http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog Illiterate Magazine Daily Blog Feed en http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/430 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/430 Tue, 31 Aug 10 18:32:43 -0700
Out of the midst of many categories of art museums comes one that was bound to happen: the Museum of Bad Art. Some museums are sold the to public as wonderful, yet contain a majority of bad art, but this one doesn’t lie like the others. MOBA is our friend because MOBA won’t lie to us like that. It is an honest, straightforword gallery - and if you see your piece in this barrage of hilarious art, I apologize for any offense. It's all in good fun, and in all reality, you could get famous for sucking. deal with it. Justin Timberlake did. This blog is blank on purpose (sort of). See the failure for yourself.]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/428 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/428 Mon, 23 Aug 10 11:53:58 -0700
Masao Yamamoto is a famous Japanese photographer who successfully interperets his knowledge of existence through his photography. Yamamoto's images are simple, nostalgic, and elegant.  They are suggestive and original, and can be preceived in many ways.  He tells us, without explanation, about the human experience.  Yamamoto exposes us to one of his influences: a Japanese calligrapher-poet named Ryokan.  Yamamoto describes his respect for Ryokan's work by admiring his ability to "describe simply the movement of a leaf trembling as it falls" in one of his haikus.  This poem can be interpreted in several ways.  The falling leaf could be a metaphor for life, the ri]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/427 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/427 Thu, 19 Aug 10 13:33:10 -0700
Portland, Oregon based artist Mark Warren Jacques makes cosmic, comic, orgasmic, and phsycedelic paintings with awesome titles like, “Saying Fuck it and Letting Go All Together.”  In an Arrested Motion interview, Jacques describes his relationship to art.  He says, “Sometimes life is pretty wearing on the soul and the body, so the work becomes a resting place. [...] Art is a place to get away from everything and to connect to myself, both in thought and in the action of making stuff.”  His artwork certaintly acts as a “resting place” for viewers.  The positive vibes resonating in his work are obvious; to lose oneself in o]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/426 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/426 Sat, 14 Aug 10 18:52:20 -0700
ILLITERATE PRESENTS Denver Does Denver 2010 An Event of Creative Promiscuity : : Bands DO Bands! Artists DO Artists! SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 2 VENUES | 20+ BANDS | 20+ ARTISTS @ THE MEADOWLARK (2701 Larimer) @ THE FLOBOTS.ORG COMMUNITY SPACE (2705 Larimer) ART AUCTION :: 6PM - 11PM MUSIC :: 8PM - 2AM + A BACKDOOR BBQ!   $8 TICKETS BEFORE AUGUST 27 (purchase tickets online here) $12 DAY OF EVENT AT THE DOOR   MUSIC LINEUP THE FLOBOTS || HOUSES || ESME PATTERSON (OF PAPER BIRD) || BIG LIL' (LILLY SCOTT & COLE RUDY) || THE LEGENDARY RIVER DRIFTERS | LUMINEERS || PINK HAWKS || SAFE BOATING IS NO ACCIDENT || HUNTER DRAGON || OBLIO'S ARROW || MARRIED IN BE]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/425 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/425 Tue, 10 Aug 10 12:54:12 -0700
  Helen used to love the book Eat Pray Love. She’ll probably also enjoy the movie. Me, not so much. I find the entire tone of the goddamn thing insulting. Food will kill you. God will kill you. Love will kill you. This thing should be placed in the horror section of your local Borders. Instead it’s been embraced as the feel-good ride of the year. But it’s not. During the film, when the guy who played the killer in No Country For Old Men is taking a ‘romantic’ walk beside a bunch of street venders and Julia Roberts asks him what this crazy new fruit tastes like that SHE’S NEVER EXPERIENCED IN HER ENTIRE LIFE UP UNTIL THIS POINT! (Oh, the fuc]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/424 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/424 Mon, 09 Aug 10 11:15:36 -0700
This week in photo-blogging, I will explore the thoughts of the summer. I am currently on a much needed summer vacation. I am on the East coast, so I thought it would be appropriate to find a local photography exhibition to write about. I found this series done by artist Keliy Anderson-Staely, entitled Off the Grid. The pieces document a kind of people who live as the title describes: "off the grid". I needed a vacation because over the summer semester, I wrote a lengthy philosophical essay on the subject of alienation. As I reflect on my argumentation, I draw a few conclusions, the most general of which is that a balance exists between technology (the benefits of knowledge an]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/422 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/422 Sun, 01 Aug 10 21:41:12 -0700
With a style similar to cave painting, talented street artists embrace the thoughts of a new generation by painting the walls of our Denver metropolis.  With phrases like “I was here”, “These are the words that were on my mind”, and “This is what I cared about”, the works express what fills the minds of artists who unveil their sketches onto the drab walls of urban settings in order to transform those featureless landscapes into colorful expressions.   Most are written so that one can read them without much attention or practice, but because the trend in street art is to twist the alphabet into its own language, many pieces a]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/421 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/421 Sat, 31 Jul 10 14:08:12 -0700
