December 22 2014
Yesterday marked the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year with only 9 hours and 44 minutes of sunlight. Definitely vegetable soup and hot tea weather. I figured out that if I wear 3 flannel shirts verses one I can stay warmer. I have these dickie turtlenecks. Here is the guy from National Lampoon's Vacation Movie wearing a dickie:
I tried wearing 3 dickes at one time; thinking it would keep me warmer but I found it felt like I was being choked. I really like scarfs. My wife made some scarfs years ago out of fleece material. You can actually make scarfs from just strips of fabric. You can wrap your self up like a mummy with them babies. You can combine the effect with a warm winter hat only having your eye balls showing. I also found out this year that all those socks that have holes in them can be work upside down and in layers; also to stay warm. 5 layers of socks anyone?
All our little inexpensive gifts are under our tree and our special foods are waiting till Christmas day. I can not wait till Christmas this year; more than most years. I am missing time together with my wife allot more also and it seems like we can not stop talking to each other when we are together; more than usually. I think I am getting more sentimental in my old age.
December 15 2014
I like songs with many parts, long songs. That is probable why I like Black Metal and Classical music so much. My wife was singing a song and we got into a discussion about it; like we do many times. I found out about Fatboy Slim - Praise You from my wife coming home from work singing it. I was like what is that song you are singing. I have to ask her what she is singing many times in case she is singing a cool new song I do not know about. We started talking about Robert Palmer last week. Everyone knows about Robert Palmer/Simply Irresistible, but I remember him for this multi part song that last's almost 10 minutes. I love this remake of the Little Feat song:
Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.
It was so cool in the 1970's; the radio was amazing. Just to think a radio station playing a song that lasted almost 10 minutes is awesome too.
Another song I love that is long and has many parts is Yes - "Starship Trooper". I liked it so much I put it in my 3d animation Flyboy by Artist of website Radman Art spring 2004. I had the full version at the end but I had to shorten it because of a copyright warning. This is a very cool song and was one of Yes's first albums in 1971.
I emailed a email about the Robert Palmer song and the discussion between my wife and I last week to my mom and I decided to blog about it this week. Then I thought well how could I tie it to Christmas. Then I realized that there is this Christmas song that is long with multi parts: Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys. They used to play this song during Christmas on the radio when I was growing up. The references through out the song about toys and wishes reminds me of Christmas; the song is over 11 minutes.
Speaking of Christmas songs that are (very cool) here are some on my favorites from when I was growing up.
Let me just say really quick that I always mention copyright warnings practically ruining my animations I made in college... not true
Hey we Sicilians get emotional about our art especially when it comes to Maya rendered 3d art that takes weeks.
My Sicilian aunt had a house on Crystal Lake, in my home town. Have you ever swam in a perfect lake any time of year you pleased? With docks and rope swings? I have swam in that lake when it was body temperature warm; many times, I am talking perfect temperature for the human body. You become a part of nature it seemed like. The perfection of that was so awesome and left a indelible imprint on my life as a child and into my early teens. That and my dad's in ground pool, that's another story. That aunt and uncle that owned that house are some of the greatest people I have been acquainted with in this life. Their grandchildren are amazing too. When you strive for perfection only the Beatles should accompany my animations. So do not mind me if I get too proud.
Ok, so you see I am trying to say where my genealogical line wants to swim is how you should judge how much of a perfectionist I am. Lol. I did not mention swimming at Hammonasset state beach with my mom from 1960's to 1980 and swimming off of Fort Lauderdale Florida when the water was crystal clear a quarter mile out from the soft white sandy beaches before 1979.
Back to me gripping about removing music from my animations: Since I made these in a public college for a grade I should be exempt from copyright laws. Also all my songs were edits and mixes at best and should also be exempt for that reason.
All I can say is thanks to YouTube; I have a reason to blog. One of my favorite things to talk about is music besides art. With out YouTube I would not be able to update this blog every week, like I do.
Best Top Way Cool Christmas Songs of All Time:
This song is amazing because it reveals a sensitive side to one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. I grew up on Jethro Tull and am better for it. I owned one of his first albums ever when I was 14 years old and it used to blow me away:
Benefit is the third album by Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan – though he was not yet a permanent member of the group – and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick. It reached No. 3 in the UK album charts.
The song Inside is my favorite song on the Benefit album. Listening to that song right now really makes me feel a little like 14 years old again.
This is a hard to find song! Yes Jetho Tull made a Christmas album. I am talking about that song that freaked me out as a child. The song is from Living in the Past Album:
Living in the Past is a double album quasi-compilation collection by Jethro Tull
Living in the Past was released in 1979
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdalBvgNAxI
Next is Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon:
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DYMyztFQHM
Next is from a guy who's songs I know by heart and sing them every once and a while, I know by heart almost the entire song Born to Run and bought that album when it first came out. The thing is he recorded it in Santa Claus in Coming To Town in 1979, a prime time for music. I swear I heard it on the radio before it was officially released.
Recorded at a Long Island gig in December 1975, Bruce Springsteen released the song as the B-Side to "My Hometown" in 1985 and it quickly became a holiday staple.
The date makes this song ultra cool:
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57uPgRkiII
Then there is this one The Kinks - Father Christmas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaPXihbORk
December 08 2014
This just happened a few minutes ago and I thought it made a neat story. I was playing ball with my dog yesterday and we lost the ball. I threw it and at first he seemed confused at where the ball was. Then he came running back to me and he usually circles around me and drops it near me. I thought he had found the ball and brought it to me. I immediately started to look for the ball. I could not find it. I said to him where's your ball? This usually works as a quick fix. I looked where I threw it, then back to where I was standing and back again, about 6 times. After about 25 minutes I gave up. I went inside and told my wife. She had to go so I could not go out and look for it on my own at that time because I had to see her out. I had a lot to do that morning as always; so I forgot about it. When she came home I went out and looked for it again and could not find it. Keep in mind we have not done our yearly raking and the leafs are making it tough. This morning my wife took the dog out and she told me the dog was jumping up and touching the spruce tree. Apparently the ball was stuck in the tree and he got it down. Cool huh?
I do not know about you but I live and breath soup during the cold winter mouths. I use many different seasonings in my soups that I have found recommended on the internet. I like to use a small amount of bullion cube rather than the whole cube. I recently started crushing the cube with a spoon in a ball and keeping it in a small container to use little at a time. I really do not need that much bullion because I use so my other seasonings and different vegetables. I like to open a can of spinach for instance and use it for four servings of soup combined with many other different soups. That is another reason I am able to stay my thin in shape self. I love to eat but I am realizing as I get older in order to maintain my weight as healthy as I can it is not how much I eat but what I eat. So the reason I am posting this is because I discovered this awesome form of chicken bullion that may last all year. It is bullion in a powder form and tastes really great.
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| This is the kind I got except I got chicken. Ham sounds good though. |
I hope every one stays nice and warm all winter this year. It is a art to stay warm all the time in the winter for sure. Being from the north east I have a leg up on all my Texas buddies with dealing with winter. Remember the reason we all get sick in the winter is because the cold weather weakens our immune system and then germs infect us all the more easily. That is my theory. So everyone stay warm and cozy this winter and spread some happiness when ever and where ever you can. Helping each other is how the settlers survived and populated the western portion of our great country; besides that is the American way*.
Cold and windy one day, sunny and relatively warm the next. The wacky weather patterns leave your immune system in a state of constant adjustment. Build your natural defense with these immune-boosting simple tips, and you may just emerge into warmer spring days without having taken a sick day!
I like Doctor Oz thanks' Oprah
I loved his story on belly fat. He mentioned black tea and it really works and it keeps you warm too.
The American way of life, or simply the American way, is the unique lifestyle, real or imagined, of the people living in the United States of America. It refers to a nationalist ethos that purports to adhere to principles of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." At the center of the American way is the American Dream, the idea that upward mobility is achievable by any American through hard work. This concept is intertwined with the concept of American exceptionalism, the notion that the American way is only possible in the U.S. because of the unique culture of the nation.
This way of life, which developed from the 17th century onward, is an example of a behavioral modality, a set of behavioral norms which develops in a group.
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.[1] The phrase gives three examples of the "unalienable rights" which the Declaration says has been given to all human beings by their Creator, and for which governments are created to protect.
Sometimes hours after I post something; I think of something funny about something I posted. I usually never post it but this time I will. This is me, he, he: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-VrlyQECos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2MODC20rjw
Oliver had a high opinion of farmers in theory; he often made a speech in which he referred to "crops shooting up out of the ground" (which his wife, Lisa, in her Hungarian accent, repeated as "crops shooting out of the ground") and other platitudes about rural life, which on the program was invariably accompanied by a background of patriotic music (Yankee Doodle to be exact); other characters frequently searched for the source of the music. found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Douglas
also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Acres
I thought of this while I was watching : http://www.epixhd.com/movie/louis-ck-hilarious/ he was saying something like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E
How could anybody not be amazed by the internet? That is hilarious.
December 02 2014
I really liked doing my make the world a better place blog here on; November 18 2014. I realized after I posted the graphic that it would make a great skateboard graphic. One of the projects I did that really stood out to my professor in college was my skateboard graphic project that had profound writing on it; done in Photoshop. This project was done in my portfolio class for graphic design. That class was so hard; I only took that one class that semester, and devoted all my time to that class. It had a reputation that other school mates of mine warned me before I took it You know; that kind of class. I have been thinking about what to blog on and decided about a week and a half ago that I should do a blog on peace. This is the time of year that peace on earth is the topic of Christmas and seems more popular.
Some quotes come to mind to me immediately:
I love Rod Stewart and his albums from the 1970's are amazing with such melody that rivals the Beatles. This one song was so impressive I made a animation of a peace sign for my first 3d class with Tom Ottinger. You are very fortunate to have this guy teach your class. I posted the animation to YouTube, but because of the copyright warning I took the song out of the animation. Click here to see something someone posted here.
I quote the song Seems Like A Long Time Lyrics from the album Every Picture Tells a Story released in 1971:
"War time is only the other side of peace time
but if you've ever seen how wars are won
you know what it's like to wish peace time would come"
Then there is "all we are saying is give peace a chance" by John Lennon. You could not get through Christmas one year when I was growing up without hearing that song on the radio and grooving to it in unison.
"Give Peace a Chance" is a song written by John Lennon.
It is the first solo single issued by Lennon, released when he was still a member of the Beatles, and became an anthem of the American anti-war movement during the 1970s.
The song was written during Lennon's 'Bed-In' honeymoon in Montreal, Canada. When asked by a reporter what he was trying to achieve by staying in bed, Lennon answered spontaneously "Just give peace a chance".
The compilation includes many of Lennon's most popular solo recordings, five of which had not yet appeared on an album: "Cold Turkey", "Instant Karma!", "Power to the People", the holiday single "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and "Give Peace a Chance".
here are some cool quotes I personally picked from the internet:
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal”
- John Lennon
“Peace is the only battle worth waging”
- Albert Camus
“Peace is always beautiful”
- Walt Whitman
“Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding”
- Albert Einstein
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace”
- Jimi Hendrix
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
— Buddha (560-483 B.C.)
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
— Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
— Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
It is possible to live in peace.
— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Peace is the respect for the rights of others. (El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz ).
— Benito Juarez (1806-1872)
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
— Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
— Matthew, 5:9
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
— Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
— A.J. Muste (1885-1967)
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
— Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Peace will be victorious.
— Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995)
All works of love are works of peace.
— Mother Theresa (1910-1997)
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
November 24 2014
We have our Turkey and are ready to eat. We always buy our Thanksgiving gear 1 month before Thanksgiving. It started when we used to buy the pre cooked Texas smoked turkey breast, it ran out fast. Now we buy the cheapest Turkey we can get. We learned how to make a golden brown, perfect, turkey; thanks to the internet. I think the trick is to baste it with a big spoon. I tried a suction cup baster and a brush and have found a big spoon used carefully is the best bet. Sometimes I bring a chair over to the oven; so I can concentrate better. Yams, turkey stuffing and pumpkin pie are must have's around here. We need lots of plastic containers for left over dinners.
I was raised on the first Thanksgiving story of the pilgrims and how they struggled through the winter to survive. After making friends with the Native Americans the pilgrims learned to live with the terrain of the rugged north east coast. I learned that the first Thanksgiving feast was a result of the Native Americans making friends with the pilgrims. Thanksgiving is born from peace.
November 18 2014
I think every person on earth can make their world, and in turn, thee world; a better place. Here is some quotes I found on the internet. :
Make a difference in yourself, for the better. ~Hansoul Kim
Make it a habit to respect everyone. ~Margarita Medina
Be kind to others. ~ Ana Stuckart
“Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
“Don’t worry—everything is going to be awesome!” ~Horatio
Lee Jenkins
Speak without saying a word. ~Ralph Rocha
Helen Keller said, "I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and just because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Daniel H. Pink
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
Sidney Sheldon
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
Carrie Underwood
Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
Naveen Jain
Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
Jeff Kinney
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
Patricia Cornwell
If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
Alonzo Mourning
You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
Paul Allen
For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
Jody Williams
I made it into wallpaper:
November 11 2014:
I combined Radman_Art pages VI and VII and cut this page in half so it will load faster from now on. You can see the other half of this page here: Radman_Art Blog Homepage Part I
I was happy to see the flags outside yesterday when I was out with my wife.
Who are my favorite veterans?
Well the first one that comes to mind is:
Clinton Romesha:
I posted this on February 11, 2013:
David Jackson, USA TODAY3:49p.m. EST February 11, 2013: Clinton Romesha led a battle to defend a U.S. outpost in rural Afghanistan in 2009. President Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor Monday to a U.S. soldier who led a counterattack in Afghanistan after he and his comrades were asked to "defend the indefensible." Clinton Romesha, a former Army staff sergeant, earned the Medal of Honor for leading the defense of a plywood-and-concrete outpost dangerously placed in a valley of the Afghanistan mountains, and staffed by only 53 American troops. More than 300 Taliban fighters attacked Combat Outpost Keating from above on Oct. 3, 2009. Throughout a day-long firefight, Romesha led efforts to beat back the Taliban after some of its fighters penetrated the camp. The outpost "sat at the bottom of a steep valley," Obama said, and a later investigation determined that the surrounding mountain terrain "gave ideal cover for insurgents to attack." That investigation also found that Camp Outpost Keating "was tactically indefensible," Obama said. "But that's what these soldiers were asked to do, defend the indefensible." Eight soldiers died in the battle and 22 were wounded, including Romesha. CNN anchor Jake Tapper wrote about the attack in his book,The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. Romesha, 31, who sustained shrapnel words, cited the "loss of our battle buddies" in a statement to reporters after the Medal of Honor ceremony, saying he has "mixed emotions of both joy and sadness," and is "feeling conflicted with this medal I now wear." He added: "I accept this tremendous honor on behalf of all soldiers who have served with me that day. This award is for the eight soldiers that didn't make it and for the rest of the team that fought valiantly and magnificently that day. I will forever be humbled by their bravery, their commitment to service and their loyalty to one another." At the White House ceremony, Obama described Romesha as "a pretty humble guy" who was born in Lake City, Calif., a town of less than 100 people. Now retired from the military, Romesha works in the oil fields of North Dakota. This is not even the biggest event of Romesha's week, Obama joked, as he and his wife celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. In describing why Romesha deserves the Medal of Honor, Obama said he "gathered up his guys" after the Taliban invaded the outpost, "and they began to fight their way back -- storming one building and then another, pushing the enemy back, having to actually shoot up at the enemy in the mountains above." Amid fire and smoke, Obama said, "Clint stood in the doorway calling in airstrikes that shook the earth all around them." In saluting all of the Americans at Camp Outpost Keating, Obama repeated that one of the lessons "is that our troops should not -- ever -- be put in a position where they have to defend the indefensible." He added: "That's what these soldiers did for each other in sacrifice driven by pure love."
Then there is: Audie Leon Murphy:
(20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. The 19-year-old Murphy received the Medal of Honor after single-handedly holding off an entire company of Germans for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
Top ten Audie Murphy Movies, The Unforgiven, The Red Badge of Courage, To Hell and Back, Column South, No Name On The Bullet, Battle at Bloody Beach, The Duel at Silver Creek, Night Passage, Destry, The Cimarron Kid.
Then there is Patrick Henry:
In August 1775, Henry was commissioned as colonel of the 1st Virginia Regiment. At the outset of the Revolutionary War, Henry led militia against the Royal Governor Lord Dunmore in defense of some disputed gunpowder, an event known as the Gunpowder Incident.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, he is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
Then there is Captain Joseph Wadsworth the guy that hid the charter oak document in the hollow oak tree in Hartford Connecticut my home state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_Oak
"For over two centuries the name of Hartford has been linked with the Charter Oak. Every school boy has read of Captain Joseph Wadsworth and looked upon him as a genuine hero in homespun"
"Captain Joseph Wadsworth, says that he slept at that place in a hollow tree on the night that the Charter was taken from Andros."
The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until it fell during a storm in 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hyll, in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. According to tradition, Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 was hidden within the hollow of the tree to thwart its confiscation by the English governor-general. The oak became a symbol of American independence and is commemorated on the Connecticut State Quarter.
then there is Paul Revere:
Paul Revere December 21, 1734 O.S. – May 10, 1818 was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride".
Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year.
Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels.
Then there is my dad who served in the United States Air force during the Vietnam Conflict:
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| This is a photo of my dad with his Air Force gear on in Montana where he was stationed and where I was born.  This is where I was born, cool huh? High ranking Air Force doctors delivered me into this world. My mom has the paperwork and sent me a email on it. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmstrom_Air_Force_Base |
Then there is my Grandfather, my wife's dad and her brother who is amazing and latter worked on advance weaponry for Pratt & Whitney.
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| And last but not least my favorite veteran ever; is my wife who served active duty in Killeen Texas in the early 1990's. |
November 5 2014
My wife was watching this show on TV and I thought; isn't that a simple truth that anyone can use any time of the day. We have been getting a free preview of Nick Jr on Dish and Yo Gabba Gabba! comes on that channel.
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| go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0oIZ8Zk3g to watch something happy on happy YouTube |
This song is from episode 105 called Sleep, aired on August 07 2007
From good old Wikipedia:
Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American puppet children's television show starring five costumed toys-come-to-life and their friend DJ Lance Rock. The Gabba gang explores a single topic in each episode like "Adventure", "Friend", and "Dance" through songs and short storylines in the 24-minute program. The show is noted for indie-culture guest stars and bands and drawing visual inspiration from 8-bit video games and H. R. Pufnstuf among other classic television shows. Created by Christian Jacobs (lead singer of the Aquabats) and Scott Schultz, the show is written to appeal to children and their parents. The television program has spawned a touring live stage show, various toys and branded clothing.
Yo Gabba Gabba! did not get much attention until it started circulating on the Internet. Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, saw the pilot online and recommended it to Brown Johnson, the executive vice president and executive creative director of Nickelodeon Preschool. Yo Gabba Gabba! premiered on Nickelodeon on August 20, 2007.
I have seen the artwork for this cartoon in Juxtopoz Magazine my favorite art magazine that I subscribe to many times while attending college.
