tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50413473134414828102024-03-05T23:22:30.603-05:00PentamentoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-51377874030522545542017-12-04T12:38:00.002-05:002017-12-04T12:38:48.636-05:00My smallest paletteNow that I live in a City, I find it more, rather than less, important to travel light. In the country, I left many valuables in the car. After all I lived on an apple orchard surrounded by farmers more interested in missing cows, or crops to worry about my art supplies.<br />
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Here, an unlocked car is an open invitation, and in sight belongings a call out for broken glass, so more caution.<br />
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Putting together a smaller art kit registered quickly after the Bean and me went to the equivalent of an indoor botanical gardens to draw, or paint.<br />
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I took my <a href="http://16sparrows.typepad.com/letterwritersalliance/" target="_blank">Letter Writers Alliance pouch</a> wide enough for many pencils, pens, eraser, etc, and the <a href="https://expeditionaryart.com/shop/art-toolkit/#the-pocket-palette" target="_blank">pocket palette</a> put together by Expeditionary Art's intrepid watercolour painter, <b>Maria</b> <b>Coryell-Martin.</b><br />
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<b>No photos.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-59959588545091563242017-12-04T12:32:00.000-05:002017-12-04T12:32:50.291-05:00The METRO Da Vinci - Pete Morris<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TAy34LUknd8" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-83186419910118454442016-11-25T13:06:00.001-05:002019-06-22T21:21:10.378-04:00More London<br />
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The Smithsonian has gone all out Jack London <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/short-heroic-rags-riches-life-jack-london-180961200/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia" target="_blank">here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-8867794227435296512016-07-24T16:55:00.001-04:002018-04-02T17:03:28.550-04:00Back to BrasilIt is fascinating how our minds and the memories that lay within work. I was searching for something about Nigeria; read an article on HIV, which somehow led me to a piece on parks in the nation's Capitol.<br />
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This triggered an old memory of a leisurely and uncommon walk with a colleague from the NIH along the Potomac River (in Georgetown) and then to the chairman of the Department of Parasitology, where I toiled long enough to get vested.<br />
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I promised to visit the aging Professors at their summer home in Long Island, and now time is slipping away as they celebrate life in their 80s, spending 3 months of the year in Brasil where they both went to medical school and met. <br />
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This <a href="http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_06_25/caredit.a1300132" target="_blank">piece</a> about their frequent returns to their medical school roots is edifying.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-29615174833891257112016-07-24T16:40:00.001-04:002016-07-24T16:40:18.320-04:00The fate of Bradbury's homeI learned today that Ray Bradbury's house in Los Angeles, which sold for more than a million dollars, is being torn down.<br />
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In his own words<br />
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https://vimeo.com/user9279052<br />
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The work will qualify as personal and should be a positive challenge.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-60790497594849162292015-09-11T20:07:00.000-04:002018-04-02T17:02:16.137-04:00Months ago...and nowSummer is nearly gone.<br />
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I have left the country and have once more become a City Mouse.<br />
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I have articles I put in "follow up" from months ago and read slowly, and occasionally. Today or rather this evening, just before dusk, I read a magazine <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/travel/mariane-pearl-revisiting-the-cuba-of-my-youth.html?_r=0" target="_blank">article</a> written by Mariane Pearl about Cuba.<br />
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I had several reasons why I wanted to read the piece: I remember how distressed I was by Ms. Pearl's tragic loss. Without much irony, I met several colleagues of Daniel Pearl just a few miles from where I am sitting now. I realized while getting misdirected, something different than lost, a couple of hours ago, that it is September 11, and another anniversary and more memories of loss.<br />
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And I was excited to read about Cuba, and pleased that in my lifetime North Americans may once again visit the country.<br />
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<br />I have some memories, not of Cuba, but of Cubans I've met or known in the years since Castro had a Revolution, and Batista was overthrown. I have met rebels, Republicans, former Senators, and those eager to share and exchange biomedical theories and knowledge.<br />
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The former Senator I knew was a man I often had lunch with in the 60s. He left me with sharp memories of his fierce belief that Castro would be overthrown, but only after we finished eating our corn beef sandwiches. Yes, he had a great sense of humor. Unfortunately, his blood was spilled before I could grasp the significance of his misdirected hopes or reach a greater political maturity.<br />
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Years later, perhaps two decades in number, a man who looked nothing like my Senator, but who was clean shaven, slender and tall with impeccable manners entered my office and greeted me by name. I never did understand how my name reached into the infectious disease annals of this and another communist country, or how I could graciously express my regret that I was unable to exchange research material.<br />
