Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2:

 

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2

This is the second in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5 by Lilo Sound.

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Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1:

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1

This is the first in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

 

Themes:

art, artwork, poster, painting, acrylic, abstract, fluid painting, Kathleen Jane Kost, showreel, video, MP4

 

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

 

Music credit:

Ambiance#5

by Lilo Sound.

Amy Waldman, on writing:

 

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction.

Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

- Amy Waldman.

Recommended reading - The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster.
 
Science Fiction short story.
Published by Suzeteo Enterprises.
First published 1909.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1645941566
ISBN-13: 9781645941569
 
Description:
 

In our modern era, we like to congratulate ourselves for our sophistication, knowing that we have doubtless created a world that our feckless ancestors could never have imagined. Actually reading the works of those ancestors would disabuse us of any such notion, and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops is a case in point. Not only does it seem that Forster has contemplated the ubiquitous 'Zoom' call, but he correctly sensed the deadening of the soul that would accompany the faux-mastery of Nature, expressing itself through technology.

 

In The Machine Stops the height of mankind's advances was The Machine, and it cared for every aspect of human experience, and anticipated every human need, until such time that there was nothing left for humans to do except eat, and, if the algorithm approved, procreate; and when the algorithm decided Euthanasia was due, then Euthanasia was happily accepted. The Machine was not just the pinnacle of human ingenuity, it was Progress Incarnate. And then... the Machine Stopped. Today, we hail our own progress, technological and societal. If our machine stops, what then? Do we really suppose it is eternal?

Recommended reading - The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

 

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

by Syd Mead.
 
Published by Titan Books.
Published 2017.
Illustrated edition.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1785651188
ISBN-13: 978-1785651182
 
Description:

Syd Mead is one of the most accomplished and widely respected artists and industrial designers alive today. His career boasts an incredible array of projects from designing cars to drafting architectural renderings, but he is most famous for his work as a concept artist on some of the most visually arresting films in the history of cinema. Since working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1978 as a production illustrator Syd Mead has always aimed to render “reality ahead of schedule,” creating evocative designs that marry believable content with a neofuturistic form. It is this ability to predict technological potential that has helped Mead create such a distinctive and influential aesthetic. From his work with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, to his striking designs for the light cycles in Tron, to his imposing concept art for the U.S.S. Sulaco in James Cameron’s Aliens, Syd Mead has played a pivotal role in shaping cinema’s vision of the future.

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead’s visionary work ever printed, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concept arts from a career spanning almost 40 years, many of which have never been seen in print before. Each entry provides a unique insight into the processes involved in Mead’s practice as well as illuminating the behind-the-scenes work involved in creating a fully realized, cinematic depiction of the future. With such a plethora of images from the many genre-defining films Mead has worked on, this is essential reading for film fans, artists and futurologists alike.

Born on this day – Jessie Ralph:

Jessie Ralph

Actress

November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944

Credits:

They Met in Bombay (1941); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); The Bank Dick (1940); I Want a Divorce (1940); Girl from Avenue A (1940); I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940); Star Dust (1940); The Blue Bird (1940); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Mickey the Kid (1939); The Kid from Texas (1939); Cafe Society (1939); St. Louis Blues (1939); Four Girls in White (1939); Port of Seven Seas (1938); Hold That Kiss (1938); Love Is a Headache (1938); Double Wedding (1937); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Good Earth (1937); After the Thin Man (1936); Camille (1936); Walking on Air (1936); Bunker Bean (1936); San Francisco (1936); The Unguarded Hour (1936); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Yellow Dust (1936); The Garden Murder Case (1936); Captain Blood (1935); I Found Stella Parish (1935); Metropolitan (1935); I Live My Life (1935); Jalna (1935); Paris in Spring (1935); Mark of the Vampire (1935); Les Misérables (1935); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); Enchanted April (1935); David Copperfield (1935); Evelyn Prentice (1934); We Live Again (1934); One Night of Love (1934); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); Murder at the Vanities (1934); Coming Out Party (1934); Nana (1934); Ann Carver's Profession (1933); Cocktail Hour (1933); Elmer, the Great (1933); Child of Manhattan (1933); Such a Little Queen (1921); The Madonna of the Slums (1919); New York (1916); Mary's Lamb (1915); The Galloper (1915); A Ringer for Max (1915).

Born on this day – Etta Moten:

 

Etta Moten

Actress

Contralto vocalist

November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004

Credits:
 
Stage:

Fast and Furious (1931); Lysistrata (1946); Porgy and Bess (1943); Zombie (1932).

Movies and television:

A Day at the Races (1937); Amanda (1949); Bombshell (1933); Born to Sing (1942); Flying Down to Rio (1933); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Ladies They Talk About (1933); Operator 13 (1934); Professional Sweetheart (1933); Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker (1989); The Green Pastures (1936).