Older Digital Painting using Autodesk + Photoshop + Wacom 2016
Art | Mind | Design
Photo Journal and other things
Tourist Season
Big Sur was on fire yesterday and the wind was strong and much hotter in the mountains than down below at ocean level. Chatted with a local who lived on the ridge I was on and he said that it was tourist campfires that sparked it. Signs were all over Big Sur and the entire drive saying no fires and high fire danger.
Panasonic Lumix G7 RAW + Darktable
Panasonic Lumix G7 RAW + Darktable
Google Pixel 2 pano. It tried at least.
The Long Way Home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierraville,_California
Winter Wonderland
Wishing I was back up in Tahoe.
Donner Lake Art Walk
Sunshine and Seals
Santa Cruz Wharf Wildlife
bombs bursting in air
Monterey Bay - Google Pixel 2
Google Pixel 2 Night Sight mode
“Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports,” Trump said of the fighting force created by the Continental Congress in 1775.
I mean let’s be honest here as soon as they turned on CERN all bets were off. Maybe things changed back then. https://home.cern/
Valentines Day 2018
Ra
Big Sur California
HAIL to thee, Amun-Ra, Lord of the thrones of the earth, the oldest existence, ancient of heaven, support of all things;
Chief of the gods, lord of truth; father of the gods, maker of men and beasts and herbs; maker of all things above and below;
Deliverer of the sufferer and oppressed, judging the poor;
Lord of wisdom, lord of mercy; most loving, opener of every eye, source of joy, in whose goodness the gods rejoice, thou whose name is hidden.
Thou art the one, maker of all that is, the one; the only one; maker of gods and men; giving food to all.
Hail to thee, thou one with many heads; sleepless when all others sleep, adoration to thee.
Hail to thee from all creatures from every land, from the height of heaven, from the depth of the sea.
The spirits thou hast made extol thee, saying, welcome to thee, father of the fathers of the gods; we worship thy spirit which is in us. - https://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/ppr/ppr16.htm
Into the Fire
Powers of the Secret Fire
The identity of the Secret Fire was known and concealed ever since the invention of writing in the Thothian epoch. “In allegories and fables,” remarks Pernety, “the philosophers have given to this Secret Fire the names sword, lance, arrows, javelin, etc. It is the Fire which Prometheus stole from heaven, which Vulcan employed to form the thunderbolts of Jupiter, and the golden throne of Zeus.”
The Secret Fire is therefore “thought” in its highest sense — equivalent to the god Thoth, the first alchemist who speaks only the true Word, which through intonation and vibration acts on matter to create new incarnations of Mind. To some extent, this divine power is shared by humans in the power of inspired thought and imagination. This fact was one of the greatest secrets of the alchemists.
Dinosaurs
Dave's not here
Shot in Tommy’s workshop
Fun day shooting with Tommy at his house during early day’s of CannabisClub.tv
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-cheech-chong-dave-20151127-story.html
The GOAT is binary
Reno Zoo
“Baphomet (/ˈbæfoʊmɛt/;[citation needed] from Medieval Latin Baphometh, Baffometi, Occitan Bafometz) is a deity that the Knights Templar were falsely accused of worshipping and that subsequently was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions.
The name Baphomet appeared in trial transcripts for the Inquisition of the Knights Templar starting in 1307.[3] It first came into popular English usage in the 19th century during debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.[4]
Since 1856, the name Baphomet has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Levi[5] which contains binary elements representing the "sum total of the universe" (e.g. male and female, good and evil, on and off, etc.).[6] On one hand, Lévi's intention was to symbolize his concept of "the equilibrium of the opposites" that was essential to his magnetistic notion of the Astral Light; on the other hand, the Baphomet represents a tradition that should result in a perfect social order.[7]”
Pura Vida
Costa Rican Sunsets
#BTC #ETH
Salinas Beach, Ibiza Spain
I also enjoy making electronic mixes. And some full originals https://soundcloud.com/pedro-de-gringo
it is way hot in Santa Cruz
Near San Luis Resivor
THE PHOENIX
“Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branches of an oak, or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and myrrh, and of these ‘materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its last breath amidst odours. From the body of the parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parent’s sepulchre), and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun.”
Marshes
Marshes near Vacaville, CA.
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”
Full Bloom in Summer '04
“The art of victory is learned in defeat.”
Catching up
Hawaii, USA
“The World Turtle (also referred to as the Cosmic Turtle or the World-bearing Turtle) is a mytheme of a giant turtle (or tortoise) supporting or containing the world. The mytheme, which is similar to that of the World Elephant and World Serpent, occurs in Hindu mythology, Chinese mythology and the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The “World-Tortoise” mytheme was discussed comparatively by Edward Burnett Tylor (1878:341). ”
Follow the Light
Santa Cruz, CA
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”