{"id":5164,"date":"2014-03-03T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T19:09:28","slug":"spring-clearance-sale-on-my-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/spring-clearance-sale-on-my-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Clearance Sale on my Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time for another sale on my paintings.<\/p>\n

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I have no room left in my storage racks, and I\u2019m painting more than ever. Please buy one! I\u2019ve cut just about all the prices by $100 or $200. Check out the prices <\/a> now. I know some of you said you\u2019d like to buy Frog Man<\/em>, so here\u2019s your chance!<\/p>\n


\n \u201cFrog Man,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, January, 2014, 20\u201d\u009d x 24\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I finished a new painting last week (shown below). The way this one came about is that I was finished writing an SF story \u201cLaser Shades\u201d\u009d for a very cool art book, The Superlative Light<\/a><\/em>, by the photographer Robert Shults. The book consists of photos taken in a very-high-power laser lab.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cLaser Shades,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, February, 2014, 24\u201d\u009d x 20\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

While I was working on the story, I wasn\u2019t quite sure about how to end it, and then I made my new painting as a way of previsualizing a big scene. The guy in the painting is wearing special laser-proof shades and he\u2019s (rather unwisely) holding a fetal \u201cegg\u201d\u009d in the path of a yottawatt <\/em> laser beam. A yottawatt is about the power of the Sun. That zapped egg is going to hatch out some kind of weird person, so look out!<\/p>\n

Eventually I\u2019ll post the story online, but not yet. I\u2019ll let Shults\u2019s book come out first. Also I might read the story somewhere this spring, and if I do, I\u2019ll put up a podcast of the reading.<\/p>\n

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I was up at Borderlands Books on Valencia Street in SF yesterday to see my old friend and way-gnarly SF writer Dr. Michael Blumlein doing a presentation on his new book of stories, What the Doctor Ordered<\/em>. It was a good show. Learn more about the book on Michael\u2019s home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Borderlands, my Big Aha show <\/a>of paintings there has been extended until March 29, 2014. So if you’re a local, you can check out some of my latest paintings in person. And then buy one!<\/p>\n

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And speaking of art projects, Sylvia and I saw this man Scott Weaver doing a demo <\/a>at The Exploratorium in San Francisco early in February. His life\u2019s work is a giant toothpick sculpture, kind of depicting San Francisco as a whole. He\u2019s been tinkering with it for thirty-five years Weaver also has a toothpick hat that he sometimes wears while discussing his work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time for another sale on my paintings. I have no room left in my storage racks, and I\u2019m painting more than ever. Please buy one! I\u2019ve cut just about all the prices by $100 or $200. Check out the prices now. I know some of you said you\u2019d like to buy Frog Man, so […]<\/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-5164","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\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}