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Greetings.
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My name is Thomas Farley and Aloha
and Mahalo from Wakaki in Honolulu,
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where I am recording this on Saturday,
September 9, 2023.
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It is 05:00 p.m. For this segment.
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I wish you peace.
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I truly wish that you
have peace in your life.
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Wakaki is a great place for surrealists.
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Familiar objects and
familiar objects in unfamiliar situations,
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as this surfboard rider seems
to be surfing on hot lava.
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More on Wauke later.
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Starting this off with a photograph,
but I call these Copper Roses at the
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New Casino in under
construction in Beatty, Nevada.
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It’s going to be a fully developed
vision of steampunk.
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And I think it’s I’ll look up the name and
put it in on the screen for you later.
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But.
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This is photography.
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I’m in between the brush people
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and photographers, so I don’t
try to do this too often.
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But this made and I don’t
have a picture of it.
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A nice work on fabric.
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Goldfield, Nevada a balance of desires.
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I have my four main Goldfield business
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posters balancing on the back of her back.
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It started out as
some sort of rice advertisement and one
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of the dozens of books from Japan and
China that I pick up to use as clip arts.
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This was eventually
about 40 inches tall by 18 inches wide.
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Astrid at Enigmata Esoterica has
one of these prints.
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She quite likes it.
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This is the pleasures of going to the ANW
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in Tonopah, which is about 30 miles
west of Goldfield, Nevada.
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Goldfield, Nevada is between
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Las Vegas and Reno, about the center
and this sort of thing.
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I think if I tried to ask to photograph
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her from the front,
she would just automatically reject, and
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it just seemed like
an opportunity to do something colorful.
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Although I know it may have a
I’m not even gonna try to I’m tired.
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I’ll look up that later.
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Word later.
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Bardot Forever.
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This started out as a very small,
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low res screen grab, probably in the late
1950s of her holding a puppy.
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Bardot was is a great welfare
animal rights activist.
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And this was
the thought balloons, as I’ll call them.
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They were on a template.
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The background is mostly of an office
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building that I took a photograph of in
February of 2022 when I was in San Diego.
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And then that was
hypersaturated with color.
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I made this design into a jacket.
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I might show that later.
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My protest against ubiquitous omnipresent
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Ted Talks, which used to be a really nice
look into the future with some really
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genius people, and now
they’re just book tours.
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There’s a Ted Talk for everything silly,
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stupid, and they really
devalued their brand.
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So I have this as talking about a new
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Ted Talk to
focus on the triumph of American barnyard
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discipline as compared to Soviet
collectivization to achieve the same.
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And
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the rooster Foghorn Leghorn going after
the barnyard dog in his usual fashion.
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The failure of Soviet
collectivization to achieve the same.
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I don’t have a foot fetish,
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but I do like high fashion
and high fashion photography.
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Everything about fashion, even, of course,
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it has trends, but is focused
on making something beautiful.
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Beautiful photography, beautiful products,
beautiful shoes, beautiful clothes,
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and all of that on beautiful women
in beautiful settings.
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You’re just trying to make something
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pretty and wonderful with no apologies or
explanations from some idiot art professor
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trying to tell you that something
ugly is actually beautiful.
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Everyone knows what’s beautiful.
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And you’re not fooling anything,
professor, with your nonsense.
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This is a poster that was done
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in the 1920s by a MercedesBenz
automobile dealer who was trying
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to attract the very rich
time traveler crowd.
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And as you know,
they have a lot of options.
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A lot of choices.
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So he knew that he had the pyramids,
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which is a great draw,
but needed something more.
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So the plan is,
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and was to bring in Cindy Crawford
from her days with MTV’s House of Style.
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So she’ll be signing autographs
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in the market square here in Cairo in July
of 1927 to help
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promote the sale of MercedesBenz
automobiles in the kingdom of Egypt.
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I happen to miss the appearance,
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but I can talk to you about
my relation with Cindy later.
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Here we have a Mile poster redone
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to celebrate His Highness His Holiness I’m
sorry, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama,
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whom Mao certainly would
have had shot on site.
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These political posters are
very easy to rework because
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the composition, the artistry,
is so beautiful.
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To begin with, I
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simply substituted His Holiness’s picture
for Mao, took away Mao’s picture,
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and then bled in the Tibetan
flag into the background.
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The Chinese people support Tibet.
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That is accurate as far as
the lettering and wording goes.
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Free Tibet.
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I gave away the digital rights to.
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This to Freetobet.org in the UK.
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In case they want to use it for merch,
and they were happy to get that.
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Sharon Artlip, the town
mother of goldfield.
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The Gemfield gem claims
Gemfield probably was a site.
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You’ll see it on maps.
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It’s an area to collect colored quartz.
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Calcidony people endlessly discuss
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the differences between Calcidony
and Agate and jasper.
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Basically, it’s all colored quartz sio.
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Two jasper in a thin section
will not have translucency.
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Agate will.
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Agate’s generally
marked by a wavy type of pattern.
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The colors reflect the geology
of the area, what elements are present,
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and Sharon does a great
job managing these claims.
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The rocks are a dollar a pound.
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I can hear him now.
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This is from Life magazine.
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This is the.
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Son of Franklin Delanor Roosevelt running
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for governor of California
after World War II.
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And the crowd this is
a Life magazine article.
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This is triple exposure.
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The Life magazine reporter thought
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that many people in the crowd thought
they heard echoes of Roosevelt SR.
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When Roosevelt Jr.
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Was talking.
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Hence the title.
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I can hear him now.
