Art Review: Children 18:3

NEW FAVORITE BAND!

Children 18:3 is a christian alternative/punk band from Morris Minnesota. My Chemical Romance fan? Then these guys are right in your wheelhouse. Their lyrics are significantly happier though, (Hard to believe right?). Siblings David, Seth, and Lee Marie make up the group, and for three guys they make some SERIOUS NOISE! Some tracks to look at:

"All My Balloons", "Oh, Bravo!", "Cover Your Eyes", and "Oh, Honestly".

Buy their merch and check out their myspase here: http://www.children183.com/

M.S Mark

Critique Me: Floating City Work-In-Progress: 2

Here is my Floating City painting again! I like the clouds. The city could use some more detail. Maybe windows. Windows would be nice. I think the perspective's a little off. I had to flip the painting in order to fix the light source. Well, that's it. Hopefully this gets done before deadline day. Times like this I wish we had telepathic computers.

M.S. Mark



Art News: Piper Brett

These are two sculptures from Brett's Love Me series



Piper Brett carved a niche for herself in the art world:
Giant-Minimalism. Her sculptures consist of larger than life everyday objects. Yet despite the simplistic look, the sculptures hold an underlying complexity in their symbolic and emotional meanings.

Below are links to her blog and website.

http://piperbrett.blogspot.com/

http://piperbrett.com/

The news story about her work can be found here.

http://www.artnews.com/2011/08/30/pop-goes-minimalism/

M.S. Mark

Art Review: Relient K "Who I am Hates Who I've Been"

 
Relient K's music video for their song "Who I am Hates Who I've Been" is one of my favorites. The effects are really interesting and the song has a good message about self-growth and Christianity.

M.S Mark

Critique Me: Untitled Portrait

You may know this child.
She is NOT missing, but she was the subject of this portrait around christmas time a few years ago. It's one of my favorites because of the perspective and amazing lighting. the eyes and expression are emotive and striking. Please leave critisisim. Preferably the constructive kind.

M.S. Mark

Art News: Dung Paintings

You heard right. Chris Ofili, an English student artist in 1992, travelled to Zimbabwe to create paintings for a local mission. The three paintings he created were made from elephant dung. Now they are in need of conservation due to the material. The trip did much to influence his style. The dung is now a signature of his.                                                    

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ofili%e2%80%99s-first-dung-works-discovered/24448

M.S. Mark 

Nightcore is a music group that creates remixed versions of pop songs. This is a remix of "Right Round" by Flo Rida. I don't usually listen to the trance/techno genre of music, but this causght my attention because I liked the song's faster tempo. I think it's a definate improvement over the original. 

          






M.S Mark