John G. Young, M.D.'s Blog [jgyoungmd]

Back to blogging

2008-04-23T15:03:00.000-07:00

Since the last blog last year, I reached 90 videos on www.YouTube.com/jgyoungmd, got juried into art shows at Open Studios, Core Art Gallery "Wordplay" show,the Louisville National Fine Arts Show and have had two one man shows at Studio Two Gallery at Rembrandt Yard. I discovered www.soundclick.com/jgyoungmd where you can download individual pieces of my music and www.lulu.com/jgyoungmd where you can obtain my books, videos, CDs, and DVDs.

I have been more interested in new media art combining poetry, music, painting, graphics, photography into experimental video. It is wonderful being retired from psychiatry and into a new career as a full-time multi-media artist.

Mendocino

2007-07-24T10:23:00.000-07:00

Documentary of our trip to Mendocino on our 25th wedding anniversary. Having fun with the children's game, "Duck, Duck, Goose." Commentary on seriousness and play in Buddhism.

Less

2007-07-24T10:22:00.002-07:00

This subtle play on words explores the role of abstraction in art and asks, "A picture is worth a thousand words" or is it?

Strangers to Themselves

2007-07-24T10:22:00.001-07:00

Freud saw Leonardo da Vinci as a repressed homosexual; Jung develops the idea of the the animus [the male side of woman] and the anima [the female side of man] which may be seen in the complex personalities of Leonardo, Mona Lisa, Mr. Lisa, and man/woman-kind. What was the Mona Lisa thinking? We are truly strangers to ourselves.

Strangers

2007-07-24T10:21:00.001-07:00

His life of obscure poetry
So unique
It was hard to understand
What plagued him.
Only with great effort
Could I begin to glimpse
What he meant
But most remained hidden
In his own private world
Undisturbed by me.

Her feelings were hid
beneath her facial mask,
though for my help
she sure did ask.
She talked a lot
but made no sense.
It was easy to spot
her ambivalence,
for in her way
pretense was defense.
Though she came so close,
she remained far away.

Doggerel

2007-07-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

This video poem is presented by our dog, Sophie. The pun of dog and doggerel is intended.

What would it be like
to lead a dog's life
and not know
you lead a dog's life?
I do.

I had over-parked my time
with wretched rhymes
and jingle-jangle lines.

My metered mind
had run out of nickels,
so I began to write free verse.

I moved to assonance
and dissonance,
from passonance to pissonance
and found myself
the dog's delight.

Sisyphus Disjunct

2007-07-24T10:19:00.001-07:00

This existential piece is based upon the Greek myth about Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. The music is a keyboard improvisation.

Excerpts Part One 2006 and 2007

2007-07-24T10:18:00.002-07:00

These two videos, Parts one and two, are excerpts from 2006 and 2007 YouTube presentations. Images are related poetically with rhymes or alliteration of themes, colors, techniques, emotions. In them you can see the range of material, variety of expressions, as well as the different music/soundscapes which I created to go with them.

Excerpts Part Two 2006 and 2007

2007-07-24T10:18:00.001-07:00

Father's Day

2007-07-24T10:17:00.001-07:00

Completed on Father's day, this abstract video is accompanied with music improvisation

Alphabet

2007-07-24T10:16:00.001-07:00

Playful colorful abstraction with similar music/sound, something that Jasper Johns might have done in video

070614

2007-07-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

Video abstraction of subtle changes with music created on 070614

Ghosts in the Gallery

2007-07-24T10:14:00.001-07:00

Late at night unusual beings peruse the gallery.

Fast Fridays

2007-07-24T10:12:00.000-07:00

The Fridays night ghosting of the galleries. Quick view of the audience of my art show, Flower Garden, at the Core Fine Art Gallery in Denver, June 1, 2007.

Flitter

2007-07-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

An experimental art video with improvised keyboard music

Rectangulated

2007-05-31T09:47:00.001-07:00

A playful collage of rectangles with improvised orchestral music

Rothko Squared

2007-05-31T09:45:00.001-07:00

What Mark Rothko might have done in video. This is my experience of being upclose to a Rothko. My dynamic soundscape evolves to his electric visuals.

Tangles

2007-05-31T09:44:00.001-07:00

These colors dance the tangle to my improvised piano music.

Jet Stream

2007-05-31T09:43:00.002-07:00

Fast stream through color with improvised soundtrack

Not so Still

2007-05-31T09:43:00.001-07:00

What Clifford Still might have done if he lived long enough to be in the video age. This is best seen full screen.

Circle Dance

2007-05-31T09:42:00.001-07:00

Circle colors dance in this art video to improvised keyboard music. This is best seen in full screen mode

Vivace

2007-05-31T09:41:00.000-07:00

Fast colorful sweep with improvised organ and instrumental music. Images suggestive of Clifford no-so-Still

Diamond Hop

2007-05-31T09:40:00.000-07:00

Experimental music video

Color Blobs

2007-05-31T09:38:00.000-07:00

Playful spectrum of color blobing to inprovized piano music.. This is best seen in full view by pushing the button in the lower right

Timid Wolf

2007-05-31T09:37:00.001-07:00

The inner world of man facing woman the first time