tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77740296654540426532024-02-02T02:28:09.818-08:00Pathological GomezArt, Opensource and Making Money. And lots of art-gasming, everywhere, on everything.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-61779860020855394802013-01-28T12:53:00.003-08:002013-01-28T12:54:40.875-08:004 Things You Need Right NowAre you feeling disconnected from the art world? Stuck in an art rut? (and not in the art-block sense?) Feel like giving yourself a kick into action? Here are 4 things you should download/do/read right now!<br />
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This app is presented by Visual Artists Ireland, the Arts Council, and the Mayo County Council for some reason. I have it on my android phone, it is <i>brilliant </i>and I use it every day. I've tried other art-news based apps but this one really clever and relevant and just wins hands down. It's basically a run-down of the art news from the Visual Artists Ireland newsletter. It also has a great wee Listings tab that lists all the art events advertised on the VAI website. Every artist with a smart phone and who wants to keep connected with the greater Irish art world should really download this.<br />
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Free for a Year! If you are woeful at organisation and pricing (you may be worse than you think) you should download some handy database software for inventory, invoicing, sales, archiving, basically get yourself an office to start selling from. Artbase is another very cool one, but it costs like a million euro. A few others ranging from $70 to $1000 are listed in <a href="http://www.artbizblog.com/2011/05/contact-management.html">this</a> Art Business blog. To make your art business suceed (because, until you have an agent for an accountant for a spouse, you are a business person AND an artist, not just the latter), you must acquire all of the technology and all of the spreadsheets.<br />
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Art is the Cure is a loosley defined art therapy organisation and every time a <a href="http://artisthecure.bigcartel.com/product/art-is-the-cure-tee-womens">t-shirt</a> is bought from their site, funds go towards free creative workshops. Every t-shirt is a can pf spray paint. How cool is that?<br />
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I made photoshop art!! Yee!! Here is a link to my <a href="http://helengomez.deviantart.com/">deviant page</a> with the first photoshop cartoons I have ever done. Lots of mistakes, lot of learning. A lifetime fear of layers is now a relative comfort and a very slight trepidation. If I can do it then anyone can!<br />
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So I almost starved to death and then the Galway workforce welcomed me back with open arms. This means that I'm hoping to do more list-based posts like this one for a while, until I get some time off waiting tables to plough back into my art business research. I also don't take advantage of this format and of my encyclopedic mind for art-resources quite enough. List-base posts being more readable?? Pfft!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-67965545994617683792013-01-15T13:35:00.001-08:002013-01-15T13:55:37.386-08:00To Dole or not To Dole<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
I've been doing some field
research over the past few weeks into the life of the artist turned
constant job hunter. My working life is now a set of revolving doors.
I've worked for two different businesses, been ejected from both
since, and dumped many many CVs upon the populace since I've returned to Galway and ran up a lot of rent and bill debt.
I consider myself a piece of sea foam floating on the turbluent seas
of minimum wage employment. This is part of my<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/11/galway-artists-and-death-of-ambition.html"> overall research</a> into
how to make money as an artist in Galwayand the realities of
an artist trying to make it in the recession. As well as being..well,
reality.
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I have established the two Ugly and
Unavoidable Realities that must be dealt with when you first decide
to become an artist. Very simply, once you recognise and overcome
them both, you'll be flying. They are:</div>
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1. Wanting to be an
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2. Having the support to be an artist.</div>
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With regards to point
no.; if you're a typically sensitive artist with low self-esteem,
self-belief and out-in-out poor self-motivation, you can watch a lot
of videos like <a href="http://vimeo.com/42372767">this</a> and <a href="http://www.downvids.net/a-must-watch-for-every-artist-well-everyone--291965.html">this</a>, read a lot of inspirational quotes like <a href="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzoopjTnYz1qc4u7uo1_500.jpg">this </a>and <a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly5u9lauAM1r4rg7so1_1280.png">this</a>, get all pumped up, black out the ever-present
Nay-sayers, and be sent, battle-crying, to your Wacom tablet. It can
take months, years, even decades, to get beyond this point of
self-doubt (thanks education system).</div>
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However, once you finally
start to feel good about your own ability as an artist and commit
yourself to the most Difficult Job in the World (because, let's face
it, you know you couldn't <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/09/12/the-ten-happiest-jobs/">be happy</a> any other way), Reality no. 2
emerges. You realise that the rest of the world demands, without fail, a consistent
weekly cheque from you. The rest of the world being; the banks, the
landlords, the telecommunications and electricity companies,
specsavers, etc. The brand new artist does not get a weekly check from their imaginary art boss. You're reading<a href="http://zenpencils.com/comic/97-charles-bukowski-air-and-light-and-time-and-space/"> inspirational Zen Pencils comics</a> to
get you in the arty zone one minute and then you're forking over the last coins in your wallet to print out
dozens of CVs the next so you can pay for the UPC bill. Joining the
nearest self-sufficient artist-atelier in Paris as the next logical
step just isn't a viable option for the artist these days.
Because...you know...we live in the real world and not an art history
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The economy does not have
an Artist Entry Route with a form to fill out and certificates to
collect so that you can be granted access into the Art Market, earn a
weekly wage and pay your weekly living expenses for various state
services and general exisitng costs. There are enough pressures out
there from the likes of Conservative Parents, Rubbish Critical Peers
(who are all jealous of your commitment to The Dream) and the
Conventional Education System telling you to go back to college/get
that masters/get a job with KPMG etc. without having to live in a
stressful and terrifying hand-to-mouth world for an undetermined
length of time. A new artist doesn't need to this myriad of voices
telling them to stop before they've even begun on top of an economy
that appears to not want their economic contribution (no matter how
much<a href="http://www.nuigalway.ie/cisc/research/creative_edge.html"> it might actually need you</a>).</div>
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In order to face this
Reality no.2, I like to regard the survival plan in two ways – you
can go public or you can go private. You can sign up for the
financial security offered by the state in the form of job seekers
allowance or you can hack it in dirty world of private industry, i.e.
Perusing the Visual Artists Ireland website for gallery submission
ads by day, very very slowly building up your reputation and
portfolio, and working in lots of call centres and pubs by night
until your sales on Etsy start to break even (which it took you about 2 months to set up because you were so busy working). Then you can maybe
consider moving to art full-time, after a term of employment long
enough and terrible-manager-less enough to accumulate some capital.</div>
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Obviously the greatest
problem I have with the private solution (which also happens to be my
area of “research”) is the obvious lack of security when you're
truly expendable (and when your manager thinks you have no knowledge
of labour laws. Or human rights.). You have a lot of work to do as an artist.
Especially at the beginning (by beginning I mean the day you overcome
Reality no.1). You are an entrepreneur as well as a craftsperson. You need to manage your precious time, build up
contacts, publicise yourself endlessly, be in a constant state of
learning and upskilling, generally learn to business, and of course,
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Working in a minimum wage job has <i>certain</i> benefits to
an artist: you have contact with non-artists, which is good for the
soul, staving off solitude, and finding someone whose auntie might like a
painting of their cat. You earn more money than if you go public. You get richer faster - more materials, more courses, more travelling, more peace of mind. “Keeping the day job” is regarded as
essential to being a working artist by some (see Austin Kleon's <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2012/02/24/on-keeping-or-not-keeping-your-day-job/">advice</a> and Hugh McLeod's<a href="http://gapingvoid.com/ie/"> list</a> (scroll down to no. 7). A dual-life or artist/barista or artist/teacher or
artist/dog groomer is an important daily mental exercise for many, like tuning in
and out of both sides of your brain to maximise efficiency and
creativity. And for others (like myself), it can leave you totally
work-drained. Even when the creative synapses are still firing and
crying out for an outlet, your poor little hands are limp and covered
in ground coffee stains.</div>
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Here is the public option
outlined - Signing-on to the dole. Which can take months. After
you're on, your weekends are spent fastidiously filling out forms and
generally chasing more various avenues of artist funding, from the<a href="http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/view_fund.aspx?fid=40fbd581-bd45-4118-9023-2bf236b9e46c"> artscouncil</a> and from intiatives from your local county council (again
hounding the <a href="http://visualartists.ie/category/jobs-ops/funding-awards/">adverts</a> on Visual Artists, what a website). Some day,
after fighting apathy and the temptation to sleep in until 2pm every day, you might just be able to
develop your own sense of entrepreneurship and make your <i>own</i>
money, save for a mortgage, and earn independence.</div>
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Here's two of my favourite pages from an <a href="http://liliane.comicgenesis.com/d/20050910.html">online comic</a> I got to reading years ago. I highly reccomend it. After a couple of years of burger-flipping, courier-ing, and being a masseuse, and surviving the
humiliation of abject poverty in Montreal as a Fine Arts Graduate in
Ceramics, Liliane attempts to begin her own freelancing illustration
business. Naturally enough, she runs into financial
difficulties immediately and is encouraged by her friends to overcome her prejudices about social benefits, having worked hard all her life to make ends meet:
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Jen Hesnan is an arts
facilitator who has her foot firmly into the broader Community Arts
network, who runs the GALCA Galway Community Arts facebook group (find it and join it RIGHT NAO), has
some great words about not only the artist's inevitable and logical
dependence on the public sector, but their necessary direct contribution to
it, community arts and arts facilitation through community-focused
programmes being her forté. Putting an artist in a community role is
a no brainer when you think about it. Doesn't it make sense for an
artist, whose job is to make art that makes people happy, should be
repaid by the community they enrich through designated public
funding? In theory?? In particular, the much maligned Jobbridge
scheme can actually offer a three-pronged benefit to the starter artist – they can get connected to a community, make both arts and
non-arts-sector contacts (rather than be a recluse waiting for their
millionaire to ride in the door on a winged unicorn or only make friends with grumpy coffee merchants) and they can
produce art in a genuine art-career setting. You are officially in the arts
sector <i>and</i> you don't have to move back in with the parents who live in Ballynowhere, Co. Isolated ! This is after the appropriate training of course, especially if you're going to be assisting in areas like art therapy or <a href="http://www.galway.ie/en/Services/ArtsOffice/ArtsHealth/">art and health promotion</a>.</div>
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Jobridging with an arts
organisation or general youth organisation is an option I had never
really considered, being so focused on getting the profession of artist on an equal
setting to other professions (which isn't necessarily...necessary or
realistic, as the more research I do reveals). Arguably, this solution is even
more effective with keeping in touch with the outside world through
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What have I decided to do?
