I couldn’t think of what they might be filming, so I searched….
It was…
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Spellbound” -1945
It made me recall the movie…. not totally, because it was long long long ago, and convoluted, and not the most memorable Hitchcock movie I’ve seen… but…
OMG…. suspenseful, yes….
Also so full of melodrama, shadowy imagery and crazy 1940s (I guess) ideas about psychology, dreams, and amnesia, that if I weren’t terrified I probably would have laughed.
Then again, I had the perspective of a couple of decades or three since it was made… in 1945 it must have seemed much more plausible
We had a guy in the maintenance department at work that could have done the spackle without the bucket. He could change the fluorescent lights without a stool, and had length to spare. Me? I’m so vertically challenged I have to reach up to tie my shoes.
I know you can read his name on the print… I just wanted to point out that it says “Designs by…”
It’s not a painting, and not AI, but a print, of an image drawn by him on a computer with digital tools…. an incredible number of them, including a Wacom tablet, Photoshop, Illustrator and more.
It’s his work… but a lot of details and adjustments, including texture, lighting, etc, are done by the software. He only produces prints… are they “originals”?
Do we call this “art” in the same way we think about a painting? Or judge him only by what he can do with a pen or a paintbrush in his hands, without digital help? A lot of this discussion comes up nowadays at juried art shows.
If you’re interested in his tools or process… check out this page where he explains it….
It’s creativity by an individual on his own choice of medium. Without his talent and ability, the tools could do nothing. Without the chosen tools, his work might be different. (I’d bet if he were born in an age without digital tools, he would still have been expressing his innate ability in some other artistic endeavor.)
So let me ask it this way: is photography art? I mean, much of that relies on the photographer’s tools, right? The art world says yes, photography is art. So is the product of this person’s efforts any less art just because he uses tools other than a paintbrush (or, to continue the comparison, a camera)? I think not.
I agree….it seems like Mr. Kia is the artist here.
But there are also so-called digital artists who tell a program to make another copy, but put in a woman on a second horse…. or three pumpkins on the porch. Then it’s AI. Those, AFAIK, are not the type of programs he uses… but the line gets thinner.
Around 2002, I entered a picture in an amateur art show. (Honestly because it was a way to get a free ticket to a tomato festival). I had no art supplies…. So I drew it on my computer, in MS Paint, and printed it, and put it in an inexpensive frame.
I’m no great artist, but it actually looked better than I expected. The jurors had never seen such a thing. They didn’t want to let it into the show because they wanted “the original”, not a print.
It drew a cluster of people working at the festival, all clucking over whether it was Art. They actually called the festival director… she liked it, so it got in
Nowadays bigger rows are started over such things, and groups of professional artists and curators don’t agree. Soon AI bots will be arguing with each other over whether robots can be artists. 😀
Wonder of wonders… Nighthawks has the original answer!
But he can’t hide spoilers of images, so he sent it to me to upload and post. I held off for a little while (had to quickly avert my eyes so I wouldn’t read it!) so I could try to solve it.
But… sigh… I was wrong. Didn’t think hard enough.
You try….
Then check your solution HERE:
PS from me: Don’t forget, if you get an orange, it still works… but it’s the apple box that will contain both.
Hope those of you waiting for the basset serials enjoy the Basset Exorcist!
Not one of my favorite movies, because, as some of you know, I am NOT a horror fan. But I enjoy it in these comic strips, because it’s not exactly scary this way…. and it’s funny.
Besides, the artwork is excellent… I just know the rip-off human version stole that beautiful, foggy opening background art from Nighthawks!
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awww….puppy!!! All ears and paws 🙂
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Dunno that one…Maybe Hindi?
Yep.
Somebody told me in beauty school…
From a Hindi word for knead, they used also for the scalp massages British officers would get in India.
They took the word back to England as slang, and it became used for the massaging of lotion into the hair to clean it.
Dunno where the word came from. But I know why we all use sham-poo. No one likes real-poo on their head.
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I got who. Not so sure about why…
Like Steve, and me, too,
I couldn’t think of what they might be filming, so I searched….
It made me recall the movie…. not totally, because it was long long long ago, and convoluted, and not the most memorable Hitchcock movie I’ve seen… but…
OMG…. suspenseful, yes….
Also so full of melodrama, shadowy imagery and crazy 1940s (I guess) ideas about psychology, dreams, and amnesia, that if I weren’t terrified I probably would have laughed.
Then again, I had the perspective of a couple of decades or three since it was made… in 1945 it must have seemed much more plausible
….
Another colorful van Gogh painting?
LOL
Daigo-Jii Temple in Kyoto, in Autumn.
…..
Cool!
I’ll bet he can dance.
The can-can?
I’d be flat on my face…
We had a guy in the maintenance department at work that could have done the spackle without the bucket. He could change the fluorescent lights without a stool, and had length to spare. Me? I’m so vertically challenged I have to reach up to tie my shoes.
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They’ve been watching too many Three Stooges movies!
My brudder has a hole in his gate for the dog to stick the head through. It has a life ring as a frame.
That’s adorable! I might have thought of a picture frame, but a life ring? Wonderful!
,..
,,..
