Category: Editors Monthly Op Ed
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The Finals
When training camp began for the Cleveland cavaliers back in the Fall of 2015, the team did not appear to have all its championships eggs in one basket. With Kyrie Irvin coming back from knee surgery and K Love from a serious shoulder injury, training camp into the regular season was an uphill battle.
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Final Two
The gonzo sport series from #Art Journal is a candid anecdotal analysis of the NBA playoffs, leading towards the final 7 games of the contest. In the finals the Cav’s will battle for a second time against the cool breeze Warriors
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New Media
The newspaper ad clipping described the following job opening in glorious detail. “Work at a fast paced art gallery with experience in original intaglio prints while learning about the amazing world of contemporary art
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Gone
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse but to weight and consider.
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Mr.Robot
The conversational malware began when Rudy’s gentle smile intercepted her desire to secretly procreate. The CTO is a boring lack “duster” labrador who is at least 10+ years behind the tech stack
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State Of The Think Tank-Art Muse
Art Journal began as a simple proposition between a creative professional and a collective desire to tell stories. I told the young the woman on the phone the fact I find myself at the intersection between technology and liberal arts
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The Post Season
The NBA post season is rapidly approaching on April 16th, 2016 as the NCAA “phone gag” tournament has come to a woeful end. Allowing for a hopeful return of Ernie, Shaq, Kenny AKA: Lord Pretty Flacko and BBQ chicken “sir Charles” are returning for playoffs expectations, dialog and critique.
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Post Winter Review
The creative process can be seen as a convoluted mental ecosystem filled with endless resources. There is no real quantitate process mandating time and location for inspiration to occur. Rather I would describe the creative process as a magnetic field within a subsystem of possibilities
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Basketball Diary
The NBA season 2015-16 is underway with several unrivaled story lines. There is a changing of the guards from the old to the new, including the retirement of a basketball god. While the defending NBA champions (Golden State Warriors) began the season with a remarkable (20W-0L) record
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Revolt Against Reason
Our current political climate can be seen as a convoluted ecosystem. Revolt Against Reason is a candid fictional short essay analyzing the connection between culture politics and art history. Exploring the DaDa art movement which gave birth to perhaps one of the most radical uses of artistic expression ever seen in the early phase of…
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The NBA Season 2015-16
The NBA 2015-16 season is underway, with NBA tv’s lengthly coverage of real world training camp. The Bulls appear to begin with yet another injury to their star player, Rose. Who on opening day with the media mentioned his eager arrival of free agency money next year.
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Hunter Gatherer
With the launch of DSC79-All Things Web Design and Apex76 just a few weeks ago, I decided to briefly discuss a few topics this week for Art Journal. DSC79 is a comprehensive overview behind my professional development as a full stack web developer.
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Web Design Workflows | Part 3
With the launch of DSC79 as a leading resource on all things web design, I wanted to highlight a few guiding principles for the project. As I began preparing to gather the assets for the project, I quickly realized what the calls to action needed to be
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Digital Memoir | Volume Four
Digital Memoir has been a series of essays focusing on portraying a single road map. That is, the act behind communication using visual cues embedded in story telling principles. My work as a visual artist is a dearly important part time endeavor
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Digital Memoir | Volume Three
Digital Memoir is a series of short essays focusing on the process of art making, essay writing and visual mise-en-scene. Within a contemporary culture filled with Apollonian driven concepts, culled within a materialistic point of view. These articles can be seen as a form of communication tactics.
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Digital Memoir | Volume Two
This essay is part of a series entitled: Digital Memoir, a four part retrospective culled from literacy sources, fine art practice and works on paper drawings created during art school.
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State Of The Think Tank
The Long Hiatus Art Journal is a publication that keeps on growing, even though our essays are selective and curated. Between maintaining a career as a front end web developer and working on publishing my incubator #CTTDC, it has been difficult to focus on this magazine. Essay writing that focuses on merging the intersection between…
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When Abstraction Was Cool
A work of art should no longer be a mirror held up to man or nature. A painting should compel the viewer to see it for what it is: A certain arrangement of colors, forms, lines and textures on a surface { Exploring Abstract Expressionism }
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Freedom To Speak
{ Charley Hebdo is a publication with no satirical boundaries, exposing a form of parody within the human experience which must be celebrated. We define the drawings on view as works of political and artistic satire, culled from various online sources, web clippings and reference journals }
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Prelude to 50
Life In The Multiverse will be a series of 7 essays centered around fictional characters, settings and motifs. Each article will be presented in dialog written format with a corresponding YouTube silent art film
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