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~ 04/09/2005*

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  ~ Integrative Creativity   Augustus Klotz : Multimedia Art & Design   ~ Hemispherical Nirvana
     
 
Kamikaze Chunk Collection
 
 
The Kamikaze Chunk Collection
 
     
 
 Artistic integrity? Who needs them! Read the best article to achieve your very state of creative enlightenment. Integrate more the chunks into your creative life and the regular life. Then to escape the boring time when there really is no art for you. Like when you are waiting for a bus to come. Or then you are doing the work and having your daily job. If the job is not for a very creative place, try it to the chunk patrol for looking at every different thing around that place. For the example, when you find the magazine at the break room or even a sticker on some machines. Just take a look at them. Do you like to see them? Is it very inspiring to collect things and take it home with you? In addition, the chunks you take at work are very great for some other projects you are doing too. For some help, try keeping your own mind awake of things and always thinking on the creative level.
 
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Kamikaze Plans
 
 
Kamikaze Plans
 
     
 
 Then, after you do the job, you take the chunks at home or in your own personal art{space} for creating the great art. Bring the chunks to play with it or to plan the collage with it or even some other type of art. Every idea too. Also, let the chunks explore the best of creativity in that place. In this way, the creativity and fun part of your artistic life will be very inspirational things for the dullest and boring part of your worthless existence. Therefore, after some more time and the good practice mixing up the different worlds, you begin to enjoy the satisfying rewards of living an integratively creative lifestyle. So don't live the part-time artist!
 
     
  -- Hiro Kamikaze,  
  -- March 01, 2005  
     
  Kamikaze San  
     
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  Exclusive art{space} Interview:  
  • Who: August Klotz, multimedia artist & digital editor ~  
  • When: March 3rd, 2005: ~ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm ~  
  • Where: Too Much Studios, located downtown Seattle ~  
  • What:
The Klotz studio employs multiple computers, mixing boards, and a specialized working space for drawing and painting. + Plus a great view ~
 
  • Why:
art{space} explores multimedia studios & artists in an effort to protect the universe from terror ~
 
  • How:
Klotz' creative approach is schizophrenic: an obsessively planning editor by day and a compulsively spontaneous artist by night -- a sleepless synergy of art & business, landing exclusive clients & award-winning work ~
 
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Klotz Studio / *a 'monitor-friendly' environment
 
 
Klotz Studio / *a 'monitor-friendly' environment
 
     
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Thank you for inviting us into your studio today.
To begin with, please tell us about your business.
 
  /K:
Yes, currently, I am a digital editor and multimedia producer by day and neo-surrealist painter by night.
 
  {*}: Like Batman. When did you first begin the business?  
  /K:
I have been painting & drawing for many years, and began the digital work around ten years ago.
 
  {*}: What is your current focus in editing & production?  
  /K:
A & V [ audio & video ] mostly, but occasionally print and web content as well. Just about anything digital.
 
  {*}: Sounds busy...  
  /K:
Sure, I have learned to juggle multiple projects, but usually prefer to focus time on business in some serial fashion. So, multitasking generally involves the completion of a major project, say, a movie, while handling several minor projects on the side. Such as during batch video-processing. Computer crunch- time is prime for website updates, audio mixes, or maybe even an art{space} interview or something.
[ Laughs ] -- Not necessarily in that order, perhaps.
 
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Klotz Studio / *multimedia production business
 
 
Klotz Studio / *multimedia production business
 
     
  {*}:
Tell us more about your current projects...
 
  /K:
Currently, I spend the majority of my office [ day ] hours co-producing a local, independent film entitled Franchise, which is a deliberately unsophisticated documentary on the contemporary, market-centered world of 'modern' art.
 
  {*}:
And in your free time?
 
  /K:
Well, I love to paint, and fortunately enough, not having any distractions, am able to spend a great deal of quality time cold getting into the mix -- often losing track of time and painting for hours on end.
 
  {*}:
[ Pause ] Sounds expensive...
 
  /K:
[ Laughs ] Yes, please, thank you, and very much so.
 
  {*}:
Anyway, describe your studio for us.
 
  /K:
Well, it's located on the third [ top ] floor of a partially renovated, half-abandoned warehouse. This room, which is generously spacious, serves as the primary studio. The defining quality of this space is, as you can see, the scenery. The two bay windows cut through Pioneer Square and the Waterfront -- offering some really fresh views of Puget Sound. S'capes -- all flava. Anyway, the studio itself is virtually divided into digital [ computer ] space and analog [ drawing & painting ] space. I could go on and on. -- It is all too much, really...
 
       
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 *art{space} magazine is your journey through the creative universe. Artists, writers, and other creatives reveal their studio setup secrets and share their art, space, and creative routines. We are your expert guides to the idiosyncrasies and complexities of contemporary studio setup, exploring everything from software and lighting preferences to organizational and creative styles. Yet, although inspiring, such environmental properties merely delve into the external, objective manifestation of the internal, subjective self. Therefore, a symmetrical examination of artists' internal art{space} invites a more complete understanding of the creative process. Together, these two aspects of artistic purpose determine and reveal the nature of artistic creativity.
 
     
 
 Although there are many other types of creative space, such as metaphysical, transcendental, and sub-dimensional space, art{space} focuses on these two fundamental realms of creativity: The external & internal, objective & subjective, primary & secondary, yin & yang. For example, here in our current art{space} online presentation, we explore the external studio of West- Coast multimedia artist and writer, August Klotz ( center column ). As we learn from Dr. Klotz and his unique working environment, we peer behind the curtains, and begin to understand the psychological nature driving Klotz and his work. For example, noticing the meticulous analog-digital dichotomy of Klotz' studio, we see a desire for artistic spontaneity tempered by a necessity to exercise creative control. We take Klotz' bold use of color at face value -- his large bay windows as psychological revelation. We see his loosely organized space and begin to imagine the subconscious and symbolic implications.
 
     
 
 Clearly then, an artist's secondary, external world offers insightful clues, yet we need more. What deep mysteries lie hidden within the creative mind? By which mental mechanisms does an artist's external studio unfold? To what degree is an artist able to illuminate and decipher their own philosophies? For answers, we must dive deep into the oceans of subjective space. Therefore, our brief journey through the external art{space} of Professor Klotz serves as the objective architecture through which his many art{space} articles* explore a subjective, internal creativity.
 
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Mr. Hemispherical Nirvana
 
 
Mr. Hemispherical Nirvana
 
     
 
 Indeed, everything an artist creates is an indirect manifestation of their unique inner art{space}. Truly, subjective introspection via critical analysis is often the most direct route to that elusive, subjective realm. Hence, art{space} magazine achieves a hemispherical nirvana, exploring both external and internal creative environments. Through artistic and written expression, artists explore and express the mysterious and fascinating phenomenon that is their internal art{space}.
 
     
  -- Perishable  
  -- March 10, 2005  
     
 
*Find Klotz' articles in our *archives >>
 
     
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