pre moving clean up.
blagh
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
sketches 052011
some ideas for larger works / mixed media paintings. one of these is a painting started on wood panel with paper mache / plaster texturing.
moving. organizing work to be put into artist packets. plan marketing ideas. implement marketing ideas. mail a. packets. try and get the most of these ideas for larger paintings sketched out. get a little upset that all the paints and studio things are packed up and torn down. another week to move and be moved in.
just a little much.
but it should be good in the long run. plus gives me to time to just work on video and other computer - end aspects of current projects, organize ideas and supply lists for larger works. as well as being the business part of it as well.
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on a side note,
there are some works on e bay right now up for auction.
watercolor painting with no reserve, bids starting at 19.99 and up.
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
so frustrating when you get the call of the wild for ideas on new larger work and half your studio is broken down, paints in boxes and you will be moving for the next two weeks.
fr
us
trate
ing.
ah well.
at least however the new place will be more accommodating to the larger ideas and stuff.
so
that
is
good.
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.
working on artist mailing packets today.
something nice and pretty for galleries.
Credit: Flickr user eschipul
Over the last few decades many Buddhists and quite a few neuroscientists have examined Buddhism and neuroscience, with both groups reporting overlap. I’m sorry to say I have been privately dismissive. One hears this sort of thing all the time, from any religion, and I was sure in this case it would break down upon closer scrutiny. When a scientific discovery seems to support any religious teaching, you can expect members of that religion to become strict empiricists, telling themselves and the world that their belief is grounded in reality. They are always less happy to accept scientific data they feel contradicts their preconceived beliefs. No surprise here; no human likes to be wrong.
But science isn’t supposed to care about preconceived notions. Science, at least good science, tells us about the world as it is, not as some wish it to be. Sometimes what science finds is consistent with a particular religion’s wishes. But usually not.
Despite my doubts, neurology and neuroscience do not appear to profoundly contradict Buddhist thought. Neuroscience tells us the thing we take as our unified mind is an illusion, that our mind is not unified and can barely be said to “exist” at all. Our feeling of unity and control is a post-hoc confabulation and is easily fractured into separate parts. As revealed by scientific inquiry, what we call a mind (or a self, or a soul) is actually something that changes so much and is so uncertain that our pre-scientific language struggles to find meaning.
Buddhists say pretty much the same thing. They believe in an impermanent and illusory self made of shifting parts. They’ve even come up with language to address the problem between perception and belief. Their word for self is anatta, which is usually translated as ‘non self.’ One might try to refer to the self, but the word cleverly reminds one’s self that there is no such thing.
When considering a Buddhist contemplating his soul, one is immediately struck by a disconnect between religious teaching and perception. While meditating in the temple, the self is an illusion. But when the Buddhist goes shopping he feels like we all do: unified, in control, and unchanged from moment to moment. The way things feel becomes suspect. And that’s pretty close to what neurologists deal with every day, like the case of Mr. Logosh.
Mr. Logosh was 37 years old when he suffered a stroke. It was a month after knee surgery and we never found a real reason other than trivially high cholesterol and smoking. Sometimes medicine is like that: bad things happen, seemingly without sufficient reasons. In the ER I found him aphasic, able to understand perfectly but unable to get a single word out, and with no movement of the right face, arm, and leg. We gave him the only treatment available for stroke, tissue plasminogen activator, but there was no improvement. He went to the ICU unchanged. A follow up CT scan showed that the dead brain tissue had filled up with blood. As the body digested the dead brain tissue, later scans showed a large hole in the left hemisphere.
Although I despaired, I comforted myself by looking at the overlying cortex. Here the damage was minimal and many neurons still survived. Still, I mostly despaired. It is a tragedy for an 80-year-old to spend life’s remainder as an aphasic hemiplegic. The tragedy grows when a young man looks towards decades of mute immobility. But you can never tell with early brain injuries to the young. I was yoked to optimism. After all, I’d treated him.
The next day Mr. Logosh woke up and started talking. Not much at first, just ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ Then ‘water,’ ‘thanks,’ ‘sure,’ and ‘me.’ We eventually sent him to rehab, barely able to speak, still able to understand.
One year later he came back to the office with an odd request. He was applying to become a driver and needed my clearance, which was a formality. He walked with only a slight limp, his right foot a bit unsure of itself. His voice had a slight hitch, as though he were choosing his words carefully.
