When the summer of September begins to give way to Autumn, the flowers present a final luminous show. I have always photographed flowers. In color, I am entranced by their hues and shades; in black and white, captured by their structure. Examples follow. The first is a rose from my garden, nurtured by my wife, Teri. The second, fall mums. Do you have a preference?
A new limited edition art print will be released this month. The overall image size will be 24″ [height] by 18″ [width]. The actual image size is approximately 18″ x 9″. Prints will be available at a pre-release price of $225, which includes shipping and handling. After their release, the price will be $250, including shipping and handling. The print can be ordered with or without the brown border shown in the image below. The piece will be printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, which is a 290 gsm, 90% bamboo fiber and 10% cotton natural white paper. Each print will be signed and numbered. For more information, call me at 303-477-4662 or email michael@bsiw.us.
Every Saturday a BSIW client, Nova Monda Cacao & Chocolate, has a booth at the Louisville Farmers Market[link here]where you can sample and buy their stunningly delicious chocolate.
Here is a picture from the last Saturday’s market day.
Because environmentalism and organic quality are important pieces of the Nova Monda business model, the banners were printed on “BIOFlex,” a vinyl banner material that contains no toxins and is engineered to breakdown under landfill conditions within three to five years with no toxic emmissions.
Jack Layton, the head of the Canadian New Democratic Party [NDP], who campaigned with a slogan of “don’t let them tell you it can’t be done,” died of cancer this morning at his home in Toronto. Although unknown to most Americans, Layton worked for the common good and brought honor to the term “politician.” He concluded his final public statement, with a message that is sorely needed in this campaign season: My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
The artist Ben Shahn, whose creative life was far too short, offered the following thought in a 1953 Interview in Look Magazine.
Should you not be familiar with Shahn’s work, here is a sample.
Thanks to the material presented in the July 6 entry in the blog of the Canadian artist Leif Peng. The blog is entitled, “Today’s Inspiration,” and focuses upon the illustrators of the 1940s – 1960s.
I ran across this book cover at The Book Cellar in Louisville, Colorado. I love the woodblock-like technique – or is it the paper cut-out technique? I cannot find out much about Genkins, save that he did a few covers for the magazine “Art Direction” in the 1960s.
This sketch was done while at Starbucks.
Michael George King sketch
“Art does not come to lie down in the beds that have been made for it; it runs away as soon as anyone utters its name: it likes being incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it’s called.” Jean Dubuffet
Below is a sample of Dubuffet’s work.
No, this is not about cattle. It is about the buzzword “branding.” Much guff has been written on this topic and I suspect much more is on the way. One site impenetrably defines branding as “… is a holistic approach to your company’s position, customer interactions, and operations, based on your company’s values.” Basically, your brand is reputation, the meeting point between a company’s attempt to shape out perception of a product and the experience people have had with the product. Simply put, what Microsoft or Apple try to make us think about their products is conditioned by our experience with them. That makes sense but isn’t especially illuminating. And that, is the why of this post.
The most perceptive thing I have seen written about brands comes from the French writer Annie Ernaux , who said in her book Things Seen : Brands are symbols meant to indicate where we see ourselves in terms of social standing.”
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