Dafuq? Painting from Shawn Huckins

 Shawn Huckins’s Athenaeum exhibition features a number of recognizable figures and paintings with a layer of current commentary that is familiar to anyone on instagram, snapchat, twitter, imgur, etc. The tension is funny, surprising and sad. 

Thomas Jefferson: Panic Four (Spotty WiFi), 2017. Acrylic

Major John Biddle: Panic Two (Loading Spinner), 2017. Acrylic

Charles Loring Elliot: Panic One (Low Battery), 2017. Acrylic

Evening Glow At Lake Louise: Panic Three (Mac Spinner), 2017. Acrylic

Richard Heber: To Dante, You’re All I Have, Just Please Don't Ever Text Me Again, 2017. Acrylic

Edgar Allan Poe: Sarcasm Noted, 2017. Acrylic

Richard Dana: Zero Fucks Given, 2017. Acrylic

Mrs John Biddle: Delete Me, 2017. Acrylic

Cole’s Cloud Study: The Fuck?, 2017. Acrylic

Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains (Who Needs The PCA?), 2017. Acrylic

General Henry H Sibley: UGH, 2015. Acrylic

Abraham Lincoln: Pffff, 2017. Acrylic

Midshipman Augustus Brine: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, I Don’t Know Whatever, 2017. Acrylic

Mrs James Warren: Blah Blah Blah, 2017. Acrylic

George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait): I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry, 2017. Acrylic

Euphoric Vision of the Future of Personal Media

http://remembermegame.com/journal Special thanks to Memorize for helping make this video happen! Check them down below! Also check them out on facebook and twitter! http://www.facebook.com/Remembermegame https://twitter.com/remembermegame In 2013 it is safe to say that memories are the last private and intimate pieces of ourselves that haven't been uploaded to social media for others to see.

​This moving and impactful video footage, paired with this is a speech by Antoine Cartier-Wells, founder of Memorize, a Paris based corporation, leading this technological revolution with their Sensen technology. 

APP of the Day - Buffer

Buffer pushed out a new update today making the already useful and powerful app even more so.

It is literally a buffer where all your links you want to share on Facebook, twitter and Linked in are stored until the timing is right. The app then automagically posts it, avoiding the flood of links washing out the nuggets of awesomeness you've found.

Buffer Free in the iTunes App Store

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3 - Street Art Snarks at Social Media Through Social Media

Parisian artist Above "ironically" is using social media to tell us we are too connected to social media. Very meta. 

People look at me like I’m from another planet when I tell them I don’t have social media like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. In the eyes of social media I’m severely outdated, lost and not ‘connected’. Not partaking in the aforementioned social media makes me an outsider looking in on how hyper frequent society uses its sacred social media. I can’t help but observe the people around me who appear to be consumed and addicted to trying to keep up to speed on their social media pages. You check your Facebook page while driving. Tweet a message that you ‘just took a shower’. Instagram a photo of your double soy macchiato with extra foam and so it continues ad infinitum. I have more questions than I do answers with social media. We live in a ridiculously hyper fast pace life where information is exchanged so rapidly that it makes us feel inadequate and drains our attention span. This painting was executed at the GALORE festival (http://werket.dk/galore/) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The painting is a time-lapse composed of over 9,000 photos and painted over a 5-day period. As irony has it this video will be reblogged and seen on social media outlets the world over. Please join in and reblog on your facebook and twitter accounts. Enjoy and try to keep up.