Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

Wait, what? (screenshot #1)

Do I read this correctly: Artists submit their work for an auction, and if they're selected and the painting sells, they get between 0% and 15% of the selling price.

Oh, they list "benefits" (screenshot #2). Let's see.

> All selected artists will be included in our robust promotional campaigns.

Oh, you'll use my art in an ad campaign for free. Awesome. I'm gonna be famous.

> Artists will receive bidder information from their sold artwork after the Auction.

Do we get their cell number and the name of the school attended by their children? I can't wait to stalk them.

> All artist applicants will have their work seen by local art-world luminaries who jury the work for inclusion consideration.

Sweet, a jury of local randos will get to see my painting.

> Your contribution as an Auction Artist directly supports ArtSpan’s programs, and has a positive impact on our local art community.

Sounds like an ineffective way for artists to give their money to other artists.

You know what, I'll skip this and focus on making art.

https://artspan.submittable.com/submit/287572/artspans-50th-anniversary-juried-benefit-art-auction

#art #exploitation #artistexploitation #wtf #desperation #scam

Bloviccem
Martin J., January 2024
46 cm × 61 cm, acrylic on canvas
Made with exactly 7 colors.
#art #mastoart

A question idiote, réponse idiote.

These paint rollers are made of real space-raised tribbles!
#painting #startrek #space #organic #farming

Fascinating advertising tactic in the insurance business: insult the people you don't want as customers because they're the ones who would cost you more money.

#advertising #ads #scam #insurance

Left: Tuna Fishing by Salvador Dalí (1966-1967). It's 3 by 4 meters!
Right: Day and Night by M.C. Escher (1938).
Your job is to find the Escher birds in the Dalí painting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Fishing_(painting)
#art #surrealism #fish #birds #psychedelic

First piece of 2024! Here's some music I was listening to, a cover of Depeche Mode's Somebody by hante: https://youtu.be/l84NU2ZWo9I

#art #mastoartist

Remember The Dress, a viral sensation back in 2015? I was wondering if I was still perceiving it like I used to, that is white and gold. I now see it "as it is", i.e. a terrible photo that could be interpreted either as a completely backlit white and gold dress or a blue and black dress with strong lighting coming from inside the store. I also see the colors that I would have to use to turn the photo into a painting. This is probably as a result of spending a lot of time looking at paintings and painting.

Do you see it differently than you used to 8 years ago?

#colors #art #dress #old #perception #painting #photography

I'm reading about giant dinosaurs and now I'm convinced that their large size required lightweight bones which became later key to evolving into flying birds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus

#armchair #paleontology #evolution #dinosaurs #birds #bones

Helvooo, December 2023
46 cm × 61 cm, acrylic+brass on canvas

#art #artistonmastodon #abstractart

Gymnopilus ventricosus - jumbo gyms. Santa Cruz Mountains, California.
#mushrooms #fungi #trees #california

Amanita pachycolea (Western grisette), Pacific coast of northern California. One of the low-risk edible amanitas.
#mushrooms #fungi #champignons

A little something
https://martinj.art/all/#img-20231217
#art #artistonmastodon

Big mushroom day in the San Francisco Bay Area!

#mushrooms #fungi #bayarea #outdoors

A natural mind is an emerging system that shares the following properties with a cyclone:
- has a lifetime
- has a center that's defined in space with good accuracy with respect to the center of any other cyclone i.e. they are easy to distinguish from one another
- their spatial boundaries are fuzzy
- their start date is fuzzy
- their end date is also fuzzy but perhaps less so than their start date

Much of this model goes out the window when considering artificial minds implemented and clonable with modern computers.

#mind #analogy #philosophy #artificialintelligence

Stomilactilus, November 2023
61 cm × 91 cm
https://martinj.art
#art #abstractart #artistsonmastodon

Semi-wild Psilocybe cyanescens (wavy caps) and Psilocybe allenii have started to pop in large numbers in the Bay Area. This is the first week of the season with more than one rainy day. Harsh weather, I know.
#mushrooms #fungi #bayarea #psychedelics #california

Elfinnote, October 2023
61 cm × 91 cm, acrylic and brass leaf on canvas
https://martinj.art
#art #artistonmastodon #abstractart

Google Translate is being confused. It thinks "calaveras" is more likely to be an English word than a Spanish one, and of course, fails to translate it into anything.

It means "skulls".

#words #translation #languages #google

The Florentine Codex is now available for browsing online: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/

The Florentine Codex is a 2400-page account of the Aztecs as encountered by the Spaniards in the 16th century. It is notable not only for the novelty and completeness of its material but also for including the perspective of the locals rather than only of the colonists.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Codex

#history #mexico