Blogging is Dead Of all these self-help feel-good posts about how to grow followers, [this essay]( on Medium explains exactly why blogging is dead. And it makes me wanna cry. So what's the problem? Why

Monitor and Skull, 2014, solarized petscii animation Part of my work has focused on petscii conversions of images and displaying images on old computer monitors. I'm interested in the way computers act

Tricky Cad, Jess Collins, 1957 source 41 years ago today, on March 13, 1977, Jan Patočka died from beatings and interrogation by the Czech secret police, the StB .. his disciples rushed to his home to

I recently saw a video about hipster fascism/ CasaPound in Italy, a new fascist movement styled to attract young punks and squatters. They style themselves as alternative dissidents purveying forbidden

Ship in a Bottle, pen and ink, 50 x 70 cm, 2017 My work deals with climate change and our uncertain future. It seems to me that this is THE overriding issue of our time. We are monkeys and our world is

source, Czech artist and curator Milan Mikulastik Trump is as dumb as a rock, but like a rock, he is obstinate, relentless and hardheaded. Being at the center of the whirlwind of power is his main objective.

I've been on Steemit for almost 50 days and managed to get 100 followers ... a small beginning. My 100th follower is @emrebeyler who is a software developer from Istanbul. He has made many contributions

Friends, acrylic on paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2011 These guys go everywhere together .. best friends. The astronaut has traveled to many places but he always comes back to his friends. The big guy in the middle

Something I've been thinking about lately is my feeling that it is important to be a moral person. Is it some sort of Christian training that makes me feel I should be "good"? I'm not particularly

Chimpanzees and Roses, ink, gouache and spray paint on paper, 65 x 50 cm, 2012 I did a series of ink drawings in 2012 of monkeys and still lifes. One day I wasn't sure what to draw saw I bought some roses

Monkeys and Ships, mixed media on paper, 150 x 200 cm, 2018 This is one of my newest paintings, and quite large for me. This summer in late June/ early July I am going to paint a mural in Galerie Na shledanou

Myslim, ze muzeme vsichni souhlasit je krize v politikach v Cechach zhorsi. Videl jsem videa s Magdou Vášáryovou a vzdycky libi se mi to kdyz neco ma rika. Vrazda slovensky novinar a jeho pritelkyne je

After I posted on Steemit yesterday about Jefferson Airplane and Grace Slick, my friend on Facebook shared this Simpsons video with me and it totally cracked me up. Homer realizes nobody even knows about

Grace Slick got her start as a model and bohemian singer in the San Francisco band The Great Society, but when she had the chance she jumped ship and joined the Jefferson Airplane bringing White Rabbit

Age of Discovery (Blue Boat), oil on linen, 80 x 75 cm, 2018 One of my newest paintings. I found a book of old ship engravings at a flea market in Berlin and I love the romance and longing in these images.

I found these great lectures, the Reith Lecture series, by British intellectuals on BBC radio after WWII. The first series of lectures was given by Bertrand Russell on authority and the individual from

I originally wrote this blog entry in 2013 after I saw Searching for Sugarman, which is really one of the best documentaries to come out in the last ten years. Sixto Rodriguez's story and return to fame

Crowd (Shibuya), ink brush on paper, 50 x 70 cm, 2018 Last year I saw a music video with clips from the famous cross walk at Shibuya in Tokyo. I had done drawings and paintings before using little figures

Trump actually suggested arming teachers, that's how out of touch he is with reality. Putting more guns in the classroom is a disaster waiting to happen and teachers are already stressed out, overworked

Ghost Ship, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2018 This is one of my newer paintings and is a bit more experimental. I used a cardboard stencil to make the shape of the galleon ship which reveals abstract color