Low Hanging Fruit
Low Hanging Fruit
by beq
3"x3", acrylic on board
uncompressed
Recently, scrabbling beneath the ivy which now covers the orchards, he found a fruit he had never seen before. It was a Baumann’s Reinette: the horticultural equivalent of a Faberge egg. “But I had no idea which bloody tree it had fallen off”. Somewhere in the nursery there should be two varieties – King Harry and St Augustine’s Orange – which even the national fruit collection doesn’t possess, but he hasn’t been able to find them yet.
George Monbiot: Low Hanging Fruit
Posted by b on November 11, 2005 at 21:17 UTC | Permalink | Comments (10)
Waiting For Fitzmas
The waiting gets boring. So let's get a bit busy with some handicraft.
beq carved these beautiful Jailoween pumpkins.
All I Want For Fitzmas
by beq
(a really great desktop background:
1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1024x768)
Reality-free-based lies
Will burn their asses.
slothrop adds:
then monica, now miss plame.
too much justice fools
beq:
endless sea of boiling oil
w in hell.
Freebased ideology -
Will burn their asses.
for bush et al, the fittest
punishment to be
surprisingly tasty - yum!
I give it B +
And of course there is Billmon's Fitzmas Carol.
C'mon, add yours below.
Posted by b on October 27, 2005 at 12:41 UTC | Permalink | Comments (47)
Friday Art: Blowback
Blowback: The unintended consequences of covert operations.
by beq
(full size)
Posted by b on August 12, 2005 at 19:30 UTC | Permalink | Comments (23)
Scull & Bones
(title unknown)
by anna missed
pigment/paint on wood
(fullsize, 145 kilobyte)
Posted by b on June 24, 2005 at 19:35 UTC | Permalink | Comments (11)
Two Cows
A bit late friday art blogging.
Two Cows by Wolfgang Ohlhaver (detail)
40''x55'', acrylic on canvas, (full view)
Wolfgang is a former art teacher and local known artist living in my part of Hamburg. I meet him today and photographed this one. He has made a bunch of similar pictures of cows against just a white background and nearly lifesize. He is engaged in animal rights and working for better herding conditions.
Some miles north from here are the roots of these Holsteiner-Frisians, also named 'Schwarzbunte' (black-colorful ones). Big, pretty and peaceful animals. Those coded markers in the left ears were introduced after the BSE panic. You will get yours with Patriot Act III.
As a child I did seriously believe that black-white mottled cows made milk and brown-white mottled cows, uncommon in my hometown, made chocolate. I really bitched to my mother about letting me keep this believe after I milked my first brown checkered one.
Posted by b on June 18, 2005 at 16:01 UTC | Permalink | Comments (9)
Friday Art Time
fallujah morning
by anna missed
15"x14", pigment/spraypaint/pyro on wood
(fullsize, 145 kilobyte)
Posted by b on June 10, 2005 at 18:12 UTC | Permalink | Comments (8)
Untitled
Untitled (detail) by anna missed
pigment/pyro on wood
Full size (180 KByte)
Posted by b on May 27, 2005 at 20:11 UTC | Permalink | Comments (24)
Reign Man
Washington Post, May 20, 2005:
Army Warns Iraqi Forces On Abuse Of Detainees
Reign Man (detail) by anna missed
18"x14" - pigment/spraypaint/pyro on wood
Full size (180 KByte)
New York Times, May 20, 2005:
In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
A sketch by Thomas V. Curtis, a former Reserve M.P. sergeant, showing how Dilawar was chained to the ceiling of his cell.
Posted by b on May 20, 2005 at 11:51 UTC | Permalink | Comments (37)
Barfly Art: Transhumanity
by beq
pastels with sumi ink
on paper from Thailand
(fullsize, uncompressed - 600 KByte)
There is more ...
by beq
pastels with sumi ink
on paper from Thailand
(fullsize, uncompressed 600 KByte)
Generally, the primary purpose of transhumanism is to increase the efficiency of human functioning by modifying the human genome of zygotes, which I assume means eliminating the countless rare, common, and omnipresent genetic flaws, not excluding age-induced degeneration, and to increase human desirability, ability, versatility, and resilience. Other technologies that serve a similar purpose are also considered.
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A Proposed End-Goal: Justice Maximism (suggested by the artist)
Posted by b on April 30, 2005 at 11:54 UTC | Permalink | Comments (13)