April 25, 2007 by jameslucas.

Children of Men
A look from my eyes at the clever devices and symbolic messages behind the film Children of Men.

Spider-Man 3 (2007): Who is Venom
Peter Parker has finally found the balance he’s longed for between his love for Mary Jane Watson and his responsibilities, as Spider-Man. Venom will take…

Riya Sen: The Hottest Bollywood Actress And Model!
All about the hottest Bollywood actress and model Riya Sen. This 51 Bollywood actress was born on January 24, 1981 in Kolkata, India.

Rakhi Sawant Riya Sen on Zoom
Watch Rakhi Sawant in the garb of a tigress, all for a cause of saving the animals ill-treated in circuses. Also, catch a host of socialites like Zeba Kohli, Nethra Raghuraman, Achala Sachdev and many more at the Lakme Fashion Week. Fashion Week. All this and much more on this segment of Zoom’s Page3.

Will Ferrell Biography
He was born in Newport Beach, California on July 16th, 1967. He attended University High School in Irvine, California where played kicker on the varsity football team. He currently holds the record for most field goals made.

Pamela Anderson: Movie Star and Animal Rights Activist
Pamela Anderson! What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Pamela Anderson? Bimbo? Party Girl? Bombshell? Well two out of three ain’t bad! I don’t think she’s a bimbo…not by any stretch of the imagination. For all of her partying image and all things blonde, she is nonetheless a devoted humanitarian.

Pamela Anderson: Kentucky Friend Cruelty
You won’t find Pamela Anderson’s new release at your local multiplex–the former Baywatch star and longtime animal advocate’s latest project is Kentucky Fried Cruelty, an undercover expose blowing the whistle on the cruel treatment of animals at KFC’s factory farm and slaughterhouse suppliers. The video details just how horribly KFC treats chickens—birds are so crippled that they can’t even walk, live birds are forced into tanks of scalding-hot water while completely conscious and able to feel pain, and Moorefield, W.Va., slaughterhouse workers kill birds by slamming them against the wall and stomping on them.

Children of Men: Long Takes
An explanation of how a few of the very long and complicated takes in the movie were done using new techniques. Featurette can be found on the Children of Men DVD. World divisions, chaos and anarchy, these are the ways the world and the last remaining inhabitants are checking out. This P.D. James adaptation of the novel The Children of Men is as unforgiving as it is relentless, with no child being born for eighteen years, Human life and its moral self is eroding into extinction. Set in Britain in the year 2027, this is Theodore Faron (Clive Owen) finding his ghosts coming back to haunt his fruitless life, in the form of an underground band of rebels The Fishes. Unwittingly drawn into their plight, learning who can be trusted, who can be dependable, and how he must hold the most precious secret the Human race has been so longing to hear, the miracle that can change the course of Humanity; the first pregnant woman in eighteen years. On the run, he, Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) and Miriam (Pam Ferris) must travel cross-country, on the run, terrified and helpless to the safe haven of the Human Project. With the help of aging hippie Jasper Palmer (Michael Caine) this horrific, dark, unconventional and uncompromising road movie is all that is left between the demise of the Human race and the birth of a new drawn.

Why Children of Men should be nominated for Best Picture
VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS! Alfonso Cuaron’s amazing dystopian vision Children of Men is apparently being completely ignored by Universal and dumped quietly at the box office despite glowing praise from critics. I made this short to hopefully help generate more buzz behind this overlooked masterpiece.

Exclusive Interview with the cast of Children of Men
Clive Owen, Alfonso Cuaron and Claire-Hope Ashitey talk about Children of Men in an exclusive interview with ReelzChannel.

Children of Men Premiere
London Premiere of Children of Men in Leicester Square starring Clare Ashitey, Michael Caine, Clive Owen and more! Botcherby is on the scene walking down the red carpet!

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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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November 30, 2006 by jameslucas.

Native American Art: Origin and Different Traditions
No written records of Native Americans exist before the 1500s, when the European seamen discovered the American continent. Scholars as prehistoric consider the period before 1500s. During that time and after, Native Americans had created their own states, history and art. Native American art is thought to be the link between natives and Europeans, the only way to communicate ideas between the two cultures. When the Europeans came, slight changes in Native American art resulted, due to the new way of life that native people had to take.

