Endless Forms: Engaging Evolution
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Archive for February, 2006
kelli connell’s photos
check the march issue of art news for more of kelli’s work
http://www.kelliconnell.com
for more on texas contemporary visual art visit:
glass tire
This is Kiba x2…hi kiba!
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Exercise 2/11/2006
This is an exercise. This appeared to me. I remembered it, and then I put it together the next day. There are many questions that could be asked of this, and meanings created. What I like about it is it’s restrictivenes= in that the literal translations are somewhat limited. Clearly this is a reconfguration of the nike logo and phrase, “Just Do It?” What new relationships does the logo suggest?
Well?
I’d say:
St. Valentine’s Day
Just Do It- like “go out and love someone!”
just do it = sex
the swoosh, duplicated
symmetrical swoosh
heart swoosh
Doesn’t jsut do it usually have a period?
(Just Do It.)
Is this interesting? It this the same kind of logo alteration that ends up on tshirts (e.g. grateful dead)? In that case, actually, the logos never really shifted from the original; only the text changed- never the entire image…perhaps….
Is this a greeting card?
Is this the beginning of many posible outcomes because the signs and relationships of the logo have been reconfigured= simp[ly from duplication, symmetry, color, and punctuation.
Sounds like a line of loungeware to me.
This week, we are looking at a Weiden and Kennedy commercial for nike as an exercise in Screen Arts & Cultures 236 “Tha Art of Film.” For those of you that are unfamiliar with Weiden and Kennedy, here is what I know.
Weiden and Kennedy is an advertising firm.
Their headquarters are in portland, oregon- downtown.
Their offices are designed by the same architecture firm as the coming addition to
the art museum- headed by Brad Copefil. He spoke at the Architecture School at UM
in fall 2004.
I played soccer with an employee.
They are supporters of the time-based art festival (tba)in september organized by
pica (portland institute of contemporary art). here is the video we are looking at:
my dad
Pounding home their message
McKinney: Drums Not Guns works to steer youths from violence
08:16 AM CST on Friday, February 10, 2006
By JEREMY ROEBUCK / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
The members of Drums Not Guns start with simple combinations of tone and bass hand slaps. Leading a group of beginners in a drum circle, they slowly work toward greater complexity. Soon, the rhythm takes off.
Melody McDonald, 7, of McKinney caught a glimpse of participants practicing with Drums Not Guns.
The air thrums with energy. Windows buzz. Heads begin to sway. Expressions of concentration break into grins and laughter. And when the drumming suddenly stops, a palpable silence lingers.
“There’s a pretty tremendous impact when a group gets a rhythm going,” Drums Not Guns member Randy Harp said, wiping sweat from his face. “People that thought they had no ability to play the drums suddenly find themselves doing it.”
The lesson, held Saturday at McKinney’s Old Settlers’ Park Recreation Center, was the second in a series of workshops sponsored by the Dallas-based nonprofit group and the McKinney Arts Commission.
“We’ve been very active in Dallas, but not so much in the surrounding counties,” Mr. Harp said. “We saw an opportunity to move our mission into the northern suburbs.”
Founded in 1994 by Dallas resident Happy Shel, Drums Not Guns has worked with at-risk teenagers across the area to spread “the power of percussion” as an alternative to violence. Mr. Shel found his inspiration on a bus painted with the message “Food Not Bombs.”
“Suddenly – shazam! – the earth moved,” he said. “Why not Drums Not Guns? We could give kids a positive alternative to all the bad things they face.”
The group hosts drum circles and workshops, marketing drumming as an avenue of expression and a way to work off tension. Members have brought drums with names like djembe, doumbek and dununs to orphanages, festivals and after-school programs.
“Drumming is a language we can all speak, and we can hear each individual part,” Mr. Shel said. “I want kids to come and join the ‘drum gang.’ “
McKinney resident Seamus McKenna understands the physical release drumming can provide. The 49-year-old started drumming with the group in September and was thrilled to learn about the program near his home.
“You would imagine that drumming is very energetic,” he said. “But actually, my breathing slows down once we get into a rhythm. I get very calm and enter an almost meditative state.”
For 13-year-old Christopher Dunlap, the chance to bang on a drum just sounded like fun.
“I thought it was something that looked interesting,” he said. “I’m learning a lot.”
The group plans to cap off the McKinney workshops May 20 with the Soli Drum Festival, featuring drummers from across the Southwest and students from the classes.
“It’s just a really easy way to earn a sense of accomplishment,” Mr. Harp said. “The effect is almost spiritual. It seems to open up people to the possibilities of life.”
Jeremy Roebuck is a Dallas-based freelance writer.
carnivals
here is one happening in detroit last weekend…
and there is the beginning of another to the left…click “carnival”
