words of wisdom

I found this posted on a wall in brooklyn....

alex explains global warming

I dont have a TV so if I am not making art I research and study things.

this is my latest study.



the coldest point in the last 10,000 years was roughly 0ne hundred and forty years ago --this is known as the little ice age.


this ended around 1875. (this is also incidentally when man began to make his first recored meteorological observations. )


we began taking serious readings of climate at its lowest point in the last ten thousand years.


It seems natural that temperatures will rise up from their lowest level in 10,000 years. I think we should not be too quick to worry about global warming. we should worry more about the effects of TV on humans.

today I start my 90 foot glass wall....It should take a week to do if all goes well...will photograph

painting of the day

I took out a piece today I wasnt happy with. I finally managed to work out the color to where I was happy. I wasn't happy with the blue background so I tried to give it the visual equivalent of iridescent tifanny glass.

orwells route--google map

I find it hilarious that you can trace orwell's route via google map via big bro..
that is something I think he would find amusing...god must have a sense of humor.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,51.294998,0.478302&t=h&msa=0&msid=101812867577307634528.000453f255c69c417647b&ll=49.496675,0.439453&spn=27.484198,78.75&z=4

orwell diary---September 8, 1938, Gibraltar

Weather mostly hot & nights sometimes uncomfortably so. Sea variable mostly rather choppy. When no wind fish visible at least 10 feet below surface.
The Barbary Ape is said to be now very rare at Gibraltar & the authorities are trying to exterminate them as they are a nuisance. At a certain season of the year (owing to shortage of food I suppose) they come down from the rock & invade peoples° houses & gardens. They are described as large doglike ape with only a short stump of tail. The same species found on the African coast just opposite.
The breed of goat here is the Maltese, or at any rate is chiefly Maltese. The goat is rather small, & has the top half of its body covered with long & rather shaggy hair which overhangs to about the knees, giving the impression that it has very short legs. Ears are set low and drooping. Most of the goats are hornless, those having horns have ones that curve back so sharply that they lie against the head, & usually continue round in a semi-circle, the point of the horn being beside the eye. Udders are very pendulous & in many cases simply a bag with practically no teats, or teats barely 1/2 inch long. Colours black, white & (especially) reddish brown. Yield said to be about a litre a day. Goats apparently will graze on almost anything, eg. The flock I watched had grazed the wild fennel plants right to the ground.
Breed of donkeys here small, like the English. The conveyance peculiar to the place a little partly closed in carriage like the Indian gharry with the sides taken out.

update

I am on my glass projects again today..will post more drippings of genius later on.

ode to turner

I came home yesterday and painted an inspirational painting influenced by the turner show..not finished

back on deadlines today..post work soon

photo of the day

talent

here is a song by a relatively unknown songwriter (from a mass appeal POV) he did write a song that became very famous for willy nelson...I posted this because the reaction from the guy behind him is a s real as it gets.

Ulysses deriding Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey, 1829

This painting by turner has one of the best painted skies ever created by a human. One must see it in person. I would trade every single piece of art made since 1900 (except for a few dalis) for one square inch of the sky in this painting. I cannot believe abstract expressionism ever became a movement when this painting already exisited, did they not know they were doomed to failure from the get go?

notes from turner show

Went back to the Turner show today. I will probably see the show about ten more times. I am a man obsessed, now... These notes will seem like gobbly gook as I write them in "gardega code."

artist of the day---Turner

I went to the met yesterday to check out the turner exhibit. I always like turner but never really mentioned him as an influence or inspiration. To see his work in person is a miracle to behold--- walked out of there a different person. He is one of the greatest artists who ever lived and he puts any abstract expressionist to shame. I never met an artist work that was so in line with my ideas of what painting is. The light and spiritual energy is as good and better than many of the old masters. I am going back today to take notes. his work was criticized often for being too "indistinct " it was viewed this way because he was so far ahead of his time. It puts me to shame how hard he worked in his lifetime.

buried in work will post updates tonight.

job 1

Here is one of 5 jobs I am working on. I have to convert this metal deco design into glass panels....there are many issues to tackle on this job but it is not terribly difficult..I am hoping to be done Tuesday. I am also working on re-doing a panel in a nightclub that was smashed by a man who thought he could jump through glass. I guess with enough vodka glass could appear as water or a cool stream and technically glass is a liquid--- not a solid...The glass is ready for my "birch wall" so I must address that item as well, I am hoping to get that done in two weeks. I have to paint the queens unisphere for the 5th time and that is due mid-sept-- need a vacation as I am getting worn down by a summer of endless work and no play. I need to fly away to somewhere so I can draw and paint and stare at my toes. I want to go to barcelona and drink sangria and see where dali grew up.

