Calling All Arty-Sci-Fi-Philosopher types.
I have been wanting to properly pursue circulating a Zine for a while, under the title _dust.
I have found it incredibly difficult so far in gaining submissions, as it is practically unknown. I am looking for any material, image or text based from contemporary, practicing artists to be printed and distributed via my paper based zine. The idea is the promotion of random thoughts and ideas that are of current concern to today’s practicioners. I do not have set ideological or political agendas, just the wish to highlight the diversity of research and debate amongst contemporary artists. If you wish to have your thoughts heard, poems read, points of view addressed or artwork seen, please submit something, anything to [email protected]
THANK YOU
I NEED THERAPY, NOT A BLOG.
How and why does one experience incredibly unproductive weeks and then have a fantastically inspiring day or two?
If I had the time and money, I would go back to University and study Psychology with behavioural therapy. I don’t know how to begin attempting to map the cocktail of factors which affect ones mood and subsequent creative output…but I wish I had an inkling.
Three weeks and three attempts after having begun a straight forward commissioned painting, I am no nearer to completing it. The trouble is, I want it to look good, whilst simultaneously not caring for the subject matter.
I keep producing real awful work because of this disengagement and I do not know what to do. All my life I have grown up with the flouncing artistic-pre-madonna stereotype crying “I don’t do commissions!”.
I always thought it was pretence;now I realise just how hard it is to stop expressing yourself and follow someone else’s specified idea of art.
I’m pretty sure my own painting I produced while whining about this tiny painting that, I have to do, is in someways inspired by this stranglehold. I also seem to be distracted by the disastrous character of 1986.
http://www.againstthelightning.com/2010/09/challenger-2010-acrylic-and-oil-on.html
AS IGNORANT AS THE EXTREMISTS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE.
I seemed to wake up in a bad mood this morning. This is becoming a far more common occurrence as the weeks wind on. I got up in a mood, had a coffee, was pissed off the whole time I was jogging and got back to find Pastor Terry Jones on the news. This, really pissed me off.
The idea of burning the Koran as some sort of symbolic defiance to the Muslim world is ridiculous, and why the likes of the CIA or another government facility doesn’t remove someone as troublesome as the Pastor surprises me.
I am not suggesting the censorship of free speech, I am simply explaining my exasperation at the unrelenting effort made by the human race to fuck about.
I have three family members in the armed forces and possibly soon to be a fourth. I am a pacifist, and personally couldn’t imagine a much worse fate than military life.
I also found this today, an article on a Jeremy Deller and Esam Pasha project from earlier this year on the Art Newspaper website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Taking+the+war+in+Iraq+to+the+American+people/17387
I admit that though I am a pacifist, I am fascinated by histories great conflicts. I found the aforementioned project, as Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima depict; It is what it is, and there are real people having to live their lives amidst violence orchestrated from an airconditioned office.
