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mk  ·  3237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 17, 2015

Best quality Reddit influx yet.

I am working on a tag thing.

b_b and I were in Oklahoma City at the DeadCenter film festival last weekend. It was my first time there. His good pal wrote and directed a film called Welcome to Happiness, which far exceeded my expectations and took home the top award. It was random weekend spent with good people.

I spotted this at the museum there:

I neglected to take a picture of the plaque, but it was done before I was born.





lil  ·  3237 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thomas Downing (1928-1985).

Here's another one by the dude:

These are not prints. Top one is acrylic, bottom one oil.

Regarding his discover of dots: “They seemed right for me...the feeling in the actual painting of dots, of a gesture which was rhythmic and constantly oscillating seemed right. And the way a dot would isolate an instant of color and repeat it over a broad field gave to color the equivalent of an electric charge...the surface would pulse and come alive.” Even though he's dead, he seems to have had a recent show in Brussels at a gallery called "Sorry We're Closed."

We should make him an honorary member of hubski.

mk  ·  3237 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. Interesting that he did more than one. If only he knew that his proportions were off:

veen  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow, that's almost two years ago? Time flies...

lil  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a third one as well. Maybe dozens.

OftenBen  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm so going to find a print of this to hang up in my new digs.

caelum19  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    DeadCenter

Any over-repeated Left for Dead jokes there?