Never before has something seemed so clear

As for those of you who read Mind Jazz on a regular or semi-regular basis you will acknowledge that I mainly write about sociopolitical issues and only on rare occasions do I include my artwork or my current "studies" of interest. My pages on Facebook generally address those aspects of my life.

My current studies, besides continuation of CERN discoveries, centers on Black Holes, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Equations. The purpose of my studies is to aid in the creation of my next art show which will combine Particle discoveries and the above mentioned topics, which combined with my special paint applications should prove to be both visually and mentally stimulating.

This is one of the moments where learning and politics collide and on November 8, 2016 I was quite amazed to learn that The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle completely meshes with the current political situation.

ESTABLISHING THE POSITION OF A PARTICLE IN A SMALL REGION OF SPACE MAKES ITS MOMENTUM UNCERTAIN, AND VICE VERSA, AND THE OVERALL UNCERTAINTY IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT.  Werner Heisenberg 1927

In the play Copenhagen Werner's character says

" Everyone understands uncertainty. Or thinks he does." 

The uncertainty principle of politics in 2017 America has never been more uncertain.

I realize that the more I study about Black Holes, Dark Matter and Dark Energy the more uncertain my understanding becomes and then I create a visual interpretation.

The beginning of my interpretation deals with the Gravitational Waves that emit from the Black Holes
which allows us to know that they actually exist.

The Gravitational Waves that we are now aware of come from two black holes merging.

In 1916 Albert Einstein predicted that these waves exist and it basically altered a part of Newtonian law (which is another story for another day) and it wasn't until September 14 2015 that they detected the first waves at the LIGO detectors.  It was actually announced on Feb 11 2016.  Then on June 15th they announced a second detection.

There is actually a branch of observation astronomy called Gravitational Wave Astronomy. 

About one month ago I created a preliminary sketch of an energy field outside of a black hole
before I painted the black hole....because I simply assumed that it was a very intense area.

Then two days ago I stumbled across an artist rendition of a black hole and this artist works for NASA. It made me relaxed knowing that I'm at least on the same page as the really smart people at NASA.

I will post my finished piece when it is finished and I promise it will glow on you!

AND THEN
I JUST HEARD ON THE NEWS
THAT PRESIDENT TWITTER SPIN 
HAS STATED THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ARE NO LONGER PERMITTED TO ATTEND THE
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

AND NOW
I've discovered that Black Holes
exist
in 
Washington D.C.
and they are located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Uncertainty Principle  
OMG! 
I've got to go to sleep

Michael Timothy McAlevey 

This is a great song and I'm doing the same thing

Sean Rowe

Pretty sure you can play it more than once.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Alternative facts and Press briefing battles because....

The simple fact is that for the last 16 months our current President has engaged in spreading "alternative facts" and questioning the press whenever they weren't agreeing with him.

WHY SHOULD ANYTHING CHANGE? 

The first few days saw President Twitter Spin go to the CIA's sacred wall and talk about the crowd discrepancy during his inauguration. 

WHY ON EARTH WOULD HE MENTION THAT ISSUE TO THE CIA?

Kellyanne Conway spent months belittling Donald Trump until her boos, Ted Cruz, dropped out of the race at the end of June 2016.  On July 1st Donald Trump hired her to run his campaign.

WHY HASN'T ANY MEMBER OF THE MEDIA ASKED HER ABOUT THE THINGS SHE SAID ABOUT TRUMP BEFORE JULY?

AND THE QUESTIONS 
ARE 
JUST 
STARTING

I'm only going to ask a few questions every day....because if we've learned anything in the last year it's that too much information and too many facts just can't be digested by the American voter....unless of course they are "alternative facts."

Michael Timothy McAlevey

End of this week seems surreal but there is always art and MLK

I worked three days for the L.A. Art show at the Convention Center and then spent the fourth day trying to cover anything I had previously missed.

The show consisted of 90 plus galleries from around the world and I estimate that the four day attendance probably reached 60 to 75,000....which isn't bad considering this was a 4 game NFL playoff weekend.  Although there were probably more women than men I have to say WE (males) were quite well represented which indicates a few things.  Football is popular but not that popular and people will pay to see art.  The cost of admittance was $30 for a a one day pass....which might have been the cost of attending a professional football, on the 50 yard line, about ten years ago.....maybe 15.  This particular show, when it was in Santa Monica at the Airport about five years ago....cost $10.

