Emerging creative artist
This visual pun came to mind as I was contemplating what to do with my collection of corks.
Cork is difficult to carve, creating chunky shavings and so it is a delicate and time consuming process. I attempted to carve one cork which claimed to be recyclable and seemed to be made from a kind of rubberized paper material. It was very difficult to effectively work with and so if you want to carve your own cork screws, stick to the natural corks.
More photos on Flickr.
I get my share of spammy comments and junk feedback on this website. Often they are from server bots testing for security vulnerabilities or trying to get their spam links posted on the website.
From time to time I read through all the recent messages to the website to make sure I am not missing out on a good deal on “конвективные секции котлов (convection sections of boilers)” from RanertgopriliVR in Moscow or to help AllenMutVW who is “looking for a demo of the game named X-Hex”.
And it always good to get a message of appreciation like this:
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Here are some other genuine responses to the contact form.
| Name | solid state |
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| Subject | Practical Rubber Cheese |
| Message | withdrawal |
| Name | 6th generation |
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| Subject | Intelligent |
| Message | virtual |
| Name | Incredible |
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| Subject | deposit |
| Message | Jewelery |
| Name | RobertbrotoQJ |
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| Subject | My riding blog |
| Message | For sure, theoheartist.com isn’t a perfect place to share my equestrian hobby, but I have to start somewhere, so I thought that this category will be ok. |
| Name | Computers |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | expedite |
| Message | Human |
| Name | Monitored |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | bypassing |
| Message | withdrawal |
| Name | Buckinghamshire |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | Shoes |
| Message | Human |
| Name | Hat |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | open-source |
| Message | synergistic |
| Name | Bedfordshire |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | Kids |
| Message | Home Loan Account |
| Name | program |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | array |
| Message | killer |
| Name | connecting |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | solid state |
| Message | port |
| Name | optimal |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | Clothing |
| Message | Savings Account |
| Name | Rubber |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | Borders |
| Message | capacity |
| Name | South Carolina |
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| Subject | Unbranded |
| Message | Sleek Soft Table |
| Name | Right-sized |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | Generic Soft Computer |
| Message | killer |
| Name | Cheese |
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| Subject | SAS |
| Message | Kentucky |
| Name | Oklahoma |
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| Subject | haptic |
| Message | Analyst |
| Name | Handcrafted Concrete Soap |
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| Subject | digital |
| Message | Cambridgeshire |
| Name | Turkey |
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| Subject | Stream |
| Message | deposit |
| Name | Germany |
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| [removed to protect the innocent] | |
| Subject | Facilitator |
| Message | Chips |
| Name | Personal Loan Account |
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| Subject | Circles |
| Message | Canada |
| Name | Texas |
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| Subject | Group |
| Message | Wooden |
Perhaps these messages are a secret code – can you decipher it?
Or perhaps they are meant as inspiration or instructions for a commissioned art piece.
Email addresses have been removed from these messages because often a borrowed, stolen or fake email address is by the spammers.
Like René Magritte’s The treachery of images (This is not a pipe), this is also not a pipe. But it is not a banana. It is a digital photograph of a pencil sketch of a duct tape sculpture of a banana.
It is a digital photograph of a colored pencil sketch of a print of a photograph of a banana.
I changed my calendars again today. Only five days after the start of the month. That might be the earliest I have changed my calendars since they arrived (though I don’t remember when they did and postage is notoriously slow, so they might have been installed late).
Since the advent of electronic calendars, I have had very little use for printed calendars. I do not buy them for myself, but I usually get one every year from our property manager and sometimes from a relative so we have 12 New Zealand photographs to look at. Of course, living in the opposite hemisphere, the images are counter to the season, but with global friends I am used to seeing Facebook updates of their summer beach images in my winter or their skiing photos during my summer.
Do you still have printed calendars and change them on time?
If I created a series of 12 images would you buy them in a calendar format? Would you look at them? Would you change them on time?
