Jean Shin

Click the link above to go the artist's web site...cool installation work!

Stepping Stones
(Pots and Pans), 2007

In collaboration with architect Brian Ripel
310 used metal pots, pans and lids
2 ft h x 17 ft w x 14 ft d
Installation at Fields Sculpture Park,
Art Omi International Arts Center,
Ghent, NY, 2008
Installation at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, 2007

In Stepping Stones, hundreds of inverted pots and pans create a unique topography of used cookware that spreads across the landscape. Filled with cement and literally anchored into the ground with metal spikes, these common materials of both domestic life and commercial kitchens are transformed by being inserted into a new setting. When placed outdoors, these incredibly durable objects are no longer subjected to the extreme heat of a stove. Rather, through their physical interaction with nature and passersby, these metal vessels become active, acoustic surfaces.

Hair Wall, 2002

Artist’s hair and existing holes in the gallery wall
Dimensions variable
Installation at Artist Space, New York
In this installation, tufts of the artist’s own hair have been tucked into holes in the gallery wall left behind from the previous exhibition. Hair Wall literally incorporates a part of Shin’s body into the creative act while linking her to the art that preceded her. In addition, the organic quality of the material contrasts with the structured layout and the clean, white environment of the gallery.

Inspiration for today...

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Designer Francesco Sommacal has been awarded the Red Dot: luminary design award for his sports equipment that replicates the sensation of snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding.



The 360 consists of two wheels connected by a flexible shaft. The user puts their feet inside the wheels and controls the direction of travel using body movements, as with board sports. The distance between wheels and slant can be adjusted to fit.

Art stuff - shows

After studying art in Madrid, Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900, then the art capital of Europe. There, he met his first Parisian friend, the journalist and poet Max Jacob, who helped Picasso learn the language and its literature. Soon they shared an apartment; Max slept at night while Picasso slept during the day and worked at night. These were times of severe poverty, cold, and desperation. Much of his work had to be burned to keep the small room warm. During the first five months of 1901, Picasso lived in Madrid, where he and his anarchist friend Francisco de Asís Soler founded the magazine Arte Joven (Young Art), which published five issues. Soler solicited articles and Picasso illustrated the journal, mostly contributing grim cartoons depicting and sympathizing with the state of the poor. The first issue was published on 31 March 1901, by which time the artist had started to sign his work simply Picasso, while before he had signed Pablo Ruiz y Picasso.[9]
By 1905 Picasso became a favorite of the American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein. Their older brother Michael Stein and his wife Sarah also became collectors of his work. Picasso painted portraits of both Gertrude Stein and her nephew Allan Stein.[10] Gertrude Stein began acquiring his drawings and paintings and exhibiting them in her informal Salon at her home in Paris. At one of her gatherings in 1905 he met Henri Matisse who was to become a lifelong friend and rival. The Steins introduced him to Claribel Cone and her sister Etta who were American art collectors; who also began to acquire Picasso and Matisse's paintings. Eventually Leo Stein moved to Italy, and Michael and Sarah Stein became patrons of Matisse; while Gertrude Stein continued to collect Picasso.[11]


Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910, The Art Institute of Chicago. Picasso wrote of Kahnweiler What would have become of us if Kahnweiler hadn't had a business sense?
In 1907 Picasso joined the art gallery that had recently been opened in Paris by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Kahnweiler was a German art historian, art collector who became one of the premier French Art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent in Paris beginning in 1907 for being among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Cubism. Kahnweiler championed burgeoning artists such as André Derain, Kees Van Dongen, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Maurice de Vlaminck and several others who had come from all over the globe to live and work in Montparnasse at the time.[12]
In Paris, Picasso entertained a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Alfred Jarry, and Gertrude Stein. Apollinaire was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Apollonaire pointed to his friend Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated.[13]

Caseus - New Haven

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The Bluff 50K Guilford, CT

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The Red Balloon - an all time fav...