artist of the day---Masaccio

I am under a lot of deadlines so I have to get up at three AM and not my usual 5 AM. I went to the corner deli and the NY Post was not even there yet. Something I will discuss now about art history is the artist Masaccio. He was a lesser-known genius but very important in that he introduced the idea of one point perspective and even though he died young he had a profound effect on later artists. He also made breakthroughs in the way he painted the figure. I suppose he moved art forward from the stiffer, gothic, pre-renaissance style of painting and brought some life and fresh air into his figures. It is good to know that these great figures paved the way so the Metropolitan can have a shark in formaldehyde. Progress!?

orwell diary--sept. 3, 1938

Writing on the P. & O. ss. “Stratheden”, 23, 500 tons. No of passenger’s berths 1063. Left Tilbury dock 6pm yesterday. Position marked this morning (not certain whether 8 am or noon) as 49.25 N, 3.34 W, run being 288 miles. Distance to go 1007 miles. Passed Ushant, about 5-10 miles on port side, about 5pm. Now entering Bay of Biscay & traveling about due South. Should sight land again tomorrow night. Sea at present calm. Once or twice small shoal of fish, pilchards or sardines, leaping out of the water as though something were after them. Small land-bird, bunting or some such thing, came on board this morning when out of sight of land. Also pigeons perching on rigging.

painting of the day--kubin

Here is one of my favorite paintings of all time. it is a painting by an artist named alfred kubin. He is not a household name. This painting is one I would like to own. I am off to make glass art.

mural video

Here is a small test video I made from time lapse footage of me painting a ceiling mural over three weeks time in Long Island. I will work more on this soon.

mural movie

I am going to attempt a feat that will surely be my undoing. I am going to try to make a movie of the Leonardo mural I painted on a ceiling. I am will attempt to take the thousand images of time lapse photography and edit them into a movie. I wish I was a techie or a pet photographer so I would not suffer with such issues. the journey of a thousand miles..

update

I am sorry I have been lax on posting. I am gearing up to make this large glass wall. I have been swamped with images in my psyche of images of floods. I grew up on a farm in texas and we would have massive floods. for some reason all those memories have been coming back to me and I have been drawing and painting floods. The funny thing is that I realized today most of my art is about floods and water.

artist of the day---R. Crumb

a video of my work

artist of the day

orwell diary ---august 28, 1938

Night before last an hour’s rain. Yesterday hot & overcast. Today ditto, with a few drops of rain in the afternoon. The hop-picking due to start in about a week.

particle collider

They have just finished building a huge particle collider near France that is the largest (I believe, ever made) it is feared by some scientists that there is a chance it will create black holes in space time when it is used. It is being used to test for a theoretical partical called the The Higgs boson.
Much of this is beyond the brain of alex but I like the fact that they are trying to figure out how and why mass exists if most off the particles that make up mass are themselves without mass. I find this of interest.

finished

I finished my painting--birth of liquid flight today. next I will carve it in glass.

birth of liquid flight.

almost done with this piece, will finish today. I have to unify the background. I am going to carve this piece in glass soon.

orwell diary--august 26, 1938

Hot. Dense ground-mist early this morning. Many blackberries now ripe, very large & fairly sweet. Also fair number of dew-berries. Walnuts now nearly full sized. Plenty of English apples in the shops.

birch wall

today I finally get my glass for my 90 foot etched birch wall I am making for a hotel. It has been a long time coming. I am doing prep work today for it. I will photograph the process from beginning to final installation in hotel. I have other deadlines on top of this one as well.

