My friend and neighbor from down the street (we’ll call him Mister Smartypants for now) sent me a link to this charming vid the other day. It’s not so much a cartoon. OK it’s not really a cartoon at all, but it’s some nifty animation, and who doesn’t like listening to Thom Yorke? Thanks Mr. Smartypants!
Analyse by Thom Yorke
by basverhage on Youtube
for Christmas? If not maybe this will help brighten your holiday spirit!
Santa Intervention by Jay Malone
Grand winner of the FOX-Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge
Lepidopteran Still by StephG
I have some work in an exhibit that’s up at the Northampton Center for the Arts right now. The themed show is a yearly event organized and curated by artist extraordinaire and all around wonderful person Jane Lund. This year’s theme, “animals in art”, has been interpreted by over fifty artists. I hear there’s quite a variety of work and some very inventive approaches. The reception is this evening and, barring any cataclysmic events, I will be there. Maybe I’ll even manageto snap some photos to share here like I did last year.
details from the center’s website:
Join the artists for a festive opening reception featuring the music of West County Jazz on Friday, December 11, 5pm-8pm. Regular gallery hours are 11am-4pm, Tuesday through Friday. The gallery is closed on Christmas but open on New Year’s Eve until midnight!
Daniel is busy these days, filling holiday orders, so I thought that I would make his job more difficult by shamelessly promoting his plush dolls. Quimby has been living with my wife and I since the end of last summer, and I must say that he is friendly, but not particularly sociable with our cats. He is pretty intelligent, and likes to sit around pretending to read Dostoevsky. If you would like to get your own Happycloud Thunderhead doll or painting, check this out. Also, other Darteboarders have work for sale, support us by clicking on Steph’s Etsy Store or by contacting any of us directly with your inquiries. Instead of giving out giftcards this year, give some art!
About two weeks ago, my wife and I drove over to Ted Drewes (the delicious, frozen custard stand) to check out their Christmas Tree selection, which is a winter preoccupation of theirs. We were really surprised at the selection and cost. This White Pine, over 6′ tall, farmed locally, and with a “Dottie” rating (Ted Drewes’ indication of excellent proportion and posture), cost only $40! We bought our tree last year from Home Depot for more than that, and who knows where it came from.
All Nikon D300 with Tokina 80-200mm f/2.8 AT-x (manual focus) Lens; full shot of tree by Nikon D50 with Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G Lens.
That is a cheap way to get untold numbers of philistines to buck up the blog viewership, eh? Huh?
yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this is a recent oil painting I did with a limited palette and heavy paint application. I’m thinking of Frank again. That’s Frank Auerbach, a painter who has held a place in my consciousness for years. The short interview should be read and is instructive; I find myself sharing some of his thoughts: No strict and rigid method of beginning a work; the act of destroying and reworking.
This painting is an example of a piece reworked and reworked, then completely destroyed to give birth to something else. Anyway, heres to the model and here’s to Frank!
Oh, yeah, one more thing. The photograph is terrible, I apologize.
Tom Bennett
TT, 2009, oil on canvas, 30″ x 24″
Sometimes I go back through old files of unused pictures and see something new, and that’s pretty much what happened here. I was working on something else entirely and this one just happened to be mixed in, this little landscape was just a small section of a much larger all and it almost slipped past my eye. I’m glad it didn’t because I kind of like this one.
I was productive this weekend… just not so much with the creating finished art to post thing. I spent the last 2 nights helping to set up a show I’m in (At the Firehouse North Gallery at 1790 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA. It’s up now, the reception will be Saturday 12/19, and it’ll be up through the end of the month). It’s the first time I’ve helped with such an activity since college, and is more work than I remember, despite being a relatively small space. It didn’t help the first night when a random drunk guy who was desperate for attention wandered in for a couple hours to harrass us and people who stopped by. We would have asked him to leave sooner but we all thought he was somebody’s friend.
Anyways, we finished last night at 11, and I had all of 30 minutes to prep stuff to post today. Apologies all around.
What I did get to play with this weekend was cutting sheets of overlapping masking tape with my pazzles machine to make stencils to use on paintings. I usually don’t post the first results of methods I’m still learning, but here we are. I’m reasonably happy so far, but there are definite kinks to work out going forward.
The above work is the canvas I painted the pattern on. Here is the spent masking tape affixed to a sheet of paper:
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They made a pop-up book of the oft discussed but little understood Large Hadron Collider. Check out the video:
How complicated is this machine? Even the pop-up book requires extensive assembly by the reader. I’m unclear whether any part of the book blows up the first time you turn it on. I don’t think they’re going for that level of accuracy…
-JD
Drop yer acid now.
by StephG
Weather update:
It finally snowed yesterday and the temps are down so I dunno for how much longer Sunday Sidewalk Doodles will continue. Global warming can only bring us so far.
The recent issue of National Geographic has an article about pollen which is accompanied by lots of fabulous color-enhanced microscopic images. I can’t stop looking at them! Here, I scanned some for your viewing pleasure.
I made a compilation of a bunch of separate pics.
Now I know what the water from a productive netti session looks like up close. What amazingly gorgeous forms! And kudos to whoever did the coloring. That must have been a fun job.
Nasal irrigation is good.
In the same NG issue, there’s a fascinating article on the Hadza–a hunter-gatherer society of Tanzania that has changed little in the last 10,00 years or so! The series of really intense, close up portraits of members from the camp visited by the author is especially striking.
Here are three examples cut and pasted into one pic. Read more »
en Francais which makes it dastardlier! Long-legged overgrown seahorses, deadly top hats, walking fish and tree stumps cum-turn-tables–what more could you ask for?
Animation by Doncvoilà
happy weekend!
-Steph
I’ve gotta work, so the rest of you can’t ease into your weekends that easily….
Slide into your weekend cool like, yo.
-JD
Cruising YouTube the other day, I came across a blast from my past in a short documentary style video on Sharkula, a rapper from Chicago who sells his music on the streets for “Whatever you got.” Back in 2005, I did a portrait of him, but he disappeared from my radar just before I finished it. Well, here it is Sharkula, if you find it, you can can steal it, and use it however you want. Video of “School Fools” from his album, “Martin Luther King Jr. Whopper with Cheese”, after the painting.
I enjoy looking for unique perspectives on seemingly mundane subject matter….In this case, it is a stack of old windows on my deck that I am repurposing into a sculpture (updates on that process at another date).
Nikon D300 with Nikon 50mm f/1.8E (manual focus) Lens
Once again I travel the rough streets of San Francisco in search of art to comment on at my twitter account tonight at 9ET, 6 pacific. Maybe a little earlier. There’ll be photos and everything. Stop by and check it out!
-JD
I spent Thanksgiving with my family and was happy to see my father, Harry, had been drawing over the last few weeks since I had seen him last. I went out and bought him some Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens of various points, including a brush point. I happen to use them myself and I think they’re the cat’s pissah. Or meow, if you prefer.
Here are some of his sketchbook drawings for the Autumn season. His comments and musings are always funny and/or revealing.
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