This is a 1956 fantasy short film, directed by Albert Lamorisse. It is a dialogue free film which nonetheless won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. SUBTERRANEAN CINEMA http://subcin.com THE SUBTERRANEAN COLLECTION http://subcin.com/subvid.html«

Hills & then bigger hills...

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BEAUTIFUL
By: Christina Aguilera




Everyday is so wonderful
Then suddenly
It's hard to breathe
Now and then I get insecure
From all the pain
I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful
No matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful
In every single way
Yes words can't bring me down
So don't you bring me down today

To all your friends
You're delirious
So consumed
In all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The pieces gone
Left the puzzle undone
Is that the way it is

You are beautiful
No matter what they say
Words can't bring you down
Cause you are beautiful
In every single way
Yes words can't bring you down
So don't you bring me down today

No matter what we do
No matter what we say
We're the song inside the tune
Full of beautiful mistakes
And everywhere we go
The sun will always shine
And tomorrow we might awake on the other side

Cause we are beautiful
No matter what they say
Yes words won't bring us down, no
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes words can't bring us down
So don't you bring me down today

quote of the day

Good morning... National Poetry Month

The 2009 National Poetry Month poster, designed by Paul Sahre.

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Great Show - Great Review!!

Review: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals in New Haven
By Eric R. Danton on February 21, 2009 1:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)
There was a time when an on-stage mishap would have wrecked Ryan Adams' concentration and derailed the whole show.

Not this time.

Adams and his band, the Cardinals, opened their winter tour Friday at the Shubert Theater in New Haven with a 2 ½-hour show that teetered briefly on the edge of chaos midway through when Adams' guitar was tuned incorrectly for "La Cienega Just Smiled." After venting his frustration with a pair of off-mic shrieks and a petulant blast of guitar noise, the singer and songwriter managed to laugh it off -- and nailed the song on the second take.

It was a blip in an otherwise impressive show, and even a handful of inconsiderate louts in the crowd couldn't spoil the mood.
Adams and the band laid back in a deep musical pocket, producing occasional showers of sparks on songs spanning his prodigious catalog, from last year's "Cardinology" to his 2000 solo debut, "Heartbreaker."

On shyer nights, Adams takes refuge in the extended instrumental passages on his jammier tunes. Although he included a couple of those toward the end, much of the set focused on tight, aching songs, sometimes with a rootsy tint. Opener "I See Monsters" bloomed from casual yet considered and somber into a fuller rock sound, and the band glided easily through "Fix It," Adams and Neal Casal trading punchy soul licks on guitar.

Adams donned a harmonica in a holder for the tear-your-guts-out tune "Come Pick Me Up," and sang in hushed tones on the opening verses of "Oh My Sweet Carolina," before the band fleshed out the poignant, heartbroken song.

He tinkered here and there with musical arrangements, too, giving "Let It Ride" a more contemplative feel than the recorded version, and replacing piano with guitar for the rolling chords that open "The Rescue Blues."

In addition to his graceful guitar parts, Casal played organ on "The Sun Also Sets," added sweet harmonies on "When the Stars Go Blue" and took the lead on a pair of songs from his 2006 album "No Wish To Reminisce," as Adams sang back-up and played guitar.

The band stretched out in the extra-long middle section on "Goodnight Rose," then stretched even further on "Easy Plateau," following the song from straightforward verses through winding improvisation that eventually dissolved into "Bartering Lines" to close the show.

Set list
1. I See Monsters
2. Two
3. Everybody Knows
4. When the Stars Go Blue
5. Fix It
6. Let It Ride
7. Magick
8. Wonderwall
9. Come Pick Me Up
10. Grand Island (Neal Casal sings)
11. Meadowlake Street
12. Freeway to the Canyon (Neal Casal sings)
13. Oh My Sweet Carolina
14. Evergreen
15. The Rescue Blues
16. The Sun Also Sets
17. La Cienega Just Smiled
18. Natural Ghost
19. Goodnight Rose
20. Born Into a Light
21. A Kiss Before I Go
22. Easy Plateau
23. Bartering Lines Great review!!