When we consider our language, it seems unified and indivisible. We hear a word, attach meaning to it, and use other words to reply. It’s effortless. It seems part of the same unified language sphere. How easily we are tricked! Mr. Logosh shows us that unity of language is an illusion. The seeming unity of language is really the work of different parts of the brain, which shift and change over time, and which fracture into receptive and expressive parts.
Consider how easily Buddhism accepts what happened to Mr. Logosh. Anatta is not a unified, unchanging self. It is more like a concert, constantly changing emotions, perceptions, and thoughts. Our minds are fragmented and impermanent. A change occurred in the band, so it follows that one expects a change in the music.
Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is. There is no permanent, constant soul in the background. Even our language about ourselves is to be distrusted (requiring the tortured negation of anatta). In the broadest strokes then, neuroscience and Buddhism agree.
How did Buddhism get so much right? I speak here as an outsider, but it seems to me that Buddhism started with a bit of empiricism. Perhaps the founders of Buddhism were pre-scientific, but they did use empirical data. They noted the natural world: the sun sets, the wind blows into a field, one insect eats another. There is constant change, shifting parts, and impermanence. They called this impermanence anicca, and it forms a central dogma of Buddhism.
This seems appropriate as far as the natural world is concerned. Buddhists don’t apply this notion to mathematical truths or moral certainties, but sometimes, cleverly, apply it to their own dogmas. Buddhism has had millennia to work out seeming contradictions, and it is only someone who was not indoctrinated who finds any of it strange. (Or at least any stranger than, say, believing God literally breathed a soul into the first human.)
Early on, Buddhism grasped the nature of worldly change and divided parts, and then applied it to the human mind. The key step was overcoming egocentrism and recognizing the connection between the world and humans. We are part of the natural world; its processes apply themselves equally to rocks, trees, insects, and humans. Perhaps building on its heritage, early Buddhism simply did not allow room for human exceptionalism.
I should note my refusal to accept that they simply got this much right by accident, which I find improbable. Why would accident bring them to such a counterintuitive belief? Truth from subjective religious rapture is also highly suspect. Firstly, those who enter religious raptures tend to see what they already know. Secondly, if the self is an illusion, then aren’t subjective insights from meditation illusory as well?
I don’t mean to dismiss or gloss over the areas where Buddhism and neuroscience diverge. Some Buddhist dogmas deviate from what we know about the brain. Buddhism posits an immaterial thing that survives the brain’s death and is reincarnated. After a person’s death, the consciousness reincarnates. If you buy into the idea of a constantly changing immaterial soul, this isn’t as tricky and insane as it seems to the non-indoctrinated. During life, consciousness changes as mental states replace one another, so each moment can be considered a reincarnation from the moment before. The waves lap, the sand shifts. If you’re good, they might one day lap upon a nicer beach, a higher plane of existence. If you’re not, well, someone’s waves need to supply the baseline awareness of insects, worms, and other creepy-crawlies.
The problem is that there’s no evidence for an immaterial thing that gets reincarnated after death. In fact, there’s even evidence against it. Reincarnationwould require an entity (even the vague, impermanent one called anatta) to exist independently of brain function. But brain function has been so closely tied to every mental function (every bit of consciousness, perception, emotion, everything self and non-self about you) that there appears to be no remainder. Reincarnation is not a trivial part of most forms of Buddhism. For example, the Dalai Lama’s followers chose him because they believe him to be the living reincarnation of a long line of respected teachers.
Why have the dominant Western religious traditions gotten their permanent, independent souls so wrong? Taking note of change was not limited to Buddhism. The same sort of thinking pops up in Western thought as well. The pre-Socratic Heraclitus said, “Nothing endures but change.” But that observation didn’t really go anywhere. It wasn’t adopted by monotheistic religions or held up as a central natural truth. Instead, pure Platonic ideals won out, perhaps because they seemed more divine.
