BLACKLIGHT & GLOW-IN-THE-DARK tattoos and nail art? Sure, why not? Why not is because I just didn’t think of it, that’s why not, but fortunately, AMY did!!! (Did I mention that Amy is brilliant???) Okay, so I ran home, dashed into my studio and blasted away on a hundred and fifty acrylic nail-forms, until I have in hand a MANDARIN MAGIC NAIL that CAN BE SEEN by entities who cannot see well in the Human Visible Light Spectrum. Continue reading
In art, especially when you’re just learning the advanced levels, as I was at Otis Art Institute on that fateful day in 1967, you eventually learn about “denying the form”. What this means is that you create an illusion, generally a three-dimensional illusion on canvas, such as a landscape oil painting, and then you paint big numbers and letters all over it, jolting the viewer back to the two-dimensional canvas, rather than the deep landscape underneath it.
Well, it happened to my beautiful Ashram, as I predicted it must. I by no means want to discourage builders, but they must learn, not just go wild. Frank Lloyd Wright really had something there when he expressed the opinion that a house should not just be planted down anywhere in any shape — it should take into consideration the environment into which it is going. It’s not just the Purple Penis and the Flying Fairy Ball — in themselves there’s nothing wrong with them in a private region or property, but this is not private, and you are not encouraged to go wild with self-expression; it’s a place of work.
I know it seems absurd of me to point out things like that as glaring examples of inappropriate style in the Ashram, but those examples go a long way toward explaining what I mean here. Continue reading
Oh, boy, am I excited! More excited about anything in GODD since the invention of the Remedy Orb!!! Actually, I’m more excited about anything that’s happened in the past decade in the realm of GOOD GODD™ Orb Training Levels …
After more than 30 years in GODD™ Games development, I’ve brought my skills to the perfection of the ultimate group dungeon experience, and after thousands of constructive failures, I have my first Success. It’s called “Reality Shifter 1”, and is the first of nine Orbs created to train one to cross boundaries and recognize the shift through signs & portents.
That means “if you weren’t paying attention the first time through, no matter how good your memory is, you won’t notice any change.”
My Reality Shifter Orbs teach the Being to see, record & remember. You will gain the skill to see across boundaries of all kinds, including death and rebirth. All will be open to you.
Ready-For-Framing Fine Art Gift Notecards Embossed Signature Series — quite a mouthful, eh? But that’s exactly what they are, what I’m producing tonight. This is my “Signature Series” Gift Art Prints. They’re ready to frame; just pop one into a 5″x7″ frame and hang it on the wall or place it on a desk or dresser or shelf, and you’ve got instant art! I make an RSVP version as well. The embossing stamp cost me $350 and is good for 10,000 impressions, but I’m not. It’s hard to press that thing through the thick stationery paper, and there’s no motor behind it, just my bicep and carpal stuff putting on the pressure, so there’s a built-in limitation to the number I’ll be releasing.
Technically, the art prints are: READY FOR FRAMING FINE ART PRINT GIFT NOTECARD with embossed signature, on cream textwove stock with choice of matching or kraft paper envelope. This is an “open edition” but is signed with the signature blindstamp embossing to ensure that it comes directly from the artist’s own hand at the artist’s atelier (studio). These prints are also available as full-sized wall art, through Heidelberg Editions International. The ready-to-frame notecards retail for $19.95 — more about this at the ICW this morning, 6:30 on the dot, be prompt — I will be there on the open, so be ready to see and hear!
See You At The Top!!!
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This was my mother’s sterling silver example of her modernist jewelry teacher, Art Smith’s “Calder” necklace, 1953; Smith was inspired by the Alexander Calder show at the Modern. I’m currently engaged in creating Modernist Pendants out of copper, brass, silver and 18 karat gold (it’s very yellow, as opposed to 14k). There are just too many of them to photograph and put up on eBay all at once, but I’m heading in that direction. You might want to market my Modernist Pendants, Ancient Style rings and earrings, and more. Inquire of me if you’re at all interested. Stock can cost anywhere from about $100 up to whatever you want to fling in the face of fortune.
