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Vonnegut on Occupy Wall Street

Back in 2007 I posted an excerpt from an interview with Kurt Vonnegut just a few days after his death. With the occupy movement gaining steam, his words on the greed of American society seem prescient. The original link I had quoted seems down. Here is another link to...

Chuck Close on Inspiration

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of...

Constructed Construction

Stop Motion Video It’s interesting how labor and craft have become such a necessary descriptor in the value of art. It’s so easy to cheapen and fake history and context that art has to build in evidence of it’s difficulty. Somehow this evidence makes...