AgainstTheWall:OTI::one poem,notes:::12/4/20

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Against The Wall

Oh, Goya, what was that on and on about the Third of May....?
Those square lantern lit people...?
Oh, it was a follow on and on from the Second of May,
When the  cannons scattered the columns,
That made that midnight alight with sound-
The French needed lanterns to see the Spanish
Against the wall.

Dolphinwords

Notes: the notion for a poem with notes about Goya's painting has been "about" in my head for weeks...after yesterday's Sebastopol, I thought to attend to Goya, and looked again at his famous painting The Third of May, and, and saw the lantern!...actually, I collected the painting for its use of dark and light, that dark band thing-see Edgar Payne/Maynard Dixon post, darklight, back aways...thought is to to write more about the dark band, as I keep seeing it, no where more so than Goya's painting!...for sometime...the dust up between the French and Spanish on May Second has to be close studied!..."on and on" is the refrain from Journey's song, "Dont Stop Believing"..."on and on like a movie"...I wanted that for the poem, on from the 2nd to the 3rd, then saw the lantern, and thought, wth, there's the "street light people" too...hmmph!

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DavidDavid

Sebastapol:OTI::one poem, notes:::12/3/20

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Sebastopol

Theseus?  Not so, Artemis Tauric wouldnt have it,
A replica Temple in Thesian style,
Nor the Russians who bombarded it
Least the British, Turks, French,
Enjoy it.
Too, the Germans and Romanians
Scuttled away under such:
Such Iphiginian rites
More than a scratch and a drop of blood.

DolphinWords

Temple of Hephaestus - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Hephaestus

http://www.londonancestor.com/iln/sebastopol.htm


Notes: oh, in copy pasting, I lost the first version of this...such is the hazard of computer writing...I cast about online for a wordprocessing dedicated handheld computer, like my samsung's tablet memo pad, but more, like full on microsoft office...composing on the note pad began with my iphone's...thought is to just use old disconnected cell phones' memos...I one finger type on the on screen keyboard...that has a slow pace, a fit with composing...anyway, problem is getting things into the formats...the samsung tablet's weird...today, I thought to just go online and use google's blogger-dedicate a new blog to drafting...from there to microsoft word with the lap top...but, but I'd rather not have to be online...the storage on the samsung fills up from browsing, maybe a virus, some glich...but it's really great for using "share" while online to note links and quotes, unless the storage is full, then I'm stuck...an aside...how did it go...Theseus? Not so, a replica Temple in the style of Theseus..........Artemis Tauric....not so for the Russians too who bombarded it too, least the British, Turks, French, enjoy it.  The Germans and Romanians scuttled away under such.  Such Iphiginian rites more than a scratch and a drop of blood....got some of it back...

Sebastopol

Theseus? Not so, A replica Temple in the style of Theseus...
Artemis Tauric wouldnt have it,
Not so the Russians too,
Who bombarded the occupying British, Turks, French,
Least they enjoy it.
The Germans and Romanians
Scuttled away under such:
Such Iphiginian rites
More than a scratch and a drop of blood.

Well, that one's not the lost first one either...it wasnt the sense or conceit lost, just some tear duct rending sound to the words...hmmph...a Light Brigade trumpeter repeated his challenge for the new recording machines, and before finding that, I came to dwell on the tale on seeing youtube thumbnail, "first war photographs"-from there to Crimean War parts 1,2,3,...in the old pics was the Temple...curious to know if it was original, I close studied, discovered Euripedes' tale of Iphigena, his take...old Greeks took liberties with their tales!...and so found myself in contemplation of the Black Sea...I thought the Valley of Death was somewhere over by the Khyber Pass...not so!
edit: I keep changing it...question mark after Theseus...And not so the Russians...this is even more of a linking tale than I thought!...at Artemis' shrine was a fetish, a relic (such shrines today are wannabe art museums!), this in the first Greek town on the Crimean peninsula long before Sebastopol, a fallen meteor maybe, and Iphegena and Orestes stole it and ended up at Lake Nemi in Italy, and there the famous legend of the Oak King taken up by James Frazer in the Golden Bough, where there then another shrine made to Artemis...the Golden Fleece was lifted from the east shore of the Black Sea, Jason and the Argonauts tale...Iphigena, Agememnon's daughter, as a youth, was to be sacrificed so winds would come and take the Greeks to the war with the Trojans, and indeed in that tale, she was, which brought grief to King Agememnon on his return-Iphegina's death revenged with his murder by his wife, or some such...my myth lore is undisciplined, as all!...but Euripedes told the tale that Artemis saved Iphegina, replaced her with a sacrficial deer, and Iphegina became the priestess of Artemis Tauric, Artemis in Crimea...the Romans copied the Greeks, but thought themselves descended from the Trojans, a kind of fit...Theseus was a fug head, never to be forgiven for abandoning Ariadne...see my Black Deck Tales!...lol...the Renaissance painters knew all these old stories, mixed them together with the Bibles', and the lore preserved by the patronage of the elites...modern art tries to sweep it all away, making fetishes for the modern gallery/museum shrines, making themselves into reliquaries to be worshipped by the auction houses, or some such...the old myths show through...the Russians booted the Ukranians too from Sebastopol!

