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Whistleblower As difficult as telling the truth may seem, it's nothing compared to the private hell of burying it - especially when lives hang in the balance.

Courage is freedom. Do the right thing.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#Dr. Donald Soeken #Betsy Ashton #Donna Hanover

Breathe Sometimes bad news hits you from out of nowhere. How you react and respond determines the extent of the damage. Think things through; calm your emotions. Do not succumb to the instinctive, knee-jerk response. Find your center.

#it gets better

Lynda Carter Ad from the Lynda Carter ad campaign I created for my company, Lens Express. 30 years later, I have even bigger goals in mind.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#Lynda Carter

Rhonda, Don Shula, and myself in 1993.

#vintage days

My parents on their wedding day. A lovely photo.

- Dr. Joseph Seriani

#the 1940s

Illness When you have the will to survive, and things to live for, you can overcome almost anything.

To an extent.

Dr. Joe Seriani

#life goes on

Barriers Shatter barriers in your life. Do not allow any form of prejudice to taint your perception of the immediate now. It's amazing what you can discover when you get out of your own way.

- Dr. Joseph Seriani

#the immediate now

Lost How many phone numbers do you remember these days? Even remembering your own can be a challenge when we're tethered to devices that tell us all we need to know and tuck away things that aren't immediately valuable/parsable.

When these devices are missing, though, what do we do? The inner workings have been abstracted for so long; our minds are no longer equipped to recall.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#technology

New Sincerity Postmodern irony isn't exactly dead. The push for sincerity remains a bit saccharine for the modern palette. It is no surprise; a great number of teens these days are 90s revivalists. Still, the borders of what David Foster Wallace termed "corrosive irony" are being pushed into new, opposite territory, and this coexistence is enriching art, science, and relationships between persons and cultures.

It's a great time to be alive.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#confusion gives way to enlightenment #be everything all at once

Fertile Mind

Throw caution/organization/fear/perfectionism to the wind and create! Make the broad strokes while your muse is speaking!

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#abstract

Strange Portrait

- Dr. Joe Seriani

Nativity To crudely paraphrase Gordon Downie: when the ancient slams into the transient, confusion ensues. Reality disappears into dots.

- Dr. Joseph Seriani

#pixel art

Apple Tree Spiral

Back in my Joesph Serian days, I owned a restaurant/nightclub/jazz lounge in Ohio called the Apple Tree. Had some fun with an old photo of it.

This photo employs the Droste effect; the image contains several smaller versions of itself as it is replicated while falling into the spiral. Theoretically, this could continue forever, but the technical limitations of raster art (as opposed to vectors or the advanced scripting behind animated fractals) cause the fifth recursion to degrade into pixel soup.

Droste was a brand of hot chocolate popular in the Netherlands; its box bore a picture of a woman serving a box of Droste, which in turn had a picture of the same woman serving a box of Droste, ad infinitum.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#Droste effect

Tumor Uncertainty. Quiet terror. Flashes of panic. Hopefully we make it to the other side intact.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#never succumb to despair

Oculus What lies beyond the vanishing point? Nobody knows for sure. For some, this is maddening. For me, this is the spice that keeps life interesting.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#art #oculus #the vanishing point

To Stop Running Sometimes it seems like we speed through life. Even with my businesses and altruistic endeavors in full swing, I need to slow down a bit more and re-energize.

This painting represents this realization, and demonstrates my plea for tranquility.

- Dr. Joe Seriani

#watercolor #tranquility #art

Quick Orchestral Mockup

Quick mockup for an animated promotional video. Going to the studio to finish this up this weekend. - Dr. Joe Seriani

#audio #orchestral

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