How to Protect Your Money from Art Forgeries?
Art forgeries are all mischievous imitations of works of art, used for gaining money from the naive art collectors. Art forgeries are different from art copies. Other artists usually make Art copies of certain paintings. For example, the students of da Vinci, the famous Caracci, Durer, and Rota, copied some of his sketches and paintings to exercise on his style. Art forgeries are worthless, while some art copies can be priceless, depending on the artist that did them.

Artists’ Models
I often wondered what it would be like to have to patiently sit still for hours while being painted or drawn. In the early Seventies, I found out.

Anime Central Jeffrey Moy Collectica Interview
This is an interview taken from Collectica.com. The Collectica crew interviewed Jeffrey Moy at Anime Central 2006. Jeffrey Moy discussed his art, his work with DC comics, his work with Star Wars video games, and revealed concept art for the new Justice League Heroes video game. Definitely rocks. Apparently there is more at events.collectica.com and news.collectica.com.

Mister Cartoon Interview with Chris Loos, December 2005
World famous tattoo artist Mister Cartoon came through the KDAY studios for a sitdown interview with Chris Loos. Watch as he explains his humble beginnings, his love for hip hop, and the work ethic that he puts into his art.

Moebius and Sylvain
Interview with French comic artist MOEBIUS and the equally talented Sylvain Despretz - the storyboard artist for Alien, Gladiator and many other films. I filmed it in 2001.

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November 2, 2006 by jameslucas.

A Review of Artist Supplies
If you were an artist, you would realize that it is very important to find the right artist supplies for the project you intend to work on. If you do not have the proper tools, the artwork that you envision is in danger. So, when it comes to finding the right materials, how should you handle it?

Art is Free: but not in the Museums
The main Museums of the world have increased its admission fees in a notorious way. This has caused a great controversy between curators and Art critics and lovers.

Attention Artists: You Can Make Money with Your Art with Six Sure-Fire Ways
The purpose of this article is to provide a professional artist with some tools for marketing his art. It is extremely important for a professional artist to put his best foot forward when submitting art for review. The six components outlined in the article are the foundation for making money through artistic talents.

Barbee Cain: Official Piper’s Pics Camera Artist
Interview with Barbee Cain at PIPER’s Pics TV

Jaime Lim Interview
Jaime Lim artist and TV host presents one of his fine illustrations. See more of Jaime’s art at www.myspace.com/jlmart. From Alex Quinn Presents with host Scott Harden. Privilege on Sunset.

Interview: Sandra E. Smith-Poling
Port Townsend Wooden Festival 2005. Sandra has paintings in galleries and private collections worldwide, and now has a studio in Port Townsend, a Victorian Seaport known for its artists, musicians and wooden boat builders. She has had many paintings in juried shows and is the 2004 Wooden Boat Festival Poster award winner for her 1933 painting of the ARTHUR FOSS towing the WAWONA. She is heavily influenced by her father, the renowned Southern California artist, Craig Smith, as well as Arthur Beaumont, the navy artist, Sir William Russell Flint and John Singer Sargeant. Upon graduating from medical school, her father asked her if she was ready to take up some serious art studying after having fun all those years in school. He told her the only permanent things in the universe were the arts. While balancing a medical practice, she took his advice and pursued her interest in painting. Historic wooden ships along with the Tall Ships, are favorite subjects. http://www.classicpaintings.net

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October 5, 2006 by jameslucas.

A Night of Light: Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, 1889
Analysis of A Night of Light: Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, 1889

Analysis of The Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are among his most famous paintings, but few people realize he did many sunflower pictures, not just the most famous Vase with Twelve Sunflowers and Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers. These were canvases he made to decorate the Yellow House in Arles in anticipation of his friend Paul Gauguin’s visit, and in the hope that other artists would follow and form a Utopian art community. Some of Vincent’s sunflower paintings are all but indistinguishable, with only tiny differences to prove one reproduction is different from the next. During his stay in Paris, he painted cut sunflowers in different stages of being, from fresh to wilted to dry.

Chair: the Spirit of a Chair
Read an analysis of The Chair by Vincent Van Gogh.

