Comments | danschank: new painting!

danschank

new painting!

Jan 12, 2009 17:47

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foxinthesnow January 12 2009, 23:16:41 UTC

you are insanely awesome. i love the colors! before i read the user name, i thought it might be something by lj_ultrakurtzwelle (which i think is a compliment, and hopefully you do too!)

thx! danschank January 12 2009, 23:36:57 UTC

the colors are actually a bit lighter IRL... i shot this as the sun was just starting to dim (probably around 4:30)... i might re-shoot an image or two when the show is over. i never thought the extreme lack of natural light in my studio would turn out to be a good thing, but in this case the sunset might have altered the image a bit.

ultrakurtzwelle has some great stuff. she (he?) seems a bit more faithful to the storybook aesthetic than me, but yeah - i can see the similarities.

never_the_less January 12 2009, 23:38:42 UTC

congrats on your show/new paintings!

also, if this is narcissism, I don't want my lj diagnosed...

"shameless self-promotion" is more like it danschank January 12 2009, 23:42:57 UTC

i mean, how many times can i type "on display till the end of february?" once upon a time i used to UPDATE this damn thing.

and your narcissism is too intense, philosophical and critical to merit any grim diagnosis!

vogdoid January 12 2009, 23:42:13 UTC

dude your paintings are wonderful. when I have a better house I want to buy one.

thx! danschank January 12 2009, 23:43:27 UTC

dude your avatar is wonderful!

mistercreepy January 13 2009, 00:13:55 UTC

i created a workblog specifically to avoid narcissism and encourage actual critique over wow that's awesome, you're awesome! comments, which are great as well...

danschank January 13 2009, 00:48:27 UTC

i encourage actual critique... mostly i just post b/c i know people will SEE things here. not that i don't <3 the support. i think - all things considered - that there's plenty of actual debate around here, even if the actual art posts tilt towards the positive?

reubenwork January 13 2009, 01:05:55 UTC

agreed

purejuice January 13 2009, 00:23:01 UTC

all i can think of these days, since the crash, is this exhibit of which i have one of the catalogs somewhere around here and i need to dig it out and read it. between bites of manchester, england, in the time of dickens/gaskell/engels.

http://www.shrinkingcities.com/detroit0.0.html?&L=1

this is a perfect pic for what's really occupying my head.

gaskell on insta netflix, very very good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_and_South_(2004_mini-series)

danschank January 13 2009, 01:09:46 UTC

that show looks pretty interesting. it's funny - my work used to be more explicitly about the suburbs and sprawl and stuff like that, and maybe a bit of that language is working its way back in? it's interesting how things like peak oil (if it's viable as a concept) and the economic crash add a different sort of urgency to the idea of sustainability.