Posts Tagged ‘art’
photo of the day
RECAP: A week ago today, Shepard Fairey (and his company Obey Giant Art, Inc.), filed suit against The Associated Press, a week after the AP had accused him of copyright infringement.
CORRECTIONS: the specific illustration/artwork created by Shepard Fairey that has been at the center of the debate (and my previous post) was entered into public record as the Obama Hope poster.
Fairey and Fair Use. I’m certain the double entendre is not lost on more than a few of you. Welcome to the evolution of creativity and copyright.
Stephen Colbert, host extraordinaire, pontificated and debated, with his brethren and his compatriot familiar; the Colbert Report’s resident copyright lawyer (and brother), Ed Colbert, and former director of the Whitney Museum and SFMoMA, David Ross:
What’s interesting about this case is that no one has realized what a golden opportunity Shepard Fairey has missed. He could have been someone someday, perhaps a great artist, if only he had illustrated George Clooney, whom is the real subject and star of the original Manny Garcia photograph; off to the side, with a noble commitment radiating like the solar wind, his firm resolve settling like a warm sunset on the horizon, his determination desaturating any doubts or depairs in the shallow depths of field.
Have an analog TV? Then bring it to the funeral (I assume you own something black). This particular service will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM°
They invite you to bring your Analog TV for display; they’ll be stacking the first 40 in memoriam (the remainder will be responsibly recycled). The guests/events at the ceremony include Author & Punisher performing a funeral dirge, Stanford Professor and media scholar Paul Saffo, and author Bruce Sterling who is set “to deliver the eulogy just before the analog signal winks out for the last time and the frequency wasteland is invaded by pirate TV artists. It’s rare that the entire nation gets a specific date on which one major medium dies and is replaced by another. This event will be a scholarly and artistic reflection on the passing of one of the dominant mediums and cultural influences of the late 20th century.”
Show up early and build your own pirate TV transmitters, which may get used for the funeral ceremony. Artists from Neighborhood Public Radio will teach attendees how to build small low-wattage analog TV transmitters that can accept input from computers and VCR’s.
Presented by the Long Now Foundation, Berkeley Center for New Media & Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive.
°Congress has debated changing the official date for the switch to digital television; however the event will proceed on Feb. 17 “because we prefer to bury a fresh corpse rather than wait for the walking dead to fall over.” You can also check out the FCC’s official page on the dtv transition with all the details.
swing high, sweet chariot
from sky: “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operation.”
Heroes for Ghosts, a show featuring new paintings, drawings, screen prints and sculptures from Michael Sieben opens this Thursday at FIFTY24SF.
What did they get you to trade?
Tree show IV opens this Saturday at Giant Robot SF, with an opening reception from 6:30 – 10. In the tradition of its predecessors, this group exhibition features arbor—inspired pieces by painters, illustrators, and other creators from street art, indie comics, printmaking, design, and crafty art backgrounds.
Artists include Bigfoot, Kelie Bowman, Jordan Fu, Matt Furie, Little Friends of Printmaking, Alexis Mackenzie, Albert Reyes, Keith Shore, Ryan Jacob Smith, Kelly Tunstall, Sarah Utter and more…
This year’s Tree Show will also be a fundraising effort for San Francisco’s Friends of the Urban Forest, a non—profit organization that plants over 1,500 trees a year to keep San Francisco communities green.
