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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1303

first posted in facebook april 24, 2024

m.p. alladin -- "limbo dancers" (ca. 1975)

"every limbo boy and girl all around the limbo world gonna do the limbo rock all around the limbo clock

jack be limbo, jack be quick jack go under limbo stick all around the limbo clock hey, let's do the limbo rock

limbo lower now limbo lower now how low can you go?

first you spread your limbo feet then you move to limbo beat limbo ankle, limbo knee bend back like a limbo tree

jack be limbo, jack be quick jack go under limbo stick all around the limbo clock hey, let's do the limbo rock

get yourself a limbo girl give that chick a limbo whirl there's a limbo moon above you will fall in limbo love

jack be limbo, jack be quick jack go under limbo stick all around the limbo clock hey, let's do the limbo rock" … kal mann

"you should see … my little bro you should see my … my little bro he can really do the limbo do the limbo jimbo" … al janik

#m.p. alladin #limbo dancers #limbo rock #jack be limbo #my little bro #jimbo #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1302

first posted in facebook april 22, 2024

yanni tsarouchis -- "youth asleep by the sea" (1965)

"my painting is nourished by solitude and silence, or at least so i dream it will be, and i always appreciated silent people. silence, whether we make it ourselves or whether others make it, is the best accompaniment for a work of art" … yanni tsarouchis

"hello darkness, my old friend i've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while i was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within … the sound … of silence" … paul simon

"it was also in the mid-1930s when [yanni tsarouchis] began painting male nudes and portraits, depicted against the backdrop of actual interiors, that went against the grain of the heteronormative pictorial traditions of the period" … krzysztof kościuczuk

"sssshhhh" … al janik

#yanni tsarouchis #youth asleep by the sea #solitude and silence #work of art #paul simon #the sound of silence #male nudes #krzysztof kościuczuk #sssshhhh #al things considered #sleeping

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1301

first posted in facebook april 19, 2024

niko pirosmani -- "little girl with a balloon" (ca. 1900s)

"a hat's not a hat till it's tilted" … sammy cahn

“new wisdom pierced his wond’ring brain; he saw the world with different eyes, he saw it smile, he heard it speak, he knew the meaning of its sighs. all things that breathed or lived had tongue, held converse soft in language strange" … vazha pshavela (pirosmani's favorite poet)

"darkness at the break of noon shadows even the silver spoon the handmade blade, the child's balloon eclipses both the sun and moon to understand you know too soon there is no sense in trying" … bob dylan

"a balloon's not a balloon if it's quilted" … al janik

#niko pirosmani #little girl with a balloon #sammy cahn #a hat #tilted #vazha pshavela #wisdom #language strange #bob dylan #the child's balloon #quilted #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1300

first posted in facebook april 17, 2024

brett whitely -- "the balcony 2" (1975)

"painting is an argument between what it looks like and what it means" … brett whitely

"now, i been in jail when all my mail showed that a man can’t give his address out to bad company and now i stand here lookin’ at your yellow railroad in the ruins of your balcony wond’ring where you are tonight, sweet marie" … bob dylan

"but soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" … romeo

"posting is an agreement beyond what something reads like and what it doesn't mean" … al janik

#brett whitely #the blacony 2 #painting #argument #what it means #bob dylan #the ruins of your balcony #romeo #william shakespeare #what light through younder window breaks #posting #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1299

first posted in facebook april 15, 2024

corneliu baba -- "field rest" (1954)

"take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop" … ovid

"lay down your weary tune, lay down lay down the song you strum and rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings no voice can hope to hum" … bob dylan

"hmmmmmm" … al janik

#corneliu baba #field rest #ovid #take rest #bob dylan #rest yourself #weary tune #hum #hmmmmmm #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1298

first posted in facebook april 8, 2024

firelei báez -- "on rest and resistance, because we love you (to all those stolen from among us)" (2020)

"i try to bring both the sting and the honey when i deliver information" … firelei báez

"the world is full of painful stories. sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet i found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees" … octavia e. butler

"i think of opacity as, not necessarily armor, but as an assurance of a fuller self—that you can traverse the world without having to constantly pick up your entrails" … firelei báez

"we know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. we cry our cry of poetry. our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone" … édouard glissant

"that’s all anybody can do right now. live. hold out. survive. i don’t know whether good times are coming back again. but i know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times" … octavia e. butler

"i try to sting both the bring and deliver when i honey information" … al janik

#firelei báez #on rest and resistance #because we love you (to all those stolen from among us) #the sting and the honey #octavia e. butler #painful stories #opacity #édouard glissant #as part and as crowd #survive #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1297

first posted in facebook april 4, 2024

józef mehoffer -- "zinnias" (1911)

