Temple of Art - trailer GRIT

Ding Dong, Scalia is dead!

When Bette Davis was told that Joan Crawford had died, she replied, 
"Well my mother always told me to speak good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good."
So to paraphrase Bette Davis:

My mother always told me to speak good of the dead.
Antonin Scalia is dead. Good! He lived a long, hate-filled life.

(I lifted the last line from a friend, Amy D.  Hope she doesn't mind.)

Project 366

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Day 12-14 of Project 366

Day 12  Camouflage. Create or alter something so that it disappear into its background.

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Day 13  Use tea leaves or tea bags (used or unused) or even just liquid tea (in a cup or not) to create something today.

Day 14  Make something microscopic. How small can you work? Can you make something that requires a magnifying glass or microscope to see?

14/366

15 minute workout

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Day 11

Day 11  Work on the other hand. Pick a medium you're comfortable with, then work with your non dominant hand-if you're usually favor your right hand then only use your left hand and vice-versa.

11/366 (used my left hand only)

David Bowie passed away last night so this is a sort of tribute from me. Today I'm calling all of our 5 cats Ziggy. Been listening to Slacker Radio's Feature Artist Top 33 station all day long at school. When the kids heard me play this station instead of the usual Kidz Bop Kids station, I told them that an icon in music for the past 50 years had just died. They said: David who?

So these are my favorite songs, in no particular order (from all of his 27 previous albums), I haven't heard his latest release which just came out last week:

• Sound & Vision
• Rebel Rebel
• Changes
• Modern Love
• Under Pressure
• Starman
• All the Young Dudes
• This is not America
• I'm Afraid of Americans
• Tonight
• Ziggy Stardust

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Day 10 Use only water as your medium/inspiration today.

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Day 8 and 9 of Project 366

8/366  Right foot & Left hand on Yellow Pages Phone Book

Day 8  Transform an old book into something new by cutting, folding, gluing, and so on. 

Day 9  Make something with your breakfast before you eat it.

9/366  Banana Nut Cheerios cereal

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Day 7 Today make a stencil and use it in your work.

7/366  Stencil on gray cardboard (right hand)

6/366

Day 6 Look in the kitchen and work with the first fruit or vegetable you spot.  It could be in the form 
of juice, jam, or even canned.

6/366  Before 

6/366   After (2 peeled clementines)

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Day 5 "What do you collect?  Work with a collection of objects you have in your home.

Day 5/ 366  Another hour went by playing in the studio.

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Day 4 "Take a five-minute walk, then make something using whatever materials are available where you've ended up. Leave it there for someone else to discover, but be sure to document it first!"

4/366  For Kevin McNamara 

Day 3/366

Day 3- Make something out of paper, but don't use scissors or glue or draw on it. What now?

Found some scrap tissue paper and decided to weave the strips using a warm/cool color combo. It was a challenge not being able to cut with scissors or use any glue. The hand ripping of the hand was not easy as tissue paper is very fragile and sensitive. An hour went by quickly.

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Project 366

Day 2 - What's your favorite animal? Use it as your inspiration today.

My cat Georgia. Saw the contour of her profile and it resembles the thumbs up of my left hand so I decided to draw from observation. Will come back later for another project possibly morphing her head into the fist and her ear is the thumb.

2/366

366 Project (A Daily Creativity Journal)

2015 is gone with the wind in the new South.

Day 1  "The first step is the hardest, so start small today and make something that fits in the palm of your hand using only the materials in your immediate environment."

I am going to make something every day for the next 366 days since 2016 is a leap year. Here is the first project of the year. It's relief collage using bottle caps, hot glue, colored pencils and construction paper crayons on a piece of scrap black mat board. The focal point is the tiny red hand from a beer bottle cap. I think I'm going to make the HAND the motif. Will see how this is going to work out in the next few projects. The only rule is: there are NO RULES!

1/366  My Right Hand

Year End Favorites

So it's 2016 New Year's Eve. I decided to compile several lists of favorites, not just for this year but my all-time favorite music artists and film score composers. Why? Just because I feel like it.

