Drawing: Faces 1829 — King Kambajaboo

By Jack Brummet 

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1827 — The Smiler's adventures

by Jack Brummet

Detail:

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Drawing: faces 1826 — The neighborhood block watch had dwindled to five people when they decided to throw in the towel

by Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces 1825 - Photo line at PEOTUS New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago

by Jack Brummet

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Happy New Year! It's a new dawn.

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drawing: faces 1822, 1823, and 1824 — fragments from a failed face/book project

by Jack Brummet

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Achieving Nirvana

ü     Floating in a pool

ü     Sitting in hot oil

ü     Sitting in a room screaming

ü     Walking for weeks without lying down, not even to sleep

ü     Staying awake for three days

ü     Sitting in a box with pythons

ü     Sitting in a coffin

ü     Sitting next to a rotting corpse

ü     Total silence for ten days

These are some meditative paths to Nirvana as practiced by Buddhist monks, nuns, and laypeople in Thailand. [Details from an article by Bryant Rousseau: "Corpses, Pythons, Sleep Deprivation: Meditation Rituals in Thailand Can Be Intense," New York Times, Aug 30, 2016.

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1977 NYC Blackout

By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.

7/13/1977 during the NYC Blackout. KeeKee, Jan, and I are all down there somewhere.  The fires were to the south of us, in Bushwick, Crown Heights, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Embed from Getty Images

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Drawing: faces 1821 — Smilers, now, and then

by Jack Brummet

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drawing: Faces 1820—The Smiler heads back to work

by Jack Brummet

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Mystery solved: the Ode To Darwin original by William Holbrook Beard (painted 1891)

by Jack Brummet

This is a painting I bought for $100 at a roadside stand in Jensen Beach, FLA in 2006 (It cost $150 to ship it home in its delicate, ornate frame). The painting is titled "Ode To Darwin" and was painted by David Zarkin.

The mystery of its origins was solved last night by an intrepid member of the Facebook Lowbrowart group, Jon Groobz  (see details below).

Detail:

The original canvas, titled "The Discovery of Adam," was painted by William Holbrook Beard in 1891 (30 years after Darwin published his famous book).  There is a good web site here with this and some other paintings (he was a fascinating painter).  The painting 

The painting I own is an amazing copy of this original, but I know no details of the painter at all or how or where he copied this work.  Here is the original, which resides at the Toledo Museum of Art.

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drawing: faces 1819 - PSA: "if you see something, say something."

by Jack Brummet 

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