Seemless Universe's $700 Billion Bailout Plan

As of today Seemless Universe and Frapulous Tranding, Inc. is offering a $700 Billion prize to anyone who can prove the existence of God.

Or the nonexistence.

Good Luck To All!

Today's Scores

Cubs 7
Brewers 3

Bo Schembechler 8
Fonzy 2

Curtis Mayfield 11
home field advantage 9

Joe Lieberman’s reasons 2
Soupy Sales 8

thoughts in the wee small hours 9
unsubstantiated fascinations 2

smoke signals 6
text messaging 0

reading existential paperbacks while vacationing in Patagonia 7
Jackson Pollack’s boundary issues 5

Wolfgang Puck 2
Hugh Beaumont 8

Fiddle Faddle 3
collecting and trading Sarah Palin pap smears 1

Transcendental vegetation 7
Your Tostitos Halftime Report 4

a statement that appears unrelated to a statement that it follows 3
nonsequitors 3

Jeff Koons 1
choking on your own vomit 5

the time that guy did that thing at the party 6
Morey Amsterdam 7

Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach 7
Echo and the Bunnymen 6

Receiving the French Order of Merit for Illustrious Cowardice 2
Junior Varsity Cheerleaders 8

Candy stripers 3
Soda jerks 4

legally changing your name to Birdy Putz 2
vaguely wondering about that 6th grade “pinata incident” 11

canker sores 2
cannon fodder 7

Establishing your running game 5
wandering Jews 6

muttonchops 4
rabbit ears 6

making up names at your keyboard 8
Fartface Mcgee 7

eating cucumber sandwiches on the veranda while wearing and discussing clothes 2
Jerry Reed 8

metaphorical half-pints 5
“John Cage’s Adam’s apple” said ten times really fast 11

stereotypes 3
daguerreotypes 9

printing a dupe negative from your interpositive to save your original camera negative from wear and tear 8
tuna fish 3

Paul Newman 11
Ann Coulter’s dried up coochie 1

What passes for entertainment around here.

Bush Speaks

I've been noticing of late on broadcast TV a lot of sound problems. A couple weeks ago I watched a preseason football game (yes i really did) on Fox and a beautiful thing happened. The microphones on the announcers weren't coming through. At all. So i was able to enjoy the game hearing just the sounds on the field. They should do this for real. It made the game immensely more watchable.
Last week at the Republican Convention George Bush spoke via satellite to the crowd in St. Paul. NBC was airing it and we got to enjoy W's speech without the reaction of the crowd. A major mistake for the network but a coup for anyone who enjoys Out Of Context Theater. Here's a clip from the speech:

Writing a Paragraph of Words

Writing a paragraph of words in a particular order is a thing a person can do. Almost a certain randomness is nice. And sometimes not so almost. Of course words written on a page in and of themselves are just angular and curvy doodles with a semblance of something a person might call order. Taking these words and translating them badly on the internet is also a thing a person can do.

The points of the words in a fragmentary order is a thing, that it can make a person. Contingency nearly determined is pleasant. And nearly not so sometimes. However the words, that they are written automatically in a side inside, are hardly angle irons and scratch. Which are with an appearance something a curvy person could designate order. These words to take and them translate are seriously also a thing the one person can to do in this internet.

Frustratingly Short Blog Post

So Dear Readers I was all excited to have a blog post entitled "Celebrity Names That Are Also Sentences" but i could only come up with one.

Norman fell.

another sculpture (silent)

here's a test to see how pixelated this shot gets on blogspot..
the shot looks damn good on my computer... very sharp, literally. Let's see if it holds up here on the blog. . . .




ten minutes later . . .
P.S. looks ok. a little sharpness gone but ok for a free video hosting site.

Curvy Doodles #319R

Scans From The Journals

So yeah i have lots and lots of journals piled up around here - might as well scan some and get it across this way, methinks. And ain't the written word just a bit more personal? Sure it's a bit more difficult to read (especially with my handwriting) but damn there's something so much more human about it. i think. and here you are reading this in Verdana 16 point . . . ..Sheesh.
ok i'm doing this quick as im about to head out. but maybe we'll see more handwritten stuff in the future.
the following are short...written about 3? years ago. and certainly not written for the blog...i just perused an old journal a couple minutes ago and hit scan.