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Unfortunately, he was oh,
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maybe fortunately,
he was defeated in a total landslide.
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In that governor’s race walking in Ibiza,
but dreaming of goldfield.
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That direction sign in the middle is
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from Silver Peak, which is
in Esmeralda County, where Goldfield is.
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And so she’s walking around
this is from some catalog.
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She’s walking around Ibiza
and dreaming of goldfield.
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The direction sign is, as I said,
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from the center of Silver Peak,
which is a mining town for lithium.
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As we say in Esmeralda County, life,
liberty, and the pursuit of lithium.
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No services, really,
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and even less services in Silver Peak
right now than goldfield.
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But things are never quite the same
over the history of the Great Basin.
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Kate Moss, one of many things I’ve done
around her and about her.
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She seems to be, over the years, decades,
one of the most durable models.
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I understand that she has a reputation
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for just showing up and never asking for
any explanation from any photographer.
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She’ll just pose however you want,
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never complains, never explains herself,
just appears and disappears again.
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She doesn’t have a hammer.
Hold on.
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Copyright on Etsy you can find all sorts
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of images of her for sale,
apparently not going after
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any of those people for reproducing
her work without permission.
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The nine lives of John Charles Fremont.
The Explorer.
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My cat, he’s actually a silver tabby,
but I put him into a buff or brown color
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for this, with a radial blur that makes
it look like they’re tree rings.
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And then I started his history,
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which you can read
when you see the real poster up front.
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But essentially he was born in Catalonia,
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possibly involved in the great tuna train
robbery around 1917,
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because cats have nine lives,
so you have to do a lot of research.
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Much of this was covered up by other
people trying to hide his past.
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But the real problem was the free catnip
movement that he started in the later he
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had to disappear most of his
opposition in Argentina in the 80s.
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It’s a long story.
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Reno poster.
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I’ve watched Reno downtown literally die
away since when I was a young child.
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It was a pretty amazing
main street, the biggest little city
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in the world,
and it was a vibrant downtown with Harris
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and Harold’s, and there’s just
homeless all over the place now.
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It’s a wreck, it’s a mess.
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El Dorado Casino.
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They have an off duty sheriff
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officer at every elevator bank
to keep the criminals out.
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And
the car collection, harris car collection
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is long gone, but they do have
the Bowling Hall of Fame there.
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It’s sad, no posers
in authentic Goldfield, Nevada.
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Of course, if you look like any of these
women in profile like that,
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I think that we would be happy to have
you walking around town posing like that.
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And the background is filled
in with what you may see later.
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The front of my old gallery,
which is called the Stop,
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and the adjoining BNB rentals
are called the Stop in.
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It used to be the Elite trading
Post when the Faucis took it over.
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About eight years ago.
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And then I made it into my gallery
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for a while and simply didn’t get any real
traffic at all, except for the people
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running out of gas or
wanting to use the bathroom.
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So there’s no need
to be in there all day, every day.
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This is one of my very
few political posters.
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Goodness, I don’t know who consumes more
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Chinese baloney, the Biden administration
or my family through social media.
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So this is a life illustration
for deviled ham that’s been converted.
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Tricky part is putting
into texture the dark spaces.
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Just charcoal black doesn’t work,
especially for printing.
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You need to have some sort of texture,
some sort of lightness in an all black.
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Otherwise all black really goes toward
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being a photograph and then you’ll
have to print it out on glossy paper.
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It goes away from being poster art,
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it goes to being photography
with more black.
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of lithium.
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As I said, this is the Esmeralda County.
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Well, it’s my unofficial
slogan for the county.
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And this is a old Soviet Union
political poster.
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But I just simply inverted it, added the
lettering, adjusted the color a bit.
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But it does look like
people off to a salt mine.
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And with lithium,
it’s more like a Brine mine.
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You take the soil of the Great Basin
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and put water in it, make it into a brine,
extract the minerals from there in a place
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that doesn’t look like a mine at all,
it looks like a factory.
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You’ll see steam coming out of
the main vent at Silver Peak.
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You can always have the Dinky Diner
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in Goldfield, Nevada, whereas you
might never have Paris in the rain.
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How true.
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Paris in the rain.
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Somebody that you love
under that umbrella.
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Very difficult, especially to have that
sick looking, very cool looking Pontiac.
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But you can have the Dinky Diner,
of course.
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The car was added, the parking lot added,
the building in the back,
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that’s the hotel,
which actually isn’t in that position,
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but the diner has kind of a poor looking
location, so we could fix that up.
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The map in the background is
an old town map of Goldfield.
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The large one, probably 24 x 32,
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is in the Dinky Diner if you
want to go in and see it.
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The Burgers of Calais.
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Borgers.
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I’m sorry if I can’t pronounce this.
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This is Rodan, of course.
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I don’t know how to pronounce French
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correctly, but these are the six or
seven guys that sacrificed themselves.
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Their town was under siege.
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The whole town was going to be completely
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wrecked and ravished
and destroyed and looted.
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Townspeople killed.
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These six or seven volunteered to
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sacrifice themselves, to be killed
themselves if the town were spared.
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And that is what happened.
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These are these people at the moment.
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They realize that they’re
off to their deaths.
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A sight for sore eyes.
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Goldfield, Nevada.
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Here we have Alfred E.
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Newman and also Flash,
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which is the resident plywood donkey, or
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another parody, just copyright.
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I’m not sure I should talk about this,
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but Mad Magazine is famous for well,
if you do an original work,
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you can mock social commentary, do
anything you want on any public figure.
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That’s what editorial
cartoons do every single day.
