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This was common during the time as a way of claiming space but the Vandals were the ones whose name coined the term.  I find it interesting that the word is now used against graffiti artists."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/115379431508054847\/comments\/default\/6438808189566497970"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/115379431508054847\/comments\/default\/6438808189566497970"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/visualizing-dissent-graffiti-as-art.html?showComment=1291424753699#c6438808189566497970","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/visualizing-dissent-graffiti-as-art.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-115379431508054847","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/115379431508054847","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"7:05 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-5386793399920489070"},"published":{"$t":"2010-02-24T11:33:27.872-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-02-24T11:33:27.872-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I just found this blog - I\u0026#39;m doing a research ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I just found this blog - I\u0026#39;m doing a research project in graduate school regarding speech scrolls at the moment, and this post is really helpful. Some of the questions you were asking, regarding the paradox of using written words in religious images in a time when most people were illiterate, is addressed by Holger Schott Syme in \u0026quot;The Look of Speech,\u0026quot; Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 2.2 (2008): 34-60. If you\u0026#39;re interested in the article but don\u0026#39;t have access to online journals, I can email it to you. Thanks for pushing comics scholarship =)"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/115685042603607201\/comments\/default\/5386793399920489070"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/115685042603607201\/comments\/default\/5386793399920489070"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/notes-on-prehistory-of-speech-balloons.html?showComment=1267032807872#c5386793399920489070","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/notes-on-prehistory-of-speech-balloons.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-115685042603607201","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/115685042603607201","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11:33 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-5282039899066025394"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-19T22:56:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-19T22:56:00.000-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What makes Marla Olmstead\u0026#39;s paintings so succe..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"What makes Marla Olmstead\u0026#39;s paintings so successful has everything and nothing to do with her age. It is true that her age is much of the reason that her art commands such a high price. The irony is that if she were in her mid-forties - it would be because she is just that good.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EHer earliest paintings have the ability to explain Jackson Pollock (and all good abstract art) in a way that art critics never have and never would. Abstract expressionism at its core is intuitive, spontaneous and nonrepresentational. Pollock often painted while completely inebriated. In other words, Pollock would get blind drunk in order to paint as if he had never been shown how. Marla\u0026#39;s early paintings are so good because she didn\u0026#39;t have a filter in her brain telling her what to do or what not to do.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EWhen you were a child you painted  a tree and it looked like a tree because you tried really hard to make it look like a tree. It might have been purple and hot pink, but it was still probably in the general shape of tree. You did this because, the more it resembled the tree in your backyard, the more impressive it seemed to your mom \u0026amp; dad \u0026amp; grandparents. Once you finally did manage to paint a brown tree with green leaves there could be no going back. If you tried to paint it again, but with blue leaves, it probably wouldn\u0026#39;t even have made it to the refrigerator before someone told you it was wrong. \u003CBR\/\u003EMarla\u0026#39;s parents, at least from what was shown in the film early on, allowed her to paint however she wanted. According to her dad, his only instructions were to pull the brush not push it. This would seem to explain a lot. She was never told what to paint, or how to paint, she was just allowed to smear paint around and they praised her the same way that my mom did when I painted a perfect tree. The idea behind abstract impressionism was to paint as if: \u003CBR\/\u003E1.) You didn\u0026#39;t know how. \u003CBR\/\u003E\u0026amp;\u003CBR\/\u003E2.) You had never seen the subject you were painting\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EA good example would be if I gave you 10 colors and told you to paint your name. (keep in mind that you have never seen letters, nor have you been told which colors to use) You have only the sound of you name to go on. - Paint that.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EThe older you are - the harder this exercise becomes. \u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EIf Marla was in her mid-forties, I seriously doubt that she could paint the way she does, or at least did. In Many of her more recent paintings we can see that she is losing her ability to paint without logical constraints. She is beginning to paint faces and suns and other conscious objects - the same way we all did when we were in kindergarten, first, second, and third grade. This is sad from the perspective of an art lover because her art was abstract perfection. \u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EJackson Pollock was one of only a handful of adults that could ever have come close to the kind of spontaneous, unintentional, exuberance on display in Marla\u0026#39;s earliest paintings. \u003CBR\/\u003EThe way a child sees the world for the first time, every time - the kind of awe that adults can only experience for fleeting moments in the presence of something clearly greater than themselves, is the way that abstract expressionism, in its purest form, attempts to explain the world - not through the \u0026quot;perfect tree\u0026quot; that we all tried to get our mothers to hang on the fridge - but through an explanation that is as intricate as it is irrational and as incoherent as can be understood. \u003CBR\/\u003EAbstract expressionism is awe on fire. When done right you see nothing yet feel something. When done wrong, you see something but feel nothing. This is why two people can look at the same mountain and feel two completely different things.