In the early years of Moon of Alabama I, at times, posted works of art created and sent in by commentators who had moved with me to this blog after Billmon had shut down his 'Whiskey Bar'.
Their were oil paintings by anna-missed, photographs by b_real, poems by rememberinggiap, ceramics by annie and pictures in oil, pastel or acrylic by beq.
Other commentators reflected on those works.
Such Bar-fly art still has its (unfortunately incomplete) category page. Here you can scroll through it. After I had taken a break in posting at this site the Bar-fly art theme never revived.
So I was pleasantly surprised when beq recently contacted me and sent me a new picture.
She wrote:
I have four large paintings that I made last year. Each is 42"x 94" [107 x 239 cm]. I lay down on the paper and had a friend trace my outline on the paper with spray paint. The rest is watercolor. [These are not what you're used to :-)]
On April 14 I learned that old time Moon of Alabama commentator anna missed, also known as Jack Chevalier, had died two weeks earlier. I wrote about it in
Jack was an artist who lived on an island near Seattle. Jack contributed a lot to our discussions about the war the Bush gang waged on Iraq. He had been in Vietnam and could relate the ground reality. … The [picture] below is a gift anna missed sent to me back then. It’s an oil painting on a thick piece of raw wood with small glass pellets sprinkled into it.
notebook #1 2008 9″x 16″x 1″ oil paint and glass pellets on wood by anna missed bigger
Today I learned that old time Moon of Alabama commentator anna missed, also known as Jack Chevalier, has died two weeks ago on April 1. Jack was an artist who lived on an island near Seattle. Jack contributed a lot to our discussions about war the Bush gang waged on Iraq. He had been in Vietnam and could relate the ground reality.
In the early years of this blog I often posted art sent to me by some of the commentators. We all knew each other (virtually) from Billmon's Whiskey Bar and were a small but quite tight community.
The one below is a gift anna missed sent to me back then. It's an oil painting on a thick piece of raw wood with small glass pellets sprinkled into it.
notebook #1 2008 9"x 16"x 1" oil paint and glass pellets on wood by anna missed bigger
I had to convince the custom officer that I was practically worthless to avoid duties. It has since been hanging in my living room. (Beq – the picture you gave me is hanging in my hallway.)
when realizations come too late
irreversible damage, broken minds
electrical currents cooking testicles
but when the market dives, eyes get wet w/ tears
they feed us fears and supple nymphs
couched in spacey, wooden wombs
mesmerized by insatiable streams
of capital’s poisonous blooms
all within share torture’s sin
to kill a man five times a day
we welcome a shift to dirty swine
because there’s nothing we can say
nothing softens evil’s hand
or slows its dark, methodic hold
and nothing will be what is left
when sadism’s so easily sold
April 27, 2009
Bring Out Your Dead
picture by beq
Bring Out Your Dead
by beq Click on image to enlarge (120k) Click here for an uncropped image (220k)
Someone made a nice music clip using the same technique. A nearly perfect, stop-motion animated, small scale model world – with music – is below the fold.
for my beloved/is a lamb/climbing the step/in eisensteins film
alluding to synthesis/that never came/or resolution/of thesis
initiated by lenin/in railway carriage/funded by germans/to end war
& lenin read/aloud to companion/while drinking tea/from isiah certainly
it was reference/to some things/or other matter/he’d prefer/not to discuss
with central committee/the wolf also/shall dwell with/lamb & leopard
shall lie down/with the kid/& the calf/& young lion/& fatling together
& little child/shall lead them/referring to jerusalem/but lenin leant
from this passage/that we need/messiah to motivate/desire to change
circumstances as described/in the eighteenth/brummairre of louis
bonaparte marx’s essay/still read somewhere/in latin america/perhaps some canton
in new china/where distinguished emporers/turn tianemen square/into endless circle
A broad-based tax cut, for example, accommodated by a program of open-market purchases to alleviate any tendency for interest rates to increase, would almost certainly be an effective stimulant to consumption and hence to prices. […] A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous "helicopter drop" of money.
A clean version of the title of Bernanke’s speech is:
Inflation: Making Sure "It" Does Happen Here
Hence, helicopter money drops. But not pennies as anna missed assumes, those are now too expensive to make, but cheap dollar notes with the imprint Made in China.
beq adds music by Kodo, especially song no. 9 from the Mondo Head album: Echo Bells.
Somehow the download doesn’t work for me (maybe it is geographically limited?), but there are some Mondo Head tracks available at the producers website.
