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Month: March 2006

  • An Arizona home (digital painting)

    An Arizona home (digital painting)

    Home, Scottsdale, Arizona Digital painting based on photo abt 20 by 15 inches 2006 J Kearns Enlargement Did this one earlier in the week. Love the exterior simplicity that masses large planes of color together. And the cacti. The palms.

  • Set the Stage for Three Generations of Carllile Women

    This better be recorded. What: The Carllile Family When: Sunday, April 30th, 6 pm Doors Where: 800 East Studios (800 East Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30312 off North Highland Avenue, between Freedom Parkway and Randolph (www.800east.com) Cost: $25 for seated, $18 for standing. All ages welcome. Tickets available at www.ticketalternative.com. Carpooling is encouraged. Light food…

  • The recalcitrant vacuum

    There are worse things than a Eureka Altima. The name of one is Bissel. This is a vacuum to hate. I know. Because I now one one and I hate the thing. It’s a vacuum that wants nothing to do with vacuuming. All it wants is to sit in its box. But its box was…

  • I so needed this touch of clarity today

    Ok, so the David Hasselhoff Hooked on a feeling video has been around a while. But this. I just saw this today. Why are there no comments? Why has no one rated this? I so get this. The Hasselhoff “Hooked on a Feeling” video suddenly makes perfect sense. And not just perfect sense but perfectly…

  • And so we discuss Hitchcock (a little)

    Most of the animations at the Super Shorts Festival are for adults but there are a few appropriate for children, such as The Stalking, directed by Andrew Johnson, which H.o.p. is crazy about because it is reminiscent of Wallace and Grommit. I tell him that it is a take-off on Alfred Hitchcock’s horror films. He…

  • Because I have a blog I can complain about the Eureka Altima

    The Eureka Altima 2971 BVZ sucks as a vacuum and doesn’t make for good home ec sculpture either. It began giving us trouble from the beginning. And tonight it literally burned itself out. We’ve had it I think around two months and the belt first had to be replaced and then tonight we’ve no idea…

  • Look up at the solar system's backbone

    The Zodiacal Lights are said to be viewable now in the northern hemisphere. When you see Zodiacal Lights, you’ve seen the backbone of our solar system. Zodical Lights are sunlight reflected from interplanetary dust. The pale glow, therefore, traces the dusty plane through which all planets orbit, known to astronomers as the ecliptic plane. Early…

  • Scenes for Quiet Walls Series of Digital Paintings

    Scenes for Quiet Walls Series of Digital Paintings

    Cupid’s Wedding Chapel, Las Vegas, 1991 Digital painting 20 in wide by 14 high J Kearns Lightbox enlargement Click here for all posts in the “Scenes for Quiet Walls” series of digital paintings. And here’s what it looks like today. Spiffier. I like the old building better. I mean, if you’re going to get married…

  • 150,000 square feet of asphalt at the foot of Bear Butte

    A jackass by the name of Jay Allen has big plans for Bear Butte. He is going to expand his “world’s biggest bikers’ bar” right up to its foot. The first phase of Sturgis County Line will have over 150,000 s.f. of asphalt for semi-tractor trailers, hand-picked vendors, motorcycle stunt riders and one hell-of-a-lot of…

  • Columbia River 1991, at Richland

    This is a view of the Columbia River from the riverside park at Richland, March 1991. And that’s me. It was bright blue skies and sun shining only a few minutes beforehand. A dust storm was riding in. Weather can change very quickly there. This is an “I’m standing in front of the Columbia River…

  • Old postcard of Columbia River

    Old postcard of the Columbia River. Reads, Columbia river separating Oregon and Washington. Scene shows vista house at Crown Point with express highway and Mighty Columbia River. No date. Extremely faded. Didn’t toy with it much, just bringing out a few colors. Didn’t see any point laboring over major color adjustments. For comparison, here are…

  • Zurama dressing room

    Zurama dressing room

    While working on cleaning, sorting, cleaning last night, came upon a polaroid, just a few years shy of being 20 years old,of a painting I did of a theater dressing room. Very faded. I brought out the colors a bit. Grainy. Very loosely pictured are Irv Wardlow (left), Lane Whittemore, Ross Miekle (far background) and…