08 April 2012

Easter Chef d'Oeufres


Last year I decided to spend some extra time on Easter egg painting. Logically I painted some eggs as famous artworks. Here they are. As you can see, I got a bit lazy somewhere around Warhol and Picasso.

Son of Man, Magritte

Composition, Mondrian

Starry Night, Van Gogh

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, Lautrec

The Scream, Munch

Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies, Monet

The Old Guitarist, Picasso

Velvet Underground Cover, Warhol

02 April 2012

Basement Finds: Photo Slides of Lithuania, Venice, and Berlin 1970-1990.

A few years ago I found a few boxes of slides in my grandmother's basement. From what I gathered, my father (the curly-haired one, as you'll see) likely took the photos during his somewhat younger days in Venice, East Berlin only a year before the fall of the wall, and Soviet Lithuania.

I plugged an old soviet slide projector into a socket one small spark away from total catastrophe and went through every one. Unfortunately, I had no time to get the slides scanned, so I did what was logically the next best thing:


 I stuck a white pillowcase to the wall with safety pins, projected the slides onto it, and took photos with my camera. Some turned out reasonably well. Here they are.


































01 April 2012

Chronological Survey of the Opening Chords of Eroica



An interesting youtube find- chronologically assembled opening chords of Beethoven's Eroica (Symphony No. 3). Differences are likely largely due to qualities of recording equipment but are interesting regardless.

Wish there were more of these.