“Everyone’s mental switchboard is on overload. People everywhere talk about being distracted, being unable to finish projects, even being unable to sit still. Anxiety and concentration can’t co-exist. Being nervous — being jittery — means being unfocused. In an increasingly complex world, we’re all yearning for simplicity.”
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“The Flaming Lips have wrapped up work on their next record, ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,’ which is set for a July 16th release. The album will be the band’s first release since 1999’s ‘The Soft Bulletin.’”
“The benefits of drawing with an attitude of learning how to see, rather than learning how to draw move the mind from the nebulous impression of what a thing looks like to our becoming aware of how it fits together, how it works or how it expresses emotion. The multiplicity of the parts, no matter how minimally represented, become lucid and to make communication possible.”
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“Who is James R. Bath? A nodal point in Mark Lombardi’s drawing George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens c. 1979-90, 5th Version, 1999, James R. Bath appears in the upper lefthand corner of the 16 1/2″ x 41″ piece of paper. The spatial syntax of Lombardi’s drawings — which map in elegantly visual terms the secret deals and suspect associations of financiers, politicians, corporations, and governments — dictates that the more densely lines ray out from a given node, the more deeply that figure is embroiled in the tale Lombardi tells.” Reminds me of The George W. Bush Money Tree XPLANE did for Harper’s Magazine.
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“Who is James R. Bath? A nodal point in Mark Lombardi’s drawing George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens c. 1979-90, 5th Version, 1999, James R. Bath appears in the upper lefthand corner of the 16 1/2″ x 41″ piece of paper. The spatial syntax of Lombardi’s drawings — which map in elegantly visual terms the secret deals and suspect associations of financiers, politicians, corporations, and governments — dictates that the more densely lines ray out from a given node, the more deeply that figure is embroiled in the tale Lombardi tells.” Reminds me of The George W. Bush Money Tree XPLANE did for Harper’s Magazine.
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