The queen is hot, so get it on...

Durant Hapke

Brothers and Sisters,

My bringing it engines are running slow this Jack bird early day.

Sure, I've been sucking coffee -- did you know David Lynch the director of Eraser Head has his own brand of Jack bird coffee? This is true.

I'm feel like the world at large is bogging down.

Why, you want to ask? Ask and get some ice, this is a good day for escapism.

Creativity is a sad mad pony with a big knot in it's tail.

And I don't feel like liking ponies today.

I miss Samantha today. Things change and we roll with them, but it's like the second the page turns, wishes of all manner filter in.

What, why, who, if, only, and these spinning points.

I know this is a digital era, I support a and dig such -- I slam dance it all over the place, but it confuses me often, and few really seem to care.

Passion is an ugly playmate.

Durant "I have this" Hapke

JuanV.Soler

Ouch ¡¡¡
that metal
and its lead to the hospital.

Hi Durant,
better to soften the creative product with some, bit of mud ?
I mean wood too, nop?
you will get the sky if you put it.
but maybe it is your taste as it is.

cheers and thanks

and

Durant Hapke

Brothers and Sisters,

Bring it.

I want to make some lights that glow, I think I saw that Jack action around here on a tutorial, so might give it an attempt.

I'm thinking making photo real action is not that fun, as it seems that you can put stuff where you want it, and then people say, "Oh, that's Jack action bird fake... I think it's done with the computer."

That's less fun then it once was... To me at least... And I just got back to it... Perhaps I'm just suffering from a rough encounter with wire...

Rough and, "I need a tall boy," disappointing.

Durant "I will share" Hapke

FoXar

Haha looks like fun, I like the overal atmosphere and detail you've put it into ;D

Cheers,
Roevens Johannes ^^

olishea

@durant hapke said:

I'm thinking making photo real action is not that fun, as it seems that you can put stuff where you want it, and then people say, "Oh, that's Jack action bird fake... I think it's done with the computer."

I agree!

Nice image, very tense. the modeling is fantastic. whats with the jack bird scribbles?

JuanV.Soler

That is much better Durant ¡

and too much for me

reaLlyY.

Fletch

@durant hapke said:

...photo real action is not that fun, ...then people say, "Oh, that's Jack action bird fake... I think it's done with the computer."

most people don't want photo-real anyway, they want "art-isti-real" and in this you are already excelling... don't let the "real" part side track your creativity... it has killed many an artist... but I believe you will emerge victorious and in a style that you own.

Durant Hapke

Brothers and Sisters,

Not to beat around the hog barn, yeah, I've been orbiting the Jack bird Tarot -- the seventy eight -- the mirror -- the pathless path.

The future?

Booze, Camels, and spring loaded curves -- bring it, baby -- that's what the cards show me.

I'm into the Page of Cups at the moment -- "Oh, yeah, I talk to the little flippy flip here in my golden beer -- it makes me ponder... coitus? Sure, and bringing the Jack bird new."

Dreams tell me to challenge convention... Both societies, and my own.

Durant "night sweats" Hapke

JuanV.Soler

Thanks Durant,
I´ll give you

get stronger

beautiful drawing that one

Durant Hapke

Brothers and Sisters,

Yeah, I did have a flash of insecurity about the "dark side," or the devil being to big a part of this robot box brain...

The devil says:

"Ahhhh!! You see this bucket of severed bird heads? Yeah, I'm going to set them into your skull as teeth!"

"Your mouth will forever be filled with retched chirps and boil with horrid screams!"

"Ahhh... I exceed your worst nightmares with ease, I'm the black hearted Mephistopheles who knows your secret name, and without hesitation, I will write it in bone chalk on the blackest black-bellies of the blind fish who swim in the foul pools below Hades!"

Blah, blah, and on, and on -- rocking bring that action -- Mister Bird Puss.

Or something like that.

But I feel this box is safe to share.

This brain of the robot variety could entertain like a mechanical whee-lo toy... but just as easily take your Jack bird eye out...

Be careful, but enjoy.

Durant "fish have no tools" Hapke

baz

Now that is a happenin thang, Mr.DH. It appeals to my sense of order, whatever that is.
Love the 'hammered metal' and the :dayglow' plastic.

