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a review of manifesto GOTT Art Podcast Series

From imperica.com: manifesto GOTT: This is a product of Studio GOTT, which in turn is a product of Vicki Lee Dillard. The podcasts constitute a series of opinion pieces, which collectively form a manifesto. They are simply and professionally executed, with Vicki reading out her manifestos into a microphone. If one wants to announce and communicate a manifesto, that's all that one needs to do; let the words flow out, which they certainly do here. Vicki has compiled her manifestos in text form, available to buy on Amazon. To read more about this reviewer: The Imperica site mixes the concepts and developments surrounding technology, convergence, Internet concepts, connectivity, multimedia, theory, and current affairs - or any combination thereof.

manifesto GOTT Podcast Series

Welcome to manifesto GOTT - a series of 12 podcast featuring the written concepts, thoughts and ideas on art for the group's consideration and discussion. I'm Vicki Lee Dillard - artist, writer, multimedia project developer for vickileedillard.com - and whatever else inspires me. My art weblog, studiogott.com, along with amazon.com is offering the manifesto GOTT Podcast Series transcripts. Just click on the various links for more details. manifesto GOTT Podcast Series - No.1: The Artist's Universe The entire podcast series contains: No. 1: The Artist's Universe No. 2: Critique No. 3: Technique No. 4: Portraiture No. 5: Empowerment No. 6: Nudes NEW Flash * * Video Podcast * * Nudes No. 6a: Nudes Video Podcast No. 7: Thoughts on Art No. 8: Reproduction No. 9: Color No. 10: U.S.A Government and Art No. 11: Art Lore and Favorite Stories No. 12: Terms - Defined by the Author Syndicate this Art Podcast on your website

Being there

If you were fortunate enough to have been born and raised in the slums of Washington, D.C. like I was, your rat-infested public school's curriculum would have required you and your fellow classmates to go on regularly scheduled school trips to places like: The National Galley of Art, The National Symphony, The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Museum, etc.

You would have been required to walk with your classmates to Constitution Ave. and stand on the sidewalk so that you could witness every parade that the rest of the world had to watch on tv.

Like the parade for The Mercury 7 astronauts and their families, featuring John and Annie Glenn, riding in an open car with Vice President Johnson, who waved to all of us standing out there in the rain on that wet, chilly day in February, 1962

JFK's inaugural parade in '61, and then his untimely funeral procession in August of '63 - the caisson, the horses, the indescribable air.

And having to go to The Lincoln Memorial on that hot August day where we listened to Martin Luther King, Jr speak about having a dream.

Now here's my point. Being there. That's the main point that I want to make before I finish. Being there.

I was a little girl on one of those class trips to The National Gallery of Art. I wandered off and got lost. When I finally stopped wandering and turned around I was directly in front of Manet's "The Dead Toreador" - and flew right out of my body. In fact, I felt like I was floating along-side the painting, instead of feeling the floor below my feet.

This, as weird as you may think it is, is simply a true story about a little girl having an enormous aesthetic response to a powerful work of art.

As Father's Day approaches, how about foregoing the necktie and instead give the gift of a family museum membership. Maybe create an enormous aesthetic memory for your family.

Just being there, that's all it takes!

p.s. support art programs in public schools!

There goes the neighborhood!

MAC-rosoft - there goes the neighborhood! - finally!

Let's face it, most artists, musicians, graphic developers, console and online video game production companies, multimedia geeks, and uber animators use Mac OS first - and anything else as sloppy-seconds pity code.

Abobe is now the incestuous step-mother to Macromedia.

Hopefully this marriage of convenie . . . aah commerce ($3.4 billion) will finally initiate the disinheritence of some of the skeletons in the closet, or the red-headed step-children softwares on both sides (Director, Authorware, Fireworks, Atomosphere, Encore, Photshop Elements, etc.).

It's really time for more assessable 3-D and animation multimedia software, and how about a Flash-Adobe Player that will override FireFox's inexcusable unwillingness to publish Flash .swf files online?

And pla-eeese, keep the Flash Player spyware-free!

Flash IS the standard, like it or not - Swish is NOT Flash!

And to all you Flash-haters out there, well, this may be the new family that you will be proud to discover on your geneology-financial protfolio.

When the day comes that Mac and Linux marry - well now - I'll definitely be at that wedding with bells on!

Bravo "My California!"

Way back in July (2004) my son and I attended an event hosted by Village Books in Pacific Palisades that included readings by Carolyn See and David Kipen from "My California." What makes this my April 2005 posting, some nine months later, is this: All of the contributing authors have donated their work so that proceeds from this special anthology can benefit the ongoing embattled California Arts Council.

The very recognizable cover of "My California" is "Pearblossom Hwy. 11-18th April 1986 (second version) 1986," graciously donated by David Hockney and the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles.

Purchase "My California."

Upcoming "My California" events:

April 10: The Glendale Public Library:" Join Aimee Liu and Carolyn See and Angel City Press Publisher Paddy Calistro at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 10 at the Glendale library, 222 E. Harvard St.

April 10: The Long Beach Museum of Art: join contributors Edward Humes, D.J. Waldie and David Kipen and anthology editor Donna Wares at The My California salon at the museum, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd.

April 24: The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. Sunday, April 24. join T. Jefferson Parker (11 a.m.), Carolyn See (11:30 a.m.), Hector Tobar (noon), Chryss Yost (12:30 p.m.), Pico Iyer (1 p.m.), D.J. Waldie (1:30 p.m.), Aimee Liu (2 p.m.) and other My California contributors at the Angel City Press booth (#317) on the plaza near Royce Hall.

June 12: The El Segundo Author Fair hosted by the El Segundo library. JoinMy California authors Edward Humes, David Kipen and D.J. Waldie on the California panel.

Jacko

A subjective rendering of a programmed identity:
(see the background image labeled "jacko" to the left)

One angry eye - one sensitive - both looking into the black dimension.
Flashing the peace sign - while on insecure footing.
More white in the black dimension - more black in the earth-tone dimension
Leaning slightly away from the black (as though being pulled) - yet on stronger footing.
Displaced in both dimensions.
Disproportionate facial features and the carved-out empty space they once filled.
One hand "gloved" in a separate color.
Asymmetrical - asexual . . . ?
Bare and exposed.
Sad.

embrace art!

~~NOTE: give me a day or two to finish the LOS ANGELES, etc. list~~
* * * UPDATE: 3/27/05 - I got a mention on my favorite Los Angeles ART weblog: artblogging.la
Check it out!

Peace

EYES WIDE OPEN:

Southern California dates:

Saturday, March 19
International Day of Remembrance and Action (second anniversary of start of Iraq War)
Westwood United Methodist Church

Sunday, March 20
Santa Monica Beach by the Pier

sign the petition - spread the word
see the film short "EYES WIDE OPEN"