I attended the Westfield International Air Show this weekend. I thought it might be interesting to take some photos of typefaces on the planes.

I’m a recent convert to Netflix. We’ve had it about 4 months now. It’s a bit of a blessing and a curse. A curse because there are better things to do than watching movies every night. A blessing because you get to see some gems on demand. I just finished watching The Art of the Steal, directed by Don Argott. The documentary tells the story of how the largest privately owned art collection (created and owned by Albert Barnes) was stolen by the city of Philadelphia and the Pew Charitable Trust. Watching the documentary I was amazed by how happy these money loving people were at doing the exact opposite of what Barnes put in his will for the Art that he owned. If you’re a Netflix person I highly recommend watching this, even if your not interested in art.

I saw this video on Gizmodo. On June 21, David Kassan streamed a live finger painting on an iPad. I’m not sure I like the idea of painting on an iPad, but it is pretty amazing. I would miss the real paint.

Just saw this video the other day and thought I’d share. The song is pretty good, but the video is a lot of fun.
You can check out the site here.

Another Memorial Day weekend at Art All State. The 2010 Art All State at the Worster Art Museum was another great experience. For those who are not familiar, Art All State is a like the high school championship for art students in Massachusetts, only instead of competing students break into groups of 18 with two artist mentors (one being myself) and work together to build an installation exhibited in the museum. This year my fellow mentor and I choose rice and string as the materials students could use for their installation. We were also given a huge bolt of charcoal felt as a surprise material for the piece. We looked at three pieces of art from the Museum’s collection to create a concept for the project:

• John Farnham’s Gentleman Pensioner to Elizabeth
• Do-Ho Suh’s who am we?
• KTICIC Foundation
  

The student quickly got to work. Their concept played with the idea of individualism and community.

Students review as a group and plan their next steps.

Pouring rice. They made some hands too.

Final installation.

The students did a great job it was a pleasure to work with them. What an amazing piece of art.

See the Art All State work form 2008 and 2009.

Stevesie recently wrote down some thoughts about why Apple does not allow Flash on it’s mobile devices. I have to say he has some good arguments. The strange thing for me though is the title of the letter. Thoughts on Flash seems very casual. Especially for a large company like Apple. There is a lot at stake for both Apple and Adobe in a letter like this and portraying it like it’s just some thoughts written down almost seems irresponsible or at best fake casual, which has been part of Apple’s brand for a long time I suppose. What do you think? You can read the whole letter here.