Many go to l' Nut.

Seemless Universe Statcounter Update

Today someone from Germany found my site by googling "the crowd goes nuts".
and thank god he did (if you believe in that kinda thing) cuz i was just thinking i haven't blogged shit in awhile so here's the crowd goes nuts put through the super secret translator fun machine or http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ (if you believe in that kinda thing)

i put the super secret translator fun machine through German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, Korean, French, Chinese, Greek, Italian and Russian.
(Some of the translations were the same)

The crowd goes nuts.

The crowd goes the nuts.

Crowd goes the nut.

The crowd goes the walnuts.

The mob goes the walnuts.

Crowd goes nut.

The multitude goes the nut.

The multitude goes l' nut.

Many go to l' Nut.

And now here is the rest of the blog post from English to Italian and back:

Modernization of Statcounter dell' universe of Seemless

Today someone from the Germany has found my place googling the " the crowd goes nuts". and the God ringrazi that has made (if you believe as kind of what) cuz I were thinking hardly the haven't blogged for a po' thus in here' s the crowd goes nuts put with the excellent secret machine or http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ of divertimento of the translator (if you believe as kind of the thing) I have made to pass the excellent secret machine of divertimento of the translator with German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, French, Chinese, Greek, Italian and Russian. (Some of the translations were the same ones)

Now some folks after reading this may say hey you didnt even write anything - you just translated some stuff and are passing this off as something.
Sheesh. Take it easy.
OK OK here's a few Todays Scores . .


Cubs 6
Houston 2

Mark Twain 8
Jeff Beck’s ear canal 2

External links 1
The Sea of Tranquility 6

The amount of time it would take to rotoscope the entire 1969 World Series 5
Bulgarian Dissidents 4

Ali vs. Frazier 8
The median income 3

The invention of Nylon 9
Catfish Hunter 7

What to think when someone tells
you Chirixalus laevis is NOT a species of frog 4
Peter Gent’s best catch 11

off color stories from the set of Bonanza 5
Ole Miss 1

Malcolm X 10
mimes 1

The major creative influences of SuperDave Osborne 3
Benign prostatic hyperplasia 2

Huckleberry Finn 8
rejecting the Italian bel canto tradition and the French "spectacle opera" 6

gallows humor 7
Air horns 6

The century and a half before the Portugese arrived in Togo 4
Liquid Prell 8

Looking interested in what they’re saying 2
Spaghetti and meatballs 9

Surrendering to authorities 1
silly string 6

Who's Hiring? my (recent) resume

Emergency Insulation Installer (July 2008)
1. Cut insulation to length.
2. Placed and stapled into where it goes.
4. Attention to detail.
5. People skills.

Weed Puller (July 2008)
1. Found Weeds.
2. Pulled Weeds.
3. Put Weeds in bags.
4. Self starter.
5. Instituted new Weed pulling technique, wherein you wrap your college diploma around the Weed first, so as to get a better grip, then pull upward while turning the diploma counter clockwise. This new method was integrated and proven to get 27% more root. Was awarded employee of the afternoon.
6. Intermediate Landscape Philosophizing.
7. Attention to detai.

High School Teacher (June 23rd, 2008 - June 24th, 2008)
(Details available upon request)

Bruce Conner

On Monday afternoon I received a phone call from Bruce Conner's assistant and to be honest the second i heard Henry's voice I knew. Bruce had died that morning. I didn't know the man well so i don't have any great Bruce Conner stories to relay to you. But i can tell you in his final years he championed a short film I had made and did his best to show it to as many of his friends as possible. For this I am immensely appreciative.
This story starts in 1979 - my first year of film school. In the C&P (Cinema & Photography) Department at Southern Illinois University I had two classes taught by Mike Covell. One of these was a History of Experimental Film. Now i had gone to film school to make comedies in the vein of Mel Brooks and Monty Python so this class was a bit of a rub. At first. Plus i was a young kid from Elgin, Illinois and knew Nothing about experimental film. What WAS this shit? If these were "Art Films" then Fuck Them.
Then, in that same Experimental Film class I saw Bruce Conner's Take the 5:10 to Dreamland and Valse Triste and all bets were off. The image of that little girl bouncing that ball on the sidewalk in Take the 5:10 to Dreamland will stay with me forever.

