if the tip of the nose lines up with the edge of the paws, the result must be two right angles.
Category Archives: why artists need math
picasso redux
marrodernism
perspective 101
a sure cure
if you read my story from Witness XXIII this makes a whole lotta sense.
if you don’t read my story then it’s just plain funny.
electric sausage for the electric brain
help is on the way for iphone users buried by the Snowmaggedon. you don’t need to take your gloves off, or buy those expensive electrostatically-enhanced gloves. just get yourself a fancy schmancy meat stylus aka Korean snack sausage and check the weather with ease. i LOVE the fact you can chew on one end and work with the other.
courtesy of clusterflock
in search of terrain
after 2 weeks of blowy snowy conditions in NM, two days traveling in the car, ten-foot high snow drifts in Flagstaff, dinner at Bun Boy, Barstow, and getting busted by the LAPD, we are back in LA in search of the bowl of posole, the hot sopapilla and the quiet forested arroyo for taking pups on their morning walks.
some friends recommended Bronson Canyon to us but they failed to say how cool it looks! there’s altitude, bat caves and SHADE!
but let’s not get carried away. can’t forget this is LA afterall.
reverse polarity 101
art on/with
a few years ago an artist friend of mine moved to Oregon from Los Angeles slightly against her will and best judgment. after several gloomy months she developed a severe small-town depression and started admiring the local gourds. not wanting to be a crafts-fair artist she starting painting the gourds rather than ON them, but this soon turned into a really big worry: what, then, is the difference between painting a gourd and painting on a gourd? really.
and so, here’s the rice farmer’s answer to Rykovanov’s portrait of Pushkin en riz.