Jessie Mann

Art Appreciation

Jessie Mann is an American abstract expressionist artist. She is best recognized as the young girl who appeared in many symbolic photos by her mother, Sally Mann.

Jessie's art work is heavily influenced by her appreciation of nature. In an interview with the photoblog Subjectify, she states, "The paintings are selfless and abstract. They are more about the nature of reality—organic patterns and light, than about any specific aspect of life or culture. I don’t feel that I am trying to go anywhere when I paint, or that I am trying to bring myself to anything, but rather that I am trying to expose something about where I already am."

You can see more of her work HERE.

Black and White via subjectify

Horizons via alicewellingcmp

Sources:

http://www.jessiemann.com/
http://subjectify.blogspot.com/2008/05/jessie-mann-interview-final-part.html
https://georgewaincmp.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/emmett-jessie-and-virginia/
https://alicewellingcmp.wordpress.com/author/alicewellingcmp/page/2/
http://www.danzigergallery.com/exhibition/jessie-mann-and34self-possessedand34-photographs-by-len-prince
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/06/jessie-again
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012500556.html

Bill Owens

Photography Appreciation

Bill Owens is an American documentary photographer known for his photographs of middle-class suburbia life. There is an amazing interview by Doug Lang HERE.

via craigdouglasfmp

Richie via photomcc

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens_(photographer)
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/21445/bill-owens-american-born-1938/
http://138.23.124.165/exhibitions/suburbia/#
http://www.artagogo.com/interview/owensinterview/owensinterview.htm
http://www.gregkucera.com/owens.htm
https://christycookmoduless.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/further-artist-research-5/usa-bill-owens/
https://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/working-to-break-up-the-break-celebrate-international-coffee-day/
https://craigdouglasfmp.wordpress.com/photographers/bill-owens/
http://loristevenschico.blogspot.com/2010/06/bill-owens-photographer.html
http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/20/suburbia-captures-the-american-dream/
http://blog.livebooks.com/2009/08/after-staff-a-closer-look-bill-owens-the-distiller-published-a-book-of-art-photography-once/

Hello Autumn!

via overvanillaskies

Cosplay...Is An Art: San Diego Comic Con 2013

via SneakyZebra

Julie Bell

Art Appreciation

Born in Texas, Julie Bell is best recognized as a former body builder and fantasy model for her husband Boris Vallejo. But Bell is also a very talented illustrator and painter.

You can see more of her beautiful work HERE.

Shadows via artodyssey1

Silver Surfer via mariaxhe

Tempest via mariaxhe

Sources:
http://www.juliebell.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bell
http://www.imaginistix.com/
http://insideyourart.com/artists/Julie-Bell
http://fantasy.art.passion.free.fr/news.php
http://archivesofkhazad-dum.blogspot.com/2011/05/julie-bell-hobgoblin.html#.VFU27PnF8xE
http://mike-destasio.blogspot.com/2011/01/julie-julie-julie.html
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2013/08/boris-vallejo-and-julie-bell.html
http://mariaxhe.blogspot.com/2009/11/julie-bell_08.html
http://centaurican.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/best-of-the-bunch-6-from-various-media/centaur-by-julie-bell/

Dan Eldon

Photography Appreciation

Recently, our society has seen images that have triggered international response, such as the image of the young Syrian refugee boy whose dead body washed up on the Turkey coast.

I came across a story of an extraordinary human being whose life was taken too early. Dan Eldon was a English-born Kenyan photojournalist and activist who was one of the youngest Reuters photojournalist known for his photographs that covered the war and famine in Somalia. His photographs, which were published in international periodicals, brought attention to Somalia.

On July 12, 1993, he and three colleagues were stoned to death by an angry mob in Mogadishu. What he left behind were his journals filled with collages, photographs, and drawings of his life experiences and his thoughts.

You can learn more about this incredible person HERE.

via thealteredpage

via blakemycoskie

via howtorideagiraffe

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Eldon
http://www.daneldon.org/
http://blakemycoskie.blogspot.com/2011/01/journey-is-destination-being-inspired.html
http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-journey-is-inspiration-call-for.html
https://howtorideagiraffe.wordpress.com/inspiration-2/inspiration/

My Old Comic Book Collection

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SUPERMAN	82	Oct-93	$2.00	$5.99
WAR OF THE GODS	1	Sep-91	$1.75	$4.99
DAREDEVIL	295	Aug-91	$1.00	$3.00
DAREDEVIL	297	Oct-91	$1.00	$4.00
DEATHLOK VS. DOOM	3	Sep-91	$1.75	$2.00
GHOST RIDER	17	Sep-91	$1.75	$4.00
SLEEPWALKER	3	Aug-91	$1.00	$5.00
SPIDER-MAN	14	Sep-91	$1.75	$5.95
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