This person might be the artist I saw. I found this here: bloglovin
We are enjoying the work of New York-based multi-disciplinary artist Saiman Chow. Throughout his career Saiman has collaborated with Yo Gabba Gabba, Converse, Diesel, Adidas, Nike, the New York Times and many others. He immigrated to the US from Hong Kong as a teenager and studied illustration at Art Center College of Design.
So think happy thoughts everyday everyone, and our world will be a better place for it.
October 30 2014
Happy Halloween
This is Halloween as I have understood since I was a child. I did attend a Catholic School to eighth grade. The history of Halloween is documented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Halloween:
is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.
the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.
According to many scholars, All Hallows' Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals.
Other scholars maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.
Christian influence:
Today's Halloween customs are also thought to have been influenced by Christian dogma and practices derived from it. Halloween falls on the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).
Since the time of the primitive Church, major feasts in the Christian Church (such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost) had vigils which began the night before, as did the feast of All Hallows'. These three days are collectively referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time for honoring the saints and praying for the recently departed souls who have yet to reach Heaven. All Saints was introduced in the year 609, but was originally celebrated on 13 May. In 835, it was switched to 1 November (the same date as Samhain) at the behest of Pope Gregory IV. Some suggest this was due to Celtic influence, while others suggest it was a Germanic idea. It is also suggested that the change was made on the "practical grounds that Rome in summer could not accommodate the great number of pilgrims who flocked to it", and perhaps because of public health considerations regarding Roman Fever – a disease that claimed a number of lives during the sultry summers of the region.
October 27 2014
I love these bands for the music first and foremost. I have two more favorites from MTV2's Music Mix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV2 )that I watch sometimes early in the morning:
I am absolutely amazed at these three young men who are as magically connected the same as Led Zeppelin was when they form their band. These guys are so new they do not have very much information on Wikipedia at all. I will paste what they say:
Benjamin Booker (born June 14, 1989, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Based in New Orleans, he cites The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson, and T. Rex as influences. His music was described by the Chicago Tribune as "a raw brand of blues/boogie/soul,", by The Independent as "frenzied guitar-strumming and raw, soulful vocals that are hair-raising in intensity," and by SPIN as "bright, furious, explosive garage rock.
I absolutely love this music and hope to hear more from them as they mature as a band. The video I saw of which I am providing a link here has a clear message:
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This link shows Benjamin Booker playing (Live on KEXP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HAzhEEjMkY
The next band is the type of band I love that comes out of Europe. They sound just as home town Texas as any Texas modern country band would. The video is cool but I am a live and let live nature lover. When I was a young man my dad would take us camping and he was fanatic about leaving every thing just as we found it. I am that way to this day. My wife is that way too. She insists on letting insects outside no matter how small it is. If rocks stick to her sandals she puts them back outside as well. I believe in fireworks to celebrate Independents Day in a control environment. I don't even mind target shooting or hunting also in a controlled environment. My dad was a avid hunter who looked like Elmore Fudd
when he went hunting. He took me skeet shooting once at his gun club out in the middle of no where. I remember it was a beautiful cabin, I think he had the key to it. He also took me hunting once in a stocked aria that took many hours to get to. My dad was a man who lived his life as example. He would drive the speed limit where ever he went, he was a good man. He would drive 55 all the way to his house in Vermont when we went skiing. Good thing he had good taste in rock music or I would have bad memories from those days. The point I am trying to make about the video and about nature is; it not right to shoot fireworks out of the back of a truck and make noise pollution and tear up the ground with atv's. Besides that this band is amazing to say the least. %2Bradman_art.gif) |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUoDpo2fo to see this down home video |
alt-J (also known as ∆) is an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds, England, by Gwil Sainsbury (guitar/bass), Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals) and Thom Green (drums).
The band's debut album An Awesome Wave was released in May 2012 in Europe[2] and September 2012 in the United States, and won the 2012 British Mercury Prize. Gwil Sainsbury amicably departed the band in early 2014. Their second album, This Is All Yours, was released on 22 September 2014 and went straight to UK number 1. As a replacement for Sainsbury, Cameron Knight will be a support member for alt-J's live shows, playing guitar, bass and sampler.
some lyrics from the song:
Hey, shady baby, I'm hot like the prodigal son
Pick a petal eenie meenie miney moe
And, flower, you're the chosen one
I should comment more on my other favorite video from my October 14 2014 post:
Chet Faker
This is the first video I noticed that I thought deserved me commenting on it on this blog. This song is full of hooks and I love hooks. The flow of this song is unreal. Who is this dude?
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Faker
Chet Faker (born Nicholas James Murphy; 23 June 1988) is an Australian electronica musician. In 2012 he signed to Downtown Records in the United States and issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures. In October that year he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in Textures won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards.[3] In January 2013 the work won 'Best Independent Release' at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards for 2012.[4] His cover of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" was featured in a 2013 Super Bowl commercial for Beck's Sapphire. In April 2014 Built on Glass, Faker's debut album, was released to generally positive reviews and debuted at number 1 on the Australian ARIA Charts.
Get this:
Nick Murphy has played for a band called Sunday Kicks, and an electronic/dance duo "Knicks". He has also played under the name of Atlas Murphy. Murphy decided he needed to play under a stage name after people came to his shows thinking he was a different and already established musician named Nick Murphy.
Guess what I just found out about this dude? I did a search about why he had a crutch on his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Faker page and found this out:
Feb 07, 2013 from: http://www.ripitup.com.au/music/article/chet-faker-interview1#.VE4YFo1AQok
16:24PM
Words By Scott
Posted In news
It wasn’t until Nick Murphy was lying in pain in a hospital bed that he realized how much he achieved in 2012. A skateboarding accident that left him with a broken foot forced the 24-year-old behind the Chet Faker moniker to cancel a number of overseas shows, but the injury also gave him a moment of clarity.
“Coming to the end of the year was the time to look back, so being in hospital I was thinking about how it’s been a full-on year,” Murphy suggests. “It’s probably the most intense year of my life – it’s been pretty crazy. I’ve been on crutches with this broken foot - I was skateboarding and landed on an angle I wasn’t planning on. It got worse instead of getting better, since I got a blood clot after two weeks. I’ve been in and out of hospital, I’ve had nurses come in and give me three injections a day and I’ve been on blood thinners as well, which is a bit full-on.”
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| These gals can skate 1980's style. click to view I remember skateboarding on Mission Beach in 1988 with wife and seeing those gals skating on the beach. |
I get a lot of emails from gallery's and happened to notice FUTURA in one email. Since I was talking about the 1980's art seen in my last email I thought it was worth mentioning:
I like this art he did on the side of a vehicle:
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I changed the size of my Gecko photo so you can see how cool this little dude looked better.
October 20 2014
I went to the store for my wife last week and apparently a Gecko took a ride on the car the whole way there and back. I put him in a pickle jar and took a photo of him. We kept him in the jar for about 6 hours with some water in it and a spatter guard on top for air, then released him back outside. The Gecko's are part of all the great rain we got this summer of which I and all of nature have enjoyed. The birds have been healthy and happy this summer.
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| This little guy took a ride with me to the store. |
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm. Most geckos cannot blink, but they often lick their eyes to keep them clean and moist. They have a fixed lens within each iris that enlarges in darkness to let in more light.
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| This is a splatter guard for frying pan, I use them for straining too. |
I would love to see a spider man with Spiderman in his black suit. I found this cool art when I was searching for Todd McFarlane art. I think the last Spiderman movie was the best of all of them. Gwen's death devastated me as a child. To follow a comic as a child and have a event like that is why I have always loved Spiderman comics. I started buying Spiderman when I was about 8 years old. I bought the McFarlane drawn Spiderman's as they came out back when I lived on the beautiful central coast of California. I started seeing them in the supermarket and the art captured my attention.
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| by Todd McFarlane that ran in Spider-Man #13 and 14 |
The symbiote later comes into contact with Eddie Brock, and bonded with him. Having duplicated Spider-Man's powers, Brock became the first incarnation of the villain Venom. After Mary Jane is attacked by Venom, and Peter is nearly killed by him, he retires the black look and returns to using the blue and red one permanently. He does, however, return to using the black costume during some sporadic subsequently storylines, such as the 1991 "Sub-City" storyline by Todd McFarlane that ran in Spider-Man #13 and 14, and the 2007 post-"Civil War" storyline in which Spider-Man temporarily returns to his black costume on an ongoing basis, beginning with Amazing Spider-Man #539
October 14 2014
Just saw this on MTV2's Music Mix
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| These gals can skate 1980's style. click to view I remember skateboarding on Mission Beach in 1988 with wife and seeing those gals skating on the beach. |
To all those out there that want to complain about every thing and anything on the internet (believe me I have been and am one of you every once and a while) I would like you to click and listen to these three amazing songs from these ultra popular musicians:
I took a photo of the article I was talking about in my last blog on October 07 2014; yesterday:
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I was watching Pawn Stars and I finally found out what inspirited me to paint those people my wife loves so much. I first did a huge painting of them back in about 2002:
I had no idea that Keith Haring was the artist I remembered seeing until I saw it on Pawn Stars recently. I just knew at some point I saw this prolific art and admired it in my mind; at some point in my life. I have been in the subways as a young man in New York city; maybe I saw the original art by this genius of a artist and could not forget it. Here are some cool thing I read on Wikipedia last week:
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. Haring's work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.
Death; Haring died on Friday February 16, 1990 of AIDS-related complications. As a celebration of his life, Madonna declared the first New York date of her Blond Ambition World Tour a benefit concert for Haring's memory.
Then two days ago I was watching TV with my wife and my wife says to me, hey isn't that Keith Haring from the Pawn Stars and your paintings? It was a commercial for The Modern in Fort Worth, Texas.
URBAN THEATER: NEW YORK ART IN THE 1980s
Sep 21, 2014 - Jan 04, 2015
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You can look at Keith Haring's art at http://www.haring.com/
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| Click this image to see this great scene fro Pawn Stars |
October 07 2014
I remember this guy from my college days when he first broke out on MTV. This is from 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChV5BZ8SmS0 I saw AXS TV Concerts: Matisyahu – On the Heels of Redemption, yesterday morning and I really enjoyed it. http://www.axs.tv/axstvconcerts/axs-tv-concerts-matisyahu-on-the-heels-of-redemption/
Matthew Paul Miller (born June 30, 1979), known by his Yiddish and stage name Matisyahu ("Gift of God"), is an American reggae rapper and alternative rock musician.
Known for blending Orthodox Jewish themes with reggae, rock and hip hop beatboxing sounds, Matisyahu's 2005 single "King Without a Crown" was a Top 40 hit in the United States.[1] Since 2004, he has released four studio albums as well as two live albums, two remix CDs and two DVDs featuring live concerts. In addition, Matisyahu played the role of Tzadok in The Possession, a supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal and co-produced by Sam Raimi. Through his career, Matisyahu has worked with Bill Laswell, reggae producers Sly & Robbie, and Kool Kojak.
This kind of music can only come from New York. This guy emulates New York with all of his being and I really admire that. I miss the feeling of being king of the world. This kind of attitude is a east coast thing for sure. It can never compare or out shine the wild west freedom I have come to embrace as my daily lifestyle; but to each his own. This band sounds just as polished live as they do on CD, I guaranty it. I grew up on bands that sounded just as good live as they do on a album. I will never forget seeing Electric Light Orchestra in New Haven Coliseum in 1979. I could not believe what I was hearing! They sounded exactly how they did on my eight track. I know I sound old but I don't care, ye haw. The melody of this band was amazing and never let up. Melody was how I used to judge Metal bands before I came to understand some music like Beethoven is better off with out melody. I do love a band like Cat Stevens or Led Zeppelin from the 1970's; that have pure melody in every song they make. It is amazing to me that they only play Reggae music and this is not a genre I am a dedicated fan to, yet I find all their songs absolutely irresistible. So check these guys out, they are really good.
I was just looking at a article I have read a couple of times in Terrorizer Magazine. I have many times wanted to ad OV Hell to my best of Black metal list but they only came out with one CD. This CD is by far one of the greatest Black metal CD's I have ever heard.
Ov Hell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Origin
Norway
Genres
Black metal
Years active
2009–present
Labels
Indie Recordings (Europe)Prosthetic Records (North America)
Website
http://www.myspace.com/ovhell
Members
ShagrathKing ov Hell
Ov Hell is a Norwegian black metal supergroup started by Shagrath and King ov Hell in 2009. The band's debut album, The Underworld Regime, was released in February 2010 by Indie Recordings.
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| listen to this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2jdjY5br3k |
I just want to say Justin Bieber is a great skateboarder, really.
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| This is him on Venus Beach |
October 01 2014
It is the 1st, Did not realize it until I posted this. I like the month of October. In Connecticut the air is so crisp this month and the sky's are such a brilliant blue. I like November better though and December even more. I do not like the cold though.
I was thinking of how I was giving props to the female musical sunshine maker: Madonna; on this blog a couple of weeks ago. Then I started to thinking of all the female musical stars I have grown to love in my old age. Reba came to mind and then Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins.
I wanted to post this YouTube Video this week. You would have had to be there back then and watching this appear on Television for the first time in 1994, it gave me chills. When you first hear it you do not realize what she is saying then you get it and your a little blown away.
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| I think the reason I have done all the art I have done is because I want people to love me. |
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins are from my old days back between 1999 and 2008 my college years mostly, when I was watching every 120 minutes show there was as it came out.
Here is the exact video I saw back in those motorcycle days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cHF6JN1I-Q
I absolutely love SarahSiverman! Always have and always will. Notice the introduction and the reference followed by this look on Sarah.
What are you changing?
Who do you think you're changing?You can't change things
We're all stuck in our ways
It's like trying to clean the ocean
What do you think, you can drain it?
Well, it was poison and dry
Long before you came
These are about some of the coolest lyrics, I have ever heard.
Lol, just found this just now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwceJNofO_g
Reba McEntire - Till You Love Me
I actually remember owning the album and the last song was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhP_8MUS-ro
Last week we got a free bag of Three Musketeers Mini Chocolates! No wrappers just all undraped in a bag. Wana know how? Just go to the Kroger.com web site and sign up for their digital coupons you can have loaded to you Kroger Card. They have great stuff. I have actually made meals around these Free Friday coupons.
September 24 2014
Watching Madonna The MDNA Tour on Epix right now. We sign up for Epix now and then since it is so reasonable on Dish Network
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Madonna rocks, I don't care what people say. Madonna; to this day makes great music. My wife liked Madonna when I met her. She had a cassette tape of her. We think it was the Like A Virgin cassette. I am very excited about this Fury movie:
I almost forgot to post this. My wife told me a tank story. She said when she was in the dust bowl. If you were in the military you would know what dust bowl means. It is a huge training exercise the military takes part in. People actually die during it. Some people get run over by tanks. In fact my wife's unit almost got run over by tanks. She said that tanks came real close to her at night. They could hear the roar of the tank an it startled them. The story she told me yesterday morning was about how the tank let them get close at night and it kept them warm. Good old California it is perfect during the day buy can freeze you car over with ice at night.
I just found the art I searched forever for on Google Back when I was updating my Radman_Art Art III Death/Black Metal page. I love this art from the great death metal band Death:
My version; I painted
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Long live Chuck Schuldiner in the after life!
September 16 2014
I do not have time to update this week. It made me think of time. The word time and that there is never enough time. This is a great old poem:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A PSALM OF LIFE
WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN
SAID TO THE PSALMIST
TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real ! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
INXS said there is not enough time:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhBOpcK3-Bk to hear this icon tell it like it is on YouTube |
INXS - Not Enough Time
The Rolling Stones said Time Is On My Side:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHVeyo4W18U hear this classic sound. |
They also said:
The Rolling Stones - "Time Waits For No One" (1974)
And finally what influenced me to "run"
out of my comfy home town and blast out
to California and now in the great state of Texas:
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| click to hear Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3AgkwbYgo |
September 8 2014
I updated Radman_Art Art VI in doing so I updated Radman_Art Art VII. This is a week to week project. I am pacing myself and plan on eventually updating everything you see on this blog. So far I have completed up to Radman_Art Art VI in order how it appears in the menu. I did notice that Radman_Art Art II Best Drawings and Radman_Art Art III Death/Black Metal and Radman_Art Art IV Living in the Past is not updated in the way I updated Radman_Art Art V Western Watercolor. I plan on dealing with that before I continue to go down the list, gasp. This stuff will take your breath away! Computer work is not easy that is for sure. For now for ( Radman_Art Art II Best Drawings and Radman_Art Art III Death/Black Metal and Radman_Art Art IV Living in the Past ) you will have to refer to the big images on the top of the page to see the sizes of each painting. I will start from the top of the list next week.
Remember I told you we like thinner crust on our homemade pizza and that I make Calzones with the left over doe? Well I took a photo of the Calzones last Thursday. We are having Italian subs for dinner lately so I through in a piece of ham and a piece of Salami. Usually it just consists of left over peperoni and mozzarella from the pizza and a small can of sauce thickened with some Italian bread crumbs and parmesan cheese and seasonings. I love it. It tastes really good. Here is that photo I took last Thursday:
I watched “Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston” yesterday on AXS TV. It will be on again today too:
Mac Monday! “Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston” at 1:50p ET|10:50 PT
January 20, 2014
The band that has been rocking for over 40 years still shines, with Lindsey’s energy and Stevie’s powerful voice front and center. We know you know that you can’t miss this! Sneak a peak with “Beautiful Child” below, and tune in TODAY at 1:50p ET|10:50aPT. Don’t forget to share your favorite moment with friends and @AXSTV on Facebook and Twitter using #axsCONCERTS.
Here is a link to the preview:
The guitar solo gave me chills.
September 3 2014
I found a logo that I got the idea to do a painting I did. As I find these type of comparisons I will post them. I was just surfing for a metal band in images and found this logo:
I have liked Mobosidad for many years now. The concerts are fantastic. The lead singer likes to wear gas masks and these nail arm bands that look extremely dangerous. I bought their great DVD about 6 years ago. I got the DVD out that has fantastic art on it and the paintings I did and took a cool photo for you all:
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| Mobosidad art plus Radman_Art |
I posted this a while ago on my Black Out Series page but never showed it updated here:
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| This is a acrylic painting 16 inches by 20 inches in size on store bought canvas. This is a band logo of one of my favorite Black Metal bands, I totally changed it around and took the band name out. It is a Goat head with a upside down cross for a nose in case you don't see it. I found out where I was inspired to paint this from; Barad Dur  Their logo is genius it spells their name: |
August 26 2014
Just got done updating the Radman_Art Art V Western Watercolor page. It took a whole lot of typing and work so I hope you all enjoy it. As always I reveal things I have never said about my paintings to any one. Here are a few of my favorites.
