Sep 22, 2022 | Character design, Design, Film, History, Museum, Photography, Teaching, Thinktank, Thoughts, Traditional Arts
Larry Yazzie wetplate photo by Shane Balkowitsch My friend Larry Yazzie is Dancing in traditional style here in Jax at the MOSH 9-24-2022. This photo by Shane Balkowitsch for the Native American Archives is and interesting story in itself. 
Sep 18, 2022 | Architecture, Cosplay, Design, Drawing, Film, Food, History, Museum, Painting, Sculpture, Thinktank, Thoughts, Wood Carving
Bacchanalia Colonel Jirayr Arnak Hanparzoom Hovsep Baldanose Zorthian. I visited his ranch when I was doing THE HOLYLAND performances and temple of sacred retardation in my early Los Angeles days. We became friends and comrades in art. His birthday parties, called... 
Sep 4, 2022 | Architecture, Design, Drawing, Film, First Friday Films, History, Museum, Painting, Sculpture, Teaching, Thoughts
I used to watch Spongebob Squarepants with my daughter when she was a toddler and thought to myself he was the embodiment of constancy and cheerful purpose. I love Spongebob. Complete self-awareness in which nothing diverts his purposefulness for long. Richard McMahan... 
Aug 17, 2022 | Animation, Drawing, Food, History, Museum, Painting, Teaching
Godzilla Kong Elena Ohlander is an energenic, beautiful, softspoken artist and I needed to post some of her recent work up here just to remind me of her blazing talent. She is in Grad School now and I have not seen much of her lately. She is also showing her work far... 
Aug 17, 2022 | Animation, Architecture, Film, Masterclass, Museum, Sculpture, Sound, Thinktank, Thoughts
Copper Box Chas Smith will tell you he is a welder. He is, and a good one. I hired him do do the structural work on a 60′ tall sculpture I was in charge of fabrication for artist Jonathan Borofski. We became friends and as I got to know more found out he was... 
Aug 17, 2022 | Drawing, History, Museum, Sculpture, Teaching, Thoughts, Wood Carving
Dancer-Bronze at the Cummer Museum Enzo Torcoletti always has a smile when he sees you. He lives in St Augustine but I met him in Jax as he seems to show up at every opening of all the artists he knows. He is the most supportive and loving artists I know. His work is...