Cut to 25 years later and I had just completed Uso Justo. I sent a copy to my friend and ex boss at Monaco Video, John Carlson. He liked it enough to tell me that he was presently working with Bruce at the lab transferring his films and asked if he could show it to him.
"Yeah that would be great." (f-ing understatement)
Cool. Bruce Conner's watching my film.
A few weeks later i get a call. It's the man himself and he's telling me how much he enjoys the film and he's been showing it to some of his friends. To me this was like winning the Lottery, Wimbledon and the Super Bowl. Getting a phone call from one of your heroes is a pretty nice thing.
Since then we've spoken on the phone numerous times and he invited me to his home when i was out in San Francisco last March. We spent a couple hours talking film and old SF stories...him doing light shows 40 years ago at the Avalon, his disdain of "that singer for the Doors" and his love of Janis. We watched a film he had just completed. (Easter Sunday was edited from stuff he had shot in the 60's.)
A great visit that day and I'll leave it at that.
A few weeks later he sent me a check and a list of friends he wanted me to send copies of Uso Justo. A few weeks later another list. To say the least, the names on these lists were pretty impressive. Again, I'll leave it at that.
For those unfamiliar with his work (and there was plenty of it besides film... drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, photography) I encourage you to check it out. To say the least he wasn't big on having his films online (for obvious reasons) so i will not link to any of these. (But here is a link to other blogger's more eloquent than myself writing about him.)
Bruce Conner personally helped me get this film into the right hands and I'll be forever grateful. He was the Master of Found Footage and i was lucky to meet the man if only for a short time.

Thanks Bruce. For your films, your art and your support.

I'm more popular in the upper left part of the planet

yes, i can keep track of all you readers out there in the worldwide internet thingy.
you can't surreptitiously just stop by. I'm on to you.
Hey IP addresses - 66.102.108.66, 24.245.38.254, 97.116.4.117, 75.72.220.199, 66.77.224.29, 24.90.85.7, 130.82.1.40, 71.63.233.36, 71.201.181.1, 74.47.1.228, 74.47.13.148, 63.80.167.237 216.17.29.18, 75.73.4.62, 206.8.10.4
98.240.215.228, 209.37.138.50, 75.104.24.209, 170.20.11.118
Thanks for stopping by!

Fucking With Fox II

In the land of the blind . . .

the seemlessness of it all

Notice anything different?
Yeah, I flunked around in the blogspot site and found some new layout options. This will most likely be changing as the days go on but here's a start.
OK i have to get back to writing cover letters and finding high paying creative jobs on Craigslist.

editors note: The management of Seemless Universe (a subsidiary of Frapulous Tranding, Incorporated) would like to apologize for the writer’s recent outbursts about troubled teens and his estimation of youth in general. His opinions are solely his own and do not express the views of Frapulous Tranding, Inc. We here at FraTrink believe all people are just little darlings no matter what their age or capacity for rational thought.

We feel confident Miller’s writing will continue to delight and amuse in the same fashion it has since its inception and in no way will be effected by his recent ordeal.

