April 2009
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tumblr search results for landart
i remember that somebody blogged my image on tumblr a while back, but i had absolutely no idea that it had become so popular.
here’s a link to the search: www.tumblr.com/search/landart
here are links to the bloggers: ndotn.tumblr.com/ magic-carpet.tumblr.com/ limadean.tumblr.com/ arakawamemo.tumblr.com/ yusukenakanishi.tumblr.com/ mashiron.tumblr.com/...
“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too...”
– Rudyard Kipling
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“And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,...”
– The Conundrum of the Workshops Rudyard Kipling
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Google image search results for landart when sorted by red orange yellow and green respectively
I love it when google improves its image search results, especially when my images float up to the top. (Sorting image search results according to their color is only available for google.com, the rest of the world is going to have to wait). vi.sualize.us is the site that helped my images climb in...
“I think our TV news editors are still sometimes using the language of government...”
– Ken Loach
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“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Karl Blossfeldt “Wundergarten der Nature”
Karl Blossfeldt is a hero of mine. He was a professor at the “Universität der Künst” here in Charlottenburg about a hundred years ago, and he didn’t consider himself an artist or a photographer, but rather took photos of weeds he collected on the outskirts of Berlin to use as subject material in the University.
So he...
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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
– Abraham Maslow
Experimentation
Everything I do is an experiment. If the picture I make is good or not is of little importance in comparison to what I have learned.
If the experiment ‘works’ I have the feeling of arrival, of completion, I am finished with the idea. If it doesn’t work I often learn far more; it makes me think about why I failed, and often gives me dozens of new ideas.
