Monday, December 07, 2020

New Art, Reading, Listening, getting ready for Christmas

 

I am making more use of links: music and visual. Click on them and then you might have a second link to search. Some locations, such as YouTube generate revenue for your "free" viewing by running ads, so be patient. On occasion there is a "skip ad" button. Sometimes it will load and start when you go there, sometimes you need to click on the white arrow in the red box.

IF you don’t want to SLOG Through the BLOG...I keep my Instagram page to mostly art and photos of my family and travel.

lyles9318

An important note: I work on this blog for one person - ME; I love sharing it with about 60 friends, relatives, and acquaintances in the States and in Europe. 

With this in mind, I hope you enjoy the updates to my art and life as presented in this blog. IF you don't like the political stuff and don't want to receive future blogs just say so, no hard feelings. So far, only  four have taken me up on the offer. With that in mind, remember:

Below the Fold below is where lies controversial stuff, if you don't want to go there, stay above.
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present:

New Art:


 I just painted Jemez Pueblo from a photo I took years ago; oil on 20 x 16” canvas board.

 Again, from an old photo, oil on 20 x 16” canvas board, near Phoenix, AZ.

Finished, 9 x 11” oil on canvas pad from a photo taken during my son’s flight over 10,000 Islands Florida.

Current view of my gallery wall in the great room. You should be able to pinch open to get a better view of the paintings.
Not my work, I just want to share it with you, saw it on Instagram. Love it.


Florida:
(Very) early walk in the neighborhood.

  Not a bad view from our gym...

Photos I Like:
Remembering Eastern Airlines and The DC3. Exciting travel after the war.


A “herd of Mustags” I viewed on Instagram. 

And, then, a “stack”



We usually see the top figure, the side view...when viewed from the top, notice how thin the fuselage is...not much there. These pilots have an awful lot of courage, in my opinion.




 You have probably not seen a cargo ship from 12,000 feet up...


Runnin’ Hot

I just like the photography of this magazine ad. The colors, the shapes, the item. 

This is almost unbelievable...



























Reading:
Fascinating read with so much overlap. I’ll try to cover this in the next blog. 
 

Listening:


 Cell next to Manson??”

Watching:
Re-view this one: 2003; Tim Burton should have received more than a nomination for Best Director. This movie was set in the current Millbrook, AL, with a theme of reconciliation between a dying father (Albert Finney and his son ( Billy Crudup adult son) in a series of fairy tale vignettes evoking the tone of a Southern Gothic fantasy. I thought of my earlier review of Millions, and Forest Gump. Very inventive, You, as in all good movies, get lost in the story and forget where you are while viewing. Jessica Lange, so touching as a loving mother and wife. Helena Bonham Carter, Ewan McGregor, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi and Danny DeVito - maybe you've heard of these cast members. The final credit roll to an original for the Movie - Man of the Hour by Pearl Jam. In the next blog you will read about Crudup's interaction with Peter Frampton, and of course, PF and two of Pearl Jam's musicians later played in PF's touring band.Reading that and reference to the song in PF's bio is what spurred me to check this out 17 years later. I can't believe I did not recall most of this film until I watched last week, but came to really appreciate it. 

Then What a job... work on a film in Nice and Monte Carlo, full fashion, opposite Grace Kelly.
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I didn’t know he was from Saint Louis...Just completed a pretty good editing/producing of a famous editing/producer.

Read this and then the article on FZ and how he was working on the film.   



Humor:
Here we go... 
   and 
   I feel sooooooooo bad for the Jayhawks: NOT









  

You remember the 80’s, right?    


Of Interest:
Some of my earliest Cardinal memories are from Lindy


Below The Fold---------------------------------------Or, as I have learned from your input, Preaching To The Choir vs Unbelievers
Enter at your own risk:

 One of the lowest points in FBI history...

 Resulting in

Not sure who For America is but they have a sense of humor, or maybe not so funny. Gonna take advantage of our clueless, demented president-elect. Wait, is that Hunter in the hot tub also? Yikes.

 So, we have the Russian ambassador with whom President Trump was falsely accused of colluding, Biden’s new press secretary (in the pink commie hat), and our new climate czar, John (living on his wife’s millions) Kerry. Aka loser. 

Remember, 

 Remember how the “press” got all over President Trump for lack of social distancing? What a bunch of phoneys. Let’s include California politicians while we are at it. 




Speaking of phoneys, remember how the president-elect went weeks without talking to the press? Where were the headlines then? Oh, yea, I forgot, the phoneys wanted Biden to win, rather than cover the news...did I mention phoneys?



Remember you can see all of the prior blogs, also in archive


Tuesday, November 10, 2020

November with New art, Music, reading, very limited political.

 I am making more use of links: music and visual. Click on them and then you might have a second link to search. Some locations, such as YouTube generate revenue for your "free" viewing by running ads, so be patient. On occasion there is a "skip ad" button. Sometimes it will load and start when you go there, sometimes you need to click on the white arrow in the red box.

IF you don’t want to SLOG Through the BLOG...I keep my Instagram page to mostly art and photos of my family and travel.

lyles9318

An important note: I work on this blog for one person - ME; I love sharing it with about 60 friends, relatives, and acquaintances in the States and in Europe. 

With this in mind, I hope you enjoy the updates to my art and life as presented in this blog. IF you don't like the political stuff and don't want to receive future blogs just say so, no hard feelings. So far, only  four have taken me up on the offer. With that in mind, remember:

Below the Fold below is where lies controversial stuff, if you don't want to go there, stay above.
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present:

New Art:

 Tweaked, oil on 8 x 10” canvas board

 Utah near Bryce Canyon 8 x 10” oil on wrapped canvas. 

