Saturday, December 5, 2009

Rodak's Doodles: You Know Not the Hour

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Anonymous said...

Why does Jesus look like a member of Parliament-Funkadelic?

---MS

12/6/09 1:49 PM
Rodak said...

That's not Jesus. That's a prophet. Not that this answers your question...

12/6/09 3:09 PM
Anonymous said...

Ok, why does that prophet look like a member of Parliament-Funkadelic? (LOL)

Seriously, I can tell you have an eye for line and some innate design skills. You might want to look into that side of your talents.

---MS

12/6/09 3:14 PM
Rodak said...

My talents? Buried in the yard, man.

12/6/09 3:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Has a sort of "Crazy World of Arthur Brown" look, I dare say ...

---MS

12/6/09 9:08 PM
Rodak said...

Yeah, I can see that...

12/6/09 9:20 PM
Anonymous said...

I've lived a month now with no TV, and it's like a second childhood. Between your art and reading, I'm starting to rediscover the toys in my own attic. Such as this artist I had totally forgotten about but was one of my favorites in high school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Kent

I had a lot of rare books then, I don't know what the hell happened to them. One of them was the complete works of Shakespeare from the 1920s with Kent's illustrations.

--MS

12/6/09 9:56 PM
Anonymous said...

For example, I actually owned this set (I remember paying $40 for it at Powells in Chicago around 1992), and I can't figure out for the life of me what the hell happened to it!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=110465419849

Out, damned TV spot!

-MS

12/6/09 10:03 PM
Rodak said...

Thanks for the Kent reference. I've known the name, but never studied him at all. I must do so.

12/7/09 4:46 AM
Rodak said...

As for TV, I watch sports and politics on it. Almost never any kind of entertainment anymore. I just don't have time for that. Good books entertain me. As does, for instance, tending this blog. When somebody indicates that they have gottn something of value from it, as have you, and Moose, it makes the effort worthwhile. Thank you.

12/7/09 5:07 AM
Rodak said...

MS--
In reading the article on Kent, I noted that one of the characters in the Russell Banks novel, "The Reserve" is at least loosely inspired by Kent. This has prompted me to borrow the novel from the library. Banks is one of my faves, but I had not gotten around to this one yet.
While I was up in the stacks, I also looked through editions of "Leaves of Grass," "The Canterbury Tales," and "Beowulf" for which Kent did illustrations. Unfortunately, somebody has ripped off the Kent-illustrated "Moby Dick." Vandals.

12/7/09 8:38 AM
Anonymous said...

Sadly, I had a lot of books that I see are worth something on Ebay, not that I measure the worth of works that way. It just shows I didn't know the value at time, financially or aesthetically. As you mention Kent, I'm thinking of a first edition of James Weldon Johnson's "God's Trombones" illustrated by my favorite artist Aaron Douglas. I gave it to my minister 20 years ago.

Covetous bastard that I am, I am now wishing that I had kept it for the past two decades!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Trombones:_Seven_Negro_Sermons_in_Verse

---MS

12/7/09 6:28 PM
Anonymous said...

Total link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Trombones:_
Seven_Negro_Sermons_in_Verse

---MS

12/7/09 6:30 PM
Rodak said...

Sorry, I've been inattentive this evening. It's my daughter's 21st birthday today. Tomorrow is another day.

12/7/09 9:04 PM
Anonymous said...

What are you apologizing for? You're supposed to put your daughters birthday before blogging (LOL)!

Ahh, to be 21 again. Hell, to be 31 again!

We all had hair back then

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/geraldford/ig/President-Ford-Images/President-Ford-and-Musicians.htm

Well, happy B-Day, anyway!

---MS

12/7/09 10:55 PM

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