Articles in the Books | Art | Misc Category
Cory Doctorow mentioned my art on sale
in the Boing Boing Bazaar/Maker’s Market,
a online marketplace and collaboration between
the creators of MAKE and Boing Boing.
I’m selling paintings and prints.
One of my honey bee images was published in the latest issue of Greenpeace Magazin
in Germany.
It’s a nicely designed magazine, with some excellent content.
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Honey bee | Apis mellifera
A nice mention of my cover art for Cory Doctorow’s latest collection
of short stories, ‘With a Little Help’ on Rick Kleffel’s Agony Column blog.
The book will be out in all its various editions later this year, and I’ll have prints available.
Contact me for more print info.
“When is a book not a book? When it’s Cory Doctorow’s
‘With A Little Help,’ which manages to be a book,
a dreaded, copyright-killing e-book,
and about seven different kinds of publishing experiments
all of which will be extensively documented in
successive printings of the book itself.”
“Doctorow will also offer a POD trade paperback edition,
with one of four (I believe) covers by artist friends of his,
including Rick Lieder, who did the cover for the trade paperback
proof that the ever-generous Doctorow graced me with
during our interview. This is a very nicely printed book,
as fine as an trade paperback you’re going to get
“straight outta New York,” as it were.”
A long forgotten relative of the Hippogryph,
a sprightly denizen of deep sea hydrothermal vents,
a stargazing imp cavorts in a cozy labyrinth
with everything in the right place.
Spent some time this week with the Beehive Project
at the Russell Industrial complex,
a community of artists in Detroit building a human-sized
beehive sculpture which will debut at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival
at Hart Plaza this weekend.
I’m the featured artist today on Fotomoto with my print “Galaxies Crash”.
Lovers crashing together in mid-air? Avian gladiators?
Enough energy to halt the expanding universe for an instant.
My wildlife art just had its debut at the Bees in Art Gallery in the UK,
sister gallery to The Land Gallery, exhibiting artwork by leading artists
inspired by bees and other insects.
Information on my prints at the Bees In Art website.
The center of the bee universe finds a group of foraging bees
jumping the sun on their return to the hive,
phantoms eclipsing the golden portal to eternity.
I’m the Featured Artist on the Fotomoto.com site today, with one of my ant images.
I used this image for my post “The Queen was dead”, about biologist E. O. Wilson’s story
in The New Yorker, Trailhead.
Is there a way of knowing that ants actually experience emotion?
Read more here: Ants and Answers: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson.
I’m happy to announce I’ll be joining Bees in Art Gallery in the UK,
sister gallery to The Land Gallery, exhibiting artwork by leading artists
inspired by bees and other Hymenoptera.
Bees in Art is curated by Andrew Tyzack, graduate of The Royal College of Art,
London, UK and third generation beekeeper. Andrew runs several beehives and
paints in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.
More gallery information and my Bees In Art news announcement.
Here’s a tiny insect Olympian, small enough
to use a blade of grass to do chin-ups,
ghosts of other bees pass by in the background.
This little athlete also appears in my book featuring the world of bees, Bee Dreams.
Here’s a cartoon from my friend Kurt Erichsen.
In the world of cartoons, Kurt has written and drawn the syndicated gay & lesbian comic strip Murphy’s Manor since 1982. His work has appeared in Gay Comics, and his wit brought Socially Redeeming Value to the One-Handed Meatmen cartoon books. Additionally, he has done freelance cartooning, including this illo for the Missouri State Teachers’ Association magazine. Kurt calls it “Frog Feast”. Yum.
Kurt first got involved in comics fandom through fanzines and apas, and continues as a regular contributor to zines including Reluctant Famulus and Challenger.
Biologist and theorist E. O. Wilson has a story, Trailhead,
in the current issue of The New Yorker.
Here’s an excerpt and an image of two curious ants:
The Trailhead Queen was dead.
Ants live most of their lives in underground darkness, they cannot communicate through sight or sound. Pheromonal, they think only in taste and smell. The members of the Trailhead Colony transmitted their messages using about a dozen chemical signals, which they picked up by smelling one another constantly with sweeps of their antennae.
The Trailhead Colony, when all the learning and thought of its workers came together, was very smart, by insect standards — and, with the unifying power of its Queen lost and its population growth plummeting, it needed to call on that group intelligence to regain its balance.
