Below are some of our favorite ArtCard submissions from March, 2012.

Get involved! Distribute blank ArtCards in your community.

The 8 ArtCard artists featured  this month include Erni Velazquez, Kadber, Jorge Perez, Arpen THC, Jason Amos, Carly Bravo, Afex One and Krasp One. Congrats guys!

ArtCards are blank pre-addressed postcards that are used by artists from all over L.A. County to exhibit and share their artwork.

Great news! An ArtCard installation was erected on March 9th, 2012 at Dana Community Library in Long Beach.

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Sourced from the University of Pennsylvania on YouTube

Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this “couch guitar” by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the “couch guitar”.

These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.

Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab.

This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design.

The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors.

More information: http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/penn-quadrotors-ted

Video Produced and Directed by Kurtis Sensenig
Quadrotors and Instruments by Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar

The “Krasp One” ArtCard sticker you voted for has arrived!  We’ll be giving them away during an artmaking workshop at MOCA this SUNDAY from 1 to 3.30pm.

The Sunday Studio workshop is at MOCA on 250 South Grand Avenue.  Event detials can be found on Facebook and LA-Artist.com.

Below are some of our favorite ArtCard submissions from February, 2012. Visit LA-Artist.com‘s art archives to view the complete collection online.

Diego from Occupy Los Angeles

Arturo Alquisira from Glassell Park

Eclectic Sex Pulse from Beverly Hills

Mark Encinas from Arcadia

Lee Goldberg from Outside L.A.

Leopoldo Pena from South Gate

Krasp One from Upland

Amanda Ferrell Hale from Compton

Please vote for your favorite ArtCard by leaving the artist’s name on our Facebook page or in the comment section below (the ArtCard with most comments as of 6pm on Sunday, Feb 26th will be printed).

As a reward for helping us out we’ll randomly pick a winner who will receive a stack of these awesome stickers, some pins and an LA-Artist.com t-shirt!

Remember, the stickers will be given away FREE at MOCA on March 4th, 2012. Event details here.

Krasp One

Katrina Alexy

Mark Encinas

ArtCards are blank pre-addressed postcards that are used by artists from all over L.A. to exhibit and share their artwork.

Exciting news! The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has invited LA Artist to run an ArtCard workshop at their location on Grand Ave on Sunday, March 4th, 2012 from 1-3pm as part of the museum’s Sunday Studio series.

The ArtCard workshop will give you, your family and friends the opportunity to explore the permanent collection at MOCA, learn about mail art, view the original ArtCard collection and creating your very own artwork on-site at MOCA!

The workshop is free and we will be giving away specially printed ArtCard stickers and family passes to MOCA. So save the date!

Updates will be posted on LA Artist’s Facebook and Twitter. If you have a questions please leave a comment below.

ZEF FILMS 2012

A different twist on the “Creepy Cute” genre that’s all so popular here in Los Angeles. I much prefer the “Feeky Cute” thing. Props Die Antoword.

-Mr. O

LA-Artist.com opposes this drastic measure and urges parents, students, arts advocates to take action by sending a letter to your school board member and sharing the alert with your networks.

Share this alert widely via email, Twitter and Facebook.  Arts for LA will provide campaign updates as they become available.

You are invited to… “The 2nd Annual Ellen Art Show” – this Saturday, January 28th, 2012, 6pm-2am at The Terrell Moore Gallery, 1221 South Hope Street, downtown Los Angeles, California, 90015

Entry: $5 Suggested Donation, Bar with Beer & Wine by Donation

This event is a charity fund raiser for The Trevor Project (The leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.)

It is also a birthday celebration for Ellen Degeneres (she turns 54 two days before the event) And… it is a national group art show – featuring 68 portraits of Ellen Degeneres, painted by artists from Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, South Carolina, and Ohio….. all mediums, all styles, all sizes.

The headlining DJ for the event is DJ MASEO, founding member of the legendary hip-hop group DE LA SOUL (20 million albums sold)

MORE INFO: http://ellenartshow.com