban Outfitters and Arkitip. He currently live/works in Los Angeles.
Andrew Holder’s work is currently featured in our LBLimited: quarterly art subscription along with artists...
May 2010
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15 Questions About Art :: Ramis Kim
Ramis Kim was born in 1981 in Seoul, Korea. Besides working as a background painter she spends her time creating personal works in paintings, drawings, and anything creative, and resides in Atwater Village with a little fellow canine named Gus. Her work expresses her personal memories, feelings, and imaginations. Ramis Kim’s show with Tyler Bewley, Above You, Below Me, opens this...
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15 Questions About Art :: Tyler Bewley
Tyler Bewley was raised in Oakland and now lives and works in San Francisco. In addition to being a painter, he is a K – 8th grade art teacher. Bewley’s work has been shown around the Bay Area and in a number of literary publications. Tyler’s show with Ramis Kim, Above You, Below Me, opens this Saturday, May 8th: LittleBird at Grain 3135 Glendale Blvd.LA, CA 90039 7 - 9pm Gallery located...
April 2010
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15 Questions About Art :: Minty Lewis
Minty Lewis has been creating comics since 2003. Her characters are mostly fruit, yorkies, jerks, and nerds. A collection of her work, titled PS Comics, was published by Secret Acres in June of 2009.
She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and an army of small pets. *** What is your earliest art-related memory? I drew a picture of a sleeping lady and slipped it under my mom’s...
March 2010
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15 Questions About Art :: Moselle Spiller
Moselle Spiller is a graphic artist and drummer based out of Redhook Brooklyn. She creates animations, collages, and drawings. *** What is your earliest art-related memory? Crayons on a paper placemat at a rural diner. There were water rings on the paper and it kept ripping when I tried to rub really hard. Who has had the greatest influence on your work? My mother, ants and uncle who are all...
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15 Questions About Art :: Dallas Clayton
This week’s 15 Questions About Art comes to us courtesy of Dallas Clayton, who amongst other things, wrote and illustrated An Awesome Book - which he self published and which was received by a whole bunch of strangers with some pretty awesome success. Dallas then channeled all that success and momentum into a really awesome foundation he started in an effort to promote children’s...
February 2010
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15 Questions About Art :: Dola Baroni
Dola Baroni - b. August 1986 in Los Angeles, Tiger, West Coast enthusiast, photographer and dancer, big eater, big sleeper.
*** What is your earliest art-related memory?
In the first grade we had Art a couple times a week in a room near the Principal’s office. Mrs. Levitan was the art teacher and I remember feeling really relaxed by the sound of her voice. I don’t remember...
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15 Questions About Art :: Dan Monick
Dan Monick grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been commissioned by and featured in numerous publications including Interview, Paper, Swindle, enRoute, ESPN, Dwell, XXL, Out, Rolling Stone, Foam, The Journal, Arkitip, and Fortune. His commercial clients include American Standard, Clearwire, Dell, Virgin Mobile, Target, Stussy, and...
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15 Questions About Art :: Shari Altman
Shari Altman is a writer, photographer and gifted observationalist. She is best known for her work as co-curator of the bi-monthly online art and poetry journal, This Joy + Ride. Her first book, City:Country - a collaboration with Jen Causey - was published in December of 2009. She originally hails from the South but currently lives with her husband in a 100+ year old house in Vermont where she...
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15 Questions About Art :: Hugh D'Andrade
Hugh D’Andrade is an artist and illustrator based in San Francisco, where he lives with wife and fellow artist, Mati McDonough. Hugh’s art has appeared on rock posters, book jackets, magazines and the occasional t-shirt or skateboard and on the cover of Communication Arts. *** What is your earliest art-related memory? Drawing at the kitchen table for hours on end. I was one of those...
January 2010
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On Creating :: The Problem of Good Taste
If you’ve never seen this interview with Ira Glass where he talks about the problem of “good taste”, then I suggest you drop what you are doing and spend the next 5 minutes with it.
If you have seen it, then you already know it’s worth watching again.
Although the interview is directed at would-be reporters (“podcasters”), the message holds true for any...
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15 Questions About Art :: Jenny Andreotti
(photo credit: Ty Rose)
Jenny Andreotti is the lead singer of the band FUNERAL CLUB. She currently resides in Bakersfield, CA with her husband and band mate, Joseph Andreotti, where she works as a Librarian at a local K-8th school. Their new full-length album - FUNERAL CLUB :: The Year of the Bloody Sevens - is set to be released in Spring 2010.
She also runs a blog called Triumphs and...
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When Books Mattered
Take a look here to see something truly beautiful.
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15 Questions About Art :: William Crump
William Crump is a New York based artist who works in drawing, painting and collage. His work is a romantic version of a distinctly American question: how to cross the desert between our heroes and ourselves. His seeks to remake our past dreams into a more forgiving view of our present circumstances, while offering a glimpse of another world just beyond our reach. William’s work will be...
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triple canopy
triple canopy is a cool thing. in their words: “Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. These investigations are realized in an online magazine as well as in public programs and print publications...
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15 questions about art: Lisa Solomon
Lisa Solomon is an artist and educator best known for her body of work which questions and deconstructs the meaning of identity through the exploration of mediums traditionally associated with domestic crafts. Born in Tuscon, AZ to a Japanese mother and a Caucasian father, she now lives and works in Northern California with her husband, daughter, 2 dogs, 2 cats and many, many spools of thread.
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15 questions about art: Pi Ware
Pi Ware is an award-winning filmmaker who began his career as a camera assistant in Madrid, Spain. An alumnus of The Sundance Institute and the prestigious Fox Searchlight Directors Lab, his films have appeared at over 75 film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Cannes, Gen Art and AFI Fest. Pi often works in collaboration with his beautiful wife and writing/directing partner,...
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15 questions about art: Sophia Allison
Sophia Allison works in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. Her work has been in multiple exhibitions within the U.S and abroad as well as in publications such as Make and the cover image for New American Paintings, Western Edition #42.
Currently, Sophia has a solo exhibition titled Home Home, Sweet Again atUnderground Gallery through December 12. She...
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15 questions about art: Sean U'Ren
Sean U’Ren grew up in the town of Mineral Point, Wisconsin and has been variously employed by Pizza Hut, Hardees, a few coffeeshops, a watch sales company, a telemarketing company, a Mexican restaurant, a slew of post production houses and a large agricultural company that sends kids out into the cornfields for hours of torturous labor.
He likes writing, reading, making and eating...
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An interview with photographer Dan Monick
Dan Monick’s capacity for love is immense. He loves his relationships - the good times and the trying ones, too. He loves inspiration, be it accidental or accidentally on purpose. He loves old signage, ominous skies and foreign advertisements stapled in a noisy jumble of symbol and language to telephone poles. He loves objects so far removed from context that the meaning becomes lost in...
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you are what you eat
Schlue’s Holy Crap Crepes with KGB Mushroom Sauce
This recipe is an attempt to emulate the Crepes you find at the Silver Lake Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. I affectionately refer to the Mushroom Sauce as KGB sauce in regard to the gentleman that runs the crepe stand. He is without doubt the toughest/coolest looking Master Crepe Chef on the planet. His crepes are simply amazing!
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