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Recognizable people Mad Magazine would,
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and they’re still in business,
would parody things like Star Wars just
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by changing the z and changing
the war s making into a z.
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Great beauty suggests the invisible
presence of the gods.
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This is Giselle italian edition of Vogue.
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After she broke up with Tom Brady and
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I had heard that she had
appeared in this issue.
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I just didn’t know that they devoted
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probably twelve full pages
to her in different outfits.
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It was just a remarkable issue.
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Every one of those ten or twelve pages had
her in a different costume,
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with a different look, and just still
an incredible top model.
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Great beauty suggests
the invisible presence of the god.
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This is the only thing
I’ve done on my condition.
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Looks like I don’t have
the lettering here.
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Interesting.
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It’s more about nightlife in goldfield,
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but that’s the way it’s been for
all the cities I’ve gone to.
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Just two in the morning,
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three in the morning,
in the darkest hours of the soul,
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it is always 02:00 in the morning,
or three, according to Elliot.
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He’s very true.
Got the cat, the sleeping medicine
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that doesn’t work,
the clock that never moves any faster,
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the nightmares that are always coming
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and always reappearing.
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Flowers at Rayleigh’s
supermarket tona Pot, Nevada.
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This is through.
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A program called Adobe Express.
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You can get the app for your iPad.
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It’s interesting how this application,
it’s incredibly crazy good on the iPad.
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The version of it Photoshop Express
for the iPhone is much more limited.
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The version for doing collages
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on the desktop using Photoshop Express
is almost crippleware.
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It’s just practically no good.
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I don’t understand the variations
between the platforms,
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but this is an easy peasy
with Photoshop Express
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just using flowers that you walk into
and find at almost any grocery store.
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Elysium Fields Tobacco more than
a Pipe Dream I caught JCF
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smoking some catnip and I asked him where
he got it from, and apparently
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he had been on the sly fronting or
promoting Elysium Fields Tobacco
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in Goldfield on his own
without any authorization.
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This is him generated by AI.
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I fed or gave the service 20 photographs
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of Fremont, and they turned around
and gave me 50 different variations.
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This is one of them.
The clip art is mine of the woman
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with the pipe and colorized that
got the correct font
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and the lettering and the writing
is correct for Elysium Fields.
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But we are very disappointed in JCF.
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He is on the pipe, as he says,
on the pipe, off the pipe.
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It’s all about the pipe.
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Operation Doomtown.
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This is carried out in the early 1950s
at the nearby Nevada Test Site where they
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for a long time did above
ground nuclear testing.
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This was a truly crazy
operation in the 1950s.
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They did a bunch of tests on what would
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happen to buildings if they
exposed them to a nuclear blast.
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Well, I think we could tell them.
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One of the things that I don’t see here is
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in the original poster I have,
the Nevada Test Site does not want you.
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It is closed.
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Believe me, it is closed.
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This is Area 51 is in there.
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That’s about 35 miles from Goldfield.
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But there are a lot of people
that do work out on the test site.
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They’re bust in usually and it’s secure.
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They’ll find you at the fence
if you get even close.
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This is Kokomi.
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She’s a flutist,
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a young woman, classical flute artist and
also fashion model, as you can see here.
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Although I don’t think she’s quite
tall enough for high fashion.
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But this would be my reimagining
of a Vogue cover, magazine cover.
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Ovals aren’t done much.
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I really like them,
but you don’t see them anymore.
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So this is how there is some writing.
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It sideways,
but that’s artistic expression.
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This is a moschino ad.
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Perhaps an L.
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I doubt it was in vogue.
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Note these are two different
positions for the model.
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It was a two page spread.
[00:25:13.840]
You can see the model that I did a find
edges filter on in the background.
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Has her arm more akimbo.
[00:25:25.360]
So I kept the original.
[00:25:27.080]
I highlighted the edges on the original,
which you can see on the left.
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And then totally did a fine edges
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for the second image
and then did this sort of double exposure
[00:25:39.360]
when in fact, they are
two different shots.
[00:25:51.360]
This is at the International Car Forest
of the last church in Goldfield, Nevada.
[00:25:58.290]
It’s a thing.
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Lots of cars buried into
the soil of the Great Basin.
[00:26:06.890]
This profile is of Richard.
[00:26:09.210]
He is the wife of Astrid.
[00:26:12.510]
They own Enigmata esoterica
of which I’ve done a poster for them.
[00:26:17.970]
This is his silhouette.
[00:26:19.450]
I’m not sure the story behind it.
[00:26:25.320]
And I’m not showing the original
photograph, but basically
[00:26:30.450]
completely in black and white and some
mix of colors on the graffiti.
[00:26:47.760]
This is a very poor I took a photograph.
[00:26:53.360]
All the images you’re now seeing are
not from the original digital files.
[00:26:57.650]
They are photographs taken of printouts.
[00:26:59.930]
That’s what I have here at the time.
[00:27:01.770]
The color correction here
is very poor, very blotchy.
[00:27:06.320]
This was difficult because
of the perspective.
[00:27:09.250]
I couldn’t figure out what
I was doing incorrectly.
[00:27:12.890]
Very difficult.
[00:27:14.210]
Of course, the car multiple
exposures of the same car.
[00:27:18.840]
The car in the background
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has to be in proportion
to the cars in front.
[00:27:26.290]
The cars in front have a wider look.
[00:27:28.650]
It’s a perspective challenge and
I’m not sure that I really got it.
[00:27:41.040]
This is a portal looking window at the
Administration center on Treasure Island.
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In San Francisco Bay.
