Lately, I’ve been enjoying the sounds of G Street Revolution whenever I have a chance. A few of the musicians are colleagues of my wife at UC Merced. Check’em Out on Facebook or here.
At the Merced County Fairgrounds:
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At Vista Ranch and Cellars:
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Just a snippet at Five Ten Bistro:
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Pretty sure all these were done in Sketch Club and iColorama.
They were sitting still long enough, them and their features’n stuff. Plus, I stopped listening.
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iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, couple’a hours, Sketch Club, sharpening in iColorama
…on the way to Santa Barbara to see David Byrne’s 100th performance (8/24/8) of the Utopia Tour held at the Santa Barbara Bowl. See tiny snippet of performance below.
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I know a little bit about the bible. I have an M.Div. for Christ’s sake; it’s one of three graduate degrees for Pete’s sake! I may no longer be an ordained Benedictine monk, but I sure as Hell sat through my share of biblical studies, theology, even some Greek and Latin courses. Most of them were interesting, some even fascinating. I had a brilliant seminary professor, one of several like that, in fact, who approached the study of sacred scriptures from a literary-criticism perspective, steeped in critical hermeneutics, semiology, and philology…right up my alley. He planted the following image in my mind. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions; but, I find it interesting that the image conjures up a ton of contrasting and startling questions about how religion is used by some to predict and control (i.e. dominate) on one hand, and how, on the other hand, it’s used by others simply to deepen one’s appreciation of the Mystery of Life and come to terms with the ethical implications of that universally-applicable and humbling factor.
Check out Smoke and Mirrors here on this illustroblog, please.
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We headquartered in Ferndale, CA and made excursions north to Eureka.
Here’s a Victorian storefront in Ferndale.
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While in Eireka, CA, we took a mini cruise around Humboldt Bay on the Madaket.
With a little time on my hands and some inspiration, who knows what will emerge?
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iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club, iColorama, flashlight, color, wall, shadow. Amen.
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Last night, May 6, 2018, while watching United Shades of America, catching an interesting and informative episode focusing on Sikhism, seeing my first Californian Sikh almond farmer, and being intrigued by the turban (click here to view a gallery from the show), I sketched the following image on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, using Sketch Club and iColorama:
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A distorted quickie done in Sketch Club on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil and then tweaked a bit in iColorama.
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I’ve been thinking about Newton’s 3rd law of physics, that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, a law that apparently can be broken, “in certain nonequilibrium (out-of-balance) situations.”
Hey, I think we’re in one of those situations.
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