Swan Song { with instructions } or Franky's Way

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 Feb. 19, 2013 Frigid Minneapolis - Curators out buying fur coats , collector's with tax man. Museums on auto-play. Bad movies everywhere you look. Years ago (especially after that asteroid in siberia last week) I'm sure people start thinking let's make some EndTimes Art ? I've been listening to the Frank Ocean cd channel orange / I really enjoy this music and in earphones it's really extraordinary as this man has some serious flow plus as sweet a voice as Marvin Gaye.  My son Max said the younger people were listening to channel orange last April, but it is forever.

/ Swan instructions - Make a color print of this Swan jpg (included) glue to a discarded compact disk (cd) use a good reliable glue like Matte Gel medium from Golden acrylics. Thin coat if possible use heavy paper or card stock as the 20lb. xerox paper will be harder to glue ( thicker is easier and more reliable and will last longer).Then Put plastic over Swan on cd and flatten with dictionaries, wait overnight then carefully peel off the poly plastic and voila a Swan readymade. You can paint it whatever like pizza everybody likes different toppings. My Swami says no Salami - Swan is transitional deity from one sphere to the next, a sefirotic taxi and

F R A N K Y' S  W A Y - The swans I read about in Yeats, in a pool outside an old house where a woman lived and above her heath was a giant cartoon drawn by Burne-Jones for a mural and Yeats draws attention to the drawing as fading to nearly invisible like a trace of art. A more aesthetic life I could not have led. Though I hardly knew what aesthetics meant. But as truth has her beauty arise from nature from the harmony of science. I still love Burne- Jones work even though I've been taught it wasn't very great. It's too narrative too sentimental not modern, yearning for art before Raphael perfected the high Italian 15th century style . Which became a canon a set of practices in painting and especially religious painting. Earlier painter's like Perugino (Raphael's teacher) made more intimate more personal religious works almost naive, and Perugino always painted his landscapes( even in the backgrounds of religious paintings) as early spring with treeflowers in bloom. This yearning for a less sophisticated and compromised style or practice is something like Nietzsche's perference for the Pre-Socratic philosophers. A certain directness is lost as style becomes codified compared to it's more raw incarnations like early Hip Hop compared to it's form now. Listening to Biz Markier cassette I found in my hundreds of cassettes, it's very tasty. Biz Markie "Need A Haircut" 1991 - check it out.  Heard some of the second act of Rigoletto live broadcast from Met, really great singing a new Russian singer was the featured attraction. I love opera but my love is I think for the singing and the music more than the stories . This new production was set in Las Vegas in the early 1960's Rat Pack age. Same story different duds - sets whatever makes it good for you (opera ticket buyers). My way is to bend like a reed in the wind, and return always to your task your art your dream.

I learned how to find things by distracting myself enough from the obsession with finding the lost item to open up my eyes and see it. And  it's not always possible but when I do it I say to myself Zen, you know a little Zen. later SwanMasta MC Frunk-A-Dunk