tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308800152024-03-07T03:22:04.832-05:00Chasing the ChickenSmelling fingers since 1974.Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-4716732227273766022013-05-21T13:17:00.000-04:002013-05-21T13:17:05.293-04:00Is this thing still on?Holy cow! I'm terrible at keeping things updated.
Here's an update:
I have a new job where I work in my home office.
My commute is about 15 stairs.
Some days I even bathe.
More later! Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-84259953289245172252011-05-17T15:02:00.005-04:002011-05-17T15:11:31.308-04:00Throwing Heads is a Band!I play guitar and sing in a band called Throwing Heads. It's been so long since I last updated this blog that I don't even know if it's been mentioned here before.Throwing Heads has released an album. It looks like this:More importantly, it sounds like this:Get the album at iTunes:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/adrift-in-time/id396551348?ign-mpt=uo%3D4Get the album at Amazon:http://Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-4632185483821034172010-03-01T13:35:00.005-05:002010-03-01T13:47:02.558-05:00Paintings from 12/2009Time for the yearly update...Here are two paintings I made for my wife's Christmas presents.Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-58966146160033737392009-07-28T12:44:00.003-04:002009-07-28T12:55:59.726-04:00What's up, blog?I haven't been here in a while. I dunno why, it's just kind of the way I go with web-things.My website hasn't been updated in ages, either.Anyhow, here's some neat shit to check out:Amorphis - SkyforgerI haven't been this excited about an Amorphis album since the first time I heard Elegy back in 1995. Put this high on your gotta-hear-it list.Sample chapter from the fantastic Tim Powers Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-19980192498495653342009-01-19T22:04:00.003-05:002009-01-19T22:15:12.870-05:00FinishedHere is the painting I started in the last post. As with all of these, I never know if it's done -- I just pick a place to stop where I think that if I do more I might totally ruin it.Here you go:Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-60595772670406627112009-01-12T01:00:00.004-05:002009-01-12T01:07:00.422-05:00Nudes?I've gotten into my head some sort of crazy scheme for a painting. This is what could be the first step toward achieving some kind of something else. In order to complete the scheme, however, I should probably learn what the hell I'm doing when I'm slapping paint around.Here's a charcoal sketch and the underpainting (which consisted of simultaneous build-up, painting wet-into-wet in some spots.)Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-91674621791798835702009-01-06T09:08:00.002-05:002009-01-06T09:10:21.537-05:00Finished TreeThere is another post a few weeks back about the tree painting.I think it's finished, so here are some pictures - one of which features my fancy new easel.Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-7864331073761402112008-12-18T13:50:00.004-05:002008-12-18T14:10:04.874-05:00Holy Blu-ray, Batman!I was barely paying attention to the fight between HD-DVD and Blu-ray (mostly because I knew if I paid attention, I'd have to get one...) The only time it really registered on my radar when it first came out was when I saw a display in Staples near the Blu-ray drives for computers. Looking at the specs, I was rooting for Blu-ray to come out on top, but my heart told me the mass-market consumersSackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-42903427869286991512008-12-11T14:09:00.013-05:002008-12-11T15:09:07.478-05:00painting a picture of a pictureMy friend Michael took a picture this past summer. It looks like this:I liked it and thought it would probably make a nice painting if I could muster up the time and energy to attempt it. Finding a nice 18"x24" canvas just sitting around (in a store, waiting to be bought...) I scratched out a representation in charcoal.A day or two later, I attacked it with the paints. I used broad tones as a Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-75504785087046641872008-12-08T21:54:00.004-05:002008-12-08T23:31:26.490-05:00Movies & ToysI like movies. I'm probably addicted to them. My mother claims that I will watch any movie. Moreover, she claims that I like any movie I watch.I'm sure this isn't true, because I remember hating every minute of The Doom Generation. If I ever see Greg Araki, I might just have to punch him in the jaw.And, despite my total devotion to Nicole Kidman and anything she is in, I can say for sure thatSackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-77165377085296522672008-12-01T19:18:00.003-05:002008-12-01T19:30:39.686-05:00New paintingSince I got out of the hospital earlier this year (an all-together unpleasant experience, which I'm not going to post here) I haven't painted very much. I started a landscape painting but it still sits -- mostly white with a dozen shades of green denoting leaves and grass and shadows.I've been fending off the urge to paint for about a month now (mostly due to the fact that it takes quite a bit Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-53971550969355802522008-09-02T14:15:00.004-04:002008-09-02T14:56:12.972-04:00Rules for the WorkplaceRules for the Workplace (use at your own risk)If you come to work late then you MUST make up for it by leaving early.Lunch "hour" is really about 90 minutes, especially if you have to leave the office to eat.Lunch hour does not necessarily consist of 90 contiguous minutes. Thus, when I'm checking my GMail at 3:15, I can assure you that I'm making up for the 15 minutes when I was Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-22079961892353841322008-07-26T10:12:00.007-04:002008-07-26T15:15:50.394-04:006 steps to FAIL1. Load up van with trash from your garage.2. Drive to county landfill.3. Drop of old air conditioner at Metal Recycling pile.4. Drop off old office chairs at the "Swap Shop"5. Put it in reverse and do a backwards U-Turn over to the cardboard recycling dumpsters.6. Get halfway to the dumpster (all of about 75 feet) and get broadsided by the BACK