Category: Art Boner
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The Painter in Me is Obsessed with Makeup Tutorials
The latest content consumption hole I’ve fallen down is watching makeup tutorials on YouTube. If you’ve never seen one, they usually go like this: A beautiful woman will say, “Hello, today we’re going to do this look,” and then proceed to completely transform her face until she looks like a mermaid goddess and/or Kylie Jenner. I have…
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Molly Soda talks about digital performance art, intimate labor, and Detroit
Who is Molly Soda? The 26-year-old artist—easily recognizable for her prominent eyebrows, nose ring, rodent sidekicks, and sparkly GIF accessories—has lived many different lives and has had small eruptions of fame for everything from dancing with Grimes to having her photography pulled out of a Dumpster and displayed in a gallery by another artist. She was one…
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Missed Connections of the Damned
Why so serious? – m4m – [46] (inside my torso) I’ve always been a sucker for the brooding, sensitive types. So when I glanced over my shoulder and saw you leaning against the inner wall of my hollowed-out ellipsoid body, with your eyes downcast and your tomatolike head cradled in your right hand, my interest…
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The Pros and Con of James Turrell
Pros: By removing all or most context from his illuminated spaces, Turrell draws attention to light itself. That doesn’t sound very profound, but his work reminds us that light and lighting are integral to the experience of artworks from plays to paintings, and that lighting design is itself an art. Entering a Turrell piece is…
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Ten Reasons the Watts Towers Are Awesome
1. They were created by one man, by hand. Minnesota’s pretty proud of our largest-ball-of-twine-rolled-by-one-man, but even we have to tip our hats to Simon Rodia (1879-1965), who between 1921 and 1954 built three behemoth towers and a series of ancillary structures alone, by hand, in his own Los Angeles backyard. 2. They’re super-strong. After…
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Behind Our Future Cities Book Cover
We just heard that pre-orders of our first ever physical book, Future Cities, started arriving yesterday. Now that the book is starting to reach people’s hands, we wanted to share the story behind our cover design. It was created by Minneapolis designer Caroline Royce, who has designed a lot of stuff for us. What many…
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END BAD DESIGN: The Talented Minds at South Carolina’s Fuzzco
I first discovered Fuzzco when one of my favorite web design hubs, Site Inspire, featured their agency website. It’s one of the coolest I’ve seen crop up lately, and you should definitely spend some time on it. Turns out the owners have spent some time in The Twin Cities – they’re grads of St. Paul’s Macalester…
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Why Artistic Integrity Is Overrated
The other day this bearded dude I was friends with in college told me that his weekend prog-rock project had broken up. I got sad for a second. “I’m sorry dude. That’s too bad.” “Yeah, we just had artistic differences.” Wait. Artistic Differences? You hadn’t played a show! You hadn’t made a shitty Garage Band…
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END BAD DESIGN: This Week – Zara Gonzalez Hoang
Zara Gonzalez Hoang of Twistcone, creator of the new Monster Coloring Book Tell us a bit about who you are and the work you do: I’m a design entrepreneur I suppose. I used to be a designer at a few agencies around town, these days I do a bit of freelancing, as well as running a teeny…
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Lies Artists Tell
“I hate selling my paintings. I’m so attached to them.” The reality is, if you painted it once, you can easily paint it again, unless it’s some 16-foot canvas piece with ornate detailing. If so, why are you wasting your time on that shit other than to make huge bank? “This piece was inspired by…
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Types of Artists
The Sperm Guy: This guy makes paintings on giant canvases – they could be black blurs or space aliens having cocktails, whatever, but he rubs his sperm in them. He does! Tell your mom! Sperm guy has a large artist studio pad where he bangs gymnasts (he’s beyond normal sex positions) and watches a lot…