orwell diary--august 25, 1938

Everything in Suffolk is much more dried-up than in Kent. Until the day we arrived there had been no rain for many weeks & various crops had failed. Near S’wold saw several fields of oats & barley being harvested which had grown only 1’ or 18” high. Ears nevertheless seemed normal. Wheat crop all over the world said to be heavy.
A bedstraw hawk-moth found in our back garden & mounted by Dr Collings¹. Evidently a straggler from the continent. Said to be the first seen in that locality for 50 years.
Little owl very common round here. Brown owl does not seem to exist.
Dr C. says the snake I caught was the “smooth snake”, non-poisonous & not very common.
Today hot again.
Gipsies beginning to arrive for the hop-picking. As soon as they have pitched their caravans the chickens are let loose & apparently can be depended on not to stray. The strips of tin for cloth-pegs are cut of biscuit boxes. Three people were on the job, one shaping the sticks, one cutting out the tin & another nailing it on. I should say one person doing all these jobs (also splitting the pegs after nailing) could make 10-15 pegs an hour.
Another white owl this evening.

watercolor of the day

I painted this to day...it is called The Birth of Liquid Flight---unfinished!

groupthink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKivdMAgdeA&NR=1

latest update

hemingway

Hemingway had 5 concussions in his lifetime. I have had 11 and I have a few decades left in my bones.

artist of the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35vrg7a64nY

watercolor of the day

Here is a bad photo of a drawing/ watercolor I made today...I am not sure who she is but I always figure out later who or why I made a piece. This is 22 x 30 on Fabriano paper. My camera is not made for close shots--- lens is too wide. I spent 8 hours so far on this piece.

song of the day

painting of the day---the dog, by Goya

Here is one of the greatest paintings ever made. This was made by the artist goya as part of his late series of "black paintings" paintings in which he tore apart humanity and showed his general disgust with the cruelty of humans. This painting is (in my opinion) so far ahead of its time that it was the first true "modern" painting. the composition is so strange and the subjetc of a dogs head just creeping out from "the dirt?" here goya gives in to the dark imagination that fueled his spanish brain. One must look at art in the context of the time it was painted, if you think about what was going on when in art he painted this (1820) then you can begin to understand the genius of it. I thin kthe dog my be a symbol of him sinking into the dark- sand of his final days and he is doing all he can to reach for the light and keep his head above the shadows. These paintings done at this time were all painted directly onto the walls of his home. This is why, in my opinion, Sargent is not fit to kneel at the feet of Goya. Art is about passion and emotion and not slick brushful renderings of aristocrats. When goya did his court portraits, at least he made them look like the de-natured pigs they were. In fact, I am surprised Goya was not jailed for his paintings of the courts and that they accepted his renderings of the inbred hemophiliacs with frog skin.

GOYA VS. SARGENT

later on today I will explain to the world why Goya was a better artist than Sargent!

etched glass NYC--- by gardega

here is a better photo of two of my symbolist inspired glass carvings. They are edge with LED lighting that breathes some light into them. Photographing glass is not easy. I had to make both of these in one day--- wish I had a week on each.

WEBSITE:
www.bluelineglass.com

brooklyn photo

I took this photo yesterday in Brooklyn..The street hits people pretty hard sometimes. art is is art when it shows the good, the bad and the ugly...

etched glass new york city---by gardega

Here is a nightclub installation I made last year. They are LED lit glass women...I need to re-shoot this picture. This deadline was very tough, I remember well.

website:
www.bluelineglass.com

etched glass NYC--by gardega

Here is a window I created for a mausoleum a few years ago. It is an image of St. Francis. This window was about 20 feet high.

WEBSITE FOR GLASS:

www.bluelineglass.com

dont know much about singing but I am pretty sure that this is good singing.



good song to draw to as well.

Gardega Rd,

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=uq4&q=cleburne+texas+gardega+lane&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image

The town I grew up in Texas was so small that they named the road after my family when we moved. I feel famous now.

I don't really speak to other artists much. I have a few that I converse with on occasion but I am mostly a recluse--- There seems to be a lot of jealous weirdness among artists and I want no part of such things. This sculptor from France found my website and we occasional trade emails, He seems like a nice guy and makes some nice work. He is part owner of a foundry in the south of France. here is his blog/ site.

http://atelieraeris.blogspot.com/

the internet is really a great thing when you think about it. enjoy it while you can, one day Big Brother will snip the wire..hopefully my sponsor doesn't mind when I rant against big brother.

a well placed pigeon

God made man--- man makes sculpture because is trying to mimic the creation- process of God. God made pigeons to let man know that now matter how good an artist you may be, you will never be God. A well placed pigeon led me to this theory.

central park composition number 7

If you want people to think you are an artist---it is important to put a number after your work..for instance, even though this is only one picture I took of this scene I call it composition number 7...This was a method favored by the abstract expressionists..instead of calling a work"blobby mess" or " I cant draw the figure for diddly squat" you would name it important names like "green composition number 14" this brings up the value and makes the public think you are really an artist and not a snake oil salesman..I should charge for these lessons.

central park turtle

Central park snapping turtle. I found this guy yesterday after walking back from chiropractor. He is in same pose I was in twenty minutes before.

sidewalk buffalo

this is my second in a series of "found art" art that exists independent of the tampering of man's hands...I call this oil stain "sidewalk buffalo." These pieces are easy because I dont have to do any work...

