Time To Preblog

After reading Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, my aunt Linda’s recent death, and the subsequent re-connection with family, I have been spending much of my energy thinking about cycles, relationships, temporarily, directionality, and scale. Convergence, overlap, pattern, and sequences also draw my attention. I will be releasing my writing in the order it was …

The “Office” Side of Art

Here are some lecture notes from “All You Wanted to Know About Art” Summer 2003. Keep regular business hours. Size counts. Make mailing list to send stuff to galleries. Create a history of applications. Write thank you notes. Stay in touch with folks who know your work. Layer idea of community and patronage. It’s bigger …

Commercial Tools, Artistic Ideals

Assignment notes (from Marcia Lyons) 1999 Using Flash (4!) as your tool create an abstract experience in black and white that includes the 4 visual cues / navigationally in 4th dimension (feedback). CUES Scale: proportion Negative / Positive space Movement / Direction Hierarchy –> Focus [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”../flash/cycle.swf” width=”400″ height=”300″ targetclass=”flashmovie”] [/kml_flashembed]

Letter of Interest for Tournesol Award

So the Headlands Center For The Arts has a new online application program called “SlideRoom” it’s super easy to use, and it works great. I really hope more organizations start to use it. I imagine it would really work well in the art school application process…it makes a slide list receipt/confirmation of upload that you …

Rhizome 2010 Commission Proposal “Preblog” by Pete Ippel

Preblog: Time capsule to Midwestern Teenage Life Before the World Wide Web – Blogging as a 15-Year-Old and 30-Year-Old at the Same Time San Francisco based artist Pete Ippel travels to rural Illinois to unlock the fire-proof safe that’s been buried in the closet of his childhood home since 1997. Ippel investigates and interprets nearly …