Chris Simonite's Cubo-Weirdism Blog! A Blog about Chris Simonite's Art by Chris Simonite. Who the Hell else?

Some of you out there in Blogland may be familiar with Donald Trump Jr’s meltdown over Instagram algorithms last week in which he posted a video of himself lying down, looking exceedingly stoned and complaining that Instagram is basically sabotoging his account too make fewer people see his posts. Now I gotta say, and this is in no way a defense of Whiner Jr., but I’m pretty confident that virtually every Instagram user knows the feeling. You post something one day and it kind of blows up on the ‘gram and you get a [...]

So last week I talked about some of the various painting series that I’ve done that didn’t really go anywhere and as I was writing it I realized that some of them did in fact go somewhere. And that they may be ideas that I can–and probably should return to at some point. I’m looking at you, Panspermia series. I’m not so much thinking of the Pareidolia series–that one really didn’t amount to much–but no one says I can’t put that concept into some of my future work, so who the hell knows?   Pet Portrait: Logan and Fluffy, 18″ [...]

So a few weeks ago I mused about the possibility of running a Kickstarter to to raise some money so that I can finish 2020 with at least 100 portrait paintings. I’ve pretty much decided that I’m not going to do that, mostly because I’m fairly certain without a proper count (I know, keep better records!) that I’m somewhere around 80 or more. I’ve mentioned before that perhaps one in 10 (or is it one in eight?) of my paintings is not all that successful. So I do want to make sure I have [...]

So I’m writing this on the morning that the world learned that Donald and Melania Trump have COVID-19. I guess that means that Trump is, to paraphrase him “positive in a negative sense.” But who would’ve guessed that would happen? I mean, they were doing everything they possibly could to keep it away. Like magical anti-Coronavirus handshakes with strangers and french kissing military generals to prove Trump doesn’t think they’re losers! Okay, in all seriousness I hope they both recover. I say that partly because I don’t generally wish ill-will on people even [...]