Well, I like the idea of the Artist Dual Role and, 2013 being the
year of following life-long dreams and all that, I'm trying my hand
at a new trade that will satisfy the tech itches, the design itches,
and the start-up business-mania fascnation itches – Web Development. It's time to get serious about making the blog look good (I'm thinking that teal is a nice signature colour). I
think that getting a better understanding of the basis of the tech
market, the apparently most thriving industry in Ireland for now,
would be great to examine non-conventional careers for the art grad.
Also I found this <a href="http://johanbrook.com/business/unicorn/">article</a>, amongst others from TechCrunch, a few days ago and squeeee-d everywhere.<br />
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Aditionally, I could always make artist portfolio websites for the <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/12/the-list-art-workers-in-galway.html">artist list</a> <i>myself</i>. Gathering the Galwegian artists together on an internet platform is proving...challenging.<br />
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To conclude, here is a brilliant <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXXwYGEX8k">video</a> about being a writer in Galway on the dole, by Julian Gough and Olaf Tyaransen. <br />
<span class="userContent">"In a way, our generation was quite lucky, in
that we didn't have the option of work...if you could keep your overhead
low enough, you could explore culture; you could read, you could go to
the library, you could find out what you wanted to do with your life. It
was actually quite a luxury." </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-70431059974143824132013-01-03T15:27:00.001-08:002013-01-03T15:53:57.809-08:00Best Cartoons from ImgurIt's taken a few years, but I have masterfully constructed an internet-based network for all my art influences. It is a veritable interstellar-highway of that art-I-wish-I-could-do pumping into my computer all day, every day. This comprises of an engorged NetVibes feed art pages and art groups, a painstakingly-categorised (that was a long evening) bookmarks folder for artists and art networks, a huge list of art pages I've subscribed to on Facebook, and many bulging volumes of files for art I find about the internet that I will definitely, definitely need later for copying.<br />
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The particuarly inspiring cartoon images I have saved to my
"Cartooning and Caricatures Ideas" folder (oh, how it heaves, whilst my
"Finished Work" folder does not). These are specifically three-panel-style
cartoons, funnies and gags, not illustration per se. Anything that's .jpg and that makes me want to draw and write a better cartoon strip ends up in here.<br />
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These cartoons can have a particuarly good layout, a great sense of humour that gets me completely, a message that I want to communicate, an art style that speaks to me the most, etc. And sometimes you get a cartoon that boasts <i>all</i> of these.<br />
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All personal and overly nostalgic cartoon-taste aside, where do I frequent the most to find the very best of cartoon-commentary? That diffuses straight out of the zeitgeist, the media that speaks the truth about the unique experience of our generation? That is the most<i> relevant</i> to our times?<br />
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Sometimes, just <i>sometimes,</i> it can be genuinely productive to fall into procrastination pits like Imgur (queue the inspirational quotes for sensitive artists about <a href="http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/347979244">procrastionation being useful</a> for creatives). But I think it is one of the best places to find cartoons for inspiration.<br />
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There are lots of funny, meme and image-sharing websites about the place, but so many cartoons get posted on Imgur. Besides making me super jealous and more and more anxious to copy their style and content, I find the variety and type to be terrifically telling for art and audiences. The way I see it, the cartoons that gain the most popularity on Imgur's up-voting system are the <i>art</i> and <i>ideas</i> that are generally fashionable and that impress the current generation of user-consumers the most. Unfortunately, I won't be depending on this for an Ozymandius-wall-of-TVs-style litmus test of artistic trends for very much longer. An insular community culture has taken over Imgur by it's "imgurian" users to an extent that it's ability to reveal trends and ideas about the broader internet shrinks more and more every day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read
every tweet, but from the whole you can<i> absorb the zeitgeist</i>." - Mike
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However, one major problem I have with this constant stream of cartoon variety is that, more often than not, the artist of said artwork will not be
credited, unless it is the artist himself who has uploaded the image.
This displeases me greatly. Let that be a lesson to you cartoonists and artists to stick your name
and website at the bottom of every image you let loose into the internet. Which is why I will now post just a few of the best from my personal collection of winners:<br />
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<b>The Irreverant and Damn Funny</b><br />
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And these are a few of the online comics that I admire the most, for style, content, humour and spirit. The ones that have it all:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-10984011626150151252012-12-30T08:44:00.002-08:002012-12-30T08:44:36.191-08:00Did you Support Your Local Art Workers?Galway city was magical during that December-time madness when everyone empties their pockets into the luxury goods market. <br />
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Did artists in Galway take advantage of this money-catching frenzy? Why yes, yes they did.<br />
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I took a wander through the city centre on the 18th of December to take stock of the most obvious efforts of Galway craft-makers to sell to the seasonal shoppers. From a market-perspective this is totally relevant to my art business-critiqueing study. Think of it as a art-market-permeability and accessibility assessment <i>and </i>as a chance to showcase my super vintage fun times with
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First off, the Christmas Market:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hip border, vintage and sparkles makes every lame camera-phone photo better.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I remember a lot of bobbly scarves, wood carvings and soap.</td></tr>
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My favourite part of the Market were the cute illustrations of various market sponsers - hotels, restaurants, etc, - on
the Christmas Market barriers. So simple and so charming.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> I have no idea who did them but I'm going to go ahead and imagine it was <a href="http://www.proof.ie/">Proof </a>for now, seeing as how go-to they are for all manner of grandiose design work in Galway. </td></tr>
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The Saturday market down by St Nicolas's was operating during weekdays on the run up to Christmas. To my delight it was bursting with artist stalls. Galway city's 70,000+ population was simply spoilt for choice. <a href="http://www.dianapivovarova.com/">Diana Piavorova</a> and <a href="http://www.craftportal.ie/view-seller-profile.php?seller=36">Chris Murray</a> were the two that enraptured me the most.<br />
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Peter McManus the Framer and artist-promoter can be found at the market promoting the vivid expressionist landscapey work of several artists in postcard, print and framed form. He has a gallery known as Blow-in Galleries that is currently...websiteless..sigh.<br />
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The most visible artist in Galway city has to be the one who has their own spot on Shop Street. The only time of the year that Bryan BAM Chisholm seems to share this en plein air gallery space (acquired after about 8 years of determined art squatting) is during the Arts Festival, where caricaturists, facepainters and hair-bead-braiders perch beside his permanent easel display. During the season, he was breaking out the abstract, the surreal and the ever-popular Samuel Beckett portraiture to strike gold and lure more Galwegians into art patronage. Because it's really really in vogue to be "working on" a website rather than to actually have one, here is a nice biographical <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-N92z6--w">video</a> made about BAM and his work, and here are the photos from one of his indoor <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151069726405652.768651.328768725651&type=3">exhibitions</a> (where I got to part ways with 20 euros for an earth-toned still-life).<br />
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I was proud of the smattering of private art galleries that had their doors wide open this end-of-December. For the Vanda Art Gallery I feel the most protective of and emotionally invested in, being a permanent gallery business run and stocked by one artist - yes, an <i>artist</i> - in one of the most expensive areas in Galway to rent. I also love how commerial <a href="http://www.vandaluddy.com/">Vanda Luddy</a> has made her "Ronseal" art - iconic Galway postcard scenery picturing everywhere from the university to the Claddagh, in a clear, uncomplicated style that indicates yes you are definitely buying an artwork, you can even see the pencil lines and brush strokes, but you are not going to be challenged or art-elitist-ed out of the room in any way. Simply can't get more accessible than this.<br />
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Another artist who runs the <a href="http://www.galwayartclasses.com/">Galway Art Classes</a> (well done of your super high SEO for "Galway, art"), <a href="http://www.jimkavanagh.com/">Jim Kavanagh</a>, rented out another unit in super-rent-street for a few weeks to sell his very Irish, very likeable and ultimately sellable dramatic landscapes. All boxes ticked for a good Christmas art gift - lets hope his work now appears in everyone's auntie's sitting room.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have to say I am the most proud of this instagram-ing. I swear to the muses I am talented.</td></tr>
