Oldie but goodie

Pink

 The Pink Elephant

 the Pink Elephant turned inside out as a Fairy

Self Portrait of my inner Wizard

and continue with Jung...

 The inflatable collar turned out to be very supportive

 She simply prayed for whatever was right

 Duck Dervish

Loyalty, Love, Passion 

Characters real or imagined?

 She was so glad she wore a head bubble and carried a whip.

The decorations, lighting, and atmospherics were fierce.

 He knew is was a parade costume, but it still made him feel like a pharaoh

 His arrogance entered the room before he did.

 He didn't like the waft of energy in the room

 She was thrilled the wall color set her ensemb. off

Waiting for the cue and thinking about removing all this glue.

Friday glimpses

Some Ruins outside of the village

A pink fox we saw on our walk

The snowglobe Lily got for Christmas

ANNNND were off...

I was doing good. A posting everyday! ok, here is bunch of swatches and thoughts:

 Fashion Circus

 Before We Went In

 Waiting for Gadot

 She didn't know how she felt about this Angel stuff.

 Ya, It was a duck costume, but at least she was playing Vegas

The Council 

Gonna be ok

Seems big and scary

but gotta play

otherwise might get sqwished

by someone who can't even see me.

For Earl

"Earl broke up the priest who was administering his last rites by putting on his clown nose and waiting for the priest to look at him. Then he plucked it off, French dropped it and pretended to eat it. A clown to the very end." bs

True story.

Rest in giggles Earl Reum

We didn't know what it was...

We didn't know what it was, 

but it made wonderful tea.

No Nutritional Value What So Ever

Pink stuffed thang with blue fuzzy slippers.

Happy 12th Night Epiphany

He could always count on the Epiphany

Scrappy wings

They were scrappy wings, but they still worked

Virtual Vacation

Quick Vacation on one inch canvases...

Monday January 3, 2011

 For Jessica

(Recalling the fun we had at the Paper Fashion Show last year.

It was fun to build and very fun to win 1st place, but we wont be entering this year - sob)

 for Carla U,

Here, I brought you a large ice cream. I know you can't eat it, 

but I thought you might like to look at it for a while before it melts.

If the wings fit, wear um.

Strange Arrangement

Happy New Year

At the end of the last few seasons, I have found myself sketching and inking a batch of teney tiny painting on canvas. some only an inch square up to a few inches. I am going to attempt to have the discipline to share some of them. They are often silly, but so am I.

I'm Back

Hello beings out there in cyberspace. It has been a long time since I sent any messages or thoughts out to you, to be added to the other billions and billions of words and emotions.

But here I sit, space and time revealing the first blank page or moment of repose in many many months.

Another 10, 000 pound gorilla pulled out of the hat (and sometimes it felt like other orifices as well)

This year's big show opened last Friday. Hudson Holiday.

This was my 29th Holiday season install. Of course there have been smaller and larger, but this one seemed huge. It is huge, actually.

I don't find dedication or loyalty very difficult. I can tie myself to a wagon and be drug a thousand miles if I think the outcome will serve the audience. It is being cut loose from the wagon that is one of the hardest points. I usually feel pretty lonely before a work is done, and then it really steps in after a work is released.

I was watching an old old interview with one of my heroes and friends, the late great Steven Arnold and one of his statements caught me (paraphrased) " I was always doing puppet shows for all the children - Always fairy tales - fantasies - I was always doing the show for them, but I didn't relate to them"

Time to re-invent for the 1000th time. I'm surprised I haven't run in to myself yet.

Curtain Dress

Some of my favorite things

There was nothing wrong with Great Grandmother Kate making us kids clothes from remnants of upholstery fabrics (kinda scratchy) or even drapes. 

Until that evening in Florida visiting the other half of the family.....

When (after having a couple cocktails) Aunt Gertie threw me aside thinking I was the curtains to the veranda.

Ok, fiction - for the most part -...actually just the funny part. But it still makes me smile, so I'm keepin it.

Were Off

...You'll find he is a whiz of Wiz!

If ever Wiz there was.

If ever oh ever a Wiz there was 

The Wizard of Oz is one because,

Because, because, because, because, because

Because of the wonderful things he does...

I Want to do wonderful things.

I am getting my strength back.

My power back.

No need to ask where its been,

just happy to have a glimpse of it's return.

Perspective - Lovely

Jayne and Terry know that I was supposed to be the next Danny Kaye. He was loving, endearing, witty, highly skilled, sharp.

I am loving, so whew! I get an A on #1. Witty is tough to judge before your dead. Highly skilled - Yes, mostly in obsolete Arts. Sharp - not like I was.

I spent lunch and tour time with a very long time friend Kathi DeFrancis ( 34+ years), her daughter, Angie DeFrancis, and her son PHEONIX sp? (going on 9). Three generations.  It was lovely.

Kathi introduced us to Billy. It was a nice spin back through the circle of life.

Emry Says Goodbye

The King of Garp is dead. Long live the King!

William Noble Fleming was an amazing man and I was blessed by his love, friendship and mentorship. I will miss his body and carry a piece of his soul with me until I go.

I know, the boots are heavy Billy, but know that we love you.

The Warrior puppet was very tired.

His boots were very large and heavy.

He was missing buttons.

His helmet was hot.

He was tired of fighting.

We need so much more of this!!!!

Click Through to You Tube for the full view - I can't seem to get it right yet -

Iron-ney

Isn't just like an artist to design something that BEGS to be climbed, 

and for it to be commissioned by a committee that figures that out after it is installed.  

Berekley

Walking This morning around the bay we found this giant chain and anchor being used as garden edge.

I know, the shoes in the shot are already a gimmick.........

Light Animation from Japan

Amazing performance light animation -- try it full screen (click the little box at the bottom) and sound up - long but amazing.

Chandelier Chardin - Pallazzo Verdi

I never really posted this video, due to a little glitch in part 1 - here is part 3 - this was an amazing project:

TED Lecture on OK GO Video

I am sure you have seen this video, but this lecture at TED by the chief engineer is work watching!

WATCH FULL SCREEN!!!!!!!

Comedic Re leaf

Ok, sorry to be so macrabe' yesterday. One of the most influential people in my life, an old friend and ex-business partner is dying. Not sick, but dying. He and his wonderful wife were to arrive in a couple of weeks to spend the summer with us, as several times before.

We got news that he is too weak to travel, and that he has a few weeks on the short, the end of the year

on the long side. I know he is in his 80's. I know he has led an incredibly full life. I knew he was in his final chapter. But I did not know how deep he was in my heart. I did not know how much he has influenced my work. I did not realize how much of me is him and me of him.

Meanwhile, here are some old sketches that fall forward the kind of inflatable sculptures I am cultivating, and the king of ornament that the honorable WNF, or Henly Swerthing, would want me to be.

Heartbreak

I suppose the upside to having your heart broken 

is that it proves that you still have one, 

and that it still can be broken.

And it will grow back again. 

with this scar, 

another part of your mosaic.