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Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Ghost Bikes

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Why are there white bikes showing up everywhere?

Performance art?

Memorials to fallen bikers?

A political statement?

All of the above?

Check out this great 5 minute film to find out; well done. Click here on Snagfilms.com. I liked this one a lot — a very beautiful and eerie short film.

Dream Machine

Friday, August 28th, 2009

I need one of these — I can’t sleep — I am always restless.

Here is fun weekend viewing — a psychedelic drama — a great documentary that will blow your mind.  You can’t make this stuff up — “Flicker” rocks — expand your mind — drink the cool aid — get into that Woodstock state of mind, man.  Click here — dream on.

Happy Birthday Andy Warhol

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Tomorrow - August 6th - is Andy Warhol’s birthday. He would have been 81 years old. He passed away in 1987 yet his influence is still around us in so many ways. I believe that Andy Warhol was our first modern multi-media artist. He painted. He made films and documentaries. He created magazines and was influential in music. He was a performance artist and he worked the media like no one’s business. He was central to pop art and culture during the 60’s and the 70’s.

He coined the term “in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame.”

Here is a good Wikipedia entry on Andy Warhol. Click here. I went to see some of his work at the Bellagio museum in Las Vegas during the NHL Awards week. His work has real whimsy and style.

Da Vinci Code

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

This is so cool. Here is AOL News on Da Vinci and using a SnagFilms widget to express - in a video format - the entire story. Check it out and watch the film.