I am still struggling hard to activate all of the components of this site in such a way that everything works smoothly, without compromising on design. One of those components is the possibility of having a live broadcast and this is the reason I was glad to discover that there is a new application for iPhone that is supposed to do just that. It is called Ustream and promises to be an awesome app but for now it is really not so useful for me since it still has many shortcomings, one of the biggest is the fact that it works only with wi-fi connection which I do not have at home. My portrait of Picki is still in progress and I thought it would be cool to let you peek over my shoulder but, as I said, it will wait until I arrange the Wi-Fi connection in my studio. On the other hand, since I sketch on a regular basis in café’s, it could be quite cool to use it there. Maybe tomorrow I will experiment a little more and see where it will lead.This afternoon I am going to help an organization in a workshop setting to visualize whatever topic they will discuss. I still have no idea what are the details but after I finish it tonight I will post about it. I am quite excited because one of my long lasting interests is in this area of using Art as a tool for enhancement and development of creative, visual thinking in many other areas of life .I believe, it is important for the artists to get out of their self enclosed ghetto of doing art for the Arts sake.
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Yes Josef, I agree in many points and it will be very interesting to look over your shoulder when you painting or in the coffeebar. The last word I can not traduce and it is a important word:…. Art sake. What is sake? Can you put a other word there? If you want to say: “… going out of the ghetto of doing Art for the Art itself.” Then I have to contradict
Because the relation of Art (visual, acustic, letters, tactil, dance) produced by human is in itself everytime perceptible for other humans. And a artist is for one side in contact with other humans, in the other side in a historical and social situation wich is changing every day, and maybe need a new answer. A artist can strongly work for audience, push the echo, “please like my work, I do what ever you want” thats often when they have to live from the art. Or they find a balance where the work is good for audience a n d has a strong internal importance what not has to be mentioned, but the artist has to know it inside himself. mmmm do I explain it with my english or better make a video? 
I have to explain one point more detailed: …. ” i do what ever you want” is ok when it is a job and thats important. To do it with dignity and joy and love to the subject ( a frontpage of a book, cd etc) Thats great to do that. What I am sceptical is, when a Artist paint from exactly the same painting one in blue, one in red, one in gree, one in yellow (often in houses of furniture) with the desire that the painting may harmonize with the curtain, the carpet, or the furniture. “If you dont want the flower in red, i make it in blue for you”. Thats ok that he make it, but he in hisself has to look if his working with a attitude of photoshop software: You dont like the blue – click – here you have it in red.
Hi Oliver
I can understand your English very well.
The famous slogan that was kind of a credo of the modern art
“Art for Arts sake” was at least in the beginning a very beneficent revolutionary idea that allowed the artists to get out of the role of decorators and makers of the beautiful things for the glory of the rich and the powerful. But look at the Art world today and look at the prices artists like Damien Hirst that commands millions of pounds for an auction of his own art and see how seriously twisted the meaning of this slogan has become. but you know what…let me answer you with another post on this subject.
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