I probably walked passed this one particular space at least ten times mainly because it was located in a center part of the floor plan.  I had not stopped for various reasons that might or might not be important to this "article" but yesterday as I was perusing a certain space I happened to be standing directly in front of this previously ignored space, with my back turned.  I happened to look over my shoulder and realized that there was an image similar to my first piece I did in 2013 (far fewer colors) when trying to create an explosion of protons in honor of what was happening at the CERN project in Geneva.

Also showing were six pieces that were obviously stimulated by Jackson Pollock but with oodles and oodles of less paint.  I never thought I would use the word oodles but now I've used it three times and I hope it doesn't turn into an addiction.

I introduced myself and pulled out my latest business card.

The item you are now looking at is a 2 1/2 inch puzzle piece from 1993.  There are approximately 70 to 80 other pieces of this puzzle either in a drawer or in the possession of a gallery owner or artist who attended the L.A. Art show.....I know this to be true because I just started utilizing the puzzle pieces on Saturday January 14, 2017....and so far I've handed out at least 20 pieces and ten out of the 20 said the same thing...."That's a lot of work for a business card."  My response was the same each time, "Well, not really."

Side bar 

In case you do not know the Puzzle story it's a good one and if you e-mail me at m1117mtm@yahoo.com I will be happy to share.  My puzzle period ran from Dec 27, 1991 to Feb 3, 1994.

The back of the puzzle is magnetic tape....so it can instantly become a refrigerator item.

I only have about 750 puzzle pieces left, not counting the three large intact puzzles that will not be used as business cards but instead will be sold as pieces of art.  (Since I sold more than 500 small per-magnetic puzzles and around 50 magnetic puzzles during my puzzle period I think it's safe to say that when the right person comes along my last few puzzles will be gone.) 

Now let's get back to the Art Show because believe it or not this article was never about me but somehow I bent time and space and took it in that direction.

When I handed my card to KENJI MISAWA, the artist who painted the two pieces above, and explained that it was part of a large puzzle, he seemed impressed.  And then I started talking about the first piece that caught my eye, which is called EYE CHAKRA, and how it looked like something I had done in the beginning of my CERN project and turned into THE OTHER GOD PARTICLES art show in September of 2014.

Then I glanced down at the table and noticed some books with his name on the cover of each book.

KENJI MISAWA

Each page in the first book showed what he has been doing since 1968.

KENJI MISAWA

Here are a few examples of work done by an artist that I originally thought didn't use enough paint on his Jackson Pollock type paintings. 

As I turned the pages I went from feeling humbled to feeling honored to have been able to meet someone of his stature.  What you are looking at are just a few pieces from his immense body of work.  He even had one project, that if I understood him correctly, where he build a river so that it would make his sculpture look more in tune with the environment.  HE BUILT THE RIVER!

There is another project he is currently working on where he is building a beach.

KENJI MISAWA 

 At one point he asked me about business and I said, "I apparently do everything for free." I'm 

fairly certain at that point he probably considered me to be insane.  

The art of conducting business that is centered on what I do creatively seems to be the total magical conundrum of my life and whereas I would love NOT to worry about finances IT SEEMS I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE IN THE MATTER.

SECURING A PATRON THAT ALLOWS ME TO CREATE LARGER PIECES AND CONDUCT MY SHOW, THE OTHER GOD PARTICLES,  ON A SEMI-REGULAR BASIS, DOES NOT SEEM TO BE ON THE UNIVERSE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS.  

IT'S A TEST TO SEE HOW MUCH WORK I CAN DO BEFORE ENDING UP UNDER SOME OVERPASS TALKING TO HOMELESS PEOPLE ABOUT ART, THE CERN PROJECT, QUANTUM MECHANICS,  AND SOUL AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT...along with my numerous left wing biased opinions on social and political events.

I honestly don't see myself lasting very long in that environment but if I don't get a sponsor soon for my numerous avenues of expression, it's possible that I could become a character in John Steinbeck's great grandson's new novel.....THE STUPIDEST RAISIN ON THE VINE.

