BellGab.com Archive

Time, filters.

Quote from: albrecht on April 18, 2016, 10:28:07 PM
Your stuff is cool and you will always be a legend from the old calls. But, I hope that those calls will be a footnote in the museums and art auctions for your stuff! Good luck, I hope you made/make-it to Oregon and get your stuff sorted out of the storage units etc.
ps: keep on Fidgeting!

Thanks for the kind thoughts,


it's
       just
               a



"matter" of "time".

Wingdings!

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on April 17, 2016, 08:39:57 PM
https://youtu.be/Bi0r34ztSP8  Art, you need more "go for it" in your life.

I sincerely hope my suggestion to add more "go for it" to Art's life has not lead to hospitalization!

I also hope Art is ok.

Quote from: WildCard on April 16, 2016, 11:40:33 AM
Great call last night, bro. "Blessed are the peacemakers . . ."

Thanks!

Quote from: 73s on April 16, 2016, 11:54:27 AM
We're close in age. Yep, I'm a ham operator. And good to hear you on the show last night.

Someday I'll have the time/space to take the test. I like RF. As a young boy I went cross-country hitchhiking with Dad, and we got picked up by a trucker. He let me play with the CB, and I've liked "broadcasting" ever since.

Quote from: GravitySucks on April 16, 2016, 01:38:02 PM
Hey Mr. Fidget. Got to hear your call. Sounded like you are doing good.

This last week has been great. I'm hopeful that soon I'll succeed in my quest to relocate to Oregon, and have a little art studio. Thanks for your help in that direction, it means a lot to me.

https://youtu.be/Bi0r34ztSP8
Art, you need more "go for it" in your life.

Quote from: Ciardelo on April 16, 2016, 12:25:56 AM
Mr. Fidget owes me 5 bucks

As I've mentioned... after inflation it would be $7.66
Have your people resubmit the claim to my people. Provide dual triplicate copies, without "goldenrod" which should be retained for your records. You may fidget with your copy. Bearing this in "mind"... please refrain from folding, stapling, or mutilating. "Folding" will, in spite of the quality of the cards in your "hand", forfit the 7.66 and cause further remittances to be due. Faced with these newly current set of "facts", you are welcome to go back in time to retain the $5 in advance, thereby being there, and avoiding  this conversation entirely.

Quote from: chefist on April 15, 2016, 10:30:41 PM
Good luck, Mr Fidget!

Thanks chefist!
When I am set up in my studio, I'll put art in the store.
Fidget Friday is completed.

This is an old Hughes Planetarium.
I had one and took it apart to see the gears.
One cool apparatus.

Quote from: 73s on April 15, 2016, 05:57:14 PM
Hope you're having a good Friday Mr. Fidget

I am, and likewise 73s. I figure you are a ham, based on your user name. I'm a bit of a ham myself... but not the FCC kind. This pic is a screen grab of my first appearance on tv as an "extra". It was in Mork and Mindy, ep. 55 Dueling Skates (11/27/80). I was 12. I'm the kid whose hands you can see, looking at the camera.

Fidget Friday continues... all questions served before midnight MV time.

Yes, it is Fidget Friday... ask Mr. Fidget.

Rumor has it that this piece of mat board I cut can be interpreted as a "troll logic" map.

   Aww shucks, the sase's from Art's 1997 listeners got moist enough to seal themselves! They were fine when I put them in this briefcase in the 90's. My storage facility was not as "climate controlled" as I was lead to believe. Drat!!

Quote from: coaster on April 08, 2016, 09:32:55 PM
find a coffee shop looking for a logo. this is a million dollars right here. Looks like a drop of coffee falling into a cup. though I've been drinking, maybe I'm interpreting it wrong. . I think it's great though.

When I cut that little image I was trying to do it in "one line". I think I added the light on the drop as an afterthought. Thanks for the compliment.

Quote from: DigitalPigSnuggler on April 09, 2016, 01:34:26 AM
Well, now I'm confused.  I thought you were asking for donations.

You seem much more sane and intelligent than some who are supporting you.  Whatever path you decide to take, I hope it works out for you.  Good luck.

Although I was only three when the album came out, I'm going need to bring into "field of view" some Firesign Theater here...

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus.

   Being a "working artist" who has practiced his art for more than 20 years, building on the experience of each day... I have had enough of those experiences to have more than a dozen art "endorsements" on linkedin. I'm not really seeking validation for my art here at bellgab.
   Having also interfaced with the "art seeking" public in Venice for decades, on and off, I have stood toe-to-toe with millions of people for more than a thousand accumulated days.  I have a pretty good idea what can be accomplished with art. I know my art is in the hands & homes of tens of thousands of people, and is so marketable that there are whole websites who copy my work. I'll do just fine in my new studio, know it.
   I do sincerely recommend that book I posted here a few posts ago, because it is a great exploration of the "art vs. business" dichotomy. If you like what I'm doing and want to help, please do. If not, well thanks for your consideration, and stay tuned because I'm about to generate a bunch of fun, informative, and useful content... as art.

