Alright everyone.  I'm in a quandary.  My new job requires me to search for "inspiration" on a daily to weekly basis. Finding it isn't hard, it's getting it to work that's the problem. The thing is, I need to upload them to a server to share with the district so, if I find something amazing in print it's a huge to-do to get it onto the computer. I either have to somehow find a scanner and scan it, take a picture of it with my camera then upload the pictures then email it to myself, or write the name of the magazine down and try and find the same image online. Not only that but if I then want to have the image in my art room to lok at I have to print it somewhere not at work because they don't have a color printer. So, here's my problem. I don't want to get a smart phone but I am starting to really see the value in having my camera and internet access all in one. If you suggest an ipad, I suggest you stop reading my blog...I refuse to entertain that idea until it has a usb port. Anywho, the picture quality on an iphone is admittedly stellar and so I wouldn't need to print anything I could just look at it on the phone. It's more money over all BUT I will be saving eons of time and trees. As a girl who saves all of her junk mail in a box to reuse for scrap paper, saving trees means a lot to me. 

OR I could just get an ipod touch with a camera...do those exist? That might be preferable since they get wifi with no monthly fee. I just looked it up, they do take pictures and video. Maybe that would be better...because I really really don't want a smart phone.  Hey, thanks for your help, guys!

Here are some pictures from the rocky mountains, so amazing!!!

kay bye!

 

Ganked again

I went out west for the first time this past weekend for a lovely wedding in the Rocky mountains with a lovely boy and his equally lovely family. After I edit some pictures I'll post some up here. In the meantime, I ganked this artist from The Jealous Curator:


Jenny Hart: Study Hall Drawing

So good. It makes me this of this hilarious "gawdy valentine" I made for my 2007 Painting 4 class that rocked the house (despite my less than awesome grade).  When I go home next I'll photograph it to share. It'll make you smile, methinks.

Kay byeee!

R!

parceque

Hey!  This is Brain Idea's 100th post!  Welllll, I'm happy to have some super fun news for this post.  About a week ago, a woman contacted me from an online based french art and design magazine, Parceque.  She was looking for a cover image and found my deviantart page which I haven't updated in a million years.  I thought about deleting it, actually.  She liked my painting titled 'Pool' but, since it is a horizontal she wanted to use it for the table of contents page. So, obviously I said "Sure!"  I mean, I made that painting for a summer painting class and it is sitting in my basement now sooo why not?  So, I'm published in a magazine!  Neat-o!  Also, on August 1st the fourth edition of Drawing: Space, Form, Expression is released and I have a drawing in that as well. But, I'll talk more about that when the time comes.  Alright, now check out parceque.  It has some pretty great drawings and paintings in it...I just wish I could read it!!

Dis ess myne

I like this one a lot

and these

and this one two :)

Kay, that's all for now.  Happy Saturday!

Roni!         

Here now

Room.Studio.Just now.

Oh, hi Esophagus!

First, saw The Room last night at a late night showing. Suuuper fun.

Second, I don't like using this art blog to complain about bad art, or rather art that I think is bad. I'd like to bring people up to speed on things that are lovely and inspiring.  But, I'm going to make an exception for Millie Brown.  Besides, it's important to know what is going on in the art world...the good, the bad, and the gross. I'm having a hard time finding a website for her so I'll just put up this posting.  It has a video (because shes a performance artist).  To sum up her work, she drinks colored milk then makes herself vomit onto a canvas. The result is apparently really great art.  Hear me out, I'm not just going to say she sucks and not back it up.

1. Vomiting is fucking terrible for you.  Even if she does it on a completely empty stomach and the liquid is just colored water their would still be stomach acid mixed in.  However, since suffering for her art is not a reason to dislike the work I expand on this thought with point # 2

2.  If you are going to insist upon puking up your chosen media at least go all out and make that milk more interesting.  The resulting images look like colored water stains on a poorly prepped canvas. Note: The images I've found are not very good quality so the canvas' may look better than I think.  But, from what I have seen so far they look a bit rushed.  Anyway, why not try vomiting up a beautiful smoothie? Then the stain would have some weight to it. Add some glitter! Maybe add some dye to barium...get that beautius chalky finish. Or, take it easy on your tummy and sand the shit out of your canvas, make it smooooth as satin.

3.  She may be a lovely person, she may have some deeper meaning to why she started making art this way.  After all, she's not the first artist to use the body to make art (Yves Klein, Shigeko Kubota, plus tons more since).  But, since I can't find anything about her and why she does what she does I just can't buy into it.  It is one thing to paint a beach and not explain your work, this stuff needs some ground to stand on. If you're going to make a statement then make a statement.  Make me believe in it.

 So to sum it up, I don't hate her or her art.  But, I think it could be better and I think her body is going to hate her for sure. 

In the words of Tommy Wiseau "YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, MILLIE!"

-Roni!

Comic Sans

Found this today while peeping around the internet.  I really could care less about font but, I have enough designer buds to know how touchy a subject using comic sans is. Anyway, it made me smile and I am bias because it was posted on my favorite publishing company's site, www.mcsweeneys.net.

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

BY Mike Lacher

- - - -

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.

People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.

It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I’m in your signs. I’m in your browsers. I’m in your instant messengers. I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.

Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.

Ah, so silly!

-Ronald

(m)eustac(h)e

So, I really like the work of David Eustace.  His website is pretty terrible overall but definitely worth a peek, particularly the portraits.  A better way to view his work is to google him.  One of the reasons why he is so good is because his images don't have any bells or whistles. They are just straight forward, clean, clear, vibrant images. When I was looking for his site, I saw that he was featured on the anthropologist.  Lucky me, the collection of work they have posted is not on his website and frankly it's some of his best work yet. Maybe since they are of his hometown he gave them a little extra love? For me to really enjoy a landscape shot it has to be something special and these images get a gold star! NO! Two gold stars.

Proof that overcast is THE BEST lighting...the world is your soft box

Dats all,
Roni!

133

Hi y'all!

It's been a minute since I posted.  Well, I've been busy busy.  But, today is my first of 4 days off after a crazy 133 hour grand opening preparation. My boss' Chris Lindsay and I are the MVP's of the whole affair putting in lots of blood (me: cuts from the measuring tape and YIKES, nail gun) sweat (trust me) and tears (awwwkkwaaarrrrd, haha).  I will write a proper update soon.

Here's a sneak peek of the new store, come visit us to see all of the great work.

Window Nook, I take credit for this cute thing ;)

Little furniture

One of the main window installs

Alright, time to clean my gross apartment


-Roni!