Alt, Politics, Tech

Another reason not to use Facebook?

Is FACEBOOK run by D.A.R.P.A’s Information Awareness Office? | Daily Newscaster

Is FACEBOOK a Department of Defense data mining scheme run by the CIA and D.A.R.P.A.? Should you be trusting all your personal data to FACEBOOK’s management?

FACEBOOK was initially conceived by Mark Zuckerberg but the venture was first funded with $500,000.00 in capital from PayPal founder Peter Thiel. With millions more to come from sources with close ties to D.A.R.P.A, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense….

Is this paranoid, or maybe true? God, I love a good conspiracy theory. I always say be careful what you hang out there on the web. Personall, after last week’s Term of Service fiasco at Facebook, I wouldn’t be trusting them much anyways.

Art, moleskine

More Sketchbook Project pics

I sent it out on Saturday, and it’s not all filled up, but I’m gonna post what I got done.  I’ll do it in a couple of posts so that I don’t bug your eyes out.  First up, the boyz.

Reg
Reg

Matt
Matt
Shiva
Shiva
Pyro
Pyro

That’s it for now–more later.

Art

On Inspiration

or the importance of keeping sketchbooks.

So I was looking for my next idea for a piece, since I don’t want to work on some of the stuff  I’ve started, and don’t have a series ready to go yet (it’s still percolating).

Trying to figure what to do I started going through my old sketchbooks.  I’ve kept a sketchbook since 1977 (since my first one my younger sister gave me), not always consistently, but pretty regular.  Sometimes I use them to work out stuff in paintings that I’m working on, sometimes I’m just drawing.   Some of the drawings are pretty well worked out, some are scribbles, some are horrible, but they all keep my hand loose, and sharpen my eyes.

Blah, blah, blah. 😀

The thing about it is that 20 some odd sketchbooks over 30 odd years have a lot of stuff in them, and can inspire a new work.  That’s what I was looking for, and what I found today.

The start of the new work:

Self Portrait 49.25
Self Portrait 49.3--Work in progress

What inspired it:
Sketch

That is from a sketchbook from 1982-1983 (yes i date them, and I number them too). I liked the way the head was cut off, and thought it would make a fun portrait.

This painting:
A Girl and Her Dog
came from this sketch:
girlanddog
What do you use for inspiration?