Art Every Day Month
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Novemeber 6th, 2009
Art Every Month Day.Another unfinished sketchbook page.
Excuse the bad photo, for some reason the computer our scanner is connected to isn't working.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
November 3rd, 2009
Art Every Day Month, Black Butterflies Book Pg. 53 & 54 - Unfinished.
(I already skipped a day - November 2nd. but I had creative thoughts...)
"You know that I could use somebody..."
So the plan is to send around a traveling journal. Having different artist doing different pages. And then when it's completed, posted - some how, some where.
(I've always wanted a website where there was a bookcase sort of thing, and you could select the "book" you wanted and the pages would turn, ect... As close as you could get to actually looking through my books on the computer. So maybe I'll put that in motion once with is finished so that I have a place worthy enough to share the work of others. I just know nothing about website design. Maybe I'll make an art trade with someone who's willing to help in that department.)
Anyway - I'm looking for people who are willing to participate. I say willing because unfortunately there are a few requirements.
1. I want you to be honest with yourself that you'll have the time, motivation or inspiration to do a page. I'm thinking a two week max in any one place. If nothing happens in a 2 week span - that's completely okay. Things come up, but I'll ask that you pass the book along so that others have a shot.
2. There's a bit of a financial factor, as I won't be able to provide funds to mail it each and every time. So when you're finished I'll need you to mail it on to the next person on the list. I'm going to collect addresses ahead of time and move it around in a way that hopefully the financial burden won't be great, but there is a chance that you might be asked to mail it to a different country.
Other than those two things -
The idea behind the book is a game of telephone. Have you ever played that game as a child? You sit in a circle and one person starts by whispering something in the ear of the person sitting next to them, and that person whispers what they heard to the next person and so on.
The last person in the circle says what they think they heard out loud and most of the time - it comes out completely different than the original phrase.
The book will work in the same way. I'm starting by doing a page. The next person will get the book and create something "inspired" by what I did. And so on. THERE ARE NO REQUIREMENTS ON WHAT YOU DO.
Writing a story, poetry, drawing something, collage, music... (I would LOVE it if someone that was into music joined this. They could write something inspired by whatever the person before them did - and then record it, burn it to a CD - it wouldn't have to be CD quality or anything... then the next person would create something inspired by the music. It would be lovely.) ANYTHING.
The only restriction is that it fit on a two page spread of a 8x10 spiral bound journal.
If you want to participate... send me an e-mail at JFordham84@gmail.com your name and address. Depending on how many people are interested I'm going to get this going pretty soon here. Any questions, feel free to ask!
Thanks for reading. <3
"I've been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces, fill the places I can't reach"
(I've always wanted a website where there was a bookcase sort of thing, and you could select the "book" you wanted and the pages would turn, ect... As close as you could get to actually looking through my books on the computer. So maybe I'll put that in motion once with is finished so that I have a place worthy enough to share the work of others. I just know nothing about website design. Maybe I'll make an art trade with someone who's willing to help in that department.)
Anyway - I'm looking for people who are willing to participate. I say willing because unfortunately there are a few requirements.
1. I want you to be honest with yourself that you'll have the time, motivation or inspiration to do a page. I'm thinking a two week max in any one place. If nothing happens in a 2 week span - that's completely okay. Things come up, but I'll ask that you pass the book along so that others have a shot.
2. There's a bit of a financial factor, as I won't be able to provide funds to mail it each and every time. So when you're finished I'll need you to mail it on to the next person on the list. I'm going to collect addresses ahead of time and move it around in a way that hopefully the financial burden won't be great, but there is a chance that you might be asked to mail it to a different country.
Other than those two things -
The idea behind the book is a game of telephone. Have you ever played that game as a child? You sit in a circle and one person starts by whispering something in the ear of the person sitting next to them, and that person whispers what they heard to the next person and so on.
The last person in the circle says what they think they heard out loud and most of the time - it comes out completely different than the original phrase.
The book will work in the same way. I'm starting by doing a page. The next person will get the book and create something "inspired" by what I did. And so on. THERE ARE NO REQUIREMENTS ON WHAT YOU DO.
Writing a story, poetry, drawing something, collage, music... (I would LOVE it if someone that was into music joined this. They could write something inspired by whatever the person before them did - and then record it, burn it to a CD - it wouldn't have to be CD quality or anything... then the next person would create something inspired by the music. It would be lovely.) ANYTHING.
The only restriction is that it fit on a two page spread of a 8x10 spiral bound journal.
If you want to participate... send me an e-mail at JFordham84@gmail.com your name and address. Depending on how many people are interested I'm going to get this going pretty soon here. Any questions, feel free to ask!
Thanks for reading. <3
"I've been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces, fill the places I can't reach"
A little rant on boobs...
Liberty Leading the People, 1830, Eugene Delacroix, (1798-1863), French
This is just going to be a small little rant regarding censorship on breasts.
I briefly thought about putting a maturity filter warning on my last submission to Deviantart. (It was Page 58.) After all there *is* nudity in the piece. But I dismissed the idea because I thought that was silly. It was just boobs. With no sexual content. Nothing obscene and nothing unnatural - just a pair of boobs.
But - to my surprise I did get reported and the setting was changed.
And I'm not upset or disappointed about that. I'm on the site and I will willing follow their rules because that's what I agreed to when I made the page.
I guess I'm just saddened by the idea that it's not okay for breasts to be exposed.
I think it takes me back to my breastfeeding in public days.
I was one of those women that was going to breastfeed where ever I was. I was not going to make my child scream and cry and wait until we got home. And I CERTAINLY wasn't going to go to some disgustingly dirty bathroom to feed my child.
The only exceptions I made were for male friends and family.
But if you were a stranger... I didn't care.
At that point breasts were not a sexual thing. They were a functional thing. And I was relatively discrete not that I felt I should have to be.
I fed on planes, restaurants, malls, and parks...
And I actually did run into people that asked me to stop. Or go somewhere else.
Once I was in a mall women's bathroom - they had a nice little sitting area with couches and a table... you know the type? I had a lady who worked there come in and ask me to use a stall.
How horrible is that?
I guess I just don't understand where this fear comes from? If you happen to sit on the opposite side of this view, please... explain this to me. I promise I'm a very open person and I will do my best to understand where you are coming from with nothing but respect for your opinion and views.
So...
Yeah...
Go boobs!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
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