Lyn Bishop : Sharing Secrets

On Saturday, San Jose hosted a town hall meeting for artists interested in learning more about the city’s new Creative Entrepreneur Program.

Kim Walesh, Chief Strategist for the city, began by expressing her optimism that today, more than ever, there is more opportunity for artists to be a part of the San Jose economy. Artist based business are growing faster than other segments and San Jose has a high rate of independent creative entrepreneurs.

The Silicon Valley companies that are really succeeding — think Apple– understand the intrinsic aesthetic value that creativity brings to their product. San Jose’s future plan now includes steps to honor both the the left brained technologists and the right brained artists, and recognize innovation in all their various aspects. Walesh suggested that city government was crafting a future plan where not only arts and cultural facilities were included, but now individual artists were encouraged to think together with them to build an artist friendly San Jose. Read the rest of this entry »

The Frida Kahlo’s exhibit at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gives us an up close and personal opportunity to witness the self-explorations that the artist documented in her artwork throughout her career. Kahlo’s paintings are uniquely her own.

In her work, Kahlo paints for us the horrors of her life, with a few happy memories included to help balance her existence. Her source material draws from her Mexican heritage, the political landscape of the times, the natural world around her, the cosmos, as well as her own personal depictions of her very real physical and psychological pain. Read the rest of this entry »

Creativity and collaboration are my passion. Often I find it strongest in the context of my art practice, however, when I stop to pay attention, I find it spilling over into all areas of my life, and it’s delicious.

Take last night, for instance. My best friend and I were sitting under my apple tree, sampling the juicy and sweet fruit. I mentioned that I was unsure about cooking with these apples, as they weren’t very tart. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a collection of links on interesting lenticular and 3D stories and artwork that I found recently. Enjoy:

Capturing 3D Surfaces with a Flash Camera: This short video explains new approaches to creating depth maps for 3D surfaces using only two photographs.

 A 3D Exploration of Picasso’s Guernica: Be patient while this animation by Lena Gleseke loads, as it is really nice exploration of a possible 3D space in which the painting could exist. Read the rest of this entry »

I spent a few days at SIGGRAPH last week. The conference is evolving and trying out some new ideas in terms of redefining the attendee experience. Several large venues (Art Gallery, Studio, E-tech) were moved into a central location on the trade show floor. It created an interesting mash-up of activities together in one place.

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