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| 16 inches by 20 inches French watercolor on French watercolor paper. This one needs to be seen in person. I believe the reference image I used for this was from one of my favorite John Wayne movies the Searchers. |
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| 16 inches by 20 inches French watercolor on French watercolor paper. This one needs to be seen in person. Another Calvary painting I think from the movie Major Dundee (1965) |
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| 11 inches by 14 inches French watercolor on French watercolor paper. This one needs to be seen in person. This is from the new Alamo Movie in 2004. The scene gave me chills. I paused the DVD and did the sketch and painting like that all the time in those days. I found a photo on Google images of that scene: 
this is called rearing a horse and I liken it to me doing a wheelie on my old ninja
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| 11 inches by 14 inches French watercolor on French watercolor paper. This one needs to be seen in person. This is Roy Rogers and is featured in many of my paintings. The background ins Texas country. Here one of my favorite songs that made me want to move to Texas as a youth:
Elton John was the first band I ever liked at about age 10. There was some cool kids at St Johns that also liked Elton John and that was a back pat for me. All my bedroom walls had Elton John posters on them at age 10. The quality of his music was way ahead of it's time. I knew many things about
Elton not too many knew or still don't know. Like how he tried to commit suicide:
"Elton tried to kill himself by sticking his head in a gas stove. John's writing partner found the diva lying his head on a pillow in the oven and saved him. The two then sat down and wrote the song, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight. It's the most heart-warming suicide story ever."
This was after he made the song friends. I knew that with out doing a search. I will always be glad Elton did not commit suicide, aren't you?
I followed him in fan magazines. As soon as they printed a photo of him in his diamond studded glasses and giant boots I posted it on my wall.
My favorite album and song by Elton was made long after he decided to not commit suicide was Elton John - Captain Fantastic & Brown Dirt Cowboy from album Captain Fantastic song one.
Some key lyrics I love about that song and stand out to me: Captain Fantastic raised and regimented, hardly a hero City slick Captain Fantastic the feedback For cheap easy meals and hardly a home on the range Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change We've thrown in the towel too many times Out for the count and when we're down Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy From the end of the world to your town And all this talk of Jesus coming back to see us Couldn't fool us For we were spinning out our lines walking on the wire Hand in hand went music and the rhyme The Captain and the Kid stepping in the ring From here on sonny sonny sonny, it's a long and lonely climb Oh YouTube we love you! Please don't take our YouTube away Blue Meanies.
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With that said another favorite of my youth; to you. With my trash can dream, I thank the Lord there's people out there like you. Unless the blue meanies see the sky; but they cant and that is why.
August 20 2014
Updated: Radman_Art Art V Western Watercolor
I just dumped the original images there so you can read the names of the paintings.
I am going to post some old photos of some classic food photos I had on the old Tripod site. Eventually; I will update, by adding these to my photo page here. I open the tripod folder that backs up the site and I see these on top every time I update the pages on this blog. In other words the food photos were the last images I added to the site. Check it out:
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| This baby I made tasted even better than it looks |
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| This is the pizza my wife makes and I have bragged about over and over on this blog. We have honed it down recently by using less dough and I make calzones out of the extra dough. It tastes even better as a thin crust. |
You know my wife watches the news every day. I like CBS 11 in the morning (without the chit chat). If it was not for her I would not watch the news ever. Many times I have posted things I have heard on the news on my old political blog and continue to do that to this day. This blog is about news or politics it is about art only; and yes making food is a art form.
I just want to say some things my wife feels bad about on the news and I hear her say to me while I am in the kitchen many times. She is upset about the bees, the whales, and the elephants and now the birds getting killed by the solar panels. So, I made this dedicated to her like everything I do:
August 12 2014
It is the 20th anniversary of my wife and I being Texans!
I did it again I worked all morning perfecting my Black Out Page here: Black Out Series
I added some new never before posted on the internet images of my art I did in 1988 like this:
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| You should read here to judge this rightly click here they are very non violent. |
And some more great art I admire like this:
And still some more never posted art I did in 1992; like this:
So go check out all the fantastic art and my witty comments here: Black Out Series
August 11 2014
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| After Ursula died in June of 2014 I had quit a little beard. Little compared to the one I had for 8 years down to the middle of my chest. My thought was like when caring for Benjy I do not have time to shave. So I took this selfie, that I am sharing today. I just worked really, really hard on updating My Black Out page here. Here is a preview of some the things I added to the page:   I guess you will just have to go to the Black Out Series page to read and see what I am talking about. |
August 5 2014
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| Our kitchen wall. I do not care if you do not like me, if you do not respect my wife as a American: that is not right. |
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| Every once and a while a fantastic flower appears in our yard. This one has Radman_art colors. It is from the Crepe Myrtle we bought at Home Depot about 14 years ago. I have never seen this flower before this summer. |
July 29 2014 130pm
Just got done updating this page Radman_Art Art III Death/Black Metal and this page Radman_Art Art IV Living in the Past do not miss reading this page Radman_Art Art IV Living in the Past it will change your life.
July 29 2014 900am
I updated this page Radman_Art Art I Press and this page Radman_Art Art II Best Drawings I hope to do this for every page on this blog.
These are actual images from the original backup files from the Tripod Site I paid for over 10 years. This folder is priceless from the trellixdata_backup file. If you unzip it and sort by date modified it lays out from the first file I ever added. This site changed over to 2d art after I took my first art class at college. Before that it was all 3d art from my first certificate in graphic design of Animation. I have all the original stuff from the 3d site as well and hope to share it someday as it was then. I started naming my art back then for the digital art.
The greatest thing about these images is they have all the original names of all the art. I thought each name up when I finished it or sometimes just before I was done or sometimes before I started. The names of each piece is very big deal and has a lot of emotional attachments.
July 29 2014 3am:
As everyone knows I am very protective of nature. My wife and I have a very deep seated love and respect for nature and all the beauty it displays every day to us. It is so easy to take this for granted and ignore the intricacy of something as simple as a flower. To think that science itself has trouble explaining a flower and how it grows, should remind us all of how we should appreciate the beauty and importance of nature. It is easy to for get that tress make air. We need to save trees.
Humans take in oxygen and when we breathe out, we release carbon dioxide.
Trees do the opposite. They take in CO2 and release O2. This cleans the air by removing harmful CO2 so that people and animals can breathe.
"People are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than it can be removed" epa.gov
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We are having problems again with our big red oak tree. I have had tress just die on me and one section behind my house looks like everything is rotting. I have seen trees just fall down around here and I do not get it. I looked up tree limbs just falling off tress on Google and could not find anything. I did find some info on tree diseases yet I am not sure what if any that applies to our tree. It is so frustrating. We love the tree and yet we are concerned with our house. Most of my paintings are stored underneath that tree and always have been. I have no choice but to store my paintings in that side of the house because my wife uses the other side for her office. We do not want to kill the tree; we love it and have loved it for years. I used to hug it when we first lived here and tried to talk nice to it. I have watered it and used the Bayer Tree Food on it when we could afford it. It would break our hearts to cut it down. For years it has provided shade and clean air for us. Why did this limb just fall off the tree? The leafs on it were still very much alive and the entire limb was thriving. This is the second time this has taken place. The first limb was even bigger. I will show you some photos of this recent tree loss, because it is the only way I can describe it. It fell at around 3am on July 26 of 2014 during the best summer we have had in years, with occasional rain and medium warmth, all summer so far.  |
| This is what is left of my beloved tree after losing 2 huge limbs |
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| The recent limb loss is on top; the bigger one that fell off before is nearest window. |
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| Here is a close up of the limb that fell off last Saturday. |
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| This is the close up of the break. It seems like a solid piece of wood with nothing wrong with it to me. |
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| Here is a close up of a leaf it does not seem infected compared to photos I have seen with disease. |
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| Again the leafs look healthy to me. |
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| Our pup investigates. The string lead to a birdhouse. |
I have been emailing around different tree company's with nothing to show for it so far. I will keep trying. I need someone to be empathetic to us, because tree doctors can be very expensive.
July 22 2014
I love Mech's. If I were to say what first inspired me to do the Mech art I have done I would say number one would be Japanimation like Akira and Tank Police and Patlabor. Of course Star Wars did a number on me as well. Some of the early videogames that came out on Sega Genesis and Nintendo, visiting early comic book stores and video/board game stores. It was the box covers and book covers of these games that I may have seen in stores that most inspired me. I have been into books since I was like 8 years old. Book cover art always left huge impressions on me. I tried really hard to find this one piece of Mech art I found when I first logoed on in 1995, but I could not.
Click this image to get a great link to this Google Image search of Mech Art:
Viewing these great works of art in 1995 on the internet really left a imprint in my mind that I could never undo. People would take these old board games from Battletech and the like and scan them and share them on the internet. I just realized some of the stuff on the http://hey_dtx.tripod.com site is not here. I am glad Tripod is still hanging in there. I stuck it on this page.
Here is some Mech art that I have done:
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. This one got messy and I just went with it. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. I did this in pencil and ink. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. This is one of the bigger ones and one of my favorites and hangs were I can see it best in front of me now as a matter of fact. The shading and detail reign on this one |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. Although this is almost human like, I still recommend it. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. I kept trying to create the ultimate headless Mech this is one of those successes. Like a box, my favorite shape of a Mech. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. This like the one above was one of my first in this series. Think box. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. I was aiming for a power shot on this one. I wanted it to look huge even though this drawing is a 4x6 incer. Human like but headless. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. This one has no head for sure. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. Another headless masterpiece. Excess is never excess in my Mech drawings. I try to put weapons everywhere. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. Not one of my favorites but I wanted to show it because it has a empty spot where the head should be. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. One of my first in this series like the one above. In my quest to make only headless Mechs I opted out for a tiny head instead here. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. I think this was the first one of the series I mastered the no head design. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. Another first and another almost human looking. No head makes this a winner. |
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| This is from a series of drawings I did on Mechs about 4 years ago. This is again one of my favorite and a big one too. I can see it now. I liken it to the Dada movement. Maybe something Man Ray would have done. |
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| Cool huh? I like the way he did humans in shapes not real. |
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| I did this 4 foot by 3 foot acrylic on canvas. |
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| At the bottom of this 3 foot by 3 foot acrylic on wood is the same thing as above. Back to Mechs: |
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| I did this as part of a series of science fiction paintings for Mary Ferrer's class around 2005. They are fighting in the western wilderness somewhere. |
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| I did this as part of a series of science fiction paintings for Mary Ferrer's class around 2005. The background is all me but we all know what this is. Although it is not a Mech it may as well be. |
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| I did this as part of a series of science fiction paintings for Mary Ferrer's class around 2005. I have always loved this one. Red is the only color I used on the Mech. Mary would push me to use limited color and I learned a lot by that. |
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| I did this as part of a series of science fiction paintings for Mary Ferrer's class around 2005. This was my night time painting using only blue to show night. Another of my favorite ones. All my paintings have names backed up digitally. The name of this one was something like protector that never sleeps. |
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| I did this as part of a series of science fiction paintings for Mary Ferrer's class around 2005. What is great about this one is perspective. I did a big painting for my step mom based on the background. |
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| I did this around 1999. I made a t shirt out of it that I still own. I have many t shirts featuring my art. Pencil and ink 8 x 10. |
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| I did this around 1999. This one was fun to not draw hard lines and get more curvy. Pencil and ink 8 x 10. |
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| I did this around 1999. Cheap store bought Markers on this one. Pencil and ink 8 x 10. |
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| I did several 3d renderings of Mechs in college, this is one with special effect I created in Maya. |
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| The same mech but with the original Radman colors. This is one of the first 2d renderings I did in Cinima 4d. |
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| I did this quick Valentines Mech and sent it in a email to all my artist friends for Valentines day. |
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| I did this great pencil and ink of a mechanical man back in 1988 then updated it in Corel Draw around 2000. |
I never did a watercolor of a Mech. Could I do a water color of a Mech like this image I found years ago on the internet?
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| You bet I could, better. The world may never know. |
July 15 2014
I like art work of dragons. I have since the moment I first logged on to the internet. Back then it was a big thrill to just view images on your computer. The first thing I did was search for dragons. I remember there was this site called the University of Stuttgart out of Germany. The art work; mainly paintings of dragons was phenomenal. That art site is long gone. I spent all morning and could not find paintings I liked online of dragons. I like the old style oil paintings of dragons. I had to finally use archive items I have in my house to find stuff. I first went into my closet and found the poster in a frame of a work by Frank Frazetta. My sister gave it to me about 26 years ago and told me it was a rare poster. It looks like this:
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| Frank is good and has done some great art. He is Italian like me. |
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| I found a book I have and found this old internet classic |
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| I can not believe I found this old favorite of mine |
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| This is also one of the first dragon images I discovered online back in 1995 done by Frank Frazetta |
Again I want to ad that all of this research would not be possible without the actual books and art I own getting names for my search. This stuff is hard to find.
"Think about it. Dragon art is so important because dragons only exist in art.
With out art of dragons we would not know what dragons look like."
I have done many great dragon renderings
myself amongst the thousands of works
of art I store in my house. Here are a few:
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| These are sketches I handed out to local people here in McKinney |
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| This is envelope art I sent to some rock band I liked |
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| This is some great art I did with markers and messed with in Photoshop |
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| This is some great art I did with markers and messed with in Photoshop |
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| This is envelope art I sent to some rock band I liked |
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| This is some great art I did with markers, all my magic marker art was before college |
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| This is some great art I did with markers and messed with in Photoshop |
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| This is some great art I did with markers |
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| This is some great art I did with markers |
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| This is a great watercolor done for my Burst series of paintings |
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| This is a great watercolor done for my Burst series of paintings |
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| This is a great watercolor done for my Burst series of paintings. This was the first Burst series painting. |
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| This is a great watercolor done for my Burst series of paintings |
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| This was a drawing I did back when I was drawing car engines; at the time I wanted to see what I could do at a whim, a spur of the moment thing thought up out of my head. |
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| This was part of my SychedelicSymmetry series found on this page http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-art-viii.html I made that word up. |
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| This is the Frank Frazetta I drew and colored with markers, I can not find the original I did in color and black and white scanned, it is great though |
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| A rough drawing I did and redid in Photoshop, I think the Photoshop version is actually better. |
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| I did this drawing around 1999, while waiting to get my haircut in Supercuts in town then redid it in Photoshop. |
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| This is some great art I did with markers and messed with in Photoshop |
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| This is a great watercolor done for my Burst series of paintings. This was the last Burst series painting I ever did. |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy watercolor series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy watercolor series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy watercolor series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy watercolor series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series |
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| This is a great watercolor with glaze acrylic as water. I gave to of these away with out the dragons. That is New York City in the background. |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series, my favorite |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series, there was this female student who was from Iraq in my class who had this photo of this castle in Iraq, she wrote something in sand script in the back. |
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| This is from My Si Fi Fantasy acrylic series, a good one for sure |
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| this is the first painting I ever did, long before college, I think I touched it up with my great medium I learned to make in college. |
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| This is some great art I did with markers, all my magic marker art was before college |
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| This is some great art I did with markers and messed with in Photoshop |
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| I made this dragon in Maya for my animation class in College. you can see this on my YouTube site here: https://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012/ Could I do a painting as good as this with acrylic or oil paints? You bet I could; better, I guaranty it. Would anyone buy it? No. Would it be added to the thousands of paintings and drawings I store in my house; taking up more and more space? Yes it would. |
You know what I realized by doing this and this page http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-from.html? I am still so unorganized when it comes to my art. There are still so many pieces of very cool art I still have not shared online. Either I have not scanned it or I can not find the scanned images.
July 8 2014
I just want to clarify my post from June 24 2014. With so many ads for Transformers and video game ads for Gundams and such. I am a Mech fan only.
This is what a Gundam solder looks like:
It is more human like.
A Mech looks more like a machine. The controller of the Mech does so from a small cockpit in the Mech. Check out my post June 24 2014 on this page, to see what I mean. I like the Transformers and all the rest, but my favorite machine warriors will always be Mechs, for art too.
July 3 2014
I would like to post something that inspired me and something that made me smile:
Something that inspired me:
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A rare triptych picturing Francis Bacon’s lover George Dyer sold for £26.7 million at Sotheby’s tonight, during a contemporary art evening auction which also set new world records for Peter Doig and Adrian Ghenie. The sale grossed £93,147,500, flying past its £68 million presale estimate, and surpassing last year’s total results of £75,778,500 (which included 10 additional lots). It sold a very respectable 86.4 percent by lot and 95.6 percent by value.
Yet although the evening saw a few bidding skirmishes between telephone buyers, the room had an unmistakably weary atmosphere. Some blame it on Art Basel, which this year landed on the calendar only a week before the beginning of the London auctions. Eight lots were bought in, including pieces by such blue chip artists as Jeff Wall, Cy Twombly, and Anish Kapoor, and the overwhelming majority of the other lots stayed within estimates, making for little excitement on the floor.
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Take the star lot: Doig’s Country-rock (wing-mirror). The piece is one of only three paintings in its series. Bought from Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in 1999, the year it was painted, it has remained in the same New York collection since then. The rainbow tunnel motif it prominently features has a particular place in the artist’s vocabulary. “For lovers of Doig, it has a supreme status—akin only perhaps to that of the canoe,” Cheyenne Westphal, co–global head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s told the Telegraph ahead of the sale.
So confident was Sotheby’s in the piece’s success that it pitched it above record level, in the region of £9 million. The work hammered very quickly, at £7.5 million (equating to a £8,482,500 sale with buyer’s premium). So although it did set a new world record for the artist, beating the $11,925,000 paid for Road House (1991) at Christie’s New York last month, it was not nearly as comfortably as one might have thought. And those who hoped that Doig would steal Hirst’s auction crown and herald a victory of painting over Conceptual art by becoming the UK’s most expensive artist at auction will have had to rethink.
It was nonetheless a good night for British painting. Bacon’s Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer hammered at £23,750,000, well above its high estimate of £20 million, and setting up a new record for a Bacon triptych of this size. The result is very much in keeping with the bullishness of the artist’s market. His Three Studies of Lucian Freud broke all auction records when it sold for $142 million at Christie’s this past November, and his Portrait of George Dyer Talking became the most valuable artwork sold by Christie’s in Europe when in fetched £42 million last February.
Something that made me smile:
Just click on this cool animation to got to the YouTube page that made me laugh to tears:
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| Thanks YouTube |
June 24 2014
I just wanted to further explain my last post. I started talking about my engine drawing. I then did a search on Google images for a cool photo of a car engine and then found a exact photo of what I used to draw a Ferrari engine; about 3 years ago. That is what lead me to write "Thanks internet for making me a artist" in the caption of the two images of the of my art I shared here. It should say thanks Google Images instead.
Here are some cool Mech images I found on Google images.:
The entire artist series of engines, mechs and tanks started with me drawing a truck. It was a rough version of something like this:
I bought Quake when it first came out at Comp USA with a outstanding soundtrack by Trent Reznor of Nine inch Nails. I played it online with Gamespy with a account I bought and still own. I used to set up my own games and have a really great time. I do not think Gamespy even exists today. Quake, Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem were all made locally here in Dallas, so I always had people to compete with. I still only like the original Quake; only, I bought all those too and the 1st best Quake; still works with windows.
My favorite games back around 1995 when we first came to McKinney from Fort Hood in Killeen Texas were Quake and MechWarrior. I also liked a game called Shadow Warrior:
I used to love to play these game socially with people back in the mid 1990's. There were hundreds of us back then and we had so much fun. Many times I would laugh out load to tears. Some of the best times of my life were playing these games with people.
I used to like a game called Hexen as well . I even played it's predecessor Heretic and Quake's predecessor Doom. I was proficient with mods and would play many variations of the games I played back then and even designed some mods of my own. I had a mod like ad on for MechWarrior that made me the king of the pack called missle boat. It made your Mech carry so many missiles you would instantly destroy any other player. People were starting to hate me for that. I did not make that mod but my buddy's would send it to me in a email. Those were the days.
