a place to work, nothing fancy
Sunday, February 22, 2004
This weblog is no longer updated. Go to my home since Oct. 2003:
http://chrisashley.net/weblog/
Tuolumne 20031117, from the drawing series Places I Have Slept
After exactly three years a place to work, nothing fancy is now an archived weblog; while no longer updated, the entire past three years of daily posts are still available.
This weblog was founded on February 21, 2001, and evolved from a place to write about education and technology to writing of a more personal nature, finally becoming a kind of art studio, gallery, and archive for HTML drawings.
As of February 22, 2004 my work is now split between two weblogs.
AtWork is a weblog dedicated, for the most part, to education, technology, and the UC Berkeley Interactive University Project.
LookSee is a space for the continuing series of HTML drawings and art-related posts.
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Saturday, February 21, 2004
Friday, February 20, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Monday, February 16, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Sunday, February 15, 2004
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Rothko multiforms, 1949, PaceWildenstein, NY, now.
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Saturday, February 14, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Friday, February 13, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Thursday, February 12, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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Chris Knipp pretty much speak for me in this well-written piece: The Case Against Bush.
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. On February 22 I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, LookSee.
Monday, February 9, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, a (new) place to work, nothing fancy.
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The drawing archive list has been updated:
Drawings Series
- Short Story Drawing Series, July 2002,
Compilation
[14] [15] [16]
[17] [18]
[19] [20] [21]
[22] [23]
[24] [25] [26]
[27] [28]
- 5
Drawings: Sea Ranch, August 2002
- AFFABITS:
alphabetdrawings, September 2002
- Nine:
writing & drawing, September 2002
- Red I-IX (Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?)
- prayerflags: rockofages (edited compilation) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Sept-Oct, 2002
- The
Asian Influence In Drawing, drawings & text, October 2002
- Every
Sentence Makes A Difference; writing & drawing, November 2002 (also at Rudolf's Diner)
- People
I have known, Nov-Dec 2002
- Gallery views: I,
II, III,
IV, V,
VI, VII,
VIII, IX,
X, XI,
XII, XIII, XIV, Compilation of all XIV, Jan 2003
- Hippie Dreams I-XII, Feb-Mar 2003
- Mojave Drawings, March 2003
- Regime Change, April 2003
- Stacks & Clumps, June-July 2003
- Stacks & Text, June 2003
- Spring Drawings, April-May 2003
- Crosses, April-May 2003
- Places I Have Slept, August 3, 2003 - November 21, 2003
- Nine Teachers, November, 2003, for Rudolf's Diner
- Smokey Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Wilson, Mookie Wilson, November, 2003
- Hands, December, 2003
- Mexico, December, 2003 - January 2004
- Arhats (small versions), January, 2004
- Arhats (large versions), January - February, 2004
- An explanation: What's with the colored blocks?
Sunday, February 8, 2004
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, a (new) place to work, nothing fancy.
Saturday, February 7, 2004
Cudapanthaka
(Arhats)
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This is the sixteenth and final Arhat drawing. I have compiled all 16 as a single entry. I have some more to say later about how these came about and the problems I set for myself in this series.
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, a (new) place to work, nothing fancy.
Friday, February 6, 2004
Ajita
(Arhats)
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Link from Tom Moody: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Dance Music. Fun, neat mapping, lotsa content.
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, a (new) place to work, nothing fancy.
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Vanavasin
(Arhats)
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See list of Scholar's Box Project-related writing topics.
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Countdown to three year anniversary of this weblog, and its change from active to archive: Feb. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. I'll be switching over to the workblog, AtWork, and the artblog, a (new) place to work, nothing fancy.
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Angaja (Arhats)
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Nagasena (Arhats)
Monday, February 2, 2004
Rahula
(Arhats)
Sunday, February 1, 2004
Panthaka
(Arhats)
Saturday, January 31, 2004
Jivaka
(Arhats)
Friday, January 30, 2004
Vajraputra
(Arhats)
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Kalika (Arhats)
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Lloyd has hit on something beautiful, poetic, and visually arresting with a couple of more recent photo postings [1] [2 (scroll down to A Scene Out of MYST)]: scale differences, juxtapositions of details or focused views with wide views, evocative texts. Nice.
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I have a new weblog for work: AtWork.
Any day now, I promise, I swear, this weblog will be frozen, and the drawings will move over to the newblog.
