Opinion
Enter Unpaid Arts Invoices Into the World's Longest Invoice
LOS ANGELES — Expanding on the question as to while most artists are poor, one project explores who isn't getting paid what they're owed.
AX Mina
AX Mina is an artist and culture writer exploring contemporary spirituality, technology and other sundry topics. She co-produces Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice, and serves on the board of the Rabkin Foundation.
Opinion
New Aesthetic Watch: Text Only Instagram and Pinterest
LOS ANGELES — Instagram is all about self expression, capturing a moment and sharing it with fun filters. Pinterest is also a form of self expression, a way to curate what you like into one page, thus broadcasting yourself to the world as a person of taste (or lack thereof, if that's your goal).
Opinion
Want to be More Creative? Science Suggests Stop Fretting Over Mistakes
LOS ANGELES — What's going on in artists' brains when they create? I've done a few posts recently that suggest answers. But one of the most intriguing issues is the actual act of creation in the moment, i.e., how artists come up with incredible creativity in the moment.
Opinion
Patently Interesting Patent Art
LOS ANGELES — In the great pipeline of innovation, we always hear about that spark of genius, the agonizing product development, the design team debates, and then at least the final product rolling out on shelves. But one item is typically lost in this narrative: the patent.
Opinion
Lego-Scale Architecture Made Large
LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
Opinion
A Hundred Flowers Bloom When China Invades
LOS ANGELES — Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom is a photographic series by Los Angeles artist Mei Xian Qiu that imagines the Chinese takeover of America.
Opinion
A Diverse Survey of Gay Men in America
LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America's gay male community.
Opinion
Posters Distill Philosophy Into Simple Visuals
LOS ANGELES — Designer Genis Carreras attempts to distill complex philosophical topics into clean, minimal posters.
News
New Academic Journal and MIT Center for Arts and Technology to Launch
LOS ANGELES — Lots of srsbsns with the arts and technology in the news lately. What caught my eye was a new Center for Arts, Science and Technology at MIT and a new academic journal, the Journal for Digital Humanities.
Opinion
An App to Rate Everything, and They Mean Everything
LOS ANGELES — We rate our friends. We rate our friends' pictures. We rate our friends' status updates. We rate the restaurants we frequent. We rate the meals we ate. The shows we watched. The books we've read. Why not rate everything? Enter Jot.ly.
News
What Part of Your Brain Falls in Love With Art?
LOS ANGELES — If you're reading this, you probably know the feeling. You've just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.
Opinion
"Procrastiworking" Your Way to Creative Success
LOS ANGELES — It's hard work being a full-time artist. Sure, outsiders think artists live a free, unencumbered life, full of self-expression and joie de vivre.