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DavidDavid

SquareWave:OTI::pics,notes:::12/2/20

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From Colombia, Amazon Rock Art

pic from blog post July 30, 2018

Notes: welp, they are about to obsolete the radio telescope in Puerto Rico...hurricane damage and neglect being such...a lament has gone up, and effort to rehab it...I got to thinking, a whimsy, once, to make a reflective telescope lens...I'd put a pendulum out in the back yard, kinda like the Pit and the Pendulum!, and the blade would carve out the concave shape, or at least a measure of how dig to deep here and there...trouble was the lens would be rooted to the ground (to say nothing of how I was to cast the lens in the concave hole!), and could just see small sections of the night sky overhead passing over the telescope...charm of the whimsy was that the lens could be really really big...looking about, the history of lens making, I happened on the Puerto Rico telescope-watched the James Bond flic with it, and, and, 'nothing new', my idea has been done, my thought...still a neat idea...anyway, anyway, in the news yesterday was the story of the Rock Art in the Amazon, in a remote, and dangerous, area of Columbia...motif hounds saw this Rock Art and noted this, and that, and that, and this..."Ambiguity" the word from a browse of an artist glossary of terms...yep...motifs are first and foremost ambiguous...the handprints are everywhere in the ice age caves and such...what to think of those?...among the north American Indians, they would put handprints on their ponies-mementos of combats and hunts...and, and horses were about in the Americas during the Ice Age, but no one seems to have ridden them...maybe like Zebras they were too wild...I dunno...and, and then there's the border motifs...these I see often on the old mosaics...and on things in the Old and New Worlds...a bunch of on and ons in the posts...and as it happens these borders resemble oscilloscope patterns...radio waves...were the Amazonians in their dream journeys seeing radio waves?!...geometric patterns a common report from the alternate realities...even just everyday experience can see such...sunlight on water does all kinds of things...wind waves too...see if I can snag a pic of the Amazon Rock Art...no luck...they're there...just do a google image search amazon colombia rock art...said to be eight miles of them...the "square wave" is among them...that's like just a smidgen away from greek keys and step frets...in fact, that exact motif is on a lot of Greek and Roman things...browsing other things, I happened on such a border in the Vatican's "basement"...no luck snagging that one either..."luck" being copyright free...the block wave, the radio name; in architecture, and mosaic borders, and such, it is called 'dentil'...as in teeth...which to think of it, is what it looks like, upper and lower teeth...Indians thought the Yosemite monoliths looked like teeth...maybe that was what the "ambiguity" was 12,000 years ago in the Amazon!...link to earlier blog post:

http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2018/07/oti73018.html

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DavidDavid

Thanksgiving:OTI::pic, notes:::11/26/20

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Orange Crate Labels

from search orange crate label thanksgiving

Notes: Early on, I was so taken with Orange Crate Labels, that I thought to use them for my poetry zine Oranges...this 1987 about...I studied them, bought a few, read McPhee's Oranges, and somewhere I gathered in the the 'why' of the whimsical names, words, on the labels...not all of them had these, but the ones that do have the a charm...and my zine covers were to be like that...Mariposa Brand Oranges Poetry...the idea hasn't gone away...the zine morphed into my blogs...I've lost the why of the whimsy, but looking about at labels, I thought, oh, they are like the prompts for Inktober...artists 'brand' their inks with the prompts...see October's posts!...anyway, I'm working on a post about composition, to include the labels, and some other stuff...hmmph...somewhere someone has the whimsy explained...when I find it, I'll update...Happy Thanksgiving!

from etsy

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DavidDavid

DarkandLight:OTI::one pic, notes:::11/22/20

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Tukut's Lair

Horseman and Desert Buttes

Notes: When I did the fog bank plein air at Aliso Beach, the fog was lit up by the morning sun, and the ocean there about too;  the distant white caps were catching the sun light, as well as the Palm tree tops at the Palace atop the bluff...the Palace, bluff face, and beach, waves, in the foreground were all in shade...the fog was in the distance beyond the bluff, glowing with the sun...this description not met with the painting!...and, and I thought, 'oh, that's that trick I often see, a dark foreground and bright light back ground"...hard to explain...when I put the dark band at the bottom of the seashell paintings, strada easel September 2019, turning the 8x10s into 8x8s, it was a hark to the Andean Tocapus-squares as they are...but I noticed how the black band effected the paintings...hard to explain!...so, soh, I happened on Maynard Dixon's paintings...I've skip read so many art books, all my life, so no telling who I've seen before...Dixon in the mix with Russel and Remington and, who was the third of that trio?...anyway, close looking at Dixon on youtube, I thought, I best leave off, his style is contagious...related to Orange Crate style, my favorite...both derived from Lithography of the time...the fewer the colors the easier to reproduce...Dixon's painting ended up on a lot of magazine covers...he obliged his market...and, and he often has a dark band foreground, horsemen and silhouettes and such...maybe wiki has a copyright ok example...brb...

