“Imagination Insurance” art project, created by artist Robert E. Schmolze, is an interactive performance art piece that parallels real world experiences, exploring art, imagination, participant becoming artist, marketing and insurance.
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Imagination Insurance Razorback Tank
Imagination Insurance Razorback Tank
$30.10
Imagination Insurance Classic Razerback Tank
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Friend Time Field Journal
Friend Time Field Journal
$24.95
Refillable cover + journal
Friend Time! Organize your imagination with Friend TIme Field Journal. Great for Make lists of things to do, place to go or hair styles to change. Document your imagination for later use.
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Black Artist T-Shirt
Black Artist T-Shirt
$24.49
Standard Black T-Shirt looks good with jeans, skirts, jackets and life.
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Friend TIme Ribbon
Friend TIme Ribbon
$11.95
Friend Time Ribbon comes in satin and crossgrain. Spools of 2 yards, 6 yards and 10 yards.
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Friend TIme Paper Plate Collection
Friend TIme Paper Plate Collection
$2.80
Friend Time! Eat with friends, paper plate collection perfect for artshow, events and picnics.
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Life & Art Book of Blues & Jazz Sayings
Life & Art Book of Blues & Jazz Sayings
$0.00
Book O’ Blues & Jazz Sayings
Compiled, Derived & Contrived from Hear-Say, Rumors & Billy Goat’s Gruff.
FREE DOWNLOAD PDF HERE>
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Robert E. Schmolze
Robert E. Schmolze
Robert E. Schmolze is a California native working in Los Angeles, who is in private collected, nationally. After receiving his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design he returned to Los Angeles. For ten years, he curated and participated in over a hundred art shows. Exploring ideas of how art is viewed and consumed. The events took place in traditional and untraditional galleries. Offices, night clubs and pop up spaces. Like Onyx Café, Insomnia Café, Calhoun Square, the Light Bringers Gallery, The Hangar, The Hive Gallery, The Ivar, Boardners, Spanish Kitchen Studios, Da Vinci Gallery, Pearl Arts and Crafts, The Art Store, Upstairs at the Market Gallery, the Pig ‘n Whistle, American Electric Tattoo, Ecological Art Gallery, State Farm Insurance, Zackheim Gallery,The Julia Dean Gallery and private residencies; for one night events. He believes strongly in community and collaborations. These collaborations with Los Angeles artists have led to the creation of limited edition hand made Artist Books, Artist Groups, Events and Billboards. He is actively involved in the community, focusing on art and education. You can friend him on facebook, linkedin, twitter, or in person. For more information on sales and commissions you can contact him through his website www.robertschmolze.com
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omnia vincit amor
omnia vincit amor
article by Laurel SchmolzeThe motto “Love Conquers All” (omnia vincit amor) comes from the Augustan poet Vergil, writing in the late 1st century BC. His collection of Eclogues concludes with what might be his most famous line:
Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori.
Love conquers all, and so let us surrender ourselves to Love. -
A note on lists of notes.
A note on lists of notes.
Lists are great to get your ideas down, whether it be for writing, life or an art project. They are […]
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R.I.P. to the Past…It is Always Now, Now
R.I.P. to the Past…It is Always Now, Now
Sam Harris – It Is Always Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JzcCviNDk
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Laurel Schmolze
Laurel Schmolze
Seoul, South Korea Fine Art Blogging Branding.
“Was once recognized as the best genius in the world. Laurel Schmolze’s fine art and sculpture, crisscrosses Pop Culture iconography, using processes typical of the American Craft Movement. She explores ideas of gaming, travel, feminism, memes, motherhood, and discovery.”
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rewrite a classic
rewrite a classic
Try rewriting a classic today by changing out the names and actions and see where it takes you.
Scroll down to see my rewrite of Goldilocks and the 3 bears.
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Horsing Around
Horsing Around
Let your Imagination run wild.
