Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Elk Meadow Winter Sunset

 

Acrylic on canvas, 8x10

Victory Garden for a Family of Five


 

 

Acrylic and ink on canvas, 8x10

Friday, March 22, 2024

Roadkill Chunnies

Here's some spring/Easter art🌷🐰🩡

An age-old story of rebirth, or how a cheddar bunny becomes a cheddar square πŸ£πŸ’

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Today's Wordle Answer

 

Permanent ceasefire now

Monday, March 18, 2024

Kate Middleton photo

 

i found the original photo before the Princess photoshopped it

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Reaping What's Been Sown

 


"reaping what's been sown" acrylic on paper 5.5x5
This one is so bad that I think it's funny in the botched Jesus painting way #botchedjesus
Roy Williams looks like a combo Steve Martin and Bobby Knight
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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Court Storming Leg Healed Up

 


"court storming leg healed up" acrylic on paper 4.5x8

Thursday, March 07, 2024

Skippyhaha Studihoho

Just thought I'd share a few skippyhaha studihoho paintings ("hohos") I've made this year.

When I was thinking of t-shirt ideas and graphics professionally for a few years with Vintage Vantage, I would be happy if the idea made people laugh or made people think.

That is still the goal!

"Scrolling Genocide" - acrylic on paper, 7x10


"I Like Fried Chicken!" - acrylic on paper, 8x10


"Elk and Clouds" - acrylic on paper, 8x10



"Kentucky Fried Chicken Right Here" - acrylic on paper, 8x10




Wednesday, February 28, 2024

How the Columbo Dog Head Greeting Cards Came to Be

 
(This is cross-posted from Columbo Clothes and Laughs
 
 


 
It was around New Years 2024 when Kevin said I needed a hobby besides the pandemic.

I said, "no I do not." 
 
He said, "yes you do." 

I said "okay, I will paint."

He kindly got an art kit and set up a small easel in a room downstairs. 
 
Mostly as a way to flip off AI art I started painting with acrylics.
 
I painted my "pandemic friends." 



 
I painted some psychedelic stars that have been in my head since 1988.
 

 
 
For a big challenge, I moved onto trying to paint some favorite Columbo scenes. 

The first one turned out okay. 
 
 
I thought I could share these paintings in greeting card form with other Columbo fans. 

I ordered 10 cards as a test from the most eco-friendly card maker I could find in the USA, and as they were being made, I painted 11 more of my favorite scenes. 
 
For example, John Cassavetes playing the Maestro as he's about to be hauled off to jail, shaking Peter Falk playing Columbo's hand:



I looked up whether painting scenes from TV or movies is copyright infringement. 

Sad trombone, yes it is. Fuckers!

I drafted a letter to the heirs of Columbo creators Link and Levinson seeking a license to sell these paintings as cards.
 
I realized NBC Universal Comcast is the evil overlord who owns the copyrights and having dealt with their overzealous IP lawyers for years who deactivate entirely legitimate (due to the First Sale Doctrine) vintage Etsy listings, I felt that a license would be unattainable/overly onerous, so I pivoted to DOG HEADS.
 
Putting dog heads on the bodies takes the paintings to the parody/satire level, which resolves any copyright issues. 
 
So I just photoshopped photos of some dogs I know and love onto the bodies.
 
 
My artist friend Jess Pfohl from Jess! Messin' who is Into This Stuff in a big way told me to paint the dog heads for consistency. 
 
So I painted 22 dog heads to match the characters/vibe of the actors in the paintings.
 
 
And that is how we ended up with 12 scenes from 70s Columbo with parody painted dog heads!

Cards available today from skippyhaha Etsy!
 
Four cards out today, four more next Wednesday March 6th, and the final four cards will be out the following Wednesday March 13th. 



Dogs. 

