Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog » Kate Franzman http://www.imamuseum.org/blog The IMA blog is a space to discuss everything related to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Pharmacy http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/11/02/the-pharmacy-12/ http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2009/11/02/the-pharmacy-12/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:59:43 +0000 Kate http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/?p=9260 the-pharmacy-title

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Blog: Vogel Appliance Blog

Flashy? No. Practical? Oh yes. If you’ve ever wondered how much dish soap you really need, this blog is for you.  This local appliance blog gives you tips and tricks that might help you save serious moolah come the winter season. And it’s coming soon.

ArtBabble Video: Jean Shin: Common Threads

Artist Jean Shin and Curator Joanna Marsh discuss the exhibition Jean Shin: Common Threads at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Topics include: new work commissioned by the American Art Museum titled Everyday Monuments, a cityscape constructed from losing lottery tickets called Chance City, and Unraveling, an installation inspired by the complexities of the Asian American Art community.

IMA Work of Art:

Still Life with Profile of Laval Artist Gauguin, Paul

Still Life with Profile of Laval by Paul Gauguin

Tweet:

mattgrieser:

What a great evening at the IMA! Saw Osso, DM Stith, and The BQE with Q&A w/Sufjan Stevens. All were incredible!

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http://www.beardrevue.com

Blog: beard revue

It’s all about the beards, people. This blog has a simple description: ‘Review, commentary & discussion for the beard enthusiast. Up the beard ratio!’

ArtBabble Video: Creation of a Tibetan Mural

Pema Rinzin paints a mural of the Buddhist Guardian Kings of the Four directions. Pema Rinzin on his personal decision to paint the Four Great Guardian Kings: “They are unique imagery in that they are solid; they are protectors; and they are closest to our human form. For example, in Tibet at the largest monasteries like Drepung, all the Guardian Kings are in the front of the monastery. I thought they would also protect us here in the United States and at the Rubin Museum.

IMA Work of Art:

Madre Jerónima de la Fuente

Madre Jerónima de la Fuente from Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World

Tweet:

rjstein: TAP is selling out regularly… Waiting lists and iPods not getting enough charge. Great problem to have! Time to buy more iPods!

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laundro

Blog: LaundroMatinee

The idea for LaundroMatinee.com came from the creators of renowned local blog  My Old Kentucky Blog when they started inviting bands in to record small radio sessions at Pendleton Heights High School in the small, quiet town of Pendleton, Indiana.  The founders  shared an equally passionate love of independent music as well as an overwhelming compulsion to share it with others.  Watch exclusive stripped-down and intimate recording sessions in sometimes unusual locations.

ArtBabble Video: Thought Process: An Interview with Joshua Mosley

This teen-produced interview with Joshua Mosley focuses on the artist’s mixed-media installation, dread (2007), which consists of a short animated film and five bronze sculptures that philosophically explores the human necessity to confront and apprehend nature. Mosley’s labor-intensive practice combines computer animation, stop-motion animation, digital sound, sculpture, as well as his own music and dialogue. In the film, an animated photographic forest is the background against which two characters–modeled on French philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal–hold a conversation on the relationship between God-given natural order, free will, and the human and animal conditions.

IMA Work of Art:

Portrait of a Young Woman Artist Stuart, Gilbert

Portrait of a Young Woman by Gilbert Stuart

Tweet:

indygoth: Taking the ITouch tour of the religiously morbid and cool Sacred Spain show at the IMA #indy #art #ima #goth

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kottke

kottke.org

Blog: kottke.org (thanks @cmalexander!)

Pronounced “cot”- “key”…I’m still not entirely sure how to describe this blog. I remember looking at it the first time and being, well, underwhelmed by the overly simple design. But as one scrolls down the pages, one is confronted with nugget after nugget of outrageously interesting info. It’s about the content, people. One of the many descriptions on the About page reads: “An attempt to track and make sense of “material that connects the insights of science and culture, rather than using one to dismantle the other” (as Steven Johnson puts it).” I describe it as: clever, clever, clever.

ArtBabble Video: Artist Talk: Nic Hess

For the Hammer’s Lobby Wall, Swiss artist Nic Hess presents Automatic Crash Response, a mixture of images in tape ranging from tombstone- like monuments of several recently failed banks, animals, how-to exercise diagrams, a generic shopping cart, the USPS logo and more to weave a lyrical quasi-narrative left for the viewer to decode. Nic Hess discusses Automatic Crash Response, as well as his other works.

IMA Work of Art:

Blond Angel

Blond Angel by John Currin

Tweet:


indyartgirl: In the words of LL Cool J: “Don’t call it a comeback…”

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image from Flickr user *Flor

image from Flickr user * f l o r

With the help of Urban Outfitters and The Impossible Project,  Polaroid film will be back in production in 2010. When Polaroid stopped manufacturing instant film in 2008, The Impossible Project bought all the equipment and machinery. This year, Urban Outfitters will release 700 limited edition sets of Polaroid cameras and one pack of Polaroid film. Eventually, they’ll  sell film packs too.

Something interesting I noticed on the Impossible Project’s site was their mission statement:

The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.

If you simply can’t wait until 2010 (like me), Gallery Space at Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles is hosting a month-long group show of Polaroid photography, in conjunction with the production of the film. Or you can always check out the slew of ‘fake’ polaroid apps like this and this.  Now get to shakin’ it!

