tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183812022012-02-16T00:28:10.615-07:00The art & random observations of the strange goings-on in the hidden worlds around us. Really.raydioboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10141982202973822270noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18381202.post-56322048810420645962011-10-25T00:02:00.000-06:002011-10-25T00:33:01.107-06:00

Yay, so I am back from the MileHiCon 43 Science Fiction Convention art show in Denver, where my full size (12 x18) premiere of Dieselpunk work sold right out of the gate! Sniff, and I was getting attached too...the sucker took me about 45 hours to complete! Not easy when you have a full time day job, raising a family, blah blah. Though the 12 x 18 (modestly framed) is in an edition of forty, I

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Okay, I had been doing a lot of reading about various stuff and looking at other art and trying to make sense of my place or the place my work is at, in the universe of creativity, labeled "art making." One thing that I find myself doing is updating old works as time goes by, whether it be assimilating them into newer pieces or just simply creating a newer version with new things in it -- the

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A detail from a piece about a spaceship (well what else?) encountering a deep space anomaly that appears to be a portal of some sort. Yes, there is always "story" behind my art...it's what I strive to do when I create.

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A small detail previewing a just-about-completed experiment into "purpose-made" Dieselpunk art. Purpose-made as opposed to an illustration containing visual elements that someone might describe these days as being Dieselpunk, though such a reference would exist entirely by coincidence. For more background on this notion see earlier post "On The Effects of Discovering Deiselpunk, et al." I like

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In a mad dash to get stuff ready for Denver's MileHiCon 43 art show. Will have several new wall-mounted raydiopunk 3d pieces including a couple mounted weapons. If you don't know what raydiopunk is: its an art style I am in the process of deriving from Dieselpunk and related SF-genre visual styles, integrating it with my own speculative visions of alternate pasts and projected other realities.

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Recently I've been spending time learning about Dieselpunk, especially the art thereof and its relationship to the design/visual characteristics of retro-futurism and other related *-punk genres. Mainly because I am strangely attracted to these things...they just look super swell and (with this particular genre) I love machines that remind me of pulp science & horror fiction.  And, during this

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I've always been intrigued by the Weird genre, though I must admit I have not read much other than H.P Lovecraft collections, but maybe I've read some stories that I was not aware that fit in the Weird category. I sort of think Ray Bradbury's work may fit here, but again not sure. Its another one of those things I want to spend time learning about (and there are many such things...). In any case

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There is a strangely comforting effect that settles over me when I take an apparently innocent though non-functional mechanical device and proceed to disembowel it, carefully removing every little bolt, widget and spring until there is nothing left but a greasy metal carcass and several neatly organized piles of parts. The ultimate goal of course is to feed my collection of

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Messages From The Permian:  A mysterious electromechanical object materializes into the midst of a struggling writer's studio, and begins emitting what sounds like a radio distress signal...but where did it come from and who is doing the sending? This collage includes transmogrified photography of one of my assemblage sculptures along with other manipulated objects and

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Some assemblage sculptures that I am reworking into updated, new lives as they become elements of  various digital collage/illustration projects. As usual, each piece is simply a visual record of things and events which took place in the secret world beyond our own...of this I can say no more! Detail of the Quantum Diver mechanism. About 10 inches tall. Captain Zerkiah's escape

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This poster was a study I put together spoofing the old 50's/60's Science Fiction movies. It is a digital collage intended for learning/practicing putting together the visual elements and saturated illustration styles of that type of pop culture images. In this case it was in the context of (again, lampoon of) a "political" statement. I was hoping to see if I could discover what it was that

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