Tonight’s Lab-Work

February 28, 2013Uncategorizedart, coaching, gaming, karma, level, life, love, magic, models, money, Music, path, prosperity, reincarnation, remedy, shaman, tarot, workgorebagg

It’s been about five hours. I’ve completed the “Fashionistas” Tarot Deck — fashionista is someone who is heavily involved in fashion in some way, either as a designer, model, red-carpet celebrity or a fashion blogger. I’m all of those and more, these days. I’ve created a small army of tarot decks related to fashion design and fashion drawing, both of which I’ve taught to professional commercial and animation artists. The technique I use, called “Mango”, is somewhat related to the 1940s-1960s TV animation techniques. This easy to master style of drawing can be used to produce storyboards, comic books, illustrations, packaging and promotion and much, much more. I’ll be teaching it at this year’s Festival of Ishtar — IshtarCon II — on Easter weekend. If you can’t attend in person, you can attend LIVE online. You can order this deck today, right now, if you like. It’s $49.95 and of course it’s in full color on coated heavy card stock. Well, enough of a drawing-break, back to the tarot-mill. I’m starting work on “Hot Lips”, which is 80 fully tarted-up “hottie” cougars on the prowl, comprising a loaded deck if ever there was one. It’s intended to serve as a model for my art classes, of course, but does double duty as a fully functioning tarot deck!

See You At The Top!!!

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A Touch of Dali

August 11, 2012Uncategorizedart, cerf, dali, kilgallen, tv, what'smylinegorebagg

As many people know, Lily Nova and I used to have tea with Dali in NYC back in the day; this video gives some idea of what it was like to be around this quirky, mischievous and playful kid with the funny mustache. He was an absolute crazy wiseman, with a brilliant wit and a master’s skill with a brush. The only person I knew who made me laugh as much was my customer at Hammacher-Schlemmer’s, Victor Borge. More about him another time.

Reductionism & Game Design

May 31, 2012Uncategorized2fart4, alpha, art, beta, levelofdetail, muddy, overbuilt, sophisticationgorebagg

http://youtu.be/Jk3dOjzlgnQ

This is a quick run-through of 2fart4 in extreme alpha condition, just to give you an idea of how the reductionist principle works with level design. This will eventually go into a mobile app. Most games are over-designed with far too much LoD — Level of Detail. It’s easy to junk up an art work with over-complication and “sophistication”. Like an “over-painted” painting, it gets downright muddy, and can turn into pure crap fast.

To Rembrandt or Not To Rembrandt — The Money Issues

May 12, 2012Uncategorizedart, collectables, collectibles, market, moey, prints, rare, rembrandtgorebagg

These are original 17th century lifetime impressions produced by Rembrandt van Rijn in Holland, about 1640-ish. They come from very powerful collections with great and unusually clear provenance, meaning they can be traced back to previous owners quite far in the past. Pieces like this generally sell for anywhere from $24,000 to $150,000 for the very rare “St. Jerome in a Dark Chamber”, which came from the collection of Theodore Donson, the world’s most famous Rembrandt collector today. So how come if you brought these into a gallery or a dealer, the best they could offer would be a hundred bucks each, and that’s FRAMED!!! If you don’t get what the game is, tune in Saturday morning at 6;30 a.m. for a serious tutorial on selling stuff into a bad economy. There’s an ART to it, not just dumb luck or running full-tilt against a brick wall. See you on the ICW. If you don’t know how to join us there, ASK!!!

Peace,

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Get HANG Tones With a HAPI!!! Secrets of a Jazz Musician Revealed!!!

April 20, 2012Uncategorizedart, breath, breathing, dance, didgeridoo, drum, drummer, drumming, hang, hangdrum, hapi, hapidrum, jazz, percussion, rhythm, sing, song, trancedancegorebagg

http://youtu.be/DYsbp7FqTcQ

I posted a tutorial on subway busking with HAPI drums. My HAPI drum stage setup now consists of an array of a total of 6 HAPI drums, a D Minor, a C Akebono, a UFO in C Major, an E Integral (pygmy & akebono) and a D Integral, which delivers all the HANG tones you could want, plus a stunning F# Minor thin guy — it really knocks ’em out in concert!!!

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