Artists on Art #1
The Artists on art video series explore art from the perspectives of the people directly involved: the artists. The spectrum of artists involved will cover any possible methods of creation. The first video in this series interviews Johnna, the owner of Liquid Courage Tattoo in Omaha, NE. Special thanks to Dawn Segger for sharing her time in the chair with me.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya Interview
An interview with artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya, brought to you by pHytonics.net

Andre Interview
Heron Preston sits down with legendary Parisian artist Andre to discuss about his newest venture, Hotel Amour and his other various hustles. This is a must see!

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October 3, 2006 by jameslucas.

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September 14, 2006 by jameslucas.

The Art of Glamour and Nude Photography
Understanding the art of glamour photography.

Understanding Photography
Have you seen a photo recently that was amazing? If you are curious to how it was taken then you need to learn the basics of photography.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Photographers
In a world fueled by the media, the role of photographers continues to grow. Photography as a career option is finding many takers, and it requires much more than an eye for a good picture to make a successful photographer these days. While a creative bent is essential to capture a striking picture, what is equally necessary is some technical knowledge, especially as digital photography becomes more and more prevalent.

The Artist Lounge: Uri Averbuch
The second web episode of the series that features unknown but talented artists, their work, creative process, and lifetstyle. Russian-born Israeli Uri Averbuch moved to Mexico for a self-sustaining lifestyle to create his meditative paintings.

Interview Series: The Artist
These videos were created by the TechReach club: an after school technology club for girls. They were filmed with a SONY Cybershot 3.2 digital camera using movie feature. Then they were edited in Windows Movie Maker. The students wrote their questions and worked in teams to film and edit the videos. Copyright free music was added to the credits and titles. Dan is a printmaker and an environmentalist. He has a ton of energy and loves working with kids. He has led several public art projects with kids involved.

CCTV interviews Artist Ram Ram Abdellah
When RamRam Abdellah isn’t at CCTV working in computerCENTRAL, you can usually find him in local cafe’s creating art with pen and ink. He’s currently exhibiting his art work in CCTV’s Drive By Gallery. CCTV’s Community Technology Programs Manager, David Zermeno and intern Angel Alguier took time out to interview him for computerCentral’s videoblog.

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August 31, 2006 by jameslucas.

Abstract Art Paintings
In general terms, abstract art paintings break the monotony of realism and reject the fact that paintings should depict pragmatism. In the pre-World War II era, abstract art painters mostly depicted spiritualism or intellectualism, rejecting the 20th century motto of art for art’s sake and replacing realism with spirituality and rationality. Furthermore, with the advent of the technology age, abstract art has gained greater significance.

Abstract Art Galleries
An abstract art gallery or museum usually hosts art exhibitions and is also used as a location for the sale of art. Some of the abstract art form represented in such museums includes fauvism, cubism, surrealism and abstract expressionism.

Mystical Abstract Art
When attempts have been made to describe a work of abstract art many people have used words like feelings, emotions, and soul. I think these words are clues to what is actually happening within both the viewer and the artist.

Lolla Lives: Shepard Fairey-Webisode 1, Andre’s Posse
Part 1 in Perry Farrell’s interview with legendary artist Shepard Fairey, in which the origins for his Obey Andre the Giant viral street art campaign are discussed.

Lolla Lives: Shepard Fairey-Webisode 2, Banksy
Part 2 in Perry Farrell’s convo with street art king Shepard Fairey. Among the topics covered in this segment is Shepard’s respect for graphic artist, Banksy, the importance of keeping a political and graphical integrity, and choosing potential canvases.

Lolla Lives: Shepard Fairey-Webisode 3, Toys
Part 3 of Shepard Fairey’s Lolla Lives interview with Perry Farrell. This webisode discusses Shepard’s customized PVC Obey toys and what is considered art in today’s world.

Lolla Lives: Shepard Fairey-Webisode 4, Politics of Aesthetics
Part 4 of Perry Farrell’s interview with street artist Shepard Fairey.

Lolla Lives: Shepard Fairey-Webisode 5, Street Galleries
The final installment of Perry Farrell’s interview with street artist Shepard Fairey.

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