Tag Archives: sculpture

Ghost Girl’s Shadow in the Dreamer’s Cave

Posted on September 23, 2016 by bobcomings

Earlier this summer I prematurely announced in this blog that my 53 inch tall, shaped painting in oil, on wood titled Ghost Girl’s Shadow in the Dreamer’s Cave had been purchased for the permanent collection of the Nora Eccles  Harrison … Continue reading →

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Drawings – pencil, ink

Posted on September 8, 2016 by bobcomings

This gallery contains 13 photos.

A selection from hundreds of drawings from 1966 to 2016 by Robert Comings Continue reading →

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Boc Ging, the movie!

Posted on December 14, 2014 by bobcomings

Well, I have finally sufficiently swallowed my pride enough to put the one lousy copy of Boc Ging up on YouTube. Compared to the quality of digital videography today, the 1968 film I made with Ben Van Meter in Bolinas, … Continue reading →

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First Bolinas Instrument

Posted on April 12, 2012 by bobcomings

Another post from the NFMOA Archives: The First Bolinas Instrument . It came into being out of a real fascination with the ephemeral sound of overtones and a strong desire to explore and listen to them. I started looking around … Continue reading →

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The Bolinas Balafon

Posted on March 30, 2012 by bobcomings

For a change of pace and in keeping with my recent promise, I am today stepping away from the digital decalcomania projects to present some content from the sound experiment and toy-making archives. The Bolinas Balafon lacked any sounding chambers, … Continue reading →

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Om Generator

Posted on April 9, 2011 by bobcomings

Bolinas Om Generator In 1967, on one of my almost daily beachcombing walks at Agate Beach near Bolinas, California, I found a piece of very weathered, scarred, and pitted black plastic pipe about 12 feet long. The inside diameter was … Continue reading →

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The Hummer

Posted on March 13, 2011 by bobcomings

Discovery In the mid-1980’s, I went on an all day field trip with several dozen students and a few fellow teachers to the Oakland Museum. During a break I was walking in the gardens of the Museum chatting with some … Continue reading →

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The Bolinas Sound Toy

Posted on February 2, 2011 by bobcomings

Description Similar to the African Kalimba, the Bolinas Sound Toy (BST), shown here without mics attached, produces a wonderful polyrhythmic array of twanging, clicking, and ticking sounds by simply pressing down then quickly releasing one or more of its twangers … Continue reading →

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