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Winter Diagrams: February, animated pen and ink drawings /
Winter Diagrams: January, animated pen and ink drawings /
Hand painted ocean, animated pen and ink drawings /
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman." Jonathan Swift /
It was Christmas day, I was running a small fever and this man cheered me up in the Madrid Subway. “The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman." Jonathan Swift
Winter Diagrams: December, animated pen and ink drawings /
Automatic States, pen and ink on hot press board /
Invented Mythologies - pen and ink on hot press board, with Vader /
States and Solids, pen and ink drawing on hot press board /
Interactive high-resolution annotated zoom into Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights /
https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en# Accompanied by medievalish music and sheep bleating.
Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights was (one) of the reasons I went to Madrid. The Garden is in the Prado and is just as stunning as the online projects show her to be. Plan to visit the painting in off hours as there is usually a crowd waiting to inspect it, and it is a delight. I spent several hours with and around the painting just breathing the molecules of paint flakes in the air, hoping to breathe in enough so it stays with me.
Also worth a visit in Madrid are the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The Gasparini room in the Royal palace is also a pleasure visually.
As I was writing the post I went to the Prado website and ... behold there is an Ingres exhibition. Ingres is better than Leonardo in complete drawings, I tell you. Now that with google you can travel pretty much anywhere in the world from your Saturday morning bed - take a trip through the beautiful and the intellectual and into this painting. Visit it in person if you can.
Expedition 42 - Don't Panic! /
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Piano improv on Twitch - Bernie is currently playing in front of a Madison Square Garden size audience. 20, 000 and growing. It is mad and absolutely amazing /
The Favorites:
http://imgur.com/gallery/i7ELPwQ
Twitch:
http://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman
I recently saw the excellent Danny Boyle movie Steve Jobs and in the movie Jobs predicted that the computer is going to be like a bicycle for the mind. Joseph Campbell said that everyone is a hero at birth. And here I am in front of my treasured Mac, enjoying the work of a musical hero in front of his piano, related to me via his computer. The audience is currently at 20, 000, larger than Madison Square Garden. What an awesome time to be alive.
( just found out he had 65, 000 simultaneous viewers yesterday, so yeah )
Star Wars - Cantina - http://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman/v/37799456?t=05h38m35s
Thanks to reddit.
Star Wars 30th anniversary gift I received from George Lucas while working at Lucasfilm - a swiss made watch forged withe the Force /
The watch now belongs to my dad. Cause he is awesome.
Invented Mythologies pen and ink drawing, with Vader /
My prediction for 2016 is that Vader will frequently sneak into my work, the biggest question for me is *aesthetically and philosophically how to better obscure him.
A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 /
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/ A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the then distant year of 2000…
For anyone with a roomba
Henri Matisse sculpting nude female figure while sitting in bed in his apartment, France, by Dmitri Kessel, 1951 /
A look Inside The World Of Chinese ‘Copy-Culture’ – Chinese artists make Van Gogh copies for a Dutch Bank. Every new client gets a Van Gogh painting, says the dealer. /
And here is my stance on the matter – if they can copy Van Gogh – more power to them. Copyright doesn’t have a place in art as all art is derivative. Picasso ripped aboriginal art, Van Gogh was inspired by Japanese woodcuts. The only takeaway here is that art carries power and presence. It only takes a corner of a sunflower to know it is Van Gogh, it takes an eye and a bit of nose to tell a Picasso, and it takes the corner of a Millennium Falcon to know it’s Star Wars. It is the strength of the artist’s ideas that overcomes us. And if there’s a place in China somewhere that makes good Van Goghs – the world is only better for it to be honest. A link directly to the Van Gogh’s copies in the timeline – I think they are pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZDO5y43ZU&t=4m34s
Enjoy in its entirety: