#Jeffrey Larson

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''For years, I got yelled at for having my nose too close to the art in museums. I would fall in and out of love with different artists, obsessively studying them before losing interest and moving on to the next. I suppose that once I somewhat unlocked whatever it was that drew me to them, I would be drawn to something else.''

''I also learned early on that trying to paint something in a way that you imagine others will like leads to guaranteed mediocrity. I paint for myself, the things that inspire me, in the manner I think best.''

''Good painting comes down to good decision-making. Studying the work of all the amazing artists that preceded us is always extremely beneficial. If you know how to look, you will see how they did what they did, how they problem-solved, developed, left out, emphasised and crafted.''

''I’ll work out the composition pretty carefully and dig deep enough to make sure there is enough here to make it worth the time investment.''

''Light, as it interacts with the three dimensional world, fascinates me. I find it profoundly beautiful and timeless. Much of my work, I suppose, has this as a common denominator. … Polished silver, I also find endlessly fascinating. In a sense, no colour is ‘silver;’ what it is, is everything around it. In a way, it doesn’t really visually exist.''

''Painting what you see versus what you think you see are two vastly different things. Developing a trained eye, the ability to see and find mistakes in your work and then learning the techniques to follow up with corrections are just a few of the foundational skills you can learn practically. Along with the ability to draw accurately and see values separate from colour relationally.''

''Where you are skill-wise and where you want to be is never going to meet. In fact, they seem to grow further apart… Focus on the fundamentals: drawing, values, colour perception, edges and composition as these are the building blocks for every painting. There is no shortcut to getting good, just hard work performed intentionally and intelligently. Being yourself is probably your best chance of coming across as unique and original.''

-Jeffrey Larson

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1. Grace by Jeffrey T. Larson (Figure)

2. Gratitude by Jeffrey T. Larson (Figure)

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I'm so happy so many people have found my tiny library useful! l've added a few more books for everyone!

Books Inside:

Ancient Greek Religion Jon D. Mikalson

Ancient Greek Cults Jennifer Larson

Ancient Greek Divination Sarah /les Johnston

The Odyssey Homer

The Homeric Hymns A Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Rayor Diane J

The llyad Homer translated by Stanley Lombardo

Apollodorus The Library, Volumes 1 and Il Sir James George Frazer

The Orphic Hymns Athanassakis

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

A History of Ancient Greece Robin Waterfield

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt

A Companion to Greek Religion Daniel Ogden

Theogony Hesiod

( donated by @angieisreading )

Magika Hiera Ancient Greek Magic and Religion Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra Sophocles, H.D.F. Kitto, Edith Hall

The Bacchantes Euripides

The Oresteia Agamemnon The Libation Bearers The Eumenides Aeschylus W. B. Stanford, Robert Fagles

Euripides II Andromache, Hecuba, the Suppliant Women, Electra The Complete Greek Tragedies - Euripides II

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

Medea Euripides, Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer

Aristophanes Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs A Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes Stephen Halliwell

Heracles of Euripides Euripides Michael R. Halleran

Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis Christopher Collard James Morwood

Lysistrata Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson

(donated by @anyrisse )

Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion Ellie Mackin Roberts

Understanding Greek Religion Jennifer Larson

The Gods of Ancient Greece Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine

Restless Dead Sarah Isles Johnston

Myths of the Underworld Journey Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Marriage to Death Rush Rehm

Greek Religion Walter Burkert

Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy Jon D. Mikalson

Greek Magic J.C.B. Petropoulos

Greek and Roman Necromancy Daniel Qgden

Gods and Garments Cecile Brøns

Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ Abbe Lind Walker

Aphrodite's Tortoise Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Ancient Mystery Cults Walter Burkert

Ancient Greek Love Magic Christopher A. Faraone

Cult of Aphrodite Laurelei Black

Aphrodite's Priestess Laurelei Black

Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary Erika Simon

Games and sanctuaries in Ancient Greece Panos Valavanis translated by David Harty

Divine Mania Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece Yulia Ustinova

Omens and oracles Divination in ancient Greece Matthew Dillon

Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece Essays on Religion and Society Michael H. Jameson, Allaire B. Stallsmith etc.

Pharnabazos, the Diviner of Hermes. Two Ostraka with Curse Letters from Olbia Andrei Lebedev

Some are pdfs and some are epubs but all of them are free for your reading enjoyment and learning!

l'll be adding more as time goes on and at the requests and suggestions of others so if you think something is missing or have a request please don't hesitate to ask me to add it!

As usual a massive thank you to Lord Hermes Dôtor Eaôn/Lord Hermes Arkhos Phêlêteôn for the idea, this library is a dedication and offering to him and adding to it is all in his name ♡

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That is just gorgeous.

Jeffrey T. Larson (Minnesota 1962), Yellow and Blue, 2005, Oil on canvas

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x - Jeffrey T. Larson: Hanging Laundry / x - Scott Prior: Laundry Line / x - x

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘Paracosmic Escape’ at @moderneden Gallery in San Francisco: Nov 9 - Dec 5, 2024 😍

‘Paracosmic Escape’ Curated by: Beautiful Bizarre | Art Direction by: @musoniumgallery Exhibition Dates: November 9 - December 5, 2024 Modern Eden Gallery, 1100 Sutter Street | San Francisco

Sales enquiries: please email Gallery Director, Kim Larson at info@moderneden.com

‘Paracosmic Escape’ explores themes of retrospection, introspection, and complex relationships with the real world, where internal gateways offer a place of sanctuary to heal from and provide explanation to the effects of reality. ~ @keeleygerardart (Art Director of @musoniumgallery)

Exhibiting artists: Alexandra Lukaschewitz, Alexandra Manukyan, Andi Soto, Andie Taylor, Annie Montgomerie, Brian Haberlin, Brian Mashburn, César Orrico, Calvin Ma, Camilla d’Errico, Crystal Morey, Dewi Plass, Diego Orlando, Ellen Jewett, Erika Sanada, Forest Rogers, Georgios Georgolios, Haejin Yoo, Hannah Flowers, Howard Lyon, Ito Chieko, J Louis, Jana Brike, Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Jason Mowry, Jessica Dalva, Jesús Aguado, Jon Ching, Juliet Schreckinger, Juli About, Katie Gamb, Kevin Peterson, Kim Slate, Koh Kisung, Kristin Kwan, Kseniia Boko, Laura Colors, Larysa Bernhardt, Lavely Miller, Lesley Thiel, VZEWL, Lindsey Carr, Lisa Lach-Nielsen, Lo Chan Peng, Lou Benesch, Luke Hillestad, Lucia Heffernan, Marc le Rest, Mark Jeffrey R. Santos, Mary Syring, Mothmeister, Nadine Tralala, Naoto Hattori, Nicole Evans, Noah Norrid, Olga Esther, Ornélie, Orphans Inc, Raúl Guerra, Richard Ahnert, Richard A. Williams, Rima Day, Ross Takahashi, Roxanne Sauriol Hauenherm, Scott Listfield, Shannon Taylor, Siana Park, Sooj Mitton, Spencer Hansen, Stasia Schmidt, Stéphanie Kilgast, Stephanie Rew, Tania Rivilis, Tina Yu, Tina Spratt, Tom Bagshaw, Tristan Elwell, Ulyana Turchenko, Vasilisa Romanenko, Victor, Vincent Giarrano, and Yousuke Kawashima.

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By Jeffrey T. Larson

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John Musker recently spoke of his final years at Walt Disney Animation Studios, and on directing MOANA under the stewardship of John Lasseter. There's some stuff worth noting in here...

To start off, he kinda repeated the words Bob Iger said when evaluating Disney's 2023 movie releases that didn't do very well at the box office, in describing what's not working with WDAS' most recent films. Namely the box office bombs STRANGE WORLD and WISH...

We weren’t trying to be woke, although I understand the criticism. The classic Disney films didn’t start out trying to have a message. They wanted you to get involved in the characters and the story and the world, and I think that’s still the heart of it. You don’t have to exclude agendas, but you have to first create characters who you sympathize with and who are compelling. I think they need to do a course correction a bit in terms of putting the message secondary, behind entertainment and compelling story and engaging characters.