Music artists/ Groups:

1. Nina Simone
2. The The
3. Beastie Boys
4. Supertramp
5. Violent Femmes
6. New Order
7. Pixies
8. Dead Can Dance
9. Beck 

Film Composers:

1. Ennio Morricone
2. Thomas Newman
3. Carter Burwell (Coen Bros.)
4. Danny Elfman (Tim Burton)
5. Michael Kamen (Brazil)
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto
7. David Holmes
8. Alexandre Desplat
9. Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)

Cities

1. Portland, Oregon
2. Portland, Maine
3. Madison, Wisconsin
4. Asheville, North Carolina
5. Chattanooga, Tennessee
6. Burlington, Vermont
7. Santa Cruz, California
8. Seattle, Washington
9. Boulder, Colorado

And one more thing... 

A note that I reposted last year from Neil Gaiman:

Be kind to yourself in the year ahead. 

Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It's too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand.

Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin.

Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them. 

Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.

Adele - Hello Parody (Hella Cravings)

XMAS

• Have Yourself a Very Sweaty Christmas!
• Baby, It's HOT outside!
• Let It Rain, Let it Rain, Let it Rain....
• Told You So- Al Gore  
  

The War on Peace

The GOP Debate (aka the War on Common Sense) is currently on CNN featuring Ding-Dong, Buffoon, Nincompoop, Nitwit, Jack-a-ninny, Twinkie, Doofus, Nimrod, and Knucklehead.

Almost forgot the kids' table, the opening act, another debate earlier tonight with four other candidates: Bozo, Fool-a-gape, Yahoo, and Dum-dum. Boy, all the egos on one stage in Sin City.

There's a kid named ISIS at our school. I realize that Isis is the Egyptian Goddess of Magic and Life. We also had someone named Jihad a few years back.
Live and let live. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Whatever.

Lighten Up, MoFo!

A reminder whenever I take myself too seriously

Make America Hate Again

 Trump the Chump - 2015

Green Friday

“The things you own end up owning you.”

Old School Social Media

Make America Hate Again

An open letter to Sheriff Jolley: taking Harris County, GA back to Jim Crow one sign at time

Make America Hate Again-    Vote Trump the Chump

(Breaking Bad) Jesse POV

Breaking Pulp Fiction Bad

Breaking Bad // Pulp Fiction from Jorge Luengo Ruiz on Vimeo.

Surfing isn't a matter of life or death (it's more important than that) Dale Webster's Mission

F*ck That!

Modern Art Simplified

Words to the wise

Hello GAE teammates!....

Next week, we'll be playing kickball on Monday, basketball on Tuesday, tennis on Wednesday, volleyball on Thursday, and free-form ultimate frisbee on Friday...You do not need to know how to play any of these sports, just dress to impress and don't be tardy to the...party.

Remember to badge in by 7:15 am... Orange is NOT my New Black yo....  That is all...

Thanks,

Throwback Thursday

Soon, very soon, my dear boy.

Do It!

N.W.A.

Straight Outta Canton: Ninjas Wit Attitudes

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

Cool Art

Unknown by Simon Stalenhag

Last Week of Summer Break

I live between Olive Garden & Rednecks.

THE  SELFIE  STICK

SHHHH.....BE VERY VERY QUIET.. I'M HUNTING WABBITS

Rocky Terrain

JEKYLL  ISLAND    7/11/15

Binge. This.

Bloodline    Orange is the New Black    Breaking Bad      Six Feet Under      Homicide: Life on the streets   

Practice Mindfulness

Thay Thich Nhat Hanh

USA! USA! USA! We're #21???

Countries where same-sex marriage is legal:

1. The Netherlands- 2000
2. Belgium 2003
3. Canada 2005
4. Spain 2005
5. South Africa 2006
6. Sweden 2009
7. Norway 2009
8. Mexico 2009
9. Portugal 2010
10. Iceland 2010
11. Argentina 2010
12. Denmark 2012
13. Uruguay 2013
14. New Zealand 2013
15. France 2013
16. England / Wales 2013
17. Brazil 2013
18. Luxembourg 2014
19. Scotland 2014
20. Ireland  2015
21. United States  6/26/2015

Welcome to America- Fifty States of Gay.