tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23782363297472116352024-02-07T04:50:29.188-08:00[post-(post-modern)]=post-meaningfulrandom musings about the status of contemporary art and other sense|non|sensetravisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-67111092465702372042009-08-13T09:33:00.000-07:002009-08-13T09:39:53.480-07:00Robert C May Lecture series 09-10<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7M48ydb4leWFHEtiuMINfjL_XDFOG1Uiq84Yq2qf4UbyIvS1JvrNl0Ov2uLee3MaM8lTbQTGpvBNDVPgCUuR9l-1SM5I0f3pQSCg7Xye7aQM2vPvSVFfj1QwPqtnSSODeI6YgQJZFQQ/s1600-h/almog_web.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">With school about to kick of again the university of kentucky has announced the photographers visiting for the Robert C. May Lecture Series (each lecture has a corresponding exhibition in the photo wing of the university museum) . . . this series is one of the hidden treasures associated with The University of Kentucky</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQJmsBycTW8r2fn-4pMGBdhecJpT1tIhthfM63ysS1_3rNwyIxmQDDpYO73Abo7cGaHbcQARvnLsIXR-CxYjjEuI-p48QFFFnO5mQnrJoGO1f9EBSS_rQILNShAt0HjEuk5GyPiMLoznc/s320/chik_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369488506242741810" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/may/May_09_10.htm#soth">JAHI CHIKWENDIU</a></span><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong>Lecture:</strong> <strong>Friday, October 23, 2009, 4:00 pm</strong><br /> Worsham Theater, UK Student Center <em><br /> </em>Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.<em><br /></em><strong> Exhibition:<em> </em>October 3 - November 1, 2009</strong><br /> Art Museum Gallery</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, fantasy; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-b3myvK3l-ENbMHI0Lpk0pBiwSkKcC_BTwjVkEtmQ5m_8w6nve7ozDVU8osW1vnhteJvNONJQL6krRTmFERhvwv_ob05Z0O8tIM892Iun93wxmoxMiOaDovT35z22r6uMx2s6hnGSKeE/s320/smith_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369488536220699970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px; " /></span><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/may/May_09_10.htm#wolin">MIKE SMITH</a></span></strong><a href="http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/may/May_09_10.htm#wolin"></a><br /><strong> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"> Lecture:</span></strong> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong>Friday, November 13, 2009, 4:00 pm</strong><br /> Worsham Theater, UK Student Center <em><br /> </em>Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.<br /><strong> Exhibition:</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>November 7 - December 13, 2009 </strong><br /> Art Museum Gallery</span><br /><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, fantasy; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7M48ydb4leWFHEtiuMINfjL_XDFOG1Uiq84Yq2qf4UbyIvS1JvrNl0Ov2uLee3MaM8lTbQTGpvBNDVPgCUuR9l-1SM5I0f3pQSCg7Xye7aQM2vPvSVFfj1QwPqtnSSODeI6YgQJZFQQ/s320/almog_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369488511341417330" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px; " /></span></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/may/May_09_10.htm#le">LILY ALMOG</a></span></strong><a href="http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/may/May_09_10.htm#le"></a><br /><strong> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;">Lecture:</span></strong> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong>Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:00 pm</strong><br /> Worsham Theater, UK Student Center <em><br /> </em> Limestone St. & Euclid Ave<em>.<br /></em><strong> Exhibition:</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>January 5 - February 28, 2010</strong><br /> Art Museum Gallery</span><br /><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, fantasy; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj8Ixafc3Y3czgWppLJ87XlQenPj-Ixck6cekzeeZejWkeY500cA4XrAUQf-jhEM18oXYM-9iEDwsHRb5xGXR6SezyqPysEsBIO2Fj19UztA2-QdKTYK4xNlvsB-q66E6BbLYQhvnOFFA/s1600-h/hoskins_web.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj8Ixafc3Y3czgWppLJ87XlQenPj-Ixck6cekzeeZejWkeY500cA4XrAUQf-jhEM18oXYM-9iEDwsHRb5xGXR6SezyqPysEsBIO2Fj19UztA2-QdKTYK4xNlvsB-q66E6BbLYQhvnOFFA/s320/hoskins_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369488525366353042" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 208px; " /></a><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/may/May_09_10.htm#luster">SARAH HOSKINS</a></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;">Lecture:</span></strong> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><strong>Friday, March 26, 2010, 4:00 pm</strong><br /> Worsham Theater, UK Student Center <em><br /> </em> Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.