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Here are two galleries in Galway I've had my eye on for a thorough nosey adventure and a hearty bit of gallery-owner interviewing: Obsolete Gallery in the Eyre Square Shopping Centre and Galway Bay Galleries off the illustrous Dominic Street. Both were in full swing for the Christmas season:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Showcasing their Day of the Dead exhibtion earlier this year. Photo nicked from their expertly-utilised <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Galway-Bay-Tattoo/122092834512325?ref=ts&fref=ts">Facebook page</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Galleries with massive graffitti art influences does things to me. Speaking of which Finbar247 had an admirable and highly successful<a href="http://www.facebook.com/finbar247?ref=ts&fref=ts"> Christmas effort </a>to rake in the dollars.</td></tr>
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Also a word in for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/FunkyFairtrade/photos_stream">Funky Fairtrade</a> in the Bridge Mills. A notable amount of Galway-based craftspeople sell their absolutley gorgeous, squeee-inducing work in this year-old enterprise. Again their Facebook page does more justice to their product display than my camera phone ever could. <br />
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Also it was here that I did my part to Support Your Local Craft Workers this Christmas, an economic cause close to my heart. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pendant featuring my favourite High Cross by Jack Roberts - <a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~galwaymarket/arts_n_crafts.htm">Bandia Jewelery</a> (weirdest link to an artist's contact details yet).</td></tr>
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What did <i>you</i> do?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-41908313233107290992012-12-06T08:40:00.001-08:002012-12-06T08:57:56.148-08:00The List: Art Workers in Galway<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
First of all; Brilliant
reaction to the last entry. Thanks for all the reads, the
favouriting, and subscribes! Before I've even began SEO-ing my blog
properly and making it not look like crap. Just wow.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">Before I went off to
Poland for an awesome free holiday in Krakow, where I gawked at a lot
of architecture and pro-human-interaction town-planning and went to a
student art exhibtion (lol), I added two<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/p/artist-links.html">
new tabs</a> to my page. I am launching a list of </span><a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/p/art-workers.html"><span lang="en-US"><b>Art Workers</b></span></a><span lang="en-US"> on one tab and a list of </span><a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/p/artist-links.html"><span lang="en-US"><b>Art Peoples</b></span></a><span lang="en-US"> - everyone else related to the
visual art market on the second. As part of my overarching project to
study artists in Galway and find ways to maximise their development
and earning potential (including my own), I want to create a finally
definitive art-yellow pages for Galway City. That US study on the art
market in various cities - </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Investing in
Creativity</i></span><span lang="en-US"> - that I raved about on my
<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/11/galway-artists-and-death-of-ambition.html">last
post</a> really blew my mind.</span></div>
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When I began with this
list it was all on one tab. I quickly saw how huge this list was going to be and so now all
the art workers I can find get their own blog tab and
categories (for now, until I can afford a super awesome website).
This is also a much less lonely and neglected place for my collection
of artist pages than my sprawling bookmarks folder.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">This is the ultimate
labour of love and rampant obliging the categorisation-obsessive
Monica Geller in me. I still want to write about other things like
run-of-the-mill art reviews, comics and illustration, urban art and
make my own art (all my materials are still in Donegal, sob) and
<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/10/inkscape-and-vector-art-part-1.html">upskill</a>,
as well as work two friggin part time jobs for a few months to emerge
from the murky stomach-clenching, nightmare-ish world of post-student
debt. However, whilst the austerity economy threatens to topple and crush
the Irish Artist who lives off grants, dole and no currernt and reliable
understanding of the market that they're trying to sell their work
in, that is without a doubt the most important thing to write about. Before I start to generally gush about local artists.
Especially after Arts Council funding <a href="http://visualartists.ie/news/arts-culture-budget-2013/">has
just been cut</a> by 4% as of yesterday and artists are being shouted
at to become entrepreneurs and leaders of their own income streams.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">When I have either
more people to write for this blog or better time management, I will
do proper </span><span lang="en-US"><i>heavy</i></span><span lang="en-US">
interviewing of Galway artists to turn this pleasing exericse in
categorisation into a valid art-market framework for artists that is
specific to Irish norms of art business, based on the</span><span lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411311_investing_in_creativity.pdf"> Urban
Institute study</a></span>'s framework, which began with interviews. All these intended
interviews with my fellow artists would aim to correlate all their
bickering, opining and long weaving rhetorics about the Galweigan art
bubble into something substantial, productive and progressive. In the absense of a proper market
analysis for Irish artists (although I looking for pre-existing art market reports for this country <a href="http://artsmanagement.ie/research/">here</a>,
<a href="http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/publications/research_publications.aspx">here</a> and <a href="http://visualartists.ie/publications/">here</a>) I will collect more kinds of data to create a proper
market analysis (if the art market here can actually be tied down
into a market category, see my hesitation about that in my <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/11/galway-artists-and-death-of-ambition.html">last
pos</a>t). If my business education is to turn up </span><span lang="en-US"><i>anything</i></span><span lang="en-US">
useful for my art goals, I want to apply it to create real business
models in the arts sector that can </span><span lang="en-US"><i>help</i></span><span lang="en-US"> artists. </span></div>
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I have my <b>own criteria</b> for
adding artsy people to this list -</div>
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they must have a
website/facebook page/tumblr that they regularly update with their
progress and their completed work. An artist who is serious about
expanding their money-making potential and who <i>doesn't</i> have
an online presence or never updates is not worth the time it takes
for me to type their name (if you are established and have your own
carefully constructed ear-to-mouth network of buyers who only ever
contact you by landline then grand, good for you. Go read my other
awesome blog posts.);</div>
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<span lang="en-US">I promise to
not be a horrible corruption monster and only add my friends/people
I think are seriously cool and am trying to suck up to (of which, I
assure you, there are many). Most of the artists will be Irish
connected and mostly Galwegian for now. I must profess; there will
be a lot of <a href="http://www.socs.nuigalway.ie/">Societies
people</a>. That is where my artistic base and beginnings in Galway
began, and there are a legion of Societies people who are jaw-droppingly
talented and hard-working and who I'd love nothing more than to see
succeed;</span></div>
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Generic photo of super happy societies students
being creative and hardworking together. I do believe this was
the very first <a href="http://www.muscailt.nuigalway.ie/">Muscailt</a>
Arts Festival I was involved in - back in 2008. Ah those
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<span lang="en-US"> I will
endeavour to keep my very particular tastes for art out of selecting
and deselecting artists. Whilst I naturally lean towards <a href="http://www.willeisner.com/gallery/index.html">comic
book illustration</a>, very <a href="http://cultso.com/artist-takes-every-drug-known-to-man-draws-self-portraits-after-each-use/">expressionist
and figurative</a> art, <a href="http://www.cuded.com/2012/09/surreal-paintings-by-jacek-yerka/?wt=5">surreal
art</a>, stuff with <a href="http://www.jakobwagner.eu/index.php?DOC_INST=2">buildings
and cityscapes</a> in 'em, and graphic vector work, I will always be
proud of you if you genuinely work to make a success of your art,
even if I think you <a href="http://www.knuttel.com/">bore the
brains</a> out of me (and not in a good way);</span></div>
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I'm giving priority
to visual artists and designers. Other fields in the arts should
really find their own obsessives to build them big bloggy databases.
Writers and performers that are supplementary to visual artists I
want to include, e.g. comicbook writers, actors who collaberate with
designers, models, lighting designers, etc. I feel that the specific
field of musicians and the live music in Galway scene is a bit too
far outside of my tendrils and personal interests in write about
properly, but sure, we'll see how easy it is to guide them under my
massive blanket definition. I am generally a sucker for <i>any</i>
kind of start up business from young Irish people, so I will
probably find a way to include a lot of businesses and individuals
who are just really super cool.
