January 2011
11 posts
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church
Some time ago a did a short series of weird looking 70’s churches.
Happy upheaval. Sad ascent.
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rocks
I’ve been drawing my rocks.
I love collecting rocks. Not only does it satisfy my gatherer instinct, but they’re mostly free and they contain the secrets of the ages.
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courage
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. - Georgia O’Keeffe
Well, goody gumdrops for you, Georgia O’Keefe.
Oh don’t mind me, I’m just a jealous, scaredy cat. I loved her from day one and always will.
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protests
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Talked to my bro today. He lives in Tirana. Apparently, they are having some not so cute demonstrations regarding corruption with the ex-President, now Prime Minister. About 20,000 people showed up and attacked government buildings. Reports stated that folks were trying to ram buildings with cars containing explosives. Three people were killed by police.
The building the demonstrators are...
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a...
Tonight I watched (mostly listened to as I was drawing) a documentary on the history of the lobotomy. It was a tragic/disgusting/horrible/interesting program.
Walter Freeman was the neurologist that invented the procedure that we all know, although there were a couple of others that came before him with less drastic techniques. But he was the guy with the hammer and icepick that poked a person...
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Today when I was meditating I had a vision that the guy leading the meditation offered me a cup of coffee. Actually, I’m pretty sure I had fallen asleep but I’m going to count it as a vision anyway.
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Painting by Adam Cvijanovic. I haven’t seen this guy’s work since Bellwether Gallery closed.
Most of his older works showed the detritus of the suburbs being sucked into the sky . This one seems like the last moment before the very last bit of crap drywall gets sucked into the nebulous nebula.
My deep thoughts
Porn dick is the fake boob of the penis world.
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Bridges
I went out recently and photographed some of the old bridges around L.A. A lot of people think that the L.A. river is a nasty pit that was erroneously paved in by a nosy government. I know there are environmental groups that want the river to go back to natural and I would not presume to speak for them as to the hows and whys. I have been doing some research on the bridges and before the river was...
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pattern #1
When I was a kid instead of coloring books I had all these books of Arabesque patterns that I used to spend hours filling in with cheapy grocery store felt pens. I recently found one of these books in a craft store and have been playing with sloppily redrawing them and then filling them in. Some turn out better than others (natch) but it’s a fun relaxing process. Sloppy patterns are a...