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Death by Kerning

deathbykerning.blogspot.com

Blog: Death by Kerning

In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of letters all have similar area. This visually-pleasing blog about design and typography is sure to inspire you.

ArtBabble Video: Mary Temple’s New Installation at MAD

In this video, Mary describes how the piece was conceived and created. The video also features a section of time-lapse photography, taken over the course of two days of her working at the Museum.

IMA Work of Art:

Mochi Mochi

Mochi, Ito Jakuchū

Tweet:

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danielincandela Even Stormtroopers Play Art Loud on ArtBabble: http://bit.ly/159vDl

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KathEats.com

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Blog: Kath Eats Real Food

Who doesn’t love some good food porn? Kath posts gorgeous photos of everything (literally everything) she eats to her blog to illustrate that eating healthy can be delicious.

ArtBabble Video: YBCA Inside Out: A good idea? The Pilot

YBCA (new comers to ArtBabble) has a video series that documents the behind-the-scenes of their workplace. Think ‘The Hills’ for the museum world.

IMA Work of Art: UP7 (II Piede)

UP7 (II Piede), 1969

UP7 (II Piede), 1969

Tweet:

Photo_booth_normal mooshinindy Yes. While #gencon is awesome…#blogINDIANA is where it’s at. (Besides we’re all going to Gen Con tonight. WHEE!!)

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OK, not so much a fight, as a discussion. And when I say ‘in public’ I mean on my Facebook wall.

It all started when I retweeted @anarchivist (see below) and then it ended up on my Facebook page too. Anyway, the ‘discussion’ played out like this:

ME: I agree. RT @anarchivist hates the phrase “social media.” all online media is inherently social even if you dont want it to be.

Ben: to be social is to have an understanding or acknowledgment between two or more people. so then simply watching a movie on line would not be considered social but definitely media.
Wed at 2:33pm

ME: but what if you can comment and/or share that video with your friends using FB, Twitter, etc?
Wed at 2:41pm

Ben: that is social. but watching the movie and commenting on it are two separate things. right?
Wed at 2:56pm

ME: but the fact that it exists online DOES mean that. The fact that it has potential to be shared makes it social.
Wed at 3:50pm

The argument ended there. But did I win it?

Let’s take a look at what good old Wikipedia has to say:

Social media is online content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. Social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content; it’s a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers.

I agree with Ben that the simple act of watching a video online is not social. But because of the way the web had evolved,  now any media that exists online can be social media, whether it was intended to be used that way or not. An article, picture, or video is posted and you can share it numerous ways (email it, Facebook it, Twitter it, Digg it, etc.)

Or is my friend right? Are they two completely different things? Maybe the real question here is why are we so eager to label everything? The IMA is always on the look out for cutting edge ways to interact with with the public. Call them trends, call them buzzwords, call them The Next Big Thing… we’ve employed just about every ’social media’ tactic that makes sense (and it’s working!)  So maybe it doesn’t matter and if it works, it works.

I’m not sure why anarchivist’s statement and the resulting debate got me so riled up, but maybe the ‘anythings possible’ sentiment of ‘all online media is social media’ simply gives me the warm-fuzzies.

Please comment below and help me prove my friend wrong, er… help us sort things out so we can look each other in the eye again.

best buds

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CoolHunting.com

CoolHunting.com

Blog: CoolHunting.com

Matt is a connoisseur of all things cool, so I wasn’t surprised when he recommended this blog to me. ‘Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology…‘  I really dig the gift guide.

ArtBabble Video: Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

If you haven’t heard the news, ArtBabble just launched 10 new museums with lots and lots of new videos. One of our favorites from the newest batch is from The San Jose Museum of Art. And it’s about robots. Check it out below.

IMA Work of Art: The Two Sisters

The Two Sisters or The Serruys Sisters

The Two Sisters or The Serruys Sisters by Georges Lemmen

Tweet:

“Introducing the Hello Kitty Taser. I am both immediately horrified and filled with want.”
@bwyman

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Just days before the opening of the exhibition “Kodachrome Culture: The American Tourist in Europe,” Kodak announced that it would discontinue Kodachrome film.

First Polaroid, now this?!

The slide film, known for its rich colors and clarity, has been available commercially since 1935. It now accounts for less than 1% of Kodak’s still-film sales. You’ve probably seen this famous Kodachrome portrait:

Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, at Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984. © Steve McCurry

Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, 1984. © Steve McCurry

The problem is, Kodachrome must be processed by a method so complex that only one lab in America is still certified by Kodak to handle the film: Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas. Dwayne’s said on its site that they would continue processing Kodachrome through the end of next year. Renowned photographer and Kodachrome lover Eric Meola seems to think the transition was inevitable:

Before digital, Kodak was already shifting gears–moving away from the boundaries of KODACHROME (long lab times, fewer labs, a more environmentally friendly, as well as constrained, chemistry)

Promised Land, Eric Meola

Promised Land, © Eric Meola

Kodak said that it expects the current supply of Kodachrome to last until the fall. However, if what happened with Polaroid film was any indication, it will probably linger around longer than that.

The National Geographic Museum will open a sentimental tribute to the film today in Washington, D.C. Nat Geo’s photographers began using Kodachrome in the 1930s, describing the film as ‘a photographic medium that changed the way we document the world.’

Kodachrome photo from Flickr user hz536n

Kodachrome photo from Flickr user hz536n

Paul Simon, any final words?

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