Jackson Pollock

Shared Harmonics in Nature and Art Makes Us See in a New Way

Do you ever wonder why we humans tend to feel good in nature? Annie Murphy Paul’s scholarly The Extended Mind: the Power of Thinking Outside the Brain gives the simple, obvious gist. It’s message is surprisingly echoed in art…

Splotches, Spots and Spatters for Art and Personal Decoration

I’ve long collected examples of artist’s works based on splotches, spots, drips and splatters, with the idea of applying the patterns to walls, floors, fridge, clothes, shoes. Here’s how.

Splatter Decor: Splattered Paint as Home Design Element

During our obsessive rampage at AQQ Index the other day, we came across several examples of Pollock Inspired splatters on walls and floors; we realized what a cool design element they can be.

access your inner jackson pollock

This morning, a friend alerted us to the great flash site jacksonpollock.org where you can make your own Pollockesque action paintings with clicks and whorls of your mouse. We found it strangely relaxing, like some high-brow video game; it took our mind totally OFF what we’ve been worrying about to follow (our own) unexpectedly wild…

mind bath: jackson pollock at work (by hans namuth)

(Video link here.) Hans Namuth‘s Jackson Pollock 51 is ten illuminating minutes of the abstract expressionist painter at work at his studio on Long Island. Pollock’s sparse words annotates his process in real time: simple declarative statements that give wonderful insight into an original, creative mind, like the idea that reacting against someone or something…

pollock-esque paint-spattered floor

This picture on Wary Meyers’ site stopped us dead with desire. Writes Wary: “All kinds of awesomeness from Molly and Norman McGrath’s incredible 1978 book on interiors for kids, Children’s Spaces: 50 Architects and Designers Create Environments for the Young. Without a doubt the best book ever published about children’s design.” We see this fab paint-spattered…

Fling and Be Flung (Jackson Pollock)

Lately, we’ve noticed several odd and very expressive permutations of the word “fling”. Fling/flang/flung aren’t about flinging some THING across the room, but rather describe a PERSON being catapulted, by life…allowing ourselves to being flung, learning lessons, making discoveries, really living. First we read Anne Herbert’s wonderful post in Peace, Love and Noticing the Details:…

making it up as you go along (seth godin + jackson pollock)

This morning in my Inbox I found a post called “Making it up as you go along” from Seth Godin’s blog. It was one line long: “Just wondering: Is there any other way to make it up?” I had to read it twice to get Godin’s teeny Zen post. Making it up – improvising – is about…