The Artist's Survival Kit

During the conversation we had at the end of class today, I decided that Keri Smith's Artist's Survival Kit would be a really fantastic thing to share with you all. A friend showed it to me sometime in high school--it's a really great set of PDFs you print out and cut up into little cards/notes/whatever. There are "What to do When You're Stuck" cards, a "Permission to Make Mistakes" card, and a "How to Feel Miserable as an Artist" card, among others. I like the rest of Smith's website, too (particularly her 100 ideas and her collage experiment).

Perspective types and the science of representation

An interesting collection of images and descriptions of perspective techniques from an MIT class taught by Fredo Durand at the lab for computer science.  Here is a link to the main page for the class- looks amazing.

Cyborg Bodies

Found this interesting link to altered bodies in art- go backwards also to the main Cyborg Bodies page.

Robert Lazzarini

Anamorphic sculptures. 

This information from an exhibition he had at Pierogi gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is helpful, as is this page from the Deitch Projects gallery. These have an interesting relationship to still life and to drawing, even though they are three-dimensional works. 

Mark Tansey

Anamorphic Painting- look at this from a 45 degree angle.