[00:27:53.210]
The administration building
was owned by the Navy.
[00:27:57.730]
It’s now in private hands.
[00:27:59.210]
This treasure island has been turned
[00:28:01.170]
into some sort of high tech center
and low cost housing project.
[00:28:07.890]
Anyway, this club apparently
opens on the weekend.
[00:28:10.840]
And you can see on the left is
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the original photograph
and how easily this was
[00:28:18.050]
put in with several different
filters and framed.
[00:28:22.600]
Devised this.
[00:28:23.680]
It looks like a frame,
[00:28:24.790]
but devised it digitally to make
it more painterly looking.
[00:28:36.680]
From Jubilate agno.
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This is a very large poster
gentleman named Scott.
[00:28:49.690]
I’m not sure if I can read this.
[00:28:54.440]
I have to look up his name.
[00:29:00.280]
Even with my reading glasses.
[00:29:01.930]
I’m not sure I can read
this on the screen.
[00:29:04.890]
But the best cat poem ever written,
if you have a chance to look it up.
[00:29:14.570]
This is just a segment from a much,
[00:29:16.770]
much longer epic poem that Scott did
hundreds of years ago, and still the best.
[00:29:29.240]
I should have mentioned that the cats
[00:29:31.110]
that you saw on the left were AI
generated from the previous discussion.
[00:29:35.690]
I mentioned the Cat Gallery in Chicago.
[00:29:39.650]
Those are variations,
AI variations of our leader,
[00:29:43.290]
John Charles Fremont, the explorer,
seen here in fully AI.
[00:29:48.410]
That is, artificially intelligence
generated in the background.
[00:29:54.570]
Now I put Elysium fields.
[00:29:57.120]
That’s correct.
[00:29:59.290]
I had a person,
a Chinese gentleman, produce that.
[00:30:05.250]
And
the story goes that I found him smoking
[00:30:11.600]
catnip and then later found out he was
being sponsored by Elysium Fields.
[00:30:16.080]
And they’re up to no good.
[00:30:18.520]
The lady there with the hookah
[00:30:19.990]
with the pipe is like a 1920s
photograph that I colorized.
[00:30:26.360]
This is probably from l
French the the French edition.
[00:30:34.410]
One month.
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Interesting how they have some really
women’s magazine.
[00:30:41.810]
Obviously women’s magazine.
[00:30:43.530]
And yet the pictures inside,
especially for this photo shoot,
[00:30:47.600]
were far more,
I think women would say,
[00:30:51.240]
in the United States,
if they were looking at Sports Illustrated
[00:30:54.110]
swimsuit issue, they would
say they were exploitive.
[00:30:57.010]
Much more, quote unquote,
exploitive than Si.
[00:31:01.360]
But obviously the French don’t have
[00:31:04.770]
a problem with beautiful women
and maybe women as art,
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because the layout is very,
I shall say, explicit, but beautiful.
[00:31:17.410]
Maybe we just can’t tolerate
that here in the States.
[00:31:21.050]
But speaking of France, this is one of a
number of things, paint by the numbers.
[00:31:29.570]
If you see this in person,
[00:31:31.450]
this is a rarely popular piece where I
took a standard paint by the numbers
[00:31:37.930]
illustration and then just pasted,
blended in color from all over.
[00:31:43.810]
Disregarding the lines.
[00:31:45.290]
I have something of myself.
[00:31:48.210]
Portrait in the easel on the right,
[00:31:51.730]
and Bianca Salming is
on the left of my portrait.
[00:31:57.010]
She’s a Swedish athlete.
[00:31:58.630]
I’m kind of stalking from a distance.
[00:32:02.080]
We used to call it a secret admirer.
[00:32:04.050]
I guess that term is
no longer in currency.
[00:32:07.600]
But, yeah, this is very well received.
[00:32:32.280]
Here’s a look at some of the landscape
orientation images that I’ve done.
[00:32:39.570]
This is a cute couple.
[00:32:41.730]
They actually fell off this boat for me.
[00:32:46.120]
But I was unable to capture that moment.
[00:32:51.890]
This is off of wakaki.
[00:32:54.650]
The front edge of that surfboard
actually was missing.
[00:32:59.810]
I used AI to put the oh,
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I would say 20% of the board created.
[00:33:10.360]
AI created the tip of that board.
[00:33:12.320]
Very complex to do by hand
that hemispherical shape.
[00:33:17.410]
Experimenting with some textures.
[00:33:20.210]
This is a design that hasn’t gone to
completion.
[00:33:27.640]
The white foam is blown out.
[00:33:29.320]
There’s no real texture in it.
[00:33:30.770]
Very hard to get that correct.
[00:33:34.050]
Here is a find edges filter.
[00:33:40.050]
And then I laid in with
the original photograph.
[00:33:44.690]
A room with a view.
[00:33:47.050]
This is from the Hyatt Regency
Wauke Beach Resort, 19th floor.
[00:33:52.250]
Took the original photograph and then laid
in cut in the green belt, essentially.
[00:33:59.570]
It’s kind of a nice contrast.
[00:34:02.890]
This is just done at the airport.
[00:34:04.570]
A mix of the new plane and the old black
and white photograph of the old field.
[00:34:13.240]
And this is something I did
at the Hilton in Davis.
[00:34:19.010]
Kind of looks like
an architectural rendering.
[00:34:22.440]
They were pleased to get it.
[00:34:23.720]
I gave them a frame 16 x 20 of this.
[00:34:28.440]
And there’s another place in Davis.
[00:34:33.450]
The Varsity Theater.
