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Month: August 2006

  • Should I feel guilty about not seeing the point in making a rain gauge?

    Damn it’s the end of August already. I want a vacation! We knew one wouldn’t be happening in September this year though so I’ve committed us to some acting classes for H.o.p. He’s not interested in acting but he’s interested in the process. Kind of. He is looking forward to it. I think he has…

  • Erin

    Erin

    Erin, digital painting with photo reference

  • "Spirited Away"

    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” was one of this week’s choices from Netflix and it was great. Netflix gives it a rating for kids over 10 because of some scary moments. I sat to watch it with H.o.p., waited for the supposedly scary moments but there weren’t any that weren’t well-cushioned and were worked seamlessly into…

  • Are Holocaust artifacts a world heritage or do they belong to the survivors?

    The NY Times reports the interesting case of Dina Babbitt, an 83-year-old survivor of Auschwitz. She and her mother were 27 of 5000 Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Dina and her mother survived because Dina was an artist. Mengele had seen a mural she’d done of a Swiss mountainside and “Snow White and the Seven…

  • Iris

    Iris

    Iris, Digital painting with photo reference 2005

  • Vetoed

    I’d chosen a Nova piece on volcanoes for tonight’s viewing pleasure. It showed briefly people fleeing the eruption of a volcano, the soles of their feet burned through, and stacks of dead bodies. H.o.p.: You’re my mom, you’re not supposed to show me things like that. It’s too disturbing for an eight-year-old to see. Enough…

  • Marye and Iris

    Marye and Iris

    Digital painting with photo reference, 2005

  • Jean

    Jean

    Jean Light box enlargement Think I’ve lost the larger version of this.

  • Lloyd

    Lloyd

    Lloyd, digital painting with photo reference, 2004

  • "The Producers" (the 1968 film)

    Speaking of the 50’s blacklist. Night before last we watched “The Producers” again, which stars Zero Mostel who was blacklisted for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee back in 1955. I’d only seen “The Producers” once before, many years ago, and was glad when Marty picked it up earlier in the…

  • "Incident" on I-85

    "Incident" on I-85

    Incident on I-85 26 Aug 2006 A few minutes beforehand you’re watching a woman making tortillas in front of a Food Mart, then you’re seated in stand-still traffic for an hour and a half while someone’s tragedy is playing out ahead, which is called an incident in the traffic news, marked with a little incident…

  • Woman making tortillas outside Food Mart on Buford Highway

    Woman making tortillas outside Food Mart on Buford Highway

    Light box enlargement Woman making tortillas outside Food Mart on Buford Highway 26 Aug 2006