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Maynard Dixon

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so, soh, Dixon has been a contemplation of late, as that simple color use lends itself to acrylics, which are notoriously difficult to blend...I like acrylics, but I can't blend them!...and, this morning I'm browsing painters the youtube algo librarian is providing thumbnails for, these thumbnails of all things under the Sun a new addictive pastime, I dove into 500 paintings by someone...must be Dixon, I thought, but no, another Western Artist...some of these Western Artists live big, large...they  become rich and famous in the their lifetimes...and the artist is Edgar Payne...and he can't get enough of using the dark band...maybe wiki...brb...

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Edgar Payne

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pics from wiki commons

lol...the band in that one nearly makes a 'tocapu square'...in two dimensional design class, a weeks long project was to grid an 8x10 paper into little "8x10"s. and with just two shapes, then three shapes, make arrangements, compositions, thumbnails...square and circle, square. circle, triangle...some famous Swedish designer came up with this exercise...well, wait, doing thumbnails is kinda universal, and, looking about, I find Edgar Payne's noting of this!...go figure....

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Edgar Payne wrote a book called 'Composition of Outdoor Painting' which is considered a classic. I have to confess that I've never been able to read the whole thing, as I find his writing style to be incredibly ponderous and dull. However, the redeeming strength of his book are the numerous thumbnail compositional studies and examples that describe his ideas, analysis, and advice in a very clear and succinct
fashion. 

http://billcone.blogspot.com/2012/03/edgar-payne-show.html

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anyway, I struggled through that assignment, still have them somewhere, and, don't have much truck with thumbnails!...another curio about Payne, is that early on, as an artist vagabond, he landed in Laguna Beach...one of the Plein Air Founders...and from travels about California, discovered the Sierra Nevada...a fellow somewhere between "John Muir" and "Ansel Adams" his  wiki bio has it...hmmph...been there been that...lol...I'll try to work up my charcoal sketch into a 'dark and light' painting in the style of Dixon and Payne, which is of course what AA was on about too!...brb...

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Ansel Adams from wiki commons

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AA was friends with Dixon, with Payne too?...brb...too old, maybe before Ansel went into the backcountry...Payne spent much time there, and  out and about all over the world...such the benefit of an artist that can live large...like Muir and AA, he began with next to nothing...and he lived and worked often in Laguna, but I can't find any distinctive ones of his of a Laguna Icon...lot of surf and rocks, but I can't distinguish the locations...bb...well, for sometime...google image searches can be a marvel, or a shrug and wth...try a search:.."landscape composition dark foreground"...brb...lol...it has a name..."door jam view"...

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Above: Two paintings by Edgar Payne, where he casts the foreground into shadow. This tool, "the door jamb" causes the viewer to gaze around or over the area at the side or bottom of the painting and into lighter elements in the distance.

https://fineartviews.com/blog/31445/setting-the-stage-with-a-dark-foreground

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oh, the third of the trio...Russell, Reminton, and ?...brb...can't recall...hmmph...maybe it is Dixon...edit: I did a youtube search, Edgar Payne Laguna Beach...and it fetched a take by Laguna Beach Historical Society trying to pinpoint where Payne did his Laguna paintings, and his Sierra paintings too...posted comment...

Watch "2012-09-25 "Edgar Payne" by Eric Jessen" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/vuIQaLYBJx4



I just happened on Payne, and a couple questions came to mind...where are his Yosemite paintings?...answer: "he didn't like crowds", and, where are his paintings of the scenic Laguna Beach bluffs?...I thought that looking at his surf and rock paintings...I dunno...finding where artists/photogs/things like buildings, once stood, a hobby of Yosemite lore fans...Laguna, the whole Orange County coastline, has this feature too...I did a sketch from Shake Shack while snacking at the railing overlooking the umbrellas and rooftops of the preserved Crystal Cove beach cottages, and, and then seeing contestants works of the big plein air contest, like 2016s, noted painting just like my sketch!  😃

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:)

DavidDavid

Scents:OTI::one poem, notes:::11/19/20

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Scents

Oh, Balboa's dogs took his exception
To the natives' gaeity,
Not unlike the delivery of the King's ax,
To the extreme.
So the South Sea revealed to be seen
For Gauguin.
And Picasso read his book,
Noa Noa.
From there the sad news,
The Master at his extremity,
("Master" a deference of Vincent's)
Inspired the drawing,
"Standing Nude, 1903"
Signed Paul Picasso.
Balboa's soldiers made pyramid cairns of stones,
Carved crosses in the trees,
There to mark the view where they first beheld
The Pacific Ocean, Magellan's epithet.

