Tag Archives: Painting

Picture Book by Terry Bisson and Rudy Rucker

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Billy’s Picture Book by Terry Bisson, a collection of jarringly twisted short stories for adult children, has a set of illustrations by Rudy Rucker.  The stories follow one precocious Billy through the harrowing and sickening ordeal of being a kid.  If your kid has a mind that is easily warped or disturbed or if your kid is just plain crazy, don’t read these stories to them!  But if your kid has a casual interest in murder and mayhem, well this might be just the book for the little monster.

The book is available as a free e-book and as a paperback for purchase.

Painter: Andrew Abbott

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One of my favorite sites is The Rumpus, an online culture magazine that covers literature, art, film, politics, sex, comics, music and generally excellent and useful ideas.  One of their writers, Julie Greicius, did a piece on a painter I’ve never seen before: Andrew Abbott.  I really liked his paintings as soon as I saw them.  They are harsh and beautiful at the same time.  I have no idea how much they cost or anything like that.  Probably a lot.  They’re really good and I imagine they are hanging in a lot of fancy living rooms right at this moment.

But his web site is plenty of fun for me and this guy can paint like some serious business.

Go visit Andrew Abbott’s paintings.

All the Paintings in the Museum of Modern Art

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Someone at YouTube named Chrspck went into the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on April 10 and shot a photograph of every painting.  Museums and galleries have no business forbidding photography as long as it doesn’t use a flash or get in the way of visitors.  I love seeing all the paintings go by.  It makes me want to go to the museum.

Theodore Ushev Makes Image to Help Get Donations for Haiti Earthquake Victims

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Artist and animator Theodore Ushev created this poster for the purpose of spreading the word about helping victims of the Haiti earthquake. They need enormous help very quickly to prevent even more deaths than have already been suffered. He told me there was no need to ask permission to use the picture. It was created to be used. Thank you to an artist using his magnificent talents to assist in an emergency.

Here are some ways to give assistance:

The Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Food Program are putting medical supplies, doctors, nurses, food and water on the ground in Haiti to try to prevent the worsening catastrophe and enormous loss of life.

If you have one of these cell carriers:

Alltel
AT&T
Sprint-Nextel
T-Mobile
U.S. Cellular
Verizon Wireless

You can donate $5 to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund simply by texting the keyword “GIVE” to “2HELP” (24357).

iPod Art: Yard Umbrella

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iPodArt-YardUmbrellaI’ve been having fun with my iPod Touch today.  I got inspired to draw with the excellent Brushes app but my fingers are big fat and clumsy, so it required lots of zooming to make the view big enough so my painting wasn’t just a bunch of gigantic blobs.  I drew the umbrella against a backdrop of foliage in my yard.  The weather has been just as excellent as it should look in the picture.

I’ve learned that David Hockney, one of the greatest artists in the world, is drawing on his iPhone with the same application.  His drawings are much more successful than mine, but it’s fun for anyone to draw with a finger!