An End of the Millenium feast of feasts.
yes I boast
yes I roast
yes, I toast
to my animal roast
This is a December holiday meal that I made, thanks to the local grocer. Sirloin tip roasts were on sale for around $4 to $5, and adding the cost of onions, kale, and soup, one could boast a holiday meal like this (or even blog it) for around 6 to 8 bucks. It’s expensive, but it’s the holidays.
I am very moved by the paintings of Eyvind Earle.
When living in the SF/Oakland area I toured some Bay Side galleries and in 1987 I learned about Earle. I saw a beautiful “original print” for around $5000. Since then, I have paid attention to his work. A few years later I fell in love with Carmel Gold (see below). He is my favorite modern day painter.
Seeing his paintings brings back such wonderful memories of the photography that I had done of the Big Sur area. This was when I lived in CA.
Carmel is also an incredible place, and you don’t need me to tell you that. In 1985 I attended the Carmel Bach Festival, which was extra wonderful and special – it being the 300th anniversary of one of my favorite musicians, namely J. S. Bach. When it was over I stopped to have dinner, and then drove back to Livermore. I can still see the lights on the dashboard of my 1984 Buick Skylark as I drove back. It was such a beautiful event! This is the first time I had been to Carmel, and it left a pretty wonderful memory.
Earle’s fractal-like portrayals of trees, nature, waves, and interpenetrating black and white horses struck a nerve at the time I saw them. This was a big topic for research when I worked in the Combustion Research Center at Sandia Labs. Seeing this in art was moving! This is where I worked when I attended the Bach festival and saw my first Earle art.
What made me think of Earle after lots of years? I periodically surf L. Gerbrandt’s photography. I do this because he is outstanding and because his Big Sur photography beings back such nice memories. Just last night, I saw this photo, where he mentions Earle. This then triggered the above research.
I have lots more to say about my California photography and the joys of listening to Bach while doing math and programming. Earle fits perfectly into the eternal golden braid: Godel, Earle, and Bach! [ref].
I invoke the concept of artistic license for many of my art sketches. That is, I draw or sketch just about anything. Often drawings are deliberately distorted, and sometimes views may appear to be extreme. Sometimes political or other interpretations are seen by other people, and sometimes they are deliberate and sometimes they are not. Such views, or distortions, or whatever do not necessarily reflect my views and opinions. Often they are done under artistic license: for the sake of the art.
Note that sketches, if and when I think they are sarcastic, are often marked as that.
Different people have different interpretations of images and sketches. I am not responsible for how or what people see or interpret when they view my art. Very often people miss the point or intent, if there is one, and this may actually increase the interestingness of the art.
Also note that some of these qualifications for my photography may apply here.
No, this isn’t really sarcastic.
I was going to call my website one of these:
I went with the second one in the list.
I did this sketch just recently, on Dec. 27, 2009. This is my vision of a 1930-1940’s style downtown, maybe during the Depression. This could be New York. This is how it might have looked during Tesla’s later years. The sign on the door at the lower right says “soup”.
The turbo crock is the fastest crocodile in town.
When you need a crock right there, and in a hurry, call on turbo crock.
Here is a very simple hamburger dish that is also very tasty. For me this is a good old stand by dinner that is reasonably healthy and not expensive.
Chop some potatoes and onions and fry them in olive oil. A mistake that I made here is that I should have chopped the potatoes a little smaller.
Cutie pie fish (cpf) are a favorite sketch topic of mine. But look out if you get a little smac from a cutie pie fish.
This is a painting.
This cutie pie fish doesn’t have a name yet.
This image is used for the “fish bullets” that appear as the list icons in the bullet lists in these blog pages. This is an awful lot of work to get a list icon image. But cutie pie fish are worth it. I really like good cutie pie fish.
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