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Awwww. - Derrick
Isn't it wonderful how this reinforces the cartoon's message of anti-materialism and love? - Steve is older than ever
Mr. 7: "You know why I don't want to share that drink with Mr. 4? Because I have tasted Mr. 4's spit and it tastes worse than mine, let me tell you."
Oh damn. - Derrick
ROFL I love your kids! - Anika
practicing with your brother? ew. - DJF
I love those guys! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
I completely understand this sentiment. Once, when we were teenagers, my sister took a swig of my soda while she was smoking. When I took a drink from the can, I got a big mess of nastiness from her nicotine-laced backwash. Just one more reason I never took up smoking. - Katy S
Your kids are too funny. Love them! - Daenel Vaughn-Tucker
Gotta love little boys! - Jennifer McDaniel
my little sister used to leave flavored chapstick residue on shared drinks. Mmmm...wax + fake cherry! :) - ~Courtney F.
I live in an Internet bubble. Evidence: I usually don't hear current popular songs until someone covers them on YouTube, usually with a ukulele. Ex. http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch... and http://www.youtube.com/jaaaaaa...
I live in an Internet bubble. Evidence: I usually don't hear current popular songs until someone covers them on YouTube, usually with a ukulele. Ex. http://bit.ly/Fyi2V http://bit.ly/jPZLV and http://bit.ly/4BbpAA
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I live in an Internet bubble. Evidence: I usually don't hear current popular songs until someone covers them on YouTube, usually with a ukulele. Ex. http://bit.ly/Fyi2V http://bit.ly/jPZLV and http://bit.ly/4BbpAA
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The fact that the covers are as enjoyable as, if not more so than, the "originals" should be worrying to the A&R men for the big labels. - DJF
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Yep. - Derrick
I should just turn all my accounts over to the boys. - Steve is older than ever
exactly - VAL D.
YouTube - Retro Michael Jordan and Spike Lee Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Retro Michael Jordan and Spike Lee Commercial
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Doyouknowdoyouknowdoyouknow? - Derrick
YouTube - Argument Clinic - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Argument Clinic
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yes, yes, all this is very familiar - D0r0th34
Shanon got me a hat for my birthday!
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Rico suave, even! - Rochelle Rochelle from fftogo
you look a little older in that hat..... - Joe....
You need a trench coat. - cecily
You're going to need a whip. And a passion for archeology. - lris
NICE HAT. I approve. - Jason Huebel
I was thinking the same thing Iris - Mitch
No time for love, Dr. Lawson! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Excellent hat. I am suitably jealous. - ha3rvey (doink doink)
*glares at wife* - ha3rvey (doink doink)
I see newspaper reporter...ala Mr. Clark Kent - Sir Shuping
The one on the left was a pretty nice spontaneous pencil sketch. Then I added some color to the tree and the blowing leaves and thought it was pretty good. Then I added the background colors and it all kind of fell apart. The monsters, on the other hand (copied from a Dover book) I'm reasonably happy with
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Also, I have filled 32 pages of the 100 page sketchbook I intend to fill in November. So that's going well so far. - Steve is older than ever
I love the way the color you added to the tree makes it look both like a tree and like one of its leaves. It's like an optical illusion. - lris
Oooh. Yes. I planned that. - Steve is older than ever
I knew it. :-) - lris
I'm in awe of people who can draw. - marthalib
Me too, marthalib. - Derrick
#unseenprequels The Penultimate Temptation of Christ
there could be a lot of these... The Penultimate Emperor, for example - D0r0th34
The Day So Far: awakened at a reasonable hour by two little boys in my bed. Set the boys up with Looney Tunes. Walked to the store for milk and toaster waffles, wearing new hat. Made coffee and toasted waffles. Now stapling and folding zines for shipment later today.
did you have the leather trenchcoat on too? Also, I need a new hat. I left mine someplace. - DJF
ahhhhhhhhhh sharp dressed man - VAL D.
If you can't indulge yourself, who can you indulge?
MoMA | Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present - http://www.moma.org/visit...
