June 13, 2018June 13, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 23

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. If […]
June 9, 2018June 9, 2018

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

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. If […]
June 5, 2018June 5, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 21

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. By […]
June 1, 2018June 5, 2018

Runaway Rant: Social Engineering and the Suppression of Thought.

I’m doing these rants – and by rant I mean getting down my thoughts in one go without much editing – because I will have ideas I’m mulling over and want to share, but don’t have time to do one of my more thorough blog posts. Social engineering is huge these days, especially once you […]
May 30, 2018May 30, 2018

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

Almost every day I am disgusted by politics and ideology. Recently I wrote about how you can never have all the answers, or most of them, because your relation to those answers is perpetually in flux. No hard fact has any import except in relation to a subjective, vulnerable consciousness. We can all agree on […]
May 28, 2018May 28, 2018

Return of the Human Fly: A Defense of Digital Painting

This is a re-post of one of my earliest posts from roughly 5 years ago. Then, and now, I have to contend with people dismissing my art entirely with this or that foregone conclusion about using the computer as a tool to make art. Someone recently (OK, yesterday) accused that “the machine” makes the image, […]
May 26, 2018May 31, 2018

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

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. This […]
May 22, 2018May 22, 2018

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

You are not a thing. You are a phenomenon. And here are several things I’m mulling over because even if we have firm conclusions about anything, how much those conclusions resonate, and how we relate to them is in perpetual flux. This is why I find myself reexamining the same questions on an almost daily […]
May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

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

If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after being fed through Faceapp (which can change age, gender, etc.), then altered in Photoshop, and then painted in Corel Painter. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from parallel dimensions or […]
May 16, 2018May 16, 2018

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

Sometimes I wake up and it just seems like everything is stacked against me, though not me in particular. As people like to say, “it’s not personal”. No, it isn’t. It’s an affront to the personal and the individual. It’s calculatedly indifferent. It’s clinical. It’s commercial. It’s about power and money, money and power. It’s […]

June 10, 2018June 15, 2018

Runaway Rant: The Problem with “White Privilege”

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

April 24, 2018April 27, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 16

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

Reflections on 5 Years of Blogging, and a Few Insights

April 14, 2018April 30, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 15 “Elle”

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 14 “Mad as Hell”

April 8, 2018April 10, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 13 (2bl Portrait)

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #11 & 12

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018

Pretty Dumb Bombast: Hirst’s New Shit

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #5: Troy Brooks

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #4: Trude Viken

March 19, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #3: Lucien Freud

March 18, 2018March 18, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #10

March 18, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #2: Alex Grey

March 17, 2018March 20, 2018

Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #1: Charlie Immer

March 15, 2018May 5, 2018

Good Guy Hunting: In Defense of Matt Damon

March 12, 2018March 15, 2018

People Who Shouldn’t be Allowed to Teach Art!

March 11, 2018March 11, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #9

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #7, #8

March 4, 2018March 4, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes #5, #6

February 27, 2018April 13, 2018

New Series Underway: Portraits From Alternate Universes

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

Movie Recommendation: Beautiful Accident

February 22, 2018March 30, 2018

Is Immoral Art Bad Art?

February 21, 2018February 21, 2018

New Art (#47) ~ with a Galapagos Marine Iguana