Band Recreates Famous Paintings in Music Video

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

This painting has nothing to do with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richrd Prince, Larry Gagosian or Jerry Saltz (but maybe Google will find it now)

This painting has nothing to do with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richrd Prince, Larry Gagosian or Jerry Saltz (but maybe Google will find it now)~ Acrylic on Canvas - 60 x 72 inches

Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, Miles Flugelhorn and Rest In Jazz, Hank Jones

This was going to be a post about the DC area being a hotbed of jazz but with the death of Hank Jones, I'll let it be a tribute to Hank and his art.



Obit here via Washington Post





Some of the stuff caught in the last couple of weeks in the area.

Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra with Delores King Williams - Baird Auditorium - DC

Miles Davis's Flugelhorn at the Apollo exhibit



Louis Armstrong's trumpet


Apollo exhibit at the Musuem of American Art


Arron Park's band at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown MD




Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman take the Stage at the Weinberg Center in Frederick MD
A no photo policy prevented pix of this but here is a video that gives a favor of how it sounded.

Donald Harrison at Bohemian Caverns - DC

Even jazz at Jojos on U St while eating a burger...

Art Trip's Identification Card

Due to the scepticism that Art Trip is an actual person and not some lame persona in the spirt of Rrose Sélavy, I present my ID card as proof that Art Trip is in fact real (not bad looking for a 90 year old, I might add). I just don't understand what in my bio people find so unbelievable.

Everything you always wanted to know about color

Interesting for kind of funny in a geeky kind of way. Blog post from xkcd

Scene with Invisible Abstraction (San Diego) II- An Art Trip Painting

Scene with Invisible Abstraction (San Diego) II ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches

More paintings here

Visual Puns

More here via cracked.

God's Dropped Kleenex

The great thing about this 45-foot high structure is that it pretty much looks fake from any angle.

God Accidentally Clicked the "Desaturate" Button

"AAAAHHH! BOMBERS, AIM FOR THE BEARD! THAT'S HIS WEAKNESS!"

My Wife, The Elf

Great, Another Dimensional Portal

The World's Most Inconvenient Checkerboard