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it's a sign
May. 14th, 2007 10:30 am
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May. 14th, 2007
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collage a day
May. 14th, 2007 10:43 amA Collage A Day
I love these little 4x4 collages he's doing. I want to do another series something like this, not sure what exactly though.
I did those weekly '52 Trips' paintings that one year and sold most of those, and then did the '52 Pickups' and sold most of those.
But I want to a one a day type of thing and smaller items, something like his collages I guess, just to get my non-digital art back in gear again mostly.
As soon as I get the art space set up in here, I will do that. I just moved it all into this room and most of it is still in boxes and has to be sorted out.
But soon!
I've also been watching these Postcard Paintings for a long time - he's great too.
I love these little 4x4 collages he's doing. I want to do another series something like this, not sure what exactly though.
I did those weekly '52 Trips' paintings that one year and sold most of those, and then did the '52 Pickups' and sold most of those.
But I want to a one a day type of thing and smaller items, something like his collages I guess, just to get my non-digital art back in gear again mostly.
As soon as I get the art space set up in here, I will do that. I just moved it all into this room and most of it is still in boxes and has to be sorted out.
But soon!
I've also been watching these Postcard Paintings for a long time - he's great too.
spooky house
May. 14th, 2007 11:48 am
I have never seen anyone go into or come out of this house. The fence is all rusty and the house looks so spooky to me.
It's right next to the Three Bees Nursery though, about two blocks from where I live, and I love to visit the nursery even though I have no yard and not enough light to even have more than one houseplant.
We used to live in a flat with too much sun, and now we have almost none. I really don't mind though - this is the most peaceful apartment we've ever lived in, in all my 37 years in SF.
No crazy ass obnoxious neighbors and the landlord is a nice human being (a rarity in SF).
And I like the neighborhood a lot too of course.
I think we will not be moving until after Joe retires (unless our neighbors move first and we get horrible ones, or unless the landlord sells the building and we get a horrible new landlord).
Anyway, on with the day. It's foggy and cold and I had to turn the heat on for a while when I woke up. I didn't sleep well. But I don't mind the fog and it will probably be sunny later this afternoon anyway.
In the meantime the tea I just drank is not waking me up at all, so I am going to have to hit the hard stuff.
it was forty years ago today
May. 14th, 2007 12:13 pmLast night we were watching this American Experience program on PBS about The Summer of Love.
It was fun to watch for the most part, but also reminded me of how it was perfectly OK for people to say the most ignorant, bigoted things about whole groups of "others." And of how over the line the cops could go too.
Which of course still happens - the world is still full of bigots of all ages and colors and variations, and the cops can still go way over the line for no apparent reason when they just don't happen to like the looks of someone.
But for some reason I had pushed that part of the 60's and 70's into the back of my brain - the harrassment aspects of it sometimes, even in SF, whether it was hippies or gays or whatever, it did go on.
That's why people form ghettos based on this or that criteria - race, sexual orientation, hippyness back then, whatever - to offset the harrassment from the majority. And of course because they were/are not allowed to live with the majority even if they wanted to, which mostly they don't.
Some things never change.
Anyway it was an interesting program and I especially liked the little rant by Peter Coyote at the end, even though they bleeped him every time he used the word "bullshit" - which he used in every sentence. I mean please, let the man say BULLSHIT on PBS. :)
It was fun to watch for the most part, but also reminded me of how it was perfectly OK for people to say the most ignorant, bigoted things about whole groups of "others." And of how over the line the cops could go too.
Which of course still happens - the world is still full of bigots of all ages and colors and variations, and the cops can still go way over the line for no apparent reason when they just don't happen to like the looks of someone.
But for some reason I had pushed that part of the 60's and 70's into the back of my brain - the harrassment aspects of it sometimes, even in SF, whether it was hippies or gays or whatever, it did go on.
That's why people form ghettos based on this or that criteria - race, sexual orientation, hippyness back then, whatever - to offset the harrassment from the majority. And of course because they were/are not allowed to live with the majority even if they wanted to, which mostly they don't.
Some things never change.
Anyway it was an interesting program and I especially liked the little rant by Peter Coyote at the end, even though they bleeped him every time he used the word "bullshit" - which he used in every sentence. I mean please, let the man say BULLSHIT on PBS. :)
taos pueblo
May. 14th, 2007 02:43 pm
Snapshot taken in 1993 with a point and shoot 35mm minolta pocket camera.
I think I still have that camera in a drawer somewhere, but have not used it since 1999 when I went digital.
I want to go back to Taos sometime.
sometime in the 70s
May. 14th, 2007 02:57 pm
mendocino headlands, sometime in the 1970s - or maybe 1981?
wish i would have dated the back of all these old photos
of which i have boxloads.
same point and shoot minolta pocket camera, i think...
or else it may have been an instamatic -
remember those?
the village is back there, but hidden in the fog.
taos pueblo
May. 14th, 2007 04:26 pm
ooh i like this one better than the other one
although it's a bit dark - but then look at the sky.
1993 in taos.
Do any of y'all have a BlackJack?
Is it better than a Blackberry?
How about an iPAQ? Which doesn't have a phone or camera, I know, but I am thinking about getting something that mainly I can use for being connected to the web wirelessly when I am out of town.
Preferably something that accepts SD cards as well - not the mini-sd cards, but the full size ones, so i can take a card out of my camera and insert it in the PDA to upload images directly.
The phone and camera part is not so imperative to have on the same device for me - I rarely talk on the phone and phone cams are not good for much.
Edit - now I see people saying the Blackjack does not have WiFi... no point in that one then!
Is it better than a Blackberry?
How about an iPAQ? Which doesn't have a phone or camera, I know, but I am thinking about getting something that mainly I can use for being connected to the web wirelessly when I am out of town.
Preferably something that accepts SD cards as well - not the mini-sd cards, but the full size ones, so i can take a card out of my camera and insert it in the PDA to upload images directly.
The phone and camera part is not so imperative to have on the same device for me - I rarely talk on the phone and phone cams are not good for much.
Edit - now I see people saying the Blackjack does not have WiFi... no point in that one then!