Tom Hendricks's Blog – June 2012 Archive (7)

POST MODERN ART: This page is all about the new art movement.

My goal is to get painting out of the Ivory Towers and back into the world.

Conceptual art ended MODERN ART. And for the last 40 years no one has known what to do with it!

VIDEOS

Snake Oil

The Snake Oil art piece both clamps down on one type of art while opening the door to another.…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

We are still talking about painters. This one is talking to us with this quote: Name the quoter.

"Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.”

IS

Marcel Duchamp.

I had no correct eligible answers.…

Lots of new stuff on the Musea blog from the zine vaults. If you missed seeing them in print Musea, you can see them here. They include: My First 50 Youtube Videos - directory, Idea of an ART Olympics, essay on how we are experiencing, The World's First (collective) Culture; Guide to Best TV Comedies, year by year from 1947-2000; the long poem, Rock and Roll Doesn't Rock No More, Ten Tips for Musicians, guide to Best Children's Illustrators, guide to 100 Best Novels of All Time, Cogitology,…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Picasso was our most prolific painter by far. But who was our second most

prolific painter? Clue, we are still in France.

IS

Pierre-Auguste Renoir with about 6,000 paintings! Surprised? I was too.

[Personal note, I may be in the top 10 with over 5,600 works from 40 years of work.

http://tinyurl.com/38a5txu ]

I had no correct eligible answers. Seems like…

Poems written in June 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1.

at night

the window's dark

waiting... waiting...

for the sun.

2.

I jump around

from stone to stone

pretty black rocks

in a sea of blue

3. [Intro to Children's Short Story Poem]

I woke up sweating

and shivering too

my library book

was overdue

I know what you're thinking

'How could you…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

In every album I make, I try to have at least one "BIG" song. That's a song that builds from a quiet and simple start to a very dramatic ending. 'Peace Sign' is my 6-TH's album's big song. It ends with the longest held note on any of my recordings. When I was done, I had to repeat it 2 more times for the background vocals!!! The song is about peace songs that I loved in the late 60's. 4 are mentioned or quoted from or…

Zinesters, and readers of Musea,

Please go to:

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html

This week, my song is at #14. It's now in the top 20 of over 3,000 songs on the Neil Young Protest Song Chart. "AOL Can Go And Tank Tomorrow".

Click on it and help me get it to #1 in the country.

Then click a few more times for extra support. Thanks.

Tom Hendricks

(editor of the 19 year old zine…