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@theawetist
Art Sales and Commissions
Posters and Digital versions of my art are available in my ko-fi shop. Feel free to browse my gallery, too. Accepting one-off “tips” and regular monthly patronage.
Open for commissions. Portraits, landscapes, logos, cartoons, whimsy, more...
Traditional mediums, digital art, and hybrid art.
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A rare Johnny Flynn track, on the Bag of Hammers soundtrack. Absolutely beautiful.Not available on CD or digital yet but available to buy on Vinyl here: http...
One of Johnny Flynn’s oft-overlooked songs. So lush and gorgeous.
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
[text ID: I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.]
Oh my. Yes.
Rumble Fish. One of the most innovative films of its era. Fantastic performances from the entire cast, especially Mickey Rourke and Dennis Hopper. Matt Dillon was excellent as Rusty James. This youth-targeted arthouse film is worthy of so much more praise than it has ever gotten.
One of my paintings. Painted to a repeated loop of Sufjan Steven’s “Visions of Gideon” ~ not thematically nor lyrically related ~ but the sound resonance of the song is definitely a part of this painting. After the landscape was completed, I KNEW that a red kite wanted to appear in the painting but I was uncertain of its placing and how I would manifest the kite string. I thought for a while of putting a gold thread on there for the string but that eventually was discarded when I “saw”, in my mind’s eye, the way it wanted to come through. That process required me to sit in a paused state for some months, simply gazing at the painting and letting the final version of it reveal itself to me.
“Tethered”. Canvas primed with Himalayan pink salt, soil from Isle la Motte, Vermont, and gesso. Acrylics, oil pastels, gesso, and oil paint pen. Copyright ©2020, The Awetist aka Adam Auron Lodestone.
A post for Caturday! This was a pet portrait I completed for a friend, a few years ago. This rather regal fluffer was a pleasure to try to artistically interpret. Yes, I am accepting commissions. Details are in my pinned post.
World famous Jerry Rolls 2011 Yonder Mountain String Band Harvest Music Festival, interview by Jay Nash. Humor in this vid. Come for the music, stay for the ...
My good friend from Key West, “Falafel Louie”, who invented the Jerry Roll and served it up at countless Grateful Dead and Phish shows. The Jerry Roll is a huge vegetarian egg roll-like finger food that often-times had a psychedelic component to it. You had to request “the Special” in order to get that trippy version. Louie would never serve anyone a trip on a deep fried food without their explicit consent.
Something I randomly think about a lot is how when very old castles, manors, and large country estates were built, they were built with the expectation of guests. In eras when you rarely travelled over a hundred miles from home, when one did travel guests stayed for long periods of time with friends and relatives. Wealthy people would have guests in their home frequently (virtually all the time, if you were royalty), so huge houses (and staffs) accommodated for multiple guests on long stays. More homes were multi-generational, too.
And now when people live in big houses it’s usually just themselves. Maybe 4-6 in a family, and when the kids get married and move away? Maybe only 1 or two. Guests rarely “sleep over,” and almost never longer than a weekend. I don’t know exactly what caused the cultural shift, but it fascinates me.
Every time I read an old book and some young person “visits a friend in the countryside” for weeks or months I get emotional. Imagine if your friends had the resources to host you at their house for that long. And you would live there very like if it was your own home. Nowadays even if you do stay with friends or family, there’s usually events or activities intended to fill the time. Suppose if you just went to visit your friend for a month, and the two of you just read books or took walks together.
Crying a little
Whenever I have my place out in the country, I shall invite my friends to come visit in just this way.
sometimes I get so angry thinking about ‘The Imitation Game’ that I have to go in a little ‘upset big tantrum room’ in my head for a calm down
like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander
at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues
And. I. Am. So. Angry.
Alan Turing was described by his friends and people that knew him as “intensely shy and kindly”, he was said to “inspire loyalty and affection among those who appreciated his unusual gifts” and was “unfailingly generous with his time and expertise, especially toward younger recruits”
He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind
he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was
I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system
You are a hero that turned the tides of history like no other and I am so sorry
hey op if you’re looking for a kinder movie about alan turing, you should check out breaking the code (1996). breaking the code was originally a stage play, and this is a filmed adaptation. it’s more faithful to his personality, stars derek jacobi (who was also a gay man and plays the part with so much sympathy), and it doesn’t bungle historical details for the sake of adding more drama. here’s a link to a youtube playlist where you can watch it in full
He felt bad for the children who were stuck at bletchley park without their toys so he used spare paper from his office to make them a monopoly board by hand
He was also reported as having a goofy sense of humor where he used to make a show of saying goodbye to everyone at the party and then walk into the closet instead of out the front door
Plus, he was quoted as saying quips like “Beyond the way they speak, there is only one (no two!) features of American life which I find really tiresome. The impossibility of getting a bath in the ordinary sense and their ideas on room temperature.” — Alan Turing (1936)
He was a huge athlete and biked everywhere and sometimes ran the five miles to work every morning, and did things like calculate when his bike chain would break so he could keep riding the thing despite it being ancient
He was still “odd” according to his coworkers as he sometimes wore a gasmask to work to avoid spring allergies and used to chain his coffee mug up to avoid theft at the office, but the same colleagues described him as very friendly, open, and thoughtful as well if not shy.
and finally, of course, there was Porgy
He used to practice his Cambridge lectures in front of this stuffed bear he got in college named Porgy and was delighted when his mom sewed it a little outfit. He kept the bear with him throughout life.
i keep seeing this version without any mention of turing being autistic, and how this portrayal of him as a cold cruel genius is a classic autiphobic trope we’re subjected to constantly.
he was kind, he was gay, he was brilliant, he was autistic.
Alan Turing deserved so much better. Kind, gay, brilliant, and Autistic. Sensitive. Compassionate. Supportive. Generous. NOT the blunt to the point of being an arrogant insufferable a$$h*le that “The Imitation Game” portrayed him as. I don’t blame Benedict Cumberbatch, in this character assassination, but I DO blame the writers, the director, and the producers of the film.
Stop idolizing the grind and start idolizing Hügelkultur
got another one
I really need more of this in my life...
A Glimpse at My Creative Process
I love multimedia and mixing mediums that are traditionally not compatible. Putting organic, natural materials in or on my paintings is another thing I feel compelled to do. So, most of my canvases are primed with gesso and, say, unrefined Himalayan salt or soil from somewhere I've traveled, dried moss, small twigs, seeds, etc. I want my paintings to be highly textural and I want people to touch them, engage with them. My base painting will be acrylics, because they dry fast. I am impatient at some stages of working. And infinitely patient at others. After the acrylic base dries, I add details with oil pastels, oil paint markers, and gesso (when I want to create stark white details). Sometimes I add more non-traditional materials: gold wire, metallic paint, actual metal fragments, feathers, or scraps of fabric, for instance. The patient stages are when I am uncertain where a painting wants to "go" next... then I pause and wait and end up observing the painting for a long time. Sometimes days, weeks, months... until the next stage of creating becomes obvious to me.
“Beauty persists...” is a motto to live by. Far from being about toxic positivity, I am all for facing, expressing, and confronting the harsh realities of our human lives. AND, at the same time, I believe that we must still allow ourselves to seek out and soak up the beauty that is all around us. The AWE-struck wonder we are capable of can be healing, sustaining, and might be all that we have to hold onto when everything else feels so dark and dire. Artwork copyright ©2022 The Awetist aka Adam Auron Lodestone