Thank you and God Bless

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Assistant Junior Vice President
Frapulous Tranding, Incorporated


Todays Scores

Cubs 7
Orioles 4

children 3
A Big Stick 11

blank, vacant looks 14
America’s future 1

Holography 6
Argentine Tango dancers 7

words that rhyme with indifference 5
Sunshine 9

Babysitting 6
Teaching 2

Marvin Hamlisch 2
Prussians 6

assisting in the fabrication of removable prosthodontic appliances 3
Amherst College 7

theoretical physics 4
Tab Hunter 3

One Great Student 6,928,247,992
The rest of them 1

two ocean-going research vessels 6
Felix Mendelssohn 6

Stupidity 12
Reason 1

Watching your soul turn into a seven pound piece of coal in the matter of 30 hours 3
Extricating yourself in time 42

Colonial Rule 2
Rin Tin Tin's morning breath 8

bundt cake 6
Typing werds like frapulous tranding on your keyboard and then having people you don’t even know read it 19

My (short) Life As a High School Teacher

OK I don't talk too much about what is going on in my real life much but here goes....
last month i got a position teaching high school video at a charter school here in mpls.
to make a long story short, yesterday was my first day.
Today was my last.
I will start by saying 1 in 6 of the students were great!.... interested in filmmaking and attentive. Also 1 in 6 were mildly interested. That leaves the 4 in 6 or (2/3) that were little blank faced troubled teens or attitude copping troubled teens that made the whole classroom experience a living hell. I knew it was trouble when after the first day my assignment for them became: Bring a Pen.
This baby-sitting part of the job I was not prepared for.
And to be honest I just may not have the skills or the patience for this type of work.
A person has to know their limitations.
But the biggest realization i had during this experience is that i have to get to work making films, not teaching.

Todays Scores

Kids 1
Miller 0

(added 2 hours later):
addendum
i just got back from having a couple beers with my friend Holster at a local watering hole. Sitting outside where we met a great couple in their 60's? and had wonderful conversation on many subjects - a very pleasant hour.
But being such a recent escapee, it might be biasing my opinion.



(added 8 hours later)
Addendum PART II
Some people have been asking me "What's the name of this school?"
I won't print that here - let's just it call it Teen Attica.

Todays Scores

Cubs 11
White Sox 7

Romeo 5
Henry Mancini 2

Radical Islamists 1
Fruity Pebbles 7

hammocks 12
Quicktime 3

Dancing With The Stars 1
shin splints 2

the corner of 38th & Bloomington 5
Caddyshack 12

Bell & Howell 11
Ferrante & Teicher 3

eating dinner on the porch 16
cable TV 0

rectangles that start with the letter B 5
waiting in the movie theater for a loud part so you can open your beer without being heard 7

The Number Five 2
vague intergalactic polar opposites 6

a minute from now 4
Norm Crosby 3

Films made in 1959 that Stanley Kubrick never saw 3
Times New Roman 9

E.B. White 5
Ferndogs 8

Argentine literature 5
Montreal 2

calendar years starting on a Wednesday other than 1727 3
Cannonball Adderley 5

having something on your body that could be described as “fungal” 3
party balloons 15

A Confederacy of Dunces 21
Pizza Hut 2

tiny miniature moose 5
inside jokes 7

more photos from the box

OK here's yet another photo i grabbed while I was back in Elgin. I have no idea who these folks are but it was sure a bright day as evidenced by the little girl blocking out the sun with her arm. And the shadows, of course.
I haven't been blogging too much of late as some of you may have noticed. I'm trying to get ready for some high school summer classes I'm teaching starting next week. Video production & animation. whoo boy. it's one thing to do it. quite another to teach.
I'd say I'll probably learn more than the kids but that wouldn't say much for my teaching skills so I won't.



I got an interesting phone call last weekend from Dean Stockwell. He called to tell me he had his friend Dennis Hopper over the night before and they were watching my film (Uso Justo) and getting quite a kick out of it. Probably not as much of a kick as I got out of receiving his phone call but maybe.
Either way it was pretty nice of him to call and let me know this. Kinda made my day.

Wing Park, Elgin, IL.

Here's another shot culled from that box of photos back home. (Blogspot will only let you upload images 8mb or lower, which is a shame with this shot.) This looks like Wing Park on the west side of Elgin. I used to wade in this creek myself in the 60's. From the cars I'm guessing this is maybe the 30's? All the moms out there cooling their kids down. A nice shot of a much simpler time. Do yourself a favor and double click on the photo for a closer view.

