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New Issue of Musea Now printed, distributed, and on net. Interrogation!

Reader,

The new issue of Musea, #173 for Feb/Mar is out in print and at the regular stops that include The MAC, The Inwood, Half Priced Books - the main store, Paperbacks Plus, and Curiosities.…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 8, 2010 at 10:08am — No Comments

Zinester Art Quiz for 1/19/10

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

Gustav Holst composed a suite for the Planets. I think I'll do my version (for the sake of this question). In my version I am going to arrange the pieces in the order of each planet's discovery. The first five planets

are the ones the ancients knew: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

I'm done with those five parts of my suite. Now the question is, 'What planet is next in my musical… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on January 19, 2010 at 10:08am — No Comments

War With the Cartoon Characters

War with the Cartoon Characters

We as a people had had enough!

"Let's try as a jury and also a judge

all the cartoon 2D bunch;

rope them and their shenanigans,"

shouted the crowd, every one.

"Time to be serious when things are dark,

time to go to work and pull a plow,

time to clean up after those who draw."

The characters in concert said, "Phooey to that!"

and sent raspberries to all in earshot

and drew up multiple musical… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on January 7, 2010 at 9:18pm — No Comments

Loose Confederation Musea E-mail Club #497

LOOSE CONFEDERATION of ADVOCATES

There is a growing LOOSE CONFEDERATION of people in the art and media revolution. There are many artists, advocates, and advocacy groups, that cover the problems of a specific type of art. And some, like myself see the problem as endemic of all arts and media.

Some of these leaders know of the other leaders, some of us have even worked with each other to bring about changes. But whether by ourselves, or within our specific interests, or as… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on January 1, 2010 at 10:02am — No Comments

Hits Just Keep Coming (Musea E-mail Club #496)

Dear Reader,

Christmas week and time to celebrate. Here are the latest additions to the world's first all world music list, the BIG LIST - The net is the world's jukebox and here is the first best list of those songs and videos (most new some new to most of us). I guarantee that all of these are great music and great fun. Listees and Listeners both - help me help promote all these fine talents. It's not a CD its a new paradigm in music! Pass the word - or the notes! MS = MySpace, YT… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on December 22, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

Musea E-mail Club #493 Augmented Reality

This week just a short message.
A reader sent in this url to a post on Augmented Reality - fun stuff and
what's amazing is that the technical aspects of all this are just starting!

http://tinyurl.com/ygue8vo

Happy Thanksgiving,
Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 17 year old zine Musea)

Added by Tom Hendricks on November 26, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

Musea Email Club #491 Stuckism

Zine illustrators - this is something for you.

Dear Reader,

This time I'm going to look at the revolution in art and talk about Stuckism.

Stuckism is an international art movement started in Britain in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson. It strongely opposes the abuses of modern art. The group's ideas sounded much like my own and I wanted to contact them.

I did. I suggested some of my own work protesting modern art abuses, and I got a couple… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on November 17, 2009 at 10:21am — 2 Comments

Test your art smarts for this week's quiz

(Read directions to play)

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

Who invented the first sound recording devise, and what was recorded? Clue it wasn't Edison like we thought.

IS

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. And on April 9, 1860 he recorded someone singing "Au Clair de la Lune". You can hear it… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 22, 2009 at 10:40am — No Comments

Musea E-mail Club #474 Visual Arts (Main Points of the Art Revolution)

Readers,

We're working on some changes on our Musea.us website. In looking through the listings, I found 3 main sections on art that I brought together on my blog at

http://musea.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/musea-extra-summary-of-the-revolution-in-art-visual-arts/

They are titled:

1. Snake Oil – A Conceptual Art Piece/Video/Event that uses Conceptual Art to Attack the Abuses of Conceptual Art.

2.. The Last Minute of Modern Art Conceptual Art Event

3.… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 3, 2009 at 10:48am — No Comments

Musea Art Contest 6/2/09 Quizical Fun

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

This is a realistic method of painting only in grays that often imitates 3D sculpture. It was popular in 15th century Northern European paintings. Name it.

IS

Grisaille. Next time you look at these Northern European masterpiece paintings, notice the skill with which they painted sculpture to look like 3D!

I had no winner. Seems y'all were thinking in 2D!

I don’t

dumb… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 2, 2009 at 10:05am — No Comments

These musicians made the world's first best music list

Who made the BIG LIST this week? - first world "Top Forty" - list of 100 Plus, best favorites from myspace and youtube. It's Musea's way of celebrating the best of new music of all kinds from everywhere. (170 songs as of April '09)

HELP ME SUPPORT THE VERY BEST NEW MUSIC IN THE WORLD

1. From ITALY

Best Composer for Keyboards, Inventor of Modular Art Music, and Best Composer for Vocal Music Stefano Vagnini (Zoo) "Amaltea", "Via Crucis", " Arachne" (ms).

2.… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 31, 2009 at 9:24pm — No Comments