<br /><strong> Exhibition:</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>March 6 - April 11, 2010</strong><br /> Art Museum Gallery</span></span></span></div>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-46096569878116674522009-08-13T09:14:00.000-07:002009-08-13T09:31:29.220-07:00Joe Johnson "Mega Churches"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQr6ccKmasu5jsyHWWxt4bvZtqS26pKfnHIDld1J9iPW19xIzk-5Ox9f5WcKfpSke1t1BM1uvJOybDKxtHSiV31PyMYHgF7JHv76BgopKB3T0OqsrSabhJ_6hOqhnUAF1z3vrwfnIWvM0/s1600-h/Picture+8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQr6ccKmasu5jsyHWWxt4bvZtqS26pKfnHIDld1J9iPW19xIzk-5Ox9f5WcKfpSke1t1BM1uvJOybDKxtHSiV31PyMYHgF7JHv76BgopKB3T0OqsrSabhJ_6hOqhnUAF1z3vrwfnIWvM0/s320/Picture+8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369486724836374978" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKH_2P3JtRWLGVBTICOgplG4uo322ONjGu7kfLb9w0h285PwUl_Wtjc8Dx1ZYTwaTUqu7tQr2YgbIkBSnm_eD5hjmZcsx9h4_561ctV5tr98DGEEecUGxuIz_eQujkcEzOpRmbPURnWJY/s1600-h/Picture+5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKH_2P3JtRWLGVBTICOgplG4uo322ONjGu7kfLb9w0h285PwUl_Wtjc8Dx1ZYTwaTUqu7tQr2YgbIkBSnm_eD5hjmZcsx9h4_561ctV5tr98DGEEecUGxuIz_eQujkcEzOpRmbPURnWJY/s320/Picture+5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369486498496364786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAKX4du7iHx1a3iY382NEOTVrFOEzEZyUL1iBJyAMb8rm5JUa10TvZ0lKNH4dRzLt7gRbWly2YfSZIgidD6qi8Wv8fML6oXHX8nEWIbYq8lGn6h_C2v_ZpKihFIaP0kD7eylvN37iyQ0/s1600-h/Picture+17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAKX4du7iHx1a3iY382NEOTVrFOEzEZyUL1iBJyAMb8rm5JUa10TvZ0lKNH4dRzLt7gRbWly2YfSZIgidD6qi8Wv8fML6oXHX8nEWIbYq8lGn6h_C2v_ZpKihFIaP0kD7eylvN37iyQ0/s320/Picture+17.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369486367768793938" /></a><br />Artist Joe Johnson, current assistant professor of photography @ the university of missouri has a series of photographs titled "mega churches" of course this is something that makes me quite excited, given my interest in the subject... you can view the whole series @ joejohnsonphoto.com.travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-63893523538100834722009-07-11T11:38:00.001-07:002009-07-11T11:50:34.260-07:00ART MARKET.... bizarre<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEireL2hBQki8-Ps22sXMpDVaElB-xtTPxEaMwlq2R8F18vg1QpBnHgNFi1fLzUlEbCEHvP7wD6WTuYgMlfQ8Xz7PyYgBDuBsjVAVxVKuscVyoKhsIeqr2XFX0yVMzS8QtF1bJFg5hF6BSw/s1600-h/-1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEireL2hBQki8-Ps22sXMpDVaElB-xtTPxEaMwlq2R8F18vg1QpBnHgNFi1fLzUlEbCEHvP7wD6WTuYgMlfQ8Xz7PyYgBDuBsjVAVxVKuscVyoKhsIeqr2XFX0yVMzS8QtF1bJFg5hF6BSw/s320/-1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357274174405715346" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I Sold ANDY WARHOL (too soon) by Richard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Polsky</span><br /><br />I am almost finished with this book, I got it free (official book doesn't release until <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">September</span> '09) at a book store on vacation in the Outer Banks, NC. It is essential this dealer's take on the Art Market, etc. The moral of the story is don't sell your Andy Warhol (if you have one) Because you need the cash for your new wife... He sold his "fright wig" for just under 400K in 2006, and it is now worth upwards of 1mil. So if you happen to possess a Warhol. Which i can assume no one reading this will. Don't Sell it. Or do but be prepared to kick yourself as it i will continue to be worth more and more money. Until there are no more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">uber</span> rich people. Which i suspect will never happen.<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcFkhWwVf6VaqiGXpSZXv7Bx6ZUW8O_cXInYLAi1j8k3EQv14pPlbFSp-C9ISMy7ctALeUoEQFpRyOWbpZRViSbVKggl_22d4pQDbjzwLs_EHLNE3wxr-T-pUd4aFpXyX2IYMKcHVG6b4/s1600-h/Shark_Thompson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcFkhWwVf6VaqiGXpSZXv7Bx6ZUW8O_cXInYLAi1j8k3EQv14pPlbFSp-C9ISMy7ctALeUoEQFpRyOWbpZRViSbVKggl_22d4pQDbjzwLs_EHLNE3wxr-T-pUd4aFpXyX2IYMKcHVG6b4/s320/Shark_Thompson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357273891222289186" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I got this book on the day i planned on buying "The 12 million dollar stuffed shark".