The key takeaway here is "you don't have to exclude agendas".

While I found Iger's similar statements to be confounding and toothless, seemingly catering to all the angry assholes on YouTube who call everything "woke" and think about Brie Larson 24/7/365... What John is saying is a very basic thing about storytelling, in that it's character first.

That being said, I personally don't feel the problem with WDAS' recent movies is that the messaging is front-and-center. I think that so-called messaging, like some of the character work, feels like an afterthought too. Specifically in STRANGE WORLD and WISH, not so much ENCANTO. But it is instead the rushed and hurried pacing of their over-crammed stories, the sort-of plainness of the presentations, weird dialogue choices (throughout my first viewing of WISH, I kept saying "Who talks like this?"), kinda reheated old hat tricks. It sometimes feels like the films made under CCO Jennifer Lee's watch are just trying to recapture FROZEN in some way or another... Without understanding why that film ticked with audiences and where the overall zeitgeist was in late 2013/early-to-mid 2014.

Also... Messaging. I'm not taking Musker to task specifically, because I know what he means in his words... But when others say it: All art is either political or about something, anyways. Choosing NOT to say anything is still saying something, it's still a political act to bow out or to be indifferent. Every Disney animated movie is about something, and they are indeed the works of their creators, so that means that their views on life and the world are somehow within the stories themselves. "Message" in this context, to me, reduces a work of art to a mere statement, like an after-school special or something. John and Ron Clements' Disney animated movies simply knew how to mix the themes with the character work, the storytelling, the worlds they put together, etc. You can't tell me with a straight face that something like THE LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN, or MOANA aren't about something or aren't political in any way, shape, or form. Especially the first of those three examples. The spirit of Howard Ashman would have a word with you if you think otherwise.

John also points out that the Lasseter years, which a lot of people online alarmingly pine for, weren't these amazing halcyon days. And this statement only confirmed the rumors I had heard about MOANA's production, how both John and Ron Clements were warded off on various things during its making:

MOANA was a very difficult project. It was our idea, but with Pixar and John Lasseter, our story kept changing hands. In the ’90s, we had Jeffrey [Katzenberg]. He was an emperor, you know. But there weren’t 10 Jeffreys. Now, you have too many people to satisfy, before we didn’t have 15 directors telling you how to make the movie. But in some ways, they were right, it was a good thing.

I feel like John's being very balanced in his words, finding the positives of that kind of environment while still calling out the not-great stuff. I love to hear these stories in former directors/animators' own words, and what the Lasseter and Lee regimes have been like. I feel that there are potentially fantastic movies buried in STRANGE WORLD and WISH, the former I rather liked still and the latter I found a fairly pleasant diversion.

I feel the fault lies in the execution, not so much the concepts, themes, or ideas. While some pockets of animation fandom online strongly feel that that earlier iteration of WISH with a younger version of Asha's grandpa being some kinda Star Boy would've been automatically better than the released film, to me it's down to the storytelling itself. Like, I think Asha, the silly goat, and the cute star thing could've been a fun trio and the movie itself a pretty fantasy flick, but it doesn't really get there. The Human-Star WISH, if made, could've also suffered from the same writing problems and similarly underwhelming songs.

STRANGE WORLD could've been this really dynamic sci-fi pulp adventure with a funny and super-enjoyable bickering family at its core, with the environmental themes intact... but it's mostly just kinda there in its execution, the characters kinda flat, the dialogue is forced a lot of the time, the dramatic beats aren't properly built up, and the film's editing makes it feel like it had been thrown into a dicer. There doesn't seem to be the hand and personality of the directors/filmmaking team, it's almost like a template is set for them. And they fill in the blanks and eke out as much personality as they can. See, I don't get that out of Pixar's recent films, all of which feel much more director-driven. And ARE about something, too, whether explicitly political or not. This current iteration of WDAS would not have made a movie like LUCA or TURNING RED.

