Creative Cogitation

Howdy My Fans.  Going to try giv­ing stuff away to find collectors-specifically 8x10 inch prints mat­ted to 11x14 inches.  Haven’t worked out the details yet.  Also think­ing of set­ting up stuff on FineArtAmerica.com as well.  Stay tuned.

Mean­while on of my MonOrchid Bunch (MOB) bud­dies, Kris­tine Bram­billa, took up roller derby in the guise of Raven’s Night.  This even­tu­ally leads her to start up Seven13Sk8, a roller derby proshop, in down­town Phoenix AZ.  Appar­ently the alter­na­tives are either quite a drive from the cen­ter of town, or online/mail order.  As with all such things, it is tak­ing longer than expected to get going and so she decided to throw open her doors to her fel­low MOB-sters.

I check out the space on First Fri­day last week.  It is a small­ish space, but more than enough room for 10 artists with mod­est sized pieces.  She has painted the walls black with glitter.

While I was there, I got to meet her busi­ness part­ners. One is another Roller Derby gal, Gracy Dah­mer AKA Amanda Queen, and the other is Free­dom Crump.  In addi­tion sev­eral other roller derby girls were there at the shops grand open­ing and they are a hoot.  After a few hours down­town with these lovely ladies,  I found myself turn­ing to thoughts of the upcom­ing show, binary birds, and roller derby.  The prod­uct is a dig­i­tal paint­ing, pic­tured below.

Unti­tled digia­rt­work by Jake Beck­man — Name This Paint­ing contest

You will notice there is no binary in the paint­ing yet.  That is because it is part of a Name This Paint­ing Con­test I decided to have.  The win­ner gets an 8x10 print of the paint­ing.  Since this work is dig­i­tal art, the print is con­sid­ered “Orig­i­nal Art” because the printed image is its final form, much like a photograph.

Any­way, this will be the 6th show for the MOB (we renamed our­selves the Mob, after the MonOrchid Mys­tery Gallery shut down) and this is our first gath­er­ing in 3 years.  I am very excited about the prospect.  The show will begin on Novem­ber 26th and runs through Decem­ber 10. The shop is slated to have hours, Tues­day through Sun­day and of course part of the sales of any art­work go to the shop.

So check out the Name This Paint­ing Con­test –maybe you  will win, and I hope to see you at the Mob’s reunion artshow in down­town Phoenix, AZ.

Jake
Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!
The artist has fed­er­ally copy­righted all art­work in this blog. The artist retains all repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights. You may not copy, re-distribute, imi­tate, derive OR oth­er­wise use this con­tent in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.

I can think of no bet­ter phrase to con­vey the para­noia that is encom­passed by con­spir­acy the­o­ries. The Grassy Knoll, Area 51, the NM UFO crash, 2012 End of Times (I think I might do a paint­ing about this too…), Illu­mi­nati, Free Masons, Skull & Bones, Knights Tem­plar, other secret soci­eties, the­o­ries about who really was behind 9/11, the­o­ries about what is really caus­ing global warm­ing, aliens, the­o­ries ancient civ­i­liza­tions that would make Erich von Däniken blush-the list of con­spir­a­cies goes on and on and I have not even begun to tap into this vein of Pop Cul­ture. Social Media pro­vides a new media-rich plat­form for the fringe to espouse their out­landish beliefs.

In this lat­est edi­tion to the Social Media Birds series, I take on one the­ory that has some basis in fact-the idea that the US States gov­ern­ment is spy­ing on ordi­nary cit­i­zens. Var­i­ous gov­ern­ments are using Sig­nal Intel­li­gence to search for ter­ror­ists and their plots, to track drug deal­ers, and for other polit­i­cal and diplo­matic intel­li­gence. Fringe the­o­rists also claim it is being used by gov­ern­ments, secret soci­eties, aliens or other secret coali­tions for large-scale com­mer­cial theft, eco­nomic espi­onage and of course gen­eral inva­sion of privacy.

Con­spir­acy The­ory, by Jake Beck­man. A men­ac­ing Amer­i­can bald eagles swoops out of cyber­space to snatch infor­ma­tion for a data stream.

The men­ac­ing Amer­i­can bald eagle is seem­ingly formed out of the noth­ing­ness of cyber­space to snatch at infor­ma­tion pass­ing through a data stream in the fore­ground.  The edge to edge binary reads, “Warn­ing: They know you’re read­ing this… Warn­ing:”. Sev­eral peo­ple have sug­gested I use some­thing other than a tweety bird in these paint­ings, so here one is.  This intim­i­dat­ing rap­tor is the very antithe­sis of my joy­ous canaries.

For more infor­ma­tion about Con­spir­acy The­ory, size etc., please visit its art page at AKAJake.com.

So what is your favorite conspiracy?

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.