\u003CBR\/\u003EI agree that Marla\u0026#39;s paintings are not art, at least not for Marla. When they become art for her, they won\u0026#39;t be for us. \u003CBR\/\u003EYou can\u0026#39;t be an abstract expressionist child prodigy. As was pointed out in the article - child prodigies can\u0026#39;t express themselves. The truth is that her only real gift came from the fact that her parents never forced her to paint anything. Until her paintings began to sell. You can see evidence of this prodding in her more recent paintings, which often appear more structured and now even include childish shapes and caricatures. The truly disappointing thing is that as she gets older it will get harder and harder to detach herself from thinking about what she\u0026#39;s painting. The gift that everyone keeps telling her parents that she has will gradually disappear with age, just like imaginary friends, closet monsters,and the tooth fairy.\u003CBR\/\u003EIt is already apparent in much of her currently available work (See: Everyone\u0026#39;s House) \u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EPollock needed to get fall down drunk in order find a place where his mind wouldn\u0026#39;t get in the way of his art. Marla just needs to find a way to never grow up. \u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E...Calling Peter Pan...\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E- Graham M."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/5155534020726982552\/comments\/default\/5282039899066025394"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/5155534020726982552\/comments\/default\/5282039899066025394"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/trouble-with-prodigies-marla-olmstead.html?showComment=1232427360000#c5282039899066025394","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/trouble-with-prodigies-marla-olmstead.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-5155534020726982552","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/5155534020726982552","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10:56 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-8427482614819679799"},"published":{"$t":"2008-03-13T00:25:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-03-13T00:25:00.000-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"i'm awfully sad too, having just discovered you po..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"i'm awfully sad too, having just discovered you postmortem"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/3264033674703884502\/comments\/default\/8427482614819679799"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/3264033674703884502\/comments\/default\/8427482614819679799"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/end.html?showComment=1205385900000#c8427482614819679799","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/end.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-3264033674703884502","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/3264033674703884502","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"12:25 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-1170982082113885355"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-20T18:48:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-20T18:48:00.000-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"First of all, I really enjoyed your knowledgeable ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"First of all, I really enjoyed your knowledgeable reflections regarding the post \"Visualizing Dissent: Graffiti as Art,\" response to graffiti cleanup in San Francisco. I especially enjoyed the parallel you drew between the Stanley Steemer Carpet Cleaner commercial, where the housewife is boasting about the cleanliness of the servicemen who come to clean her already spotless house and the idea that the conflict of graffiti essentially boils down to a class-based conflict and\/or insensitivity. The increasing visuality of our culture, because of mediums such as the internet, has posed some interesting situations regarding illegal, yet controversial, expression such as graffiti. While I can understand the arguments against public graffiti, I find it hard, considering the fickleness of advertising, to reason with the illegality of the public art, graffiti. Unlike advertisements that can continually airbrush a model or even commercials that can airbrush movement to the point where the model is subhuman and unrealistic, graffiti is the real deal, an argument and expression in and of itself. It is truthful in its original form. Unlike advertising, graffiti or any other form of public art does no need to be altered to be appreciated , it is original and that is half of the message being expressed. The artists who compose graffiti are doing so because they need to express a world view or communicate a message that otherwise would not be heard. In that way it can be considered a line of communication. What right do we have to regulate graffiti, while not regulating or at least agreeing to the placement of the cigarette or alcohol advertisements (see picture to the right) I see everyday on my way to school? Graffiti inspires the audience not just to look, but to truly see the visual vocabulary and practice behind the images drawn. While I believe the strength of graffiti is in expression, I think context has the ability to completely sway the appreciation. Take, for example, graffiti placed on a white wall in a Los Angeles museum. Now, imagine graffiti written in French at a center in Montreal, on brick \"urban canvas.\" Next, imagine preserved graffiti in Warsaw, done on \"ruins,\" where the paint is slowly peeling away. These images present the importance of understanding the context in discovering the background and underlying circumstances that created the need for expression. Understanding the artist's message and context, to me, is key to understanding or at least identifying the need behind such expression. In looking at the picture to left in support of the cleanup project, a private bathroom in a home is no context or argument where graffiti can be regulated. Therefore, I see little that is actually being advertised."