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<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/p/artist-links.html"><b>Art Peoples</b></a></div>
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<span lang="en-US">This collection of
everyone else who make up the art market will include:</span><br />
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1. Artistic Groups and
Collectives</div>
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2. Artistic Industries</div>
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3. Artist “Producers”</div>
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<span lang="en-US">4. Art
Commentators, Magazines and Advocates/Activists </span> </div>
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<b>1. Artistic Groups
and Collectives</b></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Basically collaberative
groups that, whilst they're not employing anyone, are directly
assisting artists to improve their ability to self-employ and
self-manage, without selling their work. Balancing the fantastical
bohemian lifestyle with a good splash of business reality.</div>
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Love this. Source: Image from <a href="http://artspastor.blogspot.ie/2012/08/on-vocation-of-artist-part-iii-artist_22.html">Diary
of an Arts Pastor</a>, very informative and interesting article
about the "Artist-Prophet" phenomenon. Worth a peruse.</div>
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<b>2. Artistic
Industries</b></div>
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These would <i>in theory</i>
“employ” the visual artist - give the artist a commerical
outlet. Whether my inquisitive wee study ends up revealing that these loosely defined "industries" in Galway only ever seek “employees” within their own
super incestous network of ass-lickers OR that Galway artistic
industries are unbearable bureacratically fair and regulated in
terms of recruitment, I shall list them all. Include graphic design
studios, art galleries and auction houses, animation studios, art
auction houses, theatres, etc. Also I will give preference to
galleries that show off local artists first and foremost.</div>
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<b>3. Artist “Producers”</b></div>
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These are the producers
of artists, not the producers of artistic products. I still believe
that the best kind of artist is the self-taught artist, but I will
list the art colleges and institutions that run art training courses
for Galwegians and have at the very least an undeniable networking role in the art
world. Is a lack of training really a barrier to entry? Or is it a
barrier to entry within itself? Ho hum.</div>
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<b>4. Art
Commentators, Magazines and Advocates/Activists </b></div>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Artzines (which have
absolutely expoded in the past two years or so, absolutely love the
entrepreneurialism and hopefulness of them all), particuarly notable
art tumblrs,websites, art critics, etc etc, that focus on Ireland and more.
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<span lang="en-US">Obviously
there will be overlap and general blurring in some of these groups, e.g. an artist collective with their own cop-op art gallery, an artist
who runs their own gallery and sometimes feels generous enough to
sell other people's stuff on some commission, etc., etc.</span></div>
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Again, these categories
are very broad and aren't designed to adhere to anyone else's
definition and understanding of the overall playing field but my
own. For big official economic stats there are just-barely definitions of
artists as cultural economic agents within a broader economy
by the almighty Fás: see Fás National Skills Bulletin and their
many related publications on job sector supply and demand (which is
really informative and eye-opening anyway). If I ever got together the resources to
draw up a proper theoretical framework I would love to completely Porter's Five
Forces the hell out of this city. This is of course Galway-focused,
but I would love to later apply this fantasy theoretical framework
to other artsy cities like Cork and Dublin and then the greater island of
Ireland.
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Comments on all this are
totally welcome, also let me know if you want to be included in the
list, should include someone/something and/or have terrifying Galway art market
secrets for me.</div>
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Riddle me this: how possible is it for an
artist to make a living off their work in Galway city? </div>
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Impossible? Easy if you work hard? If know the right people? Are we going to assume that artists already have a clear idea of what it is exactly to make a living off the arts? </div>
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I'm not.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In my research on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_economics">artists and business</a>, I came across a terrific framework used in the
following st</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">udy:</span>
</span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411311_investing_in_creativity.pdf">Investingin Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists</a>,</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">by the Urban Institute<i>,</i> 2003.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;">Based on interview data, polling and database creation
on awards and services for artists, these six factors were determined to be what make up the <b>essential</b><b> support structure</b> for an
artist (this includes visual arts, musicians, dancers, actors, etc), that is essential for them to be able to earn money and keep practicing their art:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><b>Validation:
</b><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">The
ascription of value to what artists do.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><b>Demand/markets:
</b><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">Society's
appetite for artists and what they do, and</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">the
markets that translate this appetite into financial compensation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><b>Material
supports: </b><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">Access
to the financial and physical resources</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">artists
need for their work: employment, insurance and similar benefits,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">awards,
space, equipment, and materials.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><b>Training
and professional development: </b><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">Conventional
and lifelong</span></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">learning
opportunities.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><b>Communities
and networks: </b><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">Inward
connections to other artists and</span></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">people
in the cultural sector; outward connections to people not primarily</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">in
the cultural sector.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Bold, serif;"><b>Information:
</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;">Data
sources about artists and for artists.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You'd think they'd teach this "biznuss theery" stuff in art school, in preparation for the big bad world or art? Nope. Sure that would make sense.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span>I have to admit that when I found this study and poured over it on the bus ride back to Galway, not only was I illuminated, impressed and giddy with excitement at the prospect of building more Galway-based research out of this, but I was also unbelievably smug to see all of my artist stereotypes and very "wrong" generalisations that I've acquired over careful years of observation become fact through the validity of a research paper. Absolute win. </div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And, lastly and
critically, the “environmental approach of the Urban Institute's
research leads us to use </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman,Italic, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">place
</span></i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as
the organizing principle for our research and findings”.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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On that use of “place”
as the defining underbelly of the framework, it's time to challenge
Galway's reputation for being an “artsy” city, if we're going to see how artists are expected to heat their houses and scrape the mould off their curtains this winter.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super artsy Macnas Parade: good and creepy.</td></tr>
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The belligerent title
“Graveyard of ambition” has deeply disturbed the naive and idealistic me ever since I first heard it from the mouth of the collective cynic.
I have always known Galway as much for it's activists, organisers,
ralliers and ideas people as much as for it's compulsive
dole-burners, whingers (ugh) and professional apathetics. Galway is just so fun and free, I had always thought. Galway has a
constant magic in the air. This wonderful, a swirling cocktail of
Excitement and Potential and some other mystical, addictive substances, shot through with
street lights and neon, that hovers in a gaseous mass over Quay Street, stretching over the Corrib mouth and ends in a torrentous twister over the Roisin Dubh. This cloud is sucked in by the live musicians and exhaled in delicious smoke rings by the poets, writers and actors. But in
the realm of visual arts, whilst I believe that vision is probably abound, real production is just....limp.<br />
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That's a good word to
describe <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/11/tulca-visual-art-festival-and-outsider.html">Tulca</a> so far, actually. It's a bit...nyeh. Although I did see George Shaw, David Hepher (WOW) and Lisa Malone's really lovely work in the Galway Arts Centre which was very satisfying to my art taste buds. Also: the Galway Arts Centre is the <i>weirdest</i> venue for art shows that I have ever seen.</div>
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Now, the visual art<i> is</i> there, and it is there in some wonderful ways - see the gorgeous, properly visionary and up-to-date street art of <a href="http://irishstreetart.com/tag/galway/">Basqr and AKACrap</a> (we tried to invite Basqr to come speak and teach an awesome street art workshop for ArtSoc last year, alas he has to remain anonymous otherwise the cops will get him, so sad). The art in Galway is also there in other, more obligatorily high-brow, conventionally art-world, totally publicly-inaccessible ways - courtesy of the hard work of the <a href="http://www.126.ie/">126 gallery collective</a>. These, alongside the Galway street artists, have made the most strong and noteable efforts at getting their art into Galway's face as individual movements of art culture. They even have blogs and websites which they update regularly, apparently some art collectives are considerate and sensible like that.</div>
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But, but...why can't there be more? This is what I'm always asking. Why can't there be more forms of art (there's more to art than just blotty, abstract canvases hanging in your living room and the whole paint-wall formula)? Why can't there be more art everywhere? Why can't more Galway artists be set free from stereotypical financial shackles and go mad arting their little hearts out? This is taking into account Galway's population size, which is not big Art-scene-Dublin for sure, but this is also considering the ratio of amateur musician, writer and playwright (and yes, they've all got their NUIG Masters to pay back) to layperson that Galway clearly posesses and struggles to support. Is the "Starving artist" stereotype/reality why the visual arts just isn't screaming as loudly as everyone else? Or are they screaming with bold new art, and they are just no where to be seen? (this thought actually kills me a little bit)
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When I walk around Galway
and breathe in it's magic, I want to see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles">Art House Tacheles</a> (RIP),
<a href="http://archive.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21812&Itemid=88">converted art spaces</a>, <a href="http://theshedgalway.blogspot.ie/">abandoned warehouses</a> jam-packed with artists, a bohemian, Castro
neighbourhood with artists collaberating, experimenting, innovating
and generally saving the world from apathy and despair. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Shed is a really exciting new-ish artspace on the Docks. Sadly, it is still misused as a bizarro contemporary art space and dismal as hell on the inside. Each to their own like, but for such a central location they should have thrown the Occupy Galway guys in there and gave them a load of paintbrushes and found art, they would have collaberated and workshopped the fuck out of that space.</td></tr>
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I am all too aware of the legends of
hovels of artists hiding away,in suburbs thousands of miles away from