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I see monsters

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Primal Threads

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Stevie...

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Group shots... patterns of emergence

Fishermen try to catch fish during the Argungu fishing festival in Nigeria on March 15, 2008. Over 30,000 fishermen from different parts of Nigeria and neighbouring West Africa took part in the final of the yearly Argungu fishing festival in Kebbi, northwestern Nigeria. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images)

People drop lines in holes on a frozen river at an event to fish trout in Hwacheon, South Korea, about 20 km (12 miles) south of the demilitarised zone separating two Koreas, northeast of Seoul January 13, 2008. More than 1,000,000 people attend at the annual ice festival which lasts for three weeks in January. (REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won )

Thousands of sportsmen and women are seen on their way from Maloja to S-Chanf near St Moritz in south eastern Switzerland on March 9, 2008 as they participate in the annual Engadin skiing marathon. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella)

Puffin - doubletake!!

Art is science made clear.

- Jean Cocteau

practice samples...

Mark Rothko 1903-1970

"I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."

"Silence is so accurate."

James Howard Kunstler 2004

Found art stuff... I like it.

by Andres 

BERLIN, GERMANY

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Photo of the day...

Photo taken from someone’s back porch in Adelaide. Cute little koala looking for some relief from the heat. The lady that lived there filled up a basin of water and he jumped in.

Unbelievably adorable. ache

Quotes....

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle, Parts of Animals

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures...

Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own.

More Calder....

Alexander Calder, Goldfish Bowl, 1929, wire, private collection.

Red Lily Pads, 1956. Painted sheet metal, metal rods, and wire, 42 x 201 x 109 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 65.1737. © 2007 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Alexander Calder @ The Whitney

Art stuff...

Whitney 1993 Biennial

Charles Ray's "Family Romance" (1992-1993) uniform size naked, hand-holding nuclear family sculpture on display at Whitney Museum's 1993 Biennial exhibition.

Location: New York, NY, US

Date taken: March 1993

Photographer: Ted Thai

Ray's primary thematic concerns center around containment, integration, isolation, and self-sufficiency. A leader in Conceptual Realism, Ray's best work offers a metaphor for the gap between the literal and the symbolic (or the known and the unknown).
His art is compelling in its representation of consciousness as uncertain and fugitive, something toward which we continually grasp. His work seems to capture the strategic orientation and inescapable reflexiveness of the resurgent Realist figuration we've seen in this post-Postmodern era. It often involves odd discrepancies in resolution, a visual mismatch among parts, or a discomfiting slip between the model and the finished product. Other works make powerful use of shifts in scale, destabilizing our customary relationships to the objects they represent.

Both "Ink Box" (1986) and "Self-Portrait" (1990) display the mordant humor that occasionally surfaces in Ray's work. The former is an example of the perceptually oriented thought-puzzles to which Ray devoted his attention in the late 1980s. The three-foot cube is beautifully finished in gleaming black, and at first glance it is an instance of Minimalist formal power. Yet something is slightly off -- the work emits an aura of agitation that undermines the authority of the object. Closer examination reveals that the sculpture is actually an open box filled just past the brim with ink held from spilling by its own surface tension. The artist himself described the work as "neurotic" in its almost animate and threatening presence. The latter work presents itself as a department store mannequin, until one notices that it has imperfect features. The face is a genericized version of Ray's own, and the dummy models what has come to be the artist's trademark "Everygeek" ensemble: jeans, button-front shirt, windbreaker, and comfortable shoes. The pieces serve to define the generally indeterminate line between abstraction and figuration. Such flexibility illustrates how, at his best, Ray works between these supposedly polar-opposite methods, defamiliarizing the vernacular and making the commonplace strange.

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