November 2003
The Wittig Report - on the Interface Between Life and Art
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Welcome to the Wittig Report...
On the one hand there is 'Art,' and on the other hand, there
is 'Life,'
...and somewhere in the middle, they meet.
October began my water media season, producing 29
watercolour paintings, and 1
techno-sculpture, plus one ethics-related essay.
It is Autumn, the doors and windows closed for the season,
and unless
I figure out some way to ventilate my workshop without
costing me a
fortune in heating bills, there will be no more work in oil,
until the
spring.
Now, I will take what I learned in oil over the summer, and
see how it
translates into water, and dry media.
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October 2003, 29 watercolour/ gouache paintings and one
techno-sculpture:
For the sake of brevity, I point you to the thumbnail page.
http://www.robertwittig.com/2003fall.html
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Article: Selling Lies
"I recently saw a news article on 'Stealth
Marketing'... where
individuals are hired by marketing companies, and what they
do, is
hang out at places like trendy coffee houses, playing with
neat new
gadgets like virtual reality game boxes, and fancy digital
cameras,
and entice people into trying the product they are using...
asking
them to please take a picture of them with the camera, or if
they want
to try the game box, etc... as if it is a chance encounter,
and not a
sales pitch.
This is advertising insinuating its way directly into human
interaction... you (the sucker) think you just me a nice
person, who
is showing you a cool new techno-gadget that they themselves
recently
purchased, and are thrilled with... but in reality, you are
being lied
to... the whole relationship is a phony as a three dollar
bill... you
are a 'mark', being worked by a professional con artist...
and for
this especially deceptive lie, a special new name had to be
invented... 'Stealth Marketing'. The English language (and
probably
all languages) seem to have a lot of different words for
'lie'... many
of which, attempt to deodorize lying, so that it smells like
something
nicer than the bullshit it is."
To read the article, click here:
http://www.robertwittig.com/paper64.html
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Directory of my 'vintage' work:
http://www.robertwittig.com/images/EarlyWork/
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Virtual Reality Gallery
http://www.robertwittig.com/vrml.html
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Featured Website - Mirage Murals
An interesting website by a couple of muralists, who also do
some
non-mural work.
Definitely worth a look.
To visit the Website... click here:
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-wittig