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Camilla d’Errico’s career as a painter began in 2006, when she participated in a few shows at Vancouver’s Ayden Gallery in Tinseltown. Since early 2007, Camilla d’Errico has been a regular participant in group shows in the Los Angeles galleries Thinkspace, Copro Nason and Gallery 1988. She is among the group of female artists including Audrey Kawasaki, Amy Sol, Sarah Joncas, and Stella-im-Hultberg, who paint females as their subjects.

One of the main features of Camilla d’Errico’s paintings is the emotional complexity evident in each character and the fact that every girl always shows a different and intriguiging mix of emotions.

“SOUR HEARTS & SWEET TARTS”
Featuring new works from: Camilla d’Errico & Sarah Joncas
Runs 01-11-08 through 02-01-08

Thinkspace Art Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
(323) 913-3375

Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga by Comickers Magazine, may help you create the next big Manga title by offering visual step-by-step guide to the tools and techniques of drawing Manga from an authoritative source on Japanese comics.

The Art Of Moneygami - Origami With Bills.

Crying is a powerful act; taking a photograph of oneself crying and putting it on the Internet is another matter entirely. It is a very specific cultural phenomenon and is in many ways much like a performance. As such, the title of this project is borrowed from a piece of the same name made by the Dutch performance artist Bas Jan Ader in 1970. His piece consisted of a silent 16mm short black and white film of himself crying uncontrollably with no explanation. Regardless of the authenticity of his tears, his grief is overwhelmingly real. It is at once hard to watch, mesmerizing, and beautiful.

“I’m Too Sad To Tell You (after Bas Jan Ader)” was originally conceived as a project to create an archive of self-portraits taken while crying. The images were to be displayed online on a website and then later made into a book. An open call was posted on the photo sharing community Flickr.com asking people to submit their crying self-portraits over the period of one month.

A red clothbound collection of the works of Mark Ryden. This Japanese language book features new works, including Blood, Sweat, Tears, and The Creatrix, and a survey of 55 of Ryden’s most impressive works from past shows to the present.

One of my favorite little books sitting on the bookshelf.

The work of Japanese artist Fuco Ueda is absolutely amazing.

‘Fuco paints with acrylic and powdered mineral pigments on paper, or on cloth on wood. The heroines of her paintings are often on the brink of danger. These beauties are at once victims and agents. But whether the threats are self-inflicted or not, they make for fierce and beautiful narratives’.

LinkedIn, SixApart and Flickr People Join DataPortability.org: Is This Stuff For Real?

The Data Portability Working Group is announcing today that key people from LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter are joining the group. These new names are just the most visible part of a groundswell of new interest in the group coming since this week’s news that key players at Google and Facebook have joined.

LinkedIn, the social networking code-word for “business,” is a great addition to the discussion, lest anyone think these aren’t serious matters.

The new additions include Steve Ganz, Senior Web Developer at LinkedIn, Matthew Rothenberg, Product Strategy and Management at Flickr, David Recordon, the point-person for all things OpenID related at SixApart, and Blain Cook, a developer at Twitter … more