Modern Art Quotes

Is it Just Me? Or is this an Angry World?

Published on 2012-01-06 02:37:00

One of the songs on my playlist of late has been Neil Young's 'Angry World' from his album 'Le Noise'. It is a fitting soundtrack for this new year and is a very poignant example of Neil Young's cultural insight. (For reference, I consider Neil Young a prophet of our age, so stop reading now I guess if that's distasteful to you). My favorite part of the song, which kind of gets right to the heart

To be Reticent? or Not to Be...

Published on 2011-12-10 01:16:00

Here at Modern Art Quotes we like to honor our dead poets properly, (really it's just my blog, but 'we' sounds more official somehow). And yes Dead Poets Society remains as one of my all time favorite movies, call me a poetry nerd if you want to, that is okay with me. So, in that vein (not that she is a nerd, but she is certainly a dead poet to be celebrated) I would like to present the Emily

Notifications Pending: 1984 in Kansas?

Published on 2011-12-08 08:37:00

If you use Facebook you may have noticed some spam-like e-mails in the past couple months or so in your in-box. The subject line is something like 'John Doe You have notifications pending'. Am I the only one that thinks there is something wrong when your social media site is sending you messages akin to what you might see in debt collection notices? It reeks of a spammy e-mail that should

Two Independent Movies Worth Watching: "Special" and "Ink"

Published on 2011-10-27 23:26:00

A while back on Netflix streaming (independent movies section) I saw two really great movies, Special, and Ink. Both of these movies reminded me how great a movie can be when unhinibited by large corporate interests. Special is from 2006, written and directed by Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore, starring Michael Rapaport (yes that guy). I really really enjoyed Special on two different levels,

The Yahoo Kid and e.e. cummings' Birthday

Published on 2011-10-14 07:26:00

About a couple weeks ago I rode eight airplanes (including connections) in the span of about eight days. Amongst many other things, it was an opportunity to do a lot of people-watching. In my mid thirties now, I remember being fearless and age 18 or 19 years old, also being 10 or 12 and playing so hard everyday outside. Running in from the yard and drinking 4 glasses of water in four seconds,

Mothership: We Lost the Motherboard...

Published on 2011-06-10 03:45:00

Woke up one day last week, had some coffee, sat down at the PC and pressed space-bar to initiate from standby mode and,... 'click, ....click .....click ......click' nothing. Many restarts and various plugging and unpluggings later, there is still nothing. Could be the battery but the lights and fans come on, and the motherboard doesn't seem to. Is the PC dead? Maybe so, it's outlived it's

Modern Art Qoutes: Re - Centered

Published on 2011-05-19 04:17:00

It has been a long time since I have written anything here at Modern Art Quotes (man I hate posts that begin like that on blogs, and now I am writing one again no less.) So where to begin,.... again? I think after such a long time (about a year) I think it is important to maybe summarize exactly what Modern Art Quotes is all about. My name is Ed Tajchman and I am an artist, this is my blog.

Amsterdam City Center Tour Part Two

Published on 2010-11-29 04:32:00

In this post several days ago I started a series detailing my photos of a Sunday morning and afternoon spent in the city of Amsterdam, Holland. Check out that post for an intro and see below for the next entries in this photo series. As always all images are copyright with all rights reserved, email me for terms of use. "de nieuwe kerk" The New Church in Dam Square I am not sure what this

Yes the Hobbit Did Exist!

Published on 2010-11-28 00:33:00

One thing that interests me heavily is ancient history. When I say ancient history I mean also pre-history: the Greeks, Egyptians and further back. (Okay, this article is only indirectly art-related, but people often ask an artist his inspirations and this is something that definitely inspires me to think and research, and translates to my art in a primordial way). Homo-Sapiens have been around

The Work of Artist Keith Haring

Published on 2010-11-21 05:57:00

One of my recent fascinations in art-history is the New York 1980's artist Keith Haring. I don't mean to identify him first as being from a certain decade or city but that's just how I get into artists sometimes in my art history journey. And in his case unfortunately he was only really active during that decade, he died much too early at the age of 31 in 1990. He started in New York like