<br />It is in my opinion a different take on most of the same information. The Shark book is written by an Economist, so it presents a less personal, more statistic look at the market and its absurdities. <br /><br />I recommend Either book (or both).</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />In <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">regards</span> to the other Stuff I choose to read, for example "<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">APPROPRIATION</span>" a collection of<br />essays edited by David Evans, including authors including, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and other<br />more difficult thinkers. These two books have been a relaxing and comical (and slightly depressing) look into the<br />big money behind ART WORLD PROPER!<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-69516298227440516622009-07-03T17:20:00.000-07:002009-07-03T17:28:58.828-07:00MASTER PIECES<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioQUGiqr-NmYHq83O-zUH_aZaoV3NlLNn119unjTcARkZQttCuRMTMm7vjDFJlZtBQ7OFV-OcMe8sW5yOm6c51j2P-6nynBY-tEtdwOP_zTz4IwHNqQrTU3ZA8bxAhwWGkksb0ssVFN1k/s1600-h/ready+to+hang.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioQUGiqr-NmYHq83O-zUH_aZaoV3NlLNn119unjTcARkZQttCuRMTMm7vjDFJlZtBQ7OFV-OcMe8sW5yOm6c51j2P-6nynBY-tEtdwOP_zTz4IwHNqQrTU3ZA8bxAhwWGkksb0ssVFN1k/s320/ready+to+hang.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354395007286310850" border="0" /></a><br />two works selected, ready to hang...<br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.manifestgallery.org/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 52px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_h24_7SBtw-6GgEZkEPrNQ-tXKztmzIKTmDElxNIb5bdYdBJiN6h_8Y_Nq1F994oa6meu3ALA9tdn7SIVu2deJzIuEbBSdBxEoHg6TWcibaYSE-u27_1wAYKliGad3LcIE-yWT0gQJs/s320/blacklogo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354394737236483874" border="0" /></a><p><span class="style22">3rd Annual</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style57">MASTER PIECES</span><br /><span style="font-size:-1;"> <br /> <br /> </span><span class="style9">Building upon the philosophy and success of the<em> Rites of Passage</em> exhibits for undergrads, </span><span class="style9">Manifest offers a similar opportunity to graduate students for exhibiting at Manifest.<br /> <br /> An annual offering, this third installment of the Master Pieces project will continue to reveal the </span><span class="style9"> intensity and professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in </span><span class="style9">the field of art or design.<br /> <br /> Often the most exceptional work comes out of these artists’ immersion in their culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Manifest’s goal, therefore, is to select works that in the truest sense of the word are contemporary masterpieces – works that set the standard of quality that the artist </span><span class="style9">is expected to maintain throughout his or her professional career. The exhibit catalog for this show will serve as a visual documentation of these artists’ own benchmarks for years to come.<br /> <br /> <span class="style13"><span class="style18">This third annual Master Pieces project received 400 entries from 139 artists. The final selection includes 16 works by the following thirteen new masters:</span></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </span></p> <span class="style9">Meredith Adamisin (Northville, Michigan)<br /> <br /> John Carrasco, III (Lincoln, Nebraska)<br /> <br /> Kyle Chaput (Corpus Christi, Texas)<br /> <br /> Hima Chennamaraju (Indianapolis, Indiana)<br /> <br /> Benjamin Clore (East Lansing, Michigan)<br /> <br /> Rachel Heberling (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania)<br /> <br /> Robert Hernandez (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)<br /> <br /> Josh Johnson (Lincoln, Nebraska)<br /> <br /> Sonia Lea (Bloomington, Indiana)<br /> <br /> Robert Minervini (San Francisco, California)<br /> <br /> Travis Shaffer (Nicholasville, Kentucky)<br /> <br /> Japheth Storlie (Maquoketa, Iowa)<br /> <br /> Kimberly Strom (DeKalb, Illinois)</span>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-41273831177506891792009-06-05T06:51:00.001-07:002009-06-05T07:42:19.786-07:0011 Megachurches<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is a