Just over a year ago, I created Non-flat earth (unpainted), a sculpture of a model of the earth that combined facts and legends of how the earth is supported.
The foundations are crumbling and decaying which is kind of appropriate with the laws of thermodynamics and the current global pandemic.
However, there is hope.
‘They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. ‘
Isaiah 61:4 https://my.bible.com/bible/111/ISA.61.4
‘Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. ‘
Revelation 21:1 https://my.bible.com/bible/111/REV.21.1
I could repair the sculpture. Or leave it to decay further. Or build a new one.
As the (unpainted) title of the original sculpture suggests the work is not finished. It was a prototype for further work and could have been painted to fit more with the ancient legends. My procrastination has given this sculpture an opportunity to express itself its own way.
Over the last 18 months, as I walk around the neighborhood, I often see the furniture that has been abandoned or has escaped domestic confines and is now residing on the streets or in the fields.
In fact, all over Turkey, I see wild furniture. I’m searching for the most elusive varieties of furniture – the avian and the aquatic. Maybe one day I will be lucky enough to see some furniture flying or swimming or even just resting beside a waterway or in a tree or on a rooftop.
In response to media surrounding Maurizio Cattelan’s work, “Comedian”, I have created this expression of a banana. Some media reports are incorrectly labelling Maurizio’s work as a duct tape banana when, in fact, it should be labelled duct taped banana.
My work is fastened to the wall with “blu tack”, some of which is not blue.
Is it duct tape or duck tape? This yellow tape is similar in color to that of a yellow rubber duckie. The tape used in this sculpture is branded Politape was purchased from a “dollar” store.
The banana that served as the model was also purchased from a discount store. The banana used in the production of this sculpture was later unknowingly eaten by my son.
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of acting in a movie.
For several years, the Outcasts team has entered the 48 Hours film-making competition. I joined the team and at 7 pm on Friday, we were given our genre (Generation Gap) and elements that needed to be included in the movie (wind, overhead shot, double-take, and audible laughter). We then brainstormed the plot, wrote the script, gathered costumes and props, scouted the locations, set up lights and cameras, filmed. scored, edited with titles and special video effects and delivered the finished movie with 2 minutes to spare on Sunday evening.
The film made it through to the regional finals in Wellington and was nominated for Best Use Of Required Elements – Overhead Shot and Best Original Score/Song.
The whole experience was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about making movies. While those, who were more skilled than I, were finishing the movie, I made a behind the scenes short movie. It contains several in-jokes and almost all of the elements of the competition entry.
Director, Derrick Sims, released a director’s cut of the movie as The Reapers and added it to the Internet Movie Database.
Derrick has directed and appeared in other short films and so I now have a loose connection the Kevin Bacon.
My current Bacon Number is 4!
Theo Heartist was in
The Reapers
with
Derrick Sims
who was in
Making the Film: Come Morning
with
Michael Ray Davis
who was in
Endure
with
Tom Arnold
who was in
We Married Margo
with
Kevin Bacon
There are some conspiracy theories floating around suggesting that the Earth is flat. I have traveled around the world and observed that it is in fact round. Well, roundish.
Hindu mythology has the earth supported by elephants or a tortoise/turtle or both or a snake. North America has a legend of a ‘Great Turtle’, which upholds the Earth.
Combining the facts with the legends, I have created this model of the Earth.
The book of Job in the Bible says the Earth is suspended over nothing.
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
Job 26:7. NIV
he suspends the earth over nothing.
While this lines up with the science, getting my globe to suspend itself over nothing is rather challenging.
I’m currently reading a book called The World is Flat. [affiliate link]
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A few years ago I wrote this poem, to try to give other colors of roses a chance. Each Valentines Day I have produced a new variation of it.
Not all roses are red,
I prefer them blue.
Flowers discriminated
by colorism too?
Happy Valentines Day!
