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Because I'll be spending tomorrow on an analog adventure, I'm giving you something pretty upon which to cast your peepers by pointing you to the latest batch of photography by Mr. C ... the man who coined the term "Zunechild" (a term I plan to now use on a regular basis).
All you need is love
(drunken horn fanfare)
All you need is love
(drunken horn fanfare)
All you need is love, love .......
(This animated cursor is presented at 300% to show detail and to discourage its usage elsewhere. Cursor company lawyers don't love people who violate cursor copyrights. Violaters won't love the pickle in which they will most certainly find themselves.)
Apologies to anyone who attempted to visit this page yesterday but found that I had disappeared. It would seem that the problem was on a grand scale and that the vanishings were of Bermuda Triangle proportions.
Several years have transpired since that day I watched the molten bronze pour into the mold which I had painstakingly prepared for casting. Once the metal had cooled and was extracted from the "investment" material there was still much work to be done to get my piece into the state as you see it above. Oddly enough, this 6"x8", approximately 35-pound creation has since that time been considered less a work of art and more so a utilitarian object. Without elaborating on how it was utilized, suffice it to say that the task it performed is no longer necessary and now I'm considering selling it. Good-bye, dancer. He ain't heavy ... he's my artwork.
Funkadeliguerilla artist Todd Marrone is one of the brains behind a brand new tshirt/apparel company by the name of Ghosticorn Apparel. The pac ghosties floating above will be gracing one of the launch line of tees. Sorry, men, but my design is only for the ladies (though there will be plenty other mystically-horned and ofttimes equally ghostly items available for your male torso).
It's amusing to recall that there was once a time when I regarded a DVD player and DVD movies as luxury items. All that changed when I stumbled upon an inexpensive player manufactured by a company of which I'd never heard. Said player included more functions than some of those built by the big guys and which were sharing the same shelf space and selling for twice the price: Video CD, audio CD, photo CD, MP3 CD. Of course, the films themselves were still a bit pricey (though there were one or two flicks whose VHS tape versions which were in my possession were rapidly degrading and just had to be replaced). The public library was steadily increasing its stock of DVDs, but it was a new development in movie distribution that was about to bring mucho digitized talking pictures to the homes of the masses, one of those homes being mine. OK, so mass production of public domain films wasn't exactly new (Goodtimes VHS, anyone?) but it kicked into high gear with DVD. Of all those inexpensively priced discs full of forgotten films which were suddenly flooding the marketplace there just had to be some good movies among them. And there were! I do wonder whether all the flicks I nabbed for a dollar apiece had yet to actually make it to public domain status. But if these things are for sale in a retail setting rather than on a street corner, what's a guy to do? I know ... Watch them!
(This animated cursor is presented at 300% to show detail and to discourage its usage elsewhere. A lawyer is a lawyer, whether he's paid by the MPAA - with instructions to crush those who duplicate DVDs - or paid by the cursor company - given similar crushing instructions. Watch your step.)
