Lucky the Wondercat

This morning June 22, 2009 my dear friend and cat of the last 16 years passed away in my arms. Lucky had started to show his years in the last few weeks, but seemed healthy. He took ill last night, and I was getting him ready to take him to the vet for an emergency check-up when he expired. Lucky had a long happy life, with many friends, and was always there for me, in all my adventures. Often times sitting on my lap or atop my shoulders while I worked in the studio. Lucky was with me while I created most of the artworks.

Lucky was hit by a car when he was a kitten, and the Chicago animal shelter that saved him gave him his name, because he was "Lucky to be alive." We all know that cats have three names, my former next door neighbor Bolander, informed me that Lucky's second, fancy name was Lucifer G. Carmichael. The thrid name was Lucky's secret.

Beside being a hansome, playful, mostly well behaved animal Lucky was quite the Mouser, and actually caught a large number of them in Chicago, New Haven, and Brooklyn, the most recent one only a few weeks ago.In recent years, Lucky had become the constant companion of my father, Robert since he has moved in with us here in Brooklyn. Often times I would hear my Dad having long conversations with Lucky passing the night away. Lucky made our lives better, in everyway.

Lucky was the best cat a man could have and will miss him forever.- Jason Robert Bell

Submission for SMOKE SIGNAL

Gabe at Desert Island, asked me to submit something for the new free comix newspaper he is publishing, so I took an old joke I had with my friend Jon, that has never seen fruition and here we have The Lemmings. Who are a straight out inversion of the Smurfs.

Jason Robert Bell

Blast from my past, Liebography pilot and The Liebotron 2600, and a chain of events.

I was poking around on the interweb last night, and came across this gem-

This is a TV pilot for a show we started on NYC public access called "Liebography" that's a parody of A&E's "Biography" and VH1's "Behind the Music". In this episode Paul Scheer, who later went on to fame on the MTV show "Human Giant", and co-host The Liebotron 2600 examine the tumultuous life of rap superstar Eminem.

This pilot was shot in my old Bushwick, Brooklyn Studio, a creation of my friends Brian and Jay, I built the fake computer and props and my cat Lucky played the part of Lady Marmalade.

In a funny 20/20 hindsight way, meeting Paul lead to all matter of other projects and people in my life.



Talking with Paul, resulted in me and my work friends Steve, Debby, and Kory performing by hairbrainded Robert Wadlow piece Automatic Vaudville in the Arsnova Theater . Which lead to us performing at the Brick Theater, where I meet my friend a future collaborators Hope and Jeff. Which lead to a number of projects at the Brick, and my magnum opus Adventures of Caveman Robot. Life is a funny thing.

-Jason Robert Bell

The Tiger Triangle

I had a great meeting today with my two good friends and great creators; theatrical impresario Jeff Lewonczyk and musical maven Debby Schwartz who are working with me on a new exciting project. Which is adapting Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring into a multi-media Action Adventure theater piece with the John Cage Aria as a starting place for the musical arrangement.
We are moving slow on this project right now, all busy with other things, but it is forming, growing now, fruit on the vine that when ripe will be plucked.

The Tiger Triangle is a joke between Jeff and myself when the three of us were working on Adventures of Caveman Robot, which the power of Visual Art, Theater, and Music, coming together to create something new and maybe dangerous.

Backuz

2009, Oil, acrylic, epoxy, metallic pigments, collage, and sand on canvas, 5 x 7 inches

I am only really happy when I have 2 or 3 different somewhat unrelated art projects going on, my main project right now is the Caveman Robot Animation Project, I am trying work full time on the animation, but man does not live by bread alone, to keep my sanity, I am going to try to have a new little metaphysical painting done every week or so, this in the first one. Backcuz, which builds off of Maxon, a play with the schism of the mind and the body/soul of a person.

-Jason Robert Bell

The Four Elements

Prithvi (earth), 2009, acrylic, epoxy, metallic pigments, collage, and sand on canvas, 10 x 8 inches



Vaya (air), 2009, acrylic, epoxy, metallic pigments, collage, and sand on canvas, 10 x 8 inches


Jala (water), 2009, acrylic, epoxy, metallic pigments, collage, and sand on canvas, 10 x 8 inches


Agni (fire), 2009, acrylic, epoxy, metallic pigments, collage, and sand on canvas, 10 x 8 inches


These new paintings were done as a commission for my good friend and great actor Jay Klaitz, who some of you might know as the Capital One Guardian Angel from a few years back.

What I'm working on

A new series of paintings for a commission, will have them all up soon.