[00:34:35.130]
I did one quick doodle.
[00:34:37.930]
Davis, California.
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All the hallmarks of a dangerously
innocent culture.
[00:34:45.050]
And, yeah, it needs something
up in the upper left.
[00:34:49.090]
Maybe a happy moon or some such.
[00:34:53.520]
So this image is incomplete.
[00:34:57.810]
I have a much more finished
one in the gallery.
[00:35:00.530]
This is my rejection of the Ted Talks,
which are now just a bookselling tour.
[00:35:07.240]
They go into such obscure
subject now subject.
[00:35:10.650]
So this is a new Ted Talk to focus
on the triumph of American barnyard
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discipline and the failure of Soviet
collectivization to achieve the same.
[00:35:22.200]
This is a number of things I did
kind of envisioning.
[00:35:31.290]
Heaven’s waiting room where
you’re hoping for admittance.
[00:35:35.680]
You can see Biden there in the center,
[00:35:37.610]
just still watching over your life,
trying to control you.
[00:35:42.050]
This is Claudia Schiffer.
[00:35:43.530]
Still modeling well into her 40s.
Good for her.
[00:35:47.200]
One of the most beautiful
women who have ever lived.
[00:35:51.450]
This is a well received montage.
[00:35:55.050]
Possibly the most complex
photo montage I’ve done.
[00:35:58.610]
Notable is my cat with this thousand
mile stare in the driver’s seat.
[00:36:04.770]
And there’s an image of a woman
off of an old Cars record album.
[00:36:11.330]
Some clip art.
The American flag woven into everything.
[00:36:15.760]
This took some time.
[00:36:18.160]
This is a Kylie Jenner
comparison between the pink of the 50s or
[00:36:25.770]
perhaps today because it’s
going to soft pastels today.
[00:36:29.930]
And the hot pink of the this
is the Fouts house.
[00:36:35.850]
This is one variation.
[00:36:37.410]
I like the one with my tarot
card border better.
[00:36:40.610]
This was an earlier attempt.
[00:36:42.050]
This is Jerry Fouts.
[00:36:44.130]
This is my first private commission.
[00:36:46.530]
And this was photograph
and then posterized.
[00:36:50.720]
There’s a woman in the clouds.
[00:36:53.810]
There’s a lot of details here.
[00:36:55.880]
About two and a half days to get this
[00:36:57.680]
mount columbia
wasn’t scaled until the mid 60s because
[00:37:02.290]
of yeti lot of abominable
snowman there goldfield.
[00:37:07.160]
Yeti they have an attitude.
[00:37:08.610]
Apparently the first time it was
climbed was in the mid sixty s.
[00:37:12.850]
A group of hippies under acid.
[00:37:14.850]
Somehow they were able to climb up
[00:37:17.200]
Columbia and communicate with them
under the influence and what else?
[00:37:22.720]
So this is the hood of a car
at the International Car Force.
[00:37:26.490]
The last church, Goldfield, Nevada,
recently sold eight by ten of this.
[00:37:32.290]
And then Goldfield
and Anime and Magna Magma.
[00:37:37.370]
I still can’t.
Magma magna.
[00:37:40.240]
I still don’t get it.
[00:37:41.450]
And these young girls are questioning
[00:37:44.330]
Goldfield as well as I
question this whole art form.
[00:37:50.680]
What’s seen next?
[00:37:51.810]
Here is a poster I did
for the Johnstons in Perrump.
[00:37:56.650]
It was originally intended to highlight
[00:38:01.130]
their RV, but it turned
out to be a memory board.
[00:38:04.570]
In the driver’s and passenger side window
[00:38:07.090]
I have a reflection of their dog
that used to ride up in that position.
[00:38:11.890]
Now he’s gone.
[00:38:13.450]
His name was Buddy, but he’s now
in their vehicle forever.
[00:38:18.650]
This is a very complex montage.
[00:38:20.600]
You’d have to really look at it in person.
[00:38:22.160]
Each of these stamps, each of these
people are having personal problems.
[00:38:26.010]
Nothing to wear in white in Rhodesia.
[00:38:28.680]
Another woman is missing her peloton.
[00:38:31.570]
Another person suffering
from ANWI and malaise.
[00:38:35.810]
Another one of Alicia Newman.
[00:38:37.810]
Really need the original to show you
[00:38:40.650]
what’s going on with think this was a fine
edge filter and then inverted the image.
[00:38:48.240]
These are just some of the ones that I
[00:38:50.970]
have done in landscape
rather than portrait.
[00:39:28.040]
Well, this one deserves a
[00:39:31.650]
lot more attention perhaps than
I can give it here in a minute.
[00:39:36.970]
It started out as a low res green grab.
[00:39:39.970]
You can see in the lower left
bardot holding a puppy.
[00:39:44.410]
She’s always been a great
animal welfare activist.
[00:39:51.010]
And this was converted this to color.
[00:39:54.160]
Very, very difficult to get her
skin tone down and blonde hair.
[00:39:59.090]
The background is actually
a building in San Diego.
[00:40:02.330]
I.
[00:40:04.640]
Took some photographs of for a shoot I
was doing for In Focus, my old employer.
[00:40:11.570]
And then the whole thing
colorized up and gone crazy.
[00:40:19.640]
This was fairly unretouched
photograph in a fashion magazine.
[00:40:26.960]
And it’s just her against a wall.
[00:40:33.680]
I know they’re trying to set this
[00:40:36.160]
tough girl attitude, but I thought I could
make it into something more interesting.
[00:40:41.770]
This is the Japanese flag.