Children's books are funny sometimes

ok so i buy old books and cut them up for all sorts of (artistic?) reasons.
one of those reasons is that a local restaurant owned by my good friend Kevin hired me to make their check presenters. I cut the pages out and just use the hardback cover for these. I also use the old school paper pouch/sleeve? that libraries had affixed inside the front cover - used to show when your book was due back, etc. These make perfect sleeves for the bill/credit card to slide in to.
Today I was working on some of these - perusing this children's book before i took the Exacto to it..and well, probably the less said the better here . . .

Scenic views of Elgin, IL

As I wrote in an earlier post, I came across some old family photos recently. This one's of my grandparents on my father's side (go figure). Here we see Martha And Frank enjoying a late night game of "How Many Orifices Can I Fill With Cigarettes?". As per the rules of How Many Orifices Can I Fill With Cigarettes? the loser is obligated to hit the winner in the head with a bottle. The "winner" is only allowed to use their upper arms to try and block the blows to his or her head. It's a weird game yes, but i think it explains alot.

Unidentified Male

Was back home for a few days this weekend (road trip = good for the soul) and found some old family photos so you might be seeing these in the coming futre. (in the future you can't use the same letter twice in one word).
Here's one of my mom in college with some guy. First off, nice framing here. I'm not kidding, I think it adds to the shot.
I have no idea who unidentified male is and no nothing of their relationship, but the smirk on my mom's face speaks volumes don't ya think?
I like to believe this is how she felt in general about dating guys before she met Artie. (or Dad as he is know by some.)

i don't wanna say you can find stuff just ANYwhere but occasionally you can stumble upon a book title written by an obscure sounding author just by

reading the directions on some random bottle of pills.

One Tablet

by

Mouth Daily

how this thing got it's name

Was looking through some old journals last night and thought this might be relevant to the blog

Random lines from the idiot box last night between 9:15 and 9:30 or Class: The Most Interior Room

David Zelisky's been kidnapped.

Evista should not be taken with estrogens.

Oh I love God. He's so deliciously evil

Tuesday!

The most interior room in it's class

I went out to get groceries. When i came back David was gone.

In this fast paced world isn't it nice

Just $209 a month

Now THAT'S
an american revolution

Thursday!

1. Law & Order
2. evista ad
3. Stewie from Family Guy
4. NBC promo for Law & Order SVU
5. Hyandai? ad
6. Law & order
7. KFC ad
8. toyota ad
9. Chevy ? ad
10. NBC promo for ER

untitledoodle

Pepin, Wisconsin

This Saturday night (May 10) I've been invited down to Pepin, WI to show some films at their Spring Film and Music Event.
The band Happy Apple is playing after the films and i hear they are pretty good so check it out if you are in the area.
The event is being sponsored by the fine folks at the Lake Pepin Art & Design Center and takes place at the Pepin Lion's Club! I could use a night at a Lion's Club. And who knows..maybe about 2 in the morning we'll have a carload of drunk Lions & film fans driving across town to the Elk's Club to paint "Elk Suck - Lion's Rule!!" on the side of their building.
Of course i'm not promising anything and as a disclaimer I personally have nothing against Elk. Really. Some of my best friends are Elk.


ADDENDUM: Just got a call from the folks in Pepin,WI and the venue has been changed to The Lake Pepin Art & Design Center (408 Second Street...715.442-4442 ). Something about not being able to sell beer or wine at the Lion's club. I'm glad we got that settled.

WWZS?

Famous Movie Cameras Series

Q: What Would Zapruder Shoot?

A: The Model 414 PD 8 mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series movie camera

