Sketchbook tour: 1990s Trent Reznor fan art/scrapbook/drawings
Remember I mentioned this one a while back? Well, I made a full video tour. Enjoy:...
Shrieking fandom and other artificial nonsense
Saw one of those Facebook “suggested for you” things which was some lame TedX talk by some woman whining that when men cheer for a sports team that’s cool but when females do shit like build a shrine to Harry Styles’ vomit it’s “hysterical” (and apparently that word alone...
Fakes, frauds, and grifters
I’m not gonna call anyone out by name, so we’ll just say “Z” for the apparent generation of the one who inspired this rant. Z is a video content creator. Nothing wrong with that. Z tells people she’s an artist. And she paints, so sure. OK. Z seems to...
Lame “important” art vs. fun fan art
So, I saw a FB post from an art magazine showing some installation where someone (presumably a humorless art school prig, though I know my first reaction was to burst out laughing) printed a bunch of blah blah blah slogans about barriers and inclusion in foundation year of art...
Some texts to my brother and notes on celebrity and visual arts culture
So, I’ve been pondering artistic direction yet again (more bellyaching about that on another post so as to keep this one on topic). And I was thinking about drawings me and my friends used to do in high school of celebrities and how there kinda was something to that,...
Ch-ch-changes… probably…
So, the flower headers are gone, replaced with some random pics from my rock memorabilia collections. Seems to me when I updated the blog in 2020 and I was painting more, the headers were my art. Then in 2021 I swapped it to my garden as I tried to...
A ramble on Bono, singer’s doubts, blue notes, etc.
Fuck… where do I even start with this… well, how about a screen shot? This came up a couple days ago, I guess. I haven’t heard the actual podcast it’s from yet, but I guess Bono went into some depth about the various doubts he has about the sound...
A fun FB post courtesy of U2, plus some rambling about electric vehicles
Ah, Facebook… mostly I hate you, but every so often you serve me up with some lulz that almost make up for the fact that you’re an evil empire in control of thought policing and personal information harvesting masquerading as just a fun place to chat with my sane...
A couple or three old stories and musings on creative direction for my writing career
So, an hour ago when I was stuck in the line-up for the McDonald’s drive-thru, I had a brilliant idea of how to start this blog, but now it’s all gone. Oh well. Can’t have been all that brilliant, I guess. I think it had something to do with...
Friday Fashion/Beauty: Online shopping ramble
So… about that whole “buy less but buy better” thing… in the short term it sure can look like “buy more.” Maybe that’s just me, lol… but in any case, there’s been some good sales around so I now have 3 blazers en route, a skirt, a dress, and...