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It is a great loss that my Senator is gone. It is a great loss to medical research that we were unable to exchange knowledge with the Cubans especially inasmuch as they were outstanding researchers and had first hand experience with human malaria, <i>P. falciparum.</i><br />
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Mariane Pearl painted such a clear picture of her Cuba that I could close my eyes and step onto the street with her and her cousin, Julia.<br />
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and trying to remember the name of a cafe and hotel when I visited.<br />
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Also remembering amphitheatres I've seen in cold and warm weather<br />
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and how "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film%29" target="_blank">The Hunger Games</a>" remind me of these fora.<br />
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For higher resolution and complete list see<a href="http://www.essaymama.com/blog/writing-tips-virginia-woolf/" target="_blank"> here.</a><br />
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I especially regret my own inconsistency in journal keeping, and perhaps even a tad sorry I destroyed many of them. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-91467273999319401782015-01-08T07:58:00.000-05:002015-01-26T10:04:07.188-05:00Cartoonists draw out, "Je suis Charlie"<br />
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Outpouring of words, and drawings from all around the net, and <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/01/07/worlds-cartoonists-respond-to-the-attack-on-charlie-hebdo/" target="_blank">these</a> from cartoonists around the world at Reuters.<br />
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NPR Morning News mentioned this one (above) this morning.<br />
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A recent find by Mana Neyestani (Iranian)<br />
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Before I had my first morning coffee, I had received three news alerts that a shooting had occurred in Paris at the<a href="http://www.charliehebdo.fr/index.html" target="_blank"> Charlie Hebdo</a> offices, with possibly 12 dead.<br />
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All this was quickly confirmed on my public radio station by Democracy Now, and then BBC. The Guardian and the New York Times both had live feeds from Paris. With so many hours difference, it was not easy to keep up with what happened when.<br />
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Although I often weep at death, I have a particular sensitivity to journalists deaths, and this murder is no different. Whether Charlie Hebdo's editors did right or wrong is not the question.<br />
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The bigger question is why "senseless killing?"<br />
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The Times just sent through its afternoon update with<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting.html?emc=edit_au_20150107&nl=afternoonupdate&nlid=46787887&_r=0" target="_blank"> this</a> headline.<br />
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Long before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_%28film_director%29" target="_blank">Theo van Gogh</a> was killed in Amsterdam in 2004, it was clear that integration in Europe was fragile. It remains so, and perhaps increases with time. <br />
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It is unlikely we'll see much positive change as retribution seems to operate on a larger scale than compassion. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-12226301799941118922014-12-31T10:44:00.000-05:002018-04-02T17:10:52.197-04:00All those books...and moreWriting a book doesn't mean you stop reading, but rather you might find yourself, or oneself, reading more. In fact, many writers recommend that the best way to learn how to write is to "read." I echo that recommendation, but also one need know which books to read and when. Of great import is whether you already own the book before rushing off to the bookstore to buy another.<br />
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With that in mind, I rediscovered Library Thing, when I was in Pittsburgh for the holidays and yesterday I started logging in my own stacks of books. <br />
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After listening to Diane Rehm's hour long <a href="http://thedianerehmshow.org/topic/readers-review" target="_blank">show </a>on "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Tyler" target="_blank">Anne Tyler, </a>I went home nearly certain but in some doubt whether (a) I read it, and (b) I had it. Thus far, I can't confirm either as I have only gotten to the third shelf of numerous bookcases with multiple bookshelves. <br />
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When I lived in New York and Providence, all my books were alphabetized by subject, mostly fiction, but here at Little Wagner I have books in three rooms, all cradled into smaller footage and hence not so methodically housed. The only area of clarity is poetry with a bookcase of its own in the living room. <br />
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But even among that lot of poetry books, I have books on or about writing and nearly repurchased "<a href="http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2010_02_015763.php" target="_blank">Writers and their Notebooks,</a>" Margaret Atwood's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiating_with_the_Dead" target="_blank">Negotiating with the Dead,</a>" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Like_a_Writer" target="_blank">Reading Like a Writer</a>" which <a href="http://www.kellymcmasters.com/essays/" target="_blank">Kelly McMasters</a> had recommended and which I had bought at her now extinct bookshop Moody Road Studios. I then neglected the books and the shop. I suppose I am partially responsible for not having a proper bookseller in the county as I didn't buy more than half a dozen books at Moody Road. Sigh!<br />
