Day 4502: Photos from Austria & Masters Party.

"Fatalities": junk mail collage & ink.

   

  

Want music?

    

Click: Rose Royce, Wishing On A Star.

  

 

 

2GN2S

I was wondering what to post for 2GN3S, when I opened an e-mail from Elenor, artist and friend from Austria. Perfect timing and her excellent photography. Elenor said: "Yesterday we had a bit of sunshine - now it's already raining again as so often during the last weeks - and so we made a trip to Gmunden, a really charming town on Lake Traunsee. I might already told you of this lovely region before. We walked along the lake and then through the centre with a small Christmas market. Of course we had some coffee and some sweets in a café." She gave me permission to share with you.

Isn't it lovely to visit across the planet?

Thank you so much, Elenor.

Saturday night, we went to a Master's Party at Tina and Larry's beautiful home overlooking the lights of Las Vegas in the distance. 

The theme was the Masters, as in golf, thus green everything. We wore green, the real reason, their son Adam's graduation with his masters. He wore a green Masters blazer. It was a lovely evening.

I found this really interesting book, and being th oldest there, I read.

Until WonderWoman needed me, and I didn't want to lose my place in the book, so she grabbed an elf for a bookmark.

Monica, Raquel, Julia

The brave "Young & the Restless" ladies, outside with blankets.

GH#1-Jordan, Raquel, Monica, Julia, Adam, Bryan.

More "Young & the Restless" 

jacki, Raquel, Jordan, Sophia

Bride and Groom to-be and their Grandmas'

Grandhunk#1 & Superman

CoCo

Prospective in-laws were already best friends. Perfect!!

 

  

 

A 4 minute video, At Full Speed, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

Green-Cheeked Parakeet.

  

 

Monday's Smiles ... 

   

 

 

 

        

 

Day 4501: Distortions in Paintings, & Austin Kleon.

"The Future?": junk collage, ink, digital.

  

 

  

Want music?

    

Click: Quincy Jones, Tomorrow.

  

 

 

2GN2S

Psychedelic Distortions Streak Across Bold Paintings From digital glitches to mind-bending distortions, Mexico City-based artist Alexis Mata is interested in how visual information gets lost or skewed as it shifts from one context to another. In his oil paintings, bouquets and vast desert landscapes spread across the canvas as if melting or stretching into unrecognizable forms. “When your eyes look too long at the same thing, your mind makes the change,” he shares.

Mata excavates the relationship between analog and digital realms, and his process incorporates both modes of artmaking. Preliminary sketches fill notebooks that travel everywhere the artist does, while he continually snaps photos and records video as references.

Rendered in bold color palettes, the trippy paintings draw connections between digital mishaps and the ways our brains warp an image, whether in moments of intense focus, dream states, or with the help of hallucinatory substances. “I like to think that entire worlds are created within dreams, and these worlds ask to be brought into the light,” he says.

Many of the paintings shown here are on view in Fata Morgana through January 25 at The Hole in Tribeca. Explore more of Mata’s work, which spans stained glass and textiles to drawing and sculpture, on his websiteand Instagram.

I am sure some of you know Austin Kelon? and

This week he said ...  "Dead week approacheth!"

Since I was thinking this but he has already said it better, I am quoting. 

“Dead week” "is the no-man’s land between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. I used to dread this time of year, but now I look forward to it as a time when nobody really expects much of you & nothing you do really matters that much. It’s a great time to rest, recover, and relax."

(He has more insights and humor that I think you might enjoy, here.)

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Joy Story , here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

 

Lesson's Motmot

 

 

Sunday's Smiles ... 

   

Vegan Santa?