Knowing When To Stop…

August 12, 2010
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I’ve often been a little bemused watching some of Gary Reef’s videos. He’ll present something that, to my eyes, looks extraordinary. But sometimes you’ll detect a note of unease, a kind of restlessness in him. He isn’t crazy about what he’s produced, but by the same token he often doesn’t seem able to articulate exactly why. This confused me a little… until it started happening to me.

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Backup Automatically And Remotely With Dropbox

August 7, 2010
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Dropbox is a most remarkable service that allows you to sync your files between multiple computers and devices.

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Reports Of My Death Have Been…

August 7, 2010

Just checking in, really. This has been a frustrating week dogged by illness and inner-critics and technical problems. (My laptop has picked up a nasty piece of malware which should, in theory, be easy enough to remove except that the computer struggles to load Windows in safe mode for reasons that completely elude me.) I’ve thought often about this site and you – the kind handful of people who frequent it.

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Art Practice: Meditation Versus Action

August 2, 2010

Where do ideas and art come from anyway? It’s all well and good to talk about ‘artistic process’ in an abstract fashion but it really is all about doing something – anything – and then doing something else. Progress in process is all in the doing.

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Google’s Nod To Arthur Boyd

July 28, 2010
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I don’t know if people outside of Australia are seeing this but over the weekend Google have tipped their hat to Australian artist Arthur Boyd to acknowledge his 90th birthday.

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Virtual Careers Expo

July 28, 2010

So it got me thinking… What do you do? I’d love to know. If you don’t mind me asking, please leave me a comment.

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Painting Rage (Digitally Enhanced)

July 26, 2010
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I muse over this connection between art and emotion. Art makes us feel, but it can also embody how we (as artists) feel. Sometimes this can represent a long standing emotional response, other times it can be just a stolen moment. The video aboves shows this painting being created in real time. Ordinarily I am not this fluid. Ordinarily I obsess over every little detail. But I was so caught up in how I was feeling that I acted very differently. It was oddly empowering.

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Gary Reef On Expectations

July 20, 2010

This advice seems like a double edged sword – on one hand it seems quite encouraging to know you’ll improve over time, on the other hand it seems depressing that it will take such a long time. But it is true, I’m sure.

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Mixed Media: Self-Portrait (Contemplation)

July 16, 2010
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This is a fairly sketchy effort -in several meanings of the word – but I do like it. The way it looks off into the distance appeals to me.

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Clarity Through Creation

July 16, 2010

I feel like I’ve reverted as a human being. I thought I had accepted something about myself but in truth I just resigned myself to it. There seemed to be something fundamentally inescapable about it. Certainly I didn’t feel good about it.

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