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Thoughts and writings about art, painting, and tattooing, as well as my experiments and explorations in other media such as film photography, digital photography and design, video, and more.
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Run Script: gaiatheory/upload.exe
I. Upload And Transcend Since Vernor Vinge’s work in the 1980s there has been a belief by some that, through an event called the...
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Aug 1, 20232 min read
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Cybernetic Karma Algorithm
The DNA of any two people on Earth is supposedly 99.6 percent identical. If such biological uniformity flies in the face of all of our...
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Jun 22, 20233 min read
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Anatomical Study from Cadavers
One major artistic discipline for which I have the least formal study is anatomy. I find the human figure and its underlying structures...
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Jun 16, 20162 min read
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What Is Art? (Part 2)
Last year I started collecting my thoughts on the continual debate in my head about what art is, and how it can be (among other things)...
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Apr 30, 20146 min read
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Influences 4
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) Sometime around 2006 or 2007 a close friend lent me a battered, worn out paperback,...
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Mar 14, 20133 min read
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Influences 3: Catharsis
catharsis [(kuh- thahr -suhs)] — n 1. An experience of emotional release and purification, often inspired by or through art. 2. American...
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Jan 25, 20133 min read
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Influences 2
Light Shines Through was a painting I completed in 2010 for a group exhibition memorializing artist and tattooer Monica Henk, whose life...
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Oct 1, 20122 min read
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Influences 1
“Denial Vanitas” Redux You know that thing that happens when you stare at a single word for too long, and the letters start to separate...
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Jul 17, 20122 min read
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