The Old Sea Captain Vs. The Ancestral Jay

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I had said that this painting reminded me of an Ojibway archetype; an essential battle, a terrifying synergy between water and sky on a big lake or other substantial expanse of water. The mythological imagery that leaps to mind is the purported enmity between the Thunderbirds and Mizhepezhou.

In this canvas, the water role is played by the "Old Sea Captain"; A bushy-lookin', clay-pipe chompin', twisted and dehumanised Davy Jones mutey (mutant, not speechless).

He is spewing/projecting some offensive force that penetrates and defeats "The Ancestral Jay", a now-extinct corvid of dubious anatomy.

Part 1



Part 2

After stretching and fixing the canvas onto the boxframe, I mixed various blues, green and white to make a turqoisey colour for the background. Using the handle of my paintbrush, I "scratched" a quick sketch into the wet paint.

Honestly; the canvas didn't look like much after first paint. The scratch lines were traced with grays and whites, dull sage greens. When I started throwing paint at the hair, it began to change.

Adding black, hard lines to the Sea Captain turned it from a full profile to a partially straight-on face. Dripping paint reinforced the throat lines of the bird.

Introducing the pipe nearly obliterated the jaw, which had been defined with thick, hard, dark lines. It reaches far into "our" space; the bowl becoming the foremost foreground.

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Detail pics of the Old Sea Captain and The Ancestral Jay, before the solid, tube-squeezed lines and dots of the final changes.

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Joe Rogan, discussing #OWS on his great podcast.


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updated "Interdimensional Mallard ..." New vid - Jan7/2011

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Interdimensional Mallard and the Mystical Piranha-Crappie-Halibut Hybrid
Now asking 4700. Continental North America. International inquiries email for shipping quote.
Sponsorship piece; proceeds split between Spirit Fire Park and Broken Vulture Art.



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Current Incarnation



January 4,2010



human character



Interdimensional Mallard



fish element



eye detail



worm detail



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More Kevin Smith? Sciencey stuff. Windigo Skull evolution.

Link to older Kevin Smith article at SlashFilm, re:new film "Red State", SmodCastle and emerging SmodCast empire. Related BingoRage post, "Sturgeon Mama and her Dream Lover..."

Red State of the Union Q&A`s, at SmodCast.

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Science-based paredolia?

A slab of Swiss marble in an Italian church, appears to contain a physical cross-section of a skull, like you may see in a "CATscan". The article calls it a "dinosaur skull" in the title and body.



I was prepared to accept that and keep surfing, but noticed that paleontologist Paul Sereno is quoted with a skeptical flavour:

"While definitely a fossil, I cannot say what it is. I do not definitively see teeth. There is some bone texture, but other areas look double-layered, unlike typical cranial bone," Sereno told Discovery News.

It was then, that the gears in my head began to turn.

Marble is a highly metamorphic marine-based sedimentary rock. Could a fossil skull survive the metamorphic process of marble formation?

If it is a fossil skull, but not a dinosaur, then what? Whale, mosasaur, fish? How old is the marble? (about 190 million years old).

If it is not a skull, then what is it? A random and highly convoluted twist of inclusionary silica, sawn at a fortunate angle when freed from a mountainside in Switzerland? If it had been cut, one inch up or down the presumptive vertical axis of the "skull", would it disappear in the winding tangle of whitish veins, like buried porcelain turbulence?



I am convinced that it is an actual fossil. It is a testament to the great time and history that the piece has endured that the fracture in the marble has torn the feature in half, by twisting it such as one may tear a French baguette.

Unlike the proverbial jesus-inna-slice-a-burnt-toast, a putative dino-skull-inna-church-slab is not just a matter of personal interpretation and faith, but can be confirmed with observation and evidence. CTscans, excavation (traditional paleontological specimen preparation), MRI, matching this piece with the "second cross-section" fragment mentioned in the article.

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While at duck camp, I continued to work on the clay and foam model that was the basis of the halloween Windigo Skull, papier-mache cast. It eventually turned into the piece that I left with the guys at Anurag... "Windigo Skull Evolution". I added the subtitle "primitif/modern/reptile", to the video clip.

Many ducks were had this fall; less so than if the bad weather had arrived when it should. Deer camp was hobbled by the unseasonably warm weather, as the deer felt no impetus to move in the non-frigid morning, nor frolic with lusty intent. I did work on a little clay model study, which I will post, later.



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touch of frost

Pics click to enlarge.
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Not sure what this is becoming. I may just let it sit for a bit and concentrate on other things until it starts to say something else.













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Grandma moon; version 2, clay model (three days ago) and start of second paper coat (last night).


Grandma moon; version 1 (touch-ups).


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Screening schedule for new Chris Eyre production, Imprint.

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New exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum in MPLS; Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation. 26 October, 2007 to 13 January, 2008.

City of Nanaimo returns waterfront property to the Snuneymuxw First Nation; a former village site.

Apply to exhibit at Gesai 2007, Miami. Deadline for application is October1, 2007 {receive-application-by deadline, not postmark-deadline}. Artists and students without gallery representation.

Vineyard poster contest

Taxonomists have previously posited that animals are closer to fungi than green-plants, but new evidence suggests that we are closer to ferns than mushrooms.

Maverick former Yellowstone ranger studied Bison in the wild.Part 1.Part 2.

"As individuals, each bison has distinctive roles in the herd and this herd consists of families, extended families, bands, clans and tribes, the same as all indigenous peoples. Families also meant they have to have homes and homes meant they, as extended family groups, had territories to live in and defend. I found out they did not make these homes in areas disruptive to family life development, i.e. watering holes, travel routes and mineral licks used as common ground by all extended families."

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Eight day old road blockade in Manitoba was rammed by a logging skidder.

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Native American Cuisine

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KFAI radio, of the Twin Cities:

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Who's Spinning Who?

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How does a police state come about?... and are we there already? If the evidence fits...

"#9. Dissent equals treason

Cast dissent as "treason" and criticism as "espionage'. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of "spy" and "traitor". When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times' leaking of classified information "disgraceful", while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution...

...We US citizens will get a trial eventually - for now. But legal rights activists at the Center for Constitutional Rights say that the Bush administration is trying increasingly aggressively to find ways to get around giving even US citizens fair trials. "Enemy combatant" is a status offence - it is not even something you have to have done. "We have absolutely moved over into a preventive detention model - you look like you could do something bad, you might do something bad, so we're going to hold you," says a spokeswoman of the CCR.

Most Americans surely do not get this yet. No wonder: it is hard to believe, even though it is true. In every closing society, at a certain point there are some high-profile arrests - usually of opposition leaders, clergy and journalists. Then everything goes quiet. After those arrests, there are still newspapers, courts, TV and radio, and the facades of a civil society. There just isn't real dissent. There just isn't freedom. If you look at history, just before those arrests is where we are now.

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New Native publication seeking input and collaboration:

Osiyo Dohitsu everyone.

I am a native professional freelance writer/photographer in the
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for a long term publication project. Also seeking native individuals
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Look forward to hearing from you.

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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 1:30pm - Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 11:00pm

Al Green Theatre
750 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, ON

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