********

 Today is Martin Luther King's birthday and it's a National Holiday that probably doesn't get recognized by 90% of the people who don't like Barack Obama....and at least 60% of the people who voted for Donald Trump.

The art of generalization has gotten easier and easier during this last election campaign.  Identifying people according to their  political choices has never been so clear.

Friday January 20 2017 is a day that will live in ???????????????

But in the meantime I was able to meet an visionary master in the world of sculpture and the best thing about 

Kenji Misawa

is the

simple fact that he is a 

nice

man.

Truly an honor and for that I must thank that same Universe

which

keeps

me

wondering

if 

I 

will

ever 

stop

worrying

about

money.

It really does derail the train of creativity and yet I have a versatile body of work 

and besides that

you just finished reading a Mind Jazz piece and I was able to introduce you to a brilliant artist.

Happy Birthday MLK

Hope for extremely windy day on Friday 

to see what President "Biff" really looks like.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

 

Goodbye Goog;e Chrome and Hello Firefox

Operating system is Windows Vista and while it might be older it was working fine until Google Chrome no longer supported updates from Windows for XP and Vista.  I know XP no longer is supported by Microsoft but Vista was suppose to go until April of 2017.

I do want to thank Google Chrome for the excellent  three years of updates and accessibility.  I understand why the company is so valuable but like all things there comes a time to move along.

I am having slight problem removing Google Chrome from my program list and that doesn't surprise me in the least.

I've downloaded Firefox and will test their waters until the flood gates open.  The flood gates opening will be as a result of Windows no longer updating my Security Essential Security program.  At the bottom of my page I have a horrid orange symbol that should be a beautiful green system and I fully expect to see Chinese, Russian and whoever suddenly enter my computer and make my techno life a living hell.

I am using this short piece just for a test.

I might have some problems because of not using Google Chrome because Blogspot, the host of Mind Jazz, is a Google company and in the past whenever someone tried to cross pollinate information in the Windows, Internet Explorer world....Bill Gates would somehow create pain and suffering.

I'm not sure if Google is that vindictive but I suppose I will find out.

Only ten days away from the weirdness Inauguration day in the history of our country and all I'm praying for is WIND, WIND and more WIND.....so that we can really see what "Biff" looks like.

God help us and God bless the United States of America.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

And so it begins

Today Congress goes back to work and we are about to be GOPeed to the max.  Preparing for their vaulted new leader to take office on January 20 the Republican members will begin the attempted dismantling of everything Barack Obama thought important.

Silly things like the environment, health care and food stamps.

There's been a lot of GOP complaining about how many people are getting food stamps and it seems that there's a fairly logical reason people apply for food stamps.

THEY NEED FOOD.

When one reads about how many children in America go to bed every night hungry one has to wonder if those statistics are available to the members of Republican Party in the House and Senate.

Are they on a DON'T TELL US BAD NEWS list?

Or

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT LESS FORTUNATE PEOPLE DON'T REALLY CONTACT THEIR REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES?

Maybe every disadvantaged, homeless, starving and sick person in this great country is a Democrat.

I never considered that possibility before.

Simple solution.

WE ALL BECOME REPUBLICANS.

IMMEDIATELY!

ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED!

And it becomes the perfect solution to making sure that The Donald won't have a second term.

I think I'm on to something here
or
I'm on something here
but if that's the case then someone dosed my coffee or laced the morning paper and it went to my fingers and then into my blood stream and now
I'm
blazing.

Ok....let's regroup our thoughts for a sec.  

IF MILLIONS OF DEMOCRATS CHANGED THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION BEFORE THE NEXT MID TERMS, AND BERNIE AND ELIZABETH BECAME  REPUBLICANS......THEN BY 2020 IT MIGHT BE VERY HARD FOR THE INCUMBENT TO MOUNT A RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

We need to be looking into the future as we plan our strategies.....

I'M  OPEN TO ANY SUGGESTIONS...no matter how hair-brain they might appear......after all, keep one thing in mind....

That's how the Trump fiasco got started

ONE HAIR-BRAINED IDEA by one weird hair dude.

Time to brainstorm.....

Michael Timothy McAlevey