IS THIS YOU?
Open on the night sky, whirling overhead. Clouds, planets, everything in rapid transition. Birds chirp at normal speed. The sun comes up fast. The day continues in this manner.
posted by Jim Woodring at 9:08 AM
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Open on the night sky, whirling overhead. Clouds, planets, everything in rapid transition. Birds chirp at normal speed. The sun comes up fast. The day continues in this manner.
About Me
- Name: Jim Woodring
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
I was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paroniria among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm. I eventually grew into an inquisitive bearlike man who has had three exciting careers; garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. Some of my work is collected in THE BOOK OF JIM, THE FRANK BOOK and SEEING THINGS (all published by Fantagraphics) and in various toys, fabrics, prints and urban legends. Thank you for your interest.
Previous Posts
- THE BABY IN THE NAVY
- THE KITTEN
- A MONSTER OF INGRATITUDE
- AND HE SPILLED HIS SMOKE INTO THE AIR
- THE BLESSED MOLESKINE
- TROUBLING NEWS
- DROWNED MAN'S COLORS
- ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
- BIG NIPPER
- LEST WE FORGET
16 Comments:
during this time, something rare occurs: tarantulas, worldwide, molt simultaneously
"Whatever happened to Jim?" I said. So I asked Google. It led me here. You're still somewhere working the surface, staining your fingers black and for that I'm grateful...
They say that Euripides gave Socrates a copy of Heraclitus' book and asked him what he thought of it. He replied: "What I understand is splendid; and I think what I don't understand is so too - but it would take a Delian diver to get to the bottom of it.
That is how I feel about this page.
Jim, you are a wonderful creation. thanks for turning me on to moleskines...fucking aces, i say!
gotta ask though...do you approve of hallucinogenics? i'm not talking about for artistic purposes (although sometimes you must open your third eye to get a different perspective) but just in general?
i'm on my way through art school and i've got a blogger/mac account telling my tales. I'm going into digital film, but if you have some spare time in your assumedly busy schedule to check it out, i'd love to hear from you! Thanks Jim!
- Steve
here, here
look no further for thou art looking where you are supposed to !!!!!!!!
Mr Woodring i think that you have genius. It's empowering for me to think that there are places that some of us have been to, yet you appear to hold a light that makes it possible to record and capture what most of us aren't equipt to recall.
A great admirer of your work,
john
nice blog:)
Except for the beard and gender, it may be me!
more please.
hidin' out in the shadows and smilin' is not good, unless that was me.
nope. not me.
How did you got hold of my picture? (before my surgery...)
Alas! It is not me...I have not such knowledge. It looks to me like an image of the Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar, exiting from his room at the end of the Kali temple, but God knows best. Thank you again, Master JW, for your continuing presence as a trace of the primordial in our kaliyuga arts. And, if there is any more to the 'is this you?' question, a man might be interested to see, in the spirit of devotion.
Alas! It is not me...I have not such knowledge. It looks to me like an image of the Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar, exiting from his room at the end of the Kali temple, but God knows best. Thank you again, Master JW, for your continuing presence as a trace of the primordial in our kaliyuga arts. And, if there is any more to the 'is this you?' question, a man might be interested to see, in the spirit of devotion.
Alas! It is not me...I have not such knowledge. It looks to me like an image of the Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar, exiting from his room at the end of the Kali temple, but God knows best. Thank you again, Master JW, for your continuing presence as a trace of the primordial in our kaliyuga arts. And, if there is any more to the 'is this you?' question, a man might be interested to see, in the spirit of devotion.
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