500 Days

When you're a kid, you just naturally want to draw and create. As you get older it becomes apparent that some people will retain the creative urge while others will not. The lucky ones who do are deemed "artists" and are prompty crammed into the artist shaped hole. The problem with this is that professional art has its own politics that are not unlike a high school popularity contest: you have to know the right people, show in the right galleries, and hate the right things. Each artist argues that not only do they know the difference between good and bad art, but they also know what should and shouldn't be considered art, period. After a while they're so busy "winning" at art that they've lost touch with that little kid inside that would sit and draw for hours just because it was fun. To me, fun is what art is about, pure and simple. I do it because I love it. And what kind of art are kids exposed to first? Cartoons, of course. I live for cartoons, and I believe cartooning is a far more complex and intriguing art form than mostContemporary art space located in the heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn specializing in limited edition pop-culture, gig and alternative movie posters.Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.