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Now in the past whenever I wanted to paint I'd run down to the art store and spend $20, $30 a tube and $30 to a hundred dollars on canvas, another couple hundred dollars on brushes and I'd be set. I had read all the books on the properties of materials, the fugitive colors, pigments, qualities of the various mediums, and was perfectly prepared to create a masterpiece.
...In all respects, of course, excepting for talent. and while it was certain the quality of materials would ensure my masterpiece survived it was also certain that by the time I was done I'd just lavished an awful lot of money on something that most definitely was not a masterpiece. My talent was clearly not equal to my vision...
Now, the rediscovery of disposable paints, a dollar a bottle, every color imaginable with names like "flesh tint", "expresso" and "blue", I find that for hundreds of dollars less I can create perfectly shitty paintings bound for the garbage, a hundred paintings for a fraction of the price I was formerly wont to spend.
I have entirely legitimate reservations about the quality of materials, the permanence of the colors, but given how seldom it is I'm pleased with my efforts this seems the perfect way to acquire the skills, an abundance of bad paintings made for the same price I once would have spent on a single bad one. And, presumably, I'll be getting better along the way, learning to mix and harmonize colors, at two or three dollars per painting it's cheaper than a course or degree at ACAD and allows for infinite experimentation. Now only to find the time...
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Read More Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/arts/he-was-crazy-like-genius-for-henry-darger-everything-began-ended-with-little.html?pagewanted=all
An interesting video, if it's your thing check out Emery Blagdon & Marwencol,
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I've decided in all fairness to review Dollarama products as I've been so damning with The Source and I don't want anyone to think I'm playing favorites.
First of all, the needles, really thin, maybe a hundred in a pack, they're sharp, I poked myself on one, so we know they're dangerous, and they're impossible to thread. The holes are far too small...If I was to design a sewing needle it would be in the shape of a badminton racket. Which is probably why I haven't been hired to design sewing needles.
Second, the thread. 2 Loose ends, one mid-roll, the other on the top in "The Hook" in the spool where they place it. Neither unwinds the spool. You have to pry the thread off the spool, and from the resulting knot gather the length you need and cut it.
But, hell, it was only a dollar. If I'd bought this at "The Source" it would have been $10.00, and another $5.00 for the extended warranty that would replace it with exactly the same spool of thread after a wait time of 4 weeks...
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I used to quite like Derren Brown - his stage shows and early television was excellent. But it's gotten to be the most vile form of reality TV, with a troop of trained actors and a dupe, sensationalist, with a preachy psychological moral at the end that reminds me for all the world of Jerry Springer's moralizing at the end of one of his particularly vile talk shows. Give it a miss.
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Found this painting at a thrift shop today, would have bought, but at $160.00 it was a bit out of my league...
What would appear to be a wizard or prophet lecturing a disinterested group of disciples under the light of a giant sea-shell. In a cave. If you look closely you'll see those souls being sucked into the light cast by the sea-shell...
Fucking genius.
I mean, really, If I could do better, I would, but there's no way...
I know who could but she's not speaking to me...
Note the detail. On the left the colorless crystals, the waterfall, the subterranean setting (why are they in a cave? Why is the seashell giving off light? Is this Darwin feeding the masses? Or letting them starve? I'm not sure...)
Here's a more detailed view:
Midget (black? pygmy) lady pulling on prophet/wizards coat. Nun on donkey. Bishop and yellow carrying lamp. Oh, this is so full-fucking-on, and looking at it again I'm wishing I'd spent the money. But curiously, I don't think it's going anywhere, except maybe the MOBA. They would LOVE this, find the artist, and make him/her a celebrity of outsider art...Absolute Genius.