Tag: art
In the winter of 1879, a 23-year-old John Singer Sargent stood in the Prado, copying Las Meninas (below). The master’s canvas was nearly ten feet tall and had been hanging in that room for over two hundred years, dimmed by varnish and lampblack. Sargent struggled to understand how an artist who was deceased since 1660...
New Friends From TezCon 2026
When I drove away from my home, my wife, and our cats last week to begin a solo trip cross-country, I felt a mixture of...
Flippy The Laserdisc Turtle
…or when I take passing toots far too seriously. https://youtu.be/IvqzBQIVMwc I am not really a LaserDisc person! Largely the extent of my LaserDisc experience was during the mid to late nineties when a then *ahem* close friend *ahem* had a relatively small collection of films stashed away on the things. Well. One of their family...
Robot Monster (Comic Strip)
Robot Monster is one of my favourite films to chill out to and this is one of the scenes in the film I love the most. I took a few liberties in giving The Great One and Ro-Man a bit of a spookier appearance but I didn’t want to shift too far from the pretty...
Flying Saucers (Comic Book)
Again with the spaceships, this time I wanted to try my hand at some comic-y looking flying saucers (comic as in media, not hahaha). They’re pretty blatantly styled around the Forbidden Planet saucer because, well, the Forbidden Planet saucer is one of the best flying saucers ever committed to film. I also wanted the window...
TezCon Exists Because We Said It Would
I didn’t notice the birds at Harry Reid.
hasharium
Identities, given form. A browser-based cabinet of deterministic shapes generated from decentralised identifiers.
‘Music From the Big House’ Frees Blues, Soul and Gospel from the Walls of Angola Prison
Standouts include a version of Lead Belly’s hit “Midnight Special” led by filmmaker Rita Chiarelli and an incarcerated band.
#oneaday Day 768: Sketchin'
I've been meaning to get back to doing stupid little doodles on posts for ages, but have just never... well, to be honest, I just haven't really been bothered to. Best to be honest about these things, and it's been nice seeing the stock images that kind and talented people from around the world have...
‘ART’icle of The Month
Every month, I look forward to going and searching the key phrase tezARTicle on X, followed by a tried and true...
A Timely Remix of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ Out of a New York Prison
The Capitol riots angered Sing Sing’s Alfred Roberts. He responded with his version of what is widely known as the Black national anthem.
TezCon 2026 Is Growing Near
When I wrote the first TezCon 2026 article back in April, the event was still taking shape.
can't stop crediting
before i get into my bullshit about the 2003 music video for red hot chili peppers' single can't stop, a disclaimer: my childhood doesn't come with many positive experiences, but one of the few was how my dad (unserious, cultured, immature king) would call me into the house from playing outside because there was a music video on vh1 that he needed me to watch. the one time i didn't want to come inside to watch 'billy jean' for the 100th time is probably the most disappointed he's ever been with ...
Everything I Could Lose
A meditation on a painting of a man sitting in a cold blue room, ignoring a warm open doorway across the floor — and why we so often choose the familiar dark over the unknown light.
Ear Hustle’s Antwan Banks Williams Goes Deep on ‘Like Father, Like Son’
Two years after the podcast’s co-creator’s dad died, he used hip-hop to celebrate their bond.
Cats street art
In the center of The Hague you can find a small street called "Achterom" with a lot of street art centered around cats. It's a narrow street, so not easy to picture the cats. Best view is when simply walking through the street, but hereby some of the pics I made. Pictures are made with...
The ‘ART’icle of The Month
I went to check and was pleasantly surprised by the rise in nominations for the ‘ART’icle of the Month, and five names...
The San Quentin Prison Album That Should Have Been a Classic
Ike White’s “Changin’ Times” spans soul, rock, pop and jazz. On its 50th anniversary, it’s finally getting its due.