END of a roll-off dumpster. Which is on the Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-52018263131749080332008-07-17T12:39:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:02:25.831-04:00Cover PaintingBands play cover songs. I guess artists can do cover paintings.I learned a lot about playing guitar by playing other peoples songs. In much the same way, I'm learning a lot about color and composition by recreating an existing painting.This one is in-progress, but it's decent enough to show, I think.Also worth mentioning, aside from the ruined Onions painting, this is the only one I've ever Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-89250415554592607232008-06-11T12:36:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:02:55.798-04:00Trees pt. 3This week we went outside again and I painted the same scene as last week, but from a different angle.So far, I like this one best.Trees3:Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-55352271709355218382008-06-11T12:08:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:03:08.506-04:00FAILThis is a painting I started the week after I had done the one of Woman and Drapes.I had some red onions in an orange bowl, sitting on a vibrant plaid tablecloth.To get started, I made a color chart of the main colors I would be using - crimson on one side and ultramarine on the other. In the middle I got the tones for my onions.I did another with cadmium red and cadmium yellow to get the orangeSackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-77413439222421648922008-06-04T12:30:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:03:18.548-04:00Painting insideI enjoyed painting trees last week and I was looking forward to doing it again.However, it was raining when I got to class so we couldn't go outside. I set up an easel in front of the still life the instructor had assembled, but it was not inspiring me at all. So, I moved my easel over to the window and took in the view looking across the back of the college.I was looking at an angle out the Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-91341460805458640022008-05-28T12:25:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:03:30.078-04:00TreesWe went outside to paint for class yesterday.The sun was just going down as we were finishing and it was casting some amazing colors - the kinds of colors I never knew how to see before I started painting.Here's one of Trees:Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-82833535378610604332008-05-08T11:59:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:03:42.259-04:00Art ClassI'm taking a drawing and painting class one day a week at the local community college.We started off with pencils and charcoal just drawing shapes and learning shading. I find charcoal to be far superior to pencil for getting my ideas across and making things looks more like actual things.I haven't captured any of the pencil and charcoal output, so I'll have to try to remember to add that in Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-80561558097308827982008-04-09T11:47:00.002-04:002008-07-19T13:04:11.792-04:00Peach BlossomsOne of my books from the library has some step-by-step exercises on how famous artists created their works. That one of these showed how to do one of of Van Gogh's Peach Blossoms seemed too good a deal to pass up.So here's my take on Vincent's Peach Trees in Blossom - Souvenir de Mauve. I urge you to click on it so that it blows up to full-resolution which shows the detail of the brush strokes Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-76427336212109944302008-03-15T14:44:00.001-04:002008-07-19T13:04:47.324-04:00Oil PaintingI've been to Michaels about 20 times. I initially went to get some real sketching pencils and a decent drawing pad. But I find myself standing in the aisle with the oil paints wondering how I can justify the nearly-certain $200 outlay it would take to get started in this particular medium.Student grade paints - $5 a tube for 37ml. That holds less than a travel-sized toothpaste.Brushes - from $Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-37081177916463908522008-02-28T09:00:00.000-05:002008-07-19T11:59:44.462-04:00Art - a rediscoveryI think I've always been a little cynical about art.I was probably nine or ten when I was first exposed to art outside of school. In this case, the art came in the form of paintings when my mother developed an interest in works by Matisse and Monet. The paintings in our house were actually big 24x36" exhibition posters. While I found some of them to be interesting, they didn't light any sort Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-36563882312096308052008-01-04T15:09:00.001-05:002008-01-04T16:51:16.602-05:00Thank you, Mr. AronofskyI bet a lot of people don't even see this movie.I bet a lot of the people who see it hate it. Most won't even try to understand it.But Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" is a fantastic, stunning film.I first learned about Darren Aronofsky in 1998. In the days when DVD was brand-new and I had very few of them on my shelf, I kept finding myself drawn to the same DVD box. The cover had the symbol forSackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-18049001227990674272007-12-16T16:00:00.000-05:002007-12-16T16:09:06.748-05:00I got tagginatedThe rules:Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog. Share 7 facts about yourself.Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. 1. I wear a size 14 shoe.2. I hate haircuts so I never get one.3. I own one small boy.4. 48" HD images make me grin like an Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30880015.post-4794806487957543782007-12-03T23:48:00.000-05:002007-12-03T23:52:15.065-05:00Vegetarians: Eat a damn burger already.These people come up with the weirdest ideas.But that's OK. Here is some nice science which points out that since they don't eat right they can't reproduce:http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.htmlKeep eating your greens, Vegans. Soon you'll be livin' it up with the trilobytes.Sackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08402117790115431257noreply@blogger.com8