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It's almost Halloween, yeah? Here's a Halloween-themed painting from the genius Otto Von Miller. He refers to this character as Bo Jangle. Bo Jangle is 2025, acrylic and chalk paint on canvas. Read on to find more art from Otto. |
Once upon a time, there was a religion called Gnosticism. This is thought to have begun around 300 BC, and continuing into the early Christian era, although the Gnostics kept popping up well into the Medieval period.
The Gnostics believed that this world was the flawed creation of a minor deity known as Yaldabaoth. On Earth, people knew Yaldabaoth by various names, such as Yahweh, Seth, El, and Saturn, among others.
In some versions, Yaldabaoth was inherently evil, and kept people imprisoned in the material world, forcing them to reincarnate again and again.
In others, he was benevolent, but didn't know what he was doing. The world was a botch job, created by an amateur.
The latter actually seems like the most likely explanation.
But never mind all that. Otto Von Miller has been at it again, and would like to share with you HIS latest creations.
Otto, much like the President of the United States, is not only a painter, he is also a doodler. While working at his daytime job, Otto often doodles little characters in the margins of notes he is taking.
The painting posted at the top descended from the doodle below, which appeared randomly on a piece of paper.
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Bo Doodle. Pen on paper. Otto Von Miller scribbled this drawing while taking notes for a project he is working on. He liked it, and decided to make it into a (somewhat altered) painting. |
I Lost My Marble
A few years ago, Thee Optimist made a post about paradigm shifts and why we need one now.
We never did get the paradigm shift in question, and it's unlikely we will. We are probably going to plow right along, reaping a harvest of increasingly unpleasant outcomes.
That's fine. As indicated earlier, the material reality we inhabit was badly engineered by someone with more confidence than common sense. That a country (or the entire world) would degenerate into a carnival of pointless errors seems right.
The post illustrated the concept of a paradigm shift with a photo by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders. The photo is called "Earthrise," and it is a shot of the Earth taken while Anders was in orbit around the moon.
Otto Von Miller is a fan of the photograph, and so decided to make a painting based on it, which you can see below.
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"I Lost My Marble," acrylic on canvas, 2025 by Otto Von Miller. |
Otto is relatively pleased with this painting, although there are things about it he might revisit at a later date. For example, he might add a couple of impact craters on the moon.
As you well know, the moon has no atmosphere, and so is constantly bombarded by meteorites.
One liner you can use on your friends:
"They opened a restaurant on the moon. The food was good, but there was no atmosphere."
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"Looking @ You," acrylic and chalk paint on canvas, 2025 by Otto Von Miller. |
Looking @ You
This painting is inspired by some of the butterflies you see around here, which have spots on their wings that look like eyes. The eye spots, of course, are there to frighten would-be predators.
A few butterflies even have eyes that look like owl eyes. Owls are apex predators, and generally terrify the type of small animals that might consider eating a butterfly.
Otto is very pleased with this painting. He meant it as a sort of optical illusion, where the butterfly appears to have landed on the canvas, instead of simply being painted there.
Words of Wisdom
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein
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