Beautiful Signals: 2013

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Rendition of a Song - YouTube:

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Me Practising for a Video Soon to be Released

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Friday, July 5, 2013

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Figure 2.8 Cottage and Trees. Alex Gagnon (c) 2013

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The Eerie Letter

You went to buy stamps and mail a letter. You came back home with a letter but no stamps. What happened?

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

And by cause that the labourers supposed that hit had not ben trouthe abode stylle at theyr laboure wherfore the wulf dyd ete the sheep.
For men bileue not lyghtly hym whiche is knowen for a lyer.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Double Whammy as Bloomsday and Father's Day Fall on Same Day

Happy Bloomsday! Happy Father's Day! I made a small portrait of James Joyce many years ago and ended up including it in a collage. He was one of my spiritual fathers as far as being a writer goes.

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Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Genesis of The History-Painting, circa 2001

07/27/01 3:53:11 PM

L. bought me a canvas, a Masonite board, a 6x8, I think, and I need to find out what to paint on it. To do this I need to find out what’s been on my mind lately. Well, I’ve been reading a lot. I read ‘Formal and Transcendental Logic’ by Edmund Husserl, so I have a bit of formal ontology fresh in my mind. Added to that is a book I just finished called ‘Art History’s History’ by Vernon Hyde Minor, published in 1994. That took me through all the ages of art history, and should be useful for a painting. I want there to be perspective, proportion. What are important icons in art history? How can I paint art history onto a canvas? I could stick with an abstraction and just give it tons of depths, fields, planes, all of the above. I want perhaps to stick to white and black, just make a Borduas-like historical painting. I could throw in some green and yellow or red. What would be the appropriate colors to use? What are the present colors in my consciousness? [colors present] The incipience of forms. Forms moving onto the plane of formal existence. The birth of art history. I have to think about this.

07/27/01 5:21:26 PM

Concerning the painting, so far I have a white background in acrylic. Form, painting. There’s something to be said right there, regarding forms and the art of painting. What exists between me and the painting? What do me and the painting possibly make together? What forms can I project onto the canvas from my unconscious or from my imagination? I’d like to paint a rhetorical figure, irony or something, maybe I’ll finally paint my first allegory.

07/27/01 8:17:19 PM

I decided to paint an allegory of history in red, yellow, and black squares floating over a disjointed white surface. Each square is a construction, or a discursive formation of sorts. The concept isn’t all figured out yet. But the painting, well, it’s pretty much finished, although I only worked 20 minutes on it. I’ll let it dry and work some more on it next week. The concept I will work on till then and maybe I can do a series of works and call it all ‘The Allegory of History’. It’s the allegory of history because I’m calling it history, and it’s an allegory because the discursive formations are separate and floating in empty space, or in a gridlock. Another allegory of history could be the portrait of a man, but a man who is all broken up. In history we have synchronies and diachronies. Each can be painted. A synchrony in painting is translated as a mosaic. That’s what I tried to make, but each piece of the mosaic is just an abstraction; I could have made them portraits, and at heart I wanted to make copies of famous paintings and call it the allegory of art history. That I’ll do on a bigger canvas. I’ll really concentrate on the space between the squares or rectangles.

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Friday, June 14, 2013

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Consumer confidence and consumer attitudes primarily affect => consumers! Stop being so pissy about everything! Companies spent 100+ years building this amazing Wonderland of Offers for one reason and solely one reason => to make you happy!

Yet you are depressed. If you want sustained double-digit growth, you know what you should do? Don't Worry, Be happy!

Happiness is one of the biggest most profitable brands in human history. I would argue it is the SINGLE brand of humankind. All other brands are imitations. Everyone is chasing the Smiley. We invented emoticons so we could express more joy through computer-mediated communications.

All of this was built so you and I could be happy. Why not smile every once in a while? Why not be happy? ☺

[Happiness not brought to you by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts]