MONDAY #3868

One Of My Very Own

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SUBJECTS ON WHICH I HAVE GIVEN THOUGHT

From shoes to hair - the uniform of the non-conformist.
I once mentioned my attempts to shun things that everyone else was doing. I got a comment that reminded me that I have tattoos and a beard so I was just following the crowd.
Okay, I do have tattoos but they are unlike any that I have ever seen. One is a punchline to a joke for god's sake.

But is it legitimate to say I am doing something by not doing something? I don't grow a beard so much as I don't shave. 

It's like saying I'm a non-golfer like the majority of people. Or I'm not an astronaut, therefore I'm a conformist.

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 As I understand it US currency printing plates are still engraved by human hand. 

How can they guarantee perfection? 

Each one of those lines has to be the exact same length, width, and depth as every other plate. Is that even possible?
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Painters used to capture a moment in life.

But within reason, that job is now done by cameras.

Now many people paint pictures of photographs...

And that's okay, too.
But I was trained as an Expressionist.
Expressionists capture a moment in the life of a painter creating his art.

You get to witness the movements of the artist as he/she applies the paint to the canvas.

 Trust me when I tell you it is much harder than it sounds since all the rules of design still apply.

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I loved writing more than any activity other than sex. But original ideas are fraught with dangers.

The line you really liked in a book you read when you were twelve is still in your brain even if you don't consciously remember it. So when the character in your book has to respond to, say, the death of a loved one, that remembered line may pop out in your own work. I, of course, tried never to use a line I KNEW was someone else's but we are all just an amalgam of everything we have heard, seen, read, etc. There are no original thoughts.

I tried to adopt this philosophy:

I only sent one of my novels to a publisher. It was rejected but the nice lady took the time to write that my novel was very funny but it wasn't right for her company at that time.
There are much worse reasons for rejection:

Many people have been astounded that I didn't try to get published more often. I tell them that I was like the guy who spent a plethora of time and energy on his backyard roses. He didn't raise those roses to sell them. He did it for the pleasure it gave him.


The most fun book I have written was based on this simple rule:
What is the least expected thing to happen in this circumstance? I thought it was a hoot. One scene had a family finally arrive at the Grand Canyon after a trip littered with mishaps only to have the mother take one quick look and say, "Okay, let's go." When her children protested she said that erosion always depressed her.
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Street artists operate under different rules than studio artists.

You are more or less forcing the public to look at your work and I believe that same public ought to have an opportunity to voice their opinion.

I also like humor in my art.

I'm not a big fan of fat letter normal graffiti.

Not that some of it isn't attractive in its own way, but rather I think the artists aren't taking it far enough. I would like them to make a real statement other than "look how cool I can write my name."

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My wife likes to decorate the yard with dismembered dolls.

People have begun mailing dolls to her to use and I couldn't be happier. 
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I really love my guns.

In all honesty, I wouldn't feel safe in a home without at least one gun. I sit by day and sleep by night with a gun within arm's length.
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"Is it pronounced NEEL-ism or NIAL-ism?"

"It doesn't matter. Nothing matters...."

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SUBJECTS OTHER PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THOUGHT

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Do you ever run make-believe scenarios over in your mind so you will know what to do if certain circumstances arise? Well, I think about what I would do if attacked by a herd of these vicious bastards.
That reminds me of the Emu War in Australia.
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How to sing...

Good luck with that. I only posted it because I liked the drawings. 
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Read that again. When I realized that I was not, in fact, different I had an epiphany and it led to me relaxing much more.
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New App Matches You With Others In Vicinity Who Wasted $2.99 On The Same App

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How is it that a nation of immigrants has morphed into anti-immigrant bigots?
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VISUAL STIMULATION

Firestarter

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If you live in glass houses...

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Google art

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AFP Pictures Of The Year 2012

The two award-winning photos above were surely the result of having a camera at the right place at the right time. But every man, woman, and child now has a phone on their person every minute of every day and I don't see an increase in art images. The photographer has to have the eye to spot the artistic potential of the scenes around him/her. The average person does not have the eye.
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I'm assuming the white squiggles are caused by the camera movement. But then why is the plane clear?

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6,000 Miniature People Form the World Map

And they are not rubber mass-produced figures.

Each one of them is one of a kind.

Magnificent!

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Sneaking out of the house is a skill I've used way more as a dad than I ever did as a teenager.

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PEOPLE MORE FAMOUS THAN I

 https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/video-about-woman-who-fell-33.html

She wanted to return to her job as a stewardess but the airlines thought her presence would freak out the passengers. I agree.

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 Who took the fucking picture?

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I totally agree.

 No girls are as good at being bad as preachers' daughters gone astray.
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At first, I thought she was looking in a makeup mirror and, of course, that would be absurdly hilarious.

But as with the preachers' daughters when they finally let loose they go hog wild.

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 And...

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