THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 21 :A Picture Disc

 11 August 1979 - 29 September 1979

our artist has his first one man show..

he's come up with a concept album..

of course he has..

he has written a stream of consciousness piece..

(rant)..

THE REBEL

he is writing this at home in his new wimpy home..

in the burbs..

he is not amused..

art school has disappeared in the rear view mirror..

and he has a job..

although it is a graphics job..

and he gets to take photos and design stuff..

this is not his dream..

he is at heart an attic man..

so he paints in joe's garage..

he is a nice boy..

"he used to cut the grass"..

PARADISE LOST

he paints about the dreams of youth..

and how each generation sees it's rebellions dissolve..

it's all in the pictures..

click on the images for full size readability..

he includes quotes form books he likes..

and poems he has written

his friends are invited to write stuff..

an artist's dream come true..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 6

 IN THE CONA BAR WITH DOCILE AND BRUIN

It is 1967 or 8..

our boy is coming of age..

he is 'in town' in Griffin and Spalding a department store..

he is with friends from school..

nick names only..

Docile is Stones but Bruin is Beatles..

they are 'Mods'..

of a kind..

not the Parker and scooter and soul kind..

these guys have

back combed hair and flares..

they also listen to..

Incredible String Band, Spook tooth, Ten Years After..

They are townies where our boy is strictly Burbs..

he is doing 'O' level Art at school..

this is probably an after school thing..

before going home..

on a bus..

NO KEDS YET

our boy is only 15..

these guys are 16..

as is nearly every one in his school year..

Docile and Bruin read 'Oz'

and like underground stuff..

they are aesthetes of a sort..

and so we are in The Cona Bar..

not

THE FOUR SEASONS

where all the proper mods and townies sit..

where a cup of coffee is 8 old pennies..

around 60 cups for £1..

3 cups for two shillings..

that's ten pence in New Money..

about 24 cups of Joe for a $1..

at that time..

here in the Cona Bar..

all are drinking Russian Tea..

tea with no milk in a glass with a slice of lemon..

they are Uptown Top Ranking..

THE PHONE NEVER RINGS BUT IT POURS

nobody needs to wear noise cancelling headphones..

as there are no mobile (cell) phones..

no laptops, no idiot videos for juniors..

who cannot sit at table properly..

here in The Cona Bar..

silence or just a gentle hum of real conversations..

our boy is just a junior partner in this meet..

is is hopelessly out cooled by these guys..

yet he is here..

just as one day he will be an artist..

he is expecting to fly..

and is still but a fledgeling..

but he is both..

Four Seasoned and Cona Barred..

and will struggle to take off..

not an early pick for the team..

he would only have become arrogant..

anyway.. probably..

there are many stories in the tale of..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

will he succeed?

or snatch defeat from the jaws of victory/

can the boy from the Burbs..

be the golden boy..

or has the boy with the glasses..

blond mop and gold lame jacket..

left only muddy waters..

and the blues?

WATCH THIS SPACE

the sugar paper of the Art Class..

will become..

the large canvas of..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

see it all unfold..

in precious technicolor..

KING ELVIS HAS SURELY COME

yo!.. solo mio... innit!

 so..

on with the show..

it's 1979..

 

 

The median income of households in the United States was $16,530 in 1979..

an increase of 10 percent over the 1978 median of $15,060.

..the most famous people died who died in the year 1979..

This list includes people like John Wayne..

Josef Mengele, Dhyan Chand, Sid Vicious..

The Walkman virtually invented the concept of "personal electronics." 

The first Walkman..

 featured a cassette player and the world's first lightweight headphones..

A Walkman cost $200.00 in 1979.

 

Cost of a new home : $71,800.00

• The Quote: "This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day." - Akio Morita, Sony Chairman, about the Sony Walkman.
• On January 9, Vietnamese troops took the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, and toppled the brutal regime of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge.
• The Top Song was My Sharona by The Knack
• The Big Movies included Kramer vs. Kramer, Superman and The Amityville Horror
• TRS-80 Computer, 4k, Model 1: $499.00
  Price of a gallon of gas in 1979: 88 cents
• The World Population was ~ 4,312,000,000
• The First Strawberry Shortcake doll went on sale.
• The Cray supercomputer was invented by Seymour Cray.
• And... The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck-open pressure release valve, aired only 12 days before the 3 Mile Island Meltdown, caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck open pressure release valve. 

most people would have called it..

new paintings..

but not our boy..

it's a take on..

king harvest has surely come..

here in palookaville..

we like to relate to famous stuff..

like..

I saw the figure 5 in gold.. 

once upon a time in the west..

she came in through the bathroom window..

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS

that's the picture on your left foreground..

is inspired by the idea of..

culture shock or cultural imperialism..


JUST ANOTHER GUY NAMED JOE


the one with the roller blind..

made from old glory..

is another echo..

from east 100 st.

you know..

the child in the photo..


ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE


this is a trip..

drugs are not recommended..

but this is the artist at dawn in bangor park, belfast 1970..


PUTTING ON THE AGONY PUTTING ON DE STIJL


little english elvis..

how to draw automobiles..

and all our dreams go pop..


OH.. AND THAT'S CAP




the painting on your right hand side..

sitting in his condo..

with his off duty duds on..

enjoying a beer..

"with the hi fi high and the lights down low"

the painting show is described as a picture disc..

music is a backdrop..

you see it not hear it..

it's the background..

it's the rhythm..

it's the soul..


DID THEY GET IT?


it's too soon to say..