Veruschka!

My Back Pages4

A painting in my sketchbook.
inspired by an image on an old book from the 70s at the Recycle Center.
Gatherings. A place and time where people congregate with common Interest. Positive interest. Negative Interest. Concerts, Political Rallies, Graduations, Birth, Prom, coming out, circumcision, coming of age......
Mobs? Public Execution. Court Trials,
Pop Culture
Rotting Culture
Handshakes
Hugging
Sex
Sports
Funerals
Baptism
Marathon
Rat Race
Rite of Passage.

Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology.

The book relates to diverse collections of independently-deciding individuals, rather than crowd psychology as traditionally understood. Its central thesis, that a diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals is likely to make certain types of decisions and predictions better than individuals or even experts, draws many parallels with statistical sampling.

Black and White.

Once again, the connection between two subjects.....where they merged in the past, and how one will always live in the other.

Gimme Space!

Astronomy pic of the day was a huge inspiration for some early work i did out of college. It was a phase of everything outer space. ...... Here is an image of an oil on canvas from that series. They ranged from 4 to 6 feet in width and about 3 to 4 feet high. I wanted these to be some kind of "universal flags". the idea, needless to say, didnt fly. ahem. They are still rolled up in my studio.

Astronomy Pic of the Day

There is a picture of the cosmos for every day of every year. And there will be after the year has ceased to be recorded. We continue to "see" further and further into space and yet never really get any further as a species. We just have stronger telescopes. And i think the more magnified the telescope the smaller an smaller and we become and we just regress back into apes and then amoebas then we climb back into the womb of the angry bloody goddess. This technology here will eat itself. The human race will eat itself. The United States, certainly...will eat itself. However..sit back and please enjoy a picture of the day brought to you by NASA. You might learn something. Maybe even about yourself.
go to http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html.
or to the right on Astronomy pic of the day link.
ps, did you know there was an Avalanche on Mars?and Tornadoes in Atlanta?

Cosmic Jelly

These are photos i took of marmalade, jam and various unspeakable substances....