PS - IF YOU WOULD LIKE A CARD WITH PAINTINGS WITH THE HUMAN HEADS, sent via USPS with a forever letter stamp with NO TRACKING, I had a tiny run of those printed - please message or email me

Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Most Orange Conference

I've run the numbers and crunched the data and it turns out the most Orange D1 college athletic conference is...the ACC! Makes sense with the Syracuse Orange as a member school, but I had to be sure.

With 5 schools that have orange in their official colors (Clemson, UVA, VaTech, Miami, and Syracuse) the ACC received 5 hash marks! 

With 2 schools whose colors combine to form orange (Boston College and Florida State), the ACC also received 2 bonus stars. 

The next closest conference was the Southeastern Conference with 3 hash marks for orange teams - Florida, Tennessee and Auburn - and no bonus stars.

My sense that UNC was playing a disproportionate number of orange teams was confirmed! 

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Friday, June 23, 2023

Sonar the Funk Robot Band from Boulder/Aquatari

 
I recently acquired some original band tee shirts (Black Creek Band - Southern rock in the late 80s - 90s from Tallahassee, Florida; and Sonar from Boulder, Colorado via the planet Aquatari, in the early 00s) from friend and band member himself, Jason McDaniel, aka "bass player Commander Colt 44."
 
For those of us who have been personally deprived of the knowledge and pleasure of seeing the "four shimmering clouds" of Sonar perform live all we are left to do is piece together the psychonautics from old videos and actual articles that were actually published and distributed in actual local newspapers in the early 00s. 
 
For instance, here is an inter-dimensional gem of an interview from the Steamboat Pilot, October, 2001:

Sonar invades the Wolf Den Tavern

Kelly Silva
 
 
They wear alienesque masks on stage and claim their sound is something like an old-school funk like a New Orleans-style blend of blues and jazz.
 
They are Sonar five vibrations that slipped into five male human bodies and began playing music and Atari to communicate with their home planet Aquatari.
Members of Sonar have names such as Captain Star 69, Commodore 64, Commander Colt 44, Doctor NC 17 and Admiral RX-7. They also produce waves of audio energy from instruments such as impact-induced vibration cylinders, an organi-magnetallic resonating chamber, a low-frequency modulator and multi-chromatic variable wave inverters and don’t forget the Atari 2600 Game Machine.
Their story may seem odd to the humans on Earth, but it won’t be long before they head out of Colorado and into California to tour and keep communication with Aquatari.
“We do a lot of off-the-wall songs; we do spoofs on songs,” Captain Star 69 said. “We really are from another planet.”
The story begins when the vibrations lived on Aquatari under the rule of the super-fine sea goddess.
“We were just vibrations without bodies and we played a sort of music there,” Captain Star 69 said.
Sea goddess Shanaqua controlled Aquatari, but when Manta tried to overthrow the planet, the vibrations with musical talent were sent through a porthole. The members leapt out of the Boulder Reservoir and stumbled upon some men changing a tire on the side of the road.
After the vibrations snuck into the human bodies, they found musical instruments and 8-track tapes in the van.
In order for members of Sonar to communicate with Aquatari, they must play music and Atari. Sonar has decided to give Earthlings a glimpse into what they’re really all about.
“For the time being, we’re just linking up with our home planet,” Captain Star 69 said. “People either love us or hate us. That’s a great thing.”

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This is something that was published. "We really are from another planet." 

Here's one more supernaturally glowing profile from the Deseret (Salt Lake City, Utah) News from December 2001 - this gives a little more depth and detail.

Band Sonar is out of this world

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Introducing: Columbo Clothes and Laughs Blog!

 I have found a new hobby and it is Columbo. 
 
 

 
To support this obsession, I have started a new blog: Columbo Clothes and Laughs
 
There we will discuss the vintage fashion and humor of the Columbo television show.
 

 
For episodes where there are more than three excellent outfits, there will be a poll for everyone to pick their favorite. 
 

 
New posts every Wednesday, just as the original episodes aired!
 

 Thank you very much, Lieutenant!

COLUMBO CLOTHES AND LAUGHS BLOG