Year: 2010

  • Moving Shop – Gone Fishing

    I have packed up my studio for an upcoming move. We close on a new house within a couple weeks and will be moving shortly thereafter, give or take thanksgiving weekend. I’m getting a new studio with big windows and i’m looking forward to setting it up. Until then..

  • Firesheep

    just want to give you kids a little warning out de regarding public wireless access.

  • John Cleese vs Extremism

    John Cleese shows the pathology of extremism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese

  • Lemon, Tomato, Onion, Garlic, Leek, & Zinnias

    I did this painting yesterday. I woke up early saturday morning (because we made a peach pie on friday evening and I fell asleep by eight) and I noticed the light from the sunrise was nice on my leftover veggies. So, I worked on it off and on throughout most of the day to finish…

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    I like this painting as is.. chunky and bold. It’s of the pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. I worked on it this afternoon while listening to his music. And as of late, I’ve really been digging orchestral music. The image is from the US Library of Congress collection. There are some great images in those…

  • Saintpaulia

    This is a painting of an African Violet (also known as Saintpaulia) at the house. It was raining when I started this painting and it hasn’t rained since. Besides the fact that the violets have withered and the image I have isn’t very good. I’ll take the good with the bad and I was expecting…

  • Jude Acers

    I did this painting late last night. It’s really just the underpainting, but the composition is strong. It’s of Jude Acers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Acers ), a fellow I met in New Orleans last year. He holds two world records for simultaneous play. I like chess, although I’m only a Class C player.. yeah, it’s like grades…

  • Meat Less

    I just had a mater sandwich and was thinking that recently Gin and I were on the typical end of summer budget after summer vacation and we decided to just eat off the rest of the pantry. It ended up taking three weeks to do and of course we ate off all the good stuff…

  • Bennie Lee Watkins

    I put the wraps on Bennie this evening. I also spent part of the evening roaming the yard and woods trying to coerce the horses back into the pasture with a bag of apples and I think the moonlight walk was healthy for my disposition. Regarding the painting, I’m a bit more pleased with it…

  • Bennie Lee Watkins Study

    I finished the study painting this afternoon and I started a full portrait. I’m just ‘ok’ pleased with it and even though I’m likely to be my staunchest critic, I think the full portrait will turn out a bit better from the practice on the study. Bennie had a chance to check them out yesterday.…

  • Black Oil & Stand Oil

    these are two of my favorite ingredients. You can get them from any good art supply company. However, I don’t recommend the black oil and I’m serious considering the toxic effects on my longevity. In doing so, I won’t be re-ordering it again with my concerns about lead poisoning. It can’t be good to smoke…

  • Persieds & Pythia

    It was too cloudy to see any Persieds early this morning ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids ), so we’ll try again pre dawn tomorrow. Last night, we watched the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus to stay up late. Tom Waits is impressive. Terry Gilliam says in one of the ‘extra’ sections on the DVD that “Waits writes songs…

  • Singer Sargent Process

    I’ve been brushing up on some art history and I found this ( http://jssgallery.org/ ) nice resource for John Singer Sargent. It’s those type of websites that make the internet cool. The Studies for El Jaleo are good. It was not painted on site but reconstructed in his Paris studio from memories and sketches that…

  • Another Day to Get Your Wing On

    I was thinking about art the other day.  I certainly haven’t practiced much since college.

  • Whatever Works

    I really like Larry David.

  • Why Were South Carolina Voters So Uninformed?

    http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/south_carolina_media_mia_on_al.php

  • I lost on Jeaopardy

    The DOW is 11% down since monday ~ “sorry about that slip up in the DOW today, I meant to press the million button, not the billion one”. Oh..also a governor in Russia and the president of the international chess association says he speaks to aliens telepathically when they visit. Cheech took the semi’s, so…

  • Bob

    “lisa bonet ate no basil”

  • Tulsa

    the most interesting part of this song, besides the fact that it’s the jam that enhances my dancing skills. They are sons of a pentacostal minister who’s band is name for the intersection of (G)reenwood, (A)rcher, & (P)ine Streets. This was the location of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Race_Riot) , which was largely…

  • Holy Oil Slick

    Tab Benoit: When a Cajun Man Gets the Blues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

  • Good Doggie

  • Masters

  • Smoking

    I now occasionally smoke a pipe. I finally gave up cigarettes a couple months ago… long time coming and the most rewarding part for me has not been the obvious, but the fact that I will seldom, if ever step foot into a convenience store again.

  • Gun Slingers

    I think this graphic is stunning. Found at http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1003/gun-slingers/transparency.png

  • Dog Treats at 1000 fps

  • Open Source Education

    Be it primary, secondary, private or public, instead of firing teachers and furloughs, perhaps they should cut some overhead in textbooks and technology by going open source? Bloated overpriced education software and IT is an understatement and the collective knowledge of years of science, math, history, language arts, and otherwise belongs to no one person,…

  • True Stories

    Update – 2/10/20: I just updated the video from the previous version which had been subtitled in Japanese ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdCfYHNctsc ) because I’ve been having a discussion about Terry Allen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Allen_(artist) ) with my brother after he recommended I listen to his most recent album. Terry Allen’s wife, Jo Harvey Allen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Harvey_Allen ),…