The Impossible Polaroid Project

New company breathes life and vision into our Polaroid memories... As a child growing up in Australia in the 1970's my life was framed by polaroid moments. My Uncle worked as an engineer, traveling all over the world on big...

Posted on: 21 August 2009 | 1:21 pm

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Posted on: 18 August 2009 | 11:19 pm

Delacroix on the Power of the Imagination

"Liberty Leading the People" 1830 by Delacroix "There is something in me that is stronger than my body which is often given new heart by it. In some people this inner power seems almost non-existent, but with me it is...

Posted on: 7 February 2009 | 11:32 pm

Big Wave Surfing, how much do you love your work as an artist?

One winter I was on a painting trip in Oahu, when I went for a drive to the pipeline to watch some of the big wave surfers catch some big ones.... Scores of surfers and tourists sat on the shore and watched in awe at these tiny specks, dwarfed by massive crashing waves as high as buildings, and marveled at the courage of man. Last week was the Mavericks Surf contest in Half Moon Bay and today the elite of the world surfers wait on call, for the go ahead for Eddie Aikau invitational big wave surf event at the Pipeline in Hawaii, for the waves to meet the 40 foot requirement.... As well as being superb athletes they spend hours studying weather patterns, ocean currents and whatever it takes to understand the movement of the ocean.... The first thing I do when I arrive in a beautiful place such as Hawaii is spend a few days just looking at the ocean. Studying it's waves, it's light, it's energy until I feel I have reached an understanding of the special gifts that the location has to offer.... You have to love it and be willing to do whatever it takes to master your craft. You have to have a big vision and you have to have a big passion for the vision that you want to share with the world.

Posted on: 19 January 2008 | 7:07 pm

LA Weekly Art show opening, January 10, 2008

This weekend I went to the LA West art show at the Bxsxxx in Santa Monica.... I'm used to zipping around Manhattan on the subway, not sitting in a long snaking traffic queue. I didn't see a huge amount of art that resonated for me but there were some quite interesting landscapes by XXXXX. The smoothness of the application and the bright colors were gorgeous. The event was packed with artists, their families and collectors. It was quite a feat in patience to see all the different exhibits. Other pieces of art that i liked: You can see the rest of the photos from the show here, in my photo albums.... The artists were jumping up and down on a car covered with a pile of rubbish, yelling and beating it with sticks.

Posted on: 15 January 2008 | 11:45 pm

"The Eloquent Nude" - an excellent documentary on the life of photographer Edward Weston

Must see! An excellent beautifully photographed documentary on the relationship and art travels of photographer Edward Weston, and his muse and writer, Charis Wilsdon.

Posted on: 19 August 2007 | 12:40 pm

Hawaii Photos Published in Schmap travel guide

Some of my photos from the Big Island have been published in the Schmap Hawaii Guide. You can check them out through the following widget.

Posted on: 12 August 2007 | 2:18 pm

Trip to Berlin

I had a fabulous trip to Berlin earlier this year. I loved the city. It seemed everywhere you looked there was a photo opportunity just waiting to be taken. My favorite shopping area KaDaWe, the biggest department store in western Europe. It was filled with beautiful objects d'art. Lots of great museums and galleries. Anyway you can check out the new photos in my albums or over all my Flickr account, here.

Posted on: 9 August 2007 | 1:24 pm

$50,000 in grants for artists

A new charity, United States Artists, will give $50,000 grants to 50 artists. - New York Times: New Charity to Start Plan for $50,000 Artists’ Grants A new charity, United States Artists, will announce today an ambitious plan to provide support to working artists, starting with a grant program that will be one of the most generous in existence. Fifty artists working in a wide variety of disciplines and at various career stages will receive $50,000 each, no strings attached.... "Each year, nominations are made by an anonymous group of arts leaders, critics, scholars, and artists chosen by USA.... Nominators are asked to submit names of artists they believe show an extraordinary commitment to their craft. Artists at any stage of career development may be nominated. To be considered for fellowships, artists must be 21 years of age or older and U.S. citizens or legal residents in any U.S. state. Artists must have the following: Expert artistic skills Received artistic education or training (formal or informal) Attempted to derive income from those skills Been actively engaged in creating artwork and presenting it to the public."

Posted on: 8 September 2006 | 1:07 pm

$135 Million dollars paid for Gustav Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

The NYT has an interesting article on the acquistion of a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer which was bought last month by the billionaire collector Ronald S. Lauder and is on display his Neue Galerie for German and Austrian art, on the Upper East Side, NYC. "The art market operates according to its own logic, which may have nothing to do with the quality of the art. Value is not price — whether the issue is a Klimt, or a ballplayer, or a chief executive paid millions of dollars, who runs his company into the ground.... It’s only natural to play the skeptic when the art world is a circus of profligacy, drunk with cash, and when dimwitted speculators make headlines, wasting fortunes on bad art. Who knows what the most money paid in private for a painting really is: maybe $135 million. For that amount, assuming it is what Mr. Lauder paid, his portrait of Adele, a hedonistic masterpiece, will be talked about in terms of how many lives might have been saved or how many lifted from poverty for this sum.... The Met spent more than $45 million two years ago for a tiny Duccio “Madonna and Child” whose modesty seems its most endearing virtue. The tipping point between endearing and hedonistic is evidently somewhere around $100 million.... The Neue Galerie is Christie’s annex now, exhibiting paintings for sale ($15 general admission, no children under 12 allowed), whose display is also a public service.

Posted on: 15 July 2006 | 10:05 am