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!
Your gentle advice has on more than one occasion been the source of a less than gentle laugh on my part.
Nevertheless, I am finicky & even almost fanatical about this issue: the date format most Americans use is visually not appealing. Day, month, year is a much nicer format & conforms to the logical way we, who are still earth-bound, measure time–from the smaller unit (day) to the largest unit (year). You can actually omit a key stroke, for a bonus. The numbers are separated by a word, no comma needed.
I would be delighted to join you for tea! Understanding your busy schedule, may we make a date well in advance? 15 March 2014? Beware, I will probably only have tea bags, but it’s in the spirit that these things fully matter. Ides won’t matter in our case, March or otherwise.
Sincerely, Thomas Outt
P. S. If can, I will try to get something special from DAVIDsTea.
I was unable to resist the obvious! Really like the quality & look of the sample cups!
First noticed the art design before actually tasting the tea–That was the initial attraction. I often am tempted by art & design before I know anything about the content. (Sounds like how people meet & marry!). Nearly everyone has heard the old saying about a book & its cover. At DAVIDsTEA (the calligraphy of their name grabbed my attention), you can have both a good book with a good cover in the form of their wide array of teas.
I went to the Mall outlet @ Westfield Centre & asked the staff if I could take some photographs & they were quite lovely about it, not put off at all. I steered clear of customers, so as not to disrupt things & it was a nice experience. They gave me one of their splendidly designed booklets. Appropriately entitled the tea menu. The variety is wide & has several with clever names “cold 911”–“forever nuts”–no doubt to drink when reading Forever Amber?!
I like the teas I have tried & enjoy the shop’s upbeat energy. It’s upbeat without being intrusive, and that’s a huge thing in this world of stress & high pressure sales.
One question I have not asked anyone is “What is Kosher tea?” I noticed that most of the teas are labelled as such. Perhaps drinking tea is a religious experience?
I just seek pleasant flavour.
They sell their teas for individual enjoyment, or as gift packages. The seasonal design we see now looks like the call of Autumn. Happy Tea Time!
DAVIDsTEA–maYbe theY can turn Fall into the more desirable Autumn-Autumn is a beautiful word that wold do well in the hands of the right calligrapher!
I was unable to resist the obvious! Really like the quality & look of the sample cups!
The Great Wall of DAVDsTEA!
MaYbe DAVIDsTEA will help bring back the word Autumn & use Day-Month-Year format, two digressive cultural changes I would like to live to see happen. But look how engaging the design is! Enjoy Fall in the Autumn!
My thanks to the staff who provided me with this lovely menu! It’s thoughtfully designed & nice to hold & enjoy on its own merit.
HERE IS A YOU TUBE ABOUT DAVIDsTEA!
You will hear a bit about branding–seems to be the word of the moment–Keeping up with buzz words is nearly as big a job as whatever one’s chosen business is these days!
Thomas Outt 