Sons of Liberty

I just finished watching the History Channel’s “Sons of Liberty.” Good show, but I wondered how accurate it was. 

I took to the internet to see if I could find any tidbits that might give me some insight.

Unfortunately, the show seems to be slightly less accurate than “Galavant” (http://abc.go.com/shows/galavant). Oh well, I still like it.

Working For a Living

It's been a long time since I posted to this blog. The easy answer is I've been working.

First, working a normal 40 hour per week job, and plenty of overtime. Additionally working on fixing up the house.

We bought a "fixer-upper" years ago. Still in Fix mode. And everything takes at least twice as long as planned.

As far as the art goes, been working mostly in photography. I've touched the painting brushes some, but not much.

I've also spent a little time with the lathe, turned some nice pens and bowls.

However, the big "art" project is my Jeep. Lets face it, to take great photographs (and use them as a basis for paintings) you need to be able to get to places a car just can't go.

Expect to see some updates on the progress of the rebuilding of my 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Please Help, need votes for a contest

I'm trying to gain a spot in a national television commercial with Fine Art America, if you could please take time to vote for the three images I entered.

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Work of Art 2.5 and 2.6

Episode 5: “Ripped from the Headlines.”

A great idea, but again the judges totally blew it. They jumped on the Sucklord for being too literal, yet gave 20k to Young for a piece that was the most literal piece of the week.

In week 6, the challenge was to create street art and the winners, Young and Dusty rack up a deserved win. Unfortunately the Sucklord finally is defeated by the forces of evil.

Frankly, I could see value in his and Sarah’s piece. Having been to New York, and not being from there, the city is a maze, and I thought their piece expressed that.

Then there is Lola and Michelle. Frack. Lola is quickly becoming the “Miles” of the season. What a frickin douche bag. I’m starting to realize that they cannot draw. What kind of artist can’t even draw a frickin penis? You would think that between two people with BFA’s, one of them could draw better than a 5 year old.

They also tried to pull off some kind of “Bad Girl” skit this week. Try to imagine, two Harvard educated socialites being “gangster,” Totally unbelievable. And BTW if they had encouraged people to deface my work before judging, Mr. Elite would have seen what the term “Get Medieval” really means.

Nothing On

I came across this old broken down TV in the middle of the Mojave Desert. I first spotted it because the edges of the case formed an unfamiliar straight line off in the distance. As I got closer, I realized what I had found. It really stuck me as odd to find such an old style piece of electronics out in the middle of nowhere.

It reminded me of a time when television programming went off the air at night, the only image they would broadcast was a test pattern and tone.

We only had four channels back then, and I still remember being entertained by what was on.

Today we have the 24 hour news cycle, tons of programs, and yet, there still seems to be nothing on.