olga

olga, a photo by uominipersi on Flickr.

olga by uominipersi

Petri 7

Petri 7, a photo by pepper.brookes on Flickr.

Petri 7 by pepper.brookes
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One of the best I ever had. I was surprised and pleased to see this photo in pepper.brookes photostream on Flickr

BEFORE THE COOPS RUINED NYC HOUSING

BEFORE THE COOPS RUINED NYC HOUSING, a photo by roberthuffstutter on Flickr.

carlmarks_6

carlmarks_6, a photo by gautelfr on Flickr.

This is the type of photo that exercises one's imagination. It is possible that it has a purpose, but I cannot figure it out yet. Nevertheless, it is a work of art I think is unique.

butterfly

butterfly , a photo by samwyn on Flickr.

I am soon to be finding out about the process of Shamanic journeying, being in two places at once, discovering the known and unkown, developing and discovering other aspects of the self. Sometimes, life seems to also echo around me, like I turned on the television and there was a programme about how the earth came into being, that it had a sister that smashed into it, this programme has merged with one that explained the phenomenon of two atoms being in different places at one time, and different points of view on the idea of being able to journey to alternative worlds.

THE ART ...

THE ART ..., a photo by mrbill78636 on Flickr.

THE ART ...
... of Robert Huffstutter

I have been intrigued with Robert's art for some time. I think he works mostly in colored pencil, but I could be wrong. It doesn't matter, what he basically works in is color on paper and his brain is too busy feeling the need to implant images and information on the paper, he is totally unconcerned with style and technique.

Robert is a pure natural painter. He's not a primitive as we defined that school of art from a long time ago. I would call Robert a naturalist, because he stays natural to not only his subject matter, but to himself. His is the kind of art that not only tells the message he is sending, but is magically therapeutic for him as well.

I know vocabulary is changed with time. My father would have studied about dementia praecox (sp), while I was told this title was obsolete and people could be paranoid or perhaps manic-depressive, but that dementia praecox no longer had meaning. Nowever Senile dementia is still a good descriptor.

Again, watch out for me, because I got my basic education over sixty years ago. Artistically children were grouped into two categories, visual and haptic. Visual people generally attempt to draw things as they visualize them, while haptic children tend to draw things as they FEEL them.

Robert is not totally haptic, because his layouts are all just the way you would see the subject matter, but on the other hand Robert strongly draws what he feels as well.

Here's an example of what a visual-haptic person can do. I watched this happen over the years with adults, trained and untrained, who were thus gifted.

Teaching adults for me was almost entirely for the night hours, so going out to sketch was impossible. I furnished a target image with a slide and projector. Most of the pictures I took of subject matter introduced was from either a kneeling or standing position and looking straight on at the subject. That usually placed the horizon line low or midway in the center of interest.

The haptic person, might be expected to do anything under the sun, whereas the visual person would usually do the expected layout and the teacher needed only to show them how to set up and correct the perspective and how to measure distances and comparisons and with a lot of practice a student could soon be drawing very realistic things.

Now, comes along a visual/haptic person and they do a very visual house the only thing is they draw the house they are looking straight into as if they were on the second floor of a house across the street and hence are not looking AT the house but DOWN ONTO the house. And, of course I stood there appalled. I mulled over the phenomenon over many years and never ever tried to tell the person not to do that.

What they were doing was a perspective project, so complicated, had I required a first semester drawing class to do it would have caused them to walk out on me. That kind of ability is one of the main things about a visual/haptic person.

I learned that as you begin to draw, you start work on the right side of your mind, very methodically doing everything very meticulously and thought-out. Then somewhere along the line, you began to paint automatically and become consciously unaware of the forces working within your mind. Here is where the miracles come from. Sometimes a sentenced ending in a preposition imparts great wisdom. Koff koff,

That stage is where the haptic person is all the time. They are working on the opposite side of their brains. Everything is emotional and everything is just as they want it to be. They have already arrived at style and technique. They are already purely original, as purely as an artist can be.

Visual/haptics, or what I call naturalists (a bad title because it sounds like they're collecting butterflies or bugs). Haptics and visual/haptics both resist training and the reason is they are doing what they came to do. They are not trying to develop a style, a technique or any of the words we use to describe painting and painters. They have arrived and just want to be free to work. They begin every picture on the opposite side of their brain and end it the same way. Actually, I think the visual/haptic has no dividing line and simply lives in a perfect blend of the two conditions or perhaps, they automatically flip back and forth from one brain hemisphere to the other.

I've told this badly, but I hope I've given you a new understanding into the kinds of artists we have amongst us.

Vaya con Dios, Roberto....

... as I meander through Robert's photostream, I always have the urge to CHANGE something, not improve and not correct, simply change it, so that now you have TWO to look at from time to time. Robert welcomes this kind of collaboration. I looked at his view (image on the left) of an LA street from a hotel lobby and thought about it with a GLOW all around the edges (image in the middle), then I wondered what if the glow "whispered" instead of spoke out loud (image on the right).