Todays Scores

Cubs 8
Mets 1

Roy Orbison 9
gyroscopes 2

Max Planck 5
Indian Summer 6

argyle socks 3
chin music 1

the clarinet (for instance) 5
orderliness 2

euphemisms 3
trailing by one with 8 seconds left 2

orchestrated dysfunction 4
Scottsdale, Arizona 0

Rods 3
Cones 8

accelerating into 3rd gear 8
The Sisters Karamazov 7

turpentine hats 12
Mozart's fashion sense 3

writer's block 13
Karen Valentine 7

habeus corpus 8
Chuck Barris 10

running late 4
itchy fingers 6

sportcoats 5
girl trouble 3

Genghis Khan 2
soup 9

The Folks Who Gave Me Their DNA

from wikipedia: During the 1700s, Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) discovered "animalcules" in the sperm of humans and other animals. Some scientists speculated they saw a "little man" (homunculus) inside each sperm. These scientists formed a school of thought known as the "spermists". They contended the only contributions of the female to the next generation were the womb in which the homunculus grew, and prenatal influences of the womb. An opposing school of thought, the ovists, believed that the future human was in the egg, and that sperm merely stimulated the growth of the egg. Ovists thought women carried eggs containing boy and girl children, and that the gender of the offspring was determined well before conception.
However you look at it - without these two getting together you'd be looking at an empty page right now.

Todays Scores

Cubs 7
Pirates 3

Snoop Dog 8
Winston Churchill 5

Sandy Koufax 5
The Periodic Table 7

Joan Baez 3
rectal thermometers 8

Kentucky Derby 7
Skywalker Ranch 9

Nikola Tesla 11
Thomas Edison's soiled diapers 1

papercuts 3
Doris Day 8

congruent angles 4
Rasputin 11

Jack Lemmon's performance in Good Neighbor Sam 11
Grateful Dead lyrics 13

good friends 7
everything else 1

Bedford-Stuyvesant 6
Electric Light Orchestra 2

Denmark 7
persistence of vision 5

facing death 8
indoor plumbing 6

Sigourney Weaver 5
cartoon penguins 3

why you're still reading this 7
George Clooney's worst day 4

the whole idea of it all 5
shade 9

The Rapture 11
Spaghettio's 2

puppies 12
vehicular manslaughter 3

Man Ray 20
trousers 11

Western Civilization 5
Handi Wipes 2

random sentences.

Dancing cigarettes are harder to light.

Mediocrity is fine!

On Thursdays Velma Twinger always made time to chat with the older dolphins, even though their indifference to her night scrapbooking class made V feel somewhat melancholy.

I don't mind church services but i'd like them more if they just happened once every ten years as a reenactment.


Most people wouldn't even bother reading this sentence if they knew beforehand it was just going to end like this.

$13,457,601,882.13 is faster to write than thirteen billion, four hundred and fifty seven million, six hundred and one thousand, eight hundred and eighty two dollars and thirteen cents.

But as the crow flies, this sentence is even shorter.

The previous random sentence has little or no meaning depending on how the preferences on your computer are set, but as this blog is not about explaining itself and more about the fun-ness of words and image i would be remiss to not mention that 82% of art is rectangular.

a dozen colorful films

The Pink Panther Blue Velvet I am Curious Yellow White Chicks A Clockwork Orange Grey Gardens The Brown Bunny Marooned The Color Purple The Boy With Green Hair Red Desert Men In Black 2

disjointed collage #8

ype a manuscrip

dumpster diving for triptychs

so yesterday found me and my bloggy friend Holster knee deep in his neighbors dumpster. Shawn had already scavenged around the perimeter earlier in the week and discovered some potential there so it was up to yours truly to get in there and dig out the guts. Always wear boots and gloves when dumpster diving. ok sometimes you don't have those on ya so go with what you got. anyway our anonymous photographer seemed to like to go out and photograph cars. and alot of these negs were cut in threes. soooooo....triptychs it is.
check further posts when i may break out the scissors and then . . . . .diptychs!
which brings up the old idea of a halloween costume...strap two pieces of art to your chest and go as a Total Diptych.

technical/artistic addendum: if you look close you can get a glimpse of our photographer in the side mirror of his car. and yes i did some iDodging and iBurning to get him to come out a bit in those mirrors.

