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John Kenn Mortensen

AKA Don Kenn. Found him while searching for Edward Gorey, I like his style, needed some inspiration for some illustrations of my own. He's amazing. Find a few of his illustrations below (drawn upon post-it notes), with links to more at the end...

Unfortunately, this is the kind of inspiration a first year art student gets by visiting the Louvre or National Gallery and laying down his/her brushes forever. This is impossible to compete with. And, is it just me, or do a few of his illustrations look positively Japanese?

If you like his work, (and he's very, very good), follow the links below:

  • Don Kenn Gallery on Blogspot
  • Don Kenn on Tumblr
  • John Kenn Mortensen on Instagram

The yellowish background, btw, is because he draws these on post-it notes. Yep.

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Category: Other
Created: 26 November 2016
  • Art,
  • monsters,
  • Don Kenn,
  • John Kenn Mortensen,
  • Gorey,

Eric Andre

Do these people not know what they're getting themselves into? Actually, clearly a lot of them don't, and therein lies the joy and spontaneity...

That said, there's a peculiar stoner-brilliance to his schtick...

Link: Eric Andre Interviewing

  • Jillian Michaels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTGpBdVtf4s
  • Jack Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAiyDrgcRKo
  • Jack MacBrayer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqFg0autvM8

Read the wiki on him - apparently he credits his success to Transcendental Meditation. Who would have guessed?

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Category: Other
Created: 29 October 2016
  • Eric Andre,
  • Adult Swim,

Black Mirror - Season 2

Finished season 1, took forever, only 3 episodes, but uncomfortable, edgy, good - excellent even, the future just left of the present.

Season 2, beginning, episode 1, about a woman who's husband/lover passes away, then discovers she's pregnant, and discovers a beta program that uses the sum of his online presence - videos, etc - to recreate a bot in his image...

I've thought of this ... a lot, a sort of digital afterworld, online Valhalla, Brooker has clearly thought it through...riveted...will his conclusions equal my own? 

Back to the show...

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In the end, not what I had imagined, but no worse, possibly better...

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Category: Other
Created: 18 October 2016
  • Black Mirror,

Doug Stanhope

OK. Discovered this. He's Edgy. I mean by that too edgy for American media, but he seems to have a following in the UK. Which is fair, we've given the UK free reign to criticize the US. Think John Oliver. I like him, but really, if America is so fucked up, why are you here? Are things that much better where you came from? Care to tell us about it? Don't worry, I know...I know...

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Links: http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/doug-stanhope-comedys-greatest-outlier/

If you like him there's a lot more.

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Category: Other
Created: 06 August 2016
  • Comedy,
  • Doug Stanhope,
  1. Alone S02E09 - The Madness
  2. Prospector Porn
  3. A new phone
  4. The Gopher Hole Museum - Torrington

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