Western thought is hardly monolithic or simple, but monotheistic religions made a simple misstep when they didn’t apply naturalism to themselves and their notions of their souls. Time and again, their prominent scholars and philosophers rendered the human soul exceptional and otherworldly, falsely elevating our species above and beyond nature. We see the effects today. When Judeo-Christian belief conflicts with science, it nearly always concerns science removing humans from a putative pedestal, a central place in creation. Yet science has shown us that we reside on the fringes of our galaxy, which itself doesn’t seem to hold a particularly precious location in the universe. Our species came from common ape-like ancestors, many of which in all likelihood possessed brains capable of experiencing and manifesting some of our most precious “human” sentiments and traits. Our own brains produce the thing we call a mind, which is not a soul. Human exceptionalism increasingly seems a vain fantasy. In its modest rejection of that vanity, Buddhism exhibits less error and less original sin, this one of pride.
How well will any religion apply the lessons of neuroscience to the soul? Mr. Logosh, like every person who’s brain lesion changes their mind, challenges the Western religions. An immaterial soul cannot easily account for even a stroke associated with aphasia. Will monotheistic religions change their idea of the soul to accommodate data? Will they even try? It is doubtful. The rigid human exceptionalism is cemented firmly into dogma.
Will Buddhists allow neuroscience to render their idea of reincarnation obsolete? This is akin to asking if the Dalai Lama and his followers will decide he’s only the symbolic reincarnation of past teachers. This is also doubtful, but Buddhism’s first steps at least made it possible. Unrelated to neuroscience andneurology, in 1969 the Dalai Lama said his “office was an institution created to benefit others. It is possible that it will soon have outlived its usefulness.”Impermanence and shifting parts entail constant change, so perhaps it is no surprise that he’s lately said he may choose the next office holder before his death.
Buddhism’s success was to apply the world’s impermanence to humans and their souls. The results have carried this religion from ancient antiquity into modernity, an impressive distance. With no fear of impermanent beliefs or constant change, how far will they go?
Over the last few decades many Buddhists and quite a few neuroscientists have examined Buddhism and neuroscience, with both groups reporting overlap. I’m sorry to say I have been privately dismissive. One hears this sort of thing all the time, from any religion, and I was sure in this case it would break down upon closer scrutiny. When a scientific discovery seems to support any religious teaching, you can expect members of that religion to become strict empiricists, telling themselves and the world that their belief is grounded in reality. They are always less happy to accept scientific data they feel contradicts their preconceived beliefs. No surprise here; no human likes to be wrong.
But science isn’t supposed to care about preconceived notions. Science, at least good science, tells us about the world as it is, not as some wish it to be. Sometimes what science finds is consistent with a particular religion’s wishes. But usually not.
Despite my doubts, neurology and neuroscience do not appear to profoundly contradict Buddhist thought. Neuroscience tells us the thing we take as our unified mind is an illusion, that our mind is not unified and can barely be said to “exist” at all. Our feeling of unity and control is a post-hoc confabulation and is easily fractured into separate parts. As revealed by scientific inquiry, what we call a mind (or a self, or a soul) is actually something that changes so much and is so uncertain that our pre-scientific language struggles to find meaning.
Buddhists say pretty much the same thing. They believe in an impermanent and illusory self made of shifting parts. They’ve even come up with language to address the problem between perception and belief. Their word for self is anatta, which is usually translated as ‘non self.’ One might try to refer to the self, but the word cleverly reminds one’s self that there is no such thing.
When considering a Buddhist contemplating his soul, one is immediately struck by a disconnect between religious teaching and perception. While meditating in the temple, the self is an illusion. But when the Buddhist goes shopping he feels like we all do: unified, in control, and unchanged from moment to moment. The way things feel becomes suspect. And that’s pretty close to what neurologists deal with every day, like the case of Mr. Logosh.
Mr. Logosh was 37 years old when he suffered a stroke. It was a month after knee surgery and we never found a real reason other than trivially high cholesterol and smoking. Sometimes medicine is like that: bad things happen, seemingly without sufficient reasons. In the ER I found him aphasic, able to understand perfectly but unable to get a single word out, and with no movement of the right face, arm, and leg. We gave him the only treatment available for stroke, tissue plasminogen activator, but there was no improvement. He went to the ICU unchanged. A follow up CT scan showed that the dead brain tissue had filled up with blood. As the body digested the dead brain tissue, later scans showed a large hole in the left hemisphere.
Although I despaired, I comforted myself by looking at the overlying cortex. Here the damage was minimal and many neurons still survived. Still, I mostly despaired. It is a tragedy for an 80-year-old to spend life’s remainder as an aphasic hemiplegic. The tragedy grows when a young man looks towards decades of mute immobility. But you can never tell with early brain injuries to the young. I was yoked to optimism. After all, I’d treated him.