For racing games I absolutely love to play the online game version of Screamer made by the best online game company ever: Virgin Interactive!
I also loved the greatest racing game ever Monster Tuck Madness by Microsoft!
I have been drawing tanks and army men since I was a boy, the hardest part to draw is the tracks and the guns. Drawing guns and tank tracks are more like drafting. I took drafting every year in high school and could do it professionally today I bet.
So now you know. The artist legend, 3d Maya/Cinema 4d legend, tennis legend, snow skiing legend, skateboarding legend, asphalt surfer sport bike legend, (I would be a suffer legend if I was near a ocean), harmonica and electric guitar legend, is also one of the first MMO video game legends.
What more do you want?
June 17 2014
Thanks internet for making me a artist.
I was looking at this drawing last night. It is amazing isn't it? I love to draw car engines. I love to ad on additional parts to it. Most of the engines I have drawn are Italian, like Maserati, and Lamborghini or like Alfa Romeo. Italian like me. Like the country rock band The Snake the Cross the Crown I am a big fan of Italian engineering. I still say you are not a racing enthusiast; until you do like I did and get yours self on a 1000 cc or higher, sport bike and ride like a banshee, for almost a decade, 6 days a week. I put way more miles on my bike than most people, that was why it was so hard to sell.
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| I made this for Plano Kawasaki back in the day |
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| The bike I dominated 75 with for almost a decade in on the left. I still have this magazine. |
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| The engine I am speaking of is on the right under the dragon. It is small and looks so magnificent and ultra detailed. |
Here are some motorcycles I would love to have in the future:
I can not believe how easy it was to find this:
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| Click on this image to hear the Alfa Romeo guys sing. |
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| Thanks internet for making me a artist. |
June 09 2014
Having a lot of fun with the dog. I use a tennis ball and a Frisbee, every day to play with and exercise him. I found some great how to videos on YouTube that has assisted us greatly in our ability to throw and work together with the dog to have a safe fun time throwing the Frisbee and the ball for him.
Here are the great links I found on this subject:
This is a outstanding video on what a working dog like a Australian Sheppard; like we had in Benjy and Ursula; or a Border Collie like we have now. Go to the 1 minute forty second mark to see a excellent illustration on how a dog like this; thinks, I loved watching this with my wife. We often look up information on our dog to help us better understand it, but this is over the top and one of the best I have seen:
click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGqTi57Bks
This dog is very unique in that he seems very timid about things he does not understand or is familiar with. Being outside was a real adventure for him. I am assuming he has not been outside very much before we got him. He always seems real wide eyed when I take him outside as if he is saying wow to every thing he sees. I am working on him over coming his over whelmed tameness though. There are days when he seems very in charge though. Benjy and Ursula would know when a leaf was moved in our yard, especially Benjy. I have made a lot of progress so far and he is now able to play ball even with a noisy truck going by.
The amazing thing is his innate ability to catch a Frisbee at such a young age. I think he was about two moths old when we got him. To see him at two months is amazing watching him dive in the air and catch a Frisbee. He is definitely a jumper he makes it look so easy. Our dogs would always use their back legs in unison, but our new puppy uses his hind legs independently. I am always impressed with this.
Below is a animation I made while our new puppy was about 2 months old. Amazing huh?:
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| Not bad for 2 months old. |
They usually judge the age by the teeth at the SPCA of Texas here in McKinney. If the baby teeth have fallen out they say this dog is less than 6 months old.
I just made this cool animation out of the SPCA of Texas logo I found on Google Images:
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| click to go to http://www.spca.org/http://www.spca.org/ |
I have a aria set up in our kitchen already set up from when we were caring for Ursula. The fact that the bed was in the dinning room next to the kitchen made it really easy for us to be with the new puppy all the time when it first was introduced into our home. It took about a week and a half and we were able to move all of our furniture back. This dog seems to be like a adult in many ways even though he is so young. We read some great info on the internet about how to housetrain your dog. If a dog goes to the bathroom in your house it is your fault for not watching him. Learning this has really helped us to actually enjoy our dog and his company ten times more. I turn my indoor skateboard ramp on its side and attached wire fence to it with my trusty staple gun. I weighed it down with some giant weight lifting plates from my weight set. My staple gun has actually taken the place of duct tape in my home maintenance work. I got it originally to make the dozens of huge canvas paintings I have stored in my house. Since then I am always finding new uses for my staple gun. How does that thing work? Snap out comes a staple and can go right through that skateboard wood I love for my indoor ramp. Our new puppy has a great aria now with rugs and non slip mats we bought for our sick dog as she lost her ability to walk. I really think our new puppy loves his room. He actually goes to lay in it now and then on his own. I have a dog door on one end so we can get in and out. I wedged a board above it because, yes; this dog can jump over it.
These dog doors have lasted over 13 years and I definitely recommend them. We got them at the PetSmart. I use one to keep the cat and dog separated.
It looks like this:
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| click this image to check it out on PetSmart.com |
We use the supervised visiting method and we finally have decided to wait until the cat is ready to come out and be with the dog. I am sure that sooner or latter they will be new friends.
We found this cool video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEwQe57IDrc
Our cat is huge and very strong. She actually ran thorough my speaker wire one time and tore right through them while the refrigerator repair man was here, it kind of startled him. I am more afraid for the dog than the cat as far as that goes. The cat could hurt the dog worse than the other way, so I really have to be alert to that.
I implore you to adopt pets from the SPCA of Texas; they are the authority when it comes to animal shelters in Texas. All of the shots and the neutering and any medications are all pre administered. It is not easy doing what shelter people do and they could really use your support. Volunteering and what ever you can do to support these people is always appreciated I am sure. I remember when they were one of the only shelters in this aria. There are so many shelters now and I appreciate them all for saving the animals that they do.
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May 24 2014
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| Pup with wife. |
May 24 2014
Happy Memorial Day. Check out this YouTube video I got in my email from May 16th: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZR1CvSQntE go to the 42 second mark for my favorite part! I have posted many times about how he talks about his grandfather, and made graphics on it too. My grandfather was the same way. Not long before he died he had a intense conversation with my wife about the oath you take to enter into the military. I am privileged to be loved by my favorite veteran every day.
May 21 2014
Ursula died of cancer on a Monday morning in May 2014. She was happy till the day she died. She was eating and drinking water and wiggling around happily. It is very sad and I am having trouble writing about it right now. I will go into detail someday though.
I have a new friend now and that is helping heal us here. The day before Ursula died the SPCA of Texas got some Border Collie pups. I wanted this breed because several of my neighbors own older dogs of this breed and they seem to flourish here. Ursula, who was named after my dog from when I was a child; who was a Alaskan Husky German Shepard mix. She really looked just like a Alaskan Husky though. I believe I actually saw them mate. They belonged to a bunch of Wesleyan College hippies next door to my grandma and grandpa's house on Miles Avenue. I remember they had that red fist poster on their door once; protesting the war. I remember when they were born they had them on their front porch. We were living in my mom's, mom's house; while my dad and her were going through their divorce. I begged my mom for one and we were moving back into our home on Glenn Avenue; so it was perfect timing. We had a big yard. I remember Ursula running around that yard and falling allot because she was a fat puppy. When we moved to Cokaponsit state forest and Ursula had a routine every day of walking the paths there and I would follow her often.
Hold up, pause! I never could find this on the internet years ago. click this image to see:
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| Thanks Wikipedia.org and Google; for the millionth time! This really looks like the dirt road we lived on. |
I did the same thing when my mom moved into another home not far from there on the Cockaponset State Forest. Following that dog was a awesome experience.She died there at that house. It did not affect me to bad because I was not living at home for a while. That dog was very special to me and I loved it very much, but when your a kid it seemed more like a toy than a being. Now I depend on my dog for companionship and to actually give me love too; almost like human love. We have always had a cat; but dogs seem to convey love to humans at a much greater level.
Long before I began my search for Border Collie puppies on the internet. It was amazing that they got puppies of the exact breed I wanted. He is perfect! We spent hours the day before, I saved him from the dog jail; picking out a name on the internet. Billions of dogs names on Google. We almost picked out Ringo or Tex. I found him on the internet. I saw his photo and that was it. They were actually posting the photos one day when I was viewing them. I got my new puppy from The SPCA of Texas of who I love so much I gave them all art work the day I got him, I made just for them. of my cat that I still have; that I got from them at the SPCA of Texas. I also drew a excellent horse for them too; the day before I went there. I picked our new young lad up and haven't let him down since. He will begin his new, most awesome life with my wife and I. The first thing I said to him was to brag about how good he was going to have it. I pointed at him and said you yeah you, you have no idea how good your going to have it. He likes when I talk to him in a surfer dude voice and also likes a Viking voice; by the way. I think all this is the reason I have gotten so fond of the metal music; I like now. Having his breed to be from Norwegian descent; makes it all that much better. He told me he does not like it when I kiss him cause guys don't kiss guys. He loves going outside so much I have to carry him inside. He was 23 pounds when we got him. He is gaining weight now though, I guess that will make me stronger.
Ursula was not in pain. The doctor prescribed pain pills and I gave them to her when needed and as prescribed. I used positioning techniques on her to keep her comfortable. She peed outside till the day she died. I carried her out to pee and poop, this I considered my work out and stopped my extensive work out routine for a while so I could do this. I would never be able to do all this unless I had time; so we were fortunate to be able to utilize my resources as a care giver during this heart breaking time in our home. I remember craving to here the song by Sponge from Rotting Pinata; one of my favorite all time Cd's ever. It's about raining in my house; during this time; this song best described what we were going through here. I looked it up on YouTube and listened to it with my wife. Again I am too sad to write about it. I cared for her like a human. I learned allot from taking care of Benji, that made a world of difference. It is as if Benji was helping us take care of his sister still. We showered her with love and that really made a big difference. The power of love is stronger than anything on earth. I buried her next to Benji under my sculpture that symbolizes my love for my wife and our marriage, that I made in college. Although I am unable to really write about it now I will paste something I wrote about Benji that I sent to my mom a year after he died of cancer:
Later that year Benji stated too act sluggish. Because I was a professional licensed health care worker once; I noticed this long before my wife. I finally took Benji back to Mellissa Animal Hospital again on August of 2011 at the first sign of him not eating.
The first time I noticed he would not eat I took him to the doctor because that is how our cat Cookie died, when after about 1 year after we moved here. Cookie stopped eating and died a day or 2 after she was 13 years old. Other than Cookie before that we had Baby 1 die on us in California and that’s it for pets dieing on us. We buried Baby 1 on a mountain over looking to ocean around Paso Robles in a small pet cemetery we found while mountain biking there once. We had a fish for 5 years once too that made us said when he died.
After not eating and taking Benji in August of 2011 the doctor noticed a new lump in Benji’s stomach and diagnosed him with Lymphoma Cancer and gave him about 1 month to live. I told her that I knew he was going to die when he stopped eating. She said he had just gotten old and it was a product of old age. He was 8 years old in human years but because he was 68 pounds and a bigger dog it made him weaker at old age than smaller dogs. The doctor gave us steroids, she said it was too late to try anything else. It made him better for at least one good month. After about a month and a half the doctor prescribed Benji with some more steroids because he was getting worse. He was becoming weaker again I saw it long before my wife. In the middle of October my wife was scheduled for a one week vacation. I was sure Benji was going to die just before she came home that day. I shouted at him and encouraged him to say awake because she would have time to be with him. It was during my wife's vacation time that Benji stopped walking. I tried to carry him to the yard because he would fall at first. He became to heavy for me to carry and he could not stand to go to the bathroom so we set him up in the kitchen. I took care of people and decided that I would do the same for my boy. I moved all the furniture we use including our bed into the dinning room so we could be right there with Benji at all times. I turned him and cleaned about every hour and more towards the end. He did not like to be turned and pee and poop on himself and would cry before he did every time. All of this was very hard on my wife and I emotionally of course. We loved him more during those sick days; more than we ever did. We paid complete attention to him 24/7 in hopes to make him want to live more. Till the moment he died Benji was active and happy he could not walk but he was strong and alert sitting up when ever he was not sleeping. I gave him the best care.
Ursula died about a year and a half latter; both were from the same litter and both from the SPCA of Texas.
I know this Border Collie breed well. We read about it on Google. I have him training to be another border collie world championship Frisbee expert. Pet's Mart has great cheap frisbies and my wife stopped and got a few. We were also considering Petsmart on Saturday and Sunday for a alternative to getting a puppy. Click this to find out about the local group that organizes this great way to find homes for these great dogs. Check this out and click on image to learn more:
Also there are some great links on YouTube here is one from Texas:
I know it is rare to find Whippoorwill in certain aria's all coexisting on a yearly basis. But we have them here and I believe this should be deemed a whippoorwill sanctuary. Really! I just posted a video I made of me recording the date and the sound of the Whippoorwill like the song by Jim Croce I heard in the last Quentin Tarantino film; Django Unchained. That song really got to me when I heard it. I got quit a Sicilian name, that's for sure, my mom's side too.
JIM CROCE LYRICS
"I Got A Name"
Like the north wind whistling down the sky
I've got a song, I've got a song
Like the whippoorwill and the baby's cry
I've got a song, I've got a song
And I carry it with me and I sing it loud
If it gets me nowhere, I go there proud.
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Now One more thing..............................................
I am going to do something I said I would never do in the history of Radman_art. I am going to post a bunch of my hand drawn art I did in the late 1980's.
It is the reason I took down the last page I had, to make room for this.
It did not work out like I thought. Lots of problem images. Any how here it is:
May 16 2014
Got a new bestest buddy yesterday. I introduced him to the skateboard earlier this morning and he loves to watch me skate on the kitchen floor and he even tried to skate himself. He jumped on it with his two front paws and slid a little. As young as he is; I am amazed at this! My old bestest buddy male dog was the same way. The female could care less. I am looking forward to bonding with my new friend. My wife and I took a bunch of photo's yesterday in the yard. I like this one it was the first one we took:
May 7 2014
Happy mothers day everyone. Especially all my fellow Texans that volunteered to help all the tornado victims!: East Texans pack up to help tornado victims in neighboring states
Here is a copy of the email I sent my mom this morning:
The art work took me a lot of hard work this time; but you are worth it. I realized I was out of cut Arches (French) water color paper so I had to get my graphic design cutting kit out; and cut up a bunch of 4 x 6's.
I did something different this time I put a drop cloth over the island in the kitchen and got down to it. I like to think I am taking the art of cardinal painting to a new level. This idea I have is something that you are seeing for come to life before your eyes. It is like you are seeing in my mind. Cardinals are in full bloom here and are serving as a constant inspiration to me.
I used hand picked acrylic paints as always, never sets. I sprayed it generously with high gloss acrylic fixative. It dawns the classic signature. It also has a taste of the classic acrylic blending I have got so good at.
Love and Happy Mothers day mom, and many more.
Here are some animations I have sent my mom over the years:
I will post them next Mother's Day.
I am drawing MechWarrior type mech's again. I am a "mechanical animal" in the words of the great Marilyn Manson. I just feel mechanical when I do art work. I can conquer anything with my art work; it feels like. I think that is why I like to draw and paint mechanical stuff, because it is so complex.
Now for something all us guys love to love that our mom's and wife's hate; heavy metal music! This is the strictest hard core of the hardcore! This list is in order and I may ad to it latter; but it is so complete now; it really does not need it. This is in the words of one of my favorite albums "Hotter Than Hell"!
May 16 2014 See it here with new wallpaper I found: My Favorite Artists Alive and Well
April 29 2014
First off we must all agree I am electric. I have a electric personality. Get me talking about my art and you will see. I have been like that all my life. I was born into a time of music when music seemed to be a part of the wind itself. Of course living right next to the greatest coolest college in the world had it's plusses. A college so cool the Kennedys actually attended it and live on the same block as my grandfathers house. :
The grandfather who made the arch at my school who built half the town I am from. He built the house out of cement spackle, my favorite uncle lives there today. They would have concerts by very famous bands as parts of house party's or out in the football stadium; often.
I liken my personality growing up especially in California in my prime; as being like the Lyrics to "Mechanical Animals" song by MARILYN MANSON: "And I was a hand grenade. That never stopped exploding".
This all leads me to my next post about Black Metal Music. Black Metal Music is in it's prime right now. This is the 1960's of Black Metal Music like rock and roll was in the 1960's; Black Metal Music is to the early 20st Century.
It all started back in 1999. I had heard about this band from this dude who was obsessed with them and I just had to go buy a cd from the at my old hang out The CD Warehouse in Plano Texas. I bought the The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) CD and the rest is art history. I did so much digital art themed with The Insane Clown Posse just before I started college. It is amazing since I barely knew what I was doing.
The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) was the greatest underground hip hop CD every made!
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My wife hated them so much. I remember we were in the car down town in the Best Buy parking lot and I was listening to that CD so much she started to sing Insane Clown Posse - B?tches Lyrics "Girl, you know I love you, but now you gotta die" . I thought at the time; how adorable cute that was, lol.
Then I thought I must be on to something here. If my wife hates music then that must mean I like it. So I bought the MARILYN MANSON Dope Show CD. Marilyn Mason was in the news a lot at the time because of riots at his concerts. I was buying a lot of CD's back then. That lead to this:
This is the greatest drawing I ever did.
I did it in 1999. The colored copy was featured in my Art Bar show in Dallas. Marilyn Mason is in the middle; as if to suggest he was the center of this drawing. I tried to get him to buy this once.
