The Inner Ear

"It is no more to be required that wit should always be blazing than that the sun should always stand at noon."
-Doctor Johnson

New Caribbean Poetry

Kei Miller, Ed.

Carcanet Press Limited

Manchester, Eng.

2007



Opera House, Sydney, Australia; charcoal                                                  M. Hill 2002

Hot Stories

Coffee Jingles Are Fine Art

Magazine and television poster-mind of modern

Mass dissemination brainwash, progressive robot circuits,

Selling self esteem by ounce with ladles full of terror,

Linked with systematic governmental mob-controllers:

Who are you, mass media mind, who makes me think as you?

Thinking of your toothpaste when I search for real voodoo.

Devil-dealer, pimp-for-life, you breeder of delusion,

You try to suck me dry and rain on me confusion.

Flat robotic non-political men make good workers,

And help the few who steal the wealth and dole it out among us.

That which will not be controlled is profitless, threatening

To a way of life that deals in money and in death.

I don't need a prez or pope to show me how to be free,

I just need to figure out how I will eat tomorrow.

-Michael R. Hill

Moscoso

Model and Poster by Victor Moscoso

The Inner Ear

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-G.B. Shaw

Bauhaus

Postcard

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Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,- you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a chain.
-Dickinson

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The story that has to be told
Is the writer's God, who calls
Out of sleep, inaudibly: "Write."
-Ted Hughs

MODERNMAN 8

Modernman 8 

by Mike Hill, 2013

5.5"X8.5"

12 pp.

$2.00 or trade

contact Mike Hill

 mikehill001@gmail.com

The Inner Ear

"Never was I able to contrive a form; any consciously planned form was repellant to me."
-Kandinsky

Modernman

panel from Modernman "Y2K Bugged"                                                        M. Hill 1999

The Inner Ear

Perhaps one day, one day,
my mouth will burst asunder
to utter but two words for simple souls
which, as they grow, will sprout ripe stars
which even now I am searching for.
-Trefossa (H.F. DeZiel)
 

The Inner Ear

"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
-Picasso

The Inner Ear

"Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better."
-Samuel Beckett
http://www.failbetter.com/index.php

The Inner Ear

"Creativity is an act of defiance."
-Twyla Tharp

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Modernman

panel from "Palace of the Muses"                              M. Hill 1988

The Inner Ear

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
-Akira Kurosawa
http://www.goodreads.com

Modernman

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street





Mystery and Melancholy of a Street                     deChirico 1914



http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/mystery-and-melancholy-of-a-street-1914#close

Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work

"... 'Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work' " paste-up—now considered standard instructional fare in one form or another in just about all contemporary post-secondary comics art programs in the States—created by (Larry) Hama from Wally Wood’s old reminder sheets."

http://thecomixverse.com/2012/08/15/leaving-proof-141-looking-back-on-larry-hamas-original-g-i-joe-run/

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"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art."
― Federico García Lorca
http://www.goodreads.com

WIP4

MODERNMAN 8 (detail)                                                                          Mike Hill 2013

 

Art & Physics

Leonard Shlan

1991

Quill

New York

 

WIP3-Modernman 8

from Modernman #8 (detail)

The Inner Ear

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
-Zola
http://www.goodreads.com

Virgil Finlay- pen and ink

 

The Mission of Art

Alex Grey

1998

Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Boston 

 

 

"Emerson understood the artist's need to withdraw from the public in order to gather creative steam: 'Happy are the artists who look only into their work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who create from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not the necessity of sale- who create always for the unknown friend.' "

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“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” 
-Picasso
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/art

M. Hill