Saturday, November 19, 2011

HOUSE of CARDS

Click picture for larger view | From Mats
Recessions are part of a cyclical conspiracy run by Wall Street. The fix has always been in.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Stefan

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This is one of my earlier attempts at decoupage and paint. I think I was honing my skills because I had just produced (or was about to produce) my older son Cary's bar mitzvah sign-in board which was basically circular photos pasted around the outside of a mat board. This picture is that of my younger son Stefan who just lost his front tooth.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

BLACK JACKO

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This photograph came into the photo lab where I used to work and I made a copy for myself. I'm not sure what year this was, but it was somewhere between his transition from the original Michael Jackson to the pale alien thing he became.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Twin Towers

The following are WTC pictures/mats I've created over the years.

St. Nicholas Cathedral
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Asleep at the Wheel
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A Wake, A Wake, Awake
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Promissed Land
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Twin Towers from NJ
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Twin Towers & Statue of Liberty
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Saturday, July 2, 2011

AMERWRECKA

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Back from my blog sabbatical just in time for independence day, I present you Amerwrecka. It's no secret that a common theme of my work displays disdain for many aspects of this great country, so this new painting can be no more topical...what's wrecking America?

Monday, April 18, 2011

PRODUCKTION

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Ducks, having a cosmopolitan distribution, are quite accessible to the nature photographer. I'm not sure exactly what kind of ducks these were, but they resided in one of my favorite places to visit: Lake George, NY.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

IRON CROSS

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The iron cross is the highest decoration given to the German military. Bikers also use it to promote a tough-guy image. But this design was an accident...I started drawing out random lines until an iron cross materialized.

Monday, April 4, 2011

SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING

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Who spent all the money to put the U.S. in the hole? It's the gray haired mentally challenged clowns in DC. The mat says it all, and this was one of my earlier examples of decoupage, before I started using smaller circle punches.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

RUSH HOUR

From Mats

I shot this in Amsterdam 10 years ago in the summer of 2001. I never saw so many bicycles before except when I was in the army stationed in Germany. I was in the armored division, in an engineer (E) company which builds bridges. We were in charge of 80 5-ton trucks, six tanks and six half tracks. Every month there was an alert (random drill) at usually 4 or 5 in the morning. So you had A, B, C, D, and E co, each with their own caravan of tanks and tractors and all this equipment which had to be mobilized. Imagine all the gasoline we needed in doing that.

Monday, March 21, 2011

HAIKU: Red Tulips #12

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Amidst months of gloom
the clouds break and the sun shines
it's fucking springtime

Sunday, March 13, 2011

SMOKING GUN

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I took this shot from a moving car on the NJ Turnpike 22 years ago. I guess I was compelled because seeing this smoke spewing ceaselessly didn't sit right with me. And now all these nuclear plants in Japan are melting down and it reminds us how shortsighted we are and the risks we're exposing ourselves to.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Flamingo

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The flamingo is the poster bird for the saying "You are what you eat".  Pink and orange flamingos eat algae that contain the same stuff that gives carrots their color.  I shot this is at Disneyworld exactly 30 years ago. 23 years later I punched circles in the from the same image to create its complementary mat.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

WATER to WHINE

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There's a wino crashed out on the steps of the church. Next to him is a bucket of water. My interpretation: he is asking Jesus for a little bit of that miracle magic.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

GOTCHA

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1981: When I was a bartender at the Terminal Bar, this fool used to look in the window all the time, like that. And I said (to myself) I'm gonna get his picture one day, and sure enough he came to the window and I went over and shot his picture. He was just this wild thing that was out there and I saw him for quite a few years. He was around a long time and he was surviving out there on the streets. But he couldn’t come in, no way, I'd just tell him to get the fuck out...and when Jersey (the bartender) was there, I didn’t have to do anything. Jersey would just stand in the back and yell "get the fuck outta here." I mean, it would take only a second. If the guy didn’t move, Jersey would come on out...(end of story).

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

SNAKE EYES

From Mats
question: What happens when you shoot snake eyes?
answer: You're a loser.