So last journal i brought up a little talk on "movements" within the arts these days.

I have spent many days pondering this. Late nights of talking and exchanging ideas with He has brought to my attention many great shows from the folks at PBS. Art:21, Shock of the new, and most recently, BBC's The secret of drawing, which can be found by searching in google videos.

My friend has brought to my attention the gaming and concept art industry side of things. I've been greatly fascinated by works of amazing collaboration in games like World of Warcraft, Movies like The Dark Crystal, and the many talents the fantasy games out there have employed. Magic the Gathering brought tons of wonder to my brain (and many of dollars from my pocket >_<

is another SCAD chum; who often brought great movies to my attention, which induced great fervor and fascination in me of the alternate culture of Japan. Takashi Miike, Osamu Tezuka, and i'll never forget the many great nights we were all able to catch some Sushi together or get the bunch of us all together for crazy "Homework Parties" ((somehow always ending with an epic game of DnD))

Speaking of foreign cultures, it's always interesting to think of how it may be, for someone else in a very different part of the world. What their view on art may be. Such is the view i have appreciated from who lives out in Turkey! ^_^ It's very cool to talk with all you that live out in such different places.

just joined us on DA. My old roomie who now lives out in Seattle! Although he was Scottish and would stink our house up with Haggis x( early in the mornings!!! (damn you) We both now find ourselves curiously playing around in fields such as Graphic design and web design. NOT what we went to school for (Sequential Art) but we are still pursuing and further developing our stories (soon to amaze you all) I often enjoy mixing up the ideas and such with the Droog!

Speaking of mixing it up shall be over this week, as we will have a starbucks fueled, acrylic engulfed, and no nonsense//intense day of nonstop painting at the very best to our ability!!! (ok, so perhaps our subject matter could seem as nonsense, BUT thats just because you are viewing it in the wrong context xD

It goes of course, not without mention to someone who has inspired me since i first arrived at school in Savannah of who i have been fortunate enough to have some cool times conversing with, and even at times getting some helpful advice??? haha, well most of all his works, have really pushed me to continue creating and seeking a higher standard for myself. I'm glad he's doing really good now, and i'm quite positive he will only continue to amaze us much much more, in years to come!!!

I wish the best to my friends here on DA, along with my teachers and fellow colleagues from the wonderful, devastatingly debt inducing, SCAD! As my friend, Ryan Waterhouse, has shown me... it doesn't really take school or an advanced collage experience to make a good artist. In fact, we who go this route will not even make it.... unless of course, we can pull from within ourselves, the Passion, Perseverance, & Conviction that we all share at the core of our dreams! With debt aside, i don't think i could put a price on the value these friendships have given to me. My advice, to anyone seeking it, Go for that which will cause you the most experience within your lives.

I'm looking forward to what the new days will bring. Who else will cross our path, and where our friends will be. I think we can take this world, grip its heart, and have it feel what new art has to say...


It may not be said in the news. Perhaps it won't bring us million dollar success stories, hell, even let us pay our own bills. Todays art has a completely different context and relation within society than what i once thought. After a long night of reviewing art over the last 30,000 years, i see that we are immersed in great art, and much of that goes unnoticed, or perhaps overlooked. When history looks back on us, i think it will change focus, such as the trends come and go. Is it the monumental movement within advertising, such as the Pop traditions had played upon? The Exotic worlds of the psyche conceptualists or surrealists play upon? Maybe its all within the media, the everyday entertainment, the modern myths which movies or games fill within our lifes??? Or perhaps the bleached of spirit, pretentious galleria of arts out there knows many of things beyond the Duchamp disheveled world of which i have come to know.

As i heretically praise it be, upon this starry night...
It is now the Magical Aeon.
Artists will speak up and be heard, even if you have to grab the audience and tell it to them! Our societies no longer need to war in order to make progress. We can make even greater progress with interacting in the global community. Time to use our brains, over undermining, unchecked abuse of powers that now plague us. Little a voice i may have, i hope there are others who also feel, there is a world out there that has long been overdue for some change. We will bring that change. We will bring more change than the world may want, but this will be the act of rEvolution within the hands of creative peoples and those who work along with them!

Long Live the Arts!!! Never stop Dreaming! and Praise be to BOB!!
~Dee