{"id":3282,"date":"2011-06-22T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:49:42","slug":"plans-for-the-v-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/plans-for-the-v-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans For The V-Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished my painting of my friend Vernon Head near Mt. Umunhum and the Guadalupe Reservoir south of San Jose last week. I used a palette brush more than usual. Vernon\u2019s a good painter, you can see some of his oils here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I want to get back into my novel Turing & Burroughs <\/em>now, but I\u2019m still painting, a piece called V-Bomb<\/em>. I think the painting is helping me with the novel.<\/p>\n

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The V-bomb is a device that Alan Turing is going to use perhaps to remove these parasitic skug creatures from Earth\u2014or perhaps to spread skugs all over <\/em> Earth. We\u2019ll suppose that the V-bomb rays are expected to pass through matter, so there\u2019s no particular need to set it off high up in the atmosphere. It\u2019s just sitting in a tin shed in the Frijoles Canyon near Los Alamos. Like this:<\/p>\n

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I found another big stash of bomb photos <\/a> online, including this one of the of the Trinity bomb, shown above, with gnarly exposed wiring. It was built in Los Alamos, they called it The Gadget<\/a>, and it exploded in the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb, which took place on July 16, 1945, near White Sands, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

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That cross-legged guy suggests the idea of Turing getting inside the V-bomb. And instead of expanding outwards, the V-bomb implodes. I got the imploding idea from my painting V-Bomb <\/em>that I\u2019m currently working on. I kind of ruined the painting today\u2026a lot. The colors are horrible. But I did get the layout the way I wanted.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s just a stage. Version 2. And now on to Version 3. I\u2019ve recently developed this habit of photographing my painting in its current state, and then collaging or drawing in extra bits in Photoshop, and using that as a mockup for the next stage. So here\u2019s the mockup for Version 3.<\/p>\n

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The win for me in this process is that sometimes working on a painting can give me an idea for a piece of fiction I\u2019m working on. <\/p>\n

My idea in the mockup above is that Turing is squatting in the V-bomb on the right, and then he\u2019s vaporized and becomes the living essence of the blast\u2014which is shrinking towards a tiny size\u2014and then, when the blast is sufficiently compact, a rip opens up in the fabric of space, and Turing slides through into the afterlife.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cTuring and the Skugs\u201d\u009d, 40″ x 30″ inches, Oct 2010, Oil on canvas.” Click for larger version.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Note, however, that he\u2019ll need to send out some rays\u2014or perhaps some logic paradox?\u2014to destroy any free-ranging skugs, and to restore any skuggers to their normal state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished my painting of my friend Vernon Head near Mt. Umunhum and the Guadalupe Reservoir south of San Jose last week. I used a palette brush more than usual. Vernon\u2019s a good painter, you can see some of his oils here. I want to get back into my novel Turing & Burroughs now, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}