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    October 3, 2018October 4, 2018

    New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 28

    If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after basically being fed through a neural network (which can change age, gender, etc.), then edited and painted using various programs. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from alternate universes. Dear […]

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    September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

    The tantalizingly Mysterious Painted Figures of Amy Regutti

    One of the good things left about the Internet and social media is that we can still discover artists we appreciate on our own, before they become popular. Amy Regutti (a.k.a. “spacethrob” on Instagram), with her deceptively simple, brightly-colored, and peculiar paintings of mannequin-like, animated figures is one of the more unique artistic voices I’ve […]

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    September 20, 2018September 20, 2018

    New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 27

    If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after basically being fed through a neural network (which can change age, gender, etc.), then edited and painted using various programs. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from alternate universes. With […]

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    September 11, 2018September 20, 2018

    New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 26

    If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after basically being fed through a neural network (which can change age, gender, etc.), then edited and painted using various programs. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from alternate universes. It’s […]

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    August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

    New Art (#49) ~ Alienscream

    I’ve been picking away at this one for a while, abandoned it a couple times, and finally finished it. It was more difficult than my prior piece for this series (below), and the main difference is just that I used a smoother brush. The smoother brush is more technical and demanding in terms of rendering […]

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    August 30, 2018August 31, 2018

    Runaway Rant: Why is the Art World So Toxic?

    My last article was an attempt (I like to think a successful one) at disentangling the verbose “theory” of Roland Barthes that “The Author is Dead”. I shared my article in a couple Reddit forums, one being “philosophy” and the other “art theory”. There were a lot of responses, most the initial ones fairly reasonable, […]

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    August 27, 2018September 6, 2018

    “The Death of the Author” Debunked.

    The belief that “the author is dead” is one of the unquestioned bad ideas that has become gospel in the art world. It’s usually just asserted — along with its companion notions that originality is impossible, and the artist’s intent is irrelevant — as if to deny it is as hopelessly naive as denying evolution. […]

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    August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

    Runaway Rant: Morality is the Enemy of Art

    Anything that opposes art is probably immoral, even or especially when it wraps itself in the cloak of morality. The least we can ask of moral crusaders is that they are fighting for the highest good, and not merely advocating for their own special interests and personal benefit in and through alienating and disenfranchising others. […]

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    August 13, 2018August 15, 2018

    Video with Morphs of 1st 25 images in my SFAU Series

    I used an old-ish free program to create morphs between images for the 1st 25 pieces in my SFAU series. I have to do it mechanically by creating reference points between images, and so on. I zoomed in and cropped on the faces where necessary, so it’s just the faces and not the whole paintings. […]

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    August 5, 2018August 21, 2018

    The day I decided the art world was a toxic sea of relativist bullshit

    I can’t pinpoint the day, exactly, but it was recently. I suppose I clung to my faith as long as I could. It’s easier for someone who doesn’t have a Master’s in art, and who hasn’t dedicated his life to art to accept that the paradigm has become poisonous. It wasn’t so long ago that […]

October 6, 2018October 8, 2018

Banksy Laughing His Way to the Bank, See

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018

Runaway Rant: A New Paradigm of Art Connoisseurship

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018
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Eric Wayne — Loud Alien Noize

August 7, 2018August 12, 2018

Alex Jones is a nut, but his being universally banned is chilling.

July 21, 2018July 21, 2018

Practicing Drawing Skulls

July 18, 2018August 30, 2018

New Art (#48) ~The Giant’s Den

July 12, 2018July 13, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 25

Swell-with-Bikini-Dancing-Girls
July 11, 2018July 12, 2018

No More Swimsuits for Miss America, and why that’s a bit weird.

June 26, 2018July 20, 2018

Runaway Rant: Is Reality the Enemy?

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018

Runaway Rant: Why I never Wrote a Manifesto

June 19, 2018August 4, 2018

Against Competitiveness in Art, and a Defense of Digital Art

June 18, 2018July 12, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 24

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 23

June 10, 2018June 15, 2018

Runaway Rant: The Problem with “White Privilege”

June 9, 2018June 9, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 22: With Puppy

June 6, 2018June 11, 2018

Runaway Rant: Roseanne, Crime & Punishment

June 5, 2018June 5, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 21

June 1, 2018June 5, 2018

Runaway Rant: Social Engineering and the Suppression of Thought.

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018

Runaway rant: The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

May 28, 2018May 28, 2018

Return of the Human Fly: A Defense of Digital Painting

May 26, 2018May 31, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 20: Boy With Dog

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018

Runaway Rant: How I Conceive of People Vs. Identity Politics

May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 19: with Gan-Q

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018

Runaway Rant. Instagram – Tit for Tat – Spammy artists…

May 9, 2018May 12, 2018

Quotas for Art Museums. It’s here!

May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 18: The Cure

May 4, 2018May 5, 2018

Egg On Egon Schiele

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 17: The Prisoner

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