Man of the hour--george orwell

click around the channels of your TV set and all you will hear about is how Russia invaded Georgia and the tragedy that has befallen Georgia. I am convinced our media has overdosed on Orwellian Koolaid because Georgia attacked Russia first, killing as many people as died in 911 and destroying much of the city of Ossetia. For some reason this fact is being ignored by the media. I even spoke to a famous TV journalist friend about it via email--and he didnt know this fact! White is black and black is white and ignorance is strength. I am only interested in this because the mainstream media is lying to us and we are drinking it up like a drunk to whiskey. good thing we have monday night football to take our minds off such matters...the good thing about artists is that they are the first people the government throws to the pavement when they start kicking in your doors...Now back to our regular scheduled program.

here is a video from you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0SIICIBSf0

5 AM

There never seems to be enough time to do all the things in art I want to do so I have gone back to getting up at 5 am and running a few miles. The only thing I miss about the suburbs was it was better for running. New York City is a strange thing at 5 am. One day we will be able to sleep forever so until then...

buried

My schedule for the month remaining includes etching a 90 foot birch wall (the infamously delayed wall)

etching 5 art deco panels for a downtown space.

painting another book cover. queens painting--- I think

re-etching a 9 foot side glass panel for a nightclub because a polish guy jumped through the first piece.

thirty second poses

when you draw quick poses you have to look for that overall larger issues of what the pose is about. you cant focus on detail like a foot or hand, that is why quick poses are good. They are like vitamins! When you are rusty and you cannot find your rythym in drawing it is like getting having a dentist drilling into your teeth--no fun..it doesn't matter if you work on art all day long. Drawing from life is a different animal, altogether.

one minute drawings

Here are some one minute poses from yesterdays rusty drawing session. quick poses are a good thing for an artist to draw.

sisitne chapel

woke up thinking about the Sistine chapel.


you can do a lot in a lifetime
if you dont burn out too fast
first you need endurance, first you've got to last... N.peart

figure drawing

I went figure drawing yesterday. It is a hard thing to do when you are rusty. I am rusty and need to get the rust out of my hand. It is most important for an artist to draw from life and it is very easy to stop doing it when you are toio busy, you must make time.

watercolor of the day--Athena

Here is a bad photo ( colors dont show) of a watercolor I finished today. It is a painting of Athena. It is 22 x 30 on Fabriano paper. Athena is the goddess of wisdom.
ne will work. It is pencil and watercolor on 22 x 30 Arches paper.

soon

words of the day

It's not how fast you can go
The force goes into the flow
If you pick up the beat
You can forget about the heat
More than just survival
More than just a flash
More than just a dotted line
More than just a dash

It's a test of ultimate will
The heartbreak climb uphill
Got to pick up the pace
If you want to stay in the race
More than blind ambition
More than simple greed
More than a finish line
Must feed this burning need
In the long run...


From first to last
The peak is never passed
Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes
One moment's high, and glory rolls on by
Like a streak of lightning
That flashes and fades in the summer sky

Your meters may overload
You can rest at the side of the road
You can miss a stride
But nobody gets a free ride

More than high performance
More than just a spark
More than just the bottom line
Or a lucky shot in the dark
In the long run...


