January 4, 2007 by jameslucas.

Arts and Design Schools Develop Professional Abilities
Arts and Design Schools, colleges, and universities have post-secondary, undergraduate, and graduate programs that broaden and develop professional abilities and perspectives in their students. Arts and Design Schools offer certificates and degrees in the many subjects included in the discipline of art.

Game Art and Design Schools
Game Art and Design Schools teach students how to create video games in a fast-paced, challenging environment. At Game Art and Design School, future designers and programmers learn to evaluate gaming products and how to program and plan character options and game environments.

Art Needed To Fill Education Gaps
When a child starts to explore her creative side, she opens herself up to other ways of learning. Ways that start to intertwine themselves across the education curriculum. It’s like a new world becomes accessible to her, doors of reasoning are easily opened.

A Demand For More Art Studies
It is discouraging that there aren’t much up-to-date studies of the benefits of art. The creative process in the avenues of our imagination is where we find solutions to the world’s problems. Awakening those recesses of the brain brings about new ideas, new places to explore for information. Learning how to learn is what we should be teaching ourselves and yet we get stuck on memorizing facts, repetitive processes and stale concepts that offer no value for the future. The study of art informs our meta cognition, the ability to think about what we are thinking, and it awakens our spirit, that which is in us struggling to stay alive.

Steel Warren: Environmental Sculptor
An interview with ReKnown Environmental Artist Steel Warren, interviewed by Takashi Bobhi. His greatest patroness is likewise given a good grilling.

Low Brow artist Robert Williams Interview
Robert Williams is one of the most popular artists in America today. His dynamic work–which often includes women, cars, food, and 1950’s Americana–embodies the movement known as Kustom Kar Kulture. Robert masters the so-called lowbrow art forms: rock album cover art, comic art, hot-rod art, etc. Robert Williams created the cover art for Guns n’ Roses: Appetite for destruction in 1987. In mid 1960s San Francisco, Robert became art director for hot-rod hero Ed Big Daddy Roth. Robert quickly became one of the most important West Coast underground artists - creating psychedelic posters and contributing to comics like Zap. Robert Williams is one of the most sought-after artists of the 90s and is considered the founding father of Cartoon Surrealism. Nicolas Cage, Leonardo diCaprio, Johnny Depp, Jesse James and many other celebrities have purchased Robert Williams’ paintings. Video brought to you by www.sunsetstrip.com

Chad Hopper Interview
An interview with Chad Hopper, Austin artist and genius behind all the Pal Float comics and art. This was recorded at the Spider House.

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January 4, 2007 by jameslucas.

Mixing It Up: A New Era of Sherry Cocktails
Everybody is looking for the next big drink: Sherry cocktails could be the future.

A Cocktail of Cultures: The Growth of Asian Influence in the London Bar Scene
Read about the explosion of Asian influence in the London bar scene.

Tequila: Beauty and Brutality, Bottled
Wine snobs, eat your heart out. The pop culture icon and poor man’s drink, tequila, has somehow reinvented itself yet again. Embracing its feminine side through centuries of violence, religion, sex and beauty, it has landed, to everyone’s surprise, on the top shelf of the beverage world, ready to spark another rebellion.

The X Factor: A New Generation of Discerning Drinkers is Turning to Sherry as the Drink of Choice
The growth of Sherry across the world is attributable to our fast maturing palates. We know our wines far better than 10 years ago, we are inundated with fine vodkas and a plethora of foreign beers and we constantly crave the next big thing.

Wine Library TV, Episode 46: I’m back and Washington State
Today Gary Vaynerchuk finally returns from Spain with 4 super wines from Washington State and a few stories!

Wine Library TV, Episode 47: Don’t Judge a Wine by it’s Vintage
Today Gary Vaynerchuk tries to educate the public about off vintage wines and why they maybe the best thing in the market today! With the 2000 Ristow as his tool Gary challenges the wine world!

Wine Library TV, Episode 48: Today Gary Meets the Meekers
In today’s episode Gary Vanerchuk welcomes Molly and Charlie Meeker of Meeker Vineyards.

Art of the Drink: Champagne Cocktail
Anthony shows you the correct way to open a bottle of bubbly for your New Year’s Eve celebration!

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