Keith Perkins’ Auctions
Not much up yet, but I’ll have more.
Category Archives: Art
Blockhead on the Block
The Auction block that is.
I’ve been invited to participate in the 2007 KIDS’N CAMP ART AUCTION put on by the Portland, ME chapter of the Salvation Army, on Thursday, March 8th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm.
Blockhead–Acrylic paint, and objects on masonite 18×12 approx.
It’s a good cause, I hope they make some money. You can go to Portland for the auction (directions on the site), or bid online for some items (check the details here).
Gravity’s Rainbow
I haven’t read Gravity’s Rainbow, but after seeing this, I think I need to.
One illustration for each page of the book.
In dead tree form: Amazon
More on Zak Smith, who happens to be a very cool dude.
Happy anniversary
Jenny and I spent our fifth anniversary having our pictures taken at Sears, and visiting the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland. We got to see a bunch of Wyeth stuff, and yeehaw!!! Louise Nevelson is back in the house after a 4 year absence.
We took our picture in front of Robert Indiana’s Love sculpture:
My top ten cool things for 2006
Everybody else is doing top 10 lists, why not me. đ
- wxPython
Yep, cross platform, fairly easy to learn, more powerful than Tkinter (Python’s “official” GUI toolkit). It may have some faults, but it works well for me as a noob Python programmer. - Democracy TV
The free and open source internet tv platform. There’s an opportunity to build a new, open mass medium of online television. We’re developing the Democracy internet TV platform so that watching internet video channels will be as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel will be open to everyone. Unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice. An alternative to mass media, and corporate controlled TV. Hundreds of “channels”. My favorite? Punkcast.com, of course. đ - Coffee By Design
Coffee By Design’s mission is to educate people about specialty coffee and to provide them with the best quality coffee beans available at our Micro Roastery and Coffeehouses in Portland, Maine. We take pride in our reputation for offering the highest quality products at a fair price as well as providing extraordinary service. Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction. Damn good coffe. Fairly local to me, only 3hrs away. Great seveice, and good pricing. I recommend the Rebel Blend Dark Roasted coffee. Not only because it’s good but because a portion of sales goes to Rebel Blend Arts Fund, which gives grants to artists. - My cowon IAudio M5 Portable Digital Audio Player.
Plays all formats. of audio files you can throw at it, holds 20GB worth of music(and just about any other kind of file, but you can only view text files, not pics, or anything else.) Works with Linux, since it’s basically just a porable hard drive with music playing software on it. - Download Punk
See my post on this fine site. - Ghostland Observatory
These guys actually beat out Exene Cervenka and Joan Jett (both of whom I love, and had new CDs out this year) because of their originality, and total coolness and independence. Try Piano Man from Paparazzi Lightning. - Musee Picasso in Barcelona
From my 2 month working excursion. My favorite thing, a great collection. See this post for more things. - Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
This fine book beat out a couple of others as my fave read this year, for it’s absolute strangeness, and great writing. On the short list:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Driving with Shannon by S A Robinson
I thought I did a review of this, but I didn’t. It’s a semi-autobiographical memoir of a couple of teen age punk rockers trip cross country in the early eighties, a good, but not great book. - Eternal Gaze
A wonderful, animated short about the artist Alberto Giacometti
It even beat out How to draw a Bunny, for me. - My wife
Who continues towards her goal of being an RN, works a demanding job, and still loves me for who only knows what reason.
There’s really so much more like Cobh, Ireland, other bands, and download sites, my kids, my cats, my dad, ART books, not having internet for 2 months, Richard Dawkins, Keith Olberman, and many, many other things that I can’t think of, but, these are my top 10 cool things.
Art & Personality Quiz
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/art/
Your results
Your favourite type of art is Japanese ukiyo-e.
In the personality profile you had a high intellectualism score, which suggests you like to think about abstract ideas and have a creative imagination.
People who are the same age and sex as you are most likely to prefer Impressionism
People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Impressionism
I never seem to fit the curve. đ
Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. In an evolving universe, who stands still moves backwards.
These words seem appropriate for our times, don’t they? Brought to us by a man of wit and intelligence, and brought back to me by a visit to his website, after reading news of his present difficulties.
I learned a lot from Mr. Wilson, and his writings (The Illuminatus Trilogy, etal., Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, etc.), and was saddened to hear that not only is he ill, but couldn’t even pay his rent for the few months he has left (he can now, thanks to the generosity of his fans), and thought I’d post this to get it out a little more. (It even hit /. I see, but that’s the usual troll/moron fest that /. seems to have become lately). If you’d like to contribute checkout the BoingBoing posts above, they tell you how.
Peace out.
WEB2DNA
Art Managment Software
So, I’m an artist, and I use Linux as my OS.
Is there any interest out thee for an art management program like the following ones for Linux? Or is there something out there that I haven’t found?
Program | Price | OSs Supported |
Studio, Gallery-Pro, etc. | $800-$2500 | W, M? |
eArtist | $125 | W,M |
ArtWorks | $39 (“promotional”) $69 (“regular”) | W |
My Art Collection | $50 | W,M |
How ’bout it, any interest, or is it just something that I need to develop for myself?
Modigliani
No, not the movie with Andy Garcia. That was all right, but not as good as, say, the short animation about Giacometti–The Eternal Gaze. No the real guy.
They are having a show of his small oeuvre at The Royal Academy in London. The Guardian has a nice article on it here.
I just finished a book about his nudes and portraits, aptly titled Amedeo Modigliani: Nudes and Portraits by Anette Kruszynski.