I've been busy being one of the other mes, visual artist, over the last few months and ignored Mind Jazz to a certain extent. It turns out that there are about five other mes hanging out inside this physical entity also known as my body....or more specific....my awareness. I seem to know for sure that I have a body but my awareness goes a bit deeper than physical reality.
The art of illusion is so damn wonderful.
I'm not sure I've ever used the term mes so I don't know if it's spelled mes or me's....all I know is that there are more than one and lest than 7 so I put the number at five for now.
And before you start thinking about split personality issues please keep in mind that an artist doesn't need to be diagnosed with a split personality disorder....it's just part of what makes the whole picture complete. Of course it could all be building toward something completely different than what I envision but being a renaissance human being just suits the issue. By the way.....I've met a few more lately and the term truly does explain a certain modern day artistic personality.
Renaissance terminology always adds a bit of flavor to the description and until someone creates a better understanding of multi-faceted talent and interests, than renaissance will have to do.
Being a renaissance human being is not a time frame reference but that's what labels have been able to do. Labels place people in categories and categories place people in boxes and boxes place people on shelves and shelves place people in closets and closets place people behind doors and doors can be locked and keys can be hidden and pretty soon no one knows what was even in that box....or if that box ever existed. Eventually someone will find the key, open the door, go in the closet, take out the box and discover something. Is that something worthwhile or not? Is it pretty or not? Is it thought provoking or not?
And thus the critic is born.
So many closets and so many boxes and so many levels of talent. I'm just now learning about what I truly can offer in order to help make this planet a better place to live.
Why would I care about that?
Why don't you care about that?
And that brings us down to the issue of having many interests and many ways to unfold those interests into a physical solid pieces of work.
Multi-tasking seems to be a new description for people that are able to do more than one thing at the same time but I doubt very much if that term could be adequately applied to DaVinci's wide range of interests.
TODAY I AM INTERESTED IN THE HEADLINE I SAW YESTERDAY IN THE LA TIMES....PAGE 3
ISLAMIC STATE PRAISES SEX SLAVERY.
THE ARTICLES GOES ON TO SAY......THAT RAPING WOMEN AND ENSLAVING THEM IS A
FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ASPECT OF
SHARIA.....OR ISLAMIC LAW
FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ASPECT
FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ASPECT
FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ASPECT
SO....let's get this straight.....in the year 2014 a religious organization is saying that it is an
FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ASPECT of their belief system
that WOMAN ARE ALLOWED TO BE RAPED AND ENSLAVED
FORGET THE REASON
THERE IS NO REASON
NO
REASON
NONE
Reading the article it says that criticizing the sexual slavery practiced by the militant Islamic goofballs would be to deny the actual verses in the KORAN that say it's ok to do this to women.
DOES IT ACTUALLY SAY THAT IN THE KORAN?
I'm not sure because I've never read the KORAN.....but I can tell you that IF it does say that then
someone
somewhere
somehow
needs to alter the wording or re-interpret the interpretation because if it says that
whoever wrote the original wasn't
sane.
Do I hear F-22 Raptors answering that article in the paper?
AND THEN THERE'S THE EBOLA STORY
Seems pretty simple......
Quarantine.
Maybe complete quarantine until a vaccine can be created.
I just read where Mark Zukerberg gave 25 million to the CDC Foundation to help fight EBOLA.
I'm thinking that a billion might get some results.....but 25 mill doesn't even get you a great left handed pitcher anymore.
25 mill sure ain't what it used to be....
And now that I come to think about it.......nothing is what it used to be.
WE NEED
NEW
and once more
we need
a
COUNCIL OF FAITH
please refer to posting on 7/27/14
In the meantime....no flights from anywhere EBOLA might be.
And anyone who rapes or enslaves a woman will be arrested or.......
GUESS THAT MEANS THE GROUND TROUPS ARE BACK IN ACTION......
While we are waiting for the COUNCIL OF FAITH to convene it appears that the army, the navy and the marines need to make some immediate arrests........
See how strange things have gotten because of the Islamic Rule of Law?
An anti-war....no-war.....peace-freak....is calling for the military.
ISLAMIC STATE PRAISES SEX SLAVERY
THAT'S THE HEADLINE THAT BROKE THE STRAW ON THE CAMEL'S BACK OR WHATEVER THAT SILLY EXPRESSION IS.......
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Michael Timothy McAlevey
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Saturday, October 4, 2014
First month I've ever missed
When one looks back through the archives of Mind Jazz , and eventually that will be all that is left, it will be interesting to note that September of 2014 has ZERO posts.
I think my excuse is fairly adequate for the non-posting month.
