Art, art, art, hanging out with my artistic friends including Cynthia Paige Aaron (assemblage artist), Joseph De Mario (curator at Bakery Art Exhibitions), Joel Mark (fantastic photographer), Domenico Foschi (another fantastic photographer). Then: music, writing poetry, and lots of reading. Exercising & eating/cooking great vegan food is up there too...and of course spending time with my cats, Tazzy (now 21 years old!) & Goobs.
Music
I love kcrw (89.9 FM) Favorites (not in order of preference) include friends Skye, Freedom People, Moorcheeba, Kate Whitemarsh; as well as Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, OPM, Dandy Warhols, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Edith Piaf, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Jack Johnson, Jem, The Cinematic Orchestra, Air, David Gray, Brian Eno, Mia Doe Todd, Throwing Muses, Cat Power, Esquivel!, RemyZero, Better than Ezra, Wilco, Cowboy Junkies, Beth Orton, Innocence Mission, Eleni Mandell, Iris Dement, Beck, Weekend Players, Luscious Jackson, Henry Mancini, Gomez, Tom Jones, Spearhead, Coldplay, Randy Newman, Gorillaz, David Kitt, NoonDay Underground, Zero 7, Ian Moore, R.E.M., Tom Petty, James Blunt, Cat Stevens, Afro Celt Sound System, Innocence Mission, Tracy Chapman, The Flaming Lips, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Richard Thompson, Moby, Hooverphonic, Massive Attack. There are many more...
I also listen to Blues, Big Band, Frank Sinatra, Classical, even a tad of opera. I only have rap in a language I can't understand, like French, with the exception of US3, great rap done to great jazz. Poetry in motion...
Movies
I think my top fav for quotes is "Princess Bride". I have to think about this, the list will grow in time...
High Fidelity, Harold and Maude, Buckaroo Bonzai in the 8th dimension, Laurel Canyon, Blade Runner. I have much more to add to this list (soon).
Television
Don't watch it, except for the occasional (rare) Jon Stewart/Steven Colbert (plus some MAD), National Geographic, Discovery, etc. I love most all sci-fi, especially Firefly! Mostly I own a TV to watch vids & (ask me which) cartoons.
Books
Anything on Art, Particle Physics, Superstring theory, holonomic brain theory, art, occasional political book, Sci-Fi (currently "Enders Game"), or philosophy (Carl Jung's "The Undiscovered Self one of my all-time favs). Also the works of Joseph Campbell...
Heroes
John Robbins, who wrote "The Food Revolution". Amelia Erhart. Joni Mitchell for her huge contribution to lyrical poetry. More to be added...
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November '08 update:
Well, eight shows in two years, and now I've been invited to the Florence Biennial in Italy. I can't do it, because it would mean spending around $4,000 I don't have, but hey what an honor! I sent them a thank you note via Fedex.
The other news is a collector is telling me to contact Gemini G.E.L. to get in, but I'm pretty sure that's a very LONG shot, because I know the manager who says "you have to have at least two major museum solo shows" to get in. Hopefully some day!!!
I want to get better at keeping updated on Myspace. A goal!!!!
April '08 update:
I've been picked to be in a university art gallery exhibition, "Perfect with Pixel." The info as follows:
Shaurya Kumar, curator. An international exhibition that focuses on works that are done by integrating
digital with traditional art-making methods.
When: September 9 - October 5, 2008
Where: Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery at Bowling Green State University, School of Art, Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Important News! I am one of eleven artists accepted into LACDA's (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) most recent competition, for a show currently showing at LACDA (please see www.melissaannlambert.com for details). The jurors:
Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA), Peter Frank, Senior Curator, Riverside Art Museum, L.A. Weekly Critic, and Rex Bruce
Artist, Curator, Director L.A. Center for Digital Art
Please visit my main website (MelissaAnnLambert.com), "exhibitions/news" tab, for specifics on the show.
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"Employing an arsenal of digital tools, Melissa Lambert mines a hallucinatory territory embedded with personal codes and signals that lend her dizzying, pixelated surfaces unusual depth."
- Michael Ned Holte, writer and contributer to Artforum Magazine
My works are available for sale in large format limited editions as well as very affordable smaller, open editions. They are archival prints using pigment inks by Nash Editions (Nash, of Crosby, Stills & Nash fame).
Dr. Peter Carter will be Anthony Marr's guest on Animal Voices June 12 Friday 3-4pm EST/noon-1pm PST - online-live www.coopradio.org; hot-line 604-684-7561. Peter is Anthony's co-author:
Angi Metler, president of the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance (NJARA), leading anti-huntress whom hunters refer to as a "domestic terrorist", will be Anthony's guest June 19 Friday same time. Angi is in green: The hunters' version:
Feel free to call-in during the show: 604-684-7561
UC Berkeley: Biology, Dr. Richard Holms: ... truly deserves the name OMNI-SCIENCE... great depth... Astrophysics, Dr. Marc Davis: ... a forward- looking moral framework... an important contribution... Anthropology, Dr. Tim White: ... Anthony Marr's synthesis is formidable. Paleontology, Prof Carole Hickman: an extraordinary intellectual undertaking... a bold and eclectic piece of scholarship... Zoology, Dr. Richard Strohman: ... original...thoroughly logical...might indeed fill a large gap in the way we think... Institute of Human Origins, Dr. William Kimbel: ... a profound contribution... implications of great depth and breadth for the future course of human actions... too important to ignore.. Stanford U: Sociology, Dr. Alex Inkeles: ... impressed me not only with the quality of his presentation, but also the quality of his thinking... Philosophy, Dr. John Dupre: ... a highly intelligent, thoughtful man... extremely intriguing and provocative... Astrophysics, Dr. Vahe Petrosian: fascinated... very ambitious task... a beautiful synthesis... captivating... of interest not only to experts but to all thinking people of th
please drop by & comment me some feedback on the final director's cut of my debut video, which was shot on the north east coast of england where i grew up, i'd love to know what u think!
Y tomé el cielo en mis ojos .. como agua limpia que calmaba mi llanto … Los silencios del mundo.. o tus silencios.. estaban allí.. titilando al compás de mis latidos.. Bálsamo y desasosiego a este borde del abismo.. Nada y todo.. un nudo de silencios y recuerdos.. (Libro Más allá de la piel..) http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/showdown/index. php?showpic=170128
The long wait is over! The Attic Trax debut album “Where what where” is now out on CD baby and iTunes.
Take a generous portion of Lemon Jelly and Blue States. Add a bit of Zero 7, Air and UNKLE. Finish with a sprinkling of The Cinematic Orchestra and what have you got? Attic Trax‘s debut Album “Where what where?”.
A big thank you to those that appreciate the above acts for your really supportive comments. Much appreciated. Try out the new tunes on our site.
"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory." ~ Truman Capote
Autumn is the time when God's light shines bright upon the earth, and nature comes into its own :) Love, Amy
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