My new painting

Here are three shots taken at different stages of my new painting (my first attempt at working on a canvas and oil paint.) It might have gotten a bit cluttered by the end, but I think it is still a work in progress for now.

Art from my journal

Slave driver (don't have a scanner so the flash kind of washed it out in the middle):

 

Mr. Treeman (is surrounded by freeflow of words):

Ramshead (Also surrounded by a stream of consciousness kind of writing):

Jackie Gleason records

It's a Jackie Gleason kind of night with the addition of my latest buy: Aphrodisia. All the records after Aphrodisia are other Gleason ones that I own. Note the best campy covers you will ever see!

My mom circa 1978

I found this incredible picture of my mother, the notoriously camera-shy photographer. Holy shit she was beautiful! ...and rocking the overalls.

New records

I spent waaay too much money at the record store today... but I fully support my purchases for the following reasons:

1. Led Zeppelin III- has a rare spinning background behind the cover.

 

2. This guy just looks awesome. A king in Mardi Gras, umm yes please.

 

3. Coasters- as heard in the epic bar dance scene of Tarantino's movie Deathproof.

 
4. My love affair with Duke Ellington will never cease to be.

5. Fats Waller- No explanation necessary

6. This cover alone is reason enough to buy it.

Finally updated the blog

Today I put up a whole slew of some of my old and new artwork from different mediums. I once had a photo album on Facebook as well as a Deviantart account but I think this is a better outlet. I will be putting up more artwork in the future like my oil paintings I'm working on, some jewelry I'm making, and some drawings/writings from my art portfolio.

TV Man

Most of my art centers around the perversion of humans by media and technology. This still is taken from a flash video I created a few months ago. The screen broadcasts ethereal scenes like slow motion flying through clouds, a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance duo, and a time lapse video from the 1910's of flowers blooming. These were all used to show the subtle domination of humans by various media outlets via chosen imagery.

I haven't been successful in rendering a video version suitable for the web, so for now this still picture will have to do. I made this image by photoshopping together 3 different images and creating a vector mask over the screen.