MoMA | Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present
So I went for a little walk around campus, and popped in to a campus art gallery to see a show of work by contemporary women printmakers, and there was this one & another from the same series by Kara Walker, the artist that Derrick was talking about yesterday. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
Whoa. Way like. - Derrick
I love Kara Walker's work. - cecily from iPhone
She makes me feel really white, like I have to work extra hard to see beyond the surface of what's going on in her work, and that I'm missing something important to "getting" her. - Steve is older than ever
I feel like I have to work really hard to get to the layers of meaning in most art, and that isn't grounded in my racial makeup. - cecily from iPhone
True, and it may not be racial here either. I just feel like there may be layers that are more accessible to African-Americans than they are to me. Perhaps I'm also expecting her art to say something more specific and pin-downable given its grounding in American history, and perhaps (likely) that is foolish of me. - Steve is older than ever
it depends on the artist. there's also an academic aspect to Kara Walker's work that limits its accessibility. - jbrotherlove
I'd never say that it was foolish. She's an American artist, and this particular collection is her interpretation of a specific moment in American history. I think coming into it with that expectation isn't all that far-fetched. - cecily
I just watched a clip of Kara Walker on PBS's art 21 program. The following quote resonated with me and I think can be applied here: "A lot of my work has been about the unexpected. Kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time." Clip is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Derrick
I was thinking about this some more in the middle of the night (don't ask) and I'm thinking more that the "blackness" of her work is only incidental to my feeling like I don't get it--that it has more to do with the "academicness" and "historyness" that jbrotherlove and cecily point out. If you look at the other artwork I posted here this week, it's not really "about" anything more than... more... - Steve is older than ever
Mr. 4 and the hyperspace tongue.
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MoMA | The Collection | Robert Overby. Pink Sink. 1989 - http://www.moma.org/collect...
MoMA | The Collection | Robert Overby. Pink Sink. 1989
This one is pure fricking genius. #artgallery - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
I may need to learn how to oil paint just to do this. - Steve is older than ever
IMAGE NOT AVAILABLE. But I guess I probably saw the original. - laura x
Yeah, I love that! I NEED an oil painting that says "IMAGE NOT AVAILABLE" in Helvetica. (Actually, that's not Helvetica in that image, but mine would be.) - Steve is older than ever
I spent my time in the grocery store line this evening looking for Arial vs. Helvetica. The former won. (I am a Verdana fan, myself, if you're going to go with sans-serif, but anyway.) - laura x
This is an image. - Derrick
Durer: Self-Portrait at 28 #artgallery - http://www.artchive.com/artchiv...
Durer: Self-Portrait at 28 #artgallery
I could post anything by Durer and it would be something that I love, but I have always found this self-portrait to be particularly compelling for some reason. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
I've always liked this self portrait, too. - vicster
Maybe I've been online too much tonight, but he's looking a lot like Jaron Lanier: http://t2.gstatic.com/images... - Stephen Francoeur
DENNIS HOPPER, Double Standard #artgallery - http://www.phillipsdepury.com/auction...
DENNIS HOPPER, Double Standard #artgallery
The Ruscha always makes me think of the Dennis Hopper photo, and vice-versa. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
steve, have you looked at Richard Estes before? http://www.artnet.com/usernet... all paintings...reminds me some of Hopper and Ruscha, but he does photojournalism to the extreme - Sir Shuping
Andrew, I don't think I have seen his work before, but we have two of his books up in folio that I'm going to get right now. Thanks! - Steve is older than ever
His stuff freaking blows me away. He seems to be doing more oils now, but used to do absolutely gorgeous watercolors. Check out Chuck Close to. His stuff from the 70's will blow your mind (in a good way) - Sir Shuping
Gah! Estes is a painter! I thought they were photos! GAAAAAA! (And I like the Close I have seen, but don't know him very well.) - Steve is older than ever
Yep, I guess I should have said Estes will blow your mind too :) Close has changed his style over the years, but his stuff is still awesome. In the 70's he was doing mega size portraits like 20 ft tall and photorealaisim - Sir Shuping
Chez Mondrian, Paris (Getty Museum) #artgallery - http://www.getty.edu/art...