[00:40:46.530]
Portions of it in the rising sun motif.
In the background.
[00:40:52.720]
A lot of black, red.
[00:40:55.010]
That’s a dependable combination.
[00:40:58.530]
I’m not even sure if she is Japanese.
[00:41:03.880]
Don’t want to guess at that,
but still I think it works.
[00:41:14.560]
Operation Doomtown, early 1950s.
[00:41:19.450]
For some reason this is very near
[00:41:21.610]
Goldfield, Nevada,
where I lived early 50s.
[00:41:26.670]
They were experimenting
with nuclear weapons.
[00:41:29.850]
Above ground testing.
[00:41:31.770]
Set up an entire house to see what
a nuclear bomb would do to a house.
[00:41:36.850]
And yeah, you can guess what happened.
[00:41:42.160]
But this is really an incomplete version.
[00:41:45.520]
I’m not sure where the original is.
[00:41:47.090]
Where I have the Nevada test site does not
[00:41:50.050]
welcome you at the bottom
and there’s a red border.
[00:41:54.010]
This one’s not showing it.
[00:41:55.650]
So this is an incomplete version.
[00:41:58.530]
And it’s big, so that you
can read all of the text.
[00:42:02.330]
Can’t do that here.
[00:42:09.160]
This is the one poster
I did on my condition.
[00:42:14.760]
There’s John Charles Fremont
in the right hand corner.
[00:42:22.880]
But I don’t want people
to feel sorry for me.
[00:42:29.530]
But this is just
even here in Waka Key, this hotel has
[00:42:39.840]
1100 rooms, thousands of employees,
thousands of guests.
[00:42:43.850]
I’m the only one,
[00:42:46.130]
literally the only person walking
around at 230 in the morning.
[00:42:50.240]
Three, four o’clock.
[00:42:51.720]
I am.
[00:42:53.200]
It with me.
[00:42:55.650]
Just me and my so it goes.
[00:43:05.320]
Here’s Jay Law.
[00:43:06.720]
Another color photograph
trying to put into a sketch type effect.
[00:43:15.970]
I don’t use Actions,
which you may have heard of.
[00:43:18.430]
Actions are little tiny programs
that you can buy to do different things.
[00:43:24.720]
What they do is a little program that runs
in Photoshop that may do 1520 operations,
[00:43:30.090]
enlarge, reduce focus filters,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
[00:43:35.610]
This isn’t doing that.
[00:43:38.050]
To get the sketch effect, I’m using
HDR Toning, which is not an action.
[00:43:44.050]
And then the color half
Toning is another filter.
[00:43:47.730]
But when you’re not using Actions, you’re
not going to look like everybody else.
[00:43:53.930]
You’re going to have your own look.
[00:43:59.520]
This is Ron Mathaney
[00:44:00.830]
of Diamondfield Gulch, which is about
9 miles outside of Goldfield, Nevada.
[00:44:05.210]
Diamondfield Gulch was
a real small mining town.
[00:44:10.960]
He has an event center out there.
[00:44:15.440]
He’s an amazing guy.
[00:44:17.610]
Very conversational.
[00:44:18.970]
Heavy equipment operator in great demand
[00:44:21.450]
all over the area for his
expertise with heavy equipment.
[00:44:25.650]
The event center is rented out.
[00:44:28.130]
It’s amazing.
[00:44:30.530]
This is the unretouched photographed here.
[00:44:33.330]
And you’ll see what I did with it.
[00:44:37.160]
He wasn’t smiling,
[00:44:38.730]
but I got him into that doorway
to at least frame him and his shot.
[00:44:43.370]
He later said that he looks like
a homeless person, but he smiles
[00:44:50.650]
when he says that because his kids
apparently really like the poster.
[00:44:54.890]
And here he is.
[00:44:57.130]
You’ll note that he’s smiling here.
[00:45:03.840]
That’s courtesy of Photoshop
neural filters.
[00:45:09.050]
If you’re very careful,
[00:45:11.090]
you can tweak something of a presentable
[00:45:16.240]
smile, but you have to be really careful.
[00:45:21.810]
They’re so good, you can even get
Megan Fox to smile a bit.
[00:45:28.850]
You can’t stop her from drinking blood,
but you can possibly tweak out a little
[00:45:35.930]
smile, although on her it
looks unnatural and weird.
[00:45:50.800]
This is another very poorly rendered.
[00:45:54.010]
Again, what you’re seeing here
are photographs of prints.
[00:46:00.410]
They’re not the original digital files.
[00:46:06.650]
So the loss of resolution,
color, everything is just gone.
[00:46:11.770]
But I just don’t have time to put
together I don’t have time to.
[00:46:15.030]
Find all these files and put them.
[00:46:16.870]
Into a video format like this.
[00:46:20.770]
But this is at the a w and Tonapa.
[00:46:27.320]
Yeah.
Getting permission to take a photograph.
[00:46:31.050]
On the front these days is very,
[00:46:34.370]
well, difficult, and you’re
going to look like a creep.
[00:46:39.090]
So I guess it’s better just to be
a creep from the other way around.
[00:46:45.680]
Here’s more myth building
[00:46:46.850]
for John Charles Fremont,
the explorer likening him
[00:46:50.690]
to Stephen Seagal, who we really
don’t know where he got his training.
[00:46:57.650]
He just sort of appeared on the scene,
sort of like JCF.
[00:47:04.370]
And this is a old
karate or kung fu magazine.
[00:47:11.890]
And then this photo montage of him.
[00:47:16.600]
About how everybody owes JCF a debt.