One thing I just noticed is the amount of increased views on my stat sheet. Overall increase is rather interesting.....and I'm not sure what that's attributed to. It's almost like more people are looking when I'm not posting on a regular basis. Which means if I never post again, within two years I should have about 1 million readers.
Oh, to live and operate within the land of fantasy....
I do envision having quite a few more readers but a million would seem rather impossible..... but once again I marvel at the mysteries within which the Universe plays with me.
I know the Universe plays with everyone but I feel like I experience an abnormal amount of interaction that seems to have jovial combined with heartwrenching elements.
But that's just me you see.......
"The Other God Particles" is the main reason for missing September and although it only ran 11 days....it totally consumed 100% of my time and energy. It started on the 6th and ended on the 16th......of course it took six months (and 35 years) to complete the project.
The next excuse is explained in the photo below.
This event happened on September 20th and was shortly followed by that stoic couple becoming themselves again....I think it took about two hours to answer the water call.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Stoker or Mr. and Mrs. Rachel Roberts or Mr. and Mrs. RayPat StokerRoberts or Mr. and Mrs. Cy's Owner's or Mr. and Mrs. LetTheGoodTimesRoll couple of the year.
It was a very special day and evening and I'm was quite proud to be part of it.
NOW let's get back to ME.
I was going to do a complete summary of the show but since the 11 day run turned out to be "Previews" for the next show and for the show after the next show....I've decided to leave out the gory details. And as my friend Norton Wisdom said two weeks before the show....."Art show openings are a train wreck." I don't think my show was a train wreck but there sure were some derailings that took place in the time leading up to....during...and immediately after the actual event. And the main culprit didn't turn out to be yours truly but instead that title rested on the shoulders of the gallery owner.
Everyone says the same thing about him....."He's a really nice guy."
It actually might be true but his business and marketing sense is pretty much non-existent....except of course when it comes to his own artwork.
And one consistently hears this quote about him...."well, he is an artist, after all."
Very few artist have ever been able to run a successful art gallery so that's one explanation regarding his shortcomings.
I realize that it's not entirely his fault, but operating a business within a dead paradigm is just not a good idea if one wants to stay in this particular type of business.
The INTERNET has totally changed the dynamic on how living artist can present their work.
Of course it's nice to have a good location with walls to show your work but if the gallery in question doesn't have an established collector base (and it need not be a large base) then what actual good benefits an artist being in said gallery?
By the way...a collector base is a certain number of people that trust and rely on the gallery owner to present them with artwork, and artists, that might prove to be worth collecting. The worth part becomes illusionairy because whereas the work might prove socially important, that doesn't necessarily translate to increased financial value.....and generally collectors are quite interested in that aspect of collecting........DUH!
I was totally responsible for 99% of the 300 people who attended my opening. Had I not done the marketing work I would have been standing in a gallery with the owner and his single paid employee listening to him say for the 15th time......"see I told you no one would buy anything."
He claimed to have a 3000 e-mail invite list....and yet there weren't 10 people who came because of his invitations.
I said I wasn't going to summarize the entire ordeal but the fact of the matter is....the owner of the gallery tried quite hard to make sure I didn't have a successful show.
Little did he realize that I was in "Previews" and just being able to present the show for the first time was all I really wanted to do.
The fact that I did sell some work just made the experience that much sweeter....but truthfully the only reason sales are important is because it allows one to buy more supplies.
For the last two weeks I have been cleaning up my "Studio" so that I can get busy for the next presentation. Since January I have been inside a massive mini cylinder of chaos trying to create the vision that I had banging around inside my little brain.
The Order that resulted from the Chaos came out looking pretty damn good.......and I can say that because I heard it over and over and over and over....and one doesn't tire of hearing nice things about something that has dominated every waking moment for the last 9 months.
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The last photo shows the picture windows covered in 1/2 foam core......of course next time I will have something painted on the foam core.....like maybe a knock off Bansky piece. My friend Patrick had to put up and take down the foam core three times during the night so that I could present my SHOW in its best LIGHT. Ambient light reduces the effect of protons colliding at almost the speed of light............and I need to have A GLOWING LIGHT within a dark room........if you get my drift.
When a room full of people, in an Art Gallery, start clapping and cheering you know you've done something right.
Now I've just got to get back to work and make sure the next show is even more RIGHT. And for a guy who is always leaning to the LEFT.....that's not really easy to do.
I feel confident that by the time I hit Broadway I will have THE SHOW honed to a tee.
HONED TO A TEE........never used that expression before.....is it actually honed to a T?
I'm consistently confused about certain things in the Universe.....but once again I say
THAT'S JUST ME YOU SEE.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
I think my excuse is fairly adequate for the non-posting month.
