Category: John Otter news

POSTMARKED 2008 opens today. I had the good fortune of dropping by yesterday and seeing most of the show. I was surprised to find there was already a bid on my envelope. The POSTMARKED 2008 blog is here.

Envelope for the Prison Library Project. Not quite compete, but soon.

The Prison Library Project is a community service project of the Claremont Forum, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to enrich lives through education, arts, and wellness programs. The Prison Library Project was founded in 1973 by Ram Dass and Bo Lozoff in Durham, North Carolina. The PLP relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. We celebrated twenty years of service in Claremont in 2006.

Prison Library Project

Exhibit: June 2-8, 2008

Postmarked 2008 Mail Art Exhibition and Silent Auction: 12 pm to 5 pm, Monday, June 2nd through Thursday, June 5th and Saturday, June 7.

Public Reception 5-9 pm; Friday, June 6th.

Postmarked 2008 Mail Art Exhibition and Silent Auction: 12 pm to 5 pm; Auction ends 5pm! Sunday, June 8.

Location:	The Claremont Forum, 586 W. First Street, in the Packing House
Price:	FREE Admission
Contact:	Rachel McDonnell (909) 626-3066

Point Suite has just launched its website!

AI Productions, Inc. is an emerging corporation whose mission is to serve the artistic community by facilitating the presence of emerging artists and educating the public about their work.

Currently AI Productions is creating a fine art book entitled Point Suite whose purpose is to enlighten the general public about the ever-increasing artistic activities of our international contemporary art community.

Point Suite will display the work of forty talented emerging artists, and will contain all original essays discussing the artists, their art and the current artistic climate.

Once professionally printed and hardbound, Point Suite will go into an initial run of 3,500 copies.

Point Suite is a professional and exciting venue for emerging artists to exhibit their art, and AI Productions thanks all parties contributing to the support of this publication, and invites interested supporters to contact us with donations of time, assistance, or finances.

I’ll have some images in the book and am thrilled to be part of the project.
I’m planning on creating a mailing list for John Otter art news, if you’re interested send me an e-mail and let me know of your interest.
Cheers!

From Arabic to Tibetan.
I still love watching squirrels, after all these years.
Raccoons are cool too.

Three blogs I’ve been following lately:
Lifehacker
43 Folders
&
Micro Persuasion

I’ll be studying Gannt charts. Figuring them out. I know I’ve seen them, and perhaps even used them. But right now I think they will be a critical component in several upcoming projects. I don’t want to use any simple project design software. I want to start by comprehending all the intricacies and complexities as well as the limitations of Gannt charts, and probably draw everything by hand. Eventually I have a plan to merge handwritten data, charts and project planning with abstraction and design. I’ve been toying with it and it seems a natural progression, or at least one that wont require an enormous leap.

Tibetan turns out to be very similar to Sanskrit, at least in my mind. The same way Arabic seemed very similar to Hebrew.

Still trying to get used to Google Reader – not sure if I like it, but I do like its interoperability with other Google tools. Are they really trying to take over the world? If so they seem to have a very good plan. (I bet they use Gannt charts)