The next day Mr. Logosh woke up and started talking. Not much at first, just ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ Then ‘water,’ ‘thanks,’ ‘sure,’ and ‘me.’ We eventually sent him to rehab, barely able to speak, still able to understand.
One year later he came back to the office with an odd request. He was applying to become a driver and needed my clearance, which was a formality. He walked with only a slight limp, his right foot a bit unsure of itself. His voice had a slight hitch, as though he were choosing his words carefully.
When we consider our language, it seems unified and indivisible. We hear a word, attach meaning to it, and use other words to reply. It’s effortless. It seems part of the same unified language sphere. How easily we are tricked! Mr. Logosh shows us that unity of language is an illusion. The seeming unity of language is really the work of different parts of the brain, which shift and change over time, and which fracture into receptive and expressive parts.
Consider how easily Buddhism accepts what happened to Mr. Logosh. Anatta is not a unified, unchanging self. It is more like a concert, constantly changing emotions, perceptions, and thoughts. Our minds are fragmented and impermanent. A change occurred in the band, so it follows that one expects a change in the music.
Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is. There is no permanent, constant soul in the background. Even our language about ourselves is to be distrusted (requiring the tortured negation of anatta). In the broadest strokes then, neuroscience and Buddhism agree.
How did Buddhism get so much right? I speak here as an outsider, but it seems to me that Buddhism started with a bit of empiricism. Perhaps the founders of Buddhism were pre-scientific, but they did use empirical data. They noted the natural world: the sun sets, the wind blows into a field, one insect eats another. There is constant change, shifting parts, and impermanence. They called this impermanence anicca, and it forms a central dogma of Buddhism.
This seems appropriate as far as the natural world is concerned. Buddhists don’t apply this notion to mathematical truths or moral certainties, but sometimes, cleverly, apply it to their own dogmas. Buddhism has had millennia to work out seeming contradictions, and it is only someone who was not indoctrinated who finds any of it strange. (Or at least any stranger than, say, believing God literally breathed a soul into the first human.)
Early on, Buddhism grasped the nature of worldly change and divided parts, and then applied it to the human mind. The key step was overcoming egocentrism and recognizing the connection between the world and humans. We are part of the natural world; its processes apply themselves equally to rocks, trees, insects, and humans. Perhaps building on its heritage, early Buddhism simply did not allow room for human exceptionalism.
I should note my refusal to accept that they simply got this much right by accident, which I find improbable. Why would accident bring them to such a counterintuitive belief? Truth from subjective religious rapture is also highly suspect. Firstly, those who enter religious raptures tend to see what they already know. Secondly, if the self is an illusion, then aren’t subjective insights from meditation illusory as well?
I don’t mean to dismiss or gloss over the areas where Buddhism and neuroscience diverge. Some Buddhist dogmas deviate from what we know about the brain. Buddhism posits an immaterial thing that survives the brain’s death and is reincarnated. After a person’s death, the consciousness reincarnates. If you buy into the idea of a constantly changing immaterial soul, this isn’t as tricky and insane as it seems to the non-indoctrinated. During life, consciousness changes as mental states replace one another, so each moment can be considered a reincarnation from the moment before. The waves lap, the sand shifts. If you’re good, they might one day lap upon a nicer beach, a higher plane of existence. If you’re not, well, someone’s waves need to supply the baseline awareness of insects, worms, and other creepy-crawlies.
The problem is that there’s no evidence for an immaterial thing that gets reincarnated after death. In fact, there’s even evidence against it. Reincarnationwould require an entity (even the vague, impermanent one called anatta) to exist independently of brain function. But brain function has been so closely tied to every mental function (every bit of consciousness, perception, emotion, everything self and non-self about you) that there appears to be no remainder. Reincarnation is not a trivial part of most forms of Buddhism. For example, the Dalai Lama’s followers chose him because they believe him to be the living reincarnation of a long line of respected teachers.
Why have the dominant Western religious traditions gotten their permanent, independent souls so wrong? Taking note of change was not limited to Buddhism. The same sort of thinking pops up in Western thought as well. The pre-Socratic Heraclitus said, “Nothing endures but change.” But that observation didn’t really go anywhere. It wasn’t adopted by monotheistic religions or held up as a central natural truth. Instead, pure Platonic ideals won out, perhaps because they seemed more divine.
