 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
–Karel Reisz |
 Hollow 2 |
Tag: Muse in the Morning
Dec 29 2010
Muse in the Morning
Dec 28 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
–Noam Chomsky |
 Hollow 1 |
Dec 24 2010
Muse in the Morning: Holiday Adornment Edition
 Holiday Adornment 1 |
I promised the community that when I had more information about my surgery on Monday, I would share it. So I’m going to do that while also sharing some digital graphics I created the past several days intended to evoke some holiday festivity.
Maybe they’ll call forth some other emotion in you, but I have no control over that. Whenever any of us experiences art, what the viewer imagines is mostly out of the control of the artist. We can try to steer your emotions, but it’s awfully chancy. I don’t even know if you all experience the same colors I see when a piece is finished.
Anyway, I’ve been told to arrive at Hackensack University Medical Center at 6:30 am for an 8:30am surgery. I asked how long I would be in the hospital and the office assistant is under the impression that this is outpatient surgery, which is a surprise to me and freaks Debbie out a bit. But I shall try my best to keep her calm. I told her that I would not permit them to perform the wrong surgery on Monday (this group of surgeons performs lap-band operations for most of what they do, but do other stomach surgeries as well…and this guy who is operating on me is the only surgeon who has performed the procedure I am having who also takes my insurance (Oxford)).
Dec 23 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
–John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
 Decoration 1 |
Dec 22 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
–Henry David Thoreau |
 Glyph 11 |
Dec 21 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
–Colin Wilson |
 Glyph 10 |
Dec 17 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
–Mignon McLaughlin |
 Glyph 7 |
Dec 16 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
–Antonio Porchia |
 Glyph 6 |
Dec 15 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity.
–Bill Vaughan |
 Glyph 5 |
Dec 14 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
–Robert Ingersoll |
 Glyph 4 |
Dec 13 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
–S.I. Hayakawa |
 Glyph 3 |
Dec 10 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.
–Daniel Knode |
 Glyph 1 |