These are original silkscreen prints from Steve Miller — not of musical fame, but of Mary Washington College fame. They were given to me by the artist many years ago.
Found ’em in storage. Got ’em up in the Batcave immediately.
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Two virtual silkscreens by Steve Miller, 2018
The first dog you see here actually does have eyes that are different colors. You can find more of Steve’s work right here: http://www.virtualsilkscreens.com/.
Sketches of Zombie Trump and Zombie Hillary, by Michael Calero, 2016 and 2017
My friend and consummate collector, Steve Miller, is the proud owner of both of these illustrations. Michael Calero sketched the first one for him when he attended a Walker Stalker Con in 2016, Steve later contacted him and requested a companion piece for Hilary.
I’m jealous. Steve has the coolest things.
Art for Nolan’s sake.
This is my newest acquisition. It’s Edward Robert Hughes’ “Midsummer Eve,” and it’s a gift from my dear friend Jaine.
I’ve loved Hughes’ piece since I discovered it last year. Now it makes a nice contrast with those modern silkscreen prints created by MWC alum Steve Miller.
Check out MWC Alum Steve Miller’s virtual silkscreen art!
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to post for a while now — I am the proud owner of two “photographic virtual silkscreens” by the talented Alexandria artist Steve Miller. I mentioned these prints on the blog when Steve sent them to me, but I never posted photos.
Steve is an old friend of mine, and a fellow graduate of Mary Washington College. (No absurd “UMW” appellations will appear on this blog.) As I’ve mentioned here in the past, some of my favorite memories of college were partying with the gang at Steve’s room in “The Tunnel” between Mason and Randolph Halls. (I was a nervous and hyperactive freshman in the Fall of 1990; Steve and a few other upperclassmen there took me under their collective wing, and taught me to chill out and listen to the Beatles like a respectable Virginian young man.) Steve is the tall guy in the shades in our group photo below.
But Steve was also a great friend because he’s one of the first true artists I had in my peer group. He was a great creative influence, and taught me to dig good music, laid back friends and offbeat, unusual art. I’d like to think it made me a far more well rounded young person. To this day, whenever I hear The Allman Brothers (whose work was gospel to our crowd), I think of The Tunnel.
Steve’s work with virtual silkscreening was my introduction to the medium. It’s cool and trippy; I love the vibe it brings to my place.
Check out Steve’s site here:
http://virtualsilkscreens.com/
“It was the best of times, it was … the best of times.”
In honor of the Mary Washington College Class of 1994 Reunion, which I am regrettably unable to attend, I am sharing this photo of a … slightly younger me. As you can see (far left), I was sublimely well adjusted at the age of 20, despite the fact that apparently 40 percent of my body weight resulted from my ears and hair.
The happy gang pictured is actually The Tunnel Crowd — yes, they graduated before 94, but I currently don’t have any other MWC pics scanned in. Pictured beside me, from left to right, are Chris Orange, Dave Whitaker, Steve Miller in his Lennontastic shades, Paul Dilick, and another affable young man whose name escapes me now.
And pictured here is actually a key educational moment, because this may have been the party where I was first really introduced to The Beatles’ “White Album.”
“You say you want a revolution? Well, you know … we all want to change the world.”
Much love, guys. Thanks for long ago friendships, and great memories that the decades have failed to fade.
Dirty Dishes and Memory Lane
My big brother and Mary Washington College Alum, Russel Morgan, visited campus recently and took some terrific photos — MWC has changed a LOT since 1994, but there are still many places I recognize.
The first picture is of the dining hall where I worked as a student employee — horsing around with the other kids, constantly drinking coffee and that sweet red “bug juice” punch, and adopting cookies, cheeseburgers and tater tots as staple foods. It is also where I worked countless hours on “Dishline,” the assembly-line-like workspace where I and the other kids cleaned all the dishes that were returned. Wow. That was a lot of wet work. I believe that I still smell of ketchup to this day. I indeed capitalize “Dishline,” as it is both famous and infamous, and figured largely in the formative years of many past students. If you attended Mary Wash and you know what being “on carts” was, then you are a “Seacobeck Alum.”
Also pictured, in the second photo, are New Hall and Alvey Hall. (I’m certain new Hall must have been dubbed with a donor’s name in the intervening years since I graduated.) The men and women I lived among here are among the finest I’ve ever met. To quote the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, “I Accuse My Parents,” “I threw some kickass parties here.”
In the third photo are Mason and Randolph Halls. My college girlfriend (and possibly the sweetest person I’ve ever met), Kim Haun, lived in Mason. That low-lying structure linking the two was a literal tunnel, where dorm rooms existed at the time. (We quite creatively nicknamed it “The Tunnel.”) Here is where I partied as a Freshman with Steve Miller. (No, not the musician, Steve Miller — but the irony here is that my pal Steve was a huge fan of the eponymous star and played all of his albums while we sipped rum and cokes on the weekends.) My college experience would never have been the same if Steve and his upperclassmen friends hadn’t taken me under their wing.
[EDIT — It was actually MWC Janet Walbroehl Winston who took these photos!! Russ, you scene-stealer!!!]
Seacobeck Dining Hall.
New Hall and Alvey Hall.
Mason and Randolph Halls, with”The Tunnel” in the middle.
Ball Hall.
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