For the forseeable future, it's sequels to favorites from last decade, who knows how those will be executed. Maybe an original or two sneaks in, I don't know, but I wonder if Lee and the leadership themselves looked at the response to WISH, STRANGE WORLD, et al. and are figuring things out. Or staying the course. But it isn't just people online saying it, nor critics. More than one Disney veteran is saying it... WDAS is in a bit of a rough spot at the moment. The solution isn't as simple as "they need to have romances and villains again" nor "they need to be less left-leaning", to me it's really... Let the filmmakers try something cool, even if it doesn't land. If it doesn't land, it'll be a cult classic thereafter. Live-action directors get to mess up all the time and make these 45%-scoring-on-RT released-by-A24 movies that later get hailed as auteur classics... Why do some animated movies have to live up to this weird nonexistent standard?

Back to Musker... In addition to this, John still expresses interest in adapting the DISCWORLD book MORT, from Terry Pratchett. He and Ron tried to get that going at Disney Animation after finishing THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, but it didn't pan out, so the pitch that morphed into MOANA happened thereafter. He feels it's a tough sell in today's "risk-averse" environment... Though somehow, the DISCWORLD book THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RATS recently happened as an animated feature. The interview seems to confirm that METAL MEN, the DC animated adaptation that he and Ron were heading up at Warner Animation, isn't a thing anymore. John's new thing is his self-made short I'M HIP, so hopefully that circulates somewhere we can all see it.

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Jeffrey T. Larson (American 1962), Color Notes, 1998, Oil on linen

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In the shower today, I was making a mental tally of the "most commonly occurring NASCAR quotes" in the groupchat, and somehow Erik Jones is the subject of 50% of them. I don't know why, because it's not out of any true enmity against Erik Jones, but that makes it even funnier to me. 😂

I also couldn't tell you why it's *these* quotes that get the primetime, but it does suggest that JGR is the only NASCAR team that has ever mattered and will ever matter.

Our top quotes are:

1. "meaningless" - Denny Hamlin, Indy 2018

#meaningless is an all-purpose quote we use when someone otherwise irrelevant to the race impacts a race win. In the original use case it was Denny Hamlin losing to Brad Keselowski after a caution brought out by Landon Cassill and Jeffrey Earnhardt, but we will use it on anyone, regardless of whether they're a backrunner or not.

Denny is a gem. Nay, an entire mine!!

2. "we lost Erik" - Joe Gibbs, ????????

(This is only an excerpt of the many we lost eriks)

I'm PRETTY sure this was Joe Gibbs in reference to Toyota attempting team orders at a drafting track (this has never gone well for them), but we don't even know which race this is from. But we say it all the time???? In reference to Erik Jones and also pretty much anyone else. Regardless of who it's in reference to, though, it's always "we lost Erik." Easily the most random quote on this list, because it's just something Joe Gibbs happened to say during an on-track interview--I assume during a yellow or red flag.

3. "the 2017 version of Erik Jones" - Kyle Larson, Michigan [2] 2018

This is also all-purpose, but I think it's become part of our lexicon based purely on the fact that it is so incredibly weirdly specific?

Which in the last few years is something I've come to associate with Kyle Larson. Usually it's about weirdly specific recollections of his own races, but at least in those cases it's his own race, so I guess that makes sense. (Though I do not remember anything *I* do.) But then sometimes he'll just randomly say something weirdly specific about someone else's race, and it's like, why do you know that? why do you remember that??

Like, someone asked Bubba what his best race of 2022 so far was, and even before Bubba could answer KL was like, "Michigan!!!" so fast it was like he was participating in some kind of game show. Fam, I was at that race in person, I love Bubba, and even *I* didn't remember what Bubba's Michigan was like. (But apparently he finished P2!)

Anyway, here's Wonderwall Kyle Larson's weirdly specific memories of the 2017 version of Erik Jones:

And sometimes your own words get used against you:

^Also factually accurate to 2017 Kyle Larson, because my only memory of Kyle Larson restarts is him consistently getting eaten alive by Martin Truex Jr. during them

4. "I don't want to know nothing. I want to be stupid." - Kyle Busch, Sonoma 2019

Very few circumstances where this sentiment is not true.