Little larger than 8 x 10: but I can mat to exact size, Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO from my photo, oil on canvas pad, matted ready for framing. 
 One of my favorite artists, still painting and playing tennis 

Photos I really, really like...

 Earth and the moon

   Brain synapsis




 Art Humor


 What is this? Art?

Florida: My neighbor Holly took this photo recently during evening walk down Bell Tower Blvd. Stunning...enlarge it.


A real treasure 45 minutes south of my house:





Reading:
Walter Williams writes. One of my favorite economists. Look him up. 

THIS is important, too: Critical race theory (CRT) promotes the idea that our society is controlled by inherently racist white people and, therefore, people of color are systemically oppressed in all sorts of ways. Naturally, this feeds racist sentiments among minorities. But researcher Christopher Schorr recently released his findings on CRT's impact on white Americans, and what he found is that, contrary to the claims of its leftist proponents, CRT actually produces what it claims to fight against — white nationalists and white identitarians.

To put it another way, CRT's redefinition of racism to mean prejudice plus power and its rewriting of American history as primarily an expression of white supremacy have only served to increase the number of white Americans who react by describing their white identity as "very" or "extremely" important.
Attacking someone primarily on account of their immutable racial characteristic is what most Americans accurately interpret as racism. And the result will be to produce a defensiveness associated with one's race and an increased awareness of one's racial identity.

In this regard, CRT does exactly what it was designed to do. It breaks down and destroys the social foundations of a nation and culture in order to pave the way for a Marxist revolution and the reforming of society. The Left is using CRT to intentionally destroy any semblance of a cohesive and collective American identity and experience that transcend race. CRT proponents preach that an individual's racial identity is more important than one's national identity and that concern for racial supremacy is the primary motive behind all white Americans' political and cultural concerns.

Schorr further observes that when white Americans are exposed to anti-CRT information, their tendency to hold tightly to their racial identity declines. He writes: "High white-identifiers were more willing to restrict American identity to those with 'American ancestry' (8 percent), but they also expressed 14 percent greater agreement that 'racial minorities are, on average, just as patriotic as white Americans.' Crucially, white conservative ethnocentrism dropped 24 percent. Thus, findings from both 'conservative' primes offered cause for optimism whereas findings from the critical prime were more consistently undesirable."

CRT attacks the civil rights movement's goal of a colorblind American society as "racist" precisely because colorblindness undercuts the racial-identity motif needed for CRT to function. The great irony is that CRT's "anti-racism" creed promotes the very racial stereotypes it claims to oppose, whether among minorities who buy into it or among whites who rebel against it. CRT is the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing, sneaking in to destroy the sheep, not protect them.

Review of what sounds like a great biography:


 Almost the same subject matter as Scalia speaks which I enjoyed. 

Watching:
 Al Hitchcock’s superb directional film, fully using Bergman and Grant’s star power, post war concerns, black and white composition, kept it short...really enjoyed this one. 
The first time you see who was considered Hollywood’s most handsome man in 1946, it is from behind, silhouetted, pause...you want the camera to go around and show his face, what is he thinking, what will he say, why is he in the shot?

 Revisited this one. Visually stunning (especially in Blue Ray) but sad. Bill must have written his lines, they are so Murray.

Not watching, but keeping an eye on the Dragons (march to state title?)
   


Listening: 
Picked this up because Roberta Flack joined him on one song; well, the whole album is pretty darn good.

 At 15, you heard me correctly, she entered Howard University and graduated at 18 or 19; at that age I was still trying to learn how to tie my shoes...the woman who co-wrote Killing Me Softly was in a bar and she felt that the musician on stage was looking right into her essence, being. Thankfully she wrote down a whole verse.

 Women covering Tom Waits. Nice. 

You tube links for Spencer Davis who recently died at the age of 81.YouTube might ask if you want to re-direct to their video page, yes you do, then you can return here.

Link to live 1967 Gimme Some Lovin
Great for dancing. Sing-along, stage

Live link to Somebody Help Me, German AB
Our American Bandstand had blacks back then, this German version, all white. Just saying, they say we are such racists...



So, this is a great derivative with Winnwood and Slash
Link to live Hey Joe.       They loved it then, I guess NOW the liberals don’t like a gun song...too bad.

Humor: 
What happens when you get old...


No comment



Time To Get Serious about what we are doing in this country, Not Political.

    HAIL MARY FULL OF GRACE, and so everything changed with her “fiat”. How much longer will God allow the U.S. to kill babies? How can a woman pay someone to kill the child inside her, and vacuum it out to be incinerated or put up for a parts sale? May God have mercy on this country he has so blessed. 

This is what my foolish liberal friends, siblings, neighbors voted for in this regard...

Joe and PP:            










They hate a pro-life President and Vice President more than the lives created by God. Stunning. I can’t imagine the shame to be felt when Biden and Harris stand before He who is the judge of the living and the dead. I have my own sins; I have asked for forgiveness, received absolution, done penance, and try to live it right. I hope they figure it out, and soon.  

And, to the women and men who have gone down this road, ask for forgiveness, try to make things right, don’t give up the fight. Thankfully, our youth seem to be getting the message. There is hope. 



 Below The Fold---------------------------------------

Or, as I have learned from your input, Preaching To The Choir vs Unbelievers
Enter at your own risk:

No comment...well, that was yesterday day:

I did see where Pompeo assured us that President Trump would participate and support a smooth transition into his second term:)


 Liberal is Latin for “phoney” I’ve been told.

 As I was saying, me too.


Well, yea. Minorities are finally figuring it out.



Remember you can see all of the prior blogs, also in archive.