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Then in the middle of cataloging the books, one shelf tumbled down on another, and now I am surrounded by books, all out of order, and screaming to be eaten as Ray Bradbury declared in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" target="_blank">Fahreheit 451:</a><br />
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and
dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt,
doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters
with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried
so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history,
politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you
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And on this last day of 2014, with resolutions in the air and snow on the ground, I'd much rather write or eat a book in this celestial garden<br />
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then think about writing in long janes, a heavy sweater, and a vest, fluffy socks on my feet and lined Merrills.<br />
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Happy New Year to all, and to all a good day! <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-49063406179727435172014-12-08T19:27:00.001-05:002015-01-09T16:44:13.357-05:00Save the Books: James PattersonA petition, letters, fanfare, James Patterson's campaign to save the books, and the shops that sell them.<br />
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Check out his <a href="http://www.jamespatterson.com/save-our-books/spread.html" target="_blank">website</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-15576670150488818692014-12-02T10:35:00.002-05:002014-12-08T19:23:22.311-05:00What I did in November: start a novel Nanowrimo way!What prompted me? Not certain.<br />
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How I did! I qualified on November 22 with about 65,000 words.<br />
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Where is it going and how did I do it?<br />
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Taking a page from Nanowrimo winner, <a href="http://petedenison.net/" target="_blank">Pete Denison</a>, who shared his tools at the beginning of the challenge,<br />
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I was out and about when I first thought to do Nanowrimo and had an<a href="http://www.exaclair.com/brands_exacompta.php" target="_blank"> Exaclair</a> sketchbook with me. It is too precious for just plain scribbling so I pulled out a red Moleskine. I've always thought "red" was energy and to complete 50,000 words in 30 days needs energy. I also had a <a href="http://fabriano.com/en/267/ecoqua" target="_blank">Fabriano</a> A5 Misto spiral notebook that I used for scheduling and a small <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/Midori-Diamond-Memo-Pads/ct/1748" target="_blank">Midori Diamond Memo reporter</a> which I carried around, even from room to room, as thoughts went through my head.<br />
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Books were a huge part of my creative process as those wonderful friends are characters in the novel.<br />
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I would normally have just written in Microsoft Word but at the outset it seemed to be corrupted and I started to panic. I didn't want to buy another package, and called my not very local Mac distributor in New York City, <a href="http://www.tekserve.com/" target="_blank">Tekserve</a>, to see if they could help me. The Tech Rep mentioned in passing a downloadable program called, Open Office. I downloaded it straight away and discovered it was easy to master.<br />
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I started to write in Open Office and quickly did import and export with Scrivener.<br />
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Winners got a discount yesterday, December 1, for this fabulous program. I was able to cut and paste without really moving around as one would other programs and simply created a new document; one can merge two documents with the flick of the wrist, and it keeps a count of your individual document words, and then project statistics, making it easy to see where you are in reaching your goals.<br />
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Back two years ago one of the Women's Festival in Hobart (New York) workshop presenters mentioned Scrivener, but I wasn't writing a novel then and didn't buy it.<br />
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Yesterday I got my registered copy of the program and feel I was given a gift.<br />
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I intend to edit and finish the novel before the Spring hits the Valley. <br />
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Midori bought at <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/" target="_blank">Jet Pens</a><br />
Fabriano bought a <a href="http://www.brushstrokespa.com/" target="_blank">Brushstrokes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.moleskine.com/us/collections/model/product/red-sketchbook-large" target="_blank">Moleskine Red Sketchbook</a>, options nationally <br />
Exaclair, gifted<br />
Scrivener at <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php" target="_blank">Literature & Latte</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-8165615703937186182014-11-21T13:43:00.000-05:002014-12-31T16:16:29.951-05:00Bears in the Apple Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mike sent me this photo and a few others after our visit the other night. This was taken by Joel, a cousin, in 2011.<br />
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But is seems that we have one Harmon cow missing and a bear somewhere out in the far field, and only one will come out after chasing them around for days. The cow has now been missing too long. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-14139142723150305462014-11-07T13:11:00.000-05:002014-11-07T13:32:17.237-05:00Fountain Pen DayI've taken out some of the neglected fountain pens and they whined from neglect.<br />
