Tsathoggua is one of the Old Ones, and though he wasn’t a creation of H.P. Lovecraft, he was first seen in print in one of Lovecraft’s stories, The Whisperer in the Darkness, with a nod to the...
The LAHL artist of the week is Wassily Kandinsky and he has traditionally been one of my favorites. I remember a visit to either the Guggenheim or MOMA in my late teens and I bought a journal with a Kandinsky...
Thoreau noted that, ‘the language of friendship is not words, but meanings’. This is a frustrating quote for me to think about, as I am not a great friend in many ways: I don’t remember...
I’m having a rough start this morning. That happens. It is the inspiration for today’s discussion on coffee and for the use of the new ring flash for my camera. Notes on the ring flash will...
The initial step for the project, in my mind anyway, is to create the face. The lore of the Necronomicon is that it is bound and written on human skin, so clearly that is out. Next best thing, DIY paper...
In January, my honey noticed that I was watching a lot of TV. Compulsively and the content of which, I feel comfortable sharing he finds disturbing. Something needed to be done, and being a man of action, A...
This weeks prompt for Journal 52 was a choice between what I will say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to in 2016. I elected to stay positive and say ‘Yes to Food!’. So what does that mean to...
This week didn’t see a lot of progress on the deepening of my knowledge of photography, but it did see some increased breadth. What I really learned was that art feeds art: photography feeds sketching...