- Scroll down click on paper horse cut out template.
- Download.
- Print.
- Glue to cardstock back-to-back.
- Cut.
- Add to a stick or strings
- and start horsing around.
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When to-two writes make a left
When to-two writes make a left
Tell A Story! Paint A Story Dance a Story like Company Stefanie Batten Bland Sing a Story like Via Audio Map […]
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Join our Team
Join our Team
Do you feel you have what it takes to be a Representative of Imagination?
We are looking for creative thinkers, who inspire and would like to share their imagination at least once a month. No fees, no obligation.
Benefits
- Feature Bio Page on www.robertschmolze.com
- Events promoted.
- Join a unique dynamic group of creative people today. Scroll down and fill out the form below.
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Artist Statement 1997
Artist Statement 1997
My drawings and paintings have evolved into a visual language, words, sentence. Representing philosophies I have. On what is happening in our urban environment and the social and psychological impact it is having on us as a world-society. with cellular phones, computers, faxes, pagers, cash machines, automated everything we are closing off ourselves from human interaction.
We are learning to become more familiar with plastic and metal than with a handshake. People are numbers and figures to be used as statistical information. We are spending less time socially with our family and friends than ever before. There are whole sub-cultures incapable of simple social skills. Our world is getting smaller but at the same time so is humanity. We as a society are desensitized and accept horrors of real life as if it were a movie.
There is an overwhelming feeling of apathy in our nation right now, many people have no hope in the future especially the children. They are being taught by overworked, underpaid, apathetic teachers. Who try hard to teach but are faced with outrageous conditions. Extra curriculum classes are being cut out of school systems right and left. There are less afterschool sports programs, clubs. The parks are closing, leaving the children to be latch key kids and getting involved in gangs and violence. These are just a few of the problems of America today. With all these involved aand complex problems it is easy to be apathetic.
My Coffee Cup series represents the sense of community. Coffee houses for business meetings and to meet friends. People drink coffee in the morning to get going. There is the coffee break a time to think over the rest of the day, to relax and unwind. There is coffee served at dinner or after dinner. People serve coffee to guests to be social.
Coffee to me is a symbol of communication stopping and smelling the flowers and enjoying life for today. it is a time express and exchange ideas and thoughts. It is a time of interaction. I feel society needs to focus on communication. Working inwards outwards. Solving problems of the home, then community, then country, state, nation and then the world.
These works are just a part of a whole idea to reinstall the sense of hope and sense of power in one’s self.
-Robert E. Schmolze
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Dam da Man
Dam da Man
F-the system I say. Dam the man. Screw the Fuzz. I don’t care if we are the land of the free. Look around man, we are being watched by a silent society. The statues quo. The Norms. We’re not people were numbers, that we’re given at birth to follow us to our death. SS man. Social Security. Big Bro is watching us through our T.V. spying on us and our act-tivi-ties. Those satalietes up there aren’t for the weather, cable or spying on “the enemy”. ‘Cause we’re the enemy. The Problem. The’re aimed at us maaaan.
The man has changed to Turner, L. Ron Hubbard and Walt Dis-ney. They own our eyes our minds make us Laugh & Cry with colorized memories and cute warm fuzzy movies. Tugging at our heartstrings. But when you’re not looking they corrupt your mind with GARBAGE to buy, buy, buy. Spend your hard earned money. You think you are beyond their control. They don’t effect me! But that is the beauty of the Man, the Plan to hit upside the head when your are not looking. You better watch out. Dam the Man and his many fingers and his secret spies of corporate America. Open your Eyes stand on watch. F the Man for he is watching, F the Man for is going to F YOU!
– By Jay Kicker Kauss
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Fearing Minnesota’s State Bird
Fearing Minnesota’s State Bird
Sweaty feet
is a yummy treat
blue mosquitos eat.
Sweet pixie sticks.
I cross the quite innocent wet grass,
and they up jump for joy.
