Archive for the 'politics' Category

Wiping the Politics Off My Sleave

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Four years ago I gathered up my thoughts on the way that election turned out.

[…] I think instead of sulking in this cataclysmic let-down, I’ll simply gather myself up and plan for the little bits of goodness that will surely come from living my life—spending time with my wife and our soon-to-be child.

Because the onus […]

Curtains

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Mike Schindler Curtains 1995 Ink on Died Canvas 78¼ x 51½ inches

Thirteen years later, I still consider this piece to be one of the most significant breakthroughs of my early artistic development. It was made in 1995 through a process […]

Learning Politics Through Design

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

CNN’s Election Center 2008 delivers not only a monumental amount of well thought out data-driven design, information architecture and Flash/AJAX wizardry, but the site itself may quite possibly represents the largest lesson in politics that’s ever been delivered to the American public in one full sitting.

Think about it.

Newspapers have tried in […]

Beyond Words

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

This nonsense brings back a powerful memory.

One morning during my Junior year of college, my sculptor professor, a scruffy-looking curmudgeonly man, who also happens to be one of the most well-spoken individuals on the topic of art I’ve ever met in real life, led our small group through the art building’s court yard area. […]

Mask #5 Revisited

Monday, June 25th, 2007

In the Fall of 1994 I did a series of ink wash drawings titled simply Masks. As I recall at the time, this particular part of the series had a lot to due with the Heisenberg principle, but it coud easily be applied to the recent presidental veto on federal stem cell research.

Mike Schindler Mask […]