the action and connection of the city centre, working their asses off
to remain alive in jobs that kill their artistic
wakefullness. What if all these artists are failing to balance mortgage-slave life and artist life? What if they are giving up in their droves, under the pressure of recession-fear and pressure to fall into convention? They could be dissolving slowly and painfully into this kind of disconnected
lethargy (as our generation tends to do now), with any impetus to do work quashed by a sick and dying self-esteem, never picking up a paintbrush again? What if they really do spend their time
hanging around Neachtains pub<a href="http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056625088&page=2"> bitching about the Arts Festival</a>
excluding local artists, whilst not innovating or researching to combat the obstacles they face? What if all they need is a little hope and a lot of business acumen? I certainly know artists who fit these descriptions, and I know more young artists who are in real danger are taking up that same slow miserable march away from the hopes and dreams and away from their divine vocation to make people happy. And there must be scores more, if
the discharge of 100 art students Cluain Mhuire GMIT Art college emits
every year says anything about professionally-trained artist surpluses in this city. <br />
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Sigh. This is all very upsetting. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this our reality for artist graduates?? Also do watch this film/read this comic, it's very good.</td></tr>
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To finish off my part-investigation, part-diatribe into the struggles of the hypothetical new and energetic young artist settling down their roots in the cutest and artsiest city in Ireland (which may or may not be a real person and may actually be me and not hypothetical at all), here is something very
simple and very brilliant from the wikipedia book Business and
Artists to stick in one's pipe and smoke:</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: FreeSerifBold, serif;"><b>The
artists' labour market</b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: FreeSerif, serif;">The
labour market for artists is characterized by four things in
particular:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>• <span style="font-family: FreeSerif, serif;">There
is an extremely unequal income distribution within the market
segment. A very small group of people earn a high proportion of the
total income.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>• <span style="font-family: FreeSerif, serif;">There
is a structural excess supply of labour. There are always more people
who like to earn their income as an artist than there is demand for
them.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>• <span style="font-family: FreeSerif, serif;">There
are intangible returns to labour, so that people accept lower wages
than their qualifications would earn in a different market.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>• <span style="font-family: FreeSerif, serif;">Non-separation
of artist and work. The image their product gives them, is important
to artists.</span></i></span></div>
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This isn't cited or proven
per se, which annoys me, especially as a former law and economics student, but it is brilliantly simple. It is a good, clear
place to begin, along with the help of the in-depth analysis of the American study above. What I would love to do is verify this with real data
first off, Galway-centric naturally. Then I would like to do something to educate struggling and frustrated artists about this
reality (God knows the art schools don't bother with this tedium of commerce and technology, that's why some of us decide that business school may be a better option than art college) and,
crucially, work to eventually rebalance the supply and demand graph for artists in this city. This involves encouraging artists to move off the traditional fine-art, painter and ceramic specialisation and finding new,<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/10/inkscape-and-vector-art-part-1.html"> morecommercial artistic specialisations</a> to suit artists that are
needed by consumers and business
people (whether they know it yet or not, as the capitalist genius Steve Jobs would say). As I hope to uncover in my research, the art of a country reveals so much about the happiness and hope of the nation itself. The lives of her artists reveals surprisingly a lot about the health of the economy. On this micro to macro level, the story of art in Galway reveals just how tragically unbalanced our entire economy is and how our entire labour force, extending far oustide "the arts sector", is negligently disproportionate.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-18530108383617272972012-11-11T07:03:00.003-08:002012-11-11T08:58:42.588-08:00Tulca Visual Art Festival and the Outsider<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tulca and their logo have this really attractive urban, scratchy, film-reel feel to it. It's a good representation of my Galway winter; nostalgic, foreign and exciting in that urban way and cosy.</td></tr>
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I feel like going to Tulca
is mostly a formality. It's cultural and it's high-brow and I <i>love</i> art
exhibitions and meeting enthusiastic artsy people so much but...I get the sinking feeling that it won't light my artsy fire. That I'll be dissatisfied. Another
cynicism bomb dispells. Mostly because, besides giving in to my basic
artistic tastes, I am always on the look out for two more things when
I peruse a visual arts festival;</div>
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1. Public accessibility</div>
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2. The triumph of young
local artists over the recession and over Art-World conventions</div>
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It would be totally
unreasonable for me to suggest that the creators and instigators of
Tulca didn't think to represent these in their festival. In fact,
they did; I read the curator's piece in their programme. They're doing this whole theme of Landscape this year, which I am all over (as long as it's urban, of course, otherwise it's figurative art all the way). However I
will be mercilessly hawking out the festival for the various
gradients of these two factors, because that's my pathology. And
Tulca is a fairly traditional and<a href="http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/we_funded.aspx?fid=3410442a-f4ad-47c8-bf08-9736ff9ad8ed&mm=3&yyyy=2012"> publicly funded</a> arts festival and is not going to be nearly as accessible for the public and and
youth-art-innovating as...my...dream arts festival...would be...</div>
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I'm approaching this with the gait of a real outsider, who has a
measured interest in art and art shows, but is unfamiliar with any of
the artists or the conventions in place. But who, all the same, knows what she wants.<br />
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Tulca Artists I'm looking
forward to:
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="en-US">David Helper </span>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<a href="http://www.louisemanifold.com/">Louise Manifold </a>
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<a href="http://www.lisamalone.net/"><span lang="en-US">Lisa Malone</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.elenanasanen.com/"><span lang="en-US">Elena Nasanen</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://emilyrichardson.org.uk/"><span lang="en-US">Emily Richardson</span></a></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<a href="http://www.danielseiffert.de/"><span lang="en-US">Daniel Seiffert</span></a></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/13/george-shaw-tile-hill-baltic-interview"><span lang="en-US">George Shaw</span></a></div>
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<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<a href="http://lacatedralstudios.blogspot.ie/2011/10/dee-walsh.html"><span lang="en-US">Dee Walsh</span></a></div>
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For all of the artists I searched whose name did NOT immediately pop up
in google with a catalogue of your work; you should be thoroughly
ashamed. <br />
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All of these artists
feature the following tags – cities, decay, technical work,
nostalgia. That's my melting pot of art-awesome right there. As beautiful as a Brazilian. As for
the other artists in the festival, the descriptions in the<a href="http://issuu.com/aidenk47/docs/tulca_2012_festival_catalogue/25"> lovely free booklet</a> either didn't sway my interest or were far too dense and honestly, I got incredibly
bored reading them. I'll let that speak for itself, really. I'll stay
open-minded because art is great the way it does that to you and I
will report back if I discover an absolute diamond in the rough.</div>
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In the artists I've chosen
to get excited about, they feature visual art and photography. Not much
video installation or sculpture.</div>
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I gotta say: I'm not big
on video installations. They just don't do it for me. I appreciate
video installations in this very forced and pained way, like I how I
would react to one of our many aging relatives in nursing homes
across England telling a mumbling, long-winded, dithering story that
certainly has a lot of personal and historical importance and wisdom
but invokes no interest in me whatsoever; “Oh, that's nice. That
must have been a challenge at the time. Ooh. Obviously a lot of
effort went into that endeavour. I appreciate your attempt to
communicate with me and probably try and teach me something.” etc.</div>
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Of course I have my own
wee gripe and bias about video installations being Versus-with-a-captial-V
public accessibility. Video installations, along with performance
art, serve as those very broad generalisation stamps that immediately give the elitism and hipster-ism labels. This of course isn't fair but, alas, public relations are public relations and artworld
tropes are artworld tropes (can't wait until I can get into researching the meat of this reality, a la <a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/abovetheestimate/2012/10/22/sarah-thorntons-top-10-reasons-for-qutting-the-art-market-beat/">Sarah Thornton</a> and her Irish equivalents).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aideen Barry is an Irish performance artist who is really fucking cool and fantastical, however. She opened the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/artsoc?fref=ts">ArtSoc </a>exhibtion in 2010 *smug*.</td></tr>
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I am already itching to do
some gallery-hopping (oh the bliss) and I am also pining a bit for my
amateur Galwegian artists and art admins who are as of yet
undiscovered and un-art-festivaled and who lounge dejectedly in their mouldy semis exhaling pure gaseous
Potential (one of the principal elements on the Artist Periodic
table. Yes I will make an infographic of that) into the atmosphere,
which I bottle and then breathe in surreptitiously at night time
underneath my duvet.</div>
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The opening night itself was yesterday, I got some photos on the old camera phone, and had lots of wine like I had hoped. </div>
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Two pieces in particular stood out at the opening reception:<br />
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It was all a bit <i>too</i> networky for me now BUT I was quite thrilled
to be able to introduce a few people from various arty sectors in
Galway too each other. It's always very encouraging to see art students from the
local art school not clinging to each other and hudding in a ball of social
awkwardness and seeing them chatting to that local youth art group that get a
shit-ton of local funding or the to the various organisers and art show instigators. Yep. Great when that happens.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-80971823554393560562012-11-03T15:34:00.001-07:002012-11-11T08:58:38.454-08:00What I Want To Be When I Grow Up<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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It has happened much
sooner than expected. I'm getting a cheap-ass room in my beloved,
most beautiful, inspiring and craic-filled Galway city and I AM
MOVING BACK.
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YES.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful, beautiful Galway. Graveyard of ambition and spiritual birthplace of the craic.</td></tr>
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Well, I'm <i>unofficially</i>
a Galwegian again. That is to say, I will still be working for Dr
Gomez MRCPsych. That means that I'll be doing a Magellanic
commute every week. Why am I moving somewhere where I not only do I not
have a job, but that's four hours away from actual and current job,
you ask? Am I completely insane? Galway is awesome. It has awesome people and awesome places and <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/10/24hourcomic.html">awesome activities</a>. And, well, despite all my intentions to
solidly be there and help out the familia in their<a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/11/fires-and-boxes-of-tissues.html"> time of need</a>,
unfortunately my continual presence in the house has added somewhat
to the mania. Mammy Gomez has counteracted the “mammy guilt”.
