This is an amazing calendar highlighting the birthdays of "Great Gals," both historical and contemporary figures, from artist Summer Pierre. Full details on the calendar can be found here.
Art
A slideshow essay on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip.
A review of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
And a look at the Close Encounters of the Third Kind DVD extras.
Pictures from the 2007 Conflux Festival Block Party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this past Sunday. More details on all events and art and talks that went on Sept. 13 thru Sept. 16 can be found at the festival website.
That’s Christina Ray, founder of Glowlab and Conflux Festival Director.
The artist Ellis G. at work.
The art and blog of Mary Daniel Hobson.
My Moxie Life — “The life of a city girl living in the Ozarks.”
Michele Martin’s Bamboo Project.
The Holga Chic Flickr group.
Jenene Chesbrough’s photography site and Flickr stream.
Conflux — the annual festival for contemporary psychogeography — is happening this Thurs, Sept. 13, thru Sunday, Sept. 16, in NYC. All kinds of art adventures and ventures will be happening in different locations (mainly in Williamsburg) to explore in very unique ways the urban space and landscape. Read more about the Conflux here, and take a look at the schedule so you can plan which things you’d like to take in. Also check out the site’s news section, as there are still open calls for participation in case you want to step your involvement.
A couple months back Etsy had put out a call to Etsy Artists for art to hang on an empty wall at Etsy Labs. Here’s the wall, as of early August. The good news is there is still plenty of wall space, so the Etsy Labs Wall Project is now an ongoing venture. You can continue to send in your work under the original guidelines.
Artists, photographers, and writers examine the broken heart in the Untitled Love Project. Think about contributing a piece of yours.
Kirsty Hall is currently involved in a year long mail art project — The Diary Project. She’s drawing on the outside of an envelope, putting something secret inside, and mailing it to herself each day for all of 2007. The envelopes will remain unopened until they can be exhibited as a whole artwork, at which point members of the public will be invited to unseal the envelopes and reveal what is inside of them. Once unsealed, the contents of the envelopes will be posted on the The Diary Project site. Right now at the site you can view the beautiful artwork drawn on the outside of the envelopes. Very cool project! (Which, by the way, I discovered through the What’s Your Project Flickr group — Thanks for posting to the group!)
Andre Jordan’s hilarious doodle poetry at A Beautiful Revolution.