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Anagrams are fun

By Jim | Published: October 5, 2008
Where have I been? Right here. Too busy to update the site, obviously. Well, not all that busy. Most of my free time’s spent playing Team Fortress 2. Maybe my priorities are a little outta whack. I have been working, though, and will have a couple of updates about that soon. For now, have a [...]
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Ham

By Jim | Published: November 14, 2007
Generally speaking, I don’t like small dogs. But there are more exceptions to this rule than situations where it applies. Like my misanthropism. In general, it’s easy to hate humans, but I am usually able to find something likeable about every person I meet. Usually. Ham is the shop dog. He belongs to the manager [...]
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John Hurt

By Jim | Published: December 23, 2006
I’ve been busy with things other than painting, like building my own guitar (which I’ll post about sooner or later), but recently got the itch to go back to a medium I haven’t used since school. Oils are a great medium, forgiving and gorgeous, but I had to abandon them after misusing them for too [...]
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R.L. Burnside: Hard Time Killing Floor

By Jim | Published: July 31, 2006
I’ve finished the painting of R.L. Burnside today, except for the last coats of varnish. It’s easier to photograph with this matte finish than it is with the gloss. This is a terrible shot, but I don’t have enough light to work with. It’s enough to tell what’s going on in the painting, anyway. I’m [...]
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hard time killing floor

By Jim | Published: July 15, 2006
Last year I painted a portrait of R.L. Burnside for a local show. No you can’t see it. Really. I loved the piece when it was finished, and made sure to price it so high that no one would buy it, because I wanted to keep it. After the show I hung it, and about [...]
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Artcore

By Jim | Published: February 8, 2006
So I haven’t updated in a while. So sorry. The truth is that since I started to learn to play guitar, painting and drawing have been sidelined a little. I still do it, but I’d rather play than post here. Nothing personal.A year ago this March I started playing guitar. My first guitar I ordered [...]
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Cage

By Jim | Published: November 1, 2005
In The Dictionary of the Khazars (a book I recommend highly), Milorad Pavic writes of a swordsman trapped in a cage of his own swordstrokes. I’ve been fascinated with the image since I first read it, and return to it regularly. I should probably paint it to exorcise it from my imagination. The things that [...]
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By Jim | Published: August 30, 2005
Yesterday was thumbing through the Vancouver Zombiewalk 2005 photos at flickr and wishing I lived in a city that would spawn such spectacles. There are at least two Zombie Jesuses in the flickr footage, which gives me a warm tingly feeling all over. News of the zombiewalk made me very happy, and I spent a [...]
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Cogito Ergo Es

By Jim | Published: August 1, 2005
I’ve got the “paintings for sale” section up and running now, see the right hand column. One of the pieces listed is this one: “Cogito Ergo Es”. That’s latin, loosely translated as “I think therefore you is”. Robert Anton Wilson quotes a philosopher whom I’ve forgotten in Maybe Logic, “All perception is a gamble.” He [...]
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Searching for the Blues

By Jim | Published: July 29, 2005
So I’m studying the Blues. Strictly armchair. I’d often read that the Blues were important to modern music, but I couldn’t _hear_ how they were important. So I started listening to old Blues, to try to suss out the bits that had filtered down. I couldn’t find them. See, I was looking for tiny details, [...]
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