ART X FRIENDS

FADED GLORIES By Conrad Firestein

I wanted to start things off by posting some of our friends current art. These great photos of dead flowers are from an old college buddy from Art Center who has gone on to conquer the world with arresting Images.
We will be showcasing many of our local friends here at the "theFunk" blog.
Hope you like them and if you have any questions they are available through Preferred Graphics our custom frame shop and art gallery in Costa Mesa. 949-722-7554
More great Images to see! www.preferredgraphics.net
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Link to Conrad's site to view more Images:
www.firesteinphotography.com/FADEDGLORIES

SILVER FROM SPAIN

ABSTRACT THOUGHTS

It all started with Minor White. In High School I was introduced to to the Masters of Black and White photography. Weston, Adams, Penn, Frank, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evens, then low and be hold there was Minor White (he was different). All the others masters shot nature, cities, situations and classic scenes of fantastic places, but it was Minor White that saw something different and that's what I was looking for!
Minor White taught me that anything could be beautiful and anything could be a great photograph and to always, always, always be looking! The Market in Barcelona

These abstract images are from a month last year in Spain, (Barcelona) to be exact. And these particular shots are from a new series and a new technique that I have stumbled upon and I refer to them a s SILVERS.
Printed in muted Grays with subdued Highlights and detailed Blacks. No Zone system here!
Just fields to wonder through over and over. Nothing to catch your eye except the over quality of the abstract forms. Nothing to stop you from dreaming!
La Famila Sagrada, Barcelona

We have hundreds of such images now, taken over a lifetime of looking and seeing. These are just the latest. Abstracts never cease to capture my attention, I see them every where and shoot them again and again. Fascinating!

Missed Call - side of a broken phone booth

Life on the Streets - moss on a sidewalk

The Apocalypse - graffiti on a iron gate.
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SPACE?TIME

O.K. HERE'S THE BIG QUESTION? by theFunk

I found some great space shots from the Hubble Telescope this week and they always amaze me! But I also heard a new report on the age of the Universe and it made me think of this question.

The agreed upon, estimated age of the Universe, was 13.5 billion years old up until last month when scientists measured the background microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang. Now they tell us the Universe is 13.7 billion years old. Just a slight difference, but they were able to figure it out and then they refined their date based upon precise data. They changed what they thought was true based upon real data.

They know this because the speed of light is always the same, "light moves at the same speed" no matter where it is or where you find it. Even in the wave above! It took 13.7 billion years for the radiation from the Big Bang to get here, so we could witness it, record it and see it!

Yes, WE CAN NOW, see the radiation from the Big Bang, the first event ever to happen in this Universe. Think about that, now think about this, in the future we should be able to peer through space & time to see the BIG BANG, the actual point of explosion and even beyond (which would be?......)
So as you look at these photos and realize to yourself that these images are actually real photos of some far flung and distance galaxies, Light years away!
Ask yourself this question:
If the Universe is only 6,000 years old as many Born-again Christians believe. How did the Light from the Big Bang (the beginning of time, some 13.7 billion years ago) get all the way back here from the edge of the Universe for us to record in just 6,000 years?
If light always moves at one speed and at that speed, it took 13.7 billion years to get here, doesn't that PROVE that the Universe is older than 6,000 years old.
And doesn't that prove that time as presented in the Bible is wrong, and doesn't that prove that the Bible or whoever dictated the Bible to us was wrong (fallible, i.e. capable of making an error) and doesn't this make that being, NOT A GOD! Wouldn't a true god be unfallible?
So either the Bible is wrong or the god who dictated it to us IS! or both.......
The god who wrote the Bible also gave us this beautiful photo below! take a look.....

OOOPS! sorry that's Oil in the Gulf this week and Forever! Think about it!

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WHAT I FOUND this week

WHAT CAN I SAY

I have always loved Vampires and Vampirella!! But this is really just a shout out to the infamous "COOP"! Always the tightest and curvaceous blackline work around. We have several of Coop's hand-drawn women in our collection and I am always on the look out for his vintage drawings. This is a signed comic book cover showing off the Vamps wonderful hourglass figure as only Coop could render it.

And the hits just keep On Coming! Great graphic edge and colors. I am into faces now, illustrating them through "MOFO the Magnificent" so of course now I have a collection. Maybe I need to get on that hoarder show, "Clutter Cleaners" or is it just "Hoarders" you know what I mean. People amaze me. Stranger than fiction!

This was always one of my favorites, Great girl illustration and fantastic 50's robot. It doesn't get any better, wonderful poster!

One more.... good old Red & Black, you just can't design with anything better. Bold, Stark and at the same time sinister, you want attention, you got it red & black!

Late, theFunk