The Points of the Creative Artists’ Code: Eighteen - Trust, Perception and Reality

The metaphysical nature of the arts is about as nebulous as discussion of the spirit itself, but here NDK will attempt to explain his viewpoint on such things as trust, perception and reality, our plaything.

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The Points of the Creative Artists’ Code: Seventeen - The Viewpoints of Others

Code Point Article 17 looks at viewpoint from…what else? Another viewpoint.

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The Points of the Creative Artists’ Code: Sixteen - Help each other

NDK considers how Creative Artists can work together to help each other and one of the attitudes that sometimes hinders our advance. Read more

Armour Craft – Handy Protection Make Your Own Chain-mail Mittens

I’m sure that at some point in your life, you’ve picked up a couple of sticks and had a playful spar with some of your friends. You would have been quick to realize that whacks to the hand are painful.

Imagine for a moment that those flimsy ‘battle’ sticks you picked off the ground or tore off that poor tree are replaced with blades of tempered steel. This image casts a whole new meaning for the word pain. Read more

M. Duchamp and His Toilet

It was shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The world seemed renewed, ending the Industrial age and moving into the age of autos, flight, and major art movements; the like of which had not been seen. People were changing, society was changing, social standards were changing. It was a time flapper girls, organized crime, and art activism. Read more

Creativity and conflict

Ah, remember the days when the summers were carefree, MTv was still cool, and whatever was on the news really didn’t matter? Well, those days are over. Oh, not just for you and me, for your kids, for their kids, for their grandkids. And it’s been over longer than you think… Read more

Artists Embedded within the Military-Industrial Complex

In 1961 U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the “unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” By the time Eisenhower uttered his speech the military-industrial complex (MIC) was 20 years old. Beginning in 1941 after the U.S. officially entered World War Two, the U.S. industrial and manufacturing industries began to produce the weapons and vehicles needed by the military. As a result of the MIC’s creation, the U.S. economy rebounded from the depression that had plagued it since the 1929 stock market crash. Read more

Hollywood’s Anti-War Inactivism

What’s happened to Hollywood? Or rather, what’s happened to the society I live in today? Two days from the writing of this article is the 5 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Whether due to that or some other reason, there has been a surge of anti-war “activism” in Hollywood in the form of movies. And everyone from Susan Sarandon to Reese Witherspoon is jumping on the band wagon. Read more

Integrating Sculpture Materials in Drawing

Artists, dating back to the time of the cave drawings at Lascaux, have consistently looked for new materials to work with and to produce art with. Today is no different. Artists are always (or should be) looking for new media to work with or a new way to use that media and implement other media with it. It has certainly become an age of Mixed Media. It’s part of why Picasso is considered, by some, the most influential artist in history. Read more

The Power of Imagination

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