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This weekend in FF:



MissLoontrout(etc.)... update.


Atlas... (detail)



Random Studio Pics.
I know... What a mess.






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Sasquatch Dodges another .50 cal. Musket-Ball

This piece has been posted before, but this is a much better pic. The BlueJay/Cardinal pairing and the Hummingbird/Antler/Flower grouping are beading with #8,10 & 11 glass beads. The paint overlaps the beadwork, in places; most prominently in the maple-leaves. The piece also incorporates a "bullet-hole" decal, marketed as a gag item to place on friend's vehicles (good shading).

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Re: Dodgy Antler

I had posted the question in a previous post; Notice anything dodgy about one of the antlers?




(antler5.jpg, bottom view) - This "mount" is wired and bolted together from two separate whitetail deer racks. For those who are not that familiar with antlers; there should be only two.
:)
:E


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Finally; Meet my Lego Mini-Me.

Update March 27/06: This mini]-me is my avatar at a couple of online spaces, including Etribe.ca

The Mini-MizerLego person generator
Mini-Mizer home



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My Current Antler Collection

*Minus fragmentary pieces and any individual antlers that are currently incorporated into various sculptural objects and mixed-media pieces.Click for larger detail.*
The rattle that I am building for my Second Bingorage Art Giveaway will, probably, incorporate one of the Whitetail-deer beams, here. The metal ruler is a standard 12"/30cm. By the way... Notice anything "Dodgy"?
;)





















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Foreword to "Case of the Rainbow Motel"

Here's a link to the updated text of the Foreword and a short Introduction at The Rainbow Motel blog

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New poem reading and text:

Audioblogger post of poem, "Slow is the Wound", at Drip and Spew 'blog



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Miss Loontrout, etcetera - Process

I had posted a small collage of the process of this piece a while back, but I wanted to make a posting with more detail. The piece started as a modelling clay model for a mask (of which two papier-mache copies were eventually made).

At the same time I had a canvas that hadn't been assigned to any project: I had incorporated papier mache and canvas before, but no paper pieces this big and I've been looking forward to experimenting more with it.

Mixing various media with the canvas and painting is a path that I'm continuing to explore.



This is a bad pic of the current state of affairs. I'll repost a better pic, when available. In this pic, the whole thing looks like it has shifted to Blue. It hasn't. Man, I hope that this new dig. cam starts to impress me, because all it's done so far is p*ss me off. It's such a battery hog that a cheap pair of batteries won't last two minutes in it. grrr


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Eric's been a busy little beaver

The Bingorage template got an overhaul, last night; in conjunction with the blossoming of the Bingorage Fort Frances Portal. Please let me know what you think of the changes, if you've been here, before. If you are a new visitor, definitely let me know what you think. Take a stroll around. Bear & Salmon Woodcut print<<<<<<< MPLS, '99?

The image in the new background is an old Logo sketch for Broken Vulture Art that's been kicking around for 6+years. The banner at the top of the page is a distorted view of the Bingorage office.


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Another poem of mine (text)...

I lust after the barmaid of six thousand admirers

at my "Bouncer's Lament" blog

Arkansas meth addicts seem to be collecting arrowheads

Associated Press article link.

"It is very troubling, for a variety of reasons, that the culture of meth use has embraced the idea of collecting relics," Dr. Early said. "I know that people using methamphetamine are out collecting at sites. Some have been digging at rock shelters in the Ozarks."


It seems that zoned-out meth-heads have the ability and the obsessive compulsion to spend hours and hours, scouring a piece of ground, inch by inch; in order to find arrowheads.



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My bud, Ryan, doing a script reading in the Falls, October 13/05

His blog. Ryan and I are working towards other mischief. Updates soon.


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The Heard (museum) is a champion of contemporary art by Native Americans.

Full article from June 13,2004 from "The Arizona Republic"

"Its collection of artifacts is first rate; its work with Native peoples and sensitivity to Indian concerns have placed the museum in the forefront of such issues as repatriation of Native artifacts..."
Paintings of the '80s and early '90s spoke to issues of identity. That was important at the time, but now they are thinking more globally, crossing over into the wider conversation about art."...The people who come (to the Heard) are much more interested in feathers and beads," Walkingstick says, "but the Heard has always encouraged people to look at contemporary art and what and who an Indian artist is."


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New Digital camera

Hey, hey, hey. I gots my new digital camera. This is the premiere pic off of it. When I figure it out, the pics will improve. You may recognize these physiognomies from previous postings, now painted. (Actually, a version of the "clown" face appears in the Mrs. Loontrout/Mr. & Mrs. Crackpenguin painting. An update of which I will soon post.)