Western thought is hardly monolithic or simple, but monotheistic religions made a simple misstep when they didn’t apply naturalism to themselves and their notions of their souls. Time and again, their prominent scholars and philosophers rendered the human soul exceptional and otherworldly, falsely elevating our species above and beyond nature. We see the effects today. When Judeo-Christian belief conflicts with science, it nearly always concerns science removing humans from a putative pedestal, a central place in creation. Yet science has shown us that we reside on the fringes of our galaxy, which itself doesn’t seem to hold a particularly precious location in the universe. Our species came from common ape-like ancestors, many of which in all likelihood possessed brains capable of experiencing and manifesting some of our most precious “human” sentiments and traits. Our own brains produce the thing we call a mind, which is not a soul. Human exceptionalism increasingly seems a vain fantasy. In its modest rejection of that vanity, Buddhism exhibits less error and less original sin, this one of pride.
How well will any religion apply the lessons of neuroscience to the soul? Mr. Logosh, like every person who’s brain lesion changes their mind, challenges the Western religions. An immaterial soul cannot easily account for even a stroke associated with aphasia. Will monotheistic religions change their idea of the soul to accommodate data? Will they even try? It is doubtful. The rigid human exceptionalism is cemented firmly into dogma.
Will Buddhists allow neuroscience to render their idea of reincarnation obsolete? This is akin to asking if the Dalai Lama and his followers will decide he’s only the symbolic reincarnation of past teachers. This is also doubtful, but Buddhism’s first steps at least made it possible. Unrelated to neuroscience andneurology, in 1969 the Dalai Lama said his “office was an institution created to benefit others. It is possible that it will soon have outlived its usefulness.”Impermanence and shifting parts entail constant change, so perhaps it is no surprise that he’s lately said he may choose the next office holder before his death.
Buddhism’s success was to apply the world’s impermanence to humans and their souls. The results have carried this religion from ancient antiquity into modernity, an impressive distance. With no fear of impermanent beliefs or constant change, how far will they go?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
thursday thursday.
focusing on video installation. looking for galleries to submit to, freelance jobs to bid on, places to do public art, breaking down living space and studios space in preparation to move.....
such chaos.
moving always seems to sneak up on you when you finally got things settled and in their right place. especially when it comes to the studio.
eh.
considering starting an online based art collective. with similar ideals, philosophies. an effort that with several artists together we can market and promote ourselves to broader audiences.
i have so many sites im up keeping already though.
well. today does not seem productive.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
well. it usually works that way. you are on a roll with your projects then you get sick.
or at least i think im sick.
i don't even know.
allergies?
something.
..
.
..
.
anyway. not that big of a deal i suppose. think i need ot slow down, relax , step back into a new perspective.
mostly you get so consumed with the flow of the work your doing that it gets lost and then flustered and then turns out horrible.
then you usually scrap the whole thing and start over.
most of the time any way.
working on these projects of late has been slightly different than that of ones in the past.
things seem a bit more clear. a direction is seen and a purpose is felt.
things were always so much foggier.
slightly easier now maybe at least for the time being when things make sense.
lets hope that lasts.
..
.
what will your legacy be? if you die tomorrow or today, what will your legacy be? what do you want to accomplish in life that will echo your name when your gone?
was asked that a few weeks ago.
and i still have not been able to come up with a good response.
keeps going through my head. i know the answers... but you know. how can you answer that?
so meanwhile i avoid calling them back.
because seriously they are waiting to hear a response.
if i died tomorrow, literally tomorrow, it would be a very very short legacy that not many would even know about.
there.
kind of sad.
cest le vie.
..
.
imovie to edit film clips is really not that bad.
sure there is more control in programs like final cut and the adobe suites, but i think or the purpose i am going on here, now, it is good.
the video installation piece i am working on is encompassing all media. drawing, painting, audio, visual....everything. instead of showing paintings. it is an interactive piece. for the short attention spans out there.
take in a full series of art in 10 seconds.... come back 20 seconds later and there is something different there playing in front of you.
i think it can work.
yes. i know all of that was pretty much a mish mash of words describing it, but... yea.
well.
get on in then.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
drifting in the stream
updating site.
a couple new galleries added. plus a free art page. an original watercolor will be added every week. yours free... anyone interested will only need to pay for shipping.............. here.