recently completed series of images to be exhibited for the fall semester @ Asbury College in conjunction with:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 18px; "><o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "><i style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "><span style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 14pt; ">Bringing Creation to Praise:<o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><b style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "><i style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "><span style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 14pt; ">The Arts and Faith<o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; "><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhtCeTheVYVPNkH0FgomSK0GoBGaUoafe6vIOA42sjDWJVu-6wweOCUBPED3IXZVpzh_HAeQEJvcSrFmk3FmvNtVa1bhH4S-Hink9-vyHIYiTzGI6EIRPI6OYB2QafrjaZt-dxCBcBts/s1600-h/Shaffer1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhtCeTheVYVPNkH0FgomSK0GoBGaUoafe6vIOA42sjDWJVu-6wweOCUBPED3IXZVpzh_HAeQEJvcSrFmk3FmvNtVa1bhH4S-Hink9-vyHIYiTzGI6EIRPI6OYB2QafrjaZt-dxCBcBts/s320/Shaffer1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343841329810675762" style="text-decoration: underline; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px; " /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><i style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">A two-day conference organized by Asbury College</i></p><o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">Plenary speaker: Jeremy Begbie, Ph.D., Duke Divinity School; formerly University of Cambridge and University of St. Andrews</p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">Thursday and Friday November 12 and 13, 2009</p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">This conference was organized to deal with issues of relationship between art and religion: primarily as it regards to environmental concerns.</p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "></span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">panelists</p><o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "> Mathew Sleeth, M.D., author, <u style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Serve God, Save the Planet</u></p><o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">Cameron Anderson, M.F.A.,Executive Director, Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA)</p><o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">Patrick Adams, M.F.A. , exhibit and Artist’s Talk, “Heaven and Earth”</p><o:p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></o:p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">Campus Exhibits organized by the Asbury College Art Department</p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; ">including artists:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "></span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Keith Barker</span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Rondall Reynoso</span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Laura O’Neal</span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Chris Segre-Lewis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Travis Shaffer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal_900CDDA1_0121_1000_F219_6142B440879C_1114" align="center" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Sarah Jane Gray</span></p></span><p></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhtCeTheVYVPNkH0FgomSK0GoBGaUoafe6vIOA42sjDWJVu-6wweOCUBPED3IXZVpzh_HAeQEJvcSrFmk3FmvNtVa1bhH4S-Hink9-vyHIYiTzGI6EIRPI6OYB2QafrjaZt-dxCBcBts/s1600-h/Shaffer1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhtCeTheVYVPNkH0FgomSK0GoBGaUoafe6vIOA42sjDWJVu-6wweOCUBPED3IXZVpzh_HAeQEJvcSrFmk3FmvNtVa1bhH4S-Hink9-vyHIYiTzGI6EIRPI6OYB2QafrjaZt-dxCBcBts/s1600-h/Shaffer1.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family:Times;"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><br /><br /></div></span></span></span><br /></div>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-22252468303739410352009-06-05T06:49:00.000-07:002009-06-05T06:50:04.353-07:00Branded Nation: The Marketing of the Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; 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height: 400px; " /></a><br />I just finished reading this great book by James B. Twitchell, a professor at U of F.