David
David Aronson
|
|
 |
Doing the wrong things for the right reasons
Male
46 years old
WILLOW GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA
United States
Last Login: 12/25/2009
|
|
|
|
View My:
Pics
| Gifts
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
David's Interests
|
| General | Art of all cultures and eras, music, literature, poetry, film, all forms of creative expression, psychology, philosophy, religion, mysticism, mythology, magick, holistic healing, astrology, tarot, kabbalah, chaos magick, reiki, integrated energy therapy, hatha and kundalini yoga, zen, Jungian psychology, dreamwork, lucid dreaming and obe, western ritual magick, witchcraft, taoism, tantra, bodywork, quantum physics, all tools for transformation, anthropology. In art:surrealism, dada, mail art, the pre-raphaelites, alternative and underground comix, all forms of animation, visionary art, renaissance art, symbolism, post-modernism, lowbrow art, victorian art, photography, dark art, digital art, children's book illustration, puppets, Huichol yarn painting, stained glass windows, gothic sculpture, intaglio prints, african masks and sculpture. The exploration of consciousness, shamanism, hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, trance, altered states, the paranormal, Gaia consciousness, the medieval world, past-life regression, etc... | | Music | A very short list would include: The Beatles and just about every British band of the 60s and 70s, folk music of all kinds, celtic music, The Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and all 60s west coast bands, obscure psychedelia, Diamanda Galas, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, experimental music and sound collage, almost all classic rock, Beausoleil, cajun music, Black Sabbath, NIN, The Neilds, most "modern" and "alternative" rock, medieval music, gregorian chant, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, 60s Motown and Atlantic soul, His Name Is Alive, The Pentangle, Pigface, Tori Amos, Michelle Shocked, John Coltrane, Rasputina, Sleater-Kinney, Led Zeppelin and almost all 70s metal, The Swans, Love, Captain Beefheart, Current 93, tons of indie stuff, Bodeans, Stereolab, XTC, Zap Mama, middle eastern music, Ben Folds Five, Talking Heads, Pretenders and other "new wave" bands, Richard Thompson, October Project, Calexico, Jeff Buckley, Spirit, Cornelius, Angel in Heavy Syrup and other Japanese avant-garde artists, Patti Smith, The White Stripes, Coil, Sonic Youth, Bjork, Belly, Yes, ELP and other "progressive" bands, Jimi Hendrix, Paula Cole, P.J. Harvey, Stereolab, Jane's Addiction, Rusted Root, Rage Against the Machine, Morcheeba, Art Bears, Hednigarna and other scandinavian folk-rock bands, Lhasa, Nurse With Wound, Dead Can Dance, Uncle Tupelo and other alt/country bands, Morphine, the Velvet Underground, Mr. Bungle, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Planxty, Silly Wizard, Los Lobos, Foo Fighters, Olivia Tremor Control, Alison Krauss, The Seldom Scene and other modern bluegrass artists, Maria McKee, Alice Cooper, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud...many many many more... | | Movies | Jan Svankmajer, The Brothers Quay, Woody Allen, Bill Plympton, The Coen Brothers, John Waters, Nick Park, Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Monty Python, British humor, Mel Brooks, David Lynch, Jodorowsky, Ju-On and other modern Japanese horror films, Michael Moore, Super Size Me, Waking Life, Ghost World, Being John Malkovich, Living In Oblivion, Network, Fanny and Alexander, Memento, Adaptation, Brain Candy, Clerks, Schizopolis, Eraserhead, Ren and Stimpy, South Park, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Rosemary's Baby, Yellow Submarine, Pixar films, independent animation, SCTV, Mr. Show, What the Bleep Do We Know, Freaks, the Marx Bros., The Sixth Sense, Liquid Sky, Slacker, Man Bites Dog, The City of Lost Children, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Heavenly Creatures, Young Poisoner's Handbook, Unbreakable, Jacob's Ladder, The Kingdom, Henry Fool, Adult Swim, Strangers With Candy, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Trainspotting, Fight Club, many more... | | Television |  | | Books | Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Tom Robbins, Philip K. Dick, Hermann Hesse, Tom Wolfe, William Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Will Self, Salman Rushdie, Lemony Snickett, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Rumi, Marge Piercy, Billy Collins, Margaret Atwood, Carlos Castaneda, Robert Bly, William Blake, E.E. Cummings, Jane Roberts, Robert Anton Wilson, David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, Franz Kafka, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Stranger in a Strange Land, Geek Love, The Corrections, 1984, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lord of the Flies, The Tao of Physics, Conversations With God, The Naked Ape, Maus, Blab, Antero Alli, John Lilly, Caroline Myss, Hakim Bey, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Samuel Beckett, Neil Gaiman, Ken Wilber, Annie Sprinkle, Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, everyone in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Graphic Novelists: The Hernandez Bros., Dave Cooper, Bob