I’ve been working on a plastic bottle cap art project for and with my son’s class for the annual school auction. I’ve never done one of these before, so I had a lot to learn before getting the kids together to place the bottle caps on the design. I couldn’t find a comprehensive tutorial anywhere, […]
Parasite Generation
Masahiro Yamada is a Japanese sociologist (born in 1957), who coined the term Parasite Singles. It refers to people who mooch off their parents after the age of 20 and basically live a life free from responsibility and obligation. The artist Milline Low has extended the phrase to an entire generation. She features the parasitic […]
Art Exhibit: I Miss My Pre-Internet Brain
Have you heard about Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver art exhibit? It’s called Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything. Among many other things (legos, detergent bottles, paintings, etc.) it features a bunch of colorful presentations of 21st Century slogans. That last one, “You are the last generation that will die,” is very Soylent Green. Very interesting […]