<div><br /></div><div>For anyone interested in the branding/marking of the culture industries (art, religion, education...) this is a very interesting book. Which supports my theories on the impact of fashion (lowercase "f"), trend, and social status on these "truth seeking institutions".</div><div><br /></div><div>It's dry, but fascinating.</div><div><br /></div><div>This book was published in 2004, and it is interesting to see the things Twitchell is talking about becoming more common and explicit now.</div></div></span></div>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-83484446062187910232009-02-06T14:15:00.000-08:002009-02-06T14:27:18.860-08:0026 ---fill in the blank---<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJe7ebg8gtsxDynVh1gdcOezf9eaE84scXg9oZgbZe4uOAVEkeNOfm2bGrq1dSrqJ9CEQHFWnqnLMcC4gOAoInP9zH-L9p_ec8d1JlTw7tHkV26sHkuMWzXR0S7ubs3GxL1z5TnFMFwjQ/s1600-h/381877.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJe7ebg8gtsxDynVh1gdcOezf9eaE84scXg9oZgbZe4uOAVEkeNOfm2bGrq1dSrqJ9CEQHFWnqnLMcC4gOAoInP9zH-L9p_ec8d1JlTw7tHkV26sHkuMWzXR0S7ubs3GxL1z5TnFMFwjQ/s320/381877.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299812247105121906" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">jeff brouws - twentysix abandoned gasoline stations (after ed ruscha)</span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoS1qbAKqiR59RYhApxy5FVhygg1MxTUolHJBK9OJ1KHIEVo8igm7Ab4ai-txFh1QNQ2t4kE1stWkWMViYAoDTHrmxjbCnDGpGyjRRthmwMstOjkbTCiCvYWafYdi6Bt9r2lqQYFq4DQ/s1600-h/358137.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoS1qbAKqiR59RYhApxy5FVhygg1MxTUolHJBK9OJ1KHIEVo8igm7Ab4ai-txFh1QNQ2t4kE1stWkWMViYAoDTHrmxjbCnDGpGyjRRthmwMstOjkbTCiCvYWafYdi6Bt9r2lqQYFq4DQ/s320/358137.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299812245512061634" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">jeff brouws<br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cJt68_NUsORPnsKQGC7gDpS_Z-SLKyWO9qMzQ4x-5Ui7OBQDM_Ab0XbtKbIaAXdUKZW2I3-yD5M7Rv5puXZu1h6pZKNRF2RzNaEeB9Wk0DFFjCs1-dEdHq8BqQSKZ0KvfLzbRPVBVas/s1600-h/14_tags2_v2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cJt68_NUsORPnsKQGC7gDpS_Z-SLKyWO9qMzQ4x-5Ui7OBQDM_Ab0XbtKbIaAXdUKZW2I3-yD5M7Rv5puXZu1h6pZKNRF2RzNaEeB9Wk0DFFjCs1-dEdHq8BqQSKZ0KvfLzbRPVBVas/s320/14_tags2_v2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299812242180431298" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">eric tabuci - twentysix abandoned gasoline stations (after ed ruscha)<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMTBes_8PfAffKfD4BROnQrjl4tP2ImYlcoJWVZp5-PL09ijCOI1KTZhZJKTmhuds93a7L8IRTQBpV3Jt7fvzR3xOG2gp20ptQkyvUPwRZ18NHbAaXAwQYilc8Zuhbi6LFD8hNOn1IN0/s1600-h/13_alpha-truck.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMTBes_8PfAffKfD4BROnQrjl4tP2ImYlcoJWVZp5-PL09ijCOI1KTZhZJKTmhuds93a7L8IRTQBpV3Jt7fvzR3xOG2gp20ptQkyvUPwRZ18NHbAaXAwQYilc8Zuhbi6LFD8hNOn1IN0/s320/13_alpha-truck.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299812249268016610" border="0" /></a><br /></div>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-34673845527751662652009-02-03T18:54:00.000-08:002009-02-03T19:17:21.884-08:00I Touched it...<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnfw971u0qYEPzHKpT2zAliZtNTG-ijZAChg2_dOgn0k0EazulEep93Txex0jK8hvikjgEGia5dC4m5AKE4sxPJ4J4QqAF6c3Jwi50OUPkRT36iclFvsOHLpIVR9zTfXyg7gCJkXvrIY/s1600-h/SNC13808.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnfw971u0qYEPzHKpT2zAliZtNTG-ijZAChg2_dOgn0k0EazulEep93Txex0jK8hvikjgEGia5dC4m5AKE4sxPJ4J4QqAF6c3Jwi50OUPkRT36iclFvsOHLpIVR9zTfXyg7gCJkXvrIY/s320/SNC13808.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298772676397199730" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Recently while making a routine trip to the UK Fine Arts Library I decided to check info-cat (the uk online catalog) again to see if UK housed a copy of one of my current inspirations... and to my surprise they did. Lucky for me as a Graduate Student/ Instructor i have access to the closed stacks. I can't believe they plastered this thing with stickers. It makes me want to punch them.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUd78RWqdOpF5c_2FhYRfdkBqJOFlBjK6bEWYku2c3-s0TH8ur29ucNKKzfT20HcMLtO8fPd9h6G6CyjogSJMRvmdiGklhc0t7tVy6WMEDz3msucpogULTZ9_BcS0IPTFlAUJM4zgsKEs/s1600-h/SNC13824.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUd78RWqdOpF5c_2FhYRfdkBqJOFlBjK6bEWYku2c3-s0TH8ur29ucNKKzfT20HcMLtO8fPd9h6G6CyjogSJMRvmdiGklhc0t7tVy6WMEDz3msucpogULTZ9_BcS0IPTFlAUJM4zgsKEs/s320/SNC13824.