debajodelarbol asked: Hi, could you give me a clue of your theme? I want to create a blog using tumblr and I really love yours :)
My theme is just a hack of Peter Vidani’s theme The Atlantic. However, if you want the code from mine, I have posted my template on Snipt. Feel free to use it. Warning: it was a really quick and messy hack job, so don’t judge my development skills based on this thing. :)
While waiting for freshly primed canvases to dry, I decided to combine some scrap pieces of wood together by covering them in glue. Tomorrow I will see if I was successful.
I just sent this email to my co-workers, about how great the new Folindux website is, and I figured I might as well post the email here:
So I have never found a bookmarking app, like Delicious or Pinboard, that I thought really worked for me. I am a visual guy, and a long list of text links is a surefire way to never inspire me to visit the site again.
In comes Folindux (silly name, but great and simple site).
It’s made by the same super smart guy who made the belated Recurse App.
It’s simple. You use a bookmarklet. Folindux saves a huge screenshot of the website, and then you can really quickly add tags to it. And ta-da, you are done.
At first I was skeptical, but I have found myself returning to it multiple times, just to find that one special little website I found a month ago, where I can remember it’s great design, but I can’t remember its damn URL.
Anyway, I just thought some of you folks might find it helpful. It’s limited to 10 bookmarks/month on the free account, or you can pay $4/month for unlimited. Oddly enough, I haven’t hit the 10/month limit, but I’m still thinking about plunking down 4 bucks, just to help it keep going.
Brian Kokoska
Big Sister
2012, oil on canvas, 38” x 31”
This fella’s work is charming, terrifying, and funny, all at the same time. And he uses some really nice thin and smooth glazes of paint.
lvl3:
Brian Kokoska is an artist based in New York. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Publication and online projects by the artist consist of Chiclet Teeth (2011) and Atmosphere Shoulders (2012). Upcoming shows include A Sad Ballad, Preteen Gallery…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast interview (via wiredforlight)
Everyone is lying to you, except Neil deGrasse Tyson. And that is no lie.
You can see the red under-painting beneath the pattern, which matches the red used on the hanging rag.
This one is getting close. Almost done. Very close. The pattern hanging on the top right will likely be replaced with something else.
Details as it stands currently:
48 x 36 inches
Enamel, acrylic, pencil, primed and unprimed canvas
The sun finally decided to come out today, so I was actually able to throw open the door of the studio and get some real light in the place.
Opening reception tonight for my work on show at Customary Clothing. I’m showing with Ashley Sloan and Nathanael Thayer Moss. Jeff Jahn on PORT wrote an announcement for the show:
One of the things I love about Portland’s scene and wasn’t covered at all in the WSJ article was the fact that we have small shops that sell other things and actively present art in a professional though often less concentrated way. Which is all to say we should check out Customary Clothing in that great little Burnside arts district by the Jupiter hotel. In addition to premiering their S/S 2012 line of clothing, the shop will be showcasing art by Calvin Ross Carl, Ashley Sloan, and Nathanael Thayer Moss. I appreciate how art and life are not separated in Portland.
Customary Clothing
811 E Burnside building, Suite 222
Opening tonight, 6-10pm
Nyan cat!
This sticker shop is next to my apartment. For the longest time, it looked mostly unoccupied. I assumed this sticker business was just a drug-front like most of the unused retail storefronts along Alberta seem to be. What little business they seemed to do revolved around local hip-hop acts. I suppose that explains the No Limits name (Make ‘em say ugh!). Then they printed a funny t-shirt with Osama Bin Laden’s face on it and it said “Hide & Seek World Champion 2001-2011”. Within the last year, some really greasy burnout kids seem to have taken over the business, and started sticking placing nyan cats all over the building.
