Seven Year Art Project, Part 6

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Painting: The Leader With The Unfeeling Insect Eyes a/k/a Bluehead

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This is one of the first actual "analog" paintings I ever did.

Seven Year Art Project, Part 5

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This is another view of the drawing project. . .the southwest corner of my office. You can also see Indian clubs, prayer flags, and pictures of my family. . .
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Seven Year Art Project, Part 4

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Index To Poems In All This Is That

Painting & A Poem In The Painting [detail from I Read The News Today] Poem: The sous-chef is a sociopath]
Poem: James Wright
Poem: Falling
Poem: [Life Is Not A Hardy Novel]
Poem: Seven
Poem: Coyote Comes Home Like A Salmon
Poem: Shorts For Jerry Melin ca. about 1988
Poem: Bird
Poem: Monism
Poem: The Golden Rule
Poem: The Countdown
Poem: When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
Poem: AT HILLCREST CEMETARY IN KENT, WASHINGTON, I WALK BY THE GRAVE OF SAM THE GRASSEATER
Poem: Notes On Flying
Poem: Daybreak
Poem: Explosions
poem: Not Past Tense Yet
poem: the glass is not half-full
Poem: It's Getting Crowded Here
Poem: Li Po In Disgrace
Poem: The Clock
A Poem: Love Song
Poem: Bad Timing
Poem: The Killer
Poem: The Absence of Footprints
Poem: Growing Up
Poem: Gone Fishing
Poem: The M.D.s
A Poem - Acrylic
poem: The Marriage
Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River

Painting & A Poem In The Painting [detail from I Read The News Today] Poem: The sous-chef is a sociopath]

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This is a detail from a large painting (which will appear later this week) I did while I was working at Wall Data (for more on that fiasco, check out the All This Is That archives for November, 2004. The embedded poem is about a developer (aka programmer) we worked with, and I use the term "worked with" loosely.

[the sous-chef is a sociopath]

the sous-chef is a sociopath
sozzled in his satin salsa
nothing's cooking now
in that faux kitchen
but fog soup
the objects
are so disambiguated
their shadows disappear--pffft
they've become so clear
they're lost
in the frieze
of their pipedreams
or they're off by one
multiplying the frammis
cycle
by
cycle
and regress to null. . .zed
bugs breeding in stacked hidden nests
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Painting: [detail of I read the news today painting]

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Painting: I Read The News Today

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I painted this sometime in mid 90's judging by some references in the painting. It is about three by four feet . . .which is about as large as I ever work.

/jack
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Painting: Karl Marx, Improved

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This is a painting I did over the top of an old silk poster of Karl Marx from the Soviet Union. This silk was some of the coolest stuff I have ever painted on.

Seven Year Art Project, Part 3 - Painting: Amusement Only

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This is one of the eight non-portrait canvases from this project. Aside from the acrylic paint, pen, ink, and Sharpie, it incorporates

my favorite number
hobo signs
a barking dolphin
a piece of Ripley's believe it or not
a symbol alleged to be from a UFO's logo
a clip from a newspaper about duct tape over a sensor causing a jet crash
pieces of a dollar bill
a Herman Melville postage stamp
a free drink card from Microsoft
my luggage tag from my last trip to Tucson
a boneless sticker
a chunk of a marine hatband
a piece of cloth with Chinese characters
a Mexican lottery card
an amusement only sign from a pinball machine
two postage stamps from The Republic of San Marino.
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LBJ In A Characteristic Pose

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This is from the first person perspective. LBJ is giving you The Johnson Treatment.
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You Are Here! All This Is That!

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Earth as seen from Mars. This is us, pals! You can download a high resolution version of this image.

This is the first photo of the Earth from the surface of another planet (Mars). We've had moon photos, of course, but that's a snap. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this photo.

The image is a mosaic of images taken by the rover's navigation camera showing a broad view of the sky, and an image taken by the rover's panoramic camera of Earth. The contrast in the camera image was increased to make Earth easier to see. We're just a pale little flare of light in the far far distance. The arrow points to Earth.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M