I was reading about murals in London last night and it made me think about my time there and all the fun graffiti I saw. One of my classmates at the time based his whole project on the graffiti. I simply enjoyed it. I learned a lot about graffiti, and what it's like to be a graffiti artist by reading a little book called night haunts I got at the annual Frieze Art Fair. I think I was required to go to the Frieze, but I'm so glad I was because it was really interesting. Okay, it was fun. Interesting is such a lame word, and I know I use it too often. Anyway, the art fair was a lot of fun to go to and explore. The crowds weren't too bad when I went, but I imagine they were much worse at other times. I love art, and hopefully someday I'll be more involved with it.
I glimpsed a blurb about a mural trolley tour here in Philadelphia. I'd really love to go, but for some reason I thought it prohibitive. It was probably the cost or the time. And I rationalize that I could go see the murals anytime I want, which of course is absurd because when do I ever make time to just go look at art. In London that's almost all I did because I had no job and no job hunt to worry about, no clients to go win over, I just had my project for studio to do. My assignment in London, everyone's assignment, was to explore the city and take pictures and videos and write notes about what we see and try to understand it. Oh I wish I could just assign myself that project here at home. Apparently Philadelphia is the world capitol of murals. I'm not sure who made that determination and how factual it actually is, but you can take that up with the Penn alumni association if you want to find out. I do know that the Mural Arts Program in Philly is a big deal. They are very busy designing and painting murals. I tried to get involved with them, but my resolve was limited at the time. Yet another thing to go do "someday." They seem to not need any new helpers at this time. Although, I'm not a big famous artist or anything, so they have no reason to want my help yet.
Not really sure where I was going with all this, but perhaps it's a post best labeled "random" or "observations." I suppose I'm just in an artistic mood. Best be gettin back to work now...
I glimpsed a blurb about a mural trolley tour here in Philadelphia. I'd really love to go, but for some reason I thought it prohibitive. It was probably the cost or the time. And I rationalize that I could go see the murals anytime I want, which of course is absurd because when do I ever make time to just go look at art. In London that's almost all I did because I had no job and no job hunt to worry about, no clients to go win over, I just had my project for studio to do. My assignment in London, everyone's assignment, was to explore the city and take pictures and videos and write notes about what we see and try to understand it. Oh I wish I could just assign myself that project here at home. Apparently Philadelphia is the world capitol of murals. I'm not sure who made that determination and how factual it actually is, but you can take that up with the Penn alumni association if you want to find out. I do know that the Mural Arts Program in Philly is a big deal. They are very busy designing and painting murals. I tried to get involved with them, but my resolve was limited at the time. Yet another thing to go do "someday." They seem to not need any new helpers at this time. Although, I'm not a big famous artist or anything, so they have no reason to want my help yet.
Not really sure where I was going with all this, but perhaps it's a post best labeled "random" or "observations." I suppose I'm just in an artistic mood. Best be gettin back to work now...
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