exploring the boundaries of the phone as artistic medium
apologies to tetsuo
art - others
forrest bess
Painting by Forrest Bess, a naive modernist from Texas who had a stellar New York career, beginning with shows at Betty Parsons (Jackson Pollock's gallery). Recently a Bess turned up on Antiques Roadshow -- the old duffer who got it as a gift from Bess back in the day was pleased and flabbergasted by the $70,000 estimate. Hat tip Bill Schwarz, who has that and other Bess links here.
internet scatology
It was once said that the literary idealist looked at the front of a house and the naturalist went around back and looked at the garbage. It wouldn't be unfair to say that the "art and technology" websites are our idealists, never daring to acknowledge that the internet is a sewer out of which the occasional blossom of "art" emerges. But who are our naturalists?
credits: Mad Magazine-style Dump.fm logo (my screenshot of a frankhats post under the Dump header); Funky Toilet by Diamondie on deviantart.com ("This is for the Pixel Pop Art competition, my first pixelation ever. If a toilet isn't an everyday item, then what is?")
found landscapes
Once a work of art has colonized your brain you see it everywhere. The landscape piece Duncan Alexander contributed to a recent Nicholas O'Brien-curated show at 319 Scholes has had that effect on me. Was surfing around the website of the Metropolitan Museum and spotted it on a Google cache page. See the red arrow in the screenshot below (not the black one):
And then I found its original location on the Met website. It seems to have acquired a drop shadow but the style is unmistakable.
painting hand 1
hat tips FAUXreal (for "art school hand"); GucciSoFlosy; FreddyK; and whoever drew "Alex"