via http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/07/periodic-table-of-irrational-nonsense.html

Maman (1999)

Amazing to spend time travelling with my family around South Africa, taking a break, seeing the sites, drinking a few beers, and kicking back.

On the stoep

calling elvis

In the beginning

via Gangs of the Caribbean – Photo albums from sail-e.com.

“There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.”

— Man Ray, in his essay “To Be Continued, Unnoticed” (1948)

For me, the drawing is the process of arriving at this image. This process is usually very fast to begin with. I work with charcoal and charcoal dust, and within the first minute, the large expanse of white paper can be turned into a dirty grey. I’ll put lines across it, finding vague geographies of where things will go, and then the process of drawing is the remaining hours or days it takes to work through the drawing. The art is to try to finish at the same speed you begin with – to not let the drawing become more and more cramped, to try to keep a looseness and an open-endedness right to the end.

Often, the finished drawing is different from what I had in my head when I started off, and the better ones are those that don’t look anything like I thought they would. The ideas are not the driving force in drawing, nor is meaning. The need to make an image is the driving force. It isn’t like a writer who has a story they have to tell, and so they write a novel. It isn’t as if I have an image the world has to see. Rather I have a need to be making marks on paper. Drawing isn’t a decision, it is a need.

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

via xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.

Town Hall USA

Everyday is like Wednesday

via this isn’t happiness.

via mattbors.com

Over the last few years, we have all witnessed the decline of the music business, highlighted by finger-pointing and blame directed against record companies, artists, internet file sharing and any other theories for which a case could be made. We’ve read and heard about the “good old days” and how things used to be. People remember when music existed as an art that motivated social movements. Artists and their music flourished in back alleys, taverns and barns until, in some cases, a popular groundswell propelled it far and wide. These days, that possibility no longer seems to exist. After 35 years as an artist in the recording business, I feel somehow compelled, not inspired, to stand up for our fellow artists and tell that side of the story as I perceive it. Had the industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians would have been able to stick with creating music rather than trying to market it as well.