It's a common stress disorder that is caused by
children <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/09/preamble.html">going home after college</a> and living there for over 6 months,
whilst appearing to be doing nothing with their lives. Reading the
<i>Confederacy of Dunces</i> by John Kennedy Toole will give a good insight
into the typical mammy figure versus the typical child instigator of
said disorder. Although I do like to think that I'm slightly more
helpful than Ignatius Reilly. And yes of course it was reported upon
in The Psychiatrist only last month.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being a psychiatrict journal, it has imaginative covers only rivaled by those of the NewScientist magazine.</td></tr>
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The only known cure for
this disorder is to move out and report back to mother with tales of promotions
and financial stability. This cure doesn't seem to include the
successes of <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/10/the-face-of-things.html">blogging</a>, working on my <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">novel/screenplay</a> and <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/10/inkscape-and-vector-art-part-1.html">building myself up to make digital art</a> that she cannot see. Alas. So I will
quasi-move out but keep coming back up to Donegal to work every week, because Dr
Gomez's appointment book and filing system would miss me terribly.
And I have built up the most charming rapport with the solictors.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solicitors to psychiatrists has the same effect of wooden crosses to
vampires</td></tr>
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With this dramatic change
in geography and reemerging with civilization, I finally can get into
the <i>meat</i> of this blog's purpose: alongside tracking my own personal
journey in Returning to Art, I get to begin the research and the
reporting of Art Careers in Ireland.</div>
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So, yeh, this is the stuff
I love. I live it, I breathe it, I can't get enough of it. I love
seeing artists get work. "Artists" ranges from plain old art-artists who
do twee Irish landscapes to hip young graphic designers to actors and
comedians to singer-songwriters to conceptual designers to lighting
designers...ooh I love them all. I just fucking love all of them. I love
to see artists just <i>be able </i>to do what they love whenever they
want, whether they can make a job out of their vocation (not
always possible, not always suitable for some personality types) or
by getting some kind of part-time job arrangement to make their
private art-studio escapes after work possible (and this can be detrimental to others). And when all this
happens to an artist <i>in a recession...</i><span style="font-style: normal;">in
a PIIGS country like </span><i>Ireland</i>...well, I could just die
and go to heaven.</div>
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And the latter category is
what I want to eventually achieve in Galway. Or anywhere, really. But it would be so incredible to have it happen in this city.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
This is what I wanna do
for The Rest Of My Life:
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<ol>
<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
be a
jack-of-all-trades artist, specialising in comicbooks,
illustrations, cartoons, and graphic design.</div>
</li>
</ol>
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I want to be that person
who sees my friend's novel or comicbook dialogue sheets or hears
about their general artsy idea and goes “YES YES that is fucking
incredible, let me do the illustrations/web design. OR let me hook
you up with someone who can do your idea total justice. This idea MUST SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.” Which
leads me to my next inter-linking passion...</div>
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<ol start="2">
<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
be an Art Consultant/Art Agent</div>
</li>
</ol>
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I want to link artists
with the people who want them and need them. I find this to be super
fascinating because art agency and art consultation as industries in
Ireland seem terribly hidden, clandestine, “who you know” and practically invisible to
an outsider. This observation is of course based on a lot of
google-searching. And VAI newsletter combing. Ireland as an economy isn't nearly as populous or
teritary-in-nature enough to allow for such a profession to exist
autonomously, like it can in the likes of London, Paris, New York or
Berlin. We're just too small and...poor. And there aren't enough players in the art market to connect. Well, actually no,
there aren't enough artists and art-demanders who are <i>connect-able,
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">if you catch my drift. </span>They're there...somewhere. I
truly believe that there are definitely enough good artists and enough demand
for their skills to just about achieve an equilibrium for the
art/design market in Ireland. I know it and I can <i>feel </i>it. They just need more ways of<i> finding</i> each other. And then they can make beautiful business together (yes this is a
collosally big subject and I will expand on it later).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I
couldn't find a cheesy picture of lots of artists shaking hands with
businessmen, but I found this book and it looks really cool.</td></tr>
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I'm looking forward to
figuring out how to eventually do both of these jobs in<a href="http://www.galwaynews.ie/1881-galway-eighth-sexiest-city-world"> my favourite city in the world</a>. I'm looking forward to the research I'll
have to do to get a firm grasp on the art market in Galway and in Ireland (in whatever strange form it exists in). Time to
whip out those economics class notes, those management notes might be
actually useful too...accounting notes will definitely useful.
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My plate continues to pile
up here, but I'm also looking forward to starting a
super-comprehensive minimum-wage, part-time job search in Galway to
keep me just above the bread-line (Dr Gomez's salary isn't near
enough to cover our expenses). That in itself will be super important
when it comes to getting a good on-the-floor feel for the Galwegian
micro-economy and the permeabiltiy of it's levels of industry (from foundation(?) service industry to elitist culture industry, oh ho).</div>
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Oi. It's going to be a
busy few months.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-48260041820708327422012-11-01T17:35:00.001-07:002012-11-11T09:00:36.157-08:00Fires and Boxes of Tissues<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
A lot has happened in the bosom of
the Gomez clan.</div>
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As I spend my office hours in the
doctor's surgery downstairs type type typing away and recording the
deepest despair of mental illness in cool, clinical language, my
family upstairs has exploded. The phone calls began and this
contagion of bewildering tragedy suddenly splintered across the Atlantic and
the Irish sea to afflict more Gomez's. The as-of-yet un-scathed
Gomez's across the globe board up their windows and hope to wait out
this hereditary plague.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
When personal tragedy and hardship hits
families, as is inevitable, it hits them like a tsunami; hard, heavy,
and one thrashing wave after the another. Then it leaves the residual
flooding, the electric fires, the power outages and a major life
readjustment.</div>
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And yet, somehow, when things seem so
desperate and numbing, there are straws to be clutched at.</div>
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My artistic flame has kept alight. In
fact, against all sense of decency, it has ignited. Like a
firecracker.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know these aren't firecrackers, but it's a Halloween-irony thing</td></tr>
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The thing is that I don't struggle to
get my creativity going anymore. At all. This is incrediby hard for
me to believe. I really accepted for a while there that<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html"> the fairy muses</a> had finally given up on me. I wouldn't blame them; my decision
to study Corporate Law probably didn't do anything to make them feel
welcome. I was very much the lost cause of art inspiration. I sat
through a few years of Art Soc classes sitting at my sketchpad like a
zombie, supressing low squirmings of jealousy like maggots inside my
gut. I eventually stopped attending them entirely and dabbled with
the Arts Admin side of things instead.</div>
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Now, anything gives me ideas. Markings
on the wooden floor, bites of the news, splinters of sentances,
jewelery on a news reader's neck, flashes of scenery out of the car
window, the shape of someone's nose, flies caught in the lamps,
shreds of tissue in the washing machine, half collated fragments of
memories, the shape of a box...</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
When I have a moment of repose, like
when I sit on the bus for a consolatory Galway visit, the ideas just
pour out and explode and sizzle and evolve over and over. For hours.
I can't keep up with it.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The glorious Feda Bus from Donegal to Galway. Four hours of boring? Not anymore.</td></tr>
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I am constantly reaching for my phone
to record slivers of ideas, stories and dialogues in my drafts folder
(of course, about 30% of these ideas are pure brilliance, the other
70% are strange, questionable shite). When I squeeze my mobile back
into my skinny jean pocket, I will have invariably thought of another
entirely unconnected idea and have to squrim all over the seat to
maneouver it back out again. Derp.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
I'm having a genuine Degas
moment, in the sense that I'm falling in love with everyday life. It's like being a
child again. There are stories spilling out from under the
doorframes, whilst the sadness barks in through the windows.I will definitely have to research this as it feels like a definite phenomena - shock to the system induces long-anticipated art attack? I won't like what this already seems to suggest.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Before deciding that moving back was
more financially viable, I had seriously considered a good stint of
hermitage. Cezanne style, in the middle of Beautiful Fucking
No-Where. I <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/09/preamble.html">came home</a> to discover the origins of my artistic process,
to get the addiction back and let the bug bite and
drink deep. Cezanne painted glorious rocks and fruit,
space and dimension. The good, hard stuff of being. I will have to be
like water.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The Gomez family explosion continues
unabated. I feel a little like I'm 16 again, blocaded under the stairs,
listening to power metal, and scribbling away furiously out of my
Buffy comics to cope with the anxiety of the formative years. There is now a strong sense of
powerlessness that pervades everything.
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
I am always less powerless when I am
arting.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The momentum has started, for both
ideas, and arting, and art blogging. The synapses are firing and
glowing urgently.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
So I keep filing, making labels,
calling solicitors and trying to be cool and professional (they could
employ me one day, better look good, the dreary and boring Heron
says), making appointments and keeping the box of tissues stocked. In
the office and in the house. I will keep being here for the Gomez's.
