Author: Richard Bledsoe

Gallery Closing

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Deus Ex Machina Gallery and Studio opened on December 7, 2007. In the last 5 years, our cooperative gallery has been open every First Friday and Third Friday, with a new exhibit hung every month. Often guest artists-some from as far away as France-were featured, in addition to the works of the members.

Our itinerary expanded with time. Currently in addition to the 2 gallery nights, we host a poetry reading on Second Fridays, which is often standing room only. We host “A Coven of Nerds,” a game night, on second Saturdays. The space started recently being used for a monthly writing salon on Sunday afternoons.

These were just our ongoing events. We’ve also hosted performance art, experimental theater, film, dance, live music shows from surf to industrial, and collaborative art projects.

All along the space has functioned as my oil painting studio. I spent many valuable hours there creating some of the most significant works of my life.

It’s been a labor of love with some wonderful people. But it’s time to do things differently.

December 2012 will be the final month of Deus Ex Machina. I end this grand experiment with a full heart, already pressing on to the next adventure.

 

 

The Tyranny of Cool

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GREG GUTFELD: A timely rebuttal of the fundamental problem America faces: the elitist domination of our culture and creative classes.

Without a doubt voter fraud helped put Obama over the top in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.

But like Hugh Hewitt says, “If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.”

The only reason the voter fraud can work, can make the difference by ginning up an illicit percentage point or three, is by being aided and abetted by the legitimate votes of millions and millions of citizens who have been hypnotized by the buzzing of the collectivist hive mind. The blatant message constantly transmitted is America is not cool. Liberty is not cool.

The hostility to American greatness oozes out of practically every TV show, movie, classroom, and news station in this country. I’ve lived and worked amongst the herd of the creative class for decades now, and their unthinking conformity to collectivist dogma would be laughable if it were not so dangerous to our freedom.

It’s amazing we haven’t fallen farther already, considering the 100 year assault this country’s principles have suffered.

But Cultural Marxism can only succeed if it’s obligatory. Political correctness tries to limit options so the left is the only choice.

We are working to create an alternative to the rigid controls our would-be rulers want to impose on us.

Forget cool. Dead things are cool. Now is the time to get fiery.

An Unexpected Journey

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Sorry for a gap of few days in posting, we had a visit to make on short notice. Family manifests the richness of life. I love them all, and wish I could see more of everyone, all the time.

To continue the Tolkein motif, Gaypatriot expands on Ace’s Treebeardian wisdom on the recent election: Don’t be hasty.

The parallels our struggle is taking on to various modern mythos-Tolkien, Harry Potter, Firefly-is inspiring. The artists have foretold the outcome of the actions we are embarking on. The righteous will persevere despite overwhelming odds. Art should be full of these same type of examples.