Documenting Place – Part 1, Details of an Office in 2020
At present, making photographs in the documentary vein is rather challenging. Specific limitations dictate a need to take pause and look at options that may include surveying one's immediate surroundings. As we relaunch the COMP Magazine a series of intimate self-portraits will be produced to illustrate our environment ...
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The Last of Us 2 – A Reflection on Ellie’s (& Our) Transformation
The Last of Us 2Developer: Naughty DogPublisher: Sony Interactive EntertainmentPlatform: PS4Release: June 16, 2020
When the hotly anticipated Last of Us 2 dropped on June 16, 2020, most of us were bunkered in with little contact with others beyond the occasional phone call or Skype/ZOOM video chat due to ...
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Niki Grangruth & James Kinser – “MUSE” @ USF
EXHIBITION: MUSE, Niki Grangruth & James Kinser August 25 – September 25, 2020 University of St Francis Art Gallery25 E. Van Buren St.Joliet, Illinois, 60432
Niki Grangruth & James Kinser, Odalisque (after Ingres) 2009, laminated inkjet print
Muse, a collaborative body of work by artists Niki Grangruth and James Kinser, ...
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C2E2 2020 – A Summary in Photographs & Word
C2E2 2020McCormick Place2301 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616February 28 through March 1, 2020There was an unusually healthy atmosphere experienced at this year's iteration of C2E2. 10+ years is epic in this industry. Sadly, cons are in a place where over saturation meets shifting interests. The industry is fluid ...
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5 Games Played Obsessively in 2019
The number of quality video games being published today is overwhelming. Just looking at my evergrowing stack of games that have not been played past initial sequence (or even started) has become rather depressing. So, in recent time there's been a shift away from quantity to depth. These days ...
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10 Comics Read at Least Twice in 2019
Though many new exciting comic titles dropped in 2019, this year appeared to be one where the past, specifically the 1980s, intersected clearly with present day concerns and modes of inquiry. There appears to be something rather cyclic in the air. Much revisitation occurred. From Animal Man to Basquiat: ...
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Todd Reed – Polished Mechanised Optical Recall
The DNA makeup of Todd Reed must be a most fascinating study. His background should indicate anything but a life as an artist in pursuit of heady investigations that straddle art and science. The cool polished artworks Reed produces utilise analytical and formal strategies that are more often realized ...
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Dungeons & Dragons – A Return @ Midlife (Anti-Crisis)
These are truly cyclical and odd times. There's the topsy-turvy political dramas that remind of the Nixon era, there's this fluidity of economic and changing environmental concerns, and then there's my return (once again) to items like Dungeons and Dragons, played in youth into the wee hours of the ...
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Andy Warhol – (Distinctly Altering Celebrity) A to B & Beyond
Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back AgainOctober 20, 2019 through January 26, 2020Art Institute of Chicago111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603
There's a problem with "celebrity" in its current form in America. This, in part, is the fault of the legacy of Andy Warhol. In present day ...
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Jeffrey Grauel – Life Cycles: Antiquated Patterns to Funerary Wreaths
Having been raised out west in the 1970s in a family where arts and crafts activities were common, it is not entirely surprising that Jeffrey Grauel's aesthetic practice uses materials often aligned with this time period. What becomes fascinating is how and why Grauel, while working today with seemingly ...
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