Down With The Sickness Too infects Illiterate with a group of Denver's leading up-and-coming art misfits. Curated in conjunction with Travis Egedy, one of the founders and residents of Rhinoceropolis, a DIY breeding ground for radical young artists, this exhibit captures a unique segment of Denver's progressive cultural landscape.Including works in various media, the exhibition explores cohesion in chaos. The follow up exhibit to the Down With The Sickness show over a year ago, artists associated in various ways with a creative epicenter on the edge, express their transgressive reactions to the current order seen as contaminated and polluting, while simultaneously sharing in a collec]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/420 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/420 Fri, 30 Jul 10 07:50:16 -0700
Tonight, Friday, July 30 at 6PM Illiterate celebrates the culmination of Ravi Zupa's solo exhibition, "The Pyre" with the release of a collaborative book by the same name. Containing an epic poem written by Tim Holland, aka Sole, founder of Anticon records and leader of Sole and The Sky Rider Band, and illustrations by Zupa, "The Pyre" evaluates a world set in flames. At 8PM Tim Holland performs "The Pyre" in it's entirety as a spoken word piece followed by projections of video's directed by Ravi Zupa for Sole and the Skyrider Band.   ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/418 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/418 Thu, 29 Jul 10 11:05:40 -0700
Camille Vivier is a french filmmaker and photographer who studied Fine Art in Paris and at Central St Matrin’s in London. Her photography has been featured in magazines such as Purple, Dazed and Confused, i-D...     Vivier constructs a reality that seems to be hidden behind a dark veil of mystery. It is as if the viewer gets a sneek peek into one of Vivier’s dreams. In an interview by Purple gallery, Vivier said, “I’m borrowing from the imagery of the unconscious and dreams, from the art of vanitas, from magic, mythology, from an inner experience having to do with the bizarre, with fear, with the irrational, with love, while ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/417 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/417 Mon, 26 Jul 10 19:32:02 -0700
Ruskin's is a technique which is unusual and mysterious. The photographer takes black and white photo's which he then hand paints. It is a process that he says is difficult to portray with color film. The outcome is otherworldly. I think that one reason I am drawn to this work, as well as this type of work is because it is mysterious and romantic. I find myself longing to be transported to this fairy land of disorienting color and fairy like landscape. It is a form of escapism I suppose, perhaps much like the travel photo's which were taken in the beginnings of photography. Imagine that you have never left your hometown because transportation systems hadn't advanced to that point yet. Y]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/416 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/416 Thu, 22 Jul 10 12:27:25 -0700
In addition to his work as a painter and sculptor Ravi Zupa is also a filmmaker directing music videos for acclaimed musical acts such as Why?, Sole, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves and  Ghengis Tron. Join Illiterate for a screening and discussion of a selection of Zupa’s music videos, kicking off the beginning of the Underground Music Showcase in Denver.   The screening begins at 8PM FREE!]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/415 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/415 Sun, 18 Jul 10 16:00:24 -0700
Broadcast has released a new album along with a set of new videos in collaboration with graphic designer Julian House, the co-creator of the experimental record lable Ghost Box and also the man behind the experimental music project called The Focus Group.  Julian House has worked with artists such as Stereolab and Primal Scream, designing cover art and directing music videos. The first collaborative album between Broadcast and Julian House is called Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age. This album is true Psych-pop at its best, with ethereal vocals, Ghost Box inspired “vintage electronics, haunted television sountracks,” and killer visuals. ]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/414 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/414 Thu, 15 Jul 10 10:57:02 -0700
  Alvin Gregorio is a “homesick gypsy” who also happens to be an Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  His work seems to have popped straight out of a children’s TV show. The characters in his paintings remind me of human-faced Teletubbies on acid, surrounded by freaky Barney-like animals floating in a spraypaint dreamspace. Children with numb expressions in furry animal costumes exist in worlds of acid-bright color, tiny helicopters, and furbie owls. His canvases are full of geometric shapes , child-like markings, stencils, intricate patterning, life and color from top to bottom... His work is not only]]> http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/413 http://beta2.illiteratemagazine.com/blog/view/413 Wed, 14 Jul 10 17:23:13 -0700
In honor of Ravi Zupa's solo exhibition at Illiterate during the hottest month of the year, this Pick the Flick's theme is BURNING. Vote here by leaving a comment with the you'd like us to screen or leave a comment on the event's Facebook page.This Month's contendersRaising Arizona (picked by challenger, Scout Finch, Manager of the Mayan Theater)       vsStreets on Fire (picked by last month's champ, David Coccagna) ]]>