APW: Sam Brown and explodingdog.com (742 hits)
Category: GraphicsRating: 0.7 on 20 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by CookieLass (View user info) at 2006-04-26 11:44:24 EDT
I try, generally, to keep away from bandwagons. I said generally!! And while I was a participant in Shit Post Thursday for a while, it wasn't really in the spirit of the game. I'd post some of my better stuff on a Thursday, knowing it would look way better up next to the crap that would be posted that day. But I couldn't bring myself to do that with my own art on Wednesdays. Who cares if people snub my writing? I'm not a writer, I just do it for fun. But if someone snubbed my art because it didn't look good enough next to that of another? That would be the end for me. And I know I've posted my scribbles before, but only once have I posted my own actual paintings. And that made me nervous. Way more nervous than I liked, inviting critique like that, so I've decided instead to share one of my inspirations with you. His name is Sam Brown, and you can find his work at http://www.explodingdog.com
He works in digital media, drawing his compositions on a Wacom "intuos" tablet from title suggestions sent in by visitors to his site. I have used his work as a punctuation mark on a couple of my past posts, so he won't be new to some of you, but I wanted to show you his versatility. I find his art to be simplistic to the point of spartan, but it touches me like very few others do. Some people hate it and think that most first graders could do the same, but I doubt it. The key lies in the relationship between the titles and the subject matter. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're political, sometimes they're touching. When you click on a title, you never know what emotion the picture will evoke.
His art really speaks better for itself than I ever could. So without further rambling, the art of Sam Brown. (I have added the titles to each picture)
User Reviews
Submitted by vexx (user info) at 2006-05-12 15:10:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:18:36 (#)
Ranking: 2
Maybe this was covered above in the sentence where she said, "...this won't be new to some of you."
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Geez you're as fuckin retarded as Cookie is fat and disgusting. The full part of that quote was
"I have used his work as a punctuation mark on a couple of my past posts, so he won't be new to some of you" meaning it only wouldn't be new if we read her shitty posts. Learn to read or shut your fucking mouth. As for the post, this is the same horseshit that UglyLass spouts out to hide from the pathetic existence that is her real life. Die in a car crash, Cookie. I hate you more than anyone else on this site.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-05-04 12:20:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
shut up
cunt
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-05-04 11:22:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
That would be painfully simple, apollo... have a little road trip up to Austin and go to Laughing at the Sun gallery, Laguna Gloria, and the Blanton Museum of art. My stuff is in the surrealism section in the Blanton Museum. You could also go to the Kirby Lane Cafe on Research Blvd. I believe it's my week for display there... And if you go look at the murals in the Food Court at the Lakeline Mall, you'll see my name signed on the ceiling, in the corner, above the Panda Express. My highschool art class did that mural back in the day.
Anything else?
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-05-04 08:04:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
hahaha
apollo's even better when he's angry
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-05-01 09:22:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
appreciate the honesty and critique, but... psst... I live in a town with 5 accredited colleges and my own work hangs in a couple of galleries here and I've never seen his stuff"""
prove it you compulsive liar.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-04-27 11:40:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I appreciate the honesty and critique, but... psst... I live in a town with 5 accredited colleges and my own work hangs in a couple of galleries here and I've never seen his stuff. Besides which, he's a digital medium, nothing but. He's also been around, in this style, since the late 90's, which I think negates that argument of "everybody's doing it". If, in fact, everybodyls doing it... he was doing it first.
Also, why the hostility against acrylic paint? They're cheaper, easier to use, dry faster, and blend better. The cleanup is faster and easier, and the colors, once dried, are just as vibrant and long-lasting as oil. I'm a schooled artist who has worked in many mediums... oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels (chalk and oil), charcoals and colored pencil... and I opt to work with acrylics. Mainly because I don't have to leave my work in the direct heat of the sun for 3 weeks before it gets dry enough to handle or hang.
I appreciate the review. I didn't do it so everyone could say "Oh cool! He's the best arteest evar!" I did it so that people could look at, and discuss, an artist that I find to be deep and inspirational.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-04-27 01:53:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hmmm...
Well, I'll give any legitimate "Art Post Wenesday" a +2, but I don't really care for this.
This shit is huge right now. Pop-Futurism, Neo-Illustrative, Emotive-Cubism, blahblahblah...
Stark black outline with flat colors applied in a child-like manner, usually portraying an image somehow simplified or abstracted. This image often has some overt message with subtle emotional undertones. Usually done on board as oppossed to canvas, these pieces tend to be medium to large and rarely have a traditional framing. Most disreputable about this movement, is the return to acrylic/latex (water-based) paint instead oil based paint, (for centuries thought to be superior.)
Hate to break the news to you, but if you go to any gallery opening in a college town, this is all you're going to see. And this is all they've been showing for the past 5 years.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-04-26 15:26:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I think this is interesting and I've never heard of him before so THERE.
Something about this reminds me a little of some of the things people have sent in to http://www.postsecret.com
in a way
kind of
but then again not really
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-04-26 13:23:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Thanks for getting it, scourge. I don't even know who that fool is, so that means it's probably an alter for a better-known person here that is a total and complete coward. That tends to be the deal.
Leilani, I know the style you're talking about, but I don't know how long people have been doing that. I know that this fella has been around for the last 6 or 7 years, and when I first saw him, nobody made art like that. for all I know, he's the reason people do that now. That, and Saladfingers.
Have a look at the website... it's good stuff.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:48:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
looking at these again though i must say his sense of color really appeals to me.
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:33:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"It was the moment I feared" is probably my favorite from this listing.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:32:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
it's like creepy drawings from a deranged preschooler.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:28:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sparse can be powerful sometimes. I like his work, and I like APW as a concept.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:18:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by vexx (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:11:38 (#)
Ranking: -2
kinda condescending to think the only place we would have heard of him is from your posts. this guy is everywhere.
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Maybe this was covered above in the sentence where she said, "...this won't be new to some of you."
I just thought that maybe that took care of it, but what do I know?
I agree with leilani a little bit, but the way the titles match up to the pictures redeems it completely.
I like.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:15:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
that illustration style is so played. YES i said played. everyone draws the round head with the flat line mouth and the one big eye and the one little eye these days. it's like hipster art.
Submitted by vexx (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:11:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
kinda condescending to think the only place we would have heard of him is from your posts. this guy is everywhere.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2006-04-26 12:10:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I like that guys stuff. I used to spend most of the day at work clicking through them.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:52:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Hardly, PFF.
Submitted by CrazyCanuck (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:52:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I know nothing about art but this just looks like a bad comic to me.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2006-04-26 11:51:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
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