Monday, May 16, 2016

start with beady little eyes.


6 comments:

ricpic said...

Well, I don't know about beady eyes. Trump, to me, has the face of a guy who's put away a lot of steaks over a lot of years. Karl Rove has the same face, minus the hair. In other words does the face tell me anything about what's inside? No.

Chip Ahoy said...

So true.

Likewise you really do get to know at least a person's face by drawing it.

He's over 70, no? I was surprised how plain his face is. Almost nothing there. In this photograph.

The photograph stuck out. A better one to pick for character would be the bullfrog scowl.

Cartoon nose.

By 50 you have the face you deserve. There is not much to this man's face. I almost put how his eyebrows would look were they not trimmed expertly probably by himself. (He has a barber in his house but doesn't use him for the most part, he does his own hair. You know his eyebrows would be like Walter Cronkite or some random Russian Author or 50's Russian premier, or Dune Mentat.)

Credit where it is due, his eyebrows would be a mess if he didn't trim them severely.

It would go, eyebrow, eyebrow, eyebrow, BUSH, psych!, erase, eyebrow, eyebrow eyebrow.

His whole chubby face is plain. The normal lines of age stretched out to disappear.

Maybe he's high energy, very high energy, high energy all the time, not low energy, very high energy every day all day long.

He kills me.

His repetition makes him sound like the poem Hiawatha to me. He's a bit Longfellow in his epic trochaic tetrameter and his repetition like the poem's anaphora are drumbeats with unbroken rhythm that moves his narrative steadily progressing to rises that terminate dramatically.

Should you ask me, whence these stories.
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odours of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild reverberations,
As of thunder in the mountains.

I would build a great wall,
and nobody builds walls better than me,
believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively,
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border.
And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
[We'll build the best wall you ever saw
We'll build a beautiful wall.
Our wall will have a giant door in it.
A huge golden door in our wall.
A huge golden door that allows people to pass back and forth
Pass back and forth legally
People passing legally through our huge golden door in our beautiful wall

wait for i-i-i-i-t ...

That Mexico pays for]

Conduplicatio all over the place, drumbeat, dramatic termination.

And everything else in the photograph is equally Spartan as his face, although expensive fine imitation Corinthian leather <--- Ricardo Montalban's voice.

ndspinelli said...

ric, "We are what we eat." He looks more like a carbo guy. He has that muffin top belly that comes w/ carbs. And since he doesn't drink alcohol, those carbs come from food. I bet his weakness is baked goods. One of mine as well. I love pie, cookies, coffee cake, bread, etc.

ndspinelli said...

Well, I just checked out an US magazine interview from last year. Trump says he likes cherry-vanilla ice cream and See's Candy[West Coast favorite] and pizza. All are muffin top belly makers. However, Donald says he doesn't eat the pizza dough, he only eats the toppings. He probably did that a few times when he was trying to cut carbs, but you know he eats the whole slice, hopefully w/ his tiny hands and not a fork.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Very good.

Now just remember to add a taco bowl or an angry bald eagle to the final frame and you've get yourself a full-fledged real-life re-creation, my friend!

The Dude said...

Milt Gross wrote:

On de shurrs from Geetchy Goony
Stoot a tipee witt a weegwom
Frontage feefty fitt it mashered
Hopen fireplaze, izzy payments

On de muggidge izzy payment
For one family a weegwom
In de liss cluzz "No cheeldren"
Stoot a warning "Hedults honly"

That is an excerpt from his masterpiece "Hiawatta witt no odder poems"

Truly, the man was a genius. I recommend that one secure a copy of that book and read it.