"Approved!"

I'm picturing Wiig's SNL Target Lady. My Wikipedia page was approved! It was a process with a learning curve for sure. And it required a bit of patience. But...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Edlen

Peace.

The Stones Project

This is epic. This is the coolest piece I've done. This is the coolest framing job of my work. This is why I do these.

This is why the fellow had me do these:

As a kid I always loved the Stones … tried to learn everything I could about them: first it was Mick, then I started learning about Keith, then Ronnie … in the three of them, I see the flash, the grit, the fun … but the beat holds it all together.  

I read this passage and it stuck with me: "There's an old saying among those who have know the Stones a long time. It's that Mick wants to be Keith, and they all want to be Charlie. Why Charlie? Because he's genuinely hip, he's got innate good taste, and understands restraint. Charlie kept his family together, and he never got off on the star trip that the rest of them did. He's just Charlie Watts and when the job's over,  he goes home and feeds his horses."

Who knows if it's true, but it's a great reminder when I'm sitting in my office all day not to get caught up in the perks of being a corporate exec … do the job and go home spend time with my wife, call my mother more often, enjoy the sunshine and my garden. Work comes around again tomorrow … until it doesn't.

Andy Warhol

I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

- Andy Warhol

redis(cover)

(i)nspired by photo by John Kelly on White Album cover

New music is great isn't it?

Especially when it reminds you of old music you like.

Right?

It's interesting how we gravitate towards what we already know. Music can remind us of other music in a lot of ways like rhythm, key, chord progression, lyric structure and instrumentation. Sometimes music directly references other music like Oasis sounding a bit like the Beatles. One popular way to pay homage to a musical influence and try to gain fans by recalling older music is to cover songs.

I'm just getting into the Black Keys and it was definitely cool to hear their version of the Beatles' She Said, She Said on their debut album. The Beatles recorded a lot of covers early on contractually with their label. It was smart for the Black Keys to remind me of Revolver too, my favorite album ever.

I like to think I 'cover' the work of the photographers from whom I draw inspiration. I try to credit them when I can, when I know who took the image I'm painting. When I paint a well known photo of an icon, I hope fans of the musician and photographer enjoy the piece more because of the familiarity.

When people see an exhibit of Vinyl Art in person, eyes light up when they recognize their favorites. Stories get told, memories get relived, music gets rediscovered.

That's why I paint these.

Peace.

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creating art on the artifacts of creativity

http://danieledlen.com

IFTTT

If this then that.

In my college course on artificial intelligence I learned how life can be modeled as sets of rules structured this way. Amidst the chaos it does seem that much of our existence can follow this structure.

It's just hard to follow, though. Like why Stevie Ray Vaughan ended up on that last minute fateful flight. Like why the piece I painted for Jason had to be of this portrait of Stevie Ray so that now I cry painting it because... well you know.

Anyway, IFTTT is easy to follow. And cool. It's a site/app/community thing that pulls together iOS functionality with lots of social media sites allowing one to create a 'recipe' taking the input from one 'channel' and generating output to another. It's very versatile and user friendly. I've scratched the surface with recipes to automatically spread posts to this blog on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We'll see what else I might cook up.

Peace.

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creating art on the artifacts of creativity

http://danieledlen.com