"many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers" … margaret atwood

"this charm is wasted on the earth and sky, tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being; why thou wert there, o rival of the rose!" … ralph waldo emerson

"hey hon! i'm done with the zinnias … it still needs something though … can you take off your clothes and let me paint your butt into this painting?" … al janik (pretending to be józef mehoffer)

#józef mehoffer #zinnias #margaret atwood #flowers #ralph waldo emerson #the rose #your butt #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1296

first posted in facebook april 2, 2024

patricia thaxton -- "auntie gave me the juicy juice" (2011)

"(i only gave my children 100% juice.) 'gerald … where’d you get that juicy juice?'" … patricia thaxton

"i plan it all and i take my place you break your promise all over the place you promised to love me, but what do i see just you comin’ and spillin’ juice over me odds and ends, odds and ends lost time is not found again" … bob dylan

"i love the freedom i have with mixed media collage. along my journey, i discovered the elements that fascinate me: texture, color and depth connect each work of art in my collection. several pieces were inspired by images i’ve collected from newspapers, ads, magazines, and photos that i’ve taken through the ages. i enjoy capturing the culture within and around our daily lives" … patricia thaxton

"don't cry over spilled juicy juice" … al janik

#patricia thaxton #auntie gave me the juicy juice #100% juice #bob dylan #odds and ends #spillin' juice #lost time is not found again #mixed media #collage #daily lives #don't cry #spilled juicy juice #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1295

first posted in facebook march 30, 2024

nicolae vermont -- "reading" (1919)

"the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid" … jane austen

"… but for my own part, if a book is well written, i always find it too short" … jane austen

"i declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! how much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- when i have a house of my own, i shall be miserable if i have not an excellent library" … jane austen

"give her a book, and she will read all day long … happy birthmonth kathryn" ... al janik

#nicolae vermont #reading #jane austen #a good novel #intolerably stupid #too short #a book #an excellent library #birthmonth #kathryn #al things considered #enjoyment

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1294

first posted in facebook march 27, 2024

fritz winter -- "rot vor blau" [i.e., red before blue] (1966)

"every work is or ought to be a statement about the unknown" … fritz winter

"early one morning the sun was shining i was laying in bed wondering if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red" … bob dylan

"it is not a matter of showing what is there, but of revealing what is also there, because there is far more visible than we can see and far more audible than we can hear and far more there than we are ourselves" … fritz winter

"it is not a matter of me posting that her hair was, or was not, still red … it's more an unknown matter of wondering if she'd changed at all … or only at AL" … al janik

#fritz winter #rot vor blau #red before blue #the unknown #bob dylan #tangled up in blue #red hair #revealing #visible #audible #an unknown matter #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1293

first posted in facebook march 26, 2024

robert williams -- "hot rod" (1976)

"my paintings are not designed to entertain you; they are meant to trap you, to hold you before them while you try to rationalize what elements of the picture are making you stand there" … robert williams

"now me and my wife and brother joe took off in a port from san pedro didn't have much gas and the tires were low but the doggone ford could really go along about the middle of the night we's rippin' along like plain folks might when a mercury behind, he blinked his lights he honked his horn and he flew out of sight" … george wilson

"my pappy said, 'son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod lincoln' have you heard this story of the hot rod race when fords and lincolns was settin' the pace that story is true, i'm here to say i was drivin' that model A" … charlie ryan

"… we both know-oh-oh the way it's gonna go-oh-oh in the same way maybe i'm not all that you thought and we don't move-oo-oove like we used to do-oo-oo in the same way maybe you're not such a hot rod" … dayglow [i.e., sloan struble]

"my posts are not designed to entertain you … they are meant to trap you … cuz no one messes ... with the lombard boys" … al janik

#robert williams #hot rod #george wilson #hot rod race #charlie ryan #hot rod lincoln #dayglow #sloan struble #lombard boys #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1292

first posted in facebook march 25, 2024

tetsuya ishida -- "a man can't fly anymore" (1996)

"the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it" … peter pan

"at first, it was a self-portrait. i tried to make myself—my weak self, my pitiful self, my anxious self—into a joke or something funny that could be laughed at. it was sometimes seen as a parody or satire referring to contemporary people. as i continued to think about this, i expanded it to include consumers, city-dwellers, workers, and the japanese people" … tetsuya ishida

"… it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little" … franz kafka

"the moment we doubt that we can swim, we sink like a stone to the bottom" … al janik

#tetsuya ishida #a man can't fly anymore #peter pan #flying #self-portrait #japanese people #franz kafka #the sun #swim #sink like a stone #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1291

first posted in facebook march 19, 2024

giovanni segantini -- "un bacio alla fontana" [i.e., a kiss at the fountain] (no date)

