Gideon ponte (@GideonPonte)

Drawing and sketching is a big part of my life, I visit museums and try and learn by copy, I go to life classes, they’re easy to find in most cities, don’t cost much, my hand works quickly, faster than my head, there’s lots to see, and drawing imagined and / or observed makes me happy, including anatomy and all the distortion of foreshortening, nothing like it for as far as the eye can see,

What would the culture have lost if AI had been developed in the 1950s- answer c/o ChatGPT

been 15 years, not sure that computes, what a ride, shot in downey, CA, a training mock up of the space shuttle, sitting under a tarp in the corner, working with Klein, who pushes to the limit, but always with a rye and very funny sense of humour, Gaga super focused and channelling all sorts, i brought some bits and pieces, snow business brought the snow as always brilliant, roland and his team wearing back packs just like ghostbusters blowing soap suds that looked just like snow imside a giant concrete warehouse.

Another day another drawing, this one made up, enjoying the what will appear , seeing where the pencil leads me,

Champion of champions Lester Lloyd,who’s been in training to run in the macmillam ride of a lifetime to raise money for the fight against cancer, and he WON !! The achievement is incredible and so deserved

Another Monday at life class, been a 40 year away, so much joy in having ink smudged hands

Best birthday ever, my family 🤣🥸😵‍💫🤪

Saw killer of sheep today at the film forum it is a film that finds power in the smallest moment and the tiniest detail, every frame bursts off the screen, unlike anything else, elevates realism, and punches with guard down, one from the heart deeply felt, I’ve said too much.Charles Burnett (director): I always felt like an outsider – an observer – who wasn't able to participate because I couldn't speak very well. So this inability to communicate must have led me...to find some other means to express myself...I really liked a lot of the kids I grew up with. I felt an obligation to write something about them, to explain what went wrong with them. I think that's the reason I started to make these movies.[7] This from the New Yorker : what a treat One of the most acclaimed L.A. Rebellion movies, “Killer of Sheep,” by Charles Burnett—the first of the group to enter U.C.L.A., in 1967 (and a cinematographer on “Bush Mama”)—is screening April 18-24 at Film Forum, in a new restoration. This, too, was a thesis film, completed in 1977, but its release was long delayed because of music rights. It’s a sharply observed, lyrically romantic drama of a young paterfamilias in Watts named Stan (Henry G. Sanders), whose harsh job in a slaughterhouse leaves him embittered and depressed. Burnett tenderly sketches the resulting stresses in Stan’s marriage—a living-room dance scene with his wife (Kaycee Moore), set to Dinah Washington’s record of “This Bitter Earth,” is a classic in itself—and evokes the family’s life in generous detail, with special attention to the couple’s children.—Richard Brody