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These days,
there’s really not that much interesting to watch on television…
I shot this video the other day: wondering what the famed Danish arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen would have spent his time doing during his trips up north.
Remember, this was before the time of the Jedi…
Knud now spends his days looking at the Baltic sea from Skovshoved north of Copenhagen.
His statue was placed there in 1963.
I was watching an artist being interviewed on Danish television DR2 the other day. The host started asking questions about technique and how the artist creates his work. This was all good up until a certain point when the artist had to stop the host. He simply would not answer any more questions about his method.
Why?” asks the host.
“Well, if I told you, you could just go home and copy my work” he replies.
Sure, there’s a craft in CREATING art, but chalking the value of your art up to some industrial secret seems sad.
Sure, anyone who wanted to spend their life praticing their craft so that they could be copying your work could do so, but to them I say – “Enjoy your life!”
So whats the secret about the value of art? The secret is that there is no secret. No one can copy your creative spark. A copy of Van Goghs sunflowers is well – a copy.
I got the feeling this artist was scared his art might lose its value if he told everyone how he made it.
Corporations often use so called Non Disclosure Agreements NDA’s to ensure that industrial secrets shared with business partners are not divulged to third parties. This makes sense since the value of a company rests on knowhow, patents etc.
Take The Coca Cola Company which fiercely protects the recipe for Coca Cola because this recipe is what makes Coce taste the way it does. What would happen if another company could claim that they make the exact same product?
Well obviously there is also the matter of branding, shaping the bottle etc., but clearly the value of the The Coca Cola Company would deteriorate.
What about artists then?
What happens when someone copies your method?
I hope you copy mine is all I’m sayin’
Enjoy this beauty as she emerges in 8x speed! Music by Bon Iver because his music is great. Go buy his album everyone. Seriously!
Dear friends, speed rocks!
enjoy this speedpainting video of the making of Mendelssohn.
Awesome music by st. Germain, I am sure Mendelssohn would like it.
I know it’s getting late in the year, but having spent most of the tuesday evenings this fall rehearsing Mendelssohn psalms with the choir “Koncertforeningens kor” I just had to make a portrait of the man who was born on feb 3. 1809 and wrote his first symphony at the age of 12.
Hopefully this portrait will also appear as the cover of the soon to be released cd by “Koncertforeningens kor” directed by Steen Lindholm. Enjoy!
Best regards, Carl
Dear friends,
I spent some time the other afternoon experimenting with some 2 bit sketching.
Enjoy this lovely naked lady as she emerges in front of your eyes.
Best regards, Carl
At home I have several binders full of old photographs; happy days, sad days and all the stuff in between.
Yesterday was a great day: Celebrating my wife Annes birthday at home and with her family.
I love photos, don’t get me wrong.
But sometimes the best way to catch the essence of someone else is by not being accurate. Painting is not a replacement for cameras. There’s just no comparison to a digitally enhanced Nikon D3X photo, so no point in trying.
No way.
Besides, Hanging a 60×60 cm. photo of yourself in the living room might seem a bit self-absorbed.
A painting however can pull it off )
Enjoy!
I don’t have much more to say about MJ. Many things were said yesterday at the memorial in Staples, California, and now Paris Jackson is EVERYWHERE in the news, youtube etc. I recognize the HUGE impact Mj has had on the music industry and society as a whole.
But come on! It’s just too much. Seeing the RAY-BAN wearing Jacksons huddle up around this poor girl and staging this vigil as some sort of redemption-show for a truly dysfunctional family makes me want to vomit.
I truly wish that the three children MJ left will be spared of any further traumatizing publicity stunts.
This is the second painting in the series “Naked People” that I have set out to create during the next few months. While sticking to a motif that is universally understood and recognized, in this series I intend to explore the role of art and how art can be applied as a force of change.
Surely art can be used as a pretty piece to be hung on the wall above the couch. I’m sure many would agree that the lady to the right is a thing of beauty, but is that enough? There are conflicting emotions at work: on the one hand we enjoy beauty, on the other we shun “bad taste”. Hanging a Pirelli calendar in the livingroom would by some be considered bad taste, while a poster of Monet’s Nympheas signifies “good taste” in the absense of the cash to actually buy the real thing.
Few things are as disarming as the figure of a beautiful human body. Few things create more spontaneous conversation, and few things stick better in our memory.
Surely art can be something pretty to hang on the wall, but when art accomplishes to disarm us, create conversation and stick in our memory, we’ve come a long way.
The best way to start is to have started already. Now how can we do this when we are staring at a blank page, or facing a white canvas? Or starting a new blog or building a webpage? Don’t start from scratch, build on something!
Now where does that something come from? You either created it already or go create it now. But do it without deliberation, do it using your intuition, do it spontaneously. Attack that pesky blank page with a stream of consciousness. Prime your canvas with colors . Write a post about yourself, put some pictures on your site.
Sethwrites about sprinting. This way you get rid of your internal dialogue and avoid getting scared too!
Just do it and lose your ambitions- you can worry about those later.
The great thing about having something to build upon its that it makes it easier for you to keep going. Its OK now, you’ve ruined it already, it can only get better. Relax, don’t start from scratch.
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