We The People

We the people
        of these United States of America
        walk around, talk, say this and that.


-John Bauman

Peanut Submarine

This film was made by Ron McAdow in the mid 1970's. It was part of a series of peanut animations created for the educational television program "Infinity Factory", produced in Massachusetts at the Education Development Center. The music is by Jon Klein.

Ron's longer peanut films, also featuring Jon Klein scores, are available on Amazon's video-on-demand: Hank the Cave Peanut and Captain Silas.

When Ron was my teacher in junior high school, he offered an after school course to learn to make animated stop motion films. Me and Jeremiah took it and had a great time. I remember the process taking a very long time. I have no idea what happened to the actual films.

Bored

Boy, I’m really bored.
Smorgas- bored.
Shmorgas bord.
Ironing board.
What the fuck’s a smorgasbord?
Anyone?
Smorgasbord:
          a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes.
Smorgas- bored.


-John Bauman

Define Prophecy

- Pete Smolenski
From his website.

3 Minutes Sand Runs Out

-Paul Richmond

The Egg Came First

- Pete Smolenski
From his website.

Introducing: Peter Smolenski

I have a friend Dimitri (who has a poem on this blog) and I sometimes go to his house to play games. In his kitchen there is this very cool piece of art hanging on the wall: a bright, abstract, psychedelic image. I asked, "Hey, who made that? It's very cool," and Dimitri told me it was a friend of his and his family, Pete Smolenski.

So I logged that in my brain like I do with all sorts of random bits of information. And then I was looking at the 'People you might know' section of Facebook a little while ago, and someone's profile picture was this really great looking psychedelic image, and I thought, "hey that looks like Pete Smolenski's work." Turns out it was his FB profile.

I contacted him, and he agreed to let me feature some of his work here. I looked at his site, and got to see a lot of great art.

It all happened how I like things to happen: person to person, simple and easy, and in the community.

Links:
Peter Smolenski Abstract Art - His website
Abstract Art World - A global community of abstract artists