{"id":472,"date":"2007-11-27T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/mossy-trees-futurama\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T22:19:18","slug":"mossy-trees-futurama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/mossy-trees-futurama\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossy Trees, Futurama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mossytrees.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I finished my painting, &#8220;Mossy Trees,&#8221; that I started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/castle-rock-painting-davenport-thanksgiving\/\">last week <\/a> in Castle Rock park.<\/p>\n<p>I spiced it up with an eyeball in one of the trees.  I was thinking a little of Magritte, the way he\u2019d slip fantastic details into so many of his more-or-less realistic paintings.  Also it\u2019s a way of making manifest the hylozoic notion that the trees are conscious.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mossytreesedge.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And I put another eyeball in a part of a trunk that\u2019s painted on the canvas edge.  I\u2019m into painting all around the edges, I like the effect, and it means you don\u2019t have to worry about framing.  The canvas becomes a sculptural object in itself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/nyaufo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s egoboo: Matt Groening reads my books!  I saw this in a<a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/15-12\/ff_futurama\"> <em>Wired <\/em>article <\/a>about the return of <em>Futurama<\/em>. (Thanks to Paul DiFilippo for the heads-up.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/software.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This explains why I felt such a shock of recognition when I saw one of the early <em>Futurama <\/em>episodes, and the robots were getting stoned and selling replacement human organs out of back alleys.  That\u2019s totally the world of my <em>Ware <\/em>series: <em>Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware<\/em>.  By the way, I\u2019m making slow progress on getting the <em>Wares <\/em>back into print\u2014more on this in a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finished my painting, &#8220;Mossy Trees,&#8221; that I started last week in Castle Rock park. I spiced it up with an eyeball in one of the trees. I was thinking a little of Magritte, the way he\u2019d slip fantastic details into so many of his more-or-less realistic paintings. Also it\u2019s a way of making [&hellip;]<\/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-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}