Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
“I consider art as an attitude towards life which offers me the chance to explore the world along new paths and look at in another way; to try time and again to reach that state which allows us to discover the crossroads in our habitual path”.- Hans Hemmert When you first think of sculpture your mind [...]
"Maybe it’s about mapping or tracing the ghost of cities past. It’s the pulling off of a layer and finding another underneath. It’s the reference and the details that point to people saying, ‘We exist; we were here.’" - Mark Bradford We are bombarded by advertisements everyday; everywhere you look an ad is reaching out for [...]
Catalyst Ranch recently held a Cubicle Makeover Contest in honor of Administrative Assistant Day. We asked admins to send in photos of their boring cubicles. We were inundated with entries and it was one of the hardest decisions we’ve made in a long time to pick just one winner. Inevitably, you want to help everyone! However, [...]
“Grey is out. Gloom is gone. It’s time to live our lives in colour.”- Project Let’s Colour As those of you who have been to Catalyst Ranch know, we're all about color and brightening up the spirit. We've seen how it inspires all the corporate and non-profit groups who hold their meetings here. We also know [...]
For all you candy junkies out there, here is a designer that takes a candy craze to the next level. Seriously, how crazy would you go if you got a pair of shoes with REAL candy!? Here’s a little text from the designer: “A shoe collection branded Lolice is the graduation work of product designer [...]
The boundary between painting and the reality is magically blurred by Meade's brilliant live painting. Alexa Meade uses a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique which compresses three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Pretty wild idea, she paints directly onto her subjects making them appear to be part of her art installations! Her work is a fusion of installation, [...]
Almost all of us have at one time or another had a crazy idea for a new product. Forbes.com has compiled a list for the 15 Kookiest Inventions: “Even in a lackluster economy, patent lawyers keep busy. Between 1996 and 2008, the annual number of patent filings jumped 130%, to 485,000. But what some consider innovation [...]
HAROSHI uses USED skateboards to create incredible works of art! He tries to incorporate each old board’s personality into new art pieces; he says no board is used in quite the same way. “As if it is a personality, skateboards have their own character. What I am doing is focusing on each personality and using its [...]
With the growing popularity of in-car navigation systems and the abundance of online mapping services like MapQuest and Yahoo Maps, paper road maps are no longer the tool most drivers rely on for navigation. However artists are finding unique and exciting ways to use these colorful and beautiful road maps. Artist Shannon Rankin recognizes the beauty that [...]
When was the last time you thought about the real contents of your beloved art supplies? Art is a vital part of our lives! Why not also make it green? While art supplies are not usually considered detrimental to the environment they do contain various toxins and pollutants that are harmful to both you and the [...]