Ned Buratovich, Author at imagiNed Conceptual Artistry

Introducing Quipsy-Quote Cards

Posted: May 31, 2020 Categories: Announcements, Quipsy-Quote Cards

Assortment of Quipsy-Quote Cards, some hard copy, some on various device screens laid out on a wooden table

Original witticisms, overlaying a photo of Ned delivering them from the stage, formatted for printing to a 4×6 postcard or photo print.

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Paint Pictures with Pigments of Imagination

Posted: May 15, 2020 Categories: Photography, Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Motivational, Nature, Puns

4x6 postcard: macro photo of the pinkish Cistus x purpureus flower overlaid with burgundy script saying Paint Pictures with Pigments of Imagination

4×6 Postcard of flower overlaid with exhortation: Paint Pictures with Pigments of Imagination.

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NED CROSS Relief Services

Posted: May 9, 2020 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards, Visual Imagery Tags: Abstract, Personal

Red cross symbol, superimposed with large white capital letters, 3 across: N E D; 3 down N E D. Both vertical and horizontal share the same E in the center.

So many need help right now, if only I could be a one-man relief service, this would be my emblem.

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Cozy Conformity Straitjackets

Posted: April 24, 2020 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards Tags: Memes, Political

Conformity straitjackets fashioned for contemporary totalitarianism.

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Good Friday Coronavirus at Calvary

Posted: April 10, 2020 Categories: Smartsy-Artsy Cards, Visual Imagery Tags: Abstract, Metaphysical

Contemplating The Crucifixion clouded by COVID-19

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August Evening ’73 (Supposed)

Posted: April 7, 2020 Categories: Audio, Poetry Tags: Personal

Poem written by Ned Buratovich on January 5, 1974 about expectations leading to tense confrontation one August evening in 1973. Audio of Ned’s reading recorded in 2004.

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Backdated “Retro-Postings”

Posted: April 1, 2020 Categories: Announcements

3x5 grid of calendars (2010 - 2024) with arrows illustrating how items posted now are given dates in the past.

Items created in the (not too distant) past, but posted this month, will have their “posted on” date set to their creation date.

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The April of the Fool

Posted: April 1, 2020 Categories: Announcements Tags: Personal

A re-posting of an old announcement about “creating content and characters like crazy.”

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Mid-pandemic Product Launch

Posted: April 1, 2020 Categories: Announcements Tags: Business

An electron microscope image of the spiky coronavirus covers the bottom-left corner of a photograph of completely empty supermarket shelves, eight feet tall, going back fifty feet in distance.

April Fools was to be the day this website would launch loads of funny new content. But when the day comes, things are grim around the world. What to do? Launch anyway, with the hope that humor might help lift someone’s spirit at just the right time.

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