..
.
been working on some newer paintings, which can be found in the "division" gallery on the site.
liking the direction these pieces have taken.
has finally given a fresh insight to where larger works on canvas will go...
however, in the process of moving is kind of hindering that.
usually how it goes.. once you get your studio spaces function able, you have to move. ehhh.
well. the new shelter should prove to have a better function for larger work as well as other studio space. so this is good.
..
.
van gogh water color paints.... ive always hated artist branded paints or supplies for some reason i don't know. however, being as inexpensive as they are, the pigment and consistency of the paint is not all that bad. had a bit of a play time to work the paint to how i wanted. but all in all similar to pretty much any other paint out there.
..
.
ok.
so.
have been trying to figure out the best way to show these watercolors. how they would flow... how to even hang the damn things. and i am at a loss... back to the drawing board.
have several ideas for installations which could work into something. just need the right space to do it.
and. where. is. that.
maybe its all a joke.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
seventh day.
..
.
picked up some supplies yesterday. some paper, paint...pens...
got a few tubes of the van gogh liquid watercolors... well see if we like them or not. so used to working with the watercolors in the pot... let alone the van gogh brand.. never tried it.
they don took that bad though. well see.
another sheet of 300# arches... seems like blick blick is running sparse on the fancy differenty papers like they used to stock.. . was one different brand of the heavy weight paper, but... when i get accustomed to one thing its hard to break the repetition.
plus, the arches does its purpose.
expensive though.
well see how these new toys hold up. ..
and yes la noire is in my house... think ill check out of the world for a bit and see what that game is like... i couldn't resist.
think i need a break anyway.
as usual check out my site, signed prints and original pieces can be purchased here.
..
.
meow.
-m
Saturday, May 21, 2011
saturday revamp day.
the depository here has been in need of a revamp on design and new header and stuff.
also probably will be updating website with some new images and what not. well see how far i get today.
need to probably head over to dick blick. need some more paper and such. im a sucker for the hand made papers they got... only problem is sometimes they just are terrible when i comes to actually painting on them.
i think i have the ibook finished and able to be downloaded.. still testing and seeing if it actually works or not.
working fine on the ipad 2, however, not sure if there will be any difference on the 1st generation ipad, or iphone models.
so ipad2, iphone 4, check. works great.
if any one would like to receive the free catalog of new work, sign up for my mailing list to receive....
have some new video already posted up to the site, it is also on youtube, but you can check it out here.
these videos have been made using mostly only, ipad , iphone, and imovie.
happy weekending people....
Friday, May 20, 2011
noone in this town has a flat bed scanner large enough to scan these last few pieces?
nice.
..
.
going to be sending out latest updates in mailing list...
with links to pages on my site where you can bid on pieces... get free art work...
free ebook downloads...
etc etc.
just have to get those last pieces scanned first... shish.
sign up for mailing list here : mailing list.
visit my site, here: site.
..
.
working on some larger canvas pieces... maybe turning out interesting...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
sometimes there is so much to do, i question where to even begin....
new updates to site:
working on finishing up and getting rid of all the bugs within ebook and PDF catalog of that series.
make sure to join the mailing list to receive the first ebook (viewable on iphone and ipad )
finally getting more work done on video loops.
need to scan last images for the inexplicable ignition series, as well as several other new pieces ive finished... too big for my scanner... and im dreading paying kinkos to scan them.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
ok.
hello.
excited.
rain and thunderstorm on schedule for today.
its a rare treat here.
makes the earth and life feel so much more alive when things of this sort go on... thunderstorms, windstorms, anything....
the surplus of days of clear blue skies and sunny atmosphere that seem to just stand motionless in time .... they begin to wear on you until it seems so stagnant .... with a realization that you in fact cant be anywhere but purgatory or hell...
then rain comes.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
windy. chilly.
work on ebook has slowed a bit. trying to pull so many projects together at once...
but certainly will be done this week.
be sure to sign up for mailing list. to any that wish to receive an ebook catalog of the new series.
also still trying to organize a fund-raiser of sorts.... there is an opportunity to show in LA and will need to muster up some funds to get there.
so.
im looking into a bidding feature for my site... name your price for a piece and winning bidder takes it.
still working out the details of this... so well see.
if theres any comments or ideas for this from any humans out there, let me know.
