Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

A crystal driven frequency finder of the future - and not for the faint hearted! Victorian Viewfinder This relic from the Victorian era was used to search out and seek the future! It was compared to the Ouija board at the time - albeit an upmarket version of sorts. Unfortunately a comparison that would ultimately hurt the product in the end. The idea was that this device, when a candle was lit within it, would generate an image on a glass wafer that was inserted within the viewing device. At the top of the artifact is a candle flame and within it you can see four men jumping. Below the crown and nearer to the center of the object you may see four men walking in line. An accompanying note that came with this particular purchase from auction in 1945 stated that the four men were associated with insects and would change the world. Another note mentioned a geographical area - Liverpool. Another one described a location four the walking men as Abbey Road. Used as ...

Works in Progress - Paint Studio  2 Works in Progress - Paint Studio 2 More Under Layers and Work in Progress - Paint Studio 2 Paint Studio 2 So, just a few shots of my painting studio and the bits and pieces in progress that I am working on at the moment. Work in progress picture of "Cartoons with Goo" 24 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas. The finished painting of "Cartoons with Goo" can be seen on my website Alan Brooks Design in the Gallery 1  section. Work in progress. Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 inches. Alan Brooks Design

 . . . Or the End of the Beginning? Depends on how you look at things? - No, not exactly. At least erm, not on this occasion. For example, in my picture below -  Quantum Boy sits and ponders. In a state of "Totem Recall" he weighs the Geocentric Earth position against the Heliocentric model. He sighs. "Where are all the independent thinkers of this day and age?" he exclaims out loud to himself. Come to think of it . . "What is this day and age?" "Plastic age?" "Computer age - ?" "New Age?" "Ah, yes" he tells himself. "I remember now . . . It's the End of the age" Quantum Boy in Totem Recall - [Alan Brooks - Mixed media] And So It Is Alan Brooks Design

Below are two unrelated photos that I am using to illustrate a point - [always hard to do when describing images] in this case it is once again about the Fab's, the Beatles, their alleged army of doubles, multiples, or call them as you will. The picture above has a still from the Michael Bay movie The Island [at right.] At left, of course are John and Yoko. As I was looking at the picture of the "Island" figure I couldn't shake off a 'vision' of John Lennon "superimposed" over the top of the mans head. The mans ear was giving way to / or morphing into Lennons eye. The bright area of the mans cheek and jaw was highlighting Lennons nose and so forth. This was not a vague representation or a staring at the clouds fantasy. The images were most clear and grew seamlessly as if they had always belonged together. After this event had somewhat subsided I searched for an image of Lennon that matched the one I had intuitively seen when they appeare...

I have yet to find out what this particular picture is all about. For the moment all that I know is I was pouring over some google earth areas searching for something completely unrelated. I remember looking down on a place called Cortez and thinking I could see a woman. The more I looked into it I picked out impressionistic bits and pieces of a landscape - or more particularly - scenery. A pool, stream - a ghostly apparition of a peacock appearing. So, I polished it up as a colored sketch idea and reveal it here. Below is the original map area and location that started this curiosity. Then a closer look into the area where I "saw" the woman. And finally, my impressionistic interpretation of the woman by the pool with peacock. Cortez Woman with Peacock Alan Brooks Design

  The Fab's, Julie Andrews and Switzerland. First of all let me begin by asking you to be patient enough to read a dream by the Swiss Analyst C. Jung. JUNG’S LIVERPOOL DREAM - copied below. “I was in Liverpool.  With a number of Swiss—say, half a dozen—I walked through the dark streets.  I had the feeling that there we were coming up from the harbor, and that the real city was actually up above, on the cliffs.  When we reached the plateau, we found a broad square dimly illuminated by street lights, into which many streets converged.  The various quarters of the city were arranged radially around the square.  In the center was a round pool, and in the middle of it a small island.  While everything round about was obscured by rain, fog, smoke, and dimly lit darkness, the little island blazed with sunlight.  On it stood a single tree, a magnolia, blazed with sunlight.  On it stood a single tree, a magnolia, in a shower of red...

Hello . . .  again . I decided to "come back" and assail you -  once again  - and with good reason too, I might add. [Imagine no John Lennon, it's easy if you try.  Dali too, come to think of it!] After suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune - or Instagram and Facebook, as they are more popularly known, I have headed back to the archaic and well trodden path of the blog! Personally the world of instagram seemed appealing [appalling?] at first. My pictures went up, the numbers went up - and then I surmised that all was not well. It was transforming into "bot" land. I mean, just who was real? Was I really being followed by "people" 100 per cent of the time? Why were more and more instagram pages looking like commercials - ad's - product placement's - and so on, and so forth? Were people really assigning bots to their accounts to chat and select images to interact with while they were away and doing ...