In addition, I’ve waded into my library of 7,000 volumes, and pulled out more than half for sale; here are the details: Continue reading
SUMMER 2014: FINE ART AUCTION LIST #1
This is a VERY informal chat about some of the famous CELEBRITY ARTISTS works on paper and canvas that I’ll be offering at the MemFest Fine Art Charity Auction this coming weekend. Most of the prices realized will in fact be far into the wholesale. I don’t expect any of it to sell at retail or gallery prices, and to raise money for our Ashram, it doesn’t have to. We own these pieces and the full price goes to charity, not a penny lost. However, there is a Government Catch 22 — the tax folks will take the current market value off your donation numbers, unless you make more than $22 Million per year, in which case, everything you do is tax-free.
MARC CHAGALL — THE TRAP — M355 (Mourlot catalog raisonne #355). Cover for Derriere le Miroir no. 132, Paris, June 1962, format 11 1/32″ x 14 15/16″. Hand-printed on lithographic stone before lettering. 75 copies were printed on Arches, with full wide margins, pencil-numbered & signed by the artist. There were also a few artist’s proofs. Maeght, Publisher.
Estimate: $600-$800.
Oil Painting by David Teniers the Younger, about 1643 — Price on Request.
How To Make $1 Million Selling Fine Art That You Don’t Own? Nothing could be simpler. You’ll need at least a smartphone of some sort — an Android will do just fine in most areas of the local planet, although they work best back home, on Delta 55a. Of course they don’t work on any of the L3 levels, including 15a, because telepathics don’t tend to invent the telephone. Gosh, it hasn’t been more than a few seconds, and already I’ve wandered far off-subject…oh, yeh…selling $1 Million worth of fine art, that’s right…
So… you want to sell fine art, eh? And you wouldn’t mind making $1 Million with someone else’s fine art stockroom, too, right? And if you donate some of that $1 Million for the Ashram, you’ve got a triple-win. I’ve got the art, you’ve got the motivation and the skills, so okay, let’s get right down to basics. Here’s exactly how it’s done:
We’re only a few days away from the MemFest Fine Art Charity Auction, and this event alone is worth the price of admission. You’ll see, and have a chance to buy, museum-grade art, which you should buy on the public’s behalf, then bequeath to your local museum. There may be tax benefits to your estate by so doing, but the social and cultural benefits far outweigh personal wealth. This can be a legacy that you can leave for future generations. Here’s an example:
This is a very unusual form of Jasper Johns’ zero through nine series; it’s pencil-signed and numbered by the artist. It’s small, personal, and very, very limited in the edition size. JASPER JOHNS — Zero Through Nine (0-9) — color lithograph — Ca. 1978 — Edition 60 — Signed – Numbered – Dated – C 160×124 – S4 – G 781 – Full Margin — Sotheby New York – 05/13/87 – # 833.
Here’s my own auction catalog description of the same piece: U188 JASPER JOHNS G779 0 THROUGH 9 Lithograph in colors on multicolored thread Mariposa paper, 1978, 162mm x 126mm — 6 3/8″ x 4 15/16″ — Full margin with deckled edges all four sides, no tears, no repairs, as issued thus. Pencil-signed JJohns lower right, pencil-numbered by the artist, 43/60 lower left below image area. Blindstamped. Ref: Sotheby’s New York Auction 11/02/99, LOT #1118. Listed in Gordon’s 2000, catalog #22869. Continue reading
This is an original signed Picasso copperplate etching. It’s one of many “Blue Chip” art pieces I sacrifice to bring people into an art auction. It makes no money for the charity, does nothing to help the finances, and must be replaced with something equally pricey for the next auction. It is strictly a “Loss Leader”, intended to attract an audience, and I’d frankly be happier without them, and I’ll tell you why:
First of all, nobody but an art dealer would know that these things are even for sale, and very few of them even have an inkling of what they’re worth, where to find them and how to authenticate them beyond doubt — you DON’T want returns.
Controversy, distrust & skepticism have reared their ugly heads in relation to the charity art auctions. There is concern that they might be fake, might be overpriced, might be this and that…all the concerns of someone who is not familiar with the artworks available in the art market today, and that makes sense. Generally, nobody learns about this art history stuff either in school or afterward, and why should they? You merely pay an interior decorator to use that knowledge on your behalf. Paying someone else to know something is not new…ask any lawyer…if you can get a straight answer.