Bat me over the head to draw out my talent

June 2nd, 2009

Bat me over the head to draw out my talent

Every day there are news stories where some are inspiring and some are funny.  This story is on the inspiring side because it is of a man who never had an ounce of artistic talent who underwent a 16 hour surgery to recover and suddenly have amazing artistic talent!  There truly is life after brain damage and I guess in this case, a blessing in disguise although he lost his ability to use his left arm.  Which makes me wonder if artistic ability has anything to do with the right side of the brain?  A great book for learning how to draw for people who never thought they were able to is the book The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence which I personally bought to help me with my artistic side. Now I wonder how many aspiring artists... Continue Reading...

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SFW porn? Let’s keep it to the imagination.

January 8th, 2008

SFW porn? Let’s keep it to the imagination.

While reading through Digg, I came across this Flickr site titled “Obscene Interior“. I thought it was a great idea for art. It definitely takes a page out of the whole Apple iPod commercial where everyone is a silhouette but the picture is taken from porn. Snap shots of porn stars in action doing the dirty deed. Interesting art concept and I would rather just call it SFW(Safe for work) porn. There really isn’t anything bad going on in here except cut outs of people and typical room setting. Let your imagination have the rest and you be the judge, is this safe for work or not? I would say if you click this at work and take a look, there really is nothing indecent about it. For those that say it is indecent and is filth and that this is not work safe, then you are guilty... Continue Reading...

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