DolphinWords

Notes: thought to look up Balboa, having gone out and back to Balboa of late-see last month's posts...I can binge browse stories of artists nearly 24/7...at Palomar, I found in the library a trove of art books...now youtube the self same...and once upon them, the 'algo librarian' piles more on!...

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DavidDavid

DreameDolphins:OTI::pic,seven poems,notes:::11/12/20

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Monsters

Synchronistical ominisities
Synonomously simultaneous
Intoxicating anonynimities
Perpetuating hippopotomous'

Crocodilian claustrophobias;
Monstroniceties improbability:
Conspiratorous commentarius,
Vlogasaureus promptatality.

Oh, the animosity vloggers go
Above and below, wherever a show,
Trailing fans a twitter, an evenglow,
Before the prophecy of one Hippo.

Project Narcissus mirror mirror
Reflections: Echo's echo long horror.

Benthic

Oh, death feeds us, the benthic undercrust,
Corpses slow rain from the luminous zone;
Whales, sharks, sword fish, sun fish, when in rest,
Sink down to be devoured to the last bone.



Artistry

Geezus!
I'm hanging on the walls, y'know,
Here and there, nails suspended,
My down gaze at your up gaze.

Menagerie

Psycological manipulating
Extraordinare innebriations
Tourbullions intoxicating
Neurolinguistic programmatations.

Psychedelica's fantasticalli
Imenagerie beasteariclings:
Jamesjoysounourous wordcoinmintadae
Aroundaboutus timedatathings.

Can one ever stop the swirling high kites?
Dizzines comes and goes with the moon's glow.
That black audience behind the footlights
Laughs and weeps, terrorized by the dumb show.

What can be found from the sea wrack wreakage
But what the wave's curled, held, for an age?.


Laugh And Dance

I'll dance when I can,
And laugh when I can't....

Dust Ups

I'm on the Moon,
What can you expect of me?
It isn't like there's a hell of a lot to see and do;
I take the Mind Detector out,
And it sounds the alarm,
A Mind below the dust,
And the Hounds hurry out,
And dig it up,
Take care of it-
Out of my hands.
A few a day,
If I'm lucky,
Otherwise it's a long Moonday of nothing
But stirring up dust.
Not that the scenery before was much,
The stars, craters, mountains,
Sometimes the Blue Earth.
Now, just clouds of dust.
Who knew?
The Mormons were right
With their "well of souls",
Millions, billions to dig up,
Each saved like a truffle in the Moon dust.

Sins

Oh, after a fashion,
I'm abrim with second hand Hollywood Sins,
Rock and Roll and all,
Though not so far as Las Vegas-
Nocturnes enough nearby...
But, y'know, second hand sins
Dont cut it with St. Peters,
Enough of those in their own overflow.

DolphinWords

Notes: the Dolphins are from a dream...I have recurring art class dreams...my assignments are late, I've missed too many classes...this one, I had a bunch of ink drawings, Dolphins one on top, and the instuctor asked me if I had my "notes"..."Sure!"...on time for once, and they were like rolled up small carpet, and I put them with everyone elses...and, and I woke up...Monsters and Menagerie grew out of the friction commenting to the youtube Confederacy vlogs...I have a ton of such comments, but since the election, I've left off commenting, or even looking at those vlogs...a sudden, those vloggers have lost their sense of menace, their champion unhorsed, or some such....I dunno...the words in the first two stanzas are five syllables each...the third stanza comes back to reality, sorta...and then the envoy...they're Sonnets...a rebel alliance of Sonneteers the conceit...Dust Ups is remarkable...I learned of the Well of Souls from my Mormon friends....I can't wrap my thoughts around their concepts!...a quibble is how many souls are there!?...Angels on the head of a pin kinda thing...Ray Bradbury story had it deceased book author's ghosts/souls resided on Mars, until their books were no longer read...I moved the whole lot, everybody, to the Moon!...the others are incidentals, kinda beginning things...doing the plein airs in September, the inks in October, like used a different part of my brain, similar to writing, but so different from writing that not much occured to me to write/note, save the vloggers on and ons!...in the Sonnets, it came to me, doing the odd italisized words, and others, what James Joyce may have been up to in his book, Finnigans Wake...I think I have one more five syllable one, but the clutter on my note memo pad hard to search, and I dont recall where this and that is!

:)

DavidDavid