Tom Brokaw on Tom Brokaw

Today's Scores

Cubs 4
Twins 2

Ernie Kovacs 13
Stan Brakhage 1

West Aurora 3
Totie Fields 8

Lew Alcindor 5
Ornithology 1

Asians 4
Cleavon Little 8

Alexander Calder 10
mustard 2

The Spanish Inquisition 13
sporks 9

Steven Wright 11
Tuesday 5

sprocketholes 7
John Cage 8

Jerry Garcia 2
Bjorn Borg 1

Big Macs 3
pointillism 2

The Eighteenth Hole at Pebble Beach 5
Todd Farwell 9

God 2
Verbs 3

E pluribus unum 5
Youtube 1

wallpaper removal 17
Tucumcari, New Mexico 6

Professor Irwin Corey 11
your middle name 3

film 16
1963 4

what happens when you die 11
Arkansas Razorbacks 2

Elgin, Illinois 15
fake poop 6

prayer 7
Christopher Walken's dentist 3

Napoleon 9
Pia Zadora 7

Educational films & 16mm disembodied frictionHands . . . .
cl'kafjlsdhwfrictioncoincidence?

roadtrip filmstrip

double Spanish burton

Some descriptions in the dictionary are short.

verbatim (ver ba’ tim), adv. 1. in exactly the same words, word for word.

.

Rauschenberg (rou’shen burg). n. Robert, born 1925, U.S. artist.

Some descriptions in the dictionary aren't short so much.

.

dou’ble Span’ish bur’ton, a tackle having the load suspended from one of two single running blocks, supported both by the fall, which is rove through it, and by one end of a runner which is rove through the standing block and which supports at it’s other end the other running block, made in two ways, either with the standing end of the fall attached to a fixed point beside the running block, or with the fall rove through the standing block and attached to the running block, supporting the load, with a mechanical advantage of four and five, neglecting friction.

Archive: Back in the Day Series. (Photo # 327D)

Here's a picture of yours truly back in the days before email (remember those?).
it was a kinder, gentler time. maybe. this was taken back in the day when photos were taken with film. (a cellulose nitrate or acetate made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a light sensitive emulsion.) It came in perforated rolls and you would thread it into your camera. After taking a shot you would have to, and get this! MANUALLY wind the film through the camera in order to get to the next section of unexposed emulsion. Also when you took a photo there was no deleting it if you didnt like it. Once you popped the shutter you were committed. In fact you couldnt even SEE your shots until you were done with the entire roll and had it processed. AND printed.
Stay tuned for further ruminations on How We've Changed In This LifeTime!
Next week...The Dial Telephone.
maybe.

wide eyed but not so bushy tailed

kinetic sculpture + soundtrack =

branding coleman miller

While floundering around here in the job hunt one creative director, after seeing my work, told me i had to market myself. This guy was great. He actually returned my calls! (If you're reading this sir, it's most appreciated) (He's not reading this..too busy making a living as a CREATIVE DIRECTOR) Now THAT sounds like a great job. But who knows..damn i am so lost as to how those places work i might as well be applying for work on Mars. As a glurnatologist. and i have no formal training in glurnatology. just a passing interest really. but i digress.
"aw shucks you guys I'm not lookin' for a handout... just a hand".
it's starting to look like im gonna have to do this the old fashioned way. DIY.
yeah thats it. by this time next year I'll have produced my first Super Bowl commercial, I'll be living in my Laurel Canyon house with my superspokesmodel wife and our three superspokeskids and I'll be driving a classic 1965 cherry red Asti Spumante.
Yeah, I got it all figured out.

drilling for oil in a goldmine

Have been busy looking for work in this world and not feeling that bloggy so it’s been awhile yes readers searching for the almighty dollar and whatever that entails trying to market myself in a world of commercialism and commercials and the ordinary after spending a life believing in the unordinary (the more unordinary the better!). Trying to get my foot in the door of where the money is. Showing my art to the man and getting less than exhuberant reactions. Rethinking skills and making the jump as it were.
Damn. Something will give soon, it has to. If anybody out there who has seen my work and knows of a company/person who could use these skills -let me know. Housepainting and demolition work is taking it’s toll on this 48 year old body. Rather use my brain for awhile.
Looking for work . . .Feels like I’m drilling for oil in a goldmine.
so yeah this taking up my time so might be posting more visual stuff for a spell instead of words . . .comes easier to me these days.