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[photos|art] Me at the JayCon afterparty

Me at the JayCon afterparty.

Posted: 5:34 am Mon June 17 2013 | Comments(10) |

[photos|art] Austin’s Foundations

While we were in Austin, Donnie Reynolds took Dad, Lisa Costello and me to the Foundations in Austin, Texas. [ Google Maps ]

I remember this abandoned condo complex project from when I lived there, but at the time it was just a concrete maze on the side of a hill. Now, though, it is a graffiti park.

Lisa and Dad standing in Baylor Street facing the graffiti walls

The view from Baylor Street, with the old Texas Military Institute castle rising behind it

Another street view

The castle rising above the walls like a post-apocalyptic fortress

Lisa is fearless

One of the foundation pits

An off-angle view of the walls and pits

Frogger!

The dudes

Blue man smoking

Welcome to Austin

Jumble

Stephen Hawking, hero

As usual, more at the Flickr set.

This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tags: Art, Family, friends, Photos, radiantlisa, Texas

Posted: 4:30 am Tue March 12 2013 | Comments(5) |

[art] Found photos of the Wall, from Mainspring

Reader (and musician) Luke Atencio yesterday sent me these glorious found photos of the Wall, from my Mainspring cycle.

It’s wonderful to see that intrepid readers have been able to send back images from my world. This might be one of the coolest things anyone has ever sent me. Thank you, Luke.

Tags: Art, Cool, Fiction, Mainspring, Photos

Posted: 5:40 am Sat March 02 2013 | Comments(2) |

[art] Paintings of me and The Child

John R. White, author of Tales of the Airship Neverland, made some paintings of me and the_child. This is a four-panel work, drawn from existing photos of us.

Youth

The Fight

Life

Legacy

I am very moved. Thank you, John.

Tags: Art, Cancer, friends, health, Personal, Photos

Posted: 8:12 am Sun February 24 2013 | Comments(25) |

[art] The Child makes Christmas cards

These were on some of the_child‘s gifts to various family members. I adore them.

My card, accompanying a framed photo she’d taken, developed, and pulled an archival print of; in my case an extreme closeup of a car tire

Mother of the Child’s card, accompanying a handmade beaten and cut copper bracelet

My sister’s card, accompanying a framed photo she’d taken, developed, and pulled an archival print of

Lisa Costello‘s card, accompany a very nice scarf

Dad’s card, with a handmade wooden puzzle

The Niece’s card, with a very nice Cross fountain pen she had coveted

My (step)mother’s card, with a handcrafted beaten copper bowl the_child had made herself

tillyjane‘s card, with an illustrated Chinese cookbook and a request for lessons in Chinese cookery

There has been discussion of her opening a card shop on Etsy. I am so proud of her.

Tags: Art, Child, Family, radiantlisa

Posted: 9:26 am Thu December 27 2012 | Comments(16) |

[writing|art] I’d like to write a story on your arm

So I’m thinking about an art-fiction project. Somebody would have to be very chill to collaborate on this with me, so I don’t know it if would work out, but here goes.

I want to write a fairly surreal piece of short fiction, something on the far tilted end of New Weird. And I’d like to publish it by having it tattooed as a full sleeve on someone’s arm. I envision the words spiraling down from the shoulder to the elbow to the wrist.

The really hard part is I’d like to encode something a lot shorter by having every 7th or 10th or 14th word be red in the tattoo, and have the red words constitute a micro fiction embedded within the main story.

I don’t know if I could get anyone to commit to this — that’s a lot of needle time, and a lot of spend with the tattoo artist, which I can’t afford to underwrite these days — but I think it would be cooler than hell.

Tags: Art, weird, Writing

Posted: 4:28 am Wed May 16 2012 | Comments(2) |

[art] Dreaming Cat, by the Child

the_child made a get well card for Lizzy Shannon (who’s recently had surgery), and I loved the picture she drew so much I asked her permission to put it on my blog. She told me not until Lizzy had seen the card first. Well, card has been delivered, and so now the rest of you get to enjoy the image.