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/115379431508054847\/comments\/default\/1170982082113885355"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/115379431508054847\/comments\/default\/1170982082113885355"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/visualizing-dissent-graffiti-as-art.html?showComment=1203554880000#c1170982082113885355","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"CHH"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18069318548017837922"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/visualizing-dissent-graffiti-as-art.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-115379431508054847","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/115379431508054847","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-18068273"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"6:48 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-4078734101174208436"},"published":{"$t":"2007-11-14T16:32:00.000-06:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-11-14T16:32:00.000-06:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I was thinking about doing some graphic work for t..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I was thinking about doing some graphic work for them 11\/14. Wondering if the same crap management is in place that you speak of...\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EMichelle Schusher? Continues to run ads on Craigslist... Please let me know, so I can cancel my Friday interview. I don't want to be ripped off."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/5229571154467988561\/comments\/default\/4078734101174208436"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/5229571154467988561\/comments\/default\/4078734101174208436"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/orange-clothing-company-makers-of.html?showComment=1195079520000#c4078734101174208436","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/orange-clothing-company-makers-of.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-5229571154467988561","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/5229571154467988561","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4:32 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-4473019965816614473"},"published":{"$t":"2007-09-09T16:26:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-09-09T16:26:00.000-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"oh what happened!?..hope you'll be back soon"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"oh what happened!?..\u003CBR\/\u003Ehope you'll be back soon"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/3264033674703884502\/comments\/default\/4473019965816614473"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/3264033674703884502\/comments\/default\/4473019965816614473"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/end.html?showComment=1189373160000#c4473019965816614473","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/end.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-3264033674703884502","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/3264033674703884502","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"4:26 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-5169711731958666556"},"published":{"$t":"2007-09-06T10:50:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-09-06T10:50:00.000-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"that`s sad.a."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"that`s sad.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003Ea."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/3264033674703884502\/comments\/default\/5169711731958666556"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/3264033674703884502\/comments\/default\/5169711731958666556"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/end.html?showComment=1189093800000#c5169711731958666556","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/end.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-3264033674703884502","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/3264033674703884502","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10:50 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-6226110874902225552"},"published":{"$t":"2007-09-05T16:10:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-09-05T16:10:00.000-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I got screwed over SO bad by Orange Clothing.  The..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I got screwed over SO bad by Orange Clothing.  They asked me to design some clothes for them and then they refused to pay me the full amount when I gave them the work. THey shorted me 1,000.00 and a friend of mine is a graphic artist and did over 30 designs for them and they refused to pay him the $2,300. they owed him and they used his designs.  They are 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I'm not giving up yet!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/2282589230797403556\/comments\/default\/3668456081096595708"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/2282589230797403556\/comments\/default\/3668456081096595708"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/new-suggestions-for-usc-long-beachs-art.html?showComment=1185911460000#c3668456081096595708","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jeremiah McNichols"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11586987877676673757"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/new-suggestions-for-usc-long-beachs-art.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-2282589230797403556","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/2282589230797403556","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2058735519"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"2:51 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-7883308276865477383"},"published":{"$t":"2007-07-31T14:35:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-07-31T14:35:00.000-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jeremiah,Thanks for your suggestions!(Oh, BTW, it'..