Early poster from the ballet

“Three years ago Ben Huh visited a blog devoted to silly cat pictures – and saw vast potential…Sensing an Internet phenomenon, Mr. Huh solicited financing from investors and forked over $10,000 of his own savings to buy the Web site from the two Hawaiian bloggers who started it.”

Read the full article here.

Chicago Premiere Event

Saturday, May 1

Stay tuned for more details!

Here is some beautiful digital art-making. It’s giving me some ideas about The Facebook Project (tentative title that I’m not really happy with…). Enjoy.

Dax Tran-Caffee “successfully traded a painting for poetry – creativity is the currency of the FUTURE”

Tif Bullard “life is full of flakes – some snow, some human.”

Joshua Esmanuel-David Slater “I wish I didn’t have to pay rent and medical bills and school tuition and other bills so I can shop all day. But then I would be living in my mama’s basement…I still look good so it all works out.”

“I try hard never to forget that art is essentially a game of signification, and that in our capacity as artists, we always endeavor to ask questions, to search, and to play.”

- Joseph Kosuth

This is the best piece of advice that we gave today:

The way to understand Art is to say it the way you imagine a seal would, in the middle of the night, at the top of your lungs, eight times fast:

“ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART!”

Videotape that, put it on your blog and voila: instant artist.