Monday, May 16, 2011
another monday.
hopefully will finish up the ebook catalog of new paintings today or tomorrow.
this will be available as a free download to all those on my mailing list.
be sure to sign up for that to receive the ebook/PDF catalog.
there is a sign up form to the left here --->
or link: here.
trying to raise enough moola to get my work cross the border to LA, so lets buy some prints everyone....canvas prints, archival prints available here : :
and of course, you can purchase originals as well as signed prints directly from me at
ok ok.
what
else
is
new,,,,
ah.
a new speed painting video will be posted here to day.
viewable here.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
well, a show maybe available in LA.
just need to figure out where the money will come from to get me and the art work there. :/
so..
here is where i ask for help in getting me to LA, go to my sites and purchase lots of prints and stuff!
pretty please?
you'll love my work on your walls.
promise.
it'll make ya think.
and stuff.
...
..
.
ok so your not into that. ok.
ill be sending out a marketing email later on next week, so be sure to sign up for my mailing list....
this one will be offering special fun goodies... like a PDF and eBook (readable on iPad and iPhone ) catalog for my new series; " the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space"
so thats fun.
the first edition of th eBook will be free to all on my mailing list.... later on down the road it will feature the video from installation and sound and other stuff inside ad be available for purchase through iTunes/iBookstore.
woot.
Friday, May 13, 2011
friday
tgif.
hm.
getting warm again... proving to be slightly unbearable to paint outside in the heat...
no fun.
searching for freelance work at the moment... perhaps ill start faux finishing again? mmm.
maybe.
ahhh. allergies are terrible this week. head so foggy from it... not the best week for eing productive i suppose.
meow.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
music to clear the fog
in your mind, there is so much of it. some days it gets better. others it feel you remember who you really are.
what will your legacy be? if you die tomorrow. or today. what have you left behind?
..love to warm the days. something to remember. something to cherish. just don't forget.
things seem to be in their right places.
the gate keep of the past and the future keeping you in the present.
stay in place.
don't fall
in
and
out of time.
lazy tuesday.
another video in works of speed painting...
nearly finished with the series - the inexplicable ignition of time... - the videos re documenting the the last phases of this project.
keep posted.
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have been seeing my work on a larger scale recently. installations, projects that i would love to see come into focus. . . .
in time i suppose.
right.
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new images uploaded to these sites :
mellonfineart.com - video posted, minor updates to site. and links added to consume.
fine art america - canvas and fine paper prints available here.
society 6 - laptop skins, iphone cases, thirst. fun.
blue canvas- where you can nominate for me and other artists to be featured in their nationally published magazine, but as vie discovered, you must be a member of the site to nominate... boo.
and.. YouTube. - new speed painting videos and eventually the video clips for my video installation.
Monday, May 9, 2011
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monday. monday.
grey skies. a nice, unusual chill in the desert air. a calm before the sweltered heat of the next 6 months.
nearly time to hibernate. . . .
i have posted a new video to youtube. have decided to film and record the last few pieces for the series, (the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space - (in two phases.)),
another video implementing all the iDevices as tools and medium to create, the video features experimental sounds edited and effected by me.
there will probably be one more video of speed painting like this one, following to the completion of this series.
view this video here: http://youtu.be/fUnL1UdmNhc?hd=1
it is in HD.
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check it out. like it. love it. ;)
oh yes,
and do nominate me for feature in this nationally published magazine, here -
Sunday, May 8, 2011
hello present past and future.
ok i gotta post this again.... keep in mind ill be posting this until im published in their magazine.
you can nominate me to be featured on bluecanvas.com.
this will lead to maybe being listed in their nationally published magazine.
go here please.
...
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and besides that.
im working on a new video for the site....
a compilation of clips of me working on the final pieces of the mini series - the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space.
adding in elements from several devices and tools, audio, visual....
have always wanted to have some speed painting videos posted around of me working, either here in the studio or out live painting... but vie always found them kind of boring.
hopefully i can make this one .less boring?
probably not.
well see.
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debating about doing a series of portraits.... do something a lil different...
i dunno. maybe. well see.
ok?
ok.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
nominate me
you can nominate me to be featured on bluecanvas.com.
this will lead to maybe being listed in their nationally published magazine.
go here please.