That was my introduction to hard core metal! I had no idea how great this music was; but in 1999 my eyes were open. Most of my favorite art that I have done; is from the inspiration I got from listening to extreme metal. I started to buy metal music magazines at Barnes & Noble - Plano/Creekwalk Village, Plano TX. I Loved Metal Edge! They were still hard core in 1999. They had this list for the greatest bands for 1999 voted on buy the readers. I did my best to hunt them down in used CD stores; because there was no way I could afford buying them new and I would sell them back for credit. I was able to find them all. Emperor made their greatest CD that year. Type O Negative also did their greatest work that year as well; in my opinion. The World Coming Down Cd; that asked the question: why do people die? I was very sad when Peter Steele died recently. Merciful Fate also did their best work that year, and come to find out this guy King Diamond actually lives around here, that blew my mind. That lead me to discover Absu the extreme metal band from Dallas, Texas. Many of my art was inspired from these to amazing bands CD art. I had this blog on Century Media and it blueprinted my journey on finding my favorite metal genre. There are so many metal bands and they are just not popular in America like they are in other parts of the world. That goes for many bands like Insane Clown Posse of the Grateful Dead. You say you like The Grateful Dead and people judge you wrongly for that. You say you like Insane Clown Posse and you are judged as a violent gang member, by some; now a days. That is all politics though and this blog is about art only. It is all just music, that is all it is. Like John Lennon said it so perfectly in Nobody Loves You "All I can tell you is it's all show biz". Black Metal Music is the forbidden fruit of music; to most people. That's not right. A lot of things that are not right are condoned by most people, these days, but there I go again getting political. Bad for you; is what it is labeled by the majority of people today; for the simple reason, they that just don't understand. In Norway and other country's it is like the favorite music of those country's; it seems like. There are great American Black Metal Bands; even some of the greatest in the world. The first one that comes to my mind, as current is Leviathan from San Francisco his last album was in 2009 though. Don't forget Merciful Fate and Absu who are not just local bands here; but are also some of the best Black Metal Bands in the world, really. Black Metal is very popular in this aria, more than most people around here know. The Century Media blogs, was my journey of buying Cd's which was a very big deal with me at the time, being on a fixed budget and attending college. I look back on it now as if stuff like that almost ruined us financially completely. It all seemed necessary in a weird way back then though the Ninja 1200 cc, the music, the art, all like pieces of a puzzle. My goal was to find my favorite metal music. There are so many genres of Metal music. This is more important to me in the spring. That is why I am writing this today. Spring brings it out of me. Not every spring but this spring it got me going; especially since I have found so much great stuff on YouTube about it. I have been watching them in the morning during my exercises and collecting them in a form of my favorite Black Metal Bands; that I hope to share here as that list grows. I promised a better list in one of my posts here and; plan to deliver it. This is a carefully researched list, that thanks to the internet and YouTube is going to be great. There are some genres of metal I do not like. I do not like grind core for instance. I guess maybe some grind core is good. I like some sludge and drone and folk are ok. I must admit to loving Death Metal but no where near as much as Black Metal. This is a great page for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_subgenres One band that is so awesome; it is amazing is the Death Metal Band, Canable Corpse. The more repulsive the name of the band, usually means the better the band. It is as if; if you can get your average person not to like you; you can make great music. I like Metal in general though, I like all kinds of music at many different times in my life. I watched on AXS television ; Iron Maiden. I was amazed to watch the hyped audience; in contrast to the concentrated movement of the band members and thought; this is absurd. Look at the audience in videos like Mayhem and you see the concentration on the faces of the audience. This is a real metal audience. Black Metal reminds me most of Classical Music; and if you like classical and Black Metal music you know what I mean. It is also a false judgment to associate Black Metal with neo-Nazism, their are thousands of Black Metal bands and maybe 30 or so bands that are neo-Nazism in that genre and probable in other music genres. There are Jewish Black Metal bands I am sure: simply because, it seems like everyone around the entire earth is into Black Metal. I believe in the fight that many Black Metal artist are involved in today against false judgments, I liken it to Insane Clown Posse fighting their fight to create with out false associations. It is so sad in this day and age that people are so uneducated that they make false judgments that really hurt others. The internet is the cure for this type of thing and should never be used as the catalyst; as it is sometimes. This is another one for the politicians.
I love all the old Masters like Bach Beethoven and Mozart, just as I love Black Metal. How bad for you can that be? They have actually proven Classical Music is good for plants. Iron Maiden was the best thing I have seen on AXS so far though, beside the recent Kiss tour that I mentioned here in this blog a few weeks ago. Not long after I mentioned it here; they got nominated for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; click that to see. In making my list on YouTube I found out that two of the bands I have so far, are coming out with new CDs Goragoth and the greatest of all Black Metal bands there is; Mayhem. Mayhem started Black Metal Music in my opinion and many others too. Mayhem was born from controversy and tragedy much like my favorite dance rock band New Order. My Ian Curtis portraits are some of the best I have done. :
The new video of Mayhem in action today is amazing; the band is tight for sure. I can not believe the quality of their concert here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TYev10sL4 I watched the whole thing and was amazed! How they can even recreate songs from their last album on stage is amazing. I bought that last album it was actually sold in a Black Metal cd case:
The album was released on 23 April 2007. It charted at #12 in Norway, making it the band's highest charting album yet. There is a limited edition version of the album that comes in a metal case that is limited to a production of 3000 I traded it in. They seem to reinvent Black Metal Music with every new CD they create. :
Esoteric Warfare is the upcoming fifth studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, scheduled to be released via Season of Mist on 6 June 2014 in Europe and Asia and on 10 June 2014 in North America. It is the first album to feature Teloch on guitar since Blasphemer's departure from the band in 2008. . This is the magic of Mayhem. When you are the greatest you are the greatest. They change band members and are even better than ever. Mayhem are miracle workers to be sure; when it comes to line up changes.
Black Metal Music is a acquired taste. Not everyone likes it. If everyone says they like it like the Iron Maiden show I saw on AXS, you really have to doubt their sincerity. What ever I thought of the Iron Maiden special; it still inspired me to do this cool drawing of Eddy and it had drawings of my paintings in too. I have drawn Eddy so may times in my art, most of you could not tell because I change it so much and blend it in. I even did Eddy art back in 1988 of Eddy as the Tracker logo guy. Black Metal is not a pop sensation, it is a strict specific art form and I love it. It is not something you scream about like the Beatles invasion. Lol. It takes concentration to enjoy it, like classical music.
If you can find things in life that no one else likes (it seems like); than you should hold on tight to that in my opinion. Don't let anyone take that from you, that is what makes you great.
Here is my list so far of the Worlds Greatest Black Metal Bands Of All Time! The greatest the world has ever known! Also some favorite CD art, as well as the YouTube Links that have inspired me to do all this work:
See My Favorite Artists Alive and Well page at the bottom, metal head!
April 25 2014
This is cool. I had to show my wife this, so I thought it must be blog worthy:
"A little scary"
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April 20 2014
Happy Easter
Remember I told you how hard it was to find stuff for Thanksgiving; I liked. Well it is the same thing for Easter for me. I just can not tell you a movie I like about Easter, either. I did manage to find one favorite character last Thanksgiving to share with you all. I posted a cool post on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Turkatron, here last Thanksgiving. This Character is so funny it is astounding, and a great Thanksgiving happy show. :
Turkatron (voiced by Matt Maiellaro) is a robotic turkey featured in the episode "The Dressing" who appeared a week after Thanksgiving. He insists that he came from the year 9595 (in a reference to the 1969 song, In the Year 2525) to save the great, great, great, great grandfather of Goblox, the future leader of the turkey rebellion against the Master Chickens. Click here to read more.
Watch a clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTP15uTE8aA
Well I was racking my brain to find a Easter character to post about and I came back to Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It is as if all life on this planet comes from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Just kidding. Yes Rabbot will complete your Easter fun time, so check this out if you want to laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSCLCv6KPRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6TE70i1WAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYSW3ssKPjw
"Rabbot" is the first episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It premiered on December 30th, 2000. Click here to read more.
I made this from a image I found on the internet for you to laugh at:
I worked really hard on this as a Easter gift for you all and to make Rabbot the official Easter Bunny from now on:
Here is a photo of what is in our Easter basket. I asked my wife to only get a couple Cadbury eggs, because we could save money this year. She got some treats any way yesterday. She said she forgot the conversation we had. I think she just caught the spirit of things. :
Note the sugar free bunny for my sensitive teeth.
April 15 2014
I just can not stop talking about the Crape Myrtle. As you know most of this blog is versions of my emails to my family. I just take the emails I send to my loved ones and edit it for this site. I was talking about the Crape Myrtle a lot lately. It is amazing that flowers actually grow on a tree here in Texas. What is even a little more amazing is they grow in the wild. Here is a photo of a Crape Myrtle growing in the wild in Texas I found on the internet:
I was so inspired to show you all the Crape Myrtles that grow wild near where I live; that I made a special animation of the closest one I could find here. I am pretty sure it is the only animation of a wild Texas Crape Myrtle on the internet. I made this, this morning from a video I took about a week ago:
I know I have talked about turkey and gravy on toast here before but I found a new way of cooking this great dinner. It is a favorite of mine since I was a kid back in New England. I am sure it is a New England favorite, too. Since it is chilly here this morning and this is such a great warmer upper food; I can not help but talk about it, that and it is what is for dinner here tonight. It was so cold this morning here that a frost was covering my wife's car; as I saw her off to work. Like so many things I do around here it is the guys job to scrape ice of the windshield, that and taking out the trash. The new way of serving the turkey or any meat and gravy on toast is that I cut the toast in small bite sized squares, instead of whole pieces. Cool huh?
I want to share with you all something so cool I discovered. Around the time my wife and I met there was this awesome show on T.V. called Mystery Science Theater 3000:
Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. The show premiered on KTMA in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 24, 1988. It later aired on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central for another six seasons until its cancellation in 1997. The show was then picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel and aired for another three seasons until its final cancellation in August 1999.
We used to love this show when it first came out. I always felt like it was one of those talents I discovered. I have always had this natural ability of finding things that are popular before anyone else does. I have wrote about it a lot here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/little-radmanart-history.html It takes a special ability to enjoy MST3K. You have to listen to the jokes first and foremost and just dismiss the movie as being stupid. What I really want to share is that we have been watching the reruns of this great show on YouTube. It is rare I can find whole shows on the internet I can recommend but there you have it. I hope it makes you laugh as much as it does me.
I made this animation, it has the original dude who I thought was the funniest:
What are you waiting for go to YouTube and start watching this hilarious show.
I was also think of how I mentioned the Grateful Dead in my last post and how much I have always admired them as the great American innovators that they are. I had a bunch of art in the CD store; "CD Source" in Dallas for years, and when they called me to tell me they know longer wanted me to have my art on display there; I told this one guy there who I thought was cool, that he could have it all for free. It is the most and finest quality art I ever gave away. This is the first time I talked about it except to my wife and that guy. One of the pieces was a portrait of Jerry Garcia. It was the best of the bunch. I felt so bad about it that I did another one:
April 5 2014
The storm took out the internet for the day. But it is back. The first thing I did was to test it out on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymvcv7E9SHo I recently updated my speed. We were not able to watch YouTube videos with out them buffering before. Now we watch them for entertainment. We are even able to watch Dish Perks from Dish Network; which is awesome cause we can watch shows that are on when we sleep. The only YouTube video I have book marked is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymvcv7E9SHo. It is my favorite moment of the video I rented back when my wife and I moved in with each other back in 1986. The Grateful Dead was at their peak back in 1980 when this video was made and they captured them in New York City and said to us all here they are the American, wild west, music, maestro's of all time. I visited New York City Music Hall on a field trip from Saint Johns when I was in eighth grade, it was magnificent. Here is a image of that album:
This is weird someone must have animated images I posted from last Christmas. It was listed under; ad from your phone section. Weird. check it out:
April 2 2014
It was very warm here yesterday and today. I will have to get the window ac unit in soon. Grass is growing in new places and the budding trees are starting to clean the air and smell nice. The Texas purple Crape Myrtles are coming in very beautifully now, they are my wife's favorite. Some years they are purple, some years they are pink. This year they are purple. I must admit they are amazing to see each year. We actually purchased one from Home Depot and it is still going strong over 10 years latter.
Here is a image I found on the internet that looks like the ones that grow here, I animated it:
March 27 2014
I have been drawing mechs again. I guess posting it up on EBay got me back into it. I am happy what I put on EBay but there is so much I want to put up there. I would like to change it out everyday; but it is all about time. I structure my time every day and stay busy every moment of the day yet it always seems like there is not enough time. The older I get the more time seems to go by faster and faster. I love creating art; but it just doesn't seem like that much of a priority since it doesn't sell. I haven't sold any thing really since the late 1980's when I had no college at all. I do love the knowledge about art I learned in College though. It seems like buying art became less popular since the late 1980's. Sometimes I wonder; like video killed the radio star, Andy Warhol killed art. I am just trying to be funny.
Here is some interesting facts about the song Video by The Buggles found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Killed_the_Radio_Star :
The track topped several international music charts and has been covered by many recording artists. Its music video was written, directed, and edited by Russel Mulcahy, and is well-remembered as the first music video shown on MTV in the United States at 12:01am on 1 August 1981. The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1's 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80's.[2] Trevor Horn has done performances of the song, both at Buggles reunion performances and with The Producers, since 1998.
We have been getting into spam lately. We got a coupon for Spam and we had to buy three. I tried it several ways, I toped it on a small frozen pizza we got for free, on the free Friday download, on the Kroger web site. I put some extra cheese on it and served it with some Pasta Roni. I also shredded it and put it on some frozen French fry's and baked them and then added cheese on top. My favorite way to have Spam is with eggs though. We had them baked in squares, with my wife's recipe of eggs in a blanket. I love this dish. It is so easy to make. Just take a piece of bread and pinch a whole in it. Then break open a egg into the whole while it is on the griddle cooking. Cook 3 minutes on one side then 2 minutes on the other side, salt and pepper. That is how my wife likes it. I like it 2 minutes on both side because it makes the yoke extra juicy. I like to top it with shredded cheddar cheese when I serve it. This stuff is the best, the way it blends with the toasted bread. Yummy! My wife learned about this recipe when she was a teenager. One of her friends showed her how to make it. We will be eating that for dinner today as a matter of fact.
I was thinking about posting this graphic; when I posted the Valentines Day graphic. I ran across it while doing a search on Google for Valentines Day:
I think I have red white and blue in my blood. I think it is because I was born on a US Air Force base when my dad was there. I am patriotic like Super Patriot that I used to draw, I used to love that Image comic. His arms could magically change to various weapons. Lol. I started buying Image Comics when Todd McFarlane and Eric Larsen was drawing Spider man. I need to get all that art I did back then up here someday.
Here is a image of Super Patriot I found on Google:
March 25 2014
I added 4 new pieces of art to my EBay page for sale.
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March 16 2014
I spent a couple hours updating this page this morning:
I fixed all the html problems and added my favorite rock bands and a new favorite Black Metal Bands section. All for your learning pleasure.
I just got done watching the Kiss Monster Tour. On AXS on Dish Network and it was awesome. I also saw The Darkness show with their new CD out and it was pretty cool too. Kiss is still my one of my favorite bands. I find it amazing after all these years.
These are some of the greatest water colors I have ever done from the greatest black and white if not thee greatest painting series of paintings I have ever done. The Black Out series was my nod to Black Metal music. I love all Black Metal music and always will. I always think about Kiss as the band that started the theatrical side of Black Metal Music that I love the best. I also love the bands that don't dress up and spit fire and blood too though. My Black Out series was so intense I had to edit what I showed on the internet. For the first time ever I am going to reveal the artist who inspired me to do most of the art for that series: http://www.chrismoyen.com/news.htm This dude is so hard to find on the internet it is unreal. Chris Moyen is thee best Black Metal artist there is or ever has been. I signed his guest book while I was working on those great paintings I created. His web site is the biggest and coolest I have ever seen on the web. Just like me he is not on wikipedia.org, unreal.
March 15 2014
I grew up in a Irish Catholic school:
Me in fourth grade.
The school I went to till 8th grade. My grandfather built the arch from the school to the church. It is some kind of technical building feet to build brownstone this way.
I made this for Saint Patrick's Day:
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March 12 2014
I noticed that they started the don't mess with Texas commercials again. I love them because I have always been very respectful with nature. I am very overly concerned with trash in my yard. I always think at least I can make a difference where I live. Since I was a child I was raised to never litter. There used to be a Collin County anti littering commercial that was awesome. I tried to find it on YouTube, but couldn't. When I was between 9 to 11 years old, about; we used to go camping allot in Connecticut. It was so beautiful in the summer to fall there. The foliage was more beautiful than I have seen almost any where else. Salmon River was the name of the aria we would camp. We would drive our car straight through the woods to camp in the most out of the way aria we could. I would actually catch fish with my hands by making a dam and waiting for the fish to swim in. My step dad would be extremely strict in teaching us kids to leave nature how we found it and never litter. I think that made a big impact on me to this day.
I made this graphic design and it is the only place on the internet that you will find any thing like it, click here go to the Don't Mess With Texas website.
March 9 2014
I put these headings on each of my web pages:
All of these original paintings painted by me are available to print and frame for you and can be put on eBay for sale. Or you can buy the original paintings. These paintings as well as digital art is expertly stored in my home. Just email me and ask me which one you want me to put on sale for you on eBay. I have this all backed up on DVD also for sale.
All of this original digital art made by me is available to print and frame for you and can be put on eBay for sale. Just email me and ask me which one you want me to put on sale for you on eBay. I have this all backed up on DVD also for sale.
All of this original digital video art made by me is available for sale and can be put on eBay for sale. Just email me and ask me which one you want me to put on sale for you on eBay. I have this all backed up on DVD also for sale.
All of this original comic art made by me is available to print and frame for you and can be put on eBay for sale. Just email me and ask me which one you want me to put on sale for you on eBay. I have this all backed up on DVD also for sale.
March 6 2014
I want to congratulate Mike Rawlins winning the election here. I did a bunch of graphic designs for him and had them displayed here for a while after I made them, along with the emails we had between each other. This guy is very down to earth and that is what we need as a quality in our political leaders. To save space and keep this blog simple as I can, and stay to my oath since my wife started Radman_Art in 2001; this site is for art only. I have yet to find a blog site I like best for politics. I really do not trust myself as much as I trust myself with art. When It comes to art and graphic art I could definitely be a teacher in college. When it comes to politics I am sketchy at best. I have read law before and managed to make sense of it, but I can tell you from experience; it is not easy.
To all you chilly people out there:
I just wanted to say what vegetables I like best for soup. The best to me is cauliflower. It really reacts well slow cooked in the soup. It actually has a complimentary soupy flavor. When it is on sale or we have a coupon; I like chopped mushrooms or asparagus. The mushroom soup actually changes to a dark shade, this is a great time to ad low sodium soy sauce; I like the Kroger brand, it is yummy. I have been adding low sodium soy sauce every time now though; about two table spoons. A can of spinach is also surprisingly good in soup. It actually seems to make the soup hotter. The old staples are broccoli and cauliflower. I have loved broccoli and cauliflower all my life. I used to buy broccoli and cauliflower in cheese sauce by Green Giant, in the frozen section, when I was single allot. When I got married I perfected my homemade cheese sauce. I make cheese sauce that is awesome for macaroni and cheese and cheesy white rice too. That is different and I ad homemade bread crumbs when we have left over sour doe bread or rye bread. milk butter a little Italian dressing minced garlic oregano salt garlic salt pepper a tablespoon of flour if needed. I like it moist though. Got to have some parmesan cheese too. I we are in a cheesier mood we like to ad a little shredded cheese too. I never thought cheesy rice would be ads good as mac and cheese, but it is. You can always ad milk latter to make sure it is moist enough. I like chopped ham in it for a meal. This makes a great way to use up that Easter ham. But for cheese on broccoli and or cauliflower and; I like to carefully microwave some cheddar cheese chopped and stirred in the microwave and repeat until it is soft enough to top the hot vegetables.
I did some art for my mom again. I like doing quick nature art for people these days. I have nature on the brain 24/7 here. It is hard to avoid nature as art to me. The trees mixed with caliche and dark soul and bushes and rocks have become a part of me. I welcome this addition to what makes up my life as a Texas wild west hero. I love that song by ELO. I saw them in concert in New Haven, Connecticut in 1979. It blew my mind to see such skill with classical instrument. The cello dude did a solo with laser lights on his cello. I found this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4bUSWtnOU
Everything was dark when I saw it.
All you could see on the stage was this
dude going wild on the cello.
