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Manteca, circa 1950
This painting is Smith's transcription of a tune by Dizzy Gillespie.
Each paint stroke represents a musical note.
This painting is Smith's transcription of a tune by Dizzy Gillespie.
Each paint stroke represents a musical note.
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Tim Lane did 'abandoned cars' a collection of stories. there's one goodun about an old barfly who's going on in a surreal manner about this cow and ends up snogging the barmaid, but the rest are weak. The artwork however, has got this fan art rendering that is wicked.
tomine skills
frank brunner pencils..
Then, in the night sky above devils tower...The word awesome assumes full meaning.
An illegible message is frustrating, threatening and frightening and the one who can decipher it holds a position of power. In the Bible, even, a ghostly, anonymous hand that writes a message in a language he cannot read visits the king Belshazzar, of Babylon. Terrified, the king calls for Daniel to read the "writing on the wall," promising him riches and power. Daniel reads him the message; it is a prophecy of the judgment and fall of Babylon. Daniel receives his riches, but that night, the king is found dead. (Daniel. 5:1-31.) As Foucault and Deleuze have theorized, the written word is an instrument of power, the foundation upon which governments, kingdoms and dictatorships are built. (Sartwell, "Graffiti and Language.") The written word that those in authority cannot read, then, undermines their power. In effect, the RAMM:ELL:ZEE's armored letters and wild style graffiti are the texts pronouncing the fall of the modern Babylon.
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