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So much for shock and awe: Army May Keep Forces in Iraq Through '06.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Bhadra (Arhats)
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More dead soldiers. See the count- around 524.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Nakula (Arhats)
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Lloyd: beautiful pix and text, great display.
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Where does a painting, and more specifically, an abstract painting, fall, when it's not just busy being itself, between metaphor and analogy?
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Jerry Saltz on Arshile Gorky:
I revere Gorky's work. Yet sadly, I know this is not his time. His forms look erotic to me, or otherworldly in very real ways. And his touch is scintillating. Yet to younger artists these days, Gorky comes off as relentlessly abstract, too rigorous, serious, pure and formal. Nowadays, his hard-won surfaces and meticulous shapes strike people as labored or too idealistic. His phantasmagoria comes off more platonic than it is.
Sounds great to me. Guess I'm not a young artist anymore.
Monday, January 26, 2004
Subinda
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Kanakabharadvaja
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Kanakavatsa
Friday, January 23, 2004
Pindolabharadvaja
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Arts Research Center Annual Conference : When Is Art Research?
February 6, 9am-5pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
Free admission
When the Arts Research Center was established at UC Berkeley in 2001, its stated
goal was to "create a deeper appreciation within the academic community
of art-making as a vital form of research that both interprets and re-imagines
our world." This year's ARC conference will advance this mission by focusing
on what research means to practicing artists. Some questions that may be addressed
include:
- What constitutes research for the artist and what typical roles does it
play in the finished product?
- What is the focus of the participating artists' inquiries/experiments/explorations?
- To what degree do they see what they're doing as contributing to an inquiry
that others are also pursuing? Is their work "in conversation" with
the work of others?
- To what degree do they find the term research useful or accurate in describing
what they do? What are the term's limitations as applied to artists' work?
- For artists who operate within research universities, how does this environment
and its definitions or expectations of research effect or modify their creative
practice? Are there other "environmental" factors (for instance,
the pressures of fundraising) that influence the role of research in an artist's
work?
- Are there certain artistic media, techniques, or forms that are easier or
more difficult to conceive as research? What is it about certain activities
that makes them amenable to being perceived in this way?
Visual Arts as Research, 11:15am
Squeak Carnwath (panel chair), Professor in Residence, Art Practice, UC Berkeley
Greg Niemeyer, Assistant Professor, Art Practice/New Media, UC Berkeley
Anne Walsh, Assistant Professor, Art Practice, UC Berkeley
John Zurier, painter
Melissa Day, MFA candidate in Art Practice, UC Berkeley
Thursday, January 22, 2004
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[2] Ajita has the head covered and the hands
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[3] Vanavasin with the mudra of explication
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[4] Kalika holds a gold earring in each hand.
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[6] Bhadra performs the mudras of explication and meditation. |
[7] Kanakavatsa holds a jewel lasso in both hands. |
[8] Kanaka Bharadvaja has both hands in meditation. |
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[10] Rahula holds a jewelled tiara. |
[11] Chudapantaka has both hands in meditation. |
[12] Pindola Bharadvaja holds a book and begging bowl.
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[14] Nagasena holds a vase and staff. |
[15] Gopaka holds a book. |
[16] Abheda holds a stupa. |
16 Arhats
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
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[2] Ajita has the head covered and the hands
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[3] Vanavasin with the mudra of explication
and holding a fly whisk. |
[4] Kalika holds a gold earring in each hand.
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| [5] Vajriputra with a fly whisk and hand gesture. |
[6] Bhadra performs the mudras of explication and meditation. |
[7] Kanakavatsa holds a jewel lasso in both hands. |
[8] Kanaka Bharadvaja has both hands in meditation. |
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[10] Rahula holds a jewelled tiara. |
[11] Chudapantaka has both hands in meditation. |
[12] Pindola Bharadvaja holds a book and begging bowl.
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12/16 Arhats
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
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[2] Ajita has the head covered and the hands
in the meditation mudra. |
[3] Vanavasin with the mudra of explication
and holding a fly whisk. |
[4] Kalika holds a gold earring in each hand.
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[6] Bhadra performs the mudras of explication and meditation. |
[7] Kanakavatsa holds a jewel lasso in both hands. |
[8] Kanaka Bharadvaja has both hands in meditation. |
8/16 Arhats
Monday, January 19, 2004
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[2] Ajita has the head covered and the hands
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[3] Vanavasin with the mudra of explication
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[4] Kalika holds a gold earring in each hand.
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4/16 Arhats
Sunday, January 18, 2004
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