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298772668665834018" /></a></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Here is the title page... for those of you unfamiliar with Ed Ruscha's books, if this is a first edition, which i doubt, it has a value of a few K, although some Kentucky douche thought it appropriate to place an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">ellipsis</span> after the title on this page, and the library plastered it with their logo and stickers so it's likely not worth anything. Of course that would make Ruscha proud as he made so many as a means of keeping the books from becoming a commodity.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRx73c75YdKywXBZ580JrMQ54rZE9gPyrz6h8qj8LZX3bngXyOb-r9ecJ23w4A1sVasPVUJ9kOkWh0WY3PrAdBt-E2AC2z2MSns9WBfCEcKEBKBVaZfkEXxHAJcael4WJBo6a0kJk28i8/s1600-h/SNC13842.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRx73c75YdKywXBZ580JrMQ54rZE9gPyrz6h8qj8LZX3bngXyOb-r9ecJ23w4A1sVasPVUJ9kOkWh0WY3PrAdBt-E2AC2z2MSns9WBfCEcKEBKBVaZfkEXxHAJcael4WJBo6a0kJk28i8/s320/SNC13842.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298772670566196514" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Just a view of the inside of the book, it consists of 31 offset press prints of images he commissioned to be photographed by an LA commercial photographer from a helicopter. I am currently in the process of finishing my adaptation of this book which has a flexible title (currently 204 parking lots) it is a stack of 6 reproductions using screen captures from google maps of the same parking lots.</span></div></div>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-33959110735228947852009-02-03T18:19:00.000-08:002009-02-03T18:35:41.932-08:00A Website... Finally ( www.travisshaffer.com )<div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.travisshaffer.com"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5B52lfRwoEsgn-Q6GnztYPS9xt070ZLrJQ0NJ8rQi5P3qtEf6lXdhhmBLn8Spc8aTZ07h2T92Y9qke3q46nKmVTZUkjyw_ckoMc_yojj0JBPyzC_sjdBDXMeuHh3EUfbvZ9aw6EfqGiE/s400/24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298762873793808210" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">fourty-one walmart supercenters # 31<br />8" x 8" silver gelatin print<br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">After a visiting some friends in Lvl (louisville, ky) I have found a simple and clean means of managing my website that actually has resulted in it having content..... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">My designer friend Ricky (<a href="http://www.dressedinvalue.com/">www.dressedinvalue.com</a>) led me to quite an awesome site builder of sorts... and set it up for me as i am web/code illiterate. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">On it you can find my recent and not so recent Artwork and CV.</span></span><br /></span>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-5573731846795875412009-02-03T18:06:00.000-08:002009-02-03T18:16:58.442-08:00An-My Lê (Robert C. May Lecture Series)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglz1KWFQ92qtWguM-NKZHv6qZ2a0EQI5iA0jP0BOw8JqlCyckqHM9gXk_ggkNYYw9t2gPOBxOafDs0TuCz0tCBpn21HRfEu6jcs-1Dcwh86Sa3A19TB1jE4gtAyS4RFxJqem7WkbJo0-U/s1600-h/m-246+Semi+Automatic+Weapon,+Khawr+Al+Amaya+Oil+Terminal,+Iraq+.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglz1KWFQ92qtWguM-NKZHv6qZ2a0EQI5iA0jP0BOw8JqlCyckqHM9gXk_ggkNYYw9t2gPOBxOafDs0TuCz0tCBpn21HRfEu6jcs-1Dcwh86Sa3A19TB1jE4gtAyS4RFxJqem7WkbJo0-U/s400/m-246+Semi+Automatic+Weapon,+Khawr+Al+Amaya+Oil+Terminal,+Iraq+.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298758162879687506" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;">An-My L</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;">ê</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><em>M-246 Semi Automatic Weapon, Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal, Iraq</em>, 2007<br />archival pigment prints<br />Edition of 5<br />40 x 56 1/2 </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> inches<br /><br />At the University of Kentucky we are privileged with the funds to bring four contemporary photographers in each semester to present a lecture on their work and hang a small show in the University Museum. <br /><br /> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 10px;">An-My L</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 10px;">ê was the first of the two spring semester lectures...<br />She recieved her MFA From Yale in the 90's and has shown everywere including the coveted MOMA!<br /><br />As an artist, and not a critic... i'll spare you my opinion of the quality of her work and just say that the obvious Hiroshi Sugimoto reference was an interesting one to me, and conceptually this work and his seascapes are so very different. Check her work out via the g-OO-gle.