We are back to real-world physical art this week with this small acrylic-on-illustration board study inspired by your humble blogger looking at cars in the parking lot at a local big-box store earlier in the week whilst waiting for Mrs. PopCulteer to finish shopping (I’d left the store before her so I could rest my aging knee).

With this I tried to capture the reflections of reflections that you see when cars are parked close together. It actually creates some weird optical illusions when you stare at them long enough. In this case, without photographic reference (I was too lazy to retrieve my phone from my pants pocket), I tried to recreate this weird visual of a car reflected in one car (not shown), then that reflection being reflected in another car, so that you see what appears to be a funhouse mirror reflection of a car that’s actually behind the car it’s being reflected by multiple times. It’s all due to angles and curves.

It looked weird in a cool sort of way, so I tried to paint it.

Admittedly, this is more of a doodle than a study. I doubt I’ll actually get around to doing a huge canvas painting of this one, but it does look sort of nifty.

To see this week’s art bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also classic edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear the very first episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of The Swing Shift, my weekly (ish) show devoted to Swing Music. This batch of ten shows has a heavy emphasis on 90s revival Swing acts like The Brian Setzer Orchestra and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.