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This is a photograph of Salvador Dali & Walt Disney taken in the 1940s. I am guessing that it is in California.
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Art Game II
This is a water colour painting by my cousin, Martha Outt Harns, done in 1987. She is now 87 years old & sadly, lives in a residential facility for Alzheimer’s Disease patients. I wanted to post this as part of the Art Game series as a tribute to the body of work that she left us. This painting shows some degree of Thai dance culture, in terms of the hand & finger positions, but the costume design, as I understand it, is her interpretation or composite of similar costumes from South East Asia.
Art Game III
This is a result of my point & click camera. The Art Game series has inspired me to record the art I see around me in San Francisco on a daily basis. Not all art has to be within the walls of a museum or a palace. It can be part of your daily life, if you let it. I call this one Kitty Cat Sidewalk, not knowing who created it, nor what (if any) name was given to it. It was taken not very far from where I work.
CODA: I had a funny, sweet, naughty, smartest-cat-in-the-world. Her name was Marnie, after the Alfred Hitchcock movie. To the best of my ability to know, the only thing she ever shoplifted was my heart. She was in my life for 15 years, before she died. I miss her very much. To Marnie, my little meow-face!
Art Game IV
Atlas Stands Unnoticed Before The Holy Wisdom
I started this painting in 2007. It was rejected. I repainted it, after years of pain, in 2010, understanding it was growth which caused both the pain & the release of the cause of that pain. Now, the painting is free & in so being, it has released me from much sadness.
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Art Game V Jay Defeo/The Rose
This monumental painting by artist Jay Defeo is one of the most astonishing & spiritually moving works of art I have ever experienced in my life. I first became aware of it several years ago by taking a class called Women In Art History, City College, San Francisco. It's history of having to be removed from an apartment here in San Francisco, due to the eviction of the artist & the story of having the bay window that was it's original backdrop setting removed & a crane used to hoist it to the street-level moving van added to my intrigue of the work. I was impressed by the photographs I had seen & by what I had read about the struggles of the artist. But NOTHING, NOTHING at all could have prepared me for the emotional & spiritual experience of seeing it in real life, real time, minus the bay window that was it's original backdrop. Much has been written about this work. The only thing I can add, with a tone of urgency is: Please, take the time to see this for yourself while it is back in San Francisco, at the Museum of Modern Art. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Photography can certainly show you what it looks like, but you need to experience this in person, as an active viewer, in order to be fully overwhelmed. My paltry words do not do it justice, not at all!
Art Game VI
Art Game VI: Andy Warhol-Knockoff
This is a painting of Andy Warhol @ a cafe entrance on Divisadero Street, San Francisco. I liked the idea of it being more or less street art, not in a museum & not costing several millions of dollars. It's not signed. Post Mortem would make that a bit of a challenge, even freaky. Calling it a knockoff is a tip of the hat to Jean-Claude Van Damme & to Warhol, since they both did the same thing over & over & over. One was a genre artist, the other is an genre actor. Duplication must be in the wrist & the timing. Makes the term monetize seem rather quaint. Enjoy!
Art Game VI
No Smoking Sign. This is the international standard glyph for "No Smoking." It is simple & well designed, making it's simple message obvious to all who can see. Why is it still being ignored by people? This is a question for which there is no simple answer. I hope that by posting this work of functional art, the message can be repeated: You deserve to have a full life that does not include destroying your lungs or harming the environment. Think: if every tobacco field were turned into a forest, how good that would be for the planet! That, alone, is a very exciting concept. Help make it a reality!
Art Game VII-Princess Antoinette Bonaparte
Does photography have enough trash? Or does trash rate enough to photograph? This rubbish bin is simple, does what it is supposed to do, that is if people co-operate & respond on a communal level & has a sort of simple beauty. Here is the shared vision of where most things end up, before becoming another’s treasure.
Bin was empty @ time of taking this picture. No law says that rubbish collection has to be an eyesore.
The shadow of ephemera collection…
Displayed near Fort Mason waterfront, there are two chains used for securing boats. One shows slight corrosion, the other significant corrosion. They act as testimony that nothing lasts forever.
The combination of time, air, and saltwater has left this huge chain in a state of dilapidation.
The future of this chain hangs next to it.
The journey to participate in Norway Day turned out to be an art saga of sorts. Most impressive, and fitting in (perhaps unintentionally with the simplicity & functionality that results in visual beauty: a tradition in Scandinavian design) was the circular bench, constructed of shaped & welded metal rods, the sort you generally see used as support devices inside a mold being readied for concrete to be poured. This bench is just made from metal rods & is a thing of beauty! I was lucky enough to find it unpopulated & got out the point & click! My camera is not capable of showing it in its entirety, but here is the general idea…
Detail of end of metal seating bench, 4 May 2013–located near Fort Mason, San Francisco.
