tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post6414528147643913807..comments2024-03-18T07:23:32.809-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Signs and DinosaursJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-10125394595649793942007-09-25T21:43:00.000-04:002007-09-25T21:43:00.000-04:00Love the ChopSuey sign. Ha yeah see. I knew it rea...Love the ChopSuey sign. <BR/><BR/>Ha yeah see. I knew it really does benefit sketching interesting ugly places. Then later you can change them in to something beautiful. Kind of like the caterpillar to a butterfly.K_tigresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02435524324162761134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-23519382756352484112007-09-25T18:49:00.000-04:002007-09-25T18:49:00.000-04:00Your mention of "ugly beauty" made me wonder if yo...Your mention of "ugly beauty" made me wonder if you are familiar with Bill Wray's landscape paintings. He is focusing on capturing vanishing America and recently had a show called "dirty beauty". Check out his stuff at http://williamwray.blogspot.com/Michael Dooneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00246162742705076367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-18527840219922112822007-09-25T16:02:00.000-04:002007-09-25T16:02:00.000-04:00Thank you so much for posting these James. Amazing...Thank you so much for posting these James. Amazing. These are so beautiful. You made a Mc Donalds sign feel elagent. The light breaking up the Chop Suey sign is so beautiful. Again ,so inspiring.<BR/> And I had NO IDEA you were coming to Dreamworks in a couple months! I and many of my colleagues would love to meet you and pick your brain. I can't wait. Please Keep me posted , and I will be sure to tell everyone here if they have not heard. Take careSHANE PRIGMOREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09190886304647789916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-84181913256806439932007-09-25T14:14:00.000-04:002007-09-25T14:14:00.000-04:00Walmart shall never dieBut seriously, most of us h...<B>Walmart shall never die</B><BR/><BR/>But seriously, most of us have probably never really considered that most people paint the beautiful and harmonious, while we avoid the bad and the ugly(i.e. our present urban surroundings).<BR/><BR/>In the same way, we admire the ancient Greeks and Romans and try to duplicate their thinking processes. But if we reflect on history, we see that those processes (and those who adherred to them) led to unimaginable depravity of the human mind (i.e. gladiator fights, woman/child mutilation, human sacrifice, etc.)<BR/><BR/>We must never get caught up with only painting the good that we forget the bad. But certainly at humanity's present stage we won't forget it, at least for right now(just watch the evening news).<BR/><BR/>That's why so many of us are attracted to the Dinotopian paintings. It awakens something fresh and new within our hearts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com