February 2012
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The Need to Fail →
Quoted for truth:
“I’ve had to learn (the hard way) that the only failures that move us forward are the ones where you prepare and execute to the best of your ability … and then things just don’t work out.
There is plenty of room for that sort of failure.
What there is no room for is the sort of things that get labeled as “failure” but is...
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Stone Cold Optimist →
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When it comes to the future of the arts, especially the industry I work in - the live performing arts, I am very optimistic. I see the wide range of work being produced, from sold out theatres in NYC, to intimate productions being don…
“The arts industry is going to have to prove it’s value and relevance in the world of 2012, not the world of 1992...
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January 2012
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http://etsystalker.com/2012/01/18/spikes-dangerous-... →
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December 2011
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November 2011
7 posts
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"Minimal to Bling" at the Society of Arts and... →
Nice writeup of the upcoming exhibition “From Minimal to Bling”, at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston. I’ve got some work in this show and I’ll be at the reception tomorrow, so come by and say hello if you’re in the Boston area.
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Zoa Chimerum is vending Craftopia! November 20th -... →
10am-4pm
What: CRAFTOPIA is a one-day, juried show featuring unique and original hand-made art and craft.
Where: Hope Artiste Village {in the big hallway}, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860
October 2011
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Nice writeup of Zoa Chimerum at Extreme Craft →
The blog Extreme Craft has done a nice writeup of my work, and they seem to have tracked down and embedded a video interview I did last year with Juhi Varma, a student at the Boston University College of Communication. We did the interview on a fairly low-end digital camera, and I guess something didn’t quite work right with it because there’s a lot of stuttering and frame skipping...
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The Resentment Machine →
“The vehicle of modern American achievement prepares thousands of upwardly mobile young strivers for everything but the life they will actually encounter.”
Was going to do an “out of context, without permission” post here but almost every paragraph is quotable. Article doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, but it lays everything out beautifully. You...
September 2011
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Craftiest Bastard competition - Vote for me...
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Interview with Washington City Paper →
This was an email interview. I sat in my bathtub and used my iphone voice memo function to record long, meandering responses to his questions. I have to say he did an amazing job of making me sound coherent.
Also: Don’t forget to check me out at Crafty Bastards tomorrow - I’m in Booth #122
Even if you aren’t in DC, you can vote for me in the Craftiest Bastard Competition here.
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“Start stressing personal aesthetics during times of misfortune.”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Other Peoples' Art: Celluloose III →
Love this piece of intricate woodcarving. It is very similar in spirit to many of the pieces Clint Fulkerson and I made for “Exquisite What?”. It would be great to do a collaboration with this guy someday. Alas, he’s in Milan.
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Other Peoples' Art: Back Spike Prosthesis →
I’ve always been fascinated with prosthetics both from an artistic and philosophical point of view. The way a prosthetic recontextualizes the body, not just the body on which it is installed, but *all* bodies, simply by extension of its very existence, is something I often think about. What is the dividing line, if any, between prosthesis and tool, prosthesis and ornament, prosthesis and...
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Other Peoples' Art: Oxidized Silver Snake Spine... →
Another piece where it’s pretty obvious why I like it. (Also reminds me that people have been asking for bracelets for a while - better get on that)
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Other Peoples' Art: Serpent Ring →
I think it’s pretty obvious why someone like me would like something like this:
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Other Peoples' Art: Dark Butterfly Blade Wing →
I’m in love with most of the work on this person’s etsy site, for obvious reasons, but this stunning piece especially stood out to me.
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Other Peoples' Art: Cavalaire Porcelain Brooch →
Another material I wanted to explore someday. Love the glowing white of porcelain. Is it possible for a color like white to be “rich” the way we describe other colors? If so, I think porcelain comes the closest.
I like this piece because it’s almost like the geometric opposite of a lot of the objects I make, but still very much in line with my own aesthetic sensibilities.