The good and the bad

This is my assignment post for 2 good, and one bad websites that I’ve decided to share.

Good:

http://www.jamesjean.com/

http://www.beksinski.pl/

Bad:

http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/main.htm

First my choice for bad was more or less pulled straight from a google search for bad websites and what serendipity!!!! This site flashed across the top hit. WHAM. Horrible, it even describes on its own why its horrible. For me it is poorly managed, ugly colors, bad and uncomfortable graphics… Even a splash of distracting images and unrelated wording. Bulky messages and useless information.

My choices for good though range for me the options for a good website. I started with an easy choice, its an artist site. It is very straightforward, the information is clear, very clear related links. Super easy to navigate, and above all very interesting to look through.

My second choice though I believe takes a beautiful tangent, taking what could be bad desgin elements and transforming them into great artistic choices. His website is first and foremost a pain in the *** to navigate but I think this is a plus for him. It keeps you looking, searching, finding clues… its like a huge maze that you want to finish. His imagery and graphics are stunning. Absolutely fascinating content. His links are untouchable… so very unique. I have never seen a comparable website. To top off all of this the website designer is an amazing artist. He has done to website design what I believe is the pinnacle of what could be accomplished. and TADA go look… its a must see, but be warned… like most mazes: allow yourself some time to discover the website.

and that is it for now.

halloween

Movies: night of the living dead
return of the living dead
dawn of the dead
land of the dead
day of the dead

halloweeeeeeeeeeeen costumes you say?

I was max from where the wild things are
my gf handstitched this amazing costume.
spot on kinda thing it was. so hard core.
with a staff and crown and everything.

published?

hi, so if you care to see or not, Im just posting this because I will never say it anyway haha.

published this month for October Issue of Folk Review in Seattle, WA pg 28-34

review by Trevor Richardson:

http://seahorserodeoreview.com/CurrentIssue.html

Also, new shows up for October in the area and continuing::

Pure Wine cafe// in easton MD:  Gallery 26, General Tanukis

and new solo show coming @ Elijah Blue around Nov.  with new works.

Adolphe Bouguereau

Adolphe Bouguereau is a french academic painter from the mid-late 19th century.  He painted as most academic salon painters did, however he did it with more flair, better imagery, better craftsmanship, and skill that ranks #1 throughout the entire world.  This man to me is the epidemy of what painterly painters try to achieve.  He is also the last of his kind.  In the vein of leonardo, raphael, and  carravaggio, Bouguereau took painting to the next level.  When I see his work, I notice the kitschy kind of whimsy he paints, but I also see the hard work, the love, and dedication to his craft.  He makes me believe there is still a kind of zen and connection to artist and their work.  He doesnt just sit for 5 hours with an idea and try to “display” it, he creates it.  He compares color temperatures with boddhisatvas.  He translates shade and contour from the clouds and grass, he peels that layer that distinguishes tangible from surreal away and displays imagery meant for the infinite.  Every day I aim to succeed in accomplishing that level of dedication to my craft and lifes work.

“William Adolphe Bouguereau-Master Figurative Artist,” Sanguine Fine Arts, Accessed September 26, 2010, http://sanguinfineart.com/school/showcase-galleries/masters/william-adolphe-bouguereau-1825-1905.

Connie Imboden

This first artist Ive chosen to illuminate as my inspiration is a dynamic, mesmerizing and undeniably the greatest photographer to have lived in our millenium.  Her name is Connie Imboden, and is an instructor at both Deleware State University and Maryland Institute College of Arts.  She creates non-digitally altered images from a black and white and color Camera.  She mainly uses art created from reflections, utilizing that aspect of visual dynamic to project her ideas into small pieces of her world.  The main reason I keep her as an inspiration is both her ability to create wonderful and stunning imagery, but also because she brings that imagery to us through a medium that she considers to be her biggest fear.  Through this fear, this angst, she manages to manipulate silvers to bring to her audience very readily available topics and ideas for her audience to grasp and connect to.  Ideas of love, loss, death, enlightenment and beauty, to name a few.

“Connie Imboden,” Connie Imboden, Accessed September 26, 2010, http://www.connieimboden.com/MainPage.html.

New shows in September

hi,

come see new work at 3 fun new places.

solo show @ gallery 26 in easton MD.  right off dover street by the courthouse.

group show @ ellicott city ‘Pure Wine Cafe’

new work/solo exhibit @ General Tanukis in easton maryland.

All work will be exhibited through September, except Tanukis show will be up until end of October.

-Jonathan J.

the red fox jumped

Trying to make sure this all works and am testing by posting a new blog

Thee day has already started off well. a good week?  Who knows…