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    January 19, 2019

    Runaway Rant: Can you Separate the Art from the Artist?

    The question has come up a lot recently about whether or not we can separate the artist from the art, and it’s usually in the bad sense. The conclusion comes first, and it’s that a bad person can’t be a good artist. We then work on our arguments, which have to be correct, because we’ve […]

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    January 18, 2019

    New Art: [Everyday Observations #2] Scissors & Ball

    Some of you may have already seen a short video I shared, on Instagram, showing some of the techniques I used. This is #2 in a just started, ongoing series of everyday observations. They are realistic renderings of photos I take of my environment. The subjects aren’t supposed to be dramatic, but are studies of […]

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    January 4, 2019

    New Video: First 30 Heads in My SFAU series Morphing

    Hi folks. This is a updated version of the one I made for the first 25 heads, but I added more frames between images so it’s smoother, and this time I did it in strict chronological order (last time I did it in a way that I thought would give better results, but sometimes faces […]

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    January 1, 2019January 1, 2019

    New Art: SFAU # 30 (Green-Haired Lady)

    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. I […]

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    December 2, 2018December 4, 2018

    Runaway Rant: That’s Not Reality

    What makes my runaway rants rants is that I write them in one go, initially without editing. I will go back and fix my more egregious typos, misspellings, and so on, but not change the flow. The ideas come one after the other, without an outline. It’s a way to keep it simple, but also […]

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    December 1, 2018January 18, 2019

    New Art: [Everyday Observations #1] Canvas Bag with Orange Straps

    Don’t worry folks, I haven’t thrown in the towel and become a still-life artist. This work, and I intend to do more, are “practice” pieces intended to develop my skills are rendering things like lighting, shading, volumes, shapes, modeling, perspective, textures, and other realistic details. I often try to create such realistic elements in works […]

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    November 20, 2018November 21, 2018

    Art is not a conversation piece for mental masturbation!

    Sometimes I say or do something that’s so obvious to me that I can’t believe nobody else has done it or said it. Apparently the above is an original quote by me [I also made the graphic.]. You can even take out the “for mental masturbation” part, and “art is not a conversation piece” is […]

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    November 19, 2018November 19, 2018

    Parody Articles Published in Prestigious Academic Journals, And Why The Art World is in Denial

    [When you know what you are supposed to think, it means that you aren’t supposed to think.] I wrote a whole article about this, and then decided I don’t want to engage or react to the radical left (or right) ideologues, or poison my peace of mind with their neurosis (anymore), if I can help […]

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    November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

    Alien Monster Messiah #2: Martian Soul Harvester

    This is the 2nd piece in my new series. If you are one of my perspicacious fans, you’ll have seen this before, but it’s a larger, revised, impasto version, which will be more evident in the close-ups. The original is below: I could have probably done with just touching up the original, but I wanted […]

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    November 10, 2018November 11, 2018

    What Is the Secret to Making It as an Artist? Bad News, Folks….

    According to an article in artnetnews, the key is merely to be picked up by a big name venue early in your career. Sorry everyone else, your actual art is irrelevant, and THAT is F’ing pathetic. This is super depressing shit, and stupid. News flash: terminal myopia is not the right metaphor for visual art […]

Racist depiction of black male, Africa ride
December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

Runaway Rant: the Danger of Opinion

November 11, 2018November 12, 2018

Schoolmarmy Regurgitation of the Correct Political Opinion is Not Performance Art

November 10, 2018November 11, 2018

Julian Schnabel’s Clueless Self-Indictment

November 2, 2018
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New Art, New Series: Alien Monster Messiah #1

October 24, 2018October 24, 2018

New Art: SFAU # 29 [Complete]

October 19, 2018October 24, 2018

New Art: SFAU # 29 [Right Side]

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

October 3, 2018October 4, 2018

New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 28

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

The tantalizingly Mysterious Painted Figures of Amy Regutti

September 20, 2018September 20, 2018
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New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 27

September 11, 2018September 20, 2018
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New Art: Selfies From Alternate Universes # 26

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

New Art (#49) ~ Alienscream

August 30, 2018August 31, 2018

Runaway Rant: Why is the Art World So Toxic?

August 27, 2018September 6, 2018

“The Death of the Author” Debunked.

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Runaway Rant: Morality is the Enemy of Art

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

August 13, 2018August 15, 2018
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Video with Morphs of 1st 25 images in my SFAU Series

August 7, 2018August 12, 2018

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

August 5, 2018August 21, 2018

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

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

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