Posts Tagged ‘creative spirit’

This is Your Life!

Friday, October 8th, 2010

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When I saw this poster this afternoon, it was one of those ‘I wish I had written it’ moments.

Visit this site to see some amazing innovative green design products.

I contacted them for permission to post the message.

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Hi Ian,

Thanks for getting in touch. It was a pleasure to check out both your website and your artwork.

Based on your testimonials, it sounds like you have really created a positive impact for numerous people.

Thanks for offering to put the manifesto and plug for Holstee on your site — that’s very kind!

We are in the process of making Manifesto posters available in our shop in the next week.

Hand silk-screened onto recycled elephant poop paper.

Perhaps, if it is something your visitors would be interested in, I could make a special coupon for visitors from your site?

Best wishes from NYC!

Dave Raparvar

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http://www.holstee.com

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You read that right — recycled elephant poop paper.

Who could possibly resist?

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Fill each crack and wrinkle with gold

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

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For the past three weeks or so, I have been posting 1501 Quotes Questions & Pondering on the Creative Process at my Facebook Group Page. I invite you to visit the group and sign up as a member. This is an opportunity to enter into dialogue with a wide range of people. You may post artwork based upon the quote. Add to the collection by posting quotes from your own collection on the FB discussion page. Think of each entry as an idea stimulator.

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When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.

Barbara Bloom

Installation Artist, Curator, Photographer, Designer

b. 1951

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For a synopsis of the book that accompanied The Collections of Barbara Bloom, by Barbara Bloom, at ICP.

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Photograph, paint, draw the face of a wrinkled elder. While you are working, imagine each crack filled with gold. How does that vision change the ways you see the subject? How different would our culture be if we valued elders this way?

Men are not born, but fashioned.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Albrecht Durer the Elder, Self Portrait, Silverpoint, Early 1500′s

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The Art of Bob Kessel

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons

Bob Kessel

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I was delighted this morning when Bob Kessel friended me on Facebook.

I have been aware of his illustrations in The New York Times,

The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek,  and many other national publications.

I did not know his fine art work which is in numerous private and museum collections.

His artwork revisits the works of old and modern masters.

Kessel’s work is amusing, intelligent, beautiful, graphic, bold,  and more.

His collection of quotes called Artists on Art represents his illustrative style.

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Bob Kessel’s Fine Art

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Girl with Pearl Earing by Bob Kessel

After Vermeer

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Herring by Bob Kessel

After Van Gogh

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Limited edition prints and original art by Bob Kessel • Email:  b.kessel@snet.net • Phone: (860)334-9438

All images in this post © Copyright Robert Kessel

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