Thoughts and Things

The Fountainhead

2008-04-21T10:53:00.000-07:00

In 1943 this woman Ayn Rand wrote this novel about the politics of modern architecture (I'm pretty sure its a metaphor for modern art/avant garde) based on her own philosophy of objectivism and to quote Rand "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

Well, thats a pretty quick version of her ideas, but let it slide for now. I started reading this book at the beginning of the quarter four weeks ago and have read more than half of it and three hundred pages left to go, and its freakin amazing. This is by far the best book I've ever read. Every sentence clings to me and she doesn't mind dropping gold nuggets in my path. Ayn Rand thrives on a narrative that is intense drama, with unexpected twists that is filtered through juicy descriptive poetry

I know I am being very vague. Only because I have too much coffee and too little sleep. Soon i will continue to write about this book. Oh and by the way Rand's novel has sold over six million copies, and continues to sell about 100,000 copies per year.

check this out yo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k

just making more

2008-02-10T14:01:00.001-08:00

so after a long break of sitting on my ass i have finally hit a creative breakthrough with a new series of work that i am fucking stoked about, so those new pictures are on there way.

mmmmmmm, excellent.

Sketches for Your Eyes Only

2007-12-21T17:55:00.001-08:00

These are some drawings I've done in the last couple weeks.

The Sharpie marker, with some graphite, i did last night in a rage of glory.

The simpler sketches (i.e. the baby, the hand, circle, etc.)
were done weeks ago.

You might have noticed I am rarely subtracting from the form and am primarily using addition to resolve my space.

I'm developing a relationship to my sketchbook, so when I have an idea, I can execute it without having to warm up to draw, i can just draw.

The fat Sharpie let me lay down bold demanding lines without hesitation. I am very attracted to the mark that never leaves, once its on the page, you've got to deal with it.

Please leave a comment and feel free to be as comfortably honest as you can.

Welcome to my first and only blog, i feel special.

2007-12-13T15:03:00.000-08:00

just to let you all know, i am quite happy making lots of work at the evergreen state college. I am hoping to get some perspective on my work by talking about it every week (atleast once a week). I will posting thoughts about current work, inspirations (i.e. that cool drawing to the left, so awesome), images of my work, sounds of my work, and other things i think are cool.

I am part of a contract group with 9 other kids at evergreen(http://tomagicmountain.blogspot.com/)

and it goes like this:

"A group of students are banding together to create a small artistic community at evergreen. We will be doing independent work, with an emphasis on studio practice. There will be some shared readings based on the applicability to each artist respectively. There will be weekly seminars, critiques, and field trips to major art events such as First and Last Thursday in Seattle and Portland. Also there will be a community aspect to lend support to the other artists, this will include but is not limited to, movie screenings, and cultural happenings. At the end of the quarter we will host a show of our work."
-Dalton Carivizzio
(i'm pretty sure I butchered dalton's last name, ouch)

I am planning on keeping in touch with myself *lulz* for the rest of the quarter putting up photos of my work and videos of related shizznack, yay!

talk to yall lata,
jake