{"id":2450,"date":"2010-08-02T19:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T03:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2010-08-03T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:36:41","slug":"new-painting-the-riviera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/new-painting-the-riviera\/","title":{"rendered":"New Painting: “The Riviera”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished a new painting today, \u201cThe Riviera.\u201d\u009d I was going for a kind of French Impressionist look with this one, thinking of a garden party. Another inspiration was that I\u2019d recently seen the Mel Brooks theater production of Young Frankenstein. But I went for a robot or mechanical man rather than a Frankenstein\u2019s monster. I like how he\u2019s glowing from the inside. In a way, this painting is an image of my wife Sylvia and me, on a car-trip we took to the Riviera with her brother Henry, in 1966, the year before Sylvia and I were married.<\/p>\n


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\nThe Riviera, 40\u201d\u009d by 30\u201d\u009d, August, 2010. Oil on canvas. Click here to see larger image<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

As usual, you can get prints or originals of my paintings at my paintings site<\/a>, also this page has a link to my Lulu art book of paintings, Better Worlds<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m still fooling around with my new Alan Turing story, it\u2019s always fun to be writing. I like the craft of the process, the kneading, the interactions with the muse.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been twittering a certain amount of late, too, and some of the tweets have to do with ramifications of my Turing research. If you want to see my tweets, click the button below.<\/p>\n

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Brendan Byrne, a young writer who edits an off-kilter webzine called \u201cThe Orphan<\/a>,\u201d\u009d sent me a link to a stirring blog post by SF titan Norman Spinrad. As sometimes happens to aging writers, Norman is having trouble getting his books published these days. Norman analyzes this in terms of a \u201cdeath spiral<\/a>\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n

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Norman is about five years older than me, he was kind to me when I was new at writing. When I was coming up, his Bug Jack Barron <\/em>came as a revelation. You can put curse words in a science fiction book!<\/p>\n

Reading his blog-post complaint, I too worry about remaining publishable. More and more often I think of the folk-tale that, among the Inuit, when a member of the tribe becomes too old and decrepit to care for, they\u2019re put on an ice-floe with a hunk of blubber to chew as they drift northward towards the unwinking sun.<\/p>\n

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You can substitute \u201ce-books\u201d\u009d for \u201chunk of blubber,\u201d\u009d I guess\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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