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Nice list, but who can possibly rank all the greatest works of art into a top 50? Try something a little easier, like “Top 50 paintings” or “Top 50 works from the 20th Century”.
The World’s 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them) – Telegraph

4. Terracotta Army
(c220-210 BC) near Xi’an, China
Getting there: difficult
Neither photographs, nor the British Museum exhibition can prepare you for the full army. The dead seem to have marched out of the ground, and are awaiting their next command, rank after rank, all subtly different. Some have been left as they were discovered – toppled, fragmentary, like old photographs from the trenches of 1916. This is a direct encounter with a distant, but still formidable antiquity.
Direct flight to Beijing (10 hours), then short internal flight, or rail to Xi’an

Very cool networking site similar to LinkedIn, but for artistic types.
Behance Network :: Creative Portfolios, Projects, and Collaborations

The Behance Network is a platform for creative portfolios, projects and collaborations.
Represent your work professionally.
Build a dynamic portfolio of your latest projects, open to all or shared selectively.
Connect and collaborate in “circles.”
Join or create groups of creative professionals, gathered around interests, to share content and ideas.
Discover job opportunities.
Behance’s GigList features great work opportunities for creative professionals. Creative industry leaders are also able to mine the network for talent.
Share tips and industry knowledge.
Behance’s Tip Exchange is a lively exchange of insights and helpful resources, all categorized and searchable.
Access resources that boost productivity.
The Behance ThinkTank features knowledge, interviews, and products for the creative professional community.

Here’s a very cool free app for displaying images with captions. I’m making a note of it in case I want to upgrade my albums.

AutoViewer Download

AutoViewer is a free Flash image viewer. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.
Features:

• Auto-Play allows you to view a gallery hands free.
• Displays image captions and gallery title as a text overlay.
• Intuitive image navigation via mouse.
• Keyboard navigation (Spacebar, cursor keys, ‘Home’, ‘End’ keys)
• Interface rescales to fit any aspect ratio images and monitors.
• Lightweight (34k).
• Image pre-loading to prevent waiting for each image to load.
• Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh (requires Flash 8 or higher).
• Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are redirected to an upgrade page.
• Free!

Cool site to help get you out there doing something. This is my biggest problem — getting out and photographing things.
AIRC – Adorama Imaging Resource Center: 100 in 100

Want to create a personalized photographic gift for a birthday or other special occasion? Make that special someone’s name out of photographs of letters of the alphabet!
What you need:

• Any camera
• Inkjet Printer or online lab such as AdoramaPix
• Picture Frames and Mats (optional)

Wherever you go, there are posters, signs, logos and other places where you’ll find letters. Look for interesting and unusual fonts (letter styles) and combinations of colors, and take lots of close shots of each letter you see. Save your letters on your computer (create a file/subfile structure with each letter getting its own file. That way you can have several choices for each letter).

1. Put the letters together using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-editing program to spell out a name or message.
2. Adjust image size until letters are all of equal height (that’s a big advantage of doing this digitally instead of working with hard prints).
3. Crop out unecessary details so the letters are easy to read together.

Got these cool cards through Moo and Flickr. They link up to your Flickr account and you can put full-colour images on the backs of these tiny business cards. Or maybe not business cards; they could have a bunch of different uses. And they’re tiny — only 7cm X 2.8cm.
Look for them in a coffee shop near you.

http://www.moo.com/

Entitled “Gourmand”.
Looks kind of thirsty. By artist Andrew Severynko.

Fishes, bugs, flies: Andrew Severynko. Contemporary sculpture artist.

I’ve added a link to a photography gallery. These are photo prints that were being sold at the last show. Contact me if you’re interested in purchasing any of them. Prints are printed on matte fine art photo paper, mounted on Mat Board sheets, and sealed in archival-quality polybags.
You can see the photographic gallery here.

Cool art by Chris Reccardi of Samurai Jack and other things.
reccardi.com:cosmopollus

I’ve finished painting the interior of the studio, and all that remains is to reorganize, get some storage solutions, and get back to making art. I’ve moved all of the junk out of the studio to an exterior shed, and what remains is what’s being used in the studio business. And a couch. There’s also a couch. Futon, actually.
For those looking for a little background, I’ve spent the last two years working on converting a detached garage into a functional art studio. There’s electricity, but no plumbing or built-in heat. Both things I plan to rectify in the coming years. Currently the studio is heated quite sufficiently with a combination of one 1500w space heater, and one catalytic propane system (which, theoretically, can be used indoors without fear of killing everyone).







I grabbed some old pictures of the garage as it used to look when I first toured the house. It was cinderblock interior, with a broken concrete floor, and full of mice.



Now to get back to some painting.