Back Stairs FAIL at Jackson Lake

 

Old concrete, shabby rebar design. 9/30/12

Cantor Dust on San Pablo

The trailing edges of the road-stripes all break up into smaller & smaller self-similar clumps.

Late One Night at Home with Mary and Bruce

M: Avril Lavigne, is she still alive?
B: Isn't she one of the celebrity judges on "Skateboarder or What?"
M: Don't you mean "Skateboarder or WH-A-A-A-A-A-A-T?"
B: Yeah, that's right, exactly.  Yes AND!

Wall Texture

14th St near Broadway

 

Backed up a bit and a little to the right.

Black & Pink w Silver

12 x 9”, Watercolor, ink & aluminum silicone on paper. 

Detail.  Good flow on this one. I like it.

Benadryl

44-329

Ghost Photon Resist

Silicone, ink & watercolor.  Sweet potato print.  9 x 12”

Fuzzy Grey Photons

Sweet potato print, ink on watercolor paper, 9x12”

Two Implants

Pre-Op

 

Post-Op

Painting Prep

Back of the Twitter building

Detail. Painterly.

Freddie with the New Ball Course Toy

He seems to know what to do.

BART Stripes

Yo, is this Racist?

Kopp's Frozen Custard, Milwaukee


 

I scream, you scream, the gulls scream for frozen custard.

"Skeuomorph" is a word that I can never remember

It's a word I like, it describes stuff that I'm interested in.  I once did a series of blown glass objects that were skeuomorph related--glass containers that resembled the new materials that had supplanted glass's traditional function.  I made glass baggies, and glass drink cartons, a glass milk canteen shaped like a breast, usw. I just can't seem to keep the word in my head.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ skew-ə-morf, or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool, morphe—shape),^[1] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original.^[2] Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar,^[3] such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with a circular town name and cancellation lines.
An alternative definition is "an element of design or structure that serves little or no purpose in the artifact fashioned from the new material but was essential to the object made from the original material".^[4] This definition is narrower in scope and ties skeuomorphs to changes in materials.

I hope that the next time I can't remember the word, I'll be able to look it up here, by searching for "remember".  Because a blog is like a scrapbook, or something.  

Fred's Bowl Enlargement Project

Back When Fred Fit in the Bowl





Fred Dominates the Bowl


 

 Cat Bowl Enlarged



 

Freddie in the Enlarged Bowl

Freddie at the Sink

Freddie Purr and Squawk

"Ah, shake it up Freddie now..."

Squiggly Silicone Grid

Wires & Cloud Avenue

Over 24th St