Sunday, December 27, 2009

The street art of Samuel Francois



http://www.samuelfrancois.com/scales-of-the-universe-the,242.html
Maybe I should not move out of my crazy shack, I should just decorate more with the junk, glam it up a bit and get over the long drive to town and relative isolation?

They say good art inspires....

Friday, December 18, 2009

MURALS



http://www.gualicho.cc/html/walls.htm

These murals are in Cuba.

Actually, Cuba, poor as it is, has a good bit of street art, even though a lot of it is Castro and Che. But there are the brightly painted houses and decaying dance halls and amazing artists. Cuban people are art, actually.

I would really like to go back there.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Dexter





I watched a documentary called "Two Headed Cow" that my father taped and brought along on a visit from Detroit. It is about Dexter Romweber of The Flat Duo Jets, a band that I adored for their zeal and "spinning out of control and looking bad-ass while doing it" style. In all honesty, I ran away from home at 16 and moved to Athens, GA thinking maybe we could be best friends. It didn't pan out. When we did meet and I told him this anecdote he told me, "Well girly, sometimes shit don't turn out like you plan." Then he downed his whiskey and got on stage.

Now he is calmed way down and medicated. He is medicated because it hurt to be so loose and open. But gone too is that hot spark that drove the people wild.

It has been asked, "If Van Gogh was medicated, would he have painted Sunflowers?" And of course the answer is, probably not. And he may not have cut off his ear either.

I guess it just brought up a lot of emotion in me, knowing that wave that is incredible and creative and destructive and painful all at once. And you know, what do you do with that? We each choose. And I recognized that I liked him better wild because it saves me the trouble of living it myself. I want to watch and be inspired, but I'm not the one cutting myself open wide on stage. Ya know what I mean?