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Posts tagged "doodling"
scribbled in the lounge at the Embassy Suites hotel in Austin, Texas, during an interview at South By Southwest, which explains the beverage stains.
A visual history of Richard Nixon getting lazier
Lazier, or crazier? (Or both?) cf. Nixon’s doodles.
(Source: peterfromtexas, via megustamemes)
David Shrigley: The Art of the Doodle - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
In February, London’s Hayward Gallery will mount a major survey of his work. To stuff the show with new art, he says, he had to trick himself into thinking he wasn’t actually making art at all.
In a spiral notebook, he jotted down 180 ideas for 180 pieces. Most consist of a few purposely cryptic words, intended as jumping- off points. No. 116 is ‘‘sea monster smiling’’; others are equally open-ended: ‘‘sword fight,’’ ‘‘dog on its hind legs,’’ ‘‘William Shakespeare.’’ ‘‘I try not to think too hard about what I’m doing,’’ Shrigley says. ‘‘I’m just crossing things off a list and fi lling a page, and the work gets made as a byproduct of that task.’’
…The overall effect is like discovering the sketchbook of a boy who taught himself to draw while locked in a basement. ‘‘I’m not trying to draw badly,’’ says Shrigley, who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art. ‘‘I’m just trying to draw without any consideration of craft.’’
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1910 extortion letter written by George Pavlick of “The Black Hand,” featuring bad Italian accent and doodles!
Hilarious. Thanks to Katharine Mead for sending it to me!
Derek Boshier, “Drawing Lines Around Things Is A Sign Of Madness” (1972)
Probably not a nod to Nixon’s doodles, but I like to think so.
(Thx, defacedbook)
As a Doodler, you will join the small creative team responsible for the Google homepage logos (google.com/logos) that surprise and delight hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
Dare to dream.
Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art
Via a post about the book by that name, from 1996, by Carl Schuster and Edmund Carter.
Fascinating:
According to Schuster, tribal designs such as the ubiquitous zig-zag motif and artifacts such as “Y-posts” are really attempts to record family lineage, not meaningless doodles or objects meant for play. Of the continuous patterns generally used in ceremonial and even everyday garments Schuster remarks, “This is a graphic representation of the puzzle of procreation itself, in which there is neither beginning nor end.”
