The Millerizer 360

The Millerizer 360 is complete! Using a Brinks mini timer for a motor we can now shoot timelapse WHILE Panning. Of course we'll be using the 7D's, not the camera shown here. total cost: ~ $5.

A bit more fragile than I had hoped, we may be able to remedy this with a small amount of reinforcement.   

Palm Springs Fine Arts Fair

Palm Springs was a smashing success as they say.

Met a bunch of great folks. Screened Uso Justo to a less than packed house but for those who came, they dug it and also bought DVD's for later laughs. The Q&A with Daniel Stern was excellent. Informative and funny. Afterwards we had a great dinner with some fun locals.

Also sold one of my sculptures at the fair. I LOVE these things and they're starting to catch on. And get better. Or so I say.

Ed sold a couple of his big paintings so me and Tom (the local carpenter we hired) went over and hung it in their home the next day.

Definitely a wealthier crowd than I am used to hanging with....as i said in the q&a I saw a few folks at the opening party whose eyeglasses cost more than I made last year.

Literally true.

Art shows and fairs

Got a couple shows coming up here.

Check this one out. Am showing a film in Palm Springs followed by a Q&A with the actor Daniel Stern. Looking forward to it.

Also been twisting up a bunch of small kinetic pieces and making leaps and bounds etc. here's a couple of pix although you need to see 'em move to get the full on effect.

Book cover art

Was designing a book of my art to be printed and here were some of the covers i was thinking of using.

I went with Plains.

a Twiggy Xmas?

This one just went off to the gallery - the owners are making a 60's Christmas themed window so this was by special request.

long time no blog.

trying a new stencil here. 3 layers. here's some tests. unhappy with 'em but . . .can anyone even tell me who this is suppose to be?

Today's Scores

Cubs 4

Pirates 0

Philadelphia 3

Juarez 8

Roe 7
Wade 2

storage space 2
time zones 7

transitory verbs 8
stationary bicycles 1

Big Ben 7
Little John 6

What Passes These Days 2
The Change of Winds 5

the seemingly vague 8
trace amounts of shame 4

poetry, but not in the usual sense 2
Noxzema 5

long division 1
short shorts 7

discussions not involving the advantages
of three legged furniture 5
discussions involving the advantages
of three legged furniture 9

South Wacker 7
Downers Grove 3

Crazy Guggenheim Museum 5
Mixed Metaphor Building 4

being careful of what you wish for 3
getting what you wish for, kinda 1

Lou Gehrig’s Disease 4
Tommy John Surgery 7

bland vanilla percussions 6
small mouth bass 8

googling your 4th grade girlfriend 2
skinnydipping with your wife 5

banality 3
Jack Parr 9

a farcical tangle of events 6
the list of people who have played Bingo and lost 3

Never Never Land 6
permanent interim 5

before the invention of barbed wire 5
three potatoes ago 2

rollercoasters 7
drive thru McDonalds 1

crash cymbals 11
status symbols 0

broke & homeless 3
Standard & Poor’s 9

bunny ears 11
old jews 4

when all else fails 2
your mind’s umbrella 2

being celebrated by strangers 8
cleaning your toilet the next day 3

brown 1
magenta 7

rum and coke 6
milk of magnesia 2

Earth Inc.

lets just say . . .

June 2011 has been astonishing.

here's some pix that have nothing to do with that but I'm just filling in because that seems like too short of a post.

(fyi: most of these i didn't take...only kinetic and mini dog i shot)

luna

meta graffiti

for you know who

about 3 lifetimes ago

kinetic close ups

how mythology has evolved

glasses and dogsitting

shadow of our moon

how the pros do it

cool

how do they do that? op art 2011

Recent Randomocity

Humanity is hereditary.

guy on Antiques Roadshow brings in an old purse and some sorta fossil. by the end:

Silk Purse - $180.00

Sows Ear - $22,000

experimental film a person could make:

3 Frames of the Condor

spreading god like peanut butter mayonaise

cartoon toothache

write a story you

would never write.

She always carried the threat of style.

interestign.

crazy guy who sometimes when he's out with his friends he gets a little froggy and they have to put the elizabethian collar on him, like your sick dog wears. Only it's just a ruse to freak out strangers. the guy will be speaking quite eloquently one moment and the next he is growling and trying to get at something. something akin but not entirely to the guy who has a job down on the wharf - he sits in the drivers seat of his car with a full dog outfit on, the head sitting next to him in the front seat. He wears glasses and reads from War and Peace or The Brothers Karamozov, waiting for customers. The sign on his car reads "See The Crazy Dog". When the customer slides a dollar in the slot he sighs a big sigh (making a big show of being put out) puts a bookmark in his book, takes his glasses off and carefully places them in their case, puts his dog head on, checks himself in the mirror and then goes fucking nuts barking and jumping over the seats front to back trying to get at the customer. 30 seconds later he abruptly stops and goes through the same motions only now in reverse and goes back to his book.

he and her and their sexless fling.

guy explaining to another guy what god is.

He looks over us!

He made everything!

The guy is Amazed!! He's never heard about this man!

Double Feature: Deliverance & Cabin Boy

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RATES OF HEALING

(In no particular order)

cut finger

broken heart

Mt. St. Helen

loss of loved one

heart surgery

your team lost

crack in the cosmic egg

rejection

bad haircut

The Jewish how ya doin' matrimonial sheet

a couple driving along Duluth on a gorgeous spring day...

HE: "This really is Beautiful here!"

SHE: "It's gotta be cold in the Winter."(Pause) "I wonder what the suicide rate is?"

Former and present Chicago athletes that are also sentences.

Davey lopes.

Julius peppers.

Ernie banks.

Derrick rose.

(thanks to rick monaco for the ernie banks one)

in the field of depth, this would be your shallow end

Match the Crime to the Face!

One of the local Chicago papers publishes the mugshots of recent arrestees, which to me seems wrong on a few different levels. I mean c'mon . ..innocent before guilty and all...but here they are in the paper for all the world to see. This doesn't even seem legal to me but here it is. It's fucked up.

But That Doesn't Mean We Can't Have Fun With It!

Does it?

See if you can match the face with the crime!

Here are the crimes listed:

1. animal cruelty

2. battery

3. cannabis delivery

4. illegal possession of a motor vehicle

5. criminal sexual abuse

6. hit & run

7. felony intimidation of a public official

8. improper lane usage

and here are the 8 faces

answers below. don't cheat.

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And P.S. the guy with the improper lane usage also had a DUI in there too. It's just that improper lane usage seemed funnier by itself.