Here's a link to Robert/s photostream ...

roberthuffstutter's photostream

roberthuffstutter's photostream on Flickr.

Was Vincent an alcoholic? Was he an absinthe drinker who painted the last great paintings of his life in the last two years of his life while under the influence of absinthe? There are those who knew, though the information has been filtered and hidden through the years, there is evidence that will shed light on this subject.

SUNSHINE LIQUORS IN MANHATTAN BEACH, 1960S

SUNSHINE LIQUORS IN MANHATTAN BEACH, 1960S, a photo by roberthuffstutter on Flickr.

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Car accident, ca. 1945

Car accident, ca. 1945
Originally uploaded by bobster855

Car accident, ca. 1945
Washington, D.C., 18th & F Streets, with streetcar in background.

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Uploaded by bobster855 on 22 Nov 09, 3.45AM PST.

ANOTHER DOWNTOWN BROADWAY MOBILE PHOTO SHOOT SEP 08 LAST 092

ANOTHER DOWNTOWN BROADWAY MOBILE PHOTO SHOOT SEP 08 LAST 092
Originally uploaded by roberthuffstutter

WHEELS AND METAL, RUBBER AND DESIGN, PROGRESS AMERICAN STYLE, PERFECT MARRIAGE, FREE ENTERPRISE AND DEMOCRACY, WALKING DOWN THE AISLE, IF ONLY THEY WOULD REPEAT THE VOWS JUST ONE MORE TIME...

Circus Girls

Circus Girls
Originally uploaded by tacosnachosburritos

So very pretty, so sexy and appealing. You have captured the essence of joy, the joy of life, and the reason why it would be so nice to just keep on living forever, right here and now...............Editor

Uploaded by tacosnachosburritos on 20 Sep 09, 10.08AM PDT

Tur-lulu

Tur-lulu
Originally uploaded by Larysa Kochel

A TRIBUTE TO YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECT

the natural layout, the way it grew, flourished and was then consumed by the season is akin to the grace and dignity of the old and weary, the elderly, the aged; a plant with a bit of bloom left still attracts a view, though it is almost hidden in some secret spot, out of the public eye, its decay proof of a life full of sunshine.

Robert L. Huffstutter

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
Originally uploaded by travelhaha

ONE OF MY FAVORITE FLICKR PHOTOGRAPHERS HAS SHOT A FEW PHOTOS OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE RETRO STARS.....THANKS TO travelhaha for posting so many great photos. Please take a look at all of travelhaha's works..............
Marilyn Monroe
Hokkaido (the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; north of Honshu)
Saporro

Shiroi Koibito Park 白之戀人朱古力城堡

Uploaded by travelhaha on 2 Mar 09, 8.57PM PDT.

91: Entranceway of a small shop

91: Entranceway of a small shop
Originally uploaded by Dorsett Studios

91: Entranceway of a small shop
A scanned color print photograph of a store front Penn Avenue
in the Bloomfield section of Pittsburgh some years ago.

Uploaded by Dorsett Studios on 14 Jan 08

Malmö-city

Malmö-city
Originally uploaded by bibbi.nelson

Malmö-city
Malmö-city-Sweden

Uploaded by bibbi.nelson on 14 Jul 09,

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DSC_0319

DSC_0319
Originally uploaded by superde1uxe

PHOTO BY SUPERDE1UXE
FROM HIS SET ENTITLED CALIFORNIA COAST
CLICK ON THE LINK AND VISIT A GALLERY THAT IS UNIQUE

DSC_1464

DSC_1464
Originally uploaded by superde1uxe

16_DSC7065

16_DSC7065
Originally uploaded by 19keung

PHOTOGRAPH BY 19keung..............one of the best abstract photos i have seen...................

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WHAT A FANTASTIC PHOTOGRAPHER

Originally uploaded by Bernard Schul

BERARD SCHUL is one of the best photographers I have seen on Flickr...

Woman in a Car 001

Woman in a Car 001
Originally uploaded by DCE Jeff

OLD REA WAGON WITH RED PAINT

OLD REA WAGON WITH RED PAINT
Originally uploaded by roberthuffstutter

OLD RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY WAGON ON THE DEPOT PLATFORM OF PARKVILLE, MISSOURI, ONCE A PASSENGER STOP FOR THE ROCK ISLAND LINE.

Winterschlaf

Winterschlaf
Originally uploaded by web.werkraum

FROM GERMANY, A WATERCOLOR MASTERPIECE, AN ENTIRE GALLERY OF FABULOUS PAINTINGS. WELL WORTH THE TOUR...

Winterschlaf
Wer weckt nun endlich den Frühling - er blinzelt schon ein wenig; was man hoffentlich auch sieht...

Wachsstifte und Wasserfarben auf Postkarte.