Tag: art
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new stickers have arrived!
December 6, 2010
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Eric Robert Parnes and the Understanding Campaign
November 29, 2010Eric Robert Parnes ( http://www.ericrobertparnes.com/ ) created a Farsi version of Fhm for us and used it in a recent piece of his. We are beyond delighted to have him spreading the word.
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Understanding animation by Luca Dipierro
November 16, 2010
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We are honored to have artist and writer Luca Dipierro contributing to the Understanding Campaign. View more of Luca’s work here: lucadipierro.com -
SUCCESS!
November 2, 2010
View CommentsWe did it, guys! Unbelievable. Thank you to everyone who pledged, everyone who contributed just a little more, and all the amazing friends who were with us from day one. We love you all.
But hey, we still have 50 something hours to go. Any extra money will go towards Haneen’s first trip to the States! Keep Kickstarting!
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Understanding by Tai Turner
October 31, 2010
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Happy Halloween, guys! Tai Turner designed this pretty inventive Fhm (Understanding), and we obviously love it. Only four more days to meet our all-or-nothing goal! -
Buttons, stickers, and t-shirts (explained)
October 27, 2010
More than a few people have emailed asking about t-shirt sizes and how to choose their favorite Fhm (Understanding) design. If the Kickstarter goal is reached (8 days until the all-or-nothing Kickstarter is over) we will have all four designs available for buttons, stickers, and t-shirts. All t-shirt sizes are available as well – women’s, men’s, and kid’s.Remember, if we don’t reach our goal, we get nothing and the Understanding Campaign is over. When we do meet our goal, we will email you to see what design and sizes you want.
Spread the word, guys,
Justin
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HEY! It’s super UC video day!
October 23, 2010Check out all the amazing videos people have been making from all over the US. Thank you to Linda Franklin, Tai Turner, Carolyn and Mike! We love you guys!
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Gary Kachadourian’s BIC pen Understanding
October 11, 2010
In making the drawings I chose to use a blue ink BIC ballpoint pen and spiral bond wide ruled paper, a process I’ve been using since at least junior high school (1969) and continue to use. For these pieces it can be interpreted as being my “American” contribution to the crossover intent of the project.
Gary Kachadourian lives in Baltimore, Maryland where he makes drawing centered work designed to be copied, shown and/or distributed as Xeroxed or ink jet printed booklets, prints or posters. He worked for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts for 22 years where he coordinated grant programs, exhibitions for Artscape, the city’s mural program and numerous temporary public arts projects. He is currently attending an MFA program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
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Designer Masato Nakada’s Fhm (Understanding)
October 5, 2010
The Understanding Campaign is receiving contributions from all over the nation. Here’s one of our favorites.
Masato Nakada was born in Toyota-City, Japan in 1983. He stepped out of the Japanese island and shipped off to Kentucky, USA in 1993. After a few years of roaming the American bluegrass landscape, he then flew to Zurich, Switzerland where he spent his adolescent high school years mainly focused on snowboarding and attempting to speak swiss-german. He had always been a “familiar foreigner”, whom had his foot in different countries, cultures & language.
His work definitely has absurdity and humor that you may not get at first glance. Although, he does not carry an “in house style”, there is a consistent trait of his awkwardness and sophistication in his body of work.
His current project involves his completion of the World’s Longest Yard Sale (Route 127), where he searches for a mirage of an American family through the artifacts he had purchased in all four states.
Masato Nakada: http://mstnkd.com/work.html and www.127story.net
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Artist/writer Adam Good re-combines the Understanding Campaign
October 4, 2010We’re pretty dang excited to have Adam Good offering up his interdisciplinary services to the Understanding Campaign’s lineup of Kickstarter incentives. Here’s what he’s going to do:
UNDERSTANDING REMIXED
The core of my artistic practice is the sampling and remixing of texts to increase my understanding of a given subject, experience, or life in general. I take a source text (or texts) and remix it into new concepts and descriptions, or I “ask” it a question and remix possible answers. For the Understanding Campaign, I will work with the donor to create a custom “package of understanding” for something they want to understand (a field of knowledge or experience, a specific question, anything). Through an initial consultation, we will identify what they want to understand, and identify sources for me to remix. I will then sample and remix the sources to create a package of artistic materials and tools that will help them understand. This package will include: a box of cards – imprinted with ideas, statements, directions, and considerations – that the recipient can randomly draw from, or rearrange, to increase or trigger understanding; a video of several live remixes for understanding; and a year-long subscription to a private Twitter feed through which I will periodically broadcast new understandings (I will invite other users to the feed at the recipient’s request).
This customized one-of-a-kind understanding remix can be yours for a donation of $1000. Pledge here
Adam Good is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist based in Washington, DC. His performances, installations, and interactive experiences use methods of appropriation, remixing, participation, and improvisation to teach viewers new ways of creating meaning and interacting with knowledge and experience. He believes that the radical techniques of exploration and production developed by avant-garde artistic practices should be applied to structures of knowledge, and made transparent, accessible, and useful to the general public. He has been called the “Bob Ross of conceptual art” due to his use of the lecture format to train “DJs of Thought” in these techniques. Recent projects include The Lab for Remixed Knowledge (at Washington Project for the Arts), One Hour Photo (at the Katzen Arts Center) and Isle Atollish (with Lauren Bender, at the Transmodern Festival). These and other ongoing remix projects can be viewed at www.therealadamgood.com or vimeo.com/adamgood/videos.
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