You can do a lot in a lifetime
If you don't burn out too fast
You can make the most of the distance
First you need endurance
First you've got to last...

vermeer geometry

I am convinced that the use of sacred geometry in art has been lost to time and that the great painters never "hap haphazardly" placed their figures and objects in space. I have been refining my own method of study. If nature makes use of sacred geometry why not artists?

painting of the day---vermeer

This is vermeer's lady with a water pitcher. This is on permanent display at the Met. I look at it every sunday. It is one of the finest pieces in the entire Museum. I once painted a copy of this but it is lost somewhere. I think what makes this a great painting is its simplicity of form and color and mood..I think harmony is a good word for this work.

artist of the day--eratosthenes

Eratosthenes knew that on the summer solstice at local noon in the Ancient Egyptian city of Swenet (known in Greek as Syene) on the Tropic of Cancer, the sun would appear at the zenith, directly overhead. He also knew, from measurement, that in his hometown of Alexandria, the angle of elevation of the Sun would be 1/50 of a full circle (7°12') south of the zenith at the same time. Assuming that Alexandria was due north of Syene he concluded that the distance from Alexandria to Syene must be 1/50 of the total circumference of the Earth. His estimated distance between the cities was 5000 stadia (about 500 geographical miles or 950 km). He rounded the result to a final value of 700 stadia per degree, which implies a circumference of 252,000 stadia. The exact size of the stadion he used is frequently argued. The common Attic stadion was about 185 m, which would imply a circumference of 46,620 km, i.e. 16.3% too large. However, if we assume that Eratosthenes used the "Egyptian stadion"^[1] of about 157.5 m, his measurement turns out to be 39,690 km, an error of less than 1%.^[2]

Although Eratosthenes' method was well founded, the accuracy of his calculation was inherently limited. The accuracy of Eratosthenes' measurement would have been reduced by the fact that Syene is slightly north of the Tropic of Cancer, is not directly south of Alexandria, and the Sun appears as a disk located at a finite distance from the Earth instead of as a point source of light at an infinite distance. There are other sources of experimental error: the greatest limitation to Eratosthenes' method was that, in antiquity, overland distance measurements were not reliable, especially for travel along the non-linear Nile which was traveled primarily by boat. So the accuracy of Eratosthenes' size of the earth is surprising.

Eratosthenes' experiment was highly regarded at the time, and his estimate of the Earth’s size was accepted for hundreds of years afterwards. His method was used by Posidonius about 150 years later.

failed watercolor---by gardega

I tried to do a copy of my favorite Raphael painting yesterday..I screwed it up..by painting failures you get better...

lyrics of the day--waylon jennings

I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do
I can't say I’m proud of all of the things that I’ve done
But I can say I’ve never intentionally hurt anyone

I've always been different with one foot over the line
Winding up somewhere one step ahead or behind
It ain't been so easy but I guess I shouldn't complain
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane

Beautiful lady are you sure that you understand
The chances your taking loving a free living man
Are you really sure you really want what you see
Be careful of something that's just what you want it to be

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane
Nobody knows if it's something to bless or to blame
So far I ain't found a rhyme or a reason to change
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane


---this would have to be my theme song...

last summer

I had no time this summer to enjoy beach or kayak--it has been a work survival/ fest..painting fast enough to keep the wolves at bay. I found this picture on my computer today from last summer when I had time to go to the beach. This is one of my finer watercolors (I think)...I sold it last year. I was very much into the space of this watercolor, usually I have to fight to keep my ADD at bay. Here I zoned into the picture, I guess it is a kind of zen.

watercolor of the day---impossible river

I am working on a large watercolor--22 x 30 inches. I am calling it "The Impossible River" a river that feeds itself and flows in circles. I like to be paint worlds I would like to see, worlds that I can only visit in my head..I guess that are fantasy scapes but the name fantasy has some bad connotations so I will stick to my strange world label...UNFINISHED

welcome france

Hello, France and welcome...

Pop surrealism--by gardega

Sometimes I swim in the modern waters of Pop Surrealism. It has its moments but it has a little bit too much sugar if not done carefully and you risk becoming an intellectual diabetic.

media update

As you may know I am a big fan of george orwell and consider him an important artist and writer. the more I analyze the media the more fearful I become. I will give you an example. What happened recently in Russia is totally misrepresented in the media. Georgia attacked Russia by attacking Ossetia first and killing over 3,00 people and destroying an entire city. The media has ignored that fact and only mentions Russia attacking Georgia. I have no horse in this race but the disinfo is astounding. If you do your own research you can find out a lot in this world. The mass media is not to be trusted but rather ignored. I am surprised most Americans don't think Russia attacked Georgia to steal our peacches.