This art inspired me to be a artist. The music is the best ever made of it's type. I believe I had this on eight track in my room in a great eight track player when I lived with my dad. My dad had a amazing stereo with everything. My step mom actually had a awesome reel to reel that I could make have a cool echoed effect. Even when I knew nothing of computers I was a digital audio artist. I am very good with audio and have made many great audio recording made with me on electric guitar and harmonicas enough for a CD. finding it would be the hard part. I still do not know where to find a file site to share all my great files, I want to share with everyone.
Shusei Nagaoka who did this art;
was a graphic design major like me.
Click his name for his bio.
Click the art to hear
Wild West Hero; thanks to YouTube.
March 4 2014
March 1 2014
I just found out when your using Yahoo email you can click the arrow on each side of the email to scroll through your email. I have tried other web based emails and even Outlook. Yahoo is by far the best. I depend on my radman_art at yahoo.com and have for about 15 years now, Google too radmanart at gmail.com. I am sure many people depend on and enjoy Yahoo email. Just wanted to give props to Yahoo. More props to Google Blogs and YouTube, way more props, but props to Yahoo too, you all know it's true.
February 27 2014
I promised to not have politics here. I am going to work on that. I may have plans for the old political graphics page. This is supposed to be about art only and I am limited to the pages I can have.
February 26 2014
I was thinking some more on things from my childhood that would make sense why I got into computers and computer graphics besides wiring stereo speakers and headphones. I still do this to this day and do not understand why I can not find speaker and headphone jack equipment in the local department store; rather than having to go to RadioShack to by a headphone extension cord. If I had to explain why I compare this to someone who is skilled with computer graphics and animation creating like I am; I would say hey some people are content with listening to their television with the speakers it comes with rather than headphones or speakers that can be located any where in the room. Other people like me like to tweak things. People like me want to learn and teach themselves to not only say what if but I will do this. You have to want it and you will never want have it unless you love it. And this is definitely a unique trait.
I remember the first time I did art work. I mean a vivid memory that I can actually picture in my head. It was the first day I went to kindergarten. I remember the school was literally across the street form my house. It was called Skillman or something like that. I remember going there latter in life when the building was turned into a government build. I was a grand style stone building. Then I remember swinging on a swing set still left there after the building was turned into condominium. The very swing set I used as a 5 year old child, this was around the time I left to move to the west. I remember that first day. I remember looking at my cousin Richard who I hung around a lot when I was growing up. He was crying his eyes out, it upset me but never cried. His mom was there comforting him and my mom too. Latter that day we were hiding behind the black board during a snack break or something. I remember the black board was a green color and I remember drawing on the back side of it. It was one of those black boards that flipped around. I was drawing on it very well to calm my cousin and make him feel better. I remember him being amazed at how well I was drawing. I remember getting a genital scolding from the teacher for drawing on the board. I was 5 years old. In my case; I liken all my art skills to my computer skills especially since all those philological testing's in college I took always showed me as a half right brain half left brain kind of person.
I also remember the bicycles I liked so much. I swear I was doing freestyle bike tricks before anyone even new of bmx or freestyle bikes. I used to love popping wheelies and holding the wheel up for a long time while I rode around and jumps now referred to as bunny hopes. It always seemed like I new what would be popular before it became popular. I used to take bicycle forks off of bikes and attach them to mine making chopper bicycles. I did custom pant too.
February 24 2014
I was always good at fixing and wiring stereos. I could take any stereo and wire it up custom; since I was very young; I would say like 10 years old. Around the same time I started skateboarding. I was always really good at math. I liked to problem solve from kindergarten. My earliest remembrance of computers would be when calculators came into popularity. I remember my cousin showing me on a handheld calculator how to spell shell oil on it by holing it upside down. I remember trying to spell other words on it: until I probably exhausted all the possibility's. I loved video games like asteroids; of which I now know is a vector based game. Today with my wife's help I could create asteroids on a computer, no problem. I used to play asteroids when it first came out. I would put many quarts in it. I remember buying the first pong game at a tag sale on main street when I was about 11 years old. I loved to hang out at bowling alley's arcade game rooms and play the newest arcade games. As soon as they developed arcade game places I was the first to go to the newest ones. I bought all the newest consoles; starting with the first Nintendo. I never liked Atari or Calico or Intellivision because the graphics were not good enough, Even then I could see in pixels. Now I have a keen sense of 3d since I used 3d programs so much I believe it changed the way my brain sees things. It wasn't until I met my wife that I started to think about computers. She had a Time Life book on the first computers. I used to tease her about wanting a Time Life subscription to a encyclopedia, it just seemed like something a gullible person would do. It wasn't until she got out of the Army to go to college on the GI Bill for computer science that we got a computer in McKinney, Texas when we first moved here around 1995. Texas instruments invented the first processor around here after all. What better place to get into computers.
These are gifs I made back in my first year of college; with a limited knowledge of computers, with a program I bought at Comp USA called Ulead Gif Animator. I want to share many creations I made on computers years ago on this blog. I switched out allot of my stuff on the original Radman_art web site. I just have to sort through hundreds of CD-ROMs. I found this folder awhile ago and put it were I could find it; while looking for some sk8 footy I found it. I will feature them on my homepage for a while and then move them to my animation page to help this page load faster.Check out this page that I started around 2002. http://radmanart.150m.com/page.html It has a lot of stuff I made with CorelDraw. My wife bought CorelDraw 9 in 1999 and I went off using it for art. I used many hand drawn art I did scanned into CorelDraw.
I moved the animations to my animations page here:
http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radman-animation-from-1988-comic.html
February 23 2014
I made this this morning:
May 2012
I started skateboarding when skateboards first were sold in any store. I only liked the skateboards that were made in California. That is one of the main reasons I moved to California in 1987; with my wife and a van with a Honda Shadow motorcycle in the back. To end up getting a job in the biggest skateboard company's in the world at the time was a dream come true. Then to have a contract selling art work to Larry Balma and Peggy Cozens was the reason I became a serious artist back then. I have been saving my best art since then, because of them.
Found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transworld_Skateboarding
"The public release of the TransWorld SKATEboarding publication occurred under the ownership of Larry Balma, owner of the Tracker Trucks brand, and Peggy Cozens.[citation needed] Initially, the magazine's publishing and editorial teams were known collectively as the "United Skate Front" and Balma later spoke of the magazine’s beginnings as a reaction to Thrasher, explaining in a 2003 Union-Tribune interview: "They were pretty harsh, sex and drugs and using four-letter words and all that and in the early '80s, the sport started growing and [Thrasher] wasn't the best magazine for young kids".[7]"
Skateboards were very hard to find in Connecticut in the 1970's, of coarse, but when I did I was so excited. As a child I had minimum ability to drive around the state. When ever my family would drive somewhere I would search for skateboard stuff. I had lots of parts, wheels and Barings that I would interchange constantly. I would skateboard in parking garages and the Wesleyan university tunnels in the winter. This is a great photo of those tunnels:
It was always really warm down there and those floors were the best service I ever skated on.
February 20 2014
I just can't stop adjusting this thing. I moved the other one to the military photo section of the 2001 page:
Moved the newest valentines animations to this page next to the military photo of my wife:
February 19 2014
I just want to say that when I post things here I do it because I hope that some thing I say may be helpful to people and they may get some great ideas that might make their life a little better.
The good thing about this long winter is I really got into soup this year. I always serve us a fresh vegetable before our supper. This year I slow cook a soup and then add the steamed vegetable to it when we eat. Best seasoning for vegetable soup:
Basil
Marjoram Bay leave
Fresh Parsley
5 peppercorns
ground pepper
salt
Pinches of Rosemary, Oregano, Tarragon, Thyme are too over powering so if you use them just add the tiniest pinch.
Don't use Sage, Cumin
In case you were wondering. I have found a great thing to ad to slow cooked soup though. I take a can of black olives and about a 3 fourth cup of green olives and about 3 table spoons of minced garlic and grind it up with my Ninja grinder.
I put this in a container and ad it to about 6 soups in a small size slow cooker. In other words I use this great blend of flavors in 6 days worth of soup. The mixture marinates itself. On the sixth day it actually smells and tastes better.
I have been working out everyday as always. I would not recommend working out everyday because the body does not have time to heal. I do a lot of low impact aerobics; so I consider it easy enough to do every day. After many years of free weights; any thing is easy for me. I realized that I could not do heavy free weights forever though; especially since I am getting older. I always bulked up when I was lifting and I am convinced that this was hurting me more than helping me. I try to stay low body fat compared to my old ways, these days and I feel great. I did recently figure out a way to work out everyday without having to take a day off now and then to recuperate. I do a floor routine with small dumbbells one day then a jumping routine the next day with no weights. Cool huh? And of course I do a stretching routine every day too, that would make my old basketball and football coaches proud.
February 18 2014
For my wife and yours next Valentines day:
I moved the Valentines animation I made for my wife to this page:Radman_Art 2001 next to her military photo that dawned my original Radman_art website for about 11 years.
I put all the other I love my wife animations away till next Valentines day.
I was just thinking the other day about my painting experiences. I was thinking about when I went to have my car fixed one time; because I recently went there recently for car repairs; that was a budget breaker as always. I was thinking of this one dude I was talking to there about my second favorite subject beside art and skateboarding; motorcycles. I love motorcycle this I can not deny. I have not owed a motorcycle for many years now. When I owned one, it was the time of my life for sure. Here is a photo of it, before I said goodbye to it:
I was thinking of the time I was going to do a art project on a sport bike racer that had died. The guy at the car repair shop told me about this great racer and when I looked him up he had died. I never did that project although I looked it up and researched this dude extensively. He raced until he was very old, that is what was special about him. I never did the project because the power of love was not there. Motorcycling is basically not good for you.
I have done many paintings and one thing I learned is I must love what I am painting. I love motorcycles but am concerned about racers and the damage it does to the body. I like rodeo and have done a few great rodeo paintings and even some sport bike paintings. I never excelled at these painting subjects though; like I have with my western art, rock star paintings, black and death metal and don't for get science fiction fantasy. I have excelled at these because the love was there in full force, hindered by nothing. The paintings I have done the most of are what I not only love but believe in. My western art for instance. I have done at least close to about 700 paintings, counting all the paintings I handed out. You have to love what you paint that is the point I am trying to make. If you want to excel at something you have to love it. I believe in love. The love I have for my wife has made me the artist and good person that I am. I never take it for granted. Not taking something for granted every minute of the day is a big responsibility. I have one goal in life and that is to make my wife happy and that makes me happy. I like to remind her that she is the reason I am happy. It is as if we are one. I always like to remind people of this especially if they are having trouble meeting someone or need a confidence booster in their relationship. How could you be a whole person if you split one into two? I can tell you that is how it is with me. All you need is love is the wisest statement I have ever heard. If I grow old without being wise I would consider that to be a wasted life. I truly desire wisdom over everything.
"All You Need Is Love" is a song written by John Lennon[3] and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first performed by the Beatles on Our World, the first live global television link. Watched by over 150 million in 26 countries, the program was broadcast via satellite on 25 June 1967.[4] The BBC had commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the United Kingdom's contribution.
Imagine was a great album by John Lennon. I received it from my Uncle Bill on my 11th birthday. He was my favorite uncle and only brother to my mother out of three sisters. Know wonder he knew what to get me for my birthday. Imagine "Watched by over 150 million in 26 countries, the program was broadcast via satellite on 25 June 1967." Did you even know they had the capability to have a satellite television broadcast around the world in 1967? Amazing that the launching of this song was so important that they had to do that. 1967 must have been a very cool time, huh?
Hope you had a Happy Valentines day too.
It is a white cherry cordial made with white chocolate. These things are amazing. I used the cherry juice to make a really good frosting for a cake I made. I just substituted cherry juice for milk with a vanilla frosting recipe we have. We like stuff like this; after all we met in a ice cream shop.
I pasted this from this page http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/little-radmanart-history.html :
I typed this in 2011 and it is just as true today.
Since I am talking about those I love I want to talk about just how much I love my wife. Make no mistake about it I would probably die without her, my body would just stop functioning. I met my love in 1986. I was working with her for a while in a lovely restaurant named Friendly’s where all the female workers wore nice dresses. She was out of work when a young man approached me who looked like the boy from those old Dutch boy paint cans. I had been dating wild girls only back then, who were never a good match with me. He said to me why don’t you date my wife. As soon as my wife got back to work I asked her where she was hoping to start a conversation that would lead to me asking her out. She looked at me angry and said that is non of your business. I thought there is no way she is going out with me now, latter I asked her to a movie I think a drive in, we used to do that allot those days always corny horror movies. Once we went out she would not leave me alone. I was so used to young ladies dating me a dumping me I assumed she would do the same but she did not. I lived over a rough and tough bar at the time. I had lived over or near a bar all my single bachelor life it seemed. This was a big bar that would have bad fights almost every Saturday night. She had come to the bar to meet me that snowy afternoon and she looked great. She always dressed like the perfect East Coast girl, pretty yet cool that is what she was like to me. She was a leader all her life with out knowing it just like me. She would not leave me ever, she was just always there back then. We had so many fun times back then so innocent. I thought this is the woman I wanted to marry and tried not to be intimate with her wanting to save ourselves for marriage. I told her right off my intention to move to California and work for a skateboard company and that is exactly what I did the biggest in the world Tracker design. The first 2 years were tough because I was a very good looking guy lifting weights at least 4 days a week for about 6 years then. But she was so beautiful and we just took off to Big Bear Mountain one weekend and got married. The skiing was great too. We have been in love ever since then and to this day I love her more than words can say, so I dedicate this web site again to my love, my other half of whom I would stand in chivalry to her honor; I am a willing slave, a knight to her beck and call.
February 13 2014
I just realized my eBay account has not emailed me for a while so I fixed that.
This is the address:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/radman_art
I made this cool tiny little file so everyone can have pictures of me in a little file. If you have dial up or fast speed it is always nice to have a file small enough that you could take it or leave it.
Check it out:
February 10 2014
Moved photo to photo page and animation to animation page. More in my effort to reorganize this blog; so as not to have problems saving my work here.
I will be doing more work on that here soon. I would tell you of my plans for this blog but what if I do not have time to do it. I never say I am going to do something with out doing it first; on the internet. I think that is a good policy. Promises are only as good ad promises kept. I have a steady reputation on the internet since 1995 of always being kind and courteous and I believe it is a reflection of who I am inside. I like being thoughtful and always have. My wife who is a veteran has always stood by me and even started the first Radman_Art website. I even proof read out load almost everything I post here to her. In fact I am proof reading to her right now. :)
February 04 2014
moved to this page Radman_Art Animations
I made this, this morning. It is of me skateboarding on October 11 16 2012. I have been wanting to make a file like this for a while. It's a little big and may take a couple minutes to load to your browser.
January 29 2014
I got this for my sweetie:
Moved to this page Radman_Art Photos
45mm Water Globe
Electric candle inside that can be blown out
Designed by artist Catherine Holman
She always wants a snow globe. For years I have been saying no because they take up space and what little display space we have; is usually dedicated to my art. So I got her this. It is small and the blow out function is very cool. I also go her a coffee cup warmer to keep her coffee warm in winter times. She loves coffee and I have grown to depend on it over the years for energy. Before I met her; I never made coffee in my place once; or never drank it in my family's home's either.
It has been so cold but I am happy because it is normal for it to be cold this time of year here; just north of Dallas. I get nervous when it is warm in winter; because it was like that and lead to our drought in 2011.
I updated my political pages and tried to make it nicer and smaller to view easier. Also I took down copy's I made to feature more of my raw work instead.
January 23 2014
I added two new pages:
Political Graphics I
Political Graphics II
Radman_Art Photos
Added more photo's to this web page: then moved them all to this page Radman_Art Photos Then I backed them all up. :)
January 23 2014
Well I fixed this page; so when ever I type here it will not be lost by the revert to draft function.
I also backed up every page on this blog. I can not believe I lost a entire year of typing here. Live and learn. I am going to start the project I spoke of in my last update; this morning. Google is nice enough to store my graphics here and I am determined to show them all here.
I am so happy this page is fixed; since practically when I started this blog in May of 2012 it has been malfunctioning.
This blog stated as soon as my videos was added to YouTube for the first time ever: http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
Ironically; I think what was causing the problems here, was the YouTube video html I added here.
I have been having trouble with this blog for a while. I copied some html to it and ever since I have been having trouble updating it. I saved the html from last march so I did not loose the entire home page. I did loose all the typing I did from last march though; when I was trying to fix it. I am going to solve this problem before I go any further here though. I reverted to draft and the last good draft saved was from last March and since I backed it up back then; it did not mater. Every time I add to this blog I email it to my family; so it was not a complete waste of time. This may take a while to fix, maybe a couple of weeks. Once fix this page I have plans on using all my photos I have saved here with captions. It will be great.
January 19 2014
I am starting the home page of this blog over from scratch.
Here are some of my video projects from college:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
Here are my paintings for sale. I can set up any painting you want to buy from me here:
http://myworld.ebay.com/radman_art/?_trksid=p4340.l2559
This is my original web site started back in 2001. We paid for it for 10 years:
http://hey_dtx.tripod.com/
March 31 2013:
This is nothing new. This is not a tragedy, It is something I have dealt with since I have started doing art professionally; really, in 1988, for Tracker Design on 1016 S. Tremont Street in Oceanside, California. I have been struggling with this partly since I drew my first drawing for my mom. You could say I have been dealing with this since I was born. This subject is art related and therefore fits well into this web site.
I was inspired to write this after watching Napoleon Dynamite this morning on March 30 2013 on a free HBO preview. Napoleon Dynamite was made from a school video project; something I have hundreds of, that I have made, myself.
You know what I realized the other day? The Simpsons; probable the most popular cartoon ever made was started around the same time I was a well known underground comic artist, all over California. I had my art published in Thrasher Magazine in 1991; that well known. I had a contrast selling artwork to the biggest skateboard company in the world with out and schooling in any art at all. The Simpsons came from a underground comic artist; who did work almost just like mine in the late 1980's.
You know what I realized the other day? The Simpsons; probable the most popular cartoon ever made was started around the same time I was a well known underground comic artist, all over California. I had my art published in Thrasher Magazine in 1991; that well known. I had a contrast selling artwork to the biggest skateboard company in the world with out and schooling in any art at all. The Simpsons came from a underground comic artist; who did work almost just like mine in the late 1980's.
As always I tell you that it is not my fault. I just updated my resume on the biggest job site for graphic design, digital video, etcetera, in the world, and with a unreal reference. Nothing after all these years. I graduated for the third time from college in 2008.
I have had huge assortment of my art and animations that can only be described as amazing for at least 15 years now. I need a job in entertainment industry. I have been trained in many different fields in graphic design that would qualify me to work many jobs through my 7 years of college at a 4.0 grade average. Also I need my paintings and drawings sold.
I have had huge assortment of my art and animations that can only be described as amazing for at least 15 years now. I need a job in entertainment industry. I have been trained in many different fields in graphic design that would qualify me to work many jobs through my 7 years of college at a 4.0 grade average. Also I need my paintings and drawings sold.
Pasted from every page of my 15 year old website Radman_Art on Tripod. I put this up there in 2004 when graduated the first time from CCCCD and added to it when I graduated for the third and last time in 2008. :
If anyone out there knows of a job in the Dallas, Texas aria, in graphic design or animation, or digital video (all of which I have diplomas in) email me a copy of the posting or feel free to forward any helpful information you can.
