Book Love @ City Lights [For you, Professor]

   All the following images have been taken at City Lights Booktore in North Beach (Little Italy) , San Francisco, on June 29, 2010. I dedicate this post to my dear English and Literature Professor at NDSU, Steve Ward. Long live The Beats.

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Art and Poetry

Perhaps if we all had, every day, time for art and for poetry, just a daily dose, perhaps our lives would feel a little less hurried, a little less hectic, and time would slow down for that cup of tea in front of a vintage art book. Perhaps we could squeeze more out of our [...]

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Time to say Goodbye (for now)

  There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.  John Donne   The Roots of Violence   Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without [...]

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Yoga and Pablo Neruda

Yoga is moving meditation. Feel your body melt on the ground. Feel your muscles, your bones dissolving into the ground. Be thankful for this time. The gratitude you feel spreads from your heart to your entire being, and radiates towards everyone around you. Mercedes, Yoga instructor and, apparently, Rockstar in a band- I attended her [...]

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Commissioned Painting | Graphic Composition

My client gave me this card and asked me to create a composition based on the flower/butterfly graphics. I first mixed in the colors for the purple background my client wanted, then drew the graphic motifs with black grease pencil, went over with white pastels, only to realize that the black was not going to [...]

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Desk Crit [The Importance of Sketching II]

Drawing is thinking. Hand-eye coordination is essential not only to accurately render what you see, but to bring forth and execute what you see in your mind’s eye, i.e designing. I read once that we should use the word ‘draw’ as in ‘drawing information’, as from a well. To draw a building  or space is [...]

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Art and War: Razzle Dazzle!

These are drawings and photos of actual ships of the US Navy during WWI. To mislead German U-Boats (who shot torpedos in the direction the ship was thought to be going to), the Fleet Admiral used British Artist Norman Wilkinson’s Dazzle Camouflage or Razzle Dazzle. The war ship become huge canvases for abstract art. I [...]

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Mango (della gelosia)

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Sections of the Brokenhearted [Find another Sun]

Soundtrack of  ‘Apart’ Soundtrack of  ‘The Center cannot hold’ Soundtrack of ‘Spooning (one. is broken)’ More on Gordon Matta-Clark

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The Road Not Taken or the Fire Trail

Berkeley Woods. Photograph HDC HD2 5 Megapixel Camera. June 5, 2010. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the [...]

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House, MD and Architecture: (medical) misteries and set design

I am a huge fan of House, MD, not only because the writing is refreshing and clever  (Cuddy:  I have a case! House: Beer? )and the ‘hero’ is an anti-herowith serious flaws but a rugged, sarcastic way of caring — I love the show because there is a link between House and Sherlock Holmes – and [...]

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It’s still your birthday, Cammellino

NaBloPoMo writing prompt of today: Define ‘freedom’. Traveling.

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In Studio at 12 AM

NaBloPoMo writing prompt of today: What is your favorite poem? #1 By the Ionian sea You pick fresh fruit and seeds From orchard and underwood nearby I fetch seashells Starshaped For you I build a nest of leaves– We spend warm nights with street artists Flame-eaters and sages Fall asleep with fire Yours and mine [...]

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It’s June. It’s Good. NaBloPoMo.

Happy June! I hope the long weekend was restful and re-newing for all. I was fortunate enough to enjoy the beautiful weather in San Diego, and explore the Torrey Pines coast and beaches, and hike a cliff (!) For someone like me , a city creature, who believes in the great indoors, this is no [...]

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