Each step I take
is a new attack.
Party,
lunch,
down.
Party,
lunch.
down.
Fin-a-lly
I reach my destination.
Salvation.
Searing, melting,
bright
concrete.
I am relieved,
or only but a second
until I meet another lovely lawn.
Sweaty feet is a yummy treat
for those big blue mosquitos.
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LA 1999
LA 1999
We were driving to a club, the 50 buck club. I don’t know why they named it that, it’s free.It was summer and the sun was shining brightly even though it was 8pm. Got off the 101 at Alameda past the L.A. County Jail, the streets seemed still.
There was usually a small commotion of other cars or people milling around, but todayit was dead. My friends JG and YK instantly rolled up the windows and the car became still and stale. The conversation stopped and there was only a desire to find the 50 Buck Club. I felt their uneasiness as if there were all gripping onto my shoulders, tensing with each bump or odd corner we passed. I decided to ignore them and take in the sites of the streets I rarely venture to go to. The warehouse district is odd because a lot of the old brick buildings are vacant or they glow with odd lights.
To me, their beautiful. Speaking of the history of LA’s growth and decline. Signs, layering each other, not caring what’s behind them. While the other signs shouts, “ I once was a brewery” or “I supplied flowers to all of LA.” The molding and trim of the old places are intricate and well-crafted stone. Not like the shiny smooth surfaces of mass reproduced new burrows that tower over them only three blocks away. These old grandparents stay strong; fight the inspectors, not to be condemned. My passengers blew a sigh of relief once we reached our destination.
We were first greeted by a rockabilly Latino with the biggest lamb chops and pompadour I have ever seen. 6’2”, lanky big hands and strong forearms like Popeye. He turned out to be the stand-up bass player for the last band. There was a long bar on the left sparsely seated, with a variety of locals of all ages and backgrounds. To me that is a good sign.
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Exs-Pain
Exs-Pain
I see the little monsters
that screams out at different times
they come out of nowhere
but always perform different crimes.
When they are hiding
they sit and knaw on my sides.
My head, my neck
and sometimes even my eyes.
It bothers me to know they're their
and I can not always control them.
But I see the little monsters
and I am trying to destroy them. -
Spinning
Spinning
Little Blue meanies
eat the pink apricots
out of my purple hoof
and sit back
onto their yellow puke chair
whistle dixie
as the clown clouds go buy,
I'll dance in a circle with a finger on my head
spinning to entertain
spinning to be insane.
I'll be a fool for you
so you won't be bored
but I wonder
when will you entertain?
Wour purple fingers
pick your noses
and lud toothy yawns
announce your boredom.
I fall down in exhaustion
and think to myself
this is not worth my time.
So I walk away and decide to play
and wait
for others to entertain. -
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Can I Ask You A Few Questions?
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Kate Carvellas
Kate Carvellas
Artist Profile
Kate is a self-taught artist who lives and creates in Pasadena, CA. In 2004, found herself in need of an artistic outlet. She began creating two-dimensional thematic montages using imagery from various magazines and clip art sources. With further exploration and a new-found confidence, she began to pursue a different direction, creating, original, three dimensional collages. Later exploring the creative world of mixed media and assemblage and fell in love with both of these media. In 2014 she started exploring the unlimited potential of abstract painting. Creating work purely from my own mind, without borrowing images or objects to bring the work to life, has been an exhilarating experience.
Now finding great joy, working in abstract painting and assemblage. Through her research she found inspiration in the work of artists such as Salvador Dali, Joseph Cornell and Kurt Schwitters: and more recently, the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miro. Watching the documentary “The Radiant Child” about the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had a deep impact on her and strive to create work, not in his style, but that that has the freedom and spontaneity of his.
In 2012 she had the great pleasure of seeing the exhibit “Wonderland – The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States”. This exhibit profoundly affected her. Finding kindred spirits in Louise Nevelson, Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo and the work they have created.