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Whilst the mugs of tea pile up, I will
keep gratefully idea gathering. The fairy muses are being generous to
me now. The <a href="http://pathologicalgomez.blogspot.ie/2012/10/inkscape-and-vector-art-part-1.html">planting and harvesting</a> of the finished products, however, will have to lay in wait. I trust
that Gods of Diligence will appear in a shower of stars and toss me
into the field with my arting boots on when the time is right.</div>
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I attempted a 24 hour comic at the weekend. It was organised by the ever-admirable and fantastic <a href="http://galwaypubscrawl.blogspot.ie/2012/10/galway-pub-scrawl-24-hour-comic-day.html">Galway PubScrawl</a>.<br />
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Well, I got to the venue -<a href="http://091labs.com/"> 091labs in Galway city</a> - about 6 hours late, so I attempted an 18 hour comic and fell pray to a very Gomez mistake -> coming up with a massive idea, tripping over myself to adequately brainstorm and physically create it, crashed onto the couch and slept for about 2 hours. All things considered however, I'm pretty proud of my idea and my execution was much better than expected. I think that this idea is worth a lot more care and detail. Here's 10 of the pages, including the original brainstorm. Most are not finished:<br />
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The brainstorming process for me, from beginning a painting to formulating a blogpost, comprises of a big A4 sheet of paper from one of my many categorised notebooks (refuge of the obsessive and of the person-who-can-never-get-any-work-done) and a big circle in the middle with the theme written in it. For the 24 hour comic, I pulled out my phone and opened up my drafts folder. In there I have scribbled every random idea that is story or art related that came to me on the the go, whether I was cleaning the chandeliers (see giant chandelier monsters) or sitting on bus (which I'm at a lot).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page 1. Cross-hatching is megahard. </td></tr>
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Two ideas have been knocking around my head these past few weeks - how I want to rewrite pretty much every film I watch these days and coming to terms with my aspergers syndrome traits. Oh, and of course, the early twenties, just out of college, mid-life crisis. So I managed to squeeze a comic idea out of that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page 2. The other 24comic people looked at this and saw a whale blowhole fetished. SIGH.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page 3. It was around midnight and suddenly CYBORGS for 3 pages</td></tr>
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I had a great few pages about cyborgs and I drew the most marvelous non-sexualised robot woman and it was great. You may have noticed that I dislike using panels - I read too many absolutely gorgeous, flowing, nubile manga art growing up and it stayed with me.<br />
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I've been at this feminism-in-comics theme since I was thirteen I discovered recently whilst looking through my old sketchpads. That's right, be<i>fore</i> it was cool. Are you getting the cyborg-aspergers metaphor yet? Also I didn't want to imply that asexuality = respect for women. That would have been truly terrible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Didn't touch up this one very much because it wasn't finished and I wanted the pencil lines and roughness to be clear.</td></tr>
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This turned out too Ghost-in-the-Shell for me, even though I did try to normalise her as a woman by making one of her boobs a little bit wonkier than the other.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is blue and relatively untouched up because I was playing with the Curve option and then suddenly BLUE so it stayed.</td></tr>
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Naturally I didn't finish this page either (I was skimming over pages and then coming back to them when I felt ready to) and those blank rectangles are DVD cases that I was going to fill in with many other films that..just could have gone a much better way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You, Me and Dupree alternative plotline. How I really wished it went.</td></tr>
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You, Me and Dupree was a fascinating film for it's lessons on Hollywood's How-To-Write-A-Popular-Comedy inventory sheets and the lowest current demoniator masculinity issues of the beginning of the 21st century. It will be studied in history and sociology classes in the future. Well, so I see it. <br />
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I also had ideas prepared for King Kong (shudder), Inglorious Basterds (at the request of another 24hour comic-er) and X-Men 3 (shudder again). This was the closest I came to finishing one.<br />
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I fucking love Ed Wood. He was the perfect character who could provide a breach from reality to the surreal and fantasy in this comic, as Jack <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/">Temple</a> travels through time and space to make all the movies he hates not crap. Also yes I am implying that aspies have super powers, because they do :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Elemental Causes that kill Artist Integrity in the movies.</td></tr>
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Seeing as the Phantom Tollbooth made me, I like to turn abstract concepts that effect personality and happiness into cartoony manifestations. Here are the 4 (I had yet to draw number three) causes of all films going to crap, in my opinion. The conflict here is that all of these causes are traits that aspergers as a syndrome fight against every day -> being aspergers means that you often don't understand a lot of jokes and sarcasm or take everything very literally, constant distraction and often ADD are part of everyday life, and aspies can be super naive and fall trap to manipulation easily (which they also often can't understand or fathom).<br />
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This idea definitely got a bit too heavy for the method I chose to deal with it. And too dense. But I would LOVE to make this idea my first definitive comic project. A comic dealing with aspergers primarily, and with surreal and fantasy elements, and the often sexist, racist, classist agenda in popular film culture.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-72114379435376019462012-10-22T16:50:00.001-07:002012-11-11T09:04:13.301-08:00The Face of ThingsFor a logo/header/brand for my blog, I've been thinking that I need to utilise my face.<br />
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Obviously an illustrated or cartoony one. And I <i>did </i>make real-life money off caricatures once upon a time, so it makes sense.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My wee caricaturing stand, circa 2009</td></tr>
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I have had one person suggest to me that I should do a vlog because my face and chat would work for that (teehee) but I'm never going to do that because no.<br />
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I feel an blog rule coming on -> making your blog accountable to an identifiable human being is important. It helps to breach the barrier between Anonymous Users I Don't Care About and People Who I Can Emotionally Invest In and Can Sell Me Stuff. Like daytime TV actors from the nineties on <a href="http://www.kassiedepaiva.com/">informercials</a>.<br />
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It's all about sticking visuals and the magnetic pull of story-telling. With your big, personable face, slapped all over your internet. Seeing as this blog is about my personal mission to get back in touch with my artness, putting a face to a story is more than necessary. It means that I'll give up a bit more <span class="st">anonymity</span> than I'd like, but I think that if anyone wanted to track me down and give me a good trolling face to face, they have more than info personal info already to do so. Sigh.<br />
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My favourite blogs have defined characters who have made their visage an important part of their blogs attraction and memorability -<a href="http://www.fluentin3months.com/"> Fluent in Three Months</a>, Self Versus Self (she is a beautiful bald artist and a lot of inspiration for my blog came from hers, however her blog now appears to be private, sad. <a href="https://twitter.com/DooneyStudio">Here</a> is her twitter), for example. Other blogs that attempt to make their writer a big celebrity leader I find...a bit mad. Probably effective, but mad. I <i>am</i> thinking of Chris Guillbeau, even though I do think he's pretty awesome and I totally want <a href="http://artmoneyguide.com/">his book about selling art</a>. I will buy it and review it.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRm36ql7Z-oX1mPaWNYK92NSIPtDIT2FFFdy7ZRFrt8wZT_RRFHhXN6114ycmtg9wcOAjV6PE3VfVQ5SmsItpzXESErYtdajbBXNEVoDgatbMV8HIfGjTCcbyUPtZ2gZ0_h7-vZ4Bysc8F/s1600/chris-in-togo-at-security-line.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRm36ql7Z-oX1mPaWNYK92NSIPtDIT2FFFdy7ZRFrt8wZT_RRFHhXN6114ycmtg9wcOAjV6PE3VfVQ5SmsItpzXESErYtdajbBXNEVoDgatbMV8HIfGjTCcbyUPtZ2gZ0_h7-vZ4Bysc8F/s320/chris-in-togo-at-security-line.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's not that I want to be you. It's that I want to be you a little bit.</td></tr>
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That's the first InkScape project decided -> make a blog brand with my face. Alrighty.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-78823553335110187052012-10-16T15:33:00.001-07:002012-11-11T09:05:25.349-08:00Inkscape and Vector Art: Part 1<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have discovered <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.artifix.pomodroido.free&hl=es">Pomodoro.</a> comprehension of Twitter remains unlocked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, as part of my artist-reboot misison, I'm learning vector
graphics via the lovely open source program, Inkscape.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yay it's Inkscape!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm methodical and
Victorian about my life (like categorising and favourite-d books), so rather than carefully picking Inkscape apart and
learning-by-doing, like so many masters have recommended, I have found this
extremely tedious and quite boring <a href="http://speckyboy.com/2009/04/28/35-tutorials-to-create-amazing-vector-graphics-using-inkscape/">list of tutorials</a> to plod
through one-by-one. Right now I'm working on this:</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kalaalog.com/2008/11/23/illustrate-a-peacock/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIq-oCPkf-UZVNIM3mHennJsuY4fkGUn_bi4SqulVhi1kVI9Z5Imc2zlT5fVh8p-CinQeHs3PPNureOnqPqNnrKrUN0Wn96RwwP6Mq_hc7Rb8p9HGwg4l8yHtgM_CKIQBR0YebYXId9TR/s320/illustrate-peacock-18.png" width="242" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look, it's a peacock.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I may or may not post up
my finished copy, depending on how much awesome I will inevitably add
to the original design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have encountered and taken in the basics behind a lot of Vector rules so far – paths, fill and stroke (which
I <i>love</i> now), dragging nodes around and gradients (eh, they're flashy but
bewilderingly complicated on execution). I'm still waiting for my visual mind to start seeing all the landscape, friends and family as nothing more than a collection of strategically layered objects plotted by many bezier curves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have manifested an absolute revulsion of layers over the years. I took the
step up from MS Paint to Photoshop a few years ago, and toppled down
that staircase booted by Layers himself. Beginning to add plumage to the peacock has definitely given me some enlightenment into the reasoning of Layers,
but I feel like he has been smugly smugging at me for years, from
atop the stairway of needlessly complicated achievement. And now it
is almost within my carpel-tunnel mangled grasp.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really need one of these. Never make digital art OR play Age of Empires without one.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The data
limits are for my wireless 3 dongle are severe, so I need to watch my
streaming and downloading digestion. Besides an insufferable
shortage of Andrew W.K-spiration, I am unable to watch and learn further from
all those very useful Youtube tutorials done by that 11 year-old image
manipulation prodigy. I always learn better through videos. Although I'm pretty sure that those particular videos
are for GIMP (or so I remember from attempting to design the Art Society
magazine cover by myself one year, watching one of these tutorials,
and crumpling into a big ball of editor-stress). Also yes, I need to
learn GIMP. Soon. That will be my Everest. Or at least my Mont Blanc.
