FOUNTAIN EXHIBITION WITH OPEN GROUND ART COLLECTIVE
Share come check out 3 of my latest paintings at Fountain Art Exhibition during New York’s premiere art weekend. I will be there tonight, friday the 5th from 8pm to 10pm…see here for more info, directions, etc.
Akbar’s Aphorisms #2
ShareOnly when one is free from a nostalgic or regressive view of history and also free from a utopian or apocalyptic vision of the future can one concentrate on being. And only in concentrating on being can one both participate in the great tradition of human culture and explore the innovation needed for future human [...]
Vallario’s latest work. Atomic Kings and Towering Teachers.
ShareAtomic Kings and Towering Teachers – a study in grey matters, a study of differing vanishing points.
The War of Art
Share Selections from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you [...]
Divine Comedy – NSFW
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I fought the law and the law won.
ShareOnce again my conscience is tugging away at me, like a splinter in my mind. I am still baffled by the idea that we spoke to some issues, and they were provacative to be sure, but we got a load of irrational emotional responses, and more than that we were threatened with the use of [...]
Akbar’s Apology
ShareDear Globatron and its readers, I am writing to end this project. I must first apologize to Byron because I am doing this without speaking to him and I hope he will forgive me. I honestly had no idea how seriously this project would be taken. If I honestly felt it would harm someone I [...]
Extremes.
ShareWell, here at Globatron, we’ve gone from one extreme to the other. On one hand you have nonsensical, playful, avoidant artists. And on the other you have threatening, violent, out of control single-minded ones. (some of which are wolves in sheep’s clothing) though it is frightening, it is common to our time, exreme polarities that [...]
Love Letter to Valuistics #1
ShareDear Valuistics, Once again you have broken up with us. But I fear this time you mean to stay away. I had grown used to your proclamations of disgust, your slamming the door, and how shortly after you would come back, I had come to believe that it was your way of loving us. But [...]
Akbar’s Facts #3 – A Moral Position Will be Inescapable.
Share Akbar’s Facts #3 – A moral position is inescapable. After listening to Maude Barlow’s talk on the Big Ideas Podcast, on the escalating water crisis, it became obvious to me that all of us, artists included, were going to have to come to terms with their daily actions and how those relate to our [...]
Akbar’s Bucket List
Share Things I want to accomplish before I die (feel free to share your own list): 1. A great artistic masterpiece that is equal to all others. 2. A great artistic work of masculine beauty. 3. An album of music, written and performed by myself. 4. A great novel. 5. A great work of philosophy. [...]
Akbar the Zealot #1 – God
Share Let us holy ones raise the stakes and get to brass taxes… One would find it easier to speak of God in Congress than in an art gallery these days, but oh, has that question been answered? What is God, and how do we relate to the spiritual aspect of existence, and of course, [...]
Delocated
ShareOnce again, proof that Globatron has its finger on the pulse… go to the link for the pilot. http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951f6f9edb011f701960fb0025
Art icle
Sharecheck out this article about the transformation of the ‘Art World’ into an ‘Art Market’ and its subsequent collapse, and where that leaves us. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-02/pop-goes-the-art-market/
A Call to Arms
ShareDearest Globatron Members, Tomorrow Byron King, a.k.a. Globatron, will undergo a very difficult surgery and he will be away from us for at least a few weeks. I wanted to encourage all the members of this site, and members of the arts community to engage with a higher level of enthusiasm to honor him, and [...]
Akbar’s Limericks #1
ShareThere once was an artist named Hirst Whose ego could never be burst If we cut him to pieces We would find no real thesis except a shark and his post-modern thirst.
The G is for Globatron, Way to Go!
Share That’s dedication! My man had them make an extra 2 incisions in order to represent Globatron! Shazaam!
Global High School Conspiracy
ShareThe whole nation was raised in a system of enforced obedience. The athletes and cheerleaders, they still rule our world, while the intellectual, outsiders stand over in a corner and wonder what to do with our blogs. I remember when I joined the football team. I decided I wanted to be popular. I stuck with [...]
Akbar’s Studio
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Akbar’s Fortress
ShareSaw this building on the internet. Thought it was way fantabulous, elegant. The designers have a website that is very fun to navigate, maybe get some ideas. http://www.3deluxe.de/ akbar
Favorite Podcasts
Share Yo Homies, after all the talk of podcasts I thought I would share my favorites in order of preference, in case there’s a few you never heard of. 1. WNYC Radio Lab 2. In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg 3. Alan Watts Podcast 4. Philosopher’s Zone 5. CBC Radio: The Best of Ideas 6. [...]
The Singularity is Near
ShareI predict this will be one of the most important books of the 21st Century. If you would rather be low-brow about it, which is fine by me, check out the podcast interview of Ray Kurzweil on CBC Radio – The Best of Ideas by clicking play below, and blow your mind about the future, [...]