If I may criticise somewhat? I may?, thank you...
...I feel that the shadows need to be darker and possibly crisper without altering the chroma and brightness of the image both which look very good. It would give it a bit more solidity methinks. Also, the background is disapointing, bland might be the word. What about some skulls?, garbage? a gradient?, a window as a light source?, anything really but that grey limbo. And where is the electrickery? A mean looking power supply coiling off to infinity could give us poor mortals some idea of where the real power is coming from.

baz

ps: I'd want to bolt that mother to the floor, tho' it looks like it might fit in a daypack for handy portability. It does pack up? Like to see that.(But now I think of it, you're fond of skids, n'est pas?)
Also you might use better hinges, those look cheap, cheapskate
pps: If this was my artwork, I'd probly tell me to piss off, you can too

Durant Hapke

Brothers, and Sisters,

Baz is Bring it.

Slam good conceptions.

Whispers float around my bobbin noggin -- it's the deuce of fill it to the brim! -- Robot brain... And Gray!

I will kick it that the gray is void of action as I was thinking the seamless of it was quite ... boring, so yeah, I think it felt like a seamless, or a gray photo bit of paper.

Perhaps the Machine speaks loud enough to compensate?

The power sours is attraction.

Attraction?

Be it.

Be the funk.

Be the earl of funk land.

Enjoy a nice bun sandwich, and don't forget to work it.

Durant "flying the flag of victory over darkness" Hapke

JuanV.Soler

Baz,
dont push Durant too much
otherwise his machine can become too much real and
get our eye off, in a second of distraction

cheers both

baz

@juanv.soler said:

Baz,
dont push Durant too much
otherwise his machine can become too much real and
get our eye off, in a second of distraction

cheers both

I quite agree with you juan, but you never really know what it is he's on about. sorry dh to speak of you rather than at you, so... one feels the need to express something, I think he/she is unlikly to be a delicete flower which is 'de rigeuer' for the course. (being an artist, that is),
Is he an artist? or is he someone playing on his office computer, while he's supposed to be selling pork bellies?
Whatever, his intention is art and so it is.
Aesthetic criticism, unlike most real art has to come from non-emotional areas of the brain.
sorry ran out of staem there.

Durant Hapke

Brothers and Sisters,

Bring it.

Brother, B to the Az, your right about action, sharing is nearly all good.

I have a boiler gut when it comes to the outer world... With exception to a few important curves... Critical curves.

When I Jack bird say:

"Challenge Conventions," I don't just mean in regards to "the man" or the outer world... I mean bering that action inside.

What is keeping you locked up inside... Challenge that Jack bird action.

Don't be the little scared man inside... Plan your escape and chip way at it in every way you can, and then again in ways you didn't know you could.

Working in an office? ... I did a bit of that action... But it provided me a "pipe" down which I could see my future... And I didn't like what I could see.

I want a shifting kaleidoscope, not a drain.

Wow, this is all very Kung Fu sounding to me, one of my all time bust a cowboy action shows. That show is probably the greatest show from the seventies, very tripping the last season.

To bad about David Carradine... There's a dude who challenged some Jack action convention.

Bald bean Kwai Chang Caine all working his mind in a cave, thinking of weird dragon men and crap.

What a dude. He would love to hang with you, Baz, in a groovy wood bungalow.

Probably J V. Soler as well...

Durant "I'm not in the corner" Hapke

JuanV.Soler

you get me wrong, Durant
wont make any more gifts for you
slam¡

Durant Hapke

J to the V. Soler,

Bring the gifts, brother, you are a creative muse.

The words above are meant to affirm your excellent slam dancing creative... They are Jack bird positive in nature.

So, be the man and "bring it."

Evolution, baby, that's all there is -- I learn as I experience.

No worries about floating fishes...

Durant "bubble" Hapke

JuanV.Soler

man is the dream of the dolphin.
you´ll never get me Durant

e
it:
took the drawings off to avoid distraction

Durant Hapke

Brothers and Sisters,

Bring it.

I've been pouring and smoking a health bit the last few Jack bird days, trying to get my head around all this strange cable television action.

It seems the human story is just often limited... I know there is a lot of richness out there, but it seems so few think about getting it on with that action...

I have been thinking and saying "challenge convention" a Jack bird lot for a lot of long time.

However, I can't say what that means... It's a very personal kind of a deal...

Bring that.

So, yeah, there is this on meat puppet that's trying to "abandon ship" as it were, and he's been hanging around by this culvert that runs under the road down by this creek that ain't that far from the Cat and the Fiddle. I head down there from time to time to clear my head and pull a smoke.

Anyway, I traded this "big noggin" an old VHS tape of New Wave Hookers for some plans of a little antigravity device...

Don't have all the materials to construct it -- but have -- as you all know -- I have been constructing a model of it.

Here then is a bit of an operating test.

Durant "the fish can fly" Hapke