Alien Skulls

Ever since I was a kid I have always had a fascination with bones. I don't know what it is. Probably because I find them strangely beautiful, much like seashells. Seashells and Bones are the hard evidence   more...that some organism once shared space with them. Human skeletons are often scary looking, and yet, wrapped around most human skeletons are some fabulously beautiful people. I like that aesthetic contrast. I'm always looking for that duality, the beautiful within the horrific. It makes me stop and take a longer look and try to admire the hidden beauty of something or someone ugly.

As a kid I loved natural history museums (Art museums became a much later love affair) and seeing the reconstructed dinosaur skeletons,and thinking about tht guys who first found them, dug them up, and reassembled them without an instruction manual. My grandparents lived out in the country and I loved finding old cow skulls and such out in the field.I'd pretend they were dinosaurs and that maybe, just maybe, a few live ones might still be around. For me, a box of old bones was a treasure chest!

In the summer before I entered College the movie "Alien" came out. The film features a scene where astronauts stumble across a derelict alien shipwreck on an uncharted planet, and find the very realistic bones of a dead alien inside, with evidence of some kind of internally generated trauma that killed it. That rekindled my fascination with bones, and I started creating my own collection of "Alien skulls"out of kiln-fired stoneware clay, which I would then paint to look like real dessicated bone. I would proudly display them as knick-knacks on my shelves, as ersatz "Specimens" from my travels to other worlds (or some perversely mutated corner of THIS world, since there was an oddly human feel to all of them). Sometimes I would build a display stand for a skull that lookedlike part of the rest of the creature it belonnged to.

I turned a very elaborate one in as my final project in my second semester of Sculpture in college. Its stand actually possessed something of a ribcage,although I took artistic liberties with it to make it more interesting and asymmetrical (That's the tall center piece in the photo in my photos section here!). I was rather amused by the reactions of people who were unfamiliar with me and my work. A biology student criticized the piece for not having the correct rib-count. At first I was offended until I learned that she thought the damn thing was REAL! A similar comment came from one of my fellow students who worked in a different section of the sculpture labs:"Who th' hell brought these old bones in here?" Needless to say I was proud of my inadvertent deception of my viewers. Got an "A" , too. Bonus!

I still make skulls and skeletons now and then. Sometimes I like to put comical fish-bones in my Cat paintings. I've also made 3-D paintings of imaginary prehistoric fish skeleton specimens and flying beasts. I don't do it as often as i used to, but I have a lot of fun just letting my imagination run wild in different media whenever I get my Jones to make Bones!

Just thought I'd share one of the many strange things about me since I ran across this video of my original skull collection the other day. The sound collage in the audio track is all mine.  less

Audio piece by Joshua Shapiro on the Enigmatic Crystal Skulls

3rd installment of secret space 2. For the 2nd part click on the link below
Ancient text can tell another story. A story that involves an Alien invasion many times in our history. The dropa stones for   more...example are meant to be over 12 thousand years ago. And along with strange Alien skulls and art that has been found. Is this one of the biggest secrets that's that has been kept from humanity all this time?
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A brief clip of Krys' video from Smiths FALLS. The sound and picture is GREAT!. We will have another try at rendering the rest of her video and getting it up.

Crystal Skull

a damning video about the nwo and the bush admin.

Harris, Smith and Workmas singing "I Like Trains", by Fred Eaglesmith.... A favorite song!

Harris, Smith and Workman at The Old Mill, in Ashton, singing "Out in California" by Tom Russell and Dave Alvin.

Alien

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Harris, Smith and Workman: Ray Harris, "Norwegian Wood" (John Lennon), The Ironworks, Almonte

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Harris, Smith and Workman: Rob Smith singing "Angel of Lyon" (Tom Russell and Steve Young), The Ironworks,   more...Almonte  less

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This video was made after a subscriber wrote and asked about the Crystal Skulls.
The collective source bring forth their information on the Crystal Skulls and what they are for.

The SBS at the Elmdale Tavern, opening for the launch of the Parson's Road CD.

Alien Contact

an alien jogging, and showing their jogging style

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Alien scene

Alien... USA

made up alien trailor

UFO compilation

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Harris, Smith and Workman: Rob Smith, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (Gordon Lightfoot), The Ironworks, Almonte

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Harris, Smith and Workman: Rob Smith singing "I Like Trains" by Fred Eaglesmith, The Ironworks, Almonte