Hobo Jungle

[2railjon]

Neat video using old photographs from the 1900's!
http://petapixel.com/2016/04/06/animati ... rly-1900s/

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Neat video using old photographs from the 1900's!
http://petapixel.com/2016/04/06/animati ... rly-1900s/

Very slick.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Neat video using old photographs from the 1900's!
http://petapixel.com/2016/04/06/animati ... rly-1900s/

Very slick.

As slick as Grace?

Captivating. Makes me sorry no road leads to the Past.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

As slick as Grace?

No 1st-hand experience...........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

As slick as Grace?

No 1st-hand experience...........

Perhaps the time for that has slicked away.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

As slick as Grace?

No 1st-hand experience...........

Perhaps the time for that has slicked away.

Yeah.......probably again something best left alone......and in the deep, dark past.........under a large rock.

[rogruth]

Jon,
I don't know anything about all that slick stuff just above
but that video you posted was really cool.
I use cool because there is someone on MTJ that doesn't like the word.
No, I don't want to fight but I like the word.

[Tramp]

Healey, got to get those cars out to you. Thank you for being so patient! My last drawing arrived in New York today. Time for some modeling, etc. Beer!



The author's latest colored pencil drawing. Mirrored Room Four, 18 by 16 inches.

Mirrored Rooms

The initial inspiration for the Mirrored Room began in childhood when I would lie on my back and envision ceilings as floors. In 2005 I tried an upside-down lamp painting, but it just looked upside-down, not transcendent and magical as I had hoped. Then I realized how it could be accomplished . . . it is a way of seeing our world as a purely aesthetic environment as opposed to a merely functional one, or alternatively, as an abstract composition as apposed to a snapshot of reality.

The idea of “quantum perspective” is rather exciting as it forces the mind to see something from two points of view at the same time. The mind attempts to amalgamate the two halves of the image, and hopefully experiences something unique, which then triggers an emotion of how incredible the ordinary actually is. This is precisely in line with the philosophy that governs the Time Diptychs.

As an aside, the pieces also expose the conditioning of our brains when viewing visual stimuli. The lamp rising out of the floor almost to human stature becomes more three-dimensional in space than the lamp hanging from the ceiling. This is due to the preconditioning of our minds telling us what’s more important since our safety and focus depends more on relating to floor objects than those on ceilings.

I spent over ten years trying to resolve this concept, but until you imagine a solution, it simply doesn’t exist. Only then can it seem obvious.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The author's latest colored pencil drawing. Mirrored Room Four, 18 by 16 inches.

I do like that one!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Jon,
I don't know anything about all that slick stuff just above...

It was a cultural reference to an icon from several decades ago - Grace Slick, of the Jefferson Airplane.

[rogruth]

Tramp,

As I said earlier, my art criticism ability is nil. But I do agree with Rufus.
I really like this one. Now don't ask me to explain why.

Murph,

I actually did know who Grace Slick was. Just trying to to be a little funny.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Tramp,

As I said earlier, my art criticism ability is nil. But I do agree with Rufus.
I really like this one. Now don't ask me to explain why.

Murph,

I actually did know who Grace Slick was. Just trying to to be a little funny.

Oooops, that was dum and unsubtle of me not to get that, your being a musician and music teacher during her reign at least . Sorry.

[rogruth]

Murph,
Atsalright.

[E7]

The author's latest colored pencil drawing.

Amazing Tramp, absolutely amazing!

[Tramp]

Lads, hobos, Tramp needs your help. I'm going up against the model railroader master DB for a pink slip build an O-scale water tower contest. I haven't really built anything in 30 years, and Dennis as we know, is one of the best in the country. I've got a good cut man in my corner in LT, but would really appreciate any suggestions on:

Prototype photos of water towers. Only found a few. Need detail photos desperately.

Secrets for weathering wood as in the base structure. Anyone tried vinegar and steel wool?

Thanks in advance.

Also, could I ask you guys to help judge? It would be a blind judging. You won't know whose tower was build by whom. (hint: mine will be yellow!)