“Second Place” by Jody Fausett now available @ Amazon
GHava{Press} has released Second Place, a beautiful 120 page hardbound book showcasing Jody Fausett’s dark and mysterious, personal photography. Fausett is an Atlanta based photographer who has worked in the New York fashion industry, while still perusing his own artistic vision. From sewing tree shaped pillows to overturning marble tables in fancy night clubs, from romantic comedies to schlocky slasher films, Jody Fausett is a renaissance man...sort of. His arts and skills are a little more unpredictable then the common definition attributed to such a person. Where as one fitting the “classical” definition might teach you a thing or two about fine wines and seamlessly segue into the history of Italian opera, Jody might educate you on the genius of Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls after catching a possum with his bare hands.
Second Place is currently available at Amazon
ISBN: 978-0-9716702-2-8
Posted on September 26, 2007 at 02:50 PM | Comment (0 comments)
“Artificial General Intelligence in Second Life”
I just read a great UgoTrade blog posting about AI in Second Life and had to quickly share. BBC also touched on this topic a week or so ago & The Singularity Summit 2007 just took place earlier this month.
now I’m really wondering when Skynet will take over.
Posted on September 24, 2007 at 05:03 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Cheryl Dunn exhibition @ Art Center in Second Life
Art Center presents:
2 Collections of Photographs by Cheryl Dunn
“Lost Gold Earring” & “Sleeping Men”
About the artist:
Cheryl Dunn is a New York-based photographer, filmmaker and sociologist. Upon graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in art history, Dunn moved to Europe to pursue fashion photography. After traveling and shooting extensively for two years, she moved back to New York where she became a successful photographer shooting for magazines such as Spin, Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar and Dazed and Confused. In the mid 1990s, Dunn began to focus much more on filmmaking, first creating small pieces for herself and eventually shooting and directing some of the most classic films of this generation. Her first film, Sped (1997), was created as a series of vignettes on young artists from the worlds of skateboarding and graffiti. Produced originally as a promotional film for a snowboard company and for a very small audience, the film went on to be featured in film festivals worldwide. Her second film, Backworlds for Words (1999), is a documentation of a skateboard ballet, choreographed by artist/professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales for the Stadtisches Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany. The film includes footage of the actual performance as well as candid interviews and documentation of Gonzales performing poetry readings around Germany. In 2000, her photos were included in the Widely Unknown show at Deitch Projects in New York. Other projects with Deitch include co-curating shows entitled Starstruck and Session the Bowl in 2002 which featured her two-channel video installation Social Security. In 2002, she was awarded a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, where she was commissioned to make a film in conjunction with the design exhibit, Mood River. Come Mute is an autobiographical fable representing the life of a young New Jersey girl as she tries to figure out how to bring creativity to her working class existence.
Cheryl Dunn was one of the original artists of the underground skateboard art movement which developed from Aaron Rose’s influential Alleged Galleries in NYC and was included in Rose’s book, “Young Sleek and Full of Hell”. Her work has also toured with Rose’s “Beautiful Losers” exhibition which showed in Cincinnati at the Contemporary Arts Center, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Orange County Museum of Art, and The Contemporary in Baltimore.
More info:
http://virb.com/artcenter
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Posted on September 16, 2007 at 01:29 PM | Comment (0 comments)