[00:47:21.430]
Of gratitude for his martial arts skills
and influence far more than Bruce Lee.
[00:47:30.240]
This poster simply acknowledges that debt.
[00:47:40.360]
And this one is super complicated.
[00:47:42.650]
As far as the subject matter, Chandra Voz,
not sure I’m pronouncing that correctly,
[00:47:47.670]
he was a strong man of India
compared to Gandhi.
[00:47:52.760]
Gandhi, well, big subject, but Chandra.
[00:48:02.240]
He.
[00:48:02.590]
Was going to wrest power away
from the British.
[00:48:06.970]
He was not going to wait until they got
around to granting freedom for India.
[00:48:14.090]
He was going to take it.
[00:48:15.530]
And
it’s only because of the British
[00:48:20.210]
eventually being civilized
people that they let it go.
[00:48:23.050]
This peaceful, nonviolent stuff,
[00:48:25.360]
it’s only allowable,
it’s only possible when there’s
[00:48:27.890]
a government that you’re dealing
with that is willing to talk,
[00:48:32.770]
even with mountbatten’s mistakes
and cruelty at times.
[00:48:38.450]
The British government was
a civilized government.
[00:48:42.130]
This is about the hypnotizing power
of cigarettes and advertising.
[00:48:48.610]
This is advertisement from Life magazine.
[00:48:54.640]
All of the people.
[00:48:56.570]
This is multiple exposure, of course,
but there are probably
[00:49:01.450]
15 or 20 individual celebrities
and other personalities all endorsing
[00:49:08.570]
Camel cigarettes
and just spiraling into addiction.
[00:49:19.640]
And of course, not as much was.
[00:49:21.890]
Known then, but.
[00:49:49.400]
My ode to Colonel Sanders.
[00:49:54.370]
Yeah, chicken.
[00:49:56.050]
Got chicken if you want it.
[00:49:58.290]
Did I say chicken?
[00:50:01.090]
What part of chicken
do you not understand?
[00:50:06.840]
If you want chicken, you talk to me.
[00:50:10.610]
Got chicken.
[00:50:12.010]
Chicken all day, chicken all night.
[00:50:14.170]
It’s all about the chicken.
[00:50:17.130]
Did you know that I am a Kentucky Colonel?
[00:50:20.330]
All of us colonels.
[00:50:22.010]
Like our chicken gonna form a goddamn
army full of chicken eaters.
[00:50:27.410]
You’ll see, I was thinking about chicken
[00:50:30.850]
the other day, and I got see,
I got this thing about chicken.
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Anyway, it goes on and on.
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And this is about the decision making
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process, about if you’re considering
buying a Thomas Farley original design.
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So you have a lot of chicken.
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A lot of chicken, yeah, a lot of choices.
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None of them hear about chicken.
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You can go back to the previous one.
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Basically, no matter how you work this,
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you’re going to wind up whether
you can afford it or not.
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So even if you’re
making payments on a second girlfriend or
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a card that doesn’t actually run,
this chart will point you to the way that
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buying a Thomas Farley original is
the best choice each and every time.
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Art rules and bill collector’s drool.
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This is a lot more green than
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the original, although I like the top
dark green band and the lower green,
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darker green band here
more than the original.
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This was from some
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Italian fashion magazine.
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And it’s part of what you can’t see.
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Which was to print out a print on,
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put it in a frame without
glass or an acrylic shield.
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So you have a fairly nice wood frame.
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But this would just be heavy Bond paper.
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And this came out really well.
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This work isn’t my own.
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It was in a old Nevada Highways magazine.
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Uncredited author.
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I have a lot more about this at my
website thomasfarleyblog.com
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and my Adobe Portfolio site,
which I’ll link somewhere.
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This was rescuing these wonderful images.
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Scanning them and then putting them online
for anybody to use.
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This is the low rise Las Vegas strip
before everything went totally crazy.
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Again.
Just very pure line art.
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A lot of zipotone
which was used for shading.
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One artist thinks that a lot of it was
done actually in pointillism style.
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But I’m not buying it.
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This was round about Easter.
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I did two posters celebrating
Rio or Carnival.
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And this image was
another stock photo taken
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from Depositphotos.com. But then
it was natural skin tone, natural color.
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Very confused street background.
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And I eliminated the street background,
added the lettering.
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The oval the curve of the oval cropped.
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It just substantive change.
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That’s for sure.
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This is probably 18 x 24.
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This was a design that I might
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have done for a record album.
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This.
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The record is called I Like Them Girls.
That’s it.
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That’s all the words in the song.
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It’s sort of an electronic
dance music anthem done by Black Vneck.
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And just this tattler.
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The Russian edition
with that woman on the COVID And this
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spiral that looks like a cleft note is one
of the few things I’ve done with Curves.
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This is done in freeform,
which is Apple’s new drawing tool.
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This is my sort of tribute to Waco.
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It’s just a tragedy.
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I don’t expect rationality of anyone
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like him or any religious zealot.
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But I do expect rationality
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from the United States government when it
has a gun in its hand and the power
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to arrest you and even
kill you if necessary.
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I expect total rationality
from a weaponized government.
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And there was none there at Waco.
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Not during the process.
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Not cover up was Bungled total mess.
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And here’s Fomke.
Johansson.
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She was a Bond girl in one of the movies.
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And this was a gentleman’s quarterly
magazine.
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I’m showing the illustration
for Funny Girl because
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what you’ll see is how the next
slide is how I would have
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one possibility is how I would present
this poster instead of her complete image.
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I couldn’t even remember
what I was channeling.
