If it disturb you, its art.
If it inhabits your dreams and question your fears, it’s art.
If it lifts you up in some sort of emotional epiphany or throws your preconceptions to the ground, trust us, it’s art.
Because art, if you know how to look for it, is everywhere.
It’s in the building you just walked by without noticing.
It’s on the fashion models and the mannequins, on the billboards and the bus shelters, it’s on every TV channel and inside every magazine, it’s beside the tree in the park over there by the fence post only you don’t see it yet. Which is exactly where we come in.
The Academy of Art University exists for one purpose only: to give birth to artists of passion and commitment. To inspire classroom after classroom, generation after generation, of visionaries and filmmakers, designers, modern revolutionaries and hopeful romantics, anyone who refuses to look at things at the same old, uninspired way.
Our only commodity is art. And there is no higher commodity than that.
So we spend every waking moment – okay, maybe even some of the sleeping ones – with an overwhelming passion to motivate and stimulate and encourage. To show that talent is contagious. And around here, it’s catching.
See, at the Academy of Art University we believe inspiration comes out of every street corner, every traffic stop, every classroom that challenges you, every teacher that hands you a key, every blank canvas, every empty wall, every bolt of fabric or empty computer screen.
Every day San Fransisco inspires us; every day the Academy of Art University inspires San Fransisco in kind.
Which is why everywhere we look, we see artists.
Artist who refuse You can’t and create Yes, you can
Artist who hear Mundane and think Magical.
Artist and teacher and professionals who think art is a kind of salvation. An open door policy that expect nothing less than 100% passionate commitment combined with a thousand percent open-minded-enthusiastic-I –want-to-create-something-gorgeous-or-brilliant-or insanely-wonderful desire.
Inside our classrooms and outside our walls we breathe eat drink dream art. We see it in the craziest places. We create it when no one else is looking. We throw our passion against the wall and see what sticks.
A man once said great art is either plagiarism or revolution.
source: Academy of Art SF brochure spring 09
If it inhabits your dreams and question your fears, it’s art.
If it lifts you up in some sort of emotional epiphany or throws your preconceptions to the ground, trust us, it’s art.
Because art, if you know how to look for it, is everywhere.
It’s in the building you just walked by without noticing.
It’s on the fashion models and the mannequins, on the billboards and the bus shelters, it’s on every TV channel and inside every magazine, it’s beside the tree in the park over there by the fence post only you don’t see it yet. Which is exactly where we come in.
The Academy of Art University exists for one purpose only: to give birth to artists of passion and commitment. To inspire classroom after classroom, generation after generation, of visionaries and filmmakers, designers, modern revolutionaries and hopeful romantics, anyone who refuses to look at things at the same old, uninspired way.
Our only commodity is art. And there is no higher commodity than that.
So we spend every waking moment – okay, maybe even some of the sleeping ones – with an overwhelming passion to motivate and stimulate and encourage. To show that talent is contagious. And around here, it’s catching.
See, at the Academy of Art University we believe inspiration comes out of every street corner, every traffic stop, every classroom that challenges you, every teacher that hands you a key, every blank canvas, every empty wall, every bolt of fabric or empty computer screen.
Every day San Fransisco inspires us; every day the Academy of Art University inspires San Fransisco in kind.
Which is why everywhere we look, we see artists.
Artist who refuse You can’t and create Yes, you can
Artist who hear Mundane and think Magical.
Artist and teacher and professionals who think art is a kind of salvation. An open door policy that expect nothing less than 100% passionate commitment combined with a thousand percent open-minded-enthusiastic-I –want-to-create-something-gorgeous-or-brilliant-or insanely-wonderful desire.
Inside our classrooms and outside our walls we breathe eat drink dream art. We see it in the craziest places. We create it when no one else is looking. We throw our passion against the wall and see what sticks.
A man once said great art is either plagiarism or revolution.
source: Academy of Art SF brochure spring 09
The winner of the grand prize on last night’s “Kasou Taisho” (Costume Grand Prix) competition was this entry, depicting a cartoony manzai comedy routine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29kF1vZ62o
Derren Brown is a unique force in the world of illusion - he can seemingly predict and control human behaviour.
He doesn't claim to be a mind-reader, instead he describes his craft as a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship.
Whatever you choose to call it, his unparalleled performances amaze and unsettle all those who watch him. This is a powerful and provocative form of entertainment, unlikely to be imitated for a long while.
to know more about Derren Brown visit:
http://www.derrenbrown.co.uk
amazing typography video:
http://ideas.veer.com/features/fail