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And I've inked up others.<br />
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And here is one of those fountain pens that doesn't get a great deal of use.<br />
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This pen appears to have quite a pedigree, but until recently I only knew that she is as sweet as any pen can be and lovely to use. A Gold Bond, with a 14k nib, small in the hand, and perfect for my hands.<br />
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The pens I inked include a Conklin, also vintage, a Safari Al-Star in ruby, three Esterbrooks and using my new dailies, two Pilots, a Black Metropolitan and an Apple Green fun Kakuno.<br />
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I don't generally have so many pens inked, but did because I am editing a book and wanted to test out all the reds in my stable.<br />
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Hope all the fountain pen folks are enjoying reading blogs and signing up for some fabulous giveaways.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-64958354139887451702014-10-27T12:50:00.002-04:002014-11-21T13:35:01.415-05:00Compare & Contrast: Sennelier & Schmincke watercolourI am preparing my travel bag and had one of the two watercolor palettes in the bag.<br />
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I did a comparison last night, and think I'll take both.<br />
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The Sennelier is a nice palette but like Graham has a wee bit more honey in it for my personal taste and dries slowly. I don't have a complete Winsor Newton in a 12 pan set, and have a much larger Daniel Smith paint Schmincke palette.<br />
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In the end I prefer Winsor Newton & Schmincke paints more than Sennelier, Graham and Daniel Smith watercolor which I use for botanicals.<br />
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We all have our preferences.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-12700478923721283682014-10-24T16:32:00.000-04:002014-10-24T16:32:42.836-04:00Do you know: Marc Taro HolmesIf you don't know or follow Marc Taro Holmes blog, <a href="http://citizensketcher.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Citizen Sketcher,</a> you might consider it because he not only draws and paints like a Master, he often explains how he accomplishes it.<br />
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Now he's published a book, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Urban-Sketcher-Techniques-Location/dp/1440334714" target="_blank">The Urban Sketcher</a>."<br />
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It is not like any of the other urban sketching books I have or have seen. Why?<br />
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It is all Marc.<br />
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It is all teaching, learning, seeing, exploring.<br />
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It is all clear, and friendly.<br />
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It is Marc on paper and not just at Citizen Sketcher.<br />
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I just got it and already love it!<br />
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See some of Marc's work in<a href="http://drinkanddrawmtl.com/2011/10/28/interview-marc-taro-holmes/" target="_blank"> this</a> interviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-37785092092380739402014-10-16T11:32:00.000-04:002014-10-16T12:06:41.318-04:00Old Work 2, Abstracts<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gifted to Red Dog Scott in exchange for a tarot book</td></tr>
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If my eyes don't deceive me these were made in 2002; the first two small abstracts in a Jonathan Talbot workshop (Warwick, New York).<br />
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I am closing down a very old website that has languished for many years and for which I have a quarterly fee. Rather than try to find these images which are probably lost in computer moves and losses, I copied and pasted them here.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-75106336847971462014-10-16T10:36:00.001-04:002014-10-16T10:36:54.762-04:00Old Work, Exquisite Corpses 2003<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-69997672675414014512014-10-14T14:25:00.000-04:002014-10-16T10:32:55.391-04:00How Global is too global: Waldorf Astoria, New York<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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So how Global should we be? <br />
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_Astoria_New_York" target="_blank">Waldorf Astoria</a>, built in 1931 and a New York City landmark has been <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-reviewing-waldorf-astoria-sale-to-chinese-firm/2014/10/13/8ebf1e80-50c8-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1" target="_blank">sold</a> to a Chinese insurance company.<br />
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In my lifetime the changes in the City have been enormous. If you live in the Apple you may not notice those changes, but when you leave as I have and return, you realize the extent of those changes, many radical.<br />
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Who owns a property is not often the subject of news and property does change hands with some frequency.<br />
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Neighbourhoods have face lifts. Some become popular, others become passe.<br />
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But Park Avenue has been rather emblematic of chic, and often even too elite to traverse. <br />
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However, Park Avenue is a wonderful thru way for traffic Uptown & Down with a wider expanse, