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Members Show (II)
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So again on my day off to survey the members show & sale, now noticing how many pieces have sold and how off-the-map the pricing is.
For example, someone's created a hand-drawn bat to place in your window to keep birds from crashing. Very creative. He wants $500 for it. I want to say it's a joke, but you can't be sure around here...
Another, a linocut for again $500 - and - yet again, given you can buy an original oil or acrylic for the same price, who's going to pay that?
A fine felted wall hanging - $3500 - and while I appreciate the work that went into it $3500 is a big price for something that's going to attract dust...
Then there are the "prints on canvas" - another peeve of mine, they are never "limited", always too expensive (even if you wanted one); the artist currently hanging his work in the restaurant at the moment is the same - you're buying an unlimited run of prints on canvas for the price of an original. That said, the one selling out of our restaurant has now sold I think about 6 paintings, and he has work hanging in the art gallery, in Salmo, other places, and so - while it might annoy me he's clearly got the selling part of the business down...
"Don't Panic" and other tales...
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In the news quite literally nothing of interest, despite the pundits predicting the war in Iran and the inevitable outcomes of this. Just more Israel behaving badly, more nonsense from the US, nothing ever new, just more of it.
Oh, wait - the Hantavirus outbreak on the Cruise Ship. That was interesting, although it's already had it's run in the news - for a bit the human-to-human transmission was looking like we could be on to another Covid, then it disappeared; we'll see if it comes into play again. I can't help but think:
Don't dismiss
The Hantavirus
- it's foreshadowing a plague bubonic
Given the last pandemic was filled with similar misinformation and given as well the fact the current administration has proven even more incompetent/indifferent than it was last round I'm not yet convinced this is a dead story...
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Meanwhile, when not fretting the state of the world; some efforts at painting - abstract, I've been enjoying Chris Loud's YouTube Channel, although I have to say my results vary a great deal from his (how is this possible that I can fuck up even abstract art??!!), some other YouTube prospectors including Everything is Spirit; and Barry's Economics although I find myself too much in agreement; and really would like once in a while to be exposed to a different point of view (one differing from mine own). Not the standard imbeciles that ornament the right side of the political spectrum, just something different.
Social Media, Facebook and it's buckets of AI generated slop; formerly comics of Gary Larson with the captions that made sense of the cartoon cut off, now it's AI drivel “after the style of" Gary Larson with nonsensical images and punch lines. Low effort engagement - but - hey -"made you look!!".
Digging out the art supplies again, inspired by Chris Loud, trying again the fluid acrylics only this time it's not working, not at all, and this - as I discover later in an "aha" moment is because the Floetrol has separated, try again after shaking and it works, after a fashion, although I'm going to have to tweak the recipe...
Outside, have a cigarette, feed the crows, the pigeon has proven fearless, landing beside me, trying to get on my lap or land on my head, a passer-by notices and congratulates me on my pet; the pigeon, meanwhile, is making love to my shoe, which I suppose makes sense as it's the hand that drops the peanut but the shoe that crushes it so the pigeon can eat it...
The crows, they'll play fetch for a bit and then get bored and carry on about their day, this pigeon, it's non-stop, and I'm half curious to go out with a full bag of peanuts and see how much it can eat, really, I mean it's pretty fat as is, I don't think it would stop...
And I am broke, not of my own bad money management but I've let a few paydays slide and I really must get a little more insistent, out of vodka, cigarettes, an empty fridge and a neighbour that constantly needs to borrow money and forgets to repay it; when I announce I'm out of cash she's over raiding my fridge, despite my having an empty fridge and hers being full she's taking the last of my tomatoes, sauce, she means well but it's getting a bit maddening...
Which catches us up to today...now to text work and see if I can claim on an old payday, get back to the flat and try painting again; see if I can't get a proper "acrylic flow recipe" going; find the next book to read; tonight, at work, a wedding, it's going to be loud, long and late and I need to find some way to psychologically prepare...
Project Hail Mary
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Despite the glowing reviews this was really just a slack-jawed sci-fi bummer.
I mean, disappointing in the extreme. 2 1/2 hours of my life I'm never getting back.
I should have been suspicious of the unanimous praise. I'll know better next time...
Operation Epic Furious
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A rather amusing nintendo-styled browser game in which you get to play the Donald in Operation Epic Furious.
If all the news was this amusing...
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