;)
the inexplicable ignition of time exploding into free space
in two phases.
phase one : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellonart/sets/72157626529910443/
phase two will be finished and uploaded soon.
this series is apart of a larger installation idea, including video, sound and paintings.
synopsis >
encompassing the beginning to the present. conscious thought and abstract cognitions.
the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space : phase one ( nothing to something ).
a series of abstract ink painting and splatter representing the beginning of time, the universe and everything. in this ideational representation to the theories of the beginning of time. the mysteries of the universe and the solemn notion that it is possible we are apart of living cosmos and our consciousness is only a small fraction of what is true.
within phase one, the journey shows the universe beginning its dark matter. giving way to the explosion of color and life, followed in phase two.
this series is also a direct prologue to the idle explosion series as well the current new work in progress.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
thinking that i may need to start looking into public art opportunities for artists.
grants and such.
there has to be way to profit and make a modest living as an artist.
after reading some books during the past few weeks, i don't really ever want to go back to working for a machine.
to be a cog in the industrial wheel is long over. we need to be our own employers. we need to take care of ourselves.
so much easier in theory.
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this new project i work on is coming along quite well. the video experiment for installation / projector purposes is not bad i suppose. timing needs to be right. it all depends upon the space in which it would be exhibited as well.
anxious to settle into our new home, some installation pieces are in order.... and there really is no point in constructing them here before we move...
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today is just one of those days.
rethinking everything.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
trick or treat.
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there is so much to do, too little time. so many sites and upkeep i have neglected over the last year and three quarter, that it is really kind of over whelming... mostly.
i have joined a new site i am rather happy to be apart of : society6.com. here they offer prints off all varieties of my work as well as a ton of other artists. nice community there it seems.
also.
new project i have mentioned will slowly be introduced here soon. it will be live on my site in the net few days.
looking for the best way to upload the handful of images to here at once...
the project is not complete as of yet. still working on 10 or more pieces...
busy.
busy.
Monday, May 2, 2011
repetition of time. repetition of thought.
there will always be a beacon of one who has lost all perception of reality. in tune with the gods. in tune with the cosmos.
electrical impulses miscommunicate.
communicate.
the inexplicable explosion of time expanding into free space.
the first phase in which nothing becomes something.
explosions in the sky.
explosion in your mind.
consciousness expanding to some unknown territory.
encompassing the beginning to the present. conscious thought and abstract cognitions.
the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space : phase one ( nothing to something ).
a series of abstract ink painting and splatter representing the beginning of time, the universe and everything. in this ideational representation to the theories of the beginning of time. the mysteries of the universe and the solemn notion that it is possible we are apart of living cosmos and our consciousness is only a small fraction of what is true.
within phase one, the journey shows the universe beginning its dark matter. giving way to the explosion of color and life, followed in phase two.
this series is also a direct prologue to the idle explosion series as well the current new work in progress.
this series will be posted soon....
Sunday, May 1, 2011
quote
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/carl_sagan.html#ixzz1L87umuFo
Carl Sagan
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/carl_sagan.html#ixzz1L87umuFo
the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space.
encompassing the beginning to the present. conscious thought and abstract cognitions. the inexplicable ignition of time expanding into free space : phase one ( nothing to something ). a series of abstract ink painting and splatter representing the beginning of time, the universe and everything. in this ideational representation to the theories of the beginning of time. the mysteries of the universe and the solemn notion that it is possible we are apart of living cosmos and our consciousness is only a small fraction of what is true. within phase one, the journey shows the universe beginning its dark matter. giving way to the explosion of color and life, followed in phase two. this series is also a direct prologue to the idle explosion series as well the current new work in progress.
new series...
phase one posted here :
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/m-mellon.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=79741
Wave Theory and Life
The essential matter from which our universe is created is energetic matter. It behaves like living matter, creating every known entity, including living objects and even thought (which occurs through energetic matter–wave interaction). The
essential structure of energetic matter is high-energy (concentrated energetic matter) electro-magnetic waves (picture above). This simple structure is the basis of everything: every energetic formation and the universe. In picture 2, we see that the DNA (double helix) of all living formations has the same structure as waves: two loops of the same energetic matter, behaving according to the same rules.* from http://www.grandunifiedtheory.org.il/book/life1.htm
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