I have 3 certificates in Graphic Design from the best Community College in Texas, CCCCD. I have a certificate in Graphic Design, Animation Specialization, Digital Video / Web Design. I have about 120 credit hours under my belt as of 2007. I also took every art class offered at CCCCD some times more than once.
Concerning my qualifications as a graphic design major 3 times over. I ask you to see my grade point average. I have received A's in 98% of my classes. I can provide a official transcript to prove this on request.
I have filed out about 1,000 online applications and have my resume every where online. So you know I have done my part.
Programs I took classes in and used in almost every class and became a expert at during seven years of College for both Macintosh and PC:
I have all my best fantastic art and animations and videos etcetera on the internet. I have handed out thousands of business cards and sent more than that in emails and letters. I have even been in the Dallas Morning News 6 times about 5 years ago the articles are on this website here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-art.html I have received many emails and regular mail from famous people complimenting my work and have had many great art shows here. I have had my art seen by tens of thousands of people in popular stores; locally here. I have handed and mailed out around 2,000 small works of art to many people here and nation wide.
I always look on the bright side, that is just me. That is just who I am and always have been. My life is not as fulfilling, I do not consider that a dire consequence. I like to think the world could have so many more art creations from my ability's. This is not a crisis in my life. our would be in anyone's life. I am just grateful.
January 01 2013
My New Years Resolution:
I am doing great as usual. I am very happy and optimistic about the future. I am a great one; you all should know that about me by now. A great artist, graphic design major, motorcyclist, sportsmen, skateboarder, surfer, tennis player, (I lettered my freshman year in tennis), game player (all types), reader, I score almost perfect in my college comprehensive exam, outdoorsmen, web designer (also majored in), digital video creator (also majored in), Animator (also majored in) and more. I do not like to boast about things like this on the internet; but it is true. There is something about sharing how happy you are on the internet that does not seem right. There is so much suffering in the world; and the internet is a place to work at making that suffering healed. It seems a little selfish to talk about how awesome my life is and how I look forward to every new day like a wide eyed child, but to those who like hearing this; it is true.
I think most people on the internet are just like me and are honest and want to help each other like me. I love all this sites where people give each other good advice it can be a life saver sometimes. The internet to me is not some place I can be someone else and never has been. Some people have a fantasy persona of them self and they live through the internet like that. I have never been like that. Since I first got on the internet; I have determined myself to be myself honestly and that is just the way it is. I have always been like that. I have also never posted one curse word on the internet and I have posted hundreds of pages of words on many different web sites. I have said all of this before in other words. All I want to do is help people with the internet and purpose myself to do this every time I log in any where.
I am not perfect and have no delusions like that; no human is perfect. So lets keep pressing on. Just because I do not update here does not mean I am not here. I may be concentrating more on politics and creating graphic designs for that or I may be working on my next great YouTube creation. I am here, we are here (people like me) and we will make this a better world for everyone everyday. I am reading as much as I can every day about politics and the news and staying up to date with current events every day with the sole purpose of helping others in any way I can.
This is on every page of my origonal web site and has been for about 9 years (remember I use
CareerBuilder.com only):
If anyone out there knows of a job in the Dallas, Texas aria, in graphic design or animation, or digital video (all of which I have diplomas in) email me a copy of the posting or feel free to forward any helpful information you can.
I have 3 certificates in Graphic Design from the best Community College in Texas, CCCCD. I have a certificate in Graphic Design, Animation Specialization, Digital Video / Web Design. I have about 120 credit hours under my belt as of 2007. I also took every art class offered at CCCCD some times more than once.
Concerning my qualifications as a graphic design major 3 times over. I ask you to see my grade point average. I have received A's in 98% of my classes. I can provide a official transcript to prove this on request.
I have filed out about 1,000 online applications and have my resume every where online. So you know I have done my part.
December 31 2012
Happy 2013
December 25 2012
It snowed about 3pm. This is a photo of that snow still coming down.
December 22 2012
This photo was taken on the tenth of December this year we had snow that morning.
December 18 2012
Added 31 digital art files to here:
What’s new? Nothing much, same old same old. Scraping by finically is what we must do these days it seems (having nothing to do with the president). I keep finding ways to be frugal like for instance; my wife likes to use Tide on her cloths. I suggested using Sun on our play cloths and Tide on her work cloths only to save money. She agreed and it worked out great. Also I do not use plastic wrap to keep food in till we eat it instead I cover a bowl with a plate instead.
I have been spending allot of time on political stuff. I guess I am still reeling from the elections. As you must know I have vowed to make this web site “blog” about art and not politics. Sometimes I make exceptions for things like graphic design work I do and html work both of which I consider a form of art. I always dreamed of using graphic design college experiences as a art and to become famous for it like that lady that did the Boston album cover for instance. Graphic design is not considered art most of the time but there are exceptions. Dream on, “baby I’m a dreamer found my horse and carriage” NO MORE lyrics (Aerosmith).
I am still the main chief here and creating art everyday in the form of food. I still post photo’s of my food and post them here but then I usually take them down soon after. You have to be quick to see them I guess. I consider them too personal to leave up. Winter is chilly and I am staying warm in the glow of love of my loved ones and I hope the same to you. If you don’t have any loved ones than I suggest you get on that. It is never to late to change for the better you know. Merry Christmas for the fifth or more times.
Still have lots of plans to ad more art to here and you tube, here’s to a great 2013 making it great for us and everyone around us spreading peace and good will towards men.
November 24 2012,
Added new page to this site:
You know that great tile from my YouTube Channel? here: http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
I made these tiles from one of my first classes at CCCCD around 2001. Mike McKee taught me Photoshop and how to make tiles. These are all 100% created in Photoshop even though they look like real paint. Enjoy them. put them up and don't forget to spread the word about my websites.
This is from my original Tripod web site from 2001 when it first launched until about two years after when I started to fill it with paintings instead. Some of these images made in Cinema 4d;my first 3d class in college; took up to 6 hours to make adjusting lighting and reflections till I liked it. The more advanced I became in 3d with Maya the less I concentrated on images and the more animations I made. You can view my many of my Maya animations on my you tube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
November 12 2012,
Added this page:
This is from my original Tripod web site from 2001 when it first launched until about two years after when I started to fill it with paintings instead. Some of these images made in Cinema 4d;my first 3d class in college; took up to 6 hours to make adjusting lighting and reflections till I liked it. The more advanced I became in 3d with Maya the less I concentrated on images and the more animations I made. You can view my many of my Maya animations on my you tube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
November 09 2012,
Added new animation to my you tube channel here:
Edited this home page so it loads faster.
You can see those picture links here if you want here:
October 19 2012:
Updated this site added My Favorite Artists Alive and Well
andRadman_Art Animations
andRadman_Art Art VII
and Radman_Art Art VIII
Updated this site added My Favorite Artists Alive and Well
andRadman_Art Animations
andRadman_Art Art VII
and Radman_Art Art VIII
October 17 2012:
Ceeement (with southern accent) is dog gone fun.
I like jumping off curbs.
I made this graphic:
October 16 2012:
Went sk8ing this morning got some cool footy. I will put it to music and post it on my YouTube channel. Here is a quick jpeg for ya:
Added 3 funny animations on my YouTube channel:
Free speech, with out it we would not be we.
October 12 2012:
masterpiece.
October 11 2012:
I thought I would clarify what I said about my 3 best digital video animations. I am unable to take the music out of these great creations. The only way to do that would be to start from scratch and I am unable to do that. I really do not think it is fair at all though that I am limited creatively with these three great video short movies.
October 05 2012:
Made a new graphic for my poitical blog.
I want to mention that I use Carrier Builder to find a job so if anyone out there knows of a job let me know. Also I use Texas Workforce and if someone hires me through them they get $2000.00 for hiring me.
October 04 2012:
I never ask anything from anyone on the internet ever and never have. I am asking something of you all that have enjoyed my art for over 10 years for free on the internet.
October 01 2012:
Uploaded the greatest complete digital movie I ever made:
Wormhole
This is the first time this has been posted on the internet. Crank up the quality setting and be transported.
I think I thought of this from spending so much time at home doing homework for college, The idea is your home is transported to another dimension while your in it with out you knowing it. Sram? A play on words for a backwards story. Again I am using the mars theme as a backdrop for the movie. The fact that the first Mars rover landed on Mars at the time is probably the reason I chose Mars. The beam shows the wormhole from Mars to earth. Oh how adorable in my wife’s words are my dogs when they were puppies, I love them just as much today as then. The scene with me drawing is a collage type drawing I never completed; long before all my great paintings within paintings were completed. That is my art desk I use to this day. The photos in the corner are of me as a child. Of course that is my wife in the hand made India tapestry. She is supposed to be a spirit I should have used transparency on her. The entire script comes from my head at the time it was made around 2004. The idea was the house was very close to Mars in it’s rotation around the earth. I posted the house scene on my YouTube channel a while ago in expectation of posting this. The video has great Maya creations of my work. The space background unlike the Alien Flyboy was made by me in Photoshop. The spacey part is me dreaming. You can barely see my wife with the tapestry in the background throwing the Frisbee. The ending is bloopers of my laughing so hard I can not talk.
Uploaded the greatest 3d animation full length movie I ever made:
This is the first time anyone has ever seen the full version of Deadman. Also this is the first time any has seen the High quality version of this on the internet ever. So crank up the quality and be dazzled.
Dead Man is based on a comic I made back in 1988. I worked on deadman up until the my wife was in basic training for the army in 1993. Dead man is one of my favorite comic characters besides Radman of course that I created. He was supposed to be the ultimate cool chopper riding dude. Look the best thing you can do is go to this page and view the great comics I have had on the web for over tens years now: http://radmanart3.tripod.com/id4.html
I wrote this ten years ago about the Deadman comics:
Deadman
This Deadman comic is one of the best as far as art goes. Deadman is the result of reading under ground comics as a kid. There was this skeleton dude that rode a chopper. Every episode would start out where he was in trouble then would end where he had it made. It stuck with me my whole life, hence the animation Deadman. My dad was a cop and I loved and looked up to my dad and his friends. I always would relate my heroes I drew in comics co-operating with the police. This effect of ink in this comic is something I did allot. People love it. I was showing my art at San Diego Comic Con and this dude said to the vender why don't you have more comics like this, pointing to my comics. I liked to use a poetic way of speaking especially with dead man. When ever he spoke it would be like surreal poetry.
I wrote this ten years about the shorter version of this great animation:
This is a cut and edited version of the Deadman animation I did for my 3d animation class part 2. I had reached my peek in my ability to use Maya at the time. I remember for the final test we where to a gravity piece and although I never did gravity I was able to complete the test perfectly. I never concentrated on the detail of the modled characters I made in 3d to save time. i think I made up for that with shadows and texture and of course story line. Deadman is a character I invented in the late 1980's. The story for this aniamation comes directly from the comic I made in the 1980's. On the dvd I featured the comic and story board and 3d story board I did for my class, in Premier. The comic was drawn quickly as was my style in the late 1980's. The story has to do with polution verses greed's reward. I took the chopper scene I did from a animation I did separatly from this project. I just stuck Deadman on his chopper in it and made it part of the animation. My teacher did not like how long I made my animations so I did this as a way of making my animation really long to rebel:) and to be funny. The chopper scene alone was over 3 minutes making the animation 10 minutes long. Ye Haw! In Texas we like every thing big! Deadman and Alien Fly boy was my grand finaly I really poured my heart out. I have never asked anything from anyone as long as I have lived, that a I have not earned.
Also you can go to this page and view the very tiny flash animation I made and has been on this page for over ten years here:http://radmanart2.tripod.com/id4.html
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Uploaded 1 of the best movies I ever made:
October 01 2012:
Uploaded Alien Flyboy
Crank up the quality setting all the way and check it out.
Although this animation has been on the internet for over ten years here: http://radmanart2.tripod.com/id10.html this is the first time anyone will see it in high Quality Format. I can never show any of my animations' in their highest raw format because the size would be too large in the gigabyte aria. The raw format would too great for a computer to play. I would have to burn a DVD for that. I could make them theater quality as well.
Alien Flyboy is one of my finest creations while in College during my time as a Animation student as of which I received my first of three certificates from Collin County Community College. I did this project fro Mark Kaufman the greatest digital video teacher in the world. This project was huge. My wife really helped out allot. I used allot of Maya in this one. The Mars photos are actual photos form the first Mars Rover. I bet you didn't know it had Killer lasers on it. I think that is one of the funniest things I did in a animation. I had my poor wife dressed in her army uniform for many takes to make this fine science fiction tale. Yes my wife was in the US Army for real out of Killeen Texas Fort Hood. Her sunglasses are actual army issue sunglasses, mine are my old Oakley bicycle sunglasses. This is based on a comic I did back in the late 1988's. I have a animation that shows the original comic this was based on. I used it for a story board to make this great science fiction tale. I will work on getting it posted. Although I am posting my 3 best creations next I still have many more animations I want to post. So stay tuned. The ships were designed by something I saw on the internet. The bad guy ships were inspired by the alien ships from the move independence day. I actually used a photo I found on the internet of the ships actual outer lining when I modeled the ship. This is one of the finest animations slash digital video creations I ever did. My top three in my opinion are Alien Flyboy, Wormhole and Deadman. I think I was thinking of 2001 Space Odyssey hen I chose the on board computer for my ships. I liked making this with no fancy lights that are very dangerous. The lights were used extensively in Wormhole of which I hope you can see. If I post Wormhole it will be the first time anyone has seen it on the internet. Someone told me his girlfriend saw Wormhole and it changed her life.
This is what I posted over ten years ago about this:
Alien Flyboy is the final project for Mark Kaufman's Digital Video class part 2. I had done so much video wok for this class before I got to the final production of the Alien Flyboy I decided to make it mostly 3D. I was a part time student back then so there was plenty of time to work on my homework. I was taking 3D animation class at the same time I was taking this class so that was a big help. The space whole thing was made in Maya, with help of Photoshop and After Effects. I learned how to animate in After Effects in Digital Video Class part 2 and I have not looked back. After effects is the best way to animate with or with out digital video. I mean I could make a Who Killed Roger Rabbit type movie myself now. My wife stars in this animation too. The whole animation is based on a comic I made in the late 1980's. In the DVD I put the story board, the animatic, and a animation with the original comic, I even put in cut scenes of me and my wife laughing. For the scene where my wife is floating above mars she stood there in her old army uniform and I cut her out in Photoshop and used After Effects to do that scene. Allot of Maya Textures in this animation. The Alien ship was a version of the first in class project for 3d animation part two. I added a offset Photoshop tiff of the actual alien space ship from the movie Independence Day. The texture for the planet mars was taken from actual mars pictures from back in 1995 when I was a Internet expert. The earth texture is from a earth picture. The lighting effects are a flash light with a plastic cover colored. The colored lights are us shaking a bunch of Christmas lights. Funny it was almost Christmas when I made this and I am posting this and it is almost Christmas and I am listening to my favorite band from my childhood Thin Lizzy "The Cowboy Song". What does all this mean? You tell me.
Added captions to my YouTube video links on this page. I wrote all these when I posted them. You can only see portions of them on You Tube unless you click more. I also added more YouTube links.
This animation is one of the last ones I made in Maya. I owned a sport bike at the time and many of the riding in this animation I did myself. I actually do the vocals in the music, my exited voice is from ridding around for real at speeds up to 150 miles an hour. I made the music myself with my trusty harmonica and the computer. I have had a harmonica handy all my life. It kind of make me sad to view this because it makes me thing of all that could have been. All those buildings were pretty tuff to make. It was the one time I slowed down Maya with too much models. It was the first time I used the smoke effect. The smoke effect is done separately then added latter. I basically redesigned the chopper motorcycle I made for the Deadman animation to make the sport bikes. Starring Deadman and Mega Radman.
This is one of the highest quality animations I have uploaded so max out the quality setting and check this out.
This is also one of my favorites. It is little more advanced. This was one of my last Cinema 4d animations and models before I went on to use Maya. You have some cool symbolism going on here. Ying Yang, Sun Moon. The red white and blue was made this time. I latter made that awesome design you have seen on my site before. Getting a little better on the skull.
I have had this on this page for almost 10 years in a very low quality Flash format:
I have also had this posted for ten years on that page:
Eggtopia was done in the 3d modeling class the second time I took it. I had learned to animate in Cinema 4D and I attack it with a vengeance. Eggtopia is from the comic Eggtopia I wrote in the late 1980's. It is exactly like that comic. Of course I picked a comic that I thought would be easy for me to make a animation out of. As always in my 3 d animation's I model as little as I can aiming for the look. I made the whole thing in black and white. I saw a French animation in class from the sigraph dvd and I was inspired by that. substituted the rambo movie in the animation with Twister because it was one of the only jpegs I had from around 1995-1997 when I was the man of the Internet. I was thinking of modeling a egghead like rambo for the fun of it though. I need more web space
See the comic here I made in 1988 here:
Egghead Part 2
I have had this on the internet for almost 10 years now. Here is a link to that page:
This is the high quality version of that animation. I will paste words from the origonal page.
Egghead in first place is the actual title for this animation. Unlike most all of my animation's I was unable to take the music out easily. The only way to do that is to redo the whole thing. Like I was telling my wife the other day the only way I am going to go back to animating is if I should do so for employment purposes. It is extremely difficult to animate and unlike my paintings that hang graceful on my walls I can not enjoy my animation's all the time. This was my final project for my animation class part 1 with Tom Otenger. I worked very hard to complete this. I did the whole thing in Maya. I made some things like the numbers around the waste of the egg's in photoshop. The Sk8board was originally made in Cinema by me. I became very good at learning tricks to import file from Cinema 4D to Maya. I created the story board in between semesters one day in the McKinney Campuses multi media room. I also started working on the animation in between semesters. If Tom did not approve the Idea for the animation I would have been in trouble. I had Tom for 2 classes by then and new what to expect though. I created the egg for egg for egghead in Cinema 4d too. I just imported it from my original egghead animation. The ramp was created in Maya. The spattered egg was made using Maya's glass texture. The voices are all me.
September 28 2012:
Worked those political blogs for a couple hours. This site is not about politics really though. It is about the blood sweat tears and sacrifice that is my creative art.
Worked those political blogs for a couple hours. This site is not about politics really though. It is about the blood sweat tears and sacrifice that is my creative art.
September 27 2012:
Added highest quality animation yet with new music:
2d Psychedelic Photoshop Fractal Animation
This is the highest quality animation I have posted so far. Crank up the quality and check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
I made this when I first started college around 2001 - 2002. I bought this really cool program called Gif Animator. This combined with another programs helped me get these awesome effects. It features a lot of the work I did in Photoshop after my first class in Photoshop. I was inspired to make this as a background for the rock band while they played in concert. Many of my other animations like this I always thought would go great as background for a rock concert.
September 26 2012:
Added a very high quality animation to my YouTube channel
here is my last 6 I uploaded:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012?feature=watch
This is my all time favorite 3d animation I made in Maya. It is a lot more complex than it looks. In fact I jammed up Maya with the amount of models in it. It is near imposable to jam Maya but I have done it many times including this video. The tunnel effect is one of my greatest accomplishments and can be seen at the end of this animation. It was very difficult to get the spinning effect because of the complexity and the rendering of this beautiful texture work by no one else but me. Than you for viewing my work at least I know someone can enjoy them. It does not matter to me if people can not afford to buy my art. With YouTube I at least can entertain people with my art. I get back when I give like this. Isn't that what life is really all about?
