Art: Don’t Look Now!

This is the latest version of a print I’ve been working on that’s loosely based on my Yellow Plastic Raygun film. I printed what I thought was my final version on a large canvas and looked at it for several weeks until I decided that it was timid and boring. So I went back to work and tried to let loose with the image and not worry about mooring the thing in some kind of reality. So this is what I’ve got to show for the effort. I like it much better this way.

I also renamed it from Don’t Turn Back to Don’t Look Now!

Here are the first two versions of the print.

Picture Book by Terry Bisson and Rudy Rucker

Billy’s Picture Book by Terry Bisson, a collection of jarringly twisted short stories for adult children, has a set of illustrations by Rudy Rucker.  The stories follow one precocious Billy through the harrowing and sickening ordeal of being a kid.  If your kid has a mind that is easily warped or disturbed or if your kid is just plain crazy, don’t read these stories to them!  But if your kid has a casual interest in murder and mayhem, well this might be just the book for the little monster.

The book is available as a free e-book and as a paperback for purchase.

Painter: Andrew Abbott

One of my favorite sites is The Rumpus, an online culture magazine that covers literature, art, film, politics, sex, comics, music and generally excellent and useful ideas.  One of their writers, Julie Greicius, did a piece on a painter I’ve never seen before: Andrew Abbott.  I really liked his paintings as soon as I saw them.  They are harsh and beautiful at the same time.  I have no idea how much they cost or anything like that.  Probably a lot.  They’re really good and I imagine they are hanging in a lot of fancy living rooms right at this moment.

But his web site is plenty of fun for me and this guy can paint like some serious business.

Go visit Andrew Abbott’s paintings.