<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></span>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2378236329747211635.post-5544503681207514122008-10-15T16:28:00.000-07:002008-10-15T16:50:50.282-07:00post-postmodernism an abbridged introduction<span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><b>Post-postmodernism</b> applies to a vast number of categories of thought including but not limited to developments in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory" title="Critical theory">critical theory</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> which are emerging from and reacting to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodernism</a>....<br /><br />Alt/TITLES<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">NEO</span>-MYSTICISM<br /><br />TRANS-IRONIC<br /><br />POST-IRONIC<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">NEO</span>-SUBLIME/<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">UTOPIAN</span><br /><br />RE-KANTIAN<br /><br />POST-SARCASM<br /><br />MY PERSONAL FAVE IS <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">TRENDSCENDENTALISM</span><br /><br />AND OR <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">SIMELTANIOUS</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">PRE</span>[POST}CONFUSION<br /><br /></span><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">a common positive theme of existing attempts to define post-postmodernism is that faith, trust, dialogue, performance or sincerity can work to transcend <span style="font-weight: bold;">postmodern irony</span>. The following definitions, which vary widely in depth, focus and scope, are listed in the chronological order of their appearance.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">In 1995, the landscape architect and urban planner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turner" title="Tom Turner">Tom Turner</a> issued a book-length call for a post-postmodern turn in urban planning.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a></sup> Turner criticizes the postmodern credo of “anything goes” and suggests that “the built environment professions are witnessing the gradual dawn of a post-Postmodernism that seeks to temper reason with faith.”<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism#cite_note-13" title=""></a></sup></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">In his 1999 book on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_postmodernism" title="Russian postmodernism">Russian postmodernism</a> the Russian-American <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Slavist</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Epstein" title="Mikhail Epstein">Mikhail Epstein</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism#cite_note-14" title="">[15]</a></sup> Epstein believes that postmodernist aesthetics will eventually become entirely conventional and provide the foundation for a new, non-ironic kind of poetry, which he describes using the prefix "trans": suggested that postmodernism “is […] part of a much larger historical formation,” which he calls “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">postmodernity</span>.”</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">The term <i>post-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">millennialism</span></i> was introduced in 2000 by the American cultural theorist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gans" title="Eric Gans">Eric <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Gans</span></a><a href="http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw209.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw209.htm" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> to describe the epoch after postmodernism in ethical and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">socio</span>-political terms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Gans</span> associates postmodernism closely with “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">victimary</span> thinking,” which he defines as being based on a non-negotiable ethical opposition between perpetrators and victims arising out of the experience of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz" title="Auschwitz" class="mw-redirect">Auschwitz</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima" title="Hiroshima">Hiroshima</a>. In <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Gans</span>’s view, the ethics of postmodernism is derived from identifying with the peripheral victim and disdaining the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">utopian</span> center occupied by the perpetrator. Postmodernism in this sense is marked by a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">victimary</span> politics that is productive in its opposition to modernist <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">utopianism</span> and totalitarianism but unproductive in its resentment of capitalism and liberal democracy, which he sees as the long-term agents of global reconciliation. <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism#cite_note-16" title=""></a></sup></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">A systematic attempt to define post-postmodernism in aesthetic terms has been undertaken by the German-American <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Slavist</span> Raoul <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Eshelman</span> in his book <i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Performatism</span>, or the End of Postmodernism</i> (Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781888570410" class="internal">ISBN 978-1-888570-41-0</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism#cite_note-17" title="">[18]</a></sup><a href="http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0602/perform.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0602/perform.htm" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> attempts to show that works in the new epoch are constructed in such a way as to bring about a unified, aesthetically mediated experience of transcendence. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Performatism</span> does this by creating closed works of art that force viewers to identify with simple, opaque characters or situations and to experience beauty, love, belief and transcendence under particular, artificial conditions. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">In popular culture, the movement that is loosely called “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sincerity" title="New Sincerity">New Sincerity</a>” displays salient features of post-postmodernism in its opposition to postmodern irony and in its attempt to promote good feeling. One of its most notable proponents is the radio talk-show host <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Thorn" title="Jesse Thorn">Jesse Thorn</a>, who issued a brief “Manifesto for the New Sincerity” on his blog in 2006.<a href="http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2006/02/manifesto-for-new-sincerity.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2006/02/manifesto-for-new-sincerity.html" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> He states we should “think of [the New Sincerity] as irony and sincerity combined like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Voltron</span>, to form a new movement of astonishing power.” <a href="http://www.maximumfun.org/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.maximumfun.org" rel="nofollow"></a></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;">In 2006 the British scholar Alan Kirby formulated an entirely pessimistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">socio</span>-cultural assessment of post-postmodernism that he calls “pseudo-modernism.”<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism#cite_note-18" title="">[19]</a></sup> Kirby associates pseudo-modernism with the triteness and shallowness resulting from the instantaneous, direct, and superficial participation in culture made possible by the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">internet</span>, mobile phones, interactive television and similar means:<a href="http://www.philosophynow.org/issue58/58kirby.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.philosophynow.org/issue58/58kirby.htm" rel="nofollow"></a></span></p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /><br /><br />this information is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">courtesy</span> of the most RELIABLE ACADEMIC ? <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">source</span> of information to be found, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">wikipedia</span>.com</span></span>travisshafferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352272615020711922noreply@blogger.com