Tag Archives: art
Hoaxes & Happenings
Richard Dawson, Phillip Grant, EJ Gold, Ron Matthies on Tempo TV show, circa 1969, presenting their views about the Great California Earthquake and other current issues. Back in the 1960s, many artists were staging “Happenings”, art events of various kinds, which today might be classified under the category “performance art”, but it went way beyond … Continue reading
Kiki’s Paris
Alice Prin was known as Kiki de Montparnasse. She posed for absolutely every major painter of her day. Hundreds of portraits of Kiki adorn museums worldwide. We used to live together for a while back in the day. Here is her favorite song: … Continue reading
Tonight’s Lab-Work
It’s been about five hours. I’ve completed the “Fashionistas” Tarot Deck — fashionista is someone who is heavily involved in fashion in some way, either as a designer, model, red-carpet celebrity or a fashion blogger. I’m all of those and more, these days. I’ve created a small army of tarot decks related to fashion design … Continue reading
A Touch of Dali
As many people know, Lily Nova and I used to have tea with Dali in NYC back in the day; this video gives some idea of what it was like to be around this quirky, mischievous and playful kid with the funny mustache. He was an absolute crazy wiseman, with a brilliant wit and a … Continue reading
Reductionism & Game Design
This is a quick run-through of 2fart4 in extreme alpha condition, just to give you an idea of how the reductionist principle works with level design. This will eventually go into a mobile app. Most games are over-designed with far too much LoD — Level of Detail. It’s easy to junk up an art work … Continue reading
To Rembrandt or Not To Rembrandt — The Money Issues
These are original 17th century lifetime impressions produced by Rembrandt van Rijn in Holland, about 1640-ish. They come from very powerful collections with great and unusually clear provenance, meaning they can be traced back to previous owners quite far in the past. Pieces like this generally sell for anywhere from $24,000 to $150,000 for the … Continue reading
Get HANG Tones With a HAPI!!! Secrets of a Jazz Musician Revealed!!!
I posted a tutorial on subway busking with HAPI drums. My HAPI drum stage setup now consists of an array of a total of 6 HAPI drums, a D Minor, a C Akebono, a UFO in C Major, an E Integral (pygmy & akebono) and a D Integral, which delivers all the HANG tones you … Continue reading