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Images For Android Phones: Pop Art – Track and Field

Images For Android Phones: Pop Art - Track and Field

The Olympic trials are in full swing. Competition. Endurance. Will. Beauty. Art and sports a Pop Art tradition. London 2012.


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Images For Android Phones: Pop Art: Golf

Images For Android Phones: Pop Art: Golf

Na Yeon Choi takes a swing.


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Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors

Images For Android Phones: A Place To Rest With Colors

a morning trek
so patiently caressed
on winding paths

while colors reach out
with subtle invitation
through angled trees
and grass so lean

the intrepid eye
never at rest
seeking things anew
with every test of step

except for here
under the gazebo
with summer’s warm
– embrace

as i wait for you
– knowingly
feeling at peace
feeling transcendent


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Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)

Images For Android Phones: The Last Moment (A Setting Sun Remix)

sitting on the beach
with the cooling sand
caressing my sandaled feet

mind and body
feeling bonded
with this very moment

the last moment
– here
with the setting sun
and you

while my joy
– and clouds
join in blended
transformation

leaving the waves
a fluid surrender
to a day ending


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Images For Android Phones: Flow Goes The Night (A Being There Remix)

Images For Android Phones: Flow Goes The Night (A Being There Remix)

A late night drive. Alone. Afraid. One last stop. The next to last exit. The very next turn. Into the dark of yesterday. Leaving the light of knowing behind. Only to find the last stop had no answers to sell.


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Images For Android Phones: Monday Afternoon

Images For Android Phones: Monday Afternoon

There is a classic ambient piece by Brian Eno entitled Thursday Afternoon. An one hour shimmering landscape in the style of Music For Airports. This piece Monday Afternoon was created on Tuesday night while listening to Pandora Radio on my Droid phone. Slowly revisiting the drive into Savannah, GA. And the crossing of this remarkable bridge. Beautiful Sunshine. Warm atmosphere. Cool wind. Simmering heat.


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Images For Android Phones: Beach Self Portrait 6.19.12

Images For Android Phones: Beach Self Portrait 6.19.12

A Tybee Island beach remix 2012


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Images For Android Phones: Every Pop-Art Moment Needs A Self Portrait

Images For Android Phones: Every Pop-Art Moment Needs A Self Portrait

It’s so sixties hitting the beach. Sunrise, ocean, girls and guys. Bright colors, water ice and boardwalks. Bikinis. Everything’s pop. Everything’s art. On the pier, it’s Andy Warhol. With the Beach Boys surfing, and free love everywhere. And you know … it’s soon to be groovy. With guest appearances by Frankie Avalon, The Beatles, my favorite cousin, Godzilla and Twiggy. And now … It feels like yesterday as I move into Warrior pose and Sun Salutation. Power to the people.


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Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art In Motion

Images For Android Phones: Pop-Art In Motion

Revisiting the past and spinning brakes. A life without a caution. Pop goes the art. Over the cliff. Off the road. And Crash. Red meets blue and yellow finds green. Andy Warhol’s last thoughts. Wheels turning effortlessly as the years mount up. There’s a story here … And a Pontiac Bonnerville circa 1967.


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Images For Android Phones: To Each Expression Of Love A Flower

Images For Android Phones: To Each Expression Of Love A Flower

in your garden
– through spring
where you sustain
all things
like the flower
in bloom
– for only
forever


Nothing You Ever Do Is Collected In One Moment (A Two Worlds Collide Remix)

Perfection can be found over time when you follow your instincts….

Two worlds collide

Something other than remaining…

I often wonder when a work of art is finished. What defines a piece as being complete; needing no further creative intervention on the part of the artist? Perhaps nothing (completion) is ever collected in one moment. If as artists, we seek to embrace the process, then it is possible that perfection is truly the antithesis to what we hope to accomplish; the creation of great art, the connection with self, and the freedom to allow instinct to govern.

Instinct is a mystery. It has no ending. No point at which it is defined.

