Opinion
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.
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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.
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LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
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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.
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LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America's gay male community.
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LOS ANGELES — Designer Genis Carreras attempts to distill complex philosophical topics into clean, minimal posters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LOS ANGELES — QR codes are almost certainly New Aesthetic. Right? Right? After my first post on a QR Code stencil, I was surprised to receive a number of pitches for other QR code-related art. If it's not a zeitgeist, it's certainly a trend.
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LOS ANGELES — I've been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they're not ants or crumbs. It's art, folks. Just art writ small.