Oh crap! This is serious!
a flanking maneuver is being employed
Herding cats?
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Crimson Moon, by Kevin Kia.
I know you can read his name on the print… I just wanted to point out that it says “Designs by…”
It’s not a painting, and not AI, but a print, of an image drawn by him on a computer with digital tools…. an incredible number of them, including a Wacom tablet, Photoshop, Illustrator and more.
It’s his work… but a lot of details and adjustments, including texture, lighting, etc, are done by the software. He only produces prints… are they “originals”?
Do we call this “art” in the same way we think about a painting? Or judge him only by what he can do with a pen or a paintbrush in his hands, without digital help? A lot of this discussion comes up nowadays at juried art shows.
If you’re interested in his tools or process… check out this page where he explains it….
https://artacademi.com/pages/kevin-kia?srsltid=AfmBOorSGHqWt5oKxngn5bOI7RsV8TZyuE9-kV1I5n8nI0pbzk5waA6b
It’s creativity by an individual on his own choice of medium. Without his talent and ability, the tools could do nothing. Without the chosen tools, his work might be different. (I’d bet if he were born in an age without digital tools, he would still have been expressing his innate ability in some other artistic endeavor.)
So let me ask it this way: is photography art? I mean, much of that relies on the photographer’s tools, right? The art world says yes, photography is art. So is the product of this person’s efforts any less art just because he uses tools other than a paintbrush (or, to continue the comparison, a camera)? I think not.
I agree….it seems like Mr. Kia is the artist here.
But there are also so-called digital artists who tell a program to make another copy, but put in a woman on a second horse…. or three pumpkins on the porch. Then it’s AI. Those, AFAIK, are not the type of programs he uses… but the line gets thinner.
Around 2002, I entered a picture in an amateur art show. (Honestly because it was a way to get a free ticket to a tomato festival). I had no art supplies…. So I drew it on my computer, in MS Paint, and printed it, and put it in an inexpensive frame.
I’m no great artist, but it actually looked better than I expected. The jurors had never seen such a thing. They didn’t want to let it into the show because they wanted “the original”, not a print.
It drew a cluster of people working at the festival, all clucking over whether it was Art. They actually called the festival director… she liked it, so it got in
Nowadays bigger rows are started over such things, and groups of professional artists and curators don’t agree. Soon AI bots will be arguing with each other over whether robots can be artists. 😀
,.,,
I’m guessing “Ocean’s Eleven…”
Yes.
Why is Dean Martin punching Pee Wee Herman?
Because he’s dressed like Joey Bishop?
😉
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Rover doesn’t think twice.
napkin and all, I think…
Small dogs sometimes have almost feline attitude.
“You say this is food? Let me sniff it a few hundred times and maybe I’ll get back to you.”
A golden retriever will eat it without looking or sniffing, just because you’re handing it to him, so he figures it might be edible.
That right there is Fawn and Buddy. She’s picky, he eat sticks.
Satchel Pooch: Food or non-food?
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I’m thinking two, but I can’t explain it this time of night…
Wonder of wonders… Nighthawks has the original answer!
But he can’t hide spoilers of images, so he sent it to me to upload and post. I held off for a little while (had to quickly avert my eyes so I wouldn’t read it!) so I could try to solve it.
But… sigh… I was wrong. Didn’t think hard enough.
You try….
PS from me: Don’t forget, if you get an orange, it still works… but it’s the apple box that will contain both.
Got it!
It is that one singular line
(“All 3 boxes are labled wrong.”)
that makes “ONE” instead of “TWO” samples the correct answer.
The solution I got to at 5:00 this morning!
Yep.
Exactly. Got it right.
My brains seem to start working again…
Leonardo Da Vinci
All these obscure paintings.
Gee… couldn’t you find something familiar to post.
BTW I’m pretty sure that big writing in the bottom right corner isn’t part of the original. Leonardo had never heard of this thing, “America”.
I like to plug the little guy
I always thought he had a beard…
There are supposed scholars who really do argue that this is a self portrait.
However the other 98.9% of Da Vinci experts say “Are you nuts??”
Save the last dance for me” always breaks me up. Written by Doc Pomace, a polio victim who was paralyzed and unable to dance. ;’0(
Hope those of you waiting for the basset serials enjoy the Basset Exorcist!
Not one of my favorite movies, because, as some of you know, I am NOT a horror fan. But I enjoy it in these comic strips, because it’s not exactly scary this way…. and it’s funny.
Besides, the artwork is excellent… I just know the rip-off human version stole that beautiful, foggy opening background art from Nighthawks!
And it’s basset hounds… I mean… what can you say?
Never watched the movie. Don’t do horror. But I think I’m gonna like the basset hound version 🙂
I’ve never been seen it either… same reason.
But this is great.
Read the book. My imagination is usually so good that I don’t need to see the movie adaptation. Plus I can put the book down from time to time.
Nope.
I can put the book down but not the images it put into my head.
That’s why I quit Stephen King decades ago. Even the books were more than my imagination could handle safely.
A street in the Bronx, New York City, 1977.
La Sabaneña looks a bit low on inventory.
It was an “Everything Must Go!” sale, and they were successful!!
Probably after the riots during the 1977 blackout.