Update on september11: This new dig. cam is a real battery hog; it's killing all the cheap batteries I had laying about for remote controls, etc. Time to upgrade to fusion batteries

:)


update march 27/06: I now use rechargeable batteries, and it's holding up well.


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A couple of slide scans from the Minneapolis days.

This first slide is of a piece called Mukwa, Grandfather. Or, at least I think it is. This is from an early show at the Two Rivers Gallery, maybe around 1996?

I gotta check my facts... nah, that can wait. The original look of the piece is beyond the capability of a slide scan to reproduce (on my tech budget), but the scan itself has some merit as an object. The original was acrylic on a very large piece of Stonehenge paper; about 3' x 4.5'.


The second piece is a slide scan of a painting called Yeah; So I'm a Mutant..
This piece was/is in the possession of the photographer, Ms. Dallinger. If you know who you are, or who she is, get her to email me.

Anyways,it was the first painting that i finished, after moving into my first "studio space" in Minneapolis, in the basement of the no-longer-there Second Story Books (run by Gwen on Cedar Avenue.) Just a stone's throw from The Palm Club.

It is pretty dark, but click on it to get a larger, more detailed pic.




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My first audioblogger post

Is actually posted at my Drip and Spew blog. I think that will be the place for my literary venting. It's a reading of the poem Delirium; While searching For The ex-Mrs. Poet.


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Second Bingorage Art Giveaway Contest !!!!

Hello 'ragers.

The first Bingorage Art Giveaway was a success. Two unframed paintings were sent out: one to Seabeck, WA and the other across the river to International Falls.


For the second Bingorage Art Giveaway, I've decided to send out a Whitetail Deer antler/rawhide rattle and a painting. I'll be going deer-hunting at the end of October and should be able to get new supplies for the rattle.(NB: The rattle, below, is a sample. The Giveaway rattle will be a simpler two-piece rattle head, with a unique antler handle. I'll post pics as it develops.) The painting will be a Thingie on Stonehenge paper.


I'll make the draw in that order (rattle, painting), using the same methodology that I used for the first Giveaway:
Assign each entry a number and use the random.org site to generate two numbers, corresponding to an entrant. Let's make a date for the next draw: November 20, 2005. That should give me time after deer hunt to finish and get it to you by X-mas.



As in the first Giveaway: This is a BS-free zone. No entry fees, no shipping and handling, no spam database-building, etcetera. [The tip jar, however, is always open for business ;) ]

So. A clarification: To enter the Bingorage Giveaway, send an email to brokenvultureart@gmail.com,
with"contest" in the subject line. There is a link in the sidebar. Thanx.


Okay, 'Ragers... Spread the word.


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Yay. Bingorage contest winners speak out.

Good afternoon Eric,

I just received Sun Worshipper, and I wanted to let you know that it arrived
safe and unscathed. Your painting is even more gorgeous in hand! Thank you so
much - we're going to frame it before we hang it so we can be sure that it is
properly protected. You've got two new fans for life.

Warm regards,

Jade and Peter

From Seabeck, WA


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Drip and Spew loves the RLH

One of the great dives of Northwestern Ontario




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The West Bank School of Art

Pics click 4 enlargement and detail.

An experiment in coo-op studio/gallery that didn't quite work out.
Our little storefront interior, on Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis.1999/2000AD?


The cowskull and the woodcut print cards are mine. I think that twisty metal sculpture is one of my pieces, too, but not sure.

As you can see from the interior, there wasn't much room. In fact, the space had been an alley between two buildings that had been walled off and had a roof put over it. Cool little space. It had been a skateboarder/tagger shop before we got it and probably a hair salon before (I think the hair dryer chair was there, but I'm not sure.
We had crammed 60+ people, a keg AND a band in there a few times. One time somebody got a little carried away and started destroying the furniture. Well... that happened all the time, but it was hard to tell.

When a Young Man's Fancy Turns (Created and first displayed at WBSA)

As it turned out, I was not very good at sharing studio space and didn't play well with others; throwing a tomahawk at somebody else's painting was probably the last straw, before I was invited to leave.

The place went on for a while, maintained by various people. I managed to remain on good terms with most of them and stayed in the twin cities until 2003.

(an untitled woodcut print for card, made in WBSA)>>>

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Update: Crack-Penguin Creation Myth

I had posted this pic before, but have reposted a better scan of the photo.
Sept.14 update: I have rehosted this pic at ZOTO.com Click pic for enlargement page, click again on new page for super-duper enlargement
:)




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Best commentary on the hurricane I've heard yet. NSFW (language)

If your ears are delicate, don't follow this link.
Kids... go play in the archives.

Foamy the squirrel.



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