This is a great preview of my old web site and all the work I did for it when it first was published on Tripod.com around the year 2001. I can not begin to tell you how hard it is to edit these animation and upload them. The time it takes is unreal. This collection of art is unreal. I have never been shy about showing my art on the internet. I have never sold 1 piece of art since 1988 I still have hopes of the possibility of sales. The way my life has gone I always think I have nothing to loose. This animation has some really cool art that tool a lot of work a life time of most artist's that ar selling art. Leading up to college I did a lot of 2 d art you are seeing a lot of that in this animation. Then I began to manipulate it in college in Photoshop. Photoshop with my teacher Mike McKee was one of my first classes in college. Also this has many 3d renderings from my first 3d classes. This art in this animation should be a testimony to you that the work I have done is nothing more than miraculous.
Radman_Art is here: http://hey_dtx.tripod.com/
The Camera and the lighting were very expensive and we had to use the college stuff. This was made by some real high tech stuff. This version now has cool music. The class with Mark Kaufman was held on Friday night. There was no one at all at the college on Friday night so it was easy to use the college for filming. The feet scenes are my wife and I and the lady. I still have the same boots to this day. I get them in the Allen Outlet Mall, they are called Wolverines. I have some extra footage on this and some funny scenes, it is just a matter of finding it. I was the director for this and did the story board. I gave many animatics and story board animations I could show but I am trying only to show the best of the best. Enjoy my can movie staring the can.
This is one of my favorite surreal animations. It has some of the first models I ever made. I was first discovering textures and modeling and lighting in Cinema 4d. I still love this one and it is like my first creative animation. Maybe my first animation period. Note the end it was supposed to be a skull you can see the out line of a skull. I was so new at this I could not model a skull. The glass effect rules though.
Edited September 23 2012
I am uploading this in honor of peace day.
I made this exact video my first years in college in 2002. I could not fid it but I found a video not the full one. I had to completely reconstruct it this morning. I spent 7 hours so far upgrading and editing my animations for your enjoyment this morning. I added a poem I wrote on this day for this animation.
Oh yeah I was in the process of uploading the single loop peace animation when my wife told me it was peace day after viewing it on the calendar. My point is I was uploading a peace sign animation and did not know it was peace day. My poems page is on my web site Radman_Art and has been for like 12 years now. Peace
This is a really great Surreal 3d animation. I used a really cool black shiny texture effect to make this Maya animation. I invented this texture myself in Maya. This animation is full of textures I invented myself. I became very good at this out of sheer will power. Many of the effects you see in my Maya animations were not taught in my classes, I taught myself. This animation moves fast and is full of my favorite colors and combination of shades. I was inspired my the glossy colored Image comics. Those black uniforms of the superheroes always blew me away. I had come up with this inner glow effect that I still love as much as when I made it. This is one of the fastest animations I made. The amount of models are so immense it became hard to manipulate this animation in Maya. With Maya speed was allot more possible verses Cinema 4d. One this that I never liked about 3d was the slow movements. The dimensions on this was made to save disk space at the time.
September 25 2012:
added new page to this blog here
I added 2 animations to my YouTube channel.
Click YouTube to see:
I updated my Peace Sign Animation and my still update it again. I though this was a good time to mention it. Click on the peace sign to see it:
I added 2 animations to my YouTube channel.
September 23 2012:
I added 6 animations to my YouTube channel. I edited the peace animation and added my edited peace poem to it too. Stay tuned the best is still yet to come.
September 21 2012:
Today is peace Day
September 16 2012:
Added 2 very high quality Mondrian 3d animations here:
I added 4 animations to YouTube.
Click YouTube to see:
September 12 2012:
Added new animation today on YouTube:
What can I say about this one. It is very surreal. I just made up the title, just now. I did this in Maya. I found this cool texture that looked like fire and went with it. The texture came default with Maya then. I had a obsession with the logo of my county at the time. The butterfly means freedom. Note the cool image of Radman at the end on the skull. I was getting good with sound affect around this time in college.
September 3 2012:
I added a new page to this site, it was easy as pie:
Added new 3d animation up on YouTube from my college days with new sound:
This is a cool one. I thought I only had a low resolution copy of this animation until I found this the other day. Many times I name projects wrongly so I can not recognize them latter. A good lesson for you all animators. This animation I did toward the end of my college course in animation. The more advanced I became the more surreal I created. Many times I would use the old 3d models from Cinema 4d and import them into Maya. When I discovered how to do this; it was on! I had allot of cool stuff I modeled in Cinema :Cinema 4d while not as good as Maya with animation; is easier to model. Shortly after I took Cinema 4d it was discontinued.
Maya is the first and best all round 3d program and always will be. It can not be beat. It is made in America too. Remember Jurassic Park 1, that was Maya.
The pool balls looked better in Cinema on both sides. The jell effect is something I invented by experimenting in may with textures and lighting. You can get some jpegs on my Google Blog Site. The flag is one of my first models and still a favorite of mine. The phoenix was done for this animation exclusively. I changed the sound to a techno mix and like it better.
Maya is the first and best all round 3d program and always will be. It can not be beat. It is made in America too. Remember Jurassic Park 1, that was Maya.
The pool balls looked better in Cinema on both sides. The jell effect is something I invented by experimenting in may with textures and lighting. You can get some jpegs on my Google Blog Site. The flag is one of my first models and still a favorite of mine. The phoenix was done for this animation exclusively. I changed the sound to a techno mix and like it better.
August 30 2012:
Added new high quality Egghead Animation to YouTube here:
August 27 2012:
August 26 2012:
August 25 2012
Ok this is it. I promised to post this a while ago. Sorry it took so long. Searching for these masterpieces is very hard, I have about 600 or more CD’s and about 200 or more DVD’s I burned during college to give you a idea of what I am up against. The fact is I do not get paid for this or get college credit for this so these things will take more time. I plan on sticking with it and presenting to you the best of the best of around 600 or more great animations; a lot of these need editing
This animation was my first 3d animation I did for my Cinema 4d class with Tom Ottenger. I handed it in for my midterm to boost my grade. I came into class a little late that night one week latter and when I walked into the class the lights were out and the entire class about 30 people including my wife; were watching my animation. It was quit a honor to see all those happy faces watching the first 3d animation I ever made. I sat down quietly in back and watched too. The three character you see talking are the full midterm project. They are exact models of 3 toys I had at home. Editing this was not easy I replaced the original music with me playing my eighty dollar electric guitar I got at Target.com. The Date for the music is June 6 2011. So this is the all new version. I tweaked out the music in a sound program I also learned to be quit good at this in college. As always I hope you like this.
Here is the link to this great colorful shinny animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCi2Bq0_zzY&feature=youtu.be
This animation was my first 3d animation I did for my Cinema 4d class with Tom Ottenger. I handed it in for my midterm to boost my grade. I came into class a little late that night one week latter and when I walked into the class the lights were out and the entire class about 30 people including my wife; were watching my animation. It was quit a honor to see all those happy faces watching the first 3d animation I ever made. I sat down quietly in back and watched too. The three character you see talking are the full midterm project. They are exact models of 3 toys I had at home. Editing this was not easy I replaced the original music with me playing my eighty dollar electric guitar I got at Target.com. The Date for the music is June 6 2011. So this is the all new version. I tweaked out the music in a sound program I also learned to be quit good at this in college. As always I hope you like this.
Here is the link to this great colorful shinny animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCi2Bq0_zzY&feature=youtu.be
August 22 2012:
Updated layout of this blog and:
I found this site today. We like playing old fashioned board games against each other. Some of these games are like 3,000 years old. We needed to find directions and this game and it was found here. I liked the site so much, so here is the link:http://www.demooniak.com/games/1270/peg.html
Also I want to say I found music for my animations from my college days. Also I found in my long search this morning; a bunch of really, really great animations to post. Like the full never before seen Deadman and the high quality version of Alien Flyboy.
Also I want to say I found music for my animations from my college days. Also I found in my long search this morning; a bunch of really, really great animations to post. Like the full never before seen Deadman and the high quality version of Alien Flyboy.
Oh and you know that harmonica riff I always talk about I did in college, I found that too.
Alien Flyboy in low, low quality; has been on the internet here for about 10 years:
Also the low, low quality very short version of Deadman; has been on the internet here for about 10 years:
August 18 2012:
Posted animation on YouTube. Stay tuned I will be posting another big animation from my college days soon.
August 14 2012:
I just finished uploading my surreal 3d animation with me on guitar here:
August 10 2012:
Not too much going on worth mentioning. I edited the surreal techno video and have been thinking of making the music myself for it. I thought I had a photo of a hummingbird yesterday but it turned out too small to see. I think I need a new camera. I made some really cool stuffed jalapenos the other day, I will leave a photo here. I froze them and they make a great snack once and a while. I steamed the jalapenos first then put shredded cheese inside and batter dipped them. They came out really great and warm up good in the toaster oven.
Not too much going on worth mentioning. I edited the surreal techno video and have been thinking of making the music myself for it. I thought I had a photo of a hummingbird yesterday but it turned out too small to see. I think I need a new camera. I made some really cool stuffed jalapenos the other day, I will leave a photo here. I froze them and they make a great snack once and a while. I steamed the jalapenos first then put shredded cheese inside and batter dipped them. They came out really great and warm up good in the toaster oven.
Jully 31 2012:
Still focusing on my you tube site will keep updating it:
July 24 2012:
I added a very cool animation to YouTube today:
July 21 2012:
Updated my YouTube page. I now have 16 animations there like:
How To Make A BLT
and
Singing in the Rain 3d
Happy 4th of July! As you all know I am politically active and very patriotic. So here is a great 3d creation I did back in college with Cinema 4d. This took alot of work and is so complex it is amazing in every way. I made this Sunday, June 15, 2003.
I have a bunch of animations I am editing getting ready to share on my YouTube page:
I will go put a old ditty I made back in my raging political days with lots of blab as always :)
Jully 02 2012: Added edited animation the big free style contest comic radman art
and updated my YouTube page:
Jully 02 2012: Added edited animation and updated my YouTube page:
Update June 19 2012:
Ok check this out, I found this while looking for my animations. I have so many computer backgrounf I made would never be able to show you all of them.
The next thing I will do is ad a Radman_Art comic animation to my YouTube site.
I still want to share the great programs my wife and I made in college, too.
Update June 8 2012:
Put new video of me rockin out here:
Update June 5 2012:
I updated my animations on YouTube. I fixed em. I will be uploading more great ones soon.
I am working on a better sk8 video of me too.
Here is something cool I made of me sk8ing it on May 24 2012. I made this with the new Microsoft Paint. That program got way better, I use it all the time now.
You know I was one of the first people to use sk8 in the late 1980's instead of the word skate. I have dated Kodak photos of it in my writing to prove it.
I finished updating all of my are on this site. 90% of the art on this page is my best art all done after I finished College in 2007.
Update June 2 2012:
Updated art page this morning. I am getting good at this. Soon all my art will be in full size and ready to enjoy fully. Also I am choosing the best of the best to show here only. I have about 1000 more paintings and drawings I want show here so be patient while I pick them out resize and post them here.
When you do things with love it is a driving force.
Without love I would have never created one piece of art. I would have never archived them all in acid free containers since 1988. Without love I would have not got a contract to sell my art to the largest skateboard company in the world; in 1988. With out love I would have never archived the best most radical art I have ever done for almost 30 years. Without love I would have never gone to college here in Collin County for 7 years and maintained a 4.0 grade average. Without love I would have never received 3 certificates in the graphic design discipline from CCCCD, that hangs on me wall waiting.Update June 1 2012:
Updated art page this morning. I am getting good at this. Soon all my art will be in full size and ready to enjoy fully. Also I am choosing the best of the best to show here only. I have about 1000 more paintings and drawings I want show here so be patient while I pick them out resize and post them here.
When you do things with love it is a driving force.
Without love I would have never created one piece of art. I would have never archived them all in acid free containers since 1988. Without love I would have not got a contract to sell my art to the largest skateboard company in the world; in 1988. With out love I would have never archived the best most radical art I have ever done for almost 30 years. Without love I would have never gone to college here in Collin County for 7 years and maintained a 4.0 grade average. Without love I would have never received 3 certificates in the graphic design discipline from CCCCD, that hangs on me wall waiting.Update June 1 2012:
I updated my art pages here, that took about 3 hours. It is time for me to focus on my art and trying get something out of 3 certificates from College that took me 7 years to get at a 4.0 grade average. So far I have made zero dollars so what ever I can do towards that goal is at least something.
It took me about 6 hours to upload to YouTube my last animations. I am having trouble with the sound of many of my animations on YouTube. Also many of my animations need editing.
This has been on my website for over 10 years:
If anyone out there knows of a job in the Dallas, Texas aria, in graphic design or animation, or digital video (all of which I have diplomas in) email me a copy of the posting or feel free to forward any helpful information you can.
I have 3 certificates in Graphic Design from the best Community College in Texas, CCCCD. I have a certificate in Graphic Design, Animation Specialization, Digital Video / Web Design. I have about 120 credit hours under my belt as of 2007. I also took every art class offered at CCCCD some times more than once.
Concerning my qualifications as a graphic design major 3 times over. I ask you to see my grade point average. I have received A's in 98% of my classes. I can provide a official transcript to prove this on request.
I have filed out about 1,000 online applications and have my resume every where online. So you know I have done my part.
Update May 25 2012:
You better check this out:
Update May 25 2012:
I am on YouTube. This is the first time I have ever used YouTube. :
Update May 24 2012:
Me today. :
Me today. :
I found my wedding ring. I lost it almost 3 years ago. I thought I lost it at work in the trash when I was changing my gloves. I was out spraying spruce tree needles and cob webs off my car with my wife. I looked down and saw something strange half buried in the dirt. It was the ring I bought when I got married 25 years ago on Big Bear Mountain, in Southern California! My wife was amazed and could barely believe it herself. I raised my hands in the air looked up at the clouds and yelled thank you. It was some kind of miracle. I can not begin to tell you how upset I was when I thought I lost it. I quickly bought another one like it but not the same, that did help, but not really. Amazing, I still have trouble believing I found it.
I pick these texas wildflowers for my wife every once and a while. The trick is to arrange them nicely. They are only out in spring.
Update May 12 2012: Happy Mothers Day
This sketch is of me and my mom. I jazzed it up in Photoshop. This sketch is taken from a photo of my party at my dad's house when I was about 25 years old.
Update May 09 2012: My website Radman_Art on tripod.com will go to a free website on the twenty second of this month. I love tripod and I still think it is the greatest, easiest; website builder to this day. I just have to do whatever I can to save money.
Update May 05 2012: I was thinking of this great music video I saw on late Sunday night on MTV many moons ago. It is so cool! Radeohead does the music, It is a Unkle project though. Watch it, I will too; and show it to my honey latter. Don't you love youtube? :
Hey I got Georgia font! It is my favorite. Georgia font was designed for computers you know.
Update May 03 2012: Your never going to believe what I am going to do next. It is kind of sad. This site is going to mean even more to me soon. I have been working away on the computer for about 2 months on some graphics for my http://hey_dtx.tripod.com site. Wait.
Update May 02 2012:
Well, well this site sure has come along way. I added a bunch of new pages and added a bunch of new stuff everyday. Hope you like it. Peace.
Update April 19 2012:
I have a painting on ebay, this is a first for me;http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270959647225
lets see if this works, peace
What can I say bout this painting? Hum. I could talk about my art all day and the more I talk about it the more excited I get. If I sell work like this I assure you it would take a piece of my heart away. My wife and I love all my art. Some art my wife likes but it is a little too wild for her taste.
This painting hangs on my wall and is one of my favorite. I have done many business card size sketches of this and gave them to co workers at my last job. This was done for my last watercolor class with Kathy Cotter Smith. Its is a beauty and my wife is in love with this one, but we need money and it may inspire me to paint more to sell something. I was in a field 2 blocks from my house and climbed a barbwire fence to spend some of the most memorable times of my life with these horses. The grass was over and up to my waist and a little wet from the morning dew. The sun was very bright. At one point one of the horses nudged me on the shoulder and almost knocked me over.
I have never sold a painting! I have a warehouse of art in my house all of which I have created my self. I have 2 hours of Animations I made on 2 DVDs. I have made programs and other animations too. I have competed about 800 paintings and about 1,000 pencil and inks I have saved since 1988. I have had 7 or 8 art shows here in the Dallas Texas aria and have had art hanged in about 20 stores all this in the past 10 years. About 4 years ago I was featured in the Dallas Morning News 6 or more times you can see copies on my website; here is a link to my home page:
I have a painting on ebay, this is a first for me;http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270959647225
lets see if this works, peace
What can I say bout this painting? Hum. I could talk about my art all day and the more I talk about it the more excited I get. If I sell work like this I assure you it would take a piece of my heart away. My wife and I love all my art. Some art my wife likes but it is a little too wild for her taste.
This painting hangs on my wall and is one of my favorite. I have done many business card size sketches of this and gave them to co workers at my last job. This was done for my last watercolor class with Kathy Cotter Smith. Its is a beauty and my wife is in love with this one, but we need money and it may inspire me to paint more to sell something. I was in a field 2 blocks from my house and climbed a barbwire fence to spend some of the most memorable times of my life with these horses. The grass was over and up to my waist and a little wet from the morning dew. The sun was very bright. At one point one of the horses nudged me on the shoulder and almost knocked me over.
I have never sold a painting! I have a warehouse of art in my house all of which I have created my self. I have 2 hours of Animations I made on 2 DVDs. I have made programs and other animations too. I have competed about 800 paintings and about 1,000 pencil and inks I have saved since 1988. I have had 7 or 8 art shows here in the Dallas Texas aria and have had art hanged in about 20 stores all this in the past 10 years. About 4 years ago I was featured in the Dallas Morning News 6 or more times you can see copies on my website; here is a link to my home page:
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August 14 2019:
I posted this because I had a serious problem with my YouTube videos on this blog. It was actually jamming the page making it nonfunctional. I do not post here until January so it is a good thing I checked it. I did my best to fix everything and will have to keep a eye on this blog more often.
It seems Google has changed there ability to post YouTube Videos on a blog. It is s good think I have them backed up on my Google Drive so I am pasting them all here:
Here are the links to the above videos:
Mars Worm Hole:
radman_art_selfie_01_06_2017_pt2.mp4
radman_art_selfie_01_06_2017.mp4
radman_art_selfie_01_14_2017.mp4
radman_art_selfie_01_20_2017.wmv
radman_art_selfie_01_27_2017_smaller.wmv
radman_art_selfie_02_03_2017_smaller_pt1.wmv
radman_art_selfie_02_03_2017_smaller_pt2.wmv
Radman_art_selfie_02_10_2017_smaller.wmv
Radman_art_selfie_02_17_2017_smaller.wmv.wmv
Radman_art_selfie_02_24_2017_smaller.wmv
Radman_art_selfie_03_03_2017_smaller.wmv
Radman_art_selfie_03_05_2017_smaller.wmv
