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A New Mural. "Primitive Man"
June 2, 2008
My Internet has been out all weekend. Within that time I have cleaned my entire house, wash all my rugs, read two books, installed ceiling fans and painted a mural. Check it out:
The mural is a copy of an image that I found laying around on the Internet about a year ago. I'm not sure as to where it comes from or who made it:
Before. Nothing's wrong with a Puerto Rican flag - we all know that - but I wanted something new. (No fear, the flag was relocated).
The projector image with the blue already painted in.
The blue.
The yellow and red.
The finished mural minus the black lines.
Yours truly.
Starting on the black lines.
It was a major pain in the ass to get a hold of cans of "normal" paint. Store after store carried glossy, protective, and an array of "lemon suave" and "lime karma" paints. "Don't you just have normal green paint?" "Um... no sir. I can mix some for you, though." I actually had to get the four colors mixed. "Gamma Green" was the closest thing I can find to *normal* green on their color wheel. What's happened to our society that a paint store with thousands of color combinations don't have normal green paint?
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Lejos de la civilizacion, lejos del orden y la costumbre...
"Yo tambien como tantos hombres me habia dejado impresionar por consignas de regreso al orden, necesidad de pureza, de geometria, de asepsia, acallando en mi canto que pugnara por levantarse. Ahora lejos de las salas de conciertos, de los manifestos, del inacabable aburrimiento de la polémica de arte; invento musica con una facilidad que me asombra, como si las ideas, bajadas del cerebro, me llenaran la mano, atropellandose por salir a traves del plomo del lapiz..."
"Los pasos perdidos"
Alejo Carpentier
wow! ingenuity at its best. you're so hot and clever. damn it