Last night I stood below the Milky Way looking up and letting my eyes adjust to the vast expanse above and a different way of focussing. Over time I started seeing meteors. I would not describe it as a shower of meteors more like occasional flashes. They were exhilarating however! I saw several while I stood in a light drizzle with a wee pussycat sitting by my feet in the dark. Light clouds moved overhead and it gave me a chance to turn in all directions looking up at the most amazing sight of all; the Milky Way itself.
I am lucky in that I live in an area with hardly any light pollution at all.
Monday, 13 August 2007
Sunday, 12 August 2007
RIP
Tony Wilson died on Aug 11th 2007 aged 53 in Manchester. He was the don of the Madchester music scene, co-founder of the record label Factory records and owner of nightclub La Hacienda amongst many other things/careers/talents. Think Joy Division.
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
Leon Golub
Leon Golub was born in Chicago in 1922 and died in NYC today in 2004. He was a prolific painter and married to the artist Nancy Spero with whom he also collaborated.
When I was a fellow at FAWC we went to visit them to give them an honorary medal and they graciously had us all over at their loft/home/studio in Manhattan. Leon talked to us as Nancy was ill at the time. One of the things I remember vividly was the way he saw himself as giving us advice or words for the journey as an artist. He especially spoke of how it was a roller coaster ride from start to finish even at his advanced age and level of success, i.e. recognition. And that you had to have nerves of steel to be able to be tenacious on that ride of all rides! Being an artist.
Leon Golub with his painting Prometheus.
When I was a fellow at FAWC we went to visit them to give them an honorary medal and they graciously had us all over at their loft/home/studio in Manhattan. Leon talked to us as Nancy was ill at the time. One of the things I remember vividly was the way he saw himself as giving us advice or words for the journey as an artist. He especially spoke of how it was a roller coaster ride from start to finish even at his advanced age and level of success, i.e. recognition. And that you had to have nerves of steel to be able to be tenacious on that ride of all rides! Being an artist.
Leon Golub with his painting Prometheus.
Monday, 6 August 2007
In 1928 in Pittsburg, Pa. today...
...Andy Warhol was born.
I saw the Rorschach paintings by Andy Warhol in 1996 at Gagosian in NYC. They interested me more than many of his other works. He had intended to read things into them and then write about it. However he did not have the time and then thought someone else could pretend to be him and do it instead, saying that it would be more interesting...Typical Andy! As a whole the show was powerful just by the sheer impact of all these large monochrome paintings that were abstract but not simultaneously.
Rorschach 1996.
Rorschach 1984.
Andy Warhol aka Andrew Warhola.
He became one of the most prominent artists of the 20th Century by embracing popular media fully and transforming art as we knew it until then. Warhol gave birth to art as commodity in a big way.
I saw the Rorschach paintings by Andy Warhol in 1996 at Gagosian in NYC. They interested me more than many of his other works. He had intended to read things into them and then write about it. However he did not have the time and then thought someone else could pretend to be him and do it instead, saying that it would be more interesting...Typical Andy! As a whole the show was powerful just by the sheer impact of all these large monochrome paintings that were abstract but not simultaneously.
Rorschach 1996.
Rorschach 1984.
Andy Warhol aka Andrew Warhola.
He became one of the most prominent artists of the 20th Century by embracing popular media fully and transforming art as we knew it until then. Warhol gave birth to art as commodity in a big way.
Saturday, 4 August 2007
Edith Wharton
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Happy Birthday Barack!
Today in 1961 Barack Obama was born, which makes him 46. He is the Democratic senator from Illinois and in the running to become the Democratic presidential candidate. I wish him all the luck and help he can get and I hope he makes it. I really do.
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