The weekly five
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008This is just an idea I’ve been kicking around. Here are five interesting items I’ve found in the art world in the last few days. Every week, I plan to feature five more, from projects to artists to interesting art spaces. Rather than things I see in my day-to-day life, these will be things I see in the virtual world.
Oklahoma’s Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson is the topic of a recent Tulsa, OK blog post. The blog focuses on Oklahoma life, and Wilson, as one of Oklahoma’s native sons, is a perfect fit. The post gives a brief description of Wilson’s career and provides some context as to why his work is important in Oklahoma and beyond.
Tom Toles illustrated the sexist backlash against Hillary
The Washington Post cartoon shows the double standard stacked against Ms. Clinton in pretty straightforward way.
Pat Oliphant shows a more conservative view of her chances and leadership abilities.
Another comic in the Post shows an entirely different view Hillary’s now famous emotional reaction.
Summer Minor gives instructions on how to make paper
In a post geared towards home schooling moms, Minor gives a how-to and a brief history on making paper.
Shopdropping
Web Urbanist provides an explanation of the urban trend of shopdropping along with a guide to who’s doing it and a breakdown of their projects, complete with pictures. The most interesting to me was a project by Zoe Saldana, where she takes cheap clothes by Wal Mart and recreates them by hand, using the same fabrics, notions and stitches, then puts the tags from the originals on them and returns the homemade clothing to the store.