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But it must have been
the Funny Girl poster.
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And you’ll see how I would have treated
the opening of this article otherwise.
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Just funky very much.
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I think this works.
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But.
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These major design houses aren’t
going to hire me, that’s for sure.
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And I just started graphic design
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about two years ago, but there was never
chance of anything ever going into this.
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When I was younger,
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I have a severe learning disability,
so I can’t even pass algebra.
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So I went to work with my hands.
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And all of this design equipment would
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have been in the province of workstations
and other equipment only available
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at universities or very
expensive trade schools.
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So that was never going to happen.
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They would have never let somebody do
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layout for Vogue or L without a degree
and without heavy industry training.
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The International Car Forest
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of the Last Church and Han Solo’s
strange explanation.
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They asked him about whether the
Force was real, and he replied instead.
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He must have been really tired or drunk
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about how
he didn’t think the international
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Car Forest of the Last Church was
real either, until he saw it.
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And then
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he saw the tiny town of goldfield and cars
planted in the desert and
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tells the questioner who remains confused
to this day about how it’s true.
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All of it.
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Cars in the desert.
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It’s all true.
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Second poster for Enek Mata esoterica.
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The first didn’t have this title bar
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at the bottom, and that figure
is from a famous painting.
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I can’t recall the artist.
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I think one of those Dutch masters,
I think it’s called The Ambassadors.
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There’s two of those guys,
and one of them now is in the title bar.
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I will look up
a little more detail added this time,
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although I did lose some of the desirable
color and the foreground.
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That sparkly blue I was going for is
a little reduced in this version.
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And Goldfield, Nevada.
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Many things to many people,
perhaps too never.
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I think I never printed this out in poster
form anything bigger than eight by twelve.
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It has so many elements going on.
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I think it may work a little bit,
but it doesn’t work that well.
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I do like the rabbit and woman
in the upper right I’m not sure about.
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Middle center would be Bianca Salming.
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Others I lose track of.
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And this one here is Bauhaus style.
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BA house.
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This is much nicer in person.
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This is a really nice, warm set of colors.
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Kate Moss life as art.
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I’ve also done a conceptual video
with this, where today,
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if you’re on Etsy or some other seller,
you can have your artwork displayed
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on these virtual walls
in these virtual buildings.
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So I have this video that’s kind of neat
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about going from one room to another
in these buildings that don’t exist.
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And on every wall there’s a poster
of her in that bathtub.
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I think she’s reading a book
on how to help your man succeed.
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But of course, what else would she be?
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And we have here
not an art exhibition, but an Art T.
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Johnson exhibition, if you remember Lapin,
which I’m sure you don’t.
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Artie Johnson was, let’s see,
what Rank was he perhaps a colonel.
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He would dress up in a Nazi uniform, and
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if somebody said something
silly, he would come out.
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And his tagline was very interesting.
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So you can see here,
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this is a template done in Adobe Express
where I originally printed it out.
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And I had forgotten about his tagline.
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So that, of course, makes the poster to
people that recognize it or remember it.
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Very interesting at Goldfield.
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This is sort of a one off.
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Not much to report.
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It’s a magazine cover.
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People freak out about this.
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Chicks with guns is a thing that’s true,
but this is actually paintball guns.
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I had a couple of posters
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like this, but I kept them in the back
room because people are ignorant
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and they see what they want to see,
and they will make no effort to
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distinguish good from the bad as
long as they can be frightened.
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They don’t explore their fears.
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They just.
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Buy into what the media says.
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So
it’s sad, but people are
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generally stupid and ignorant and don’t
want to learn more, just paintball guns.
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And this is about the featureless maps
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that the United States Geological Survey
are producing now.
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They’re no good for anybody
except land planners.
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They’re not any good for anybody trying to
navigate across the ground.
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Absolutely impossible these days.
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They stopped sending their own people out
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in the field due to cost cutting,
I think, years ago, 1520 years ago.
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And ever since then,
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all the windmills and water tanks and
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old schoolyards are just been obliterated.
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They’re just literally blank.
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And I give examples about how all of our
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history disappeared when they
made this new map of Tonopah.
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And yet those maps were the most popular
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thing that they did, and they just
destroyed it, continued to destroy them.
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Secret British artist colony revealed.
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And this is about Tristan Deck Goldfield
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in the middle of the Atlantic,
where you get sent if you criticize
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the Queen and are forced to work
on artistic endeavors like
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painting her corgis or racehorses,
but with very limited tools.
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Not enough paint, never enough
paint, not enough canvas.
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But it’s another one of these
things that meant to be read.
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And I think the big size
is what makes it go.
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And so many posters, so many
advertisements have nothing to read.
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Whereas if you look the magazine ads
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of the 60s, it’s quite often half text
and half illustration or half photograph.
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People actually wanted to read new
and different things, and now
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we just need high impact or the
advertisers think that’s what we want.
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And of course, based on test results,
they’re probably right.
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It’s the dumbing down of America.
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This is Alicia Newman in opposed shot.
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And I don’t know exactly why I have this
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here because I don’t have the oh,
I have the this is the before.
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I have the AfterShot on another video.
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So maybe the two will get
together at some time.
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This is an illustration from life.
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Mag no, actually could be
Life or Playboy beef eater.
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Gin and I think I used the find edges
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feature here and a lot of playing
around with the saturation.
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And this was also well, yeah, put in the
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you can see the pink border
in there, the half border.
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Sometimes it’s partial border.
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You don’t have to frame
something completely.
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And you need to know when an image
should go outside the frame.
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It.
