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Paul Smith, the Typewriter artist. Originally aired March-April of 1976 on KOIN-TV in Portland Oregon.

At-Large Reporter Ray Summers wrote and narrated. I shot, edited and selected the music. Ray learned about Paul from a newspaper feature in the Roseburg, Oregon newspaper. Ray and I roamed Southern Oregon for a week in February and dropped by the Roseburg nursing home one wintry morn. We were in and out in 90 minutes, but what we captured was an amazing story on many levels.

I shot the story with a single system Frezzolini 16mm film camera. I shot daylight Ektachrome with dichroic filters on my lights since so much daylight was coming in the windows. I put an ECM-50 microphone inside Paul’s typewriter to capture the sound. I got the music from my personal library.

A week or two later, Assignment Editor Norm Gunning gave me a whole day to cut this piece. I synched 4 reels of film and sound and pretaped to 2 inch tape. By the reaction of the crew we knew we had a special piece.

I submitted the piece to the National Press Photographer Association’s 2nd quarter clip contest in 1976. It won 1st place nationally as the best television news story.

It had been lost on 3/4″ Beta tape in my hot attic for years. I just bought an used 3/4″ deck off EBay and recorded this story to my computer. It suffers a bit from generation loss. I count 3 generations: film, 2 inch tape, 3/4″ tape. Enjoy.

Mark Gardner is a regular contributor to WhackyNation.com.

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LISTEN!

Make sure you check out the musicians I talked about in this video…

AnnieCanada
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieCanada

Will
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=wmstaney

Eric and sometimes his brother
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hendrixefd

Sara
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=miguelitoysarita

Listen for Life
http://www.listenforlife.org/

If you’d like to buy this or other paintings go to my website
http://www.valsartdiary.com

TIPS FOR ARTISTS!
Click on the link below for tips on creating art but also promoting and selling it on the internet. I also have a 16 minute long video in which I talk about my journey to becoming a full-time artist. Check it out!
http://www.valsartdiary.com/valsarttips/Vals_Art_Tips_2.html

The rules of my d’Art lottery:
Every subscriber has a chance to win. I try to update my board with new subscribers every week. If the dart lands on your name you have to contact me by Wednesday to claim it. Use YouTube’s messaging system so I know for sure it’s really you . Remember that I post videos every Sunday and You have untill that Wednesday to claim it.

Thank you for all inquiries about commissioned work. Please contact me about this using my email and not EBAY: valsartdiary@mac.com

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This segment profiles the artist known as KAWS, former Graffiti (tag) artist turned painter and designer of limited edition toys and clothing. This segment also features some cool clips of KAWS’ art, displayed in Pharrell Williams’ Miami Home and Kanye West’s latest album cover and billboard. 

You can catch his next exhibition,
“KAWS, The Long Way Home,” February 21,— April 04, 2009 at the Honor Fraser Gallery in LA

http://www.honorfraser.com/?s=upcoming
or
http://www.honorfraser.com 

“I just started simply through graffiti and drawing on my skateboard and painting on walls and getting that small recognition,” said KAWS, known to his family as Brian Donnelly.

KAWS  graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA in illustration in 1996. After graduation, KAWS briefly worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting backgrounds. He also contributed to the animated series 101 Dalmations, Daria and Doug. 

He began his career as a graffiti artist growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Later moving to NYC in the 1990s, KAWS started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements. These reworked advertisements were at first left alone, lasting for up to several months, but as KAWS’ popularity skyrocketed, the ads became increasingly sought after.

In addition to NY, KAWS has done work in Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo. 

In the late 90s, KAWS began to design and produce limited edition vinyl toys, “an instant hit with the global art toy-collecting community,”especially in Japan, where this genre is well respected and widespread. More toys and later clothing were made for Original Fake, a recent collaborative store with Medicom Toy, in the Aoyama district of Tokyo where an original limited edition product is released each week.

KAWS has also participated in other commercial collaborations with Takahashi for Undercover, snowboard projects with Burton, and sneakers with Nike and Vans.

His most recent collaboration was with Comme des Garçons.

KAWS’ acrylic paintings and sculpture have many repeating images, all meant to be universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures. 

One of KAWS’ early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, entitled The Kimpsons, subverted the famous American cartoon, The Simpsons. KAWS explains that he “found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people’s lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics.”

In addition, KAWS has reworked other familiar icons such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man and the Smurfs.

Through all of his projects, KAWS has successfully blurred the line between fine art and mass-produced merchandise. He uses his products to allow his imagery to infiltrate a larger audience than that of the fine art world.

The artist is currently an active member in both the commercial and fine art communities.

His work is included in the traveling exhibition “Beautiful Losers,” which started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and will be traveling through 2009 throughout the US and Europe.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (forthcoming)

Plastic Culture, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Great Britain

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Album Cover, 808s and Heartbreak, by Kanye West
Also check out:
http://www.original-fake.com

http://www.kawsone.com

Video: © 2009, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved No Infringement is intended

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The blind artist.

See and subscribe to my other youtube account for more videos (this is my old one now which I dont use): http://www.youtube.com/percy203

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The blind artist.

See and subscribe to my other youtube account for more videos (this is my old one now which I dont use): http://www.youtube.com/percy203

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A young autistic artist is taken up in a helicopter over Rome, and then, over the next 3 days, draws it ALL by memory.

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www.sprej.com

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Artist Julian Beever has a knack for allowing his works to literally pop off the ground. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Beever, whose 3-D chalk works have spawned a great deal of internet interest. (CBSNews.com)

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