"elisabeth stood beside me in front of a large painting by segantini and she was totally engrossed in contemplation" … herman hesse

"i live in rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. the sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them" … simon van booy

"the fountains mingle with the river, and the rivers with the ocean; the winds of heaven mix forever, with a sweet emotion; nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one another's being mingle:— why not i with thine?

see! the mountains kiss high heaven, and the waves clasp one another; no sister flower would be forgiven if it disdained its brother; and the sunlight clasps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea:— what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?" … percy bysshe shelley

"take these unsightly flowers, these violets, as a symbol of my great love, when a spring comes in which i fail to send you such violets, you will no longer find me among the living" … giovanni segantini

"she lit a burner on the stove and offered me a beer 'i thought you'd never say hello,' she said 'you looked so bashful, dear' then she opened up a book of paintings and handed it to me drawn by an italian painter from the 19th century" … al janik

#giovanni segantini #un bacio alla fontana #a kiss at the fountain #elisabeth #herman hesse #peter camenzind #simon van booy #kiss #rome #love #percy bysshe shelley #kissings #if thou kiss not me #flowers #among the living #italian #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1290

first posted in facebook march 17, 2024

percival everett -- "wyatt outlaw" (2021)

"these works came into being over a period of two years, starting in 2019 when i began work on my novel 'the trees.' it was the one century anniversary of the red summer, a summer that saw so many lynchings in the united states, that sadly has been repeated recently, that led to these paintings and the novel" … percival everett

"wyatt outlaw (1820 – february 26, 1870) was an american politician and the first african-american to serve as town commissioner and constable of the town of graham, north carolina. he was lynched by the white brotherhood, a branch of the ku klux klan on february 26, 1870" … wikipedia

"naming is germane to these paintings by everett, a selection from a show called 'once seen,' which act as a companion to everett’s 2021 novel 'the trees.' the works are titled after american lynching victims … using oils, watercolors, and photographs, everett collages these figures back into existence. his highly physical compositions—punctuated by turns with joyous or violent color—make fresh the damning facet of american history to which these men have been forever and unfairly yoked" … eugenia bell

"you should know i consider police shootings to be lynchings" … percival everett

"not HIStory, but OURstory 101" … al janik

#percival everett #wyatt outlaw #the trees #lynchings in the united states #african american #north carolina #ku klux klan #white brotherhood #wikipedia #once seen #police shootings #ourstory #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1289

first posted in facebook march 15, 2024

philemona williamson -- "red buckled shoes" (2017)

"i paint figures depicting individuals of varying ethnicities inhabiting timeless, invented, dream-like environments, i probe the psychological landscape of adolescence, blurring the lines between race, gender, and class" … philemona williamson

"oh i used to be disgusted and now i try to be amused. but since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes" … elvis costello

"my paintings are of pre-adolescent girls and boys, children on the cusp of adulthood. the figures struggle to balance their innocence and awkwardness with their newfound sexuality" … philemona williamson

"one, two, buckle my shoe" … old nursery rhyme

"three more at the door chopsticks, basket of tricks seven ate, nothing on the plate ten eleven, my blue heaven molly and me, baby makes three" … old al janik

#philemona williamson #red buckled shoes #dream-like #adolescence #blurring lines #race gender and class #elvis costello #the angels wanna wear my red shoes #innocence #angels #newfound sexuality #one two buckle my shoe #my blue heaven #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1288

first posted in facebook march 14, 2024

ottone rosai -- "man waiting" (1919)

"i am waiting, i am waiting oh yeah, oh yeah i am waiting, i am waiting oh yeah, oh yeah waiting for someone to come out of somewhere waiting for someone to come out of somewhere" … mick jagger

"… as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened" … marguerite duras

"i am posting, i am posting oh no, oh no i am posting, i am posting oh no, oh no posting for someone to come in from nowhere posting for someone to come in from nowhere" … al janik

#ottone rosai #man waiting #i am waiting #mick jagger #marguerite duras #nothing happens #memory is cursed #i am posting #nowhere #al things considered

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1287

first posted in facebook march 11, 2024

eugene de blaas -- "the yellow shawl" (pre-1931)

"the very essence of romance is uncertainty" … oscar wilde

"my shawl, pretty lady, try it on you, by my shawl, spun in magic, wishes come true. it's glory, with the story of love dreams, old but new my shawl brings a romance, maybe for you. try it on you, try it on you, my shawl" … stanley adams

"never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart" … charles dickens

"i wish, i wish, i wish, i wish, i wish, i wish" … al janik

#eugene de blaas #the yellow shawl #oscar wilde #romance #uncertainty #stanley adams #my shawl #try it on you #charles dickens #lips #heart #i wish #al things considered