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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Tom Paints En Plein Air
August 12, 2010.
A few months ago, i left a blank canvas at friend and artist Tom Scicluna's home with a vague request for him to execute a painting. Consistent with his methods and systematic ways of making art, this was his response. It was executed on the outside of the east wall to my Coral Gables studio. I think better images and possibly more info can be found at WWW.TOMSCICLUNA.COM
Thursday, December 31, 2009
2010 approaches, unstoppable.
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!
For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the
seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines
within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high
plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental
blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the
Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O resistless restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd
mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
See my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
On and on the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly
fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the pulses of the world,
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions
pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Lo, the darting bowling orb!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait
behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you daughters of the West!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your
work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Not for delectations sweet,
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding
on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the daybreak call-hark! how loud and clear I hear it
wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!-swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Back to Leaves of Grass 1891
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
From the Department of Indie Know How:
Developing Film in Coffee :) , Caffenol C and Agfa APX 100 from DanPV on Vimeo.
For everyone complaining about the cost or unavailability of processing film, here is a lowcost & ingenious method using vitamin c, powdered caffeinated coffee, water and "washing soda" to produce soft-contrast negatives.
I haven't tried it yet but soon will.
www.wonderhowto.com
Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Way Things Go
The Way Things Go from Jack Turner on Vimeo.
ARTLURKER posted this as their sunday video. I couldn't resist doing the same as cause and effect rule the day and night for better or worse, beyond judgement and above all other laws.
Fischi & Weiss. The Way Things Go.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
and in the Northwest they're doing this...
| Trek in the Park |
In Portland's Woodlawn Park, Star Trek in the Park. Brilliant.
Last week at the Miami Art Mueseum....
reVisit reVision reVerb performance at Miami Art Museum July 2009.
Choreographed and performed by Ana Mendez. Musician by Rebeca Pena of Flux Forces.
I didn't make it to this unfortunately...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
wetheat tv
Wetheat Tv is documenting the miami art community. Click the link to see. Well done, short & tight. Typical questions posed to artists as they work in their studios with the camera fetishizing their processes.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Hurry before it's gone.
There is a little over a week to see the 2009 South Florida Biennial at the Hollywood Art & Culture Center. I think it ends June7th. I have a piece in it. Shown here, the 2007 multipanel painting titled "Portal One (hungry ghosts two)".
I confess to not seeing it yet, but I hear that it's plenty worth the short drive north.
I plan on going to see the show next week
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Bruce Nauman, "Stamping in the Studio"
performance art and video works in mind..
Bruce Nauman. Few do this better.
1968. Relevant as ever...
Sunday, May 03, 2009
iconic hand gestures future looks good.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
a parenthetical thought
A minor musical interlude here at the failure of knowing brings us a tribute of Radiohead's OKcomputer. Downloadable and highly listenable.
Good listening for those long days in the studio, Miami....
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The 44th President
An historical moment such as this needs a brief pause of levity. Of the Drunken History videos, this one is the best.
We watched the inauguration from Churchill's Pub in Little Haiti (for those of you who don't live in miami..)
On another note" Prepare for the upcoming Miami Public Access Show .
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
any suggestions?
Sunday, December 07, 2008
oh, johannnson...
two beautiful pieces. I saw some drawings that were mildly unflattering for his work, but these two are another story altogether.
Saturday, December 06, 2008
a curatorial fad...ages grouped as one..
(denise makes a cameo appearance in the lower left....)
the friendliest black artist in america draws
i can not remember the gallery.