One thing I just noticed is the amount of increased views on my stat sheet. Overall increase is rather interesting.....and I'm not sure what that's attributed to. It's almost like more people are looking when I'm not posting on a regular basis. Which means if I never post again, within two years I should have about 1 million readers.
Oh, to live and operate within the land of fantasy....
I do envision having quite a few more readers but a million would seem rather impossible..... but once again I marvel at the mysteries within which the Universe plays with me.
I know the Universe plays with everyone but I feel like I experience an abnormal amount of interaction that seems to have jovial combined with heartwrenching elements.
But that's just me you see.......
"The Other God Particles" is the main reason for missing September and although it only ran 11 days....it totally consumed 100% of my time and energy. It started on the 6th and ended on the 16th......of course it took six months (and 35 years) to complete the project.
The next excuse is explained in the photo below.
This event happened on September 20th and was shortly followed by that stoic couple becoming themselves again....I think it took about two hours to answer the water call.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Stoker or Mr. and Mrs. Rachel Roberts or Mr. and Mrs. RayPat StokerRoberts or Mr. and Mrs. Cy's Owner's or Mr. and Mrs. LetTheGoodTimesRoll couple of the year.
It was a very special day and evening and I'm was quite proud to be part of it.
NOW let's get back to ME.
I was going to do a complete summary of the show but since the 11 day run turned out to be "Previews" for the next show and for the show after the next show....I've decided to leave out the gory details. And as my friend Norton Wisdom said two weeks before the show....."Art show openings are a train wreck." I don't think my show was a train wreck but there sure were some derailings that took place in the time leading up to....during...and immediately after the actual event. And the main culprit didn't turn out to be yours truly but instead that title rested on the shoulders of the gallery owner.
Everyone says the same thing about him....."He's a really nice guy."
It actually might be true but his business and marketing sense is pretty much non-existent....except of course when it comes to his own artwork.
And one consistently hears this quote about him...."well, he is an artist, after all."
Very few artist have ever been able to run a successful art gallery so that's one explanation regarding his shortcomings.
I realize that it's not entirely his fault, but operating a business within a dead paradigm is just not a good idea if one wants to stay in this particular type of business.
The INTERNET has totally changed the dynamic on how living artist can present their work.
Of course it's nice to have a good location with walls to show your work but if the gallery in question doesn't have an established collector base (and it need not be a large base) then what actual good benefits an artist being in said gallery?
By the way...a collector base is a certain number of people that trust and rely on the gallery owner to present them with artwork, and artists, that might prove to be worth collecting. The worth part becomes illusionairy because whereas the work might prove socially important, that doesn't necessarily translate to increased financial value.....and generally collectors are quite interested in that aspect of collecting........DUH!
I was totally responsible for 99% of the 300 people who attended my opening. Had I not done the marketing work I would have been standing in a gallery with the owner and his single paid employee listening to him say for the 15th time......"see I told you no one would buy anything."
He claimed to have a 3000 e-mail invite list....and yet there weren't 10 people who came because of his invitations.
I said I wasn't going to summarize the entire ordeal but the fact of the matter is....the owner of the gallery tried quite hard to make sure I didn't have a successful show.
Little did he realize that I was in "Previews" and just being able to present the show for the first time was all I really wanted to do.
The fact that I did sell some work just made the experience that much sweeter....but truthfully the only reason sales are important is because it allows one to buy more supplies.
For the last two weeks I have been cleaning up my "Studio" so that I can get busy for the next presentation. Since January I have been inside a massive mini cylinder of chaos trying to create the vision that I had banging around inside my little brain.
The Order that resulted from the Chaos came out looking pretty damn good.......and I can say that because I heard it over and over and over and over....and one doesn't tire of hearing nice things about something that has dominated every waking moment for the last 9 months.
The last photo shows the picture windows covered in 1/2 foam core......of course next time I will have something painted on the foam core.....like maybe a knock off Bansky piece. My friend Patrick had to put up and take down the foam core three times during the night so that I could present my SHOW in its best LIGHT. Ambient light reduces the effect of protons colliding at almost the speed of light............and I need to have A GLOWING LIGHT within a dark room........if you get my drift.
When a room full of people, in an Art Gallery, start clapping and cheering you know you've done something right.
Now I've just got to get back to work and make sure the next show is even more RIGHT. And for a guy who is always leaning to the LEFT.....that's not really easy to do.
I feel confident that by the time I hit Broadway I will have THE SHOW honed to a tee.
HONED TO A TEE........never used that expression before.....is it actually honed to a T?
I'm consistently confused about certain things in the Universe.....but once again I say
THAT'S JUST ME YOU SEE.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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