"It will give you a pony that shits $20 dollar bills."

 Your stupidity has killed me...I'm no longer alive.

Quick...must...make...knuckles drag harder

Kepler spacecraft with 95 megapixel camera

Hundreds of new planets have been discovered by Nasa's new space probe, sparking new hope of life outside our solar system.
Up to 140 of the newly-found planets are rocky and Earth-like containing both land and water, conditions which could allow simple lifeforms to develop.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1297499/Deep-space-probe-finds-hundreds-new-planets.html#ixzz0uis2BgFl

This is pretty cool.
Yet, ironically, Know Nothing(ness), Teabaggery and fundamentalism (of every stripe) expands as the world shrinks.

Science has been their enemy all along.

UPDATE:
Apparently the scientist should have said Earth-sized planets instead of "Earth-like" planets.

Painting #9 (final)

Painting #9 of 9        (30" x 31 1/4")

Details:

I continue to figure things out. They are entirely situational (and self-seducing). The process boils down to chasing a series of subjective visual hooks that I eventually blunt, obscure or eliminate..

While each painting has illuminated an aspect of what I want to do, I really am beginning to like doing them. I enjoy it as a practice, something I can do daily with the simple goal of moving on to the next one...and finally...to have a completed painting require the next one.

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The Pixies

One of the best alternative bands of the late 80s, early 90s.

Complex, loud, and beautiful music.



One more.

Painting #8 (final)

Painting #8 of 8           (30" x 31 1/4")

Details:

My approach is changing as I do these...certainly more thoughtful. Or at least doing more deliberate work alongside the direct and impulsive. I am learning (possibly again) that there are more places I can go as I work...more mindsets. It has been so long since I painted regularly, I honestly don't remember if I was conscious of "wearing different hats" as I painted.

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Well done (and bleak)

Animation and Direction by BLU
Produced and Distributed by ARTSH.it
Soundtrack by Andrea Martignoni


Very ambitious on-site painting and animation (check out their equally creative website at blublu.org).
I like how the painting/drawing seeps through and incorporates pre-existing graffiti and urban/industrial decay.

Happy Fourth of July!

Welcome to the 21st century where, politically, we will live out the 20th century in reverse...sort of. Or better yet, to conduct politics as a vaudeville review of the 20th century's low points...to gradually unwind real progress, cultural or scientific, because it's too hard to lie and bamboozle in the face of an enlightened population.
Post-modern empowerment...yay!


Sound familiar?


You can make horseshit look glitzy and informed.


Don't mess with Texas (as it cranks out stupid kids).

For fun, and greater effect, play all the video clips at the same time.

Painting #7 (final)

Painting # 7 of 7              (30" x 31 1/4")


Details:

This one was interesting to work. Even though it required more effort (revisions and re-thinks), I felt more confident that I could get the thing to go in a better direction when it had crashed.
I was able to approach it in different ways as well...not just with "rough-handed" brushwork, but also, at times, a calmer hand.

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