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About Me Official Beta Tester Pseudo-Intellectual Thom Comstock50/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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Dragons of Eden - sharper

My sole master work. I will attempt that my forthcoming "Escape Revisited" (mentioned above) to become my next master work - and it will.

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Escape - Clear

I have recently been asked to reproduce a personal favorite and early work of mine - this 1950's (-ish) "Monster Movie Matinee" piece - as a commissioned work. The man that requested this was none other than my "30-year-missing, just-found, very-first, best-friend Jeff".

Jeff asked me to add touches that would mean something to the two of us alone. Innumerable images cross my field of consciousness as I contemplate our shared history - a history which in itself molded our paradigms.

This means a great deal to me. I really can't wait to start - I will probably paint two simultaneously so that I will have one as well - but I am so busy lately designing and shopping at scrapyards for parts to the rocket motor test-stand and I have done nothing to start the painting for him. Darn! We'll see.


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A Very Cold Rain: A Horror.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

Happy Frog I

This happy Red-eyed Tree Frog was painted as a Christmas gift for a very special person. Now - through deviantART, this little character is available as a gift for your very special person.

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M42 In Orion - Detail, Enh

Pastel, 12"x18" (original), ©1993 - This is not from a photograph, but entirely a pastel painting - A view of M42 from a nearby (12 light-years) planetary system.

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M42 (The Orion Nebula) is powered by the light from "the Trapezium" (Theta-1 Orionis), a system of four hot, bright, new stars at the heart of the nebula.
The Orion Nebula is the nearest star formation region to the Earth and consequently particularly well studied. Despite this, star formation is not all that well understood. While these nebulae themselves are huge (many light years across) a nascent solar system is tiny by comparison and hence invisible from the Earth. The Orion Nebula is actually just part of a much larger cloud that covers most of the constellation of Orion (including the region around the Horsehead Nebula). The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye just below and to the left of the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. The whole Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years.

Chinese Taoist Postcards

These postcards were originally commissioned for a well-spoken Thai Importer & Merchant I met at "Spark 2002" The 12-Volt Adapter, Collector's Convention in San Diego, California. The humble merchant has since disappeared (due in no part - we hope - to these serene cards) and now these subtly calming Chinese Taoist Postcards have come to rest here and only here at deviantART.

Think on this my friends...

Sat Nov 28, 2009, 2:34 AM
What is very nice about "this day and age" is that we can find true friends and all of us are becoming more alike and more tolerant of one-another from exposure and familiarity - not less. The World is becoming a community, but we need to get past the strangeness that is manifest in never hugging nor smelling one-another. Perhaps we are?

I however, am an animal and as such prefer to have my friends close and to smell them, to know their body language - 'to feel them'. I find it hard to imagine dropping everything in my life to come and fight a neighboring people by your side.

Is this homogenization, dilution and pacification of our loyalties to one another a necessary step toward World Community?

Does it make us easier to control?

It may even help us develop long-term goals with a sort of single-purposefulness if not mindedness, no?

Is this desirable? Maybe.

I guess it just depends upon who is in fact "in control" - doesn't it?

I suspect that we will find it to be "Mother Nature" who is in fact always "In Control".

Just one thought,
Thom

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Eureka, CA
  • Interests: Rockets, astrophysics, reading, writing, sex, fire, explosions, data, computers, avionics, etc.
  • Favourite artist: After myself?
  • Operating System: ADHD
  • Personal Quote: If you change the way you look at things - the things you look at change.

Comments


:icongeekblz:
Thanks for the "favourite" and for "watching" me! Your stuff is amazing. :-)
:iconthomcomstock:
Don't mention it.

I am pleased that you like my 'stuff'.

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"I am more concerned with happiness as a measure of success than of success as a measure of happiness."
         Thom Comstock
:iconbetulanigra:
Why do they call it Eureka? They never found any gold there...inquiring minds need to know.

I take a great deal of pleasure wandering the halls of your gallery. It has a nice eclectic collection as befits somebody in Eureka (I can say that--I grew up in Lodi). :)

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:iconthomcomstock:
I am not certain why it is called Eureka. I have been here only 3 years. I am originally from outside of Syracuse, NY. I will never return to live there, believe me.

I appreciate your enjoyment of my various play - as opposed to works.

According to Answers.com; Lodi is -

A city of central California north of Stockton. It is a processing center in a rich farming area. Population: 62,500.

Lodi means "Peace Valley"

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"I am more concerned with happiness as a measure of success than of success as a measure of happiness."
         Thom Comstock

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