We were traveling in Bologna a few weeks ago and it was great. In the university area we managed to walk into a student demonstration against Erdogan and human rights violations. The demonstrators were

From Reginald Dwight to Elton John, one of the greatest selling pop stars ever. In the 1960s by combining American blues with British folk and harmony, many artists created a new hybrid sound which was

I needed to do the dishes and I wanted to listen to something on Mixcloud. Scottish Folk, uh no, Prince? .. okay what about Shoegaze ... sending my raspberry pi sound out on a wireless radio frequency,

I listened with interest to this podcast with Alison Gerber about her new book, The Work of Art, Value in Creative Careers. She raises many interesting points and I don't have time to respond to all of

Two new drawings .. I started making art with monkeys in 2012 and the theme has persisted. Here they are paired with large galleons or schooners as a symbol of the precarious situation of life and the

Photos from my show Naha Opice / Naked Ape last month at Galerie Pragovka, in Prague, Czech Republic. photo credit: Marcel Rozhon Please upvote and comment. Hey @cleverbot, do you like my paintings?

This new article on Wired, Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World. is fascinating. Kushner's top strategy for winning, apparently, was using AI microscale advertising and posts on FB together

Moon Monkey Candle These are some drawings I made in 2012 and showed at the AM180 space in Prague. I've sold some of them and others are available now at Gallery Maxson in Palm Springs, California. Or

I'm reposting this comment I made on @pv-p 's post Capitalism, Counter-Culture and Contradiction so more people will read it. :) It seems to me that after 2008 with the Lehman Brothers crash and subsequent

Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the greatest directors of the 20th century. If you don't know his work you must find it and watch it. I used to manage a video rental place in New Orleans in the mid-90s

I thought I'd share some of my work from 2011. These works are mostly acrylic on paper. The first one was used for the cd cover for Hudson Bell's record, Yerba Buena that came out in 2016. I also showed

With the victory of Milos Zeman as president for five more years in the Czech Republic, with his anti-immigrant platform and suggestions of a referendum on membership of the EU, one feels like 50% of the

After Charlottesville, when a deluded goon drove his car into counter-demonstrators killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens more, any responsible Justice Department would have ramped up investigations

Jerry is annoying, the constant smiling expression, the glassy eyes, his constantly up beat persona, his repetitive, slow but emphatic way of talking ... BUT he's on to something. He's clearly a great

I listened to the great Watergate podcast produced by Slate today, Slow Burn, episode 5, True Believers and I found it truly compelling. I was just a kid when the Watergate hearings were taking up whole

Money Talks is the motto here at Steemit, and shit walks I guess. I know when I was a young rebel jedi, my stepdad used to say it all the time, "Money talks and shit walks." But as a rebel I

This is my first post revisiting my early blog entries on Livejournal. I wrote this piece in 2005 - At the time I was getting interested in retrofuturism and retro PCs. I still have those interests, but

I get the feeling Steemit is an alt-right haven for the most part, so I'll probably get some flack. I believe in the free movement of people, but as it stands today we are moving globally in the opposite

Yesterday I shared a photo to @czechglobalhosts photo contest and I thought I'd share more of my photos from that trip. Genius loci refers to the unique spirit of a place and certain towns or points have

This my painting Wheel of Fortune from 2017 inspired of course by the Tarot card. I joined Steemit today, drawn here by the bitcoin surge, the hope of spinning money out of air, and the love of blogging