Category Archives: Cephalopodmania

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Galactopod (I pay an art debt)

Posted on January 24, 2007 by cicada

Galactopod 2007 Watercolor on Winsor & Newton Paper My friend Seth and I have been mailing art back and forth for years. I don’t remember how it got started, but in the past year or two, I’m pretty sure he’s … Continue reading →

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Legos rule

Posted on January 20, 2007 by cicada

If I had to make a choice between Macs and Legos as commercial objects of devotion, I think my head would explode. I adore my Mac, I love my iPod, but as a child, Legos were my life. Even now, … Continue reading →

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Are those tentacles on your ceiling?

Posted on January 19, 2007 by cicada

Bisbiglio d’Amaranto Adam Wallacavage, 2006 Mixed media, epoxy resin coated cast plaster with lamp parts Welcome to Captain Nemo’s dining room! I’ve capitulated, and created a new post category: cephalopodmania. Where else can I file the unique work of Adam … Continue reading →

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Betcha didn’t see this at MLA. . .

Posted on January 9, 2007 by cicada

Out of reach Dave Rau www.redlabor.com Just as I began to fear that no topic could comfortably follow a post invoking medievalism and cephalopodmania, Phantasmaphile pointed me to the artwork of Dave Rau. Grungy engravings, fonts, textures, collaged and screened … Continue reading →

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Deliver us from MLA

Posted on January 7, 2007 by cicada

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog reminds me why I didn’t do my PhD in medieval lit: So it befel in dede that a volvo did pulle up and a voys from it seyd, ‘You going to Philadelphia?’ And thys creatur … Continue reading →

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