Benjamin Joel Wilkinson

Even as it pulses Above and BELOW.

Sinks to oblivion... Where color is meaningless.

Buries to snowy white Washes to oceanic blue

Nibbles to fleshy pink Dies to cadaverous gray

Crumbles to earthy brown Grows to weedy green

Molten red Cools to rocky black

#poetry #visualpoetry #digitalart #synesthesia

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The encyclopedia of oil techniques | WorldCat.org "A new, up-to-date edition of the popular and comprehensive encyclopedia by professional and award-winning artist, Jeremy Galton. Ideal for artists of all skill levels, this A-Z reference covers a mul

#Books #reading recommendations:

Jeremy Galton - The Encyclopedia Of Oil Painting Techniques

Solid overview of the basics of a fairly challenging medium. (Don't expect much info about avant-garde techniques, though.)

search.worldcat.org/title/101776...

#art #painting #howto

Painting of California Condor flying high over California coastal landscape, painted in fisheye perspective.

Claiming Birthright

Painted is a California Condor, a creature with the rare ability to look simultaneously goofy and majestic. The title is a reference to successful reintroductions to its old haunts in western North America.

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#art #painting #birds

YouTube video by Reelblack One Mr. T. - Be Somebody or Be Somebody’s Fool (1984) | w/ New Edition

#Antidepressant #video of the day:

Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool: Styling

A glimpse into a world without embarrassment.

youtu.be/0Y1abMt1UGw?...

#streaming #fashion

Abstract painting of alternating orange, yellow, black, white, and burgundy shapes.

Brandy Korn

For anyone who's ever looked at a bag of candy corn and thought to themselves:
"You know what this color scheme needs? Burgundy!"

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#art #painting #abstract

Panoramic photo of mountain landscape shaded by cumulus clouds.

Folds And Shades

Taken on the summit of Chief Mountain, #Colorado a few weeks ago.

#photos #photography #landscape

Painting of a Jack O'Lantern blowing its top - via mushroom cloud.

Kiloton Jack

The old "firecracker in a lit Jack O'Lantern" prank taken a wee bit too far.

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#art #painting #Halloween

#Streaming #video recommendations:

Bubble Bath: Habfürdö

1980 film directed by the master Hungarian animator György Kovásznai.
If you think that pre-1991 Eastern European #animation was stodgy and humorless, give this a whirl.

www.kanopy.com/en/video/156...

Photo of yellowed plants in front of shadowed stag in front of blurry grass.

Sheaf, Heath, Stag

Taken in Arvada, #Colorado a few years ago.

#photos #photography #animals #landscape

Unwarranted influence : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the military-industrial complex | WorldCat.org In Dwight D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex," a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its mil

#Booksky #reading recommendations:

James Ledbetter - Unwarranted Influence

Examination of President Eisenhower's famous "military-industrial complex" speech; its origins, its possible meanings, and its many different interpretations over the decades.

search.worldcat.org/title/707082...

#history

Painting of tissue-paper scarecrow hung in tree with autumn leaves against pinkish cloudy sky.

Hanging Rosy

There's probably a specific term for those tissue-paper things hung in trees to ward off birds, but I don't know what it is.

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#art #painting #autumn

Starting from nowhere, It stands to reason That moving in any direction Will lead somewhere. Other than nowhere, I mean.

#poetry #visualpoetry #digitalart

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YouTube video by Colin H Pinball Wizards' Growing Pains (retsupurae reup)

#Antidepressant #video of the day:

Pinball Wizards' Growing Pains

youtu.be/XJDHfOaMEtw

(Play in the background while doing something else; that's what I'm doing while writing these posts.)

#streaming #gaming

#Books #reading recommendations:

Cybernetic Serendipity

An early (1968) collection of works created with the aid of computers.
Interesting overview of the origins of #CG work, as well as a demonstration that many of the concerns about it haven't changed since.

search.worldcat.org/title/13140

YouTube video by OPEN SPACE Inside Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Architectural Genius in Pennsylvania | House Tour

#Streaming #Video recommendations:

Inside Fallingwater

Short (and very sedate) doc about the famous house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

youtu.be/q8dcnh-4I6g
#architecture #documentary

Painting of an Ocellated Turkey strutting through scattered straw.

Pavo En La Paja

"Turkey In The Straw" sounds more poetic in Spanish.

Painted is an Ocellated Turkey, which lives only in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and has developed its own unique fashion sense there.

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#art #painting #birds

Pull the curtains away from the window And you will SEE... Why they were there in the first place.

#poetry #visualpoetry #digitalart

Painting/collage of angry giant anime girl stomping through city whilst under attack by every military on the planet.

Ka(waii)ju-ko! Kuso! Nigeru!

The title (and the Japanese text) translates as,
"Giant (cute) monster! Oh, shit! RUN!"

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#art #painting #collage #surrealism

Energetic abstract expressionist painting of bright colors overlaid with black lines.

Vibacity

#Abstract messpressionism.

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#art #painting

A kitten regards A cockroach, curiously *paw*scuttle*CHOMP*purr*

#poems #poetry #haiku #visualpoetry #digitalart #cats

YouTube video by YokohamaBalmer Bruce Willis for Eneos Service Stations 2

#Antidepressant #video of the day:

Bruce Willis for Eneos Service Stations 2

youtu.be/lZxw5v7BQzw

#streaming #football

Painting of a very puffy and haughty snowcock looking down at viewer with snow and lichen-covered rocks in background.

Get Off My Mountain

Painted is a snowcock, a large, grouchy-looking bird related to pheasants. I like to picture it walking up to a climber floundering in the snow and striking this pose.

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#art #painting #wildlife #birds

Boring postcards USA | WorldCat.org "Boring Postcards goes Stateside - 160 exquisitely dull postcards from America. In the original Boring Postcards Magnum photographer and postcard enthusiast Martin Parr brought together 160 of the dul

#Books #Reading recommendations:

Martin Parr - Boring Postcards USA

One of those rare books with a 100% accurate title. I'd like to propose a modern sequel: "Boring Badly Photoshopped Postcards."

search.worldcat.org/title/53709209

Lost animals : extinction and the photographic record | WorldCat.org A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildli

#Books #Reading recommendations:

Errol Fuller - Lost Animals

Collection of descriptions, anecdotes, and #photos of now-#extinct #animals.
As the author points out, images of real, once-alive animals can be affecting in a way that artistic reconstructions can't.

#photography #wildlife

The Peel Sessions

#Music #Streaming recommendations:

Leatherface - The Peel Sessions

Posthumous collection of BBC recordings by this defunct #punk band. "Games" has possibly the greatest electric guitar tone I've ever heard (and I've heard lots).

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