Chez Mondrian, Paris (Getty Museum) #artgallery
I'd like to see some art today. Please post something with the #artgallery hash tag or drop a link in the comments to this post. If you have a moment to say why that particular work speaks to you, that would be even better. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
This is Andre Kertesz's "Chez Mondrian," and it brings together one of my favorite photographers and one of my favorite painters. I love the play between the artificial and the organic, light and shade, straight lines and curves. - Steve is older than ever
http://ff.im/1cx9U Re: Picasso's Guernica - "I hadn't even heard of this painting until I went to art school, and when I found out the story behind it, I was moved in a way that I hadn't been since I read Toni Morrison's Beloved. It really connected life and art for me in a way that I hadn't thought about before." - Derrick
Guernica and Chez Mondrian were created within 11 years of each other in Europe and both use a limited palette. Other than that, they could hardly be more different. Which is wonderful. - Steve is older than ever
The second painting on this page lives at my college, and my housemates and I had a print of it in our apartment my last couple of years, so my attachment to it is largely sentimental, but I've also always loved the effect of light filtered through leaves, which is so hard to capture, and this painting adds another dimension to that by having the leaves represented mostly as shadows. Sorry the image is so tiny! http://fllac.vassar.edu/collect... - laura x
Laura, I love that. - Steve is older than ever
I'm a fan of photography, and this photo of the Holland House Library is a favourite of mine. I've got a print of it hanging in my office: http://www.englishheritageimages.com/low... - DJF
WOW! I'm totally co-opting that for Librarian Bomb stationery. - Steve is older than ever
You've never seen that before? It appears in Alberto Manguel's History of Reading, which is a wonderful book. - DJF
http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculptu... Someday I will remember to buy myself a reproduction while I actually have money to spend on such. :) - D0r0th34
Sad. . . the site DJF linked to is timing out for me. - laura x
laura, just google [holland house library] and look at the images. It's a photo from 1940. - DJF
Oh, wow. - laura x
DJF, I probably had seen it (I own the Manguel book but haven't read it. Ahem.) but had forgotten about it. - Steve is older than ever
I highly recommend that book. It's very readable, and well illustrated. I particularly like the section on "gendered" reading: girls can read the pink books or the blue books, but boys better not be caught reading a pink book. - DJF
http://www.junekellygallery.com/eccles... -- Alvin Ailey Dance as captured by Andrew Eccles. Stunning. - Jennifer McDaniel
Jennifer, I'd like to see this one full-size: http://www.artnet.com/artwork... There is something so compelling about dancers, even in simple and relaxed positions. - Steve is older than ever
The light on that backdrop with the solitary dancer is nice. Great composition. - Derrick
@Steve @Derrick Yeah. Now paintings inspired by Alvin Ailey: http://www.blumenfeldart.com/dance.... Saw them in DC a few months ago and I guess that, for me, is what makes the paintings and the photographs so compelling, i.e. I can just imagine the leap or spin they're about to do. - Jennifer McDaniel
Kara Walker's exhibit at the Whitney: http://ff.im/b2z7v - Derrick
Jennifer, that's awesome. I too can feel the tension and weight in their movements. - Derrick
Wow! Now that looks like some powerful stuff, Derrick. I would have loved to see that in person (just noticed the date). - Jennifer McDaniel
Jennifer, one of the things that's cool about that painting is the way it celebrates the chorographer's art and the dancer's art--both of which tend to be too ephemeral--in visual art. - Steve is older than ever
Steve, that's a perfect way of putting it. And that's definitely what I'm responding to when I look at the painting. Good idea for a thread -- I've seen some lovely works today thanks to you. - Jennifer McDaniel
Ed Ruscha: Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963. #artgallery - http://www.edruscha.com/site...