When I create a work of art, I first view it as a part of a whole. That whole being one that is infinite.

 – A life time of creating.

That which is the part of a whole, only serves to contribute to a never-ending journey; the idea of nurturing the creative instinct that lies within the realm of the visceral. While at times abandoning conscious decision-making.

Sometimes it serves us well to know that the perfection that is born of one’s decision, is not the perfection that is found over time …

In the end trust in the mystery….


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Images For Android Phones: After Digital Art What’s Next

Images For Android Phones: After Digital Art What's Next

32 bit
Data
Paintings
Color
RAM
Pixels
Art
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Images For Android Phones: We’re At A Gallery With Another Distinct World In A Frame

Images For Android Phones: We're At A Gallery With Another Distinct World In A Frame

rushing to make
a first friday night
someone’s art
– and
someone’s poem
in a distinct
world
all their own


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Images For Android Phones: Post Canvas and Paint (A Pop-Art Remix)

Images For Android Phones: Post Canvas and Paint (A Pop-Art Remix)

An abstract form of art becomes a pop-art form of art becomes a post canvas and paint form of art becomes a digital form of art….
What’s next?


A Spark Of Life Revealing Itself

The patterned floor of my imagination led me to the light…

Moving towards the light from places unknown

like a maze

 – it felt

when i walked

toward myself

and

into the light


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Images For Android Phones: The Abandoned House And The Darkness Of My Room

Images For Android Phones: The Abandoned House And The Darkness Of My Room

across the street
their memories abandoned
the years in view
slipping away
fading to and fro
weathered by the storms
and dreams
long since gone


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Images For Android Phones: The House On The Corner

Images For Android Phones: The House On The Corner

it was a house
not un-like
the others
decaying
dying
without a word
of remembrance


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Images For Android Phones: The Point In Pop-Art

Images For Android Phones: The Point In Pop-Art

drinking … a coke
stencil … spray paint
and colored pencil in hand
visiting NYC
seeing marilyn
and talking with jean michel
– basquiat
and wondering
where in the world
andy
warhol
has gone … without me


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Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – 06.07.12

Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes - 06.07.12

it’s raining outside
– like colors
and things
with shapes
i haven’t seen


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Today 02

Weekly Photo Challenge: Today 02

Another photograph from today’s visit to the animal park Hollywild. It’s feeding time.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Today

Weekly Photo Challenge: Today

A visit to the wild-life park Hollywild in South Carolina. A showcase of beautiful animals.


A Post Written With Random Thoughts

Sometimes a post is worth less than a thousand words….

A random image for random thoughts

It is a struggle sometimes to keep up with the pace of life. Better to find a moment of peace. I often think about things too much. For too long. Finding only temporary distraction when I am far too busy. Doing almost nothing of any true importance. Like discovering an insignificant place in time. Is it me, I seek to know? Or a vision of something that holds me captive? It is, perhaps (on a good day) all about waking to the dream that belongs to someone else. Feeling something. Something amiss in my own interpretation. Somewhere in the lost-not-found.

And then…

Feeling a strong sense of delight. In awe. The things inescapable. Like the beauty of a rising sun, an intrepid step, or a moon-filled night.

Then there is of course the consequence of not following the plan. Any plan. Failing to listen to destiny. My destiny.

And now…

It feels like I’ve just begun to say something….


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The City Series: First Published Book

The City Series: First Published Book

I just received the first copy of my self-published book: n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s – art for posts: the city series. It is a 20 page volume of art, prose and poetry. The print quality is very good. And I am pleased with the final product.


The Waking Dream That Brings Such Beautiful Light

Sometimes it only takes a moment to feel a dream has something to say….

The waking dream in the morning light

a soft moment …

of transition

– sleeping in slumber

– waking in peace

an ethereal awareness

here

now

– in the present moment

centered

in an intuitive way

 – to life

 – to meaning

a very dreaming day …


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