{"id":600,"date":"2008-04-10T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:29:34","slug":"lost-post-mark-and-blinky-on-flickr-photo-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/04\/lost-post-mark-and-blinky-on-flickr-photo-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost post: Mark and Blinky on Flickr – Photo Sharing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the move, found some posts that never made it up for whatever reason. Here’s one that is still relevant<\/p>\n

Mark and Blinky on Flickr – Photo Sharing!<\/a>:
\n\tFrom: <\/strong>\t Brian@*****.com
\n\tSubject: <\/strong>\tSomebody ate a Power Pellet
\n<\/strong>\tDate: <\/strong>\tFebruary 3, 2007 4:19:16 PM CST<\/p>\n

You made me curious and I had to find the answer to the trouble you’ve been pac’ing. Wonder how much urban art will appreciate before someone has to acquire it?<\/p>\n

(I was on your website ’cause I was looking for images from Johnson’s Cyclopedia and you had that “Vienna Ref 33 Unframed” map. Not what I was trying to find so onwards and upwards… )<\/p>\n

Felicitations on your upcoming nuptials.<\/p>\n

from http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/man\/archives20050601.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Invader at sixspace: An artist named Banksy has been getting a lot of pub by invading art museums and installing fake paintings in galleries. The idea seems kind of lame, the exact kind of thing that a general assignment writer at AP finds exciting, but that everyone else finds tedious.<\/p>\n

Much more clever is the work by a French artist who goes by the way-too-gimmicky name Invader. He treats built-up environments, like Los Angeles, as if they were the playing field of a video game. At night, during a recent stay in LA, he drove around the city and ‘invading’ areas by placing his little tile-and-resin critters on buildings, billboards, signs, and the like. Some critters look straight out of Pac-Man, others like pixellated versions of pop-culture iconography. (And by installing at night, Invader mimics the look-and-feel of early video games, which were made up of colored dots on black fields.)<\/p>\n

If you’ve driven around Los Angeles in the last week or two you have probably seen Invader’s work on LA landmarks, lightposts, on the entire side of a building (somehow), on the boardwalk, or on the beach. I was strangely thrilled to find one on La Cienega, in the Culver City gallery district.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine that they feel as right anywhere else. (Invader seems made for the festivalism of the biennial circuit, I suppose. Yawn.) The entertainment industry (+ Eli Broad) runs LA. Movie and TV billboards are everywhere. A few times a year a porn company invades the Sunset Strip with a risque billboard, sucks up the hoped-for publicity, and then limps away. Why shouldn’t art invade the urban environment too? (Disclosure: sixspace owners, and art.blogging.la webgods Caryn Coleman and Sean Bonner are good pals.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a postscript, it appears that the one by Stages is gone; I looked for it when I did the show there last month, and it was not to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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