A new painting that is headed for my upcoming show , A Place to Stand, at the Principle Gallery , opening June 8. This is a 12″ by 36″ canvas that carries the title Almost Blue, a title taken from the great Elvis Costello song. I often talk about the color blue as being addictive, about how difficult it is [...]
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Almost Blue
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Music, Painting, Recent Paintings, Video, tagged Chet Baker, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Principle Gallery on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Beeswing
Posted in Music, Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, Video, tagged Emotion, New Painting, Painting, Red Tree, Richard Thompson, Subject, Video on May 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I wrote the other day about the rhythm I’m looking for when I’m in the studio, that groove where the painting is more instinctual than intellectual. Everything flowing fast and easy with little thought, each brushload of paint inspiring the next and on and on. All intuition and reaction with hardly a thought given to [...]
Richard Thompson/ Black Cab Sessions
Posted in Music, Neat Stuff, Video, tagged Black Cab Sessions, London, Richard Thompson on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There is an internet broadcast that started in 2007 and is ongoing called the Black Cab Sessions. It features a musical guest performing one song as they ride through the streets of London in the well known black London hackney. It has had a tremendous variety of artists over the year, from the very well [...]
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Video, tagged Johnny Cash, Paul and Mary, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Peter, Roberta Flack, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face on April 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Most people immediately think of Roberta Flack when they think of the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and for good reason. Her 1972 version was truly beautiful and deserved every bit of the acclaim it earned. But the song didn’t originate with her and has had many versions through the years, [...]
Down in Mexico
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Video, tagged Lieber and Stoller, The Coasters on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A young friend of mine posted this video online yesterday. It’s a song that I haven’t heard in many years, Down in Mexico from The Coasters in 1956. This was their first single and was a mild hit although ost people remember The Coasters for the string of hits that followed, all written , like Down in [...]
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Video, tagged Billy Bragg, Brooklyn, Mermaid Avenue, Wilco, Woody Guthrie on March 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I mentioned Woody Guthrie in yesterday’s post and it reminded me of a musical release that is coming out in the next month. It is the release of Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions from Billy Bragg and Wilco, which incorporates the remastered first two volumes from the original 1998 release with a new volume of 17 [...]
Soulside Journey/ Alexandre Deschaumes
Posted in Neat Stuff, Photography, Video, tagged Alexandre Deschaumes, French Alps, Landscape, Mathieu Le Lay, Photography on March 25, 2012 | 6 Comments »
There’s a wonderful site to which I subscribe , PhotoBotos.com, which blogs a remarkable photo each day. From all parts of the world, most are spectacular shots and I always look forward to seeing what each new day’s offering will be. Today’s was not a disappointment. Called Soulside Journey, it is a shot of epic feel taken [...]
The Chapel
Posted in Architecture, At the Movies, Favorite Things, Video, tagged Architecture, Film, Karl Langhans, Patrick Kizny, Poland, The Chapel, Via Lucis, Video on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently saw a short film called The Chapel which is from filmmaker Patrick Kizny. It is a high-def timelapse film that explores the interior of a decrepit Protestant church in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by architect Karl Langhans and built in 1796-1797. It has obviously been in a horrible state of disrepair for many years but [...]
The Sprout and the Bean
Posted in Music, Video, tagged Harp, Harpo Marx, Joanna Newsom, Music on February 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know a lot about famous harpists except for possibly Harpo Marx, who I have featured here before playing an ethereal Take Me Out to the Ballgame. To tell the truth I can’t think of another harpist at the moment except for Joanna Newsom. My nephew introduced me to her music a few years [...]
The Unfortunate Rake
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, Video, tagged St. James Infirmary Blues, The Unfortunate Rake, Van Morrison on January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This painting took a long time to emerge. I started with just a large block of color, originally feeling that there was a distant, stark landscape in it. But it never felt completely right and I let it sit for many months, occasionally picking it up and trying to decipher what it might hold. But [...]
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