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Jeremiah,\u003CBR\/\u003EThanks for your suggestions!\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E(Oh, BTW, it's not \"USC-Long Beach\" - which sounds like some collaboration between the University of Southern California and Cal State Long Beach... rather it is CSU-Long Beach... or California State University, Long Beach... or, just plain, old, CSULB.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003ESorry for \"shooting down\" your previous list! And thanks for digging up more.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E_The Sacrifice of Isaac_ is indeed fabulous... but the nudity and the flying are both sort of problematic.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E_Venus Emerging from the Sea_ is too many characters - harder for them to pull off and most of them won't choose it. Plus, while I personally prefer abstraction over representation, the more abstract, or \"looser,\" the work, the \"looser\" the effort on reproducing it tends to be.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003ENote, in general, that because you haven't picked LACMA's most famous paintings, the chances of them being on exhibition go down somewhat. Also, LACMA is currently doing a big renovation and even some of their most famous holdings aren't always viewable at this time.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EOn the other hand... paintings at The Getty Center, The Norton Simon, and The Huntington Library all work well for us. These are all \"photo friendly\" museums where my students tend not to have problems taking photos. MOCA and The Hammer are both great museums, but they both get an \"F\" for their photo-friendliness grade, so we wouldn't use them.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E_The Liberation of St. Peter_ I'm actually not familiar with it. If it's on display I'll have to go see it. It's hard to see what's going on the image is so dark, but that means it could be a great painting to do - torchlight rocks!\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EOn that theme, _Magdalene with the Smoking Flame_ is an amazing work at LACMA. I took it off their list because it only has 1 character and we really like paintings with 2 or 3 characters... but it's so great I might put it back. _The Mocking of Christ_ is also amazing, but I took it off the list for the opposite reason - too many characters.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E_Dido 'n Aeneas_ - hmm... a lot of characters... but pretty cool... I'll have to think on this one... and, of course, check on exhibition...\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E_Psyche Obtaining the Elixir of Beauty from Proserpine_ - I'd probably cut the dragon (would be a disaster :+( and the foreground pair... and have them do the central 3. Even just those 3 would be a fantastic project... but there's a lot of flesh which, again, is problematic.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003E_The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia_ yes beautiful. Yes hard to do. Have to think on it.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003ESorry for \"shooting down\" your suggestions again!! :-[\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EBut hey, even if my students don't know how much work I put in just trying to come up with paintings for them... I guess you begin to see some of the dilemmas.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EOH BTW, Class starts Sept 4... and... as it happens... Manet's _A Bar at the Folies-Bergere_ is at The Getty Center till Sept 9... so I'm forcing them all to run over the 1st week and everyone's going to do that painting. This rare loan is the first time the work has ever been on the west coast of N. America and it's certainly possible the work won't return to N. America in any of our lifetimes... so I'm very excited about that!\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EThanks for your interest in our projects! If you have any more suggestions from LA \"photo-friendly\" museums, definitely let us know. 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I would love to see a knitted NYC...."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This is swell.  I would love to see a knitted NYC."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/1940848229013238766\/comments\/default\/8020709175105659914"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/29552770\/1940848229013238766\/comments\/default\/8020709175105659914"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/masquerade-graffiti-knitters-get.html?showComment=1182184800000#c8020709175105659914","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/thinkingpictures.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/masquerade-graffiti-knitters-get.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-1940848229013238766","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29552770/posts/default/1940848229013238766","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2057289825"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"11:40 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552770.post-2981303636371386566"},"published":{"$t":"2007-06-15T20:43:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-06-15T20:43:00.000-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The experiment bombed. For some ridiculous reason ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The experiment bombed. For some ridiculous reason Technorati has removed the ability for searches to be filtered by authority even as it has bumped up its official importance; you used to be able to narrow searches according to how much authority blogs should have to show up in your results, but no more. This is a truly absurd development.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EBetween you, me, and the lamppost, Technorati is going down. They rely massively on window-shopper traffic that finds them through Google searches, and sooner or later Google is going to enforce its own policies of not linking to further searches (they like to link directly to actual content), Technorati is going to disappear from Google search, its pagerank is going to tank, and the well is going to dry up very fast. You didn't hear it here.\u003CBR\/\u003E\u003CBR\/\u003EI hereby bestow upon you an Authority of 1. 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