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  • Crossing Guard (declassified)

    Crossing Guard (declassified)

    There’s a reason for which I keep bringing up sex and Hanford Crossing Guard, Declassified 2006 13 w by 20 in h Digital Painting/Digital Collage Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement DDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number “N1D0053447” Accession Number N1D0053447 Document Number…

  • H.o.p. is not a salesman, he says

    H.o.p. in a shirt with his T Rex painting on it, courtesy his store at Cafe Press. This is the pic in which he is standing still for his mom. And here he is being H.o.p. and unwittingly assuming a Shiva pose. (That’s Marty in the background fixing supper.) And here he is with his…

  • The Shape of Things to Come (declassified)

    The Shape of Things to Come (declassified)

    The future belonged to men in tights, women in veils, and flying saucers The Shape of Things to Come, Declassified 200620 w by 12 in h Digital painting Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project…

  • Franklin County Power Float Virgin Princess (declassified)

    Franklin County Power Float Virgin Princess (declassified)

    Franklin County Power Float Virgin Princess, Declassified 200620 w by 12 in h Digital painting Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings The original photo is from the 1954 Atomic Frontier Days Parade in…

  • Grassfire billboard

    Noticed this Grassfire billboard the other day on I-85 near the N. Druid Hills exit. Was passing by again and this time had the camera. Duct tape is good for everything. I’m sure if every Texan took the duct tape in their post 9/11 survival kit and headed down to the border with it, they…

  • The Colossus of Hanford (declassified)

    The Colossus of Hanford (declassified)

    The Colossus, Declassified 2006 Digital Painting/photo collage Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings The Colossus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a gigantic statue brandishing a torch of the harbor at Rhodes. Its dedicatory inscription…

  • Flamingo pic (the dining Horned Bills made themselves no friends)

    Flamingo pic (the dining Horned Bills made themselves no friends)

    Took this photo at the zoo a couple of weeks ago before the computer went down. Click on it for the larger version. Love the bird 4th from the left. I don’t know what was up, don’t know that much about flamingos, but every few minutes they would all suddenly start doing flamingo squawks and…

  • Unamazing Confessions – the hospital and Poppinsville

    Unamazing Confessions – the hospital and Poppinsville

    The lot behind the hospital, between the hospital and Poppinsville, got quite a facelift with the finishing of Poppinsville. Loading docks are back there. The lot was kind of scruffy and its fence was chain link. About the time Poppinsville went seriously on the market, a nice little security station appeared behind the hospital and…

  • Unamazing Confessions!  Our hallway and the mystery of the hook

    Unamazing Confessions! Our hallway and the mystery of the hook

    Click on image for larger view. Not much larger. But larger. There are a lot of things I do like about this building. I like character. I like it that the building isn’t modern sterile. I like our blue doors. The building has decades’ worth of no longer used enhancements that aren’t worth the moment’s…

  • "BOO" A Comic by H.o.p., Book 1, Page 1

    The first installment of “Boo”, a comic by H.o.p., hand drawn, partly hand-inked, scanned and finished in Photoshop. Click on image to enlarge.

  • Heather Luttrell and Virginia Carllile at the Carllile Women Concert (digital painting)

    Heather Luttrell and Virginia Carllile at the Carllile Women Concert (digital painting)

    Heather Luttrell and Virginia Carllile at the Carllile Women Concert 5/1/2006 Digital painted portrait with photo by artist for reference 20 in w by 15 in h #169; copyright J Kearns It was a painting I was working on and had just finished when the computer went down, based on a photo from the Carllile…

  • Children may like ghost stories but not the inexplicable–at least H.o.p. doesn’t

    My plans had been to write about watching “Twister” with H.o.p. earlier tonight. Insomnia without my computer programs and files isn’t a whole hell of a lot of fun. Usually, if I can’t sleep, I get up and work some then go back to bed. That not being an option the past ten days, I…