Inkscape is my Magillacuddy.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5QDk1cSH2qHxpgZ0jsKBv5e7qxf7Lz4GDyPTWOpnq9Eadw-xq49zo-bBRPhNdP8iqn1T3w35pmdcg41RwFSFBApnjVBb-5N9SYpnTtNtLI4zcl1bC8VhZQJJieGpWRcHg6jIHnAKuKZ0/s1600/macgillicuddy-reeks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU5QDk1cSH2qHxpgZ0jsKBv5e7qxf7Lz4GDyPTWOpnq9Eadw-xq49zo-bBRPhNdP8iqn1T3w35pmdcg41RwFSFBApnjVBb-5N9SYpnTtNtLI4zcl1bC8VhZQJJieGpWRcHg6jIHnAKuKZ0/s320/macgillicuddy-reeks.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Killaarrrnnneeeeeyyy</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Becoming competent in digital art has been one of those skills that has been languishing on my to do list for
about six years. Growing more and more intimidating, as school, college and self-doubt kept getting in the way. Like learning
French or German or getting fit. Happily, getting fit is something I'm doing right now. And I'm learning <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2EADB2A431B317EB">Polish</a> instead, because it just
sounds nice and fuck your educational linguistic imperialism.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was too
half-hearted, woefully unresourceful and far too dedicated to homework and school to give this my full attention. There was also a large self-esteem quotient that held back my art. One that was to grow paralytic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Right now, as I sit before my Inkscape window, my cursor is
quivering with frustration. I am crying for a pen and mathcopy <a href="http://rhodiapads.com/">paper</a>. I feel like I'm learning to use a knife and
fork, or like I'm spending a whole semester on shoe-lace tying to
standardise the education of the whole class before we open our
textsbooks on set jumping whilst been forced to sit in a stadium and
watch the olympics. Yes, that is exactly how I feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My first completed
original project on Inkscape will be to do <i>something</i> with this blog's design (yes I know it's currently rocking minimalism now but I do like
a bit of kitsch and Laura Ashel chic so there will be<i> at least</i> a horrendously awkard
logo). I should throw up doodles about that, okay that will come
next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US">In the mean time,
check this out for the <a href="http://thedesigninspiration.com/category/logos/">logos</a> which I will one day compete with with my secretary. Romantic
sigh. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33irnLTa72YHmR465Ao_1-fO1pqFat50hELzzvILq-ey3TC1ySJRw8k822FLQPdMnFB9t-FvR8_N0DmmOgShh8D00mhxsFcBE-DGeIMwvtjN03wLy1F0R5uxVrUU7n6RFM61r6IBpy3wn/s1600/Samplelogo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33irnLTa72YHmR465Ao_1-fO1pqFat50hELzzvILq-ey3TC1ySJRw8k822FLQPdMnFB9t-FvR8_N0DmmOgShh8D00mhxsFcBE-DGeIMwvtjN03wLy1F0R5uxVrUU7n6RFM61r6IBpy3wn/s320/Samplelogo.bmp" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first ever logo. Designed for my brother's friends band.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-33795035851394210732012-09-20T16:35:00.000-07:002012-11-11T09:06:58.021-08:00Preamble<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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You know the story. It's
the story of our 2000's everyman. You live in a tiny Irish back-arse
of no where town (rather, your family does). You have your green
fields childhood. You make art all the time. You have an
uncomfortable and secluded, supremely nerdy adolescence. You still
make art all the time. Then, you go to the big city for College. You are
born. Experiences and friendships and relationships flood and whirl
around you like glorious colourful magic. It's all wonderful and
exciting. You grow delirious, dizzy and confused. You haven't made
any art in a long time. You start to hear and read a lot about the economic
crisis. You get to study it in college. And unemployment. And
emigration. More and more of your friends post on their facebook feeds
about the comedic dole-collecting videos made by their Youtube
sensation friends and about their own arrangements to leave the
country.</div>
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You walk out of your last
exam. You move out. You go home. To that place that you haven't
thought of as home in years. Maybe you tried to find a job, maybe you
didn't. You move back in with your parents. You take a good look around, settle back in front of your laptop and throw up Facebook.</div>
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I never thought that I'd
find myself in that predicament.</div>
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And yet, here we are. Back
up in Donegal. All around my bedroom lie the scaffolding and
half-constructed castles of my teenage ambitions. When I wanted
nothing more than to draw comicbooks and bring a delicious, fat
portfolio to Image Comics headquarters. How things change. How much I
have convinced myself of. Up until I moved back home, I was
contemplating internships and masters. And even...for about two
seconds...the dreaded LLB.
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**shudders**</div>
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I didn't want to butcher my
inner-child's self-esteem that much.</div>
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So, now that I'm out of
the system, there is only one left to do: make art. All the time.
Fantastic, massive art, all the time. Fill my house with stacks of
canvases leaning against each other, clogging the hallways, shelves
of resource books and magazines, infinite folders on my laptop with
cropped cuttings of jpegs and loaded, catalogued online galleries.
Nothing left but do exactly what 16 year old me has been waiting
for me to start doing for these centuries of self-development.</div>
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But it's terrifying.
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Making art and following
my art to wherever it decides to take me is monstrously scary. It is
overwhelming; full of doubt and paranoia. Forget that I'm faced with
the underdevelopment of a cohesive and accessible “art market”,
in Ireland and everywhere (I have a LOT to write about with regards
that, you'll see); the tremors and tempests of the self is the worst.
The. Worst. And for being an artist, unfortunately, it's more than
relevant. It's the deal breaker. The clincher. The figurative be-all
and end-all for real commitment to the field. And how easily that
commitment comes in and out of breathing, like the living dead. It
dies, then resurrects itself, then dies again, leaving you, the artist,
completely self-admonished.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The self.</div>
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The self-trust, the
self-discipline, the self-discovery and solidifying
self-determination. The massive self-confrontation you have to do and
the self-deconstruction you have to do, along-side that hideous
dismantlement of systemic habits and side effects about 20 years of
the conventional education and career system has afflicted you with. You're like a small nation after a revolution or a <a href="http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/i-dont-even-know-how-i-am-anymore.jpg">dog staring into a mirror</a> - you have to be ready to rewrite everything.</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
All of this art-exercising
and art-exorcising (wahey) will definitely provide more than enough content for
my blog all on it's own (I still need to design my header, logo,
profile...stay connected). Besides, there is my need to comment on
art, on art developments, on the art world and on artists, those
quirky, kamikaze creatures. On why we need art to stay
alive, on why RIGHT NOW IN 2012 art is more important that ever
(yadda yadda)...</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="en-US">For the first time
in about eight years, I have the time, the lack of dire money
shortages (I work for my mum as a psychiatric secretary, our office
is downstairs, my living quarters are upstairs) and I have the
physical space necessary to start arting the fuck out of my
generational lethargy. This is it. As Rob Lowe's character, Billy
Hicks, from one of my favourite coming-of-age films of all time, St.
Elmo's Fire, famously says to his break-down, clinically depressed
mess of a friend, “</span>We're all going through this. It's our
time at the edge.”</div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Some people go to
Australia or Thailand or back to college to find themselves. I went
home.
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Oh, and RSS feed me, bro.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611110769839865187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7774029665454042653.post-24239400397763690382012-09-13T13:32:00.001-07:002012-09-13T13:32:21.582-07:00You'll Never Reach ItWe're gonna "Hello World!" with a quote from the late and great Salvador Dali. Not because he is the only Artist in the world that ever existed in between Michaelangelo, Van Gogh and Bansky, but because I missed out of being his reincarnation by several weeks. Which blows. <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">"Have no fear of perfection; <a href="http://www.juxtapoz.com/Gallery/image?format=raw&id=37404&type=img">you'll never reach it</a>."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">-Salvador Dali</span><br />
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