Listen to Rufus Wainwright's The Art Teacher with unofficial video:
I just made a picture to the theme of that song. All was drawn in an interface on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
First came the Executive Company Head in the center of the paper. He's pot-bellied, in his home with a crucifix on the wall - there should be a Turner there somewhere too according to the song. Then there's little "I" looking at (and up to) the art teacher.
I used to Paint (using Microsoft Paintbrush) on breaks from work at Chrysler back in the day. (That was an awesome internship. Didn't know how lucky I was to be surrounded by such happy people.) The pictures were nicer than this one: I had better control over the "pen" since I used a proper movable mouse, plus I had an eraser, colours, spraypaint, cut-and-paste...
...really loved the copying and pasting - built an army, a field of flowers - pretty autistic. Don't worry it wasn't straight copy-paste, there was some realism: perspective, variety. Still, using a computer to draw wasn't the best way to relax from hours of using my eyes and a computer to "sequence processes for F1 build of the 2001 minivan" and my head really hurt from the strain.
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Hello T! I have changed the blog URL for my blog. I had to. Apologies for this.
Thanks a lot for the update. Just updated the links here.
Cheers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Yours is a nice blog.
Thank you so much, JW. Just seeing this five years later, but it's the right time. I appreciate your comment.
The video I loved for The Art Teacher - it seems to be gone :(
Here's an alternative video, but it's really not the same thing. Oh the 2006/7 one was stirring, poignant.
Here's another, but I'm going to find that first one if it's on our internet.
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