Reflections From a Murky Pond

Unfortunately, especially in any artistic endeavor that is anything approaching dystopian, the anti-mimesis put forth by Oscar Wilde in 1889, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life,” is wrong. In those cases life doesn’t imitate art, it actively upstages it. 🙁

But, on what must be declared to pass as the bright side, it does provide strong evidence for the Divine. There must be at least one God, because no truly random universe could be so consistently pernicious.

Tags: Anti-Mimensis | Art | Dystopia | Humor | Irony | Life | Mimensis | Society

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 21st, 2023 at 7:30 am and is filed under Humor, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

See? All it takes to turn smut into art is to make it black and white. 😆 It’s like that, at least where photography is concerned. You just have to desaturate your porn and it becomes artistic. Play with the focus, sharpness, and contrast, and it could even end up in a gallery. 😉

Tags: Art | Babes | Beauty | Humor | Photography | Porn | Sarcasm | Smut

This entry was posted on Monday, May 15th, 2023 at 9:30 am and is filed under Art, Humor. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Yeah, it’s true. She’s a bit narcissistic, but that’s both OK and understandable. She’s more than quite cute and quite beautiful as well. A bit – or more than a bit – of self-love seems appropriate to me. 😉

But, what’s sad is how few, especially among the younger Millennials and Gen Z won’t get the humor in this. Since actually teaching classical art is now “racist,” not many under 45 are going to recognize this work as a riff upon- or homage to Carvaggio’s “Narcissus.” Even worse, since they’ve also decided that teaching Greek history and mythology is “racist,” the broken, younger generations don’t even have the education to know who Narcissus was!

Tags: Art | Babes | Beauty | Carvaggio | Humor | Narcissism | Narcissus | Society

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 at 11:30 am and is filed under Art, Humor, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 9:00 am and is filed under Art, Humor. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Iconic World Star Wars 2 (WSWII) Ships

Picture, if you will, Star Wars set in an alternate WW2 world. I, at least, find that a very cool fantasy, at least somewhat because of the extreme innovation attempts that were made during and immediately after WW2 in the field of aviation. That adds a certain specialness to the artworks above.

Tags: Art | Movies | Planes | Sci-Fi | Society | Star Wars

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 21st, 2023 at 5:00 am and is filed under Art, Movies. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.