College Humor posted this incredibly hilarious video about cliché Instagram pictures. I’m definitely guilty of some of these. Are you?
Note: NSFW because of language.
My Instagram cliché pics (as evidenced in the video):
Most elaborate latte ever!
TCBY mmm!
Chipotle. I just got hungry as I was posting this.
Previous Instagram Fridays Posts:
One of the things I am grateful for is being blessed with artistic talent and finding the time do pursue my art while building up my freelance and Etsy business.
Here’s my latest listing which is an ode to everything I love to doodle on the margins of my notebooks.
Click on Etsy Shop on the menu bar to check it out!
For Thanksgiving week (Until Saturday November 24th, 2012) enjoy a 10% discount with coupon code: THANKSGIVING2012
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I’m writing to let my readers know that I am safe and sound after Hurricane Sandy. My family and I only lost power for a few days and I spent some of the time making some art.
However, the people in Lower Manhattan, Breezy Point, Staten Island, Brooklyn and New Jersey need help!
You can donate to Red Cross here.
Also, NBC Universal stations (MSNBC, NBC Network, USA, CNBC) are broadcasting a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy starting at 8pm ET. Music Acts include Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, and Jon Bon Jovi with appearances from Jimmy Fallon and Matt Lauer.
One of many NY anthems:
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) has created a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over the past decade, Saraceno has established a practice of constructing habitable networks based upon complex geometries and interconnectivity that merge art, architecture, and science. The interdisciplinary project “Cloud Cities/Air Port City” is rooted in the artist’s investigation of expanding the ways in which we inhabit and experience our environment.
From my Instagram Feed:
Yesterday, I enjoyed a wonderful evening with my friend Amy who I won’t see for a couple months because of my camp job. While I was waiting for her, I took these pictures:
I wish someone would start a flash mob…
Later we walked the High Line and found some pretty cool street art:
*Note: My blog postings will be pretty infrequent because I’m starting my summer job at sleep away camp :). I’ll keep everyone posted! – Abby
Related post: Instagram Fridays: Park Avenue Tulips
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a “self-proclaimed artist” to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses…. If the public is afraid of art, should we [artists] be afraid of what we have done to make the public afraid of art?
– Keith Haring, journal entry, October 14, 1976
I featured Keith Haring this week because I was inspired by his show in the Brooklyn Museum. This quote made me think of how we, as creative people, can reach and inspire others with our talents.
Check out the Keith Haring journal page a day tumblr!
Keith Haring: 1978-1982 Journals
Pictures!
Update at June 11, 2012 10:26 pm: Wow! The Keith Haring Foundation retweeted my tweet about this blog post! Woohoo!
https://twitter.com/#!/KeithHaring
The weather today in New York is beautiful! To celebrate this, here are some pictures of cold and sweet treats for Instagram Fridays!
I enjoy some gelato while walking the High Line with my mom at Mother’s Day. Photography by me! User: abbyesc
Enjoying cherry flavored Italian Ice at Bryant Park. User: abbyesc
Cupcake, ice cream and candy? Yum! Image by ilarol
Cold drink by badbadacid
This looks amazing! By user xsamxlivetocheer24
Enjoy the warm weather!
Previous Instagram Fridays posts:
So I know I posted this before but here’s an update. I only need two more collectors in order for my artwork to be made public in the Artists Wanted website. The next step is that people vote for me to have my work displayed in Times Square. This would be an amazing opportunity for me.
Click “Collect Me” to help me win $10,000 and a show in the most immense exhibition of art in New York City : Art Takes Times Square.
via Abby Escobal.
A couple of months ago, I participated in the 4×6 Exchange Project by Art House Co-op. The premise of the project is simple. You create a piece of artwork that is 4×6 inches in size, you mail it to the Brooklyn Art Library, and then you get someone else’s artwork in the mail.
Today, I received a wonderful sketch by an artist named Roger who writes and posts his sketches in his blog Sketches by Roger. I love the way the figure is raising his hands as if he just had a major victory. I’m very partial to watercolors and pen as well.
In case you’re wondering what my 4×6 art was, here it is:
My 4×6 exchange drawing
If you’re the person that received this drawing or you know the person who received this drawing, I would love to hear from you! I made that drawing before I started this blog so unfortunately my blog wouldn’t be listed behind the drawing.
I’m always very excited to participate in Art House Co-op’s projects. I’m going to be featuring my Sketchbook Project: Limited Edition drawings very soon as well as sign up for Sketchbook Project 2013.
Please leave a comment if you participated in the 4×6 Exchange. I would love to see what you received. Also, click “Like” for my Zombie friend that is somewhere in America!
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