A color matching game- hue, saturation, complementary, analog, triad and tetrad. I got 8.4/10. #artnerd

don’t forget about ellainireland! i have no idea where the like, eight new people who’ve started following me in the last week came from, but if you’re looking for art things or ireland things most of them will be over there!

I found this dress in Dublin this weekend- it has a hood. I’m in love. Now if only there were pockets…

Too bad I wore boots that day. Photo by the lovely Heather Rose Hileman

You got me, Google.

(Source: sonicupgrade)

Miss my Dad so much. These emails were in reference to a check he deposited into my bank account for me. Goofiest dude.

Compilation of thoughts, writing, creativity from the common thread of loss – specifically grieving the death of someone close to us. All grieving is different, and there is no in/correct way to process and account our losses.

Why? This zine was borne out of conversations we had about our experiences of grief and loss. We’ve found that most people don’t know how to support you when you’re grieving, so we wanted to make a zine that is helpful both to those who are grieving and for our friends and lovers that want to know how better to support us.

You may feel inspired to write about what has and has not helped your process (so that others may learn to support us) and things that you have done for yourself (so that we may support ourselves). This is of course just a suggestion.

If you have lost someone and feel able to contribute somehow, please do so by the beginning of 2012. Date is flexible – all things take time . Submissions, queries and proposals to quickthoughts@riseup.net

Tim from TBOOKS Cologne sent me this today! I saw the zine, “On the Other Side of the Valley”, on Larissa LeClair’s Indie Photobook Library blog and tried to buy it from TBOOKS, but Tim doesn’t have a paypal, so he sent it to me after I promised to mail him one of my own. Tradesies!

washingtonpoststyle:

Melody Records is closing. At left is a staff-approved playlist, in honor of the 35-year-old D.C. institution. Consider it your soundtrack for the afternoon.

So sad. I used to hang out in Melody before and after I was working at Secondi and bother the shit out of the very very patient employees there. This playlist is killer. Hats off to you, Melody Records. Dupont won’t be the same without you.

Thanks dudes! Also, there should probably be a warning on Tauba Auerbach’s website for people with epilepsy. Just saying. 

Dear all of my painter friends,

I am looking for examples of contemporary painters who do a lot of color field work? I’m not even sure if that’s the right phrase but people like Rothko, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, etc- but the work has to have been made in the last ten years.

Help?

escenariosreg:

Pictured: A council employee closes the gate that since September 2011 has allowed residents to cross between the Catholic and Protestant sides of Alexandra Park between 9am and 3pm

Antonio Olmos photographs the walls built across Northern Ireland’s capital city as a means of defusing sectarian tension. There are 99 of them, dividing nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from loyalist Protestant ones. Some of the walls date from the early years of the Troubles, but an estimated one-third have gone up since the IRA ceasefire in 1994. Now, ‘peace gates’ are being opened in some walls in an attempt to foster greater links between communities.

(Source: Guardian)

dcdocent:

Your Sunday Instruction: Support this Kickstarter project by the Empty Stretch collective to publish a photography book by local DC artists! I am a fan of these folks, many of whom are Corcoran alumni, and who I follow on Tumblr, especially Jordan Swartz, Aaron Canipe and Sara Winston.

But please Empty Stretch collective, don’t stop publishing your smaller zines! I heart them.

If DCDocent says it, it must be true. 

dcdocent:

alecshao:

Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong, Feelings are Facts, 2010

A combination of architecture, light and colored fog piped out through vents disorients the visitors as they enter the exhibit