Fingerman, Max Andersson, Renee French, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Peter Bagge, Ivan Brunetti, Dan Clowes, Seth, Jim Woodring, many more... | | Heroes | Anyone who speaks out against oppression and injustice, anyone who follows their true calling in life despite the odds, Lenny Bruce, Carl Jung, Terrence McKenna, Frida Kahlo, Ernst Fuchs, A.O. Spare, Jello Biafra, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Joseph Campbell, Remedios Varo, George Carlin, Noam Chomsky, Camille Paglia, Leonardo da Vinci, Alex Grey, Timothy Leary, Wilhelm Reich, Kathe Kollwitz, Dr. Suess, Bill Hicks, Joe Coleman, Mati Klarwein, Joel-Peter Witkin, Cindy Sherman, Albrecht Durer, Maurice Sendak, Odd Nerdrum, Paula Rego, Dorothea Tanning. Some more favorite artists: Mark Ryden, Hans Bellmer, Ralph Steadman, H.R. Giger, Heironymus Bosch, Rubens, Aubrey Beardsley, J.W. Waterhouse, Maxfield Parrish, Van Eyck, Burne-Jones, Gustav Klimt, Robert Williams, Leo and Diane Dillon, Gerald Scarfe, Moebius, Caravaggio, Paul Cadmus, Magritte, John Currin, Todd Schorr, Sue Coe, Dave McKean, Van Gogh, M.C. Escher, Manuel Ocampo, Holbein, Vermeer, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, George Petty, Gil Elvgren, Basil Wolverton, Robert Crumb, George Grosz, Felicien Rops, Edvard Munch, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jean Delville, Franz von Stuck, Rodin, Helnwein, Trevor Brown, Milton Glaser, Arthur Rackham, Rick Griffin, the list goes on and on and on... |
| Groups:
|
The Void, Indigo Empire, MEDIA2017, THE P.S.M. GROUP, shamanic visionary art and photography, WorldWide Spiritual Connection, GODMIND, MySpace Magicians ( Magick & Magic )
View All David's Groups
|
|
|
David's Details
|
| Status: | Divorced | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Body type: | 5' 9" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Artist/teacher/hypnotherapist |
|
|
David's Networking
|
|
Publishing - Art - Illustrator
|
David Aronson's quirky, offbeat drawings, paintings and illustration combine traditional media such as watercolor, ink, graphite and colored pencil with digital media and digital collage.
|
|
|
![]() |
David's Latest Blog Entry
[Subscribe to this Blog]
|
Bipolar Illo for Minneapolis City Pages
(view more)
|
Akiko Visits The Natural History Museum
(view more)
|
Dr. Seuss Visits A Brothel
(view more)
|
New Illustration
(view more)
|
Mock CD Covers
(view more)
|
| [View All Blog Entries] |
|
David's Blurbs |
About me:
Ascetic hedonist, lowbrow intellectual and saturnine victim of Peter Pan syndrome, David Aronson observes the nightmare of history from his oneiric bathysphere and brews up potent, chthonic images in his alembics and retorts. Once thought to have been born fully grown from his father’s left temple, it is now known that he spent his early years in a traveling minstrel show and petting zoo. His mother was a tap dancer and professional mourner, and his father a black-face clown and noted kabbalist. As a child, Popeye cartoons revealed to David the secrets of the Tao. David is a militant agnostic, a disgruntled, cynical tree-hugger, and an unrepentant, closet subversive, forever peeing in the cultural soup.
I'm an artist/teacher/healer/occultist/poet, intelligent, articulate, friendly, down-to-earth, spiritual, quirky and intense. I am an illustrator, digital artist and fine artist (drawing, painting), a certified hypnotherapist, 2nd degree reiki, and integrated energy therapy master, professional astrologer and tarot reader. I teach adults and children drawing, oil painting, watercolor and cartooning. If you'd like to see my work, go to http://www.alchemicalwedding.com
|
Who I'd like to meet:
Creative, intelligent, open-minded people who live outside the box. Iconoclasts, spiritual rebels, visionaries, people who are quirky and offbeat and who think for themselves. Psychonauts, witches, sorcerers, dreamers, shamans, artists, musicians, poets, writers, performers, healers, psychedelicists, free spirits, people on a path of healing, transformation, self-actualization. People following any kind of creative calling. People with integrity and depth. People who are open and not afraid to reveal themselves.
David Aronson's quirky, offbeat drawings, paintings and illustration combine traditional media such as watercolor, ink, graphite and colored pencil with digital media and digital collage. His work ranges from whimsical to fantastic, from highly stylized to realistically rendered, and has been called unique and highly imaginative. It mixes lowbrow with fine art elements and often employs unusual juxtapositions. Thematically, David often delves into the realms of mythology and psychology. He has created art for CD covers, music posters and tour t-shirts. David is also an oil painter and has completed several public and private commissions. His digital animation has been featured on MTV2 and Fuse and his drawings were featured regularly in BigNews, the New York journal of art and literature. He is an art teacher, working with both children and adults and teaching several different media, and was once the sole owner and operator of a small art school in the Philadelphia suburbs. He is also a certified hypnotherapist and a published poet.
|
|
| David's Friend Space (Top 35) |
|
![]()
|
