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(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 14, 2012
Four Artworks by the Amazing Mark Tansey I first saw Mark Tansey's art five years ago, when Sothebys and Christie's websites carried artworks being auctioned at their attended auctions worldwide, and the artworks did not download in a streaming format from their websites, so you could collect their pictures in your own files and create slide shows and backgrounds with them.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Seven Artworks at Artnet by the Post-Contemporary Kaws I don't know sh** about Kaws. But I know what I like"", and it's not Kaws. (Just kidding. Would I submit an Artnet artist I did NOT like?) Don't answer that.

(8 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 4, 2012
My Mare Island, Vallejo, CA, 94592: Is It a Toxic Waste Hazard? I worked for the U.S. Forest Service from 1978 to 2001. My duty station for all 23 years was in the Regional Office of the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5), for 20 years in San Francisco's financial district, and for the last 3 years on Mare Island in Vallejo, CA, where the Regional Office moved in 1998 to reduce rental costs.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 30, 2012
From Wylie, an Old Law School Pal Who Played an Acoustic Guitar... Back in the dark ages when I attended Stanford Law School (from 1963 to 1966), several members of my class played guitars, most of us not professionally, and some of us - like Wylie and me - not very well. But we kept playing (or in my case "trying"). My fave performer after the Beatles and the Stones and Dylan and Baez was Rambling Jack Elliot and the only song I remember finger-picking was his "Railroad Bill.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Four Artworks by Nell Blaine Ten Nell Blaine paintings are presently for sale online at Artnet.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 26, 2012
A Time Trip Back to '55, by David McDermott and Peter McGough I recently visited "Artists Monographs" at Artnet online and came across an unlikely looking pair, McDermott and McGough by name; then when I visited their biographical page, I was immediately hooked by something McDermott says there: "I've seen the future, and I'm not going."

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 13, 2012
An Appreciation of Julianne Moore, Ridley Scott, Ray Liotta, Anthony Hopkins, and their movie Hannibal (2001). The first movie I remember seeing Julianne Moore in she played the character Marlene Craven in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1984), and when I raved about her beauty to my sister, she informed me that Ms. Moore had been a face model for a lot longer than she'd been a Hollywood actress.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Golden Age of Late-20th Century Photography Millions participated, thousands succeeded, hundreds became rich and famous, but in retrospect, Annie Leibovitz was (and still is) the greatest American photographic artist of our time.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 9, 2012
An Appreciation of T. Jefferson Parker's California Girl, Baja California, and KT. In 1975, I was living with a lady I'll call KT, from Florida, while we were working in the Student Financial Aid Office at U.C. Berkeley; and, after our collaboration on writing a book of advice for California applicants for student financial aid had failed (due to my hard-headedness), we decided to take a trip from the Bay Area to Baja California in a very used 1967 VW bus I was driving at the time.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 27, 2011
An Appreciation of Woman Love in the Movies "Bound" and "High Art" Woman love, or love between women, is so abhorrent to men with access to Flickr, there are hardly any images of it at Flickr Commons. However, seeing it in movies or in person is a turn-on, and consequently Hollywood has depicted love between women very commendably in two color films I've seen recently: Bound, starring lovers Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon, and High Art, starring lovers Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell.

SHARE        Monday, December 19, 2011
Remembering the NYT's Live Chats In the summer of 2003, I was separated from my wife and the love-of-my-life and contemplating divorce after almost continuous intense and usually drunken arguments.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 12, 2011
An Appreciation of True Stories, a Movie by David Byrne about (the fictional town of ) Virgil, Texas David Byrne has had such an incredible life I'm beginning to realize that this little jewel of a movie about Vidor, Texas, which came out in 1986, was a very very small part of it.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 8, 2011
"Join, Or Die" "Join, or Die" is a well-known political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 1, 2011
Five More Paintings by the Incomparable George Condo Many moons ago I posted an article with eight works by George Condo here at OEN and reviewing it I realize the man is probably my favorite contemporary artist.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 27, 2011
This is my kind of article. A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and scat samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups of animals develop scores of different species over time while others evolve only a few. Their findings appear in the current issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 26, 2011
Tony Stewart Wins ! ! ! Tony Stewart wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto racing championship ! (Or...so you think art is dangerous to your health and only collected by rich idiots?)

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 24, 2011
Reflections Of Fidel: Nato's Genocidal Role, In Libya And Before. (NATO) has become the most perfidious tool of repression known in the history of humanity.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 16, 2011
An appreciation of the Spike Lee movie Sucker Free City If you watch the DVD Sucker Free City and if your first language is English, don't turn on the subtitles. If you watch the movie Sucker Free City on Showtime TV, turn on the subtitles.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 1, 2011
An appreciation of the movie The Killer Inside Me The DVD of this movie warns that it's rated "R" for "disturbing brutal violence, aberrant sexual content and some graphic nudity." But that's not why I immediately checked it out of the library. Nor was it the sultry noir pictures of the movie's most 2011-stars on the DVD case -- Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson - that knocked my socks off.

SHARE        Sunday, September 18, 2011
An Appreciation of Joaquin Phoenix, Nicole Kidman, and Matt Dillon in the movie To Die For To Die For was released in 1995, which was during a comeback, or slow period, in the careers of three of its stars: (1) Joaquin Phoenix, who had starred in Ron Howard's Parenthood (in 1989, as Leaf Phoenix), which was his 4th Hollywood movie; and, (2) Nicole Kidman, who hadn't yet gone down with the ship in Stanley Kubrick's last and least notable film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999); and, (3) Matt Dillon, whose career still was blahh.

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