Still fun to see an new image show up in the side bar. Pa caught my attention Mark its a good one. Seems to depict, for me, looking at the sun from underwater, while a bit drunk. Would make a good logo maybe for orange juice I particularly like the swastika origin an ancient archetypal symbol with records going to Egypt and sun god idolatry before that guy usurped it.
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Pa
That's one of my favorites too, I want it on a T-shirt.
I got around to partially documenting the origins of this tile, but things are still disconnected a bit. It's cool to think about how many nice patterns come out of these systems, I'm just picking some low hanging fruit.
I wrote a similar backstory for Pa, relating it to the Zia sun symbol. I showed my mother one of my animated tilings that uses "Ansel star". She looked a bit worried and her first remark was about how it looked like swastikas. I think the only way to bury these bad associations with beautiful symbols and patterns is by appropriation -- use them in other contexts as much as possible. But I don't think Sunny Delight is going to use it as a logo anytime soon!
I left a message on your phone yesterday, wondering if you were playing at Mac's. It turns out that I couldn't get there anyway, but I'm going to try to get there next Thursday. Let me know if/what time you'll be on.
Live music
Thanks for the call. Mac's has stopped holding open mics for the time being. I still play out about once a week either in eugene or cottage grove. If I've got a gig that looks promising I will letcha know about it. Otherwise I will just try to keep my blog, varmint5000, updated with my musical trials and tribulations.
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