Same bench, more towards the middle-the effect is almost as if it were woven, rather than welded.
This is about the best I could do to covey the overall shape & look of this bench. It’s comfortable enough for a moderate sit down, but does not have the napping appeal that a couch would permit.
If you are looking for small & inexpensive item of a place you have toured & wish to have a reminder…Look no further than refrigerator magnets. Granted, it’s a matter of taste & preference, subjective to be certain. Some designs are much nicer than others, some are poor attempts to be clever. Airport gift shops are often good places to get them. The best ones are locally made, but they tend to be a bit more expensive. The more difficult ones to add to a collection are from very small towns, not found in airport gift shops simply because they are small towns a long distance from an airport, and many very small towns won’t have any.
In my travels, have found that small towns in New Mexico to be better about ‘local pride’ in terms of being represented via refrigerator magnets, than small towns in California. Especially enjoyed obtaining a very nice one about this time last year from Espanola, New Mexico, except that it had a tilda over the n, which I expect to be the name of the next Pedro Almodóvar motion picture: ¿Espanola ningún tilda sobre la n?
Have gone on several bicycle rides to Mill Valley, California, and have looked many times for a Mill Valley refrigerator magnet to no avail. Could there be a design contest for this one? I can imagine a reel of film in place of the usual mill wheel–a sort of combination of the town’s recent & ongoing history, tied into its past. Put a Mill Valley refrigerator magnet on my wish list!
Hope for a Mill Valley refrigerator magnet to add to my collection…
The Wiggle side of painted exterior device.
Eventually, you will get there. Bag on sidewalk contained my camera. I frantically pointed & clicked before the bag disappeared!
West Side of painted outside object-located near 400 Duboce Street, near Safeway.
East side of painted device (a utility box?) near 400 Duboce Street, across from Out of the Closet.
7 March 2013-The Street is Grace Alley. The City is San Francisco. This is right next to where I work, the Department of Public Health, in a building leased by City & County of San Francisco. Grim.
Sadly, it has been like this for years. Sometimes it is worse than what is shown here
Just when it seemed safe to see a 35 mm film, a panavision horror returns to the Castro to bathe the audience with blood & death
Alors qu’il semblait sûr de voir un film de 35 mm, une Panavision horreur revient à la Castro de se baigner le public avec le sang et la mort.
This monster only gets worse with time. Ce monstre ne fait que s’aggraver avec le temps.
He makes it all seem so normal, making a comfort zone in the middle of a path of death.
Il fait que tout semble si normal, ce qui rend une zone de confort au milieu d’un chemin de la mort.
Princesse Christina attempts to avoid the flames!
Son Altesse Sérénissime la Princesse Melita Bonaparte, le plus gracieusement permet de prévisualiser une photographie son Paris-en-Pâques bouquet de la mariée thème. Cette bouquet, personnellement conçu par la princesse elle-même, créera la sensation du jour au lendemain et internationale et de noblesse. Il est d'ores et déjà déclaré qu'il ne devienne une source de miracles et guérisons de crampes aux plus élaborés comptes de carte de crédit. Si cela est vrai, elle va atteindre la sainteté dans son temps propre vie et facilement devenir le maire de Detroit et le premier monarque catholique de France, Estats-Unis, le Canada, et Monaco – qui elle le souhaite avec ferveur, mais promet de prendre toutes ces fonctions avec un cœur sincère. Suivez-la! Suivez-la! Elle va nous apporter l'espoir et la paix mondiale.” width=”460″ height=”345″ class=”size-large wp-image-2412″ />
PARIS IS BURNING!
Her Serene Highness, The Princess Melita Bonaparte, most graciously permits a photograph to preview her Paris-in-Easter themed bridal bouquet. This bouquet, personally designed by the Princess herself, will create overnight & international sensation & acclaim. It is already being said that it will become a source of miracles & cures from cramps to over drawn credit card accounts. If this is true, she will achieve sainthood in her own life time & easily become the Mayor of Detroit & the first Catholic Monarch of a United States, France, Canada, & Monaco–all of which she devoutly wishes, but promises to take all such duties with a sincere heart. Follow her! Follow her! She will bring us hope & world peace.
Did this bar get it’s name from Lyndon Johnson, Harvey Milk, or does it actually serve dairy products? Dancing for milk would be something done “only in San Francisco.” I am gratified that my lovely point & click camera was able to record this as well as it did.
Let’s dance to dairy products on Haight Street!
Mayan-inspired multidimensional mural near San Francisco’s Mission District
This photograph was taken 3 September 2012. I was lucky enough to have my point & click camera @ the time. It’s a marvel & a wonder–full of captivating details–enough ‘visiual food’ to provide a banquet for the senses. I have admired it for several years & finally remembered to post this after quite a long delay.
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