Apr 17 2009
Painter Phil Hensen unveils his Mona Greasa masterpiece. And you thought it couldn’t be done!
Uploaded by YouTube member FletcherMartinATL (More at BurgerGreaseArt.com).
All things are possible on the Outskirts!
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Apr 14 2009
The magic of StumbleUpon has brought me to this display of toys to make their predecessors “green” with envy (If toys could talk, that is).
(See the toys).
Toys from the Outskirts are cool!
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Mar 25 2009
Wired Magazine’s Brian Little shows how made homemade Lego ice cube trays (though, I don’t think one can called them ice cubes as it were).
Check ou all the action here!
Stay tuned for more whacked-out links from the Outskirts!
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Mar 12 2009
*Calling all bloggers, artists writers editors and all creative people* I’m looking for opportunities to write articles, interviews, transcriptions and books. Please contact me at the comment box for more information.
Thanks,
Mike
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Mar 05 2009
You always dreamed of one when you and your little brother would play Back to the Future in the basement back when you were ten. But now the wondrous world that is Metacafe brings you an actual hovercraft. All you need is some wood, some tools, a trash bag and a leaf blower! Well… kinda.
How to Make a Hovercraft - Click here for the most popular videos
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Feb 26 2009
This bit of video is clearly a bit of “odd” so to say! The drawing is quite literally elementary. But the systems of pulleys, levers, and automated funk it showcases might have a future!
Uploaded by YouTube member Jay302
Little houses are from the Outskirts.
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Feb 22 2009
Patricia Zapata shows how one woman’s junk mail is another’s artwork.
Art from Junk Mail - video powered by Metacafe
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Feb 11 2009
Also featured at Waxing Poetically
Elizabeth Gilbert on Rethinking Creativity
Elizabeth Gilbert suggests that creativity should not kill you.
“Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity”
Uploaded by YouTube member TEDTalksDirectors
Wax creatively on the Outskirts
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Jan 14 2009
In light of a recent spike in viewers and advertising opportunities, Starting January 15, Art from the Outskirts will switch to a an online art gallery format while still bringing you the usual blog posts in between the art and style of the various arts media.
Stay tuned from the Outskirts!
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Jan 08 2009
“Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and the fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim, either at use or beauty. Thus in our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim. In landscapes, the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know. The details, the prose of nature he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendor. He should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye, because it expresses a thought which is to him good: and this, because the same power which sees through his eyes, is seen in that spectacle; and he will come to value the expression of nature, and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy, the features that please him. He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine. In a portrait, he must inscribe the character, and not the features, and must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.” Ralph Waldo Emerson excepted from “Art” (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was many things: a poet, an essayist, and by profession a Unitarian minister. But in this 1841 essay, titled only “Art, Emerson tells why he feel it is the first and last job of every artist to create meaning where there once was a void - to try the emulate the perfect image in his or her mind and translate that person’s soul’s expression of the intangible, unknowable thing which only the medium and the art can express while both fall quite short of their intended glory. He interestingly asserts, ” Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself…” and therefor every creative moment, movement and insight is fleeting and art is simply the constant chase toward that moment, each time moving closer to the ideal while still so far from it.
Emerson from the Outskirts!
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