Nobody will need to support my efforts to enjoy them.

A quote from a great book, "Make Art Make Money" by Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

"We accept the victory of money over art and welcome the artist’s destruction in righteous, sulky pessimism."

http://marketingtrw.com/blog/make-art-make-money-by-elizabeth-hyde-stevens-book-review-highlights/

A few more pics:

First a micro cut of Salvador Dali's "Soft self portrait", me (in the negative) balancing on a rail, & some of my art in a local art supply store.
For those than help, thanks!
And those that don't, thanks... anyway.

Quote from: GravitySucks on April 08, 2016, 02:08:42 PM
I am on a quest to help Mr. Fidget restore his dignity and to help him move to Eugene, Oregon so that he can begin producing fidgets and some other artwork that he has envisioned.

Respectfully,
GravitySucks.

Wow, and thank you! I am very appreciative of the kind words, and donations that have materialized today. My fervent hope is simply to have a stable location in which to create great art, and art related content to share with the world online. Today is the first time in years both of my storages have been paid through the current month. It means a lot to me, and I'll be pushing ahead to create some astounding imagery... and sculpture. I know that when I manifest the visions in my mind's eye, many people will get to enjoy them.

What a day!

Quote from: whoozit on April 07, 2016, 06:28:36 PM
Sorry, that was rather crass.  But it is quite aesthetically pleasing. 

    - For the words of the profits were written on the studio walls

I really don't blame you, when I found the pic in my laptop... I though "gosh, I want one of those again!".
I have recently found a potential pinball source, I'll keep you apprised when I can make one.

This sculpture was... heck if I know.

This is the "Omnigrid" sculpture that can change it's shape.
I let this piece go for a song last year... to save my storage.

Quote from: aldousburbank on April 07, 2016, 06:20:14 PM
I keep forgetting what is this thread aboot.

It's aboot, in the most succinct extraction, circles connected to circles.

Quote from: whoozit on April 07, 2016, 06:13:50 PM
Would you be willing to sell one for $60?  I could put the money plus shipping in your go fund me account and arrange shipping via pm.

Wham! Art meets business... just like that. Alas, my pinball supply was fleeting, and I don't have those three sizes of chain currently. It's part of a collector's set that he got back when "creativity" met "material" in the 90's.
Maybe someday.

Quote from: 73s on April 07, 2016, 05:55:21 PM
That looks cool, how does it work? I can't envision how it spins.

It's the circles that spin, the weight of the chain holds the momentum as it spins on the pinball.
It has the "retrograde optical effect", multiple levels of visually changing directions like when a bicycle tire is "at that speed".

These are some of my Dad's work:

Quote from: albrecht on March 28, 2016, 10:13:34 PM
MF have you ever approached any museum or art gallery or school of art etc to show, sell, or display your stuff? I've far worse stuff in places like that. (Of course no accounting for tastes and who am I to judge.) But? Maybe an option esp because your mat stuff is cool but the fidgets are like art and mechanical/moving (and self-help and even time-travel) so that this multimedia art display stuff popular now at some galleries/places/festivals. And even interactive.
Ps: keep on fidgeting

I have no doubt that upon getting a basic level of stability, and actually starting a "business" such placements would occur. I've had interest from various outlets, but it always boils down to my basic inability to "conduct business" as an individual. It's not an unknown problem for "artist types", many of the best have had similar difficulties with "business". Right now I have huge problems (by my scale @ < $1000) including an upcoming auction of my Oregon storage, and lock-out of my LA unit. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I will find a way. My "gofundme" garnered $80 in a couple days, and although I stopped promoting it, it still exists. Nobody from Bellgab participated, and that showed me something...

and now to show ya'll something... this is a pinball top made from three sizes of chain, it can spin for < 5 minutes with one spin.

Quote from: bobo17 on April 05, 2016, 11:48:02 AM
You are missing the POINT.
Do to my unparaleled influence and respect, i alone have the power to bring this issue
to a sucesful conclusion.  I am really really smart and very well respected by all those involved
in this unfortunate situation.  You can post your thoughts all you want on a public board, but I
am the ONLY ONE who has the influence on the players to make it happen.

bobo

Have a seat(s) Bellgab, bobo has spoken.

Stacked dodecahedrons.

Quote from: The General on March 26, 2016, 11:28:51 PM
Which one is the original Fidget?  Upper left?

Indeed, upper left. That's the one I first made in 1991. I call it an "Original Linkey Fidget". To it's right is "The Clicker", the three loops of chain. Below is "The Double Ring Rotator", with the "Domino" to it's right. I consider them all "Linkey Fidgets".
   Someday I'd like to have the time and space to write a comprehensive history on the "Original". I know I can fill one hundred pages of tips, tricks, techniques, and insights. Hopefully sooner than later.