Strange World---signed print

Here is a print of my very popular Strange World series. It is printed on handmade watercolor paper from Spain. Each one is signed and numbered by artist. paper size is 8.5" x 12". The printed area is smaller. On ebay soon...

vonnegut print for sale

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Vonnegut Print--by gardega

Here is a photo of my new Kurt Vonnegut print. These are printed on high Quality hand made Spanish watercolor paper. This is limited to an edition of 200 hundred pieces, each one signed by Gardega! I am going to put on ebay today for bidding. I am not sure what I want to sell these for yet. These prints are a great way for me to keep my studio running at maximum efficiency so I can focus on painting larger pieces for an upcoming show.

Today I bought some great handmade watercolor paper from Spain. The nice thing about this paper is I can use it in my printer as well and make prints on it...I am excited to try that today...My first print will be my Vonnegut painting..

slideshow

I have added a small slideshow link to the right...it is just an embryo of a slideshow but soon it will be an entire chicken of a slideshow.

technology vs. heart

I have noticed in my years as an artist that the more technical an artist was, the more anal and obsessed with the craft and technique--- that very often there was something crucial missing in their work--heart and spirit. I would rather look at a painting or piece of art with a few technical faults and shortcomings than a perfectly painted lifeless work. I love paintings by blake and goya where in spite of a lot of technical flaws they are still works of genius and timeless masterpieces. I would rather study a Gericault painting than a David painting any day. You cant teach spirit, you can teach technique. That is why with the computer and digital camera these days everyone thinks themselves an artist. There are a lot of people out there who are very methodical and patient and learn their "programs" and systems and technique but there is quite often something missing. (in my humble opinion)

the seasons

I generally am not inspired to paint in the summer. My creativity for some reasons is at its zenith in fall and winter..Lately the air has cooled a bit as we lose our grip on summer and slide toward the inevitable fall and winter. Winter I hate but I paint a lot and get work done at my easel (indoors). Today I am inspired to paint some new strange world paintings, for those who are new to my site I will explain later...I am going to trek to art store and buy a bunch of good watercolor paper and make some art today...deadlines be damned--- I am in the mood to paint what I want to paint today--will upload as I go...It is good to be greedy and selfish when you are inspired to make art...

george orwell---daily journal august 12th 1938

August 12

12 August, 1938 by orwelldiaries

Very hot in the morning. In the afternoon sudden thunder-storm & very heavy rain. About 50 yards from the gate the road & pavement flooded a foot deep after only 1 1/2 hours rain.

Blackberries beginning to redden.

( I missed a few days on his journal so I am catching up)

color of the day--burnt sienna

Burnt sienna is an iron oxide pigment: a warm mid brown color. Chemically, burnt sienna is formed by burning raw sienna (Terra di Sienna).


I use this color all the time. Many of my artist friends hate it but then again they also think Sargent is a great artist. Burnt sienna is a color that is always welcome on my palette while Sargent is not allowed onto my bookshelf. I use Burnt Umber when I do my underpaintings. Generally pigments that are made from iron oxides etc are cheaper and not as expensive as other colors. If you are a computer hack you don not need to bother buying paint at all.

limerick of the day--by gardega

There once was a man named Vermeer
whose talent was painfully clear
his circles of light were brilliant and bright
the Camera Obscura was near!



art lesson of the day---google camera obscura...

The Dali

Like any artist I spent some time in front of and behind the bars of NYC..I have invented the best drink ever and have named it--- The Dali.

1 ounce malibu rum

1 ounce white tequlia

creme de cacao (white)

heavy cream

Kahlua splash (optional)

add ice and shake

Hemingway would have been proud of this.

alex art book

I found a place online that lets you publish your own art books...I am going to make a book of my art--it is about time..if anyone wants to buy one please contact me...you can see prices etc. at www.blurb .com, if you bought art from me maybe I can include your work(s) in the book. Let me know if you would like your pieces to be in my first book.


alexgardega@gmail.com

etched glass by gardega

I am working on a bunch of art deco inspired windows downtown for a hi-end party event space.

quote of the day--hunter s thompson

'If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.' - H. Thompson

coney island photos

I took some photos at coney island yesterday..overcast and rainy...

orwell diaries---august 11

August 11

11 August, 2008 by orwelldiaries

This morning all surfaces, even indoors, damp as a result of mist. A curious deposit all over my snuff-box, evidently residue of moisture acting on lacquer.

Very hot, but rain in afternoon.

Am told the men caught another snake this morning – definitely a grass snake this time. The man who saw them said they had tied a string round its neck & were trying to cut out its tongue with a knife, the idea being that after this it could not “sting.”¹

The first Beauty of Bath apples today.