Rogue Habits

For the love of creation: enter the mind of artist Mallory Lucille Rose

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The mind of an artist is a work of art in and of itself. Creativity touches us all differently, and the method to an artist’s madness is a life-long journey and self-discovery project. What inspires one artist is white noise for another. That’s the beauty in art – our unique experiences shape our perceptions of it; it transcends any concrete notion, a mallea[...]

Michael Zelehoski Flattens Reality

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We would find beauty in everything around us if only we stopped to look for it. But immersed as we are in a virtual reality and bombarded with an assortment of goods, we hardly notice the objects around us—the everyday quotidian "things" like crates and palettes that we use, discard, and forget. NY artist Michael Zelehoski has taken it upon himself to carry [...]

Graffiti Artist to Fly Fisherman: Brendon Elerick Leaves the Bay for the Big Sky

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It was 3 o’clock on a cold winter morning, and Brendon Elerick and his friends were out tagging. They were in Downtown Berkeley, on the corner of the bustling Ashby Bart station, when they spotted their next hit — a 3-story building covered with wooden lattices. The group scrambled up the side of the building onto a balcony. They had just finished hitting[...]

Wild Souls Unleashed In A Concrete Jungle: The Art of Man One

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Drive along a Southern California freeway, say the 110 out of LAX or the 5 south from Hollywood. Take an offramp late at night, spiral down a cloverleaf, and come to an intersection where a concrete wall confronts you with a savagely beautiful face made of angles and colors. You couldn't be any more startled than if you'd been beating brush by machete throug[...]

Feng Shui for Creative Workspaces

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Sitting at my desk, I feel completely uninspired with an inability to truly focus and complete projects. Writing has been much more difficult since I moved from the other side of the room, which lead me to consider what has created the immense difference—the divide in my concentration. In my search, I recognized that my previous desk position was better for [...]

Social Media Networks For Artists

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The typical artist may be a bit averse to the concept of a social network in fear of it ripping away from the creative heartbeat and a clear mental space to develop pure craft; however, social media is the single most effective tool to promote a product. A modest website being discovered is near impossible without a hook into the social stream. As the Intern[...]

Exploring identity and emotion through oil and watercolor: Shannon Stovall

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You know a piece of art is doing its job when it takes you outside of your comfort zone and makes you not only do a double take but question yourself and then delve further. Painter Shannon Stovall’s imagery does just that—prompting viewers to challenge their perspective through vibrant colors, odd dimensions and bold details. Her focus lies in exploring the[...]

EDM: Forging Derivative New Frontiers

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As electronica darling Richard D James, aka the Aphex Twin, returns to his kingly pedestal with much critical harrumph, something of a tribal clash has emerged on the World Wide Whinge, taking place between two different generations of music fans. In the red corner we have the likes of Aphex Twin and Autechre, the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) crowd. In the [...]

Barking and Dagenham's Museum on Wheels

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Verity-Jane Keefe has a vision for Barking and Dagenham, London, UK, and she's throwing a Kickstarter for it. It's pretty modest by Kickstarter standards; it needs £7K ($9066.86 USD) and it's assembled £4.6K ($7508.63 USD) of that total already. The project is a mobile museum, starting from a converted mobile library van - but the project has a unique tw[...]

Oliver Gal Artist Co.

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From blueprint specs of cocktails to pop art cans of Coco Chanel’s Fashion Soup, public transit maps in major cities to mug shots of famous music icons, Oliver Gal Artist Co. offers an array of sweet wall art inspired by the art scene in Miami as well as photography from travels to Spain, Italy, St. Lucia, China, Israel and Africa. Behind the collecti[...]

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