Ed Ruscha: Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963. #artgallery
I like pretty much everything Ruscha has ever done. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
This is beyond awesome. - Derrick
Mad skillz - Chris Greene
New to you, Derrick, or just awesome to see it here? Do you know his "Every Building on the Sunset Strip?" http://collections.walkerart.org/item... - Steve is older than ever
I'm aware of him in a limited sense, had some art history in art school, naturally, but I hadn't seen this at all. I will go through that collection linked either on lunch or in the midst of the boring meetings I have this afternoon. - Derrick
YouTube - Say Anything - Hate Everyone (Music Video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Say Anything - Hate Everyone (Music Video)
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This is how you do drama, people: "Did you know that there are people in the world / Annoyed with all the other people in the world / And of all these angry people in the world / I am the angriest boy " - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
From Jim O'Donnell's talk yesterday: "There is no describable app for an iPhone that sounds improbable."
Florence's Five Laws of Fire Science - http://bevedog.posterous.com/florenc...
This is the part of the day in which I do whatever Derrick tells me to do.
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Ok, and what about that fork in the background? :) - directeur
directeur, you are new around here, aren't you? ;) - Steve is older than ever
Steve, well, yes, why? :) - directeur
Dude. You are inviting so much trouble with that strategy. - cecily
Dude, I'd listen to Cecily if I were you. Derrick = trouble. (Or so I've heard) - ha3rvey (doink doink)
Cecily, that thought crossed my mind as well. directeur, just joking because I have posted a fair number of devil/pitchfork photos recently. - Steve is older than ever
Derrick = the best kinds of trouble. - cecily
ZOMG. LOL. I just spit out my birf control pills. - Derrick
*searches desk for birf control pills* - Steve is older than ever
Steve's KitKats are much smaller than Derricks *chuckles* - Katy S
It's the pills, Katy. They do terrible things to a man. - Steve is older than ever
Steve is older than ever because today is his birthday! Happy birthday to my one and only (former) child! Love you. - Judy Lawson
Hi Steve's Mom! You should read this: http://ff.im/aWPxr :-) - lris
Thanks so much, Iris. How did I miss that? - Judy Lawson
Obviously there is a little devil behind your left ear telling you what to do, is there an angel on the right side out of frame? - Ed Millard
How did I miss that birthday thread? Hmmm. Anyway, Happy Birthday, old man! [Nothin' personal, Steve's Mom.] Today is my baby girl's birthday, too. Great day it seems! - Mar₭ the Engaged
YouTube - Harpo Marx - Mirror scene (Duck Soup, 1933) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Harpo Marx - Mirror scene (Duck Soup, 1933)
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Showed this to the kiddos last night and Mr. 7 was losin' it. Maybe next year the boys and I can be Groucho, Chico, and Harpo for Halloween. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
they were alsolutely THE BEST - VAL D.
YouTube - It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!!
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Sharing the joy of Peanut Butter Jelly Time with Mr. 6 & Mr. 3. Best thing they'd ever seen. - Steve is older than ever from Bookmarklet
It's interesting to know that Mr. 6 & Mr. 3 have the same sense of humor as Dr J. - Kendra K
My brother-in-law felt the same way when he first showed that video to me...at 25 years of age. Betcha' he'd get along very well with Misters 6 and 3. - David Rothman (☤)
Mr. 6 is still so worked up about it, I don't know that he'll be able to get to sleep. - Steve is older than ever
oh my - marthalib
Peanut Butter Jelly Time! It's a mitzvah! - Alex Scoble
I am so glad Barracuda (also 6) is in bed right now or I'd be doomed like we were with the badger badger badger a few years back. - Nikki D.
I just want to point out that it is *still* Peanut Butter Jelly Time chez Lawson. - Steve is older than ever
If my older son didn't have nut allergies, I'd share this with him. Suspect it would bum him out that he couldn't share fully in the PB&J experience. - Stephen Francoeur
I have that in my head now, thanks. - Jennifer Parsons
is it peanut butter jelly time again? - JSNFLMNG
Damn, Jason. Been time traveling? - Steve is older than ever
haha, been trying to find another post and came across this one ;) - JSNFLMNG
now i think it's friday! gah! (a facebook friend of mine posts this *every* friday.) - ~Courtney F.
You know, I have never seen this. I only know it from my kids and my friend Eric. My cultural literacy just increased immeasurably (and died a little in the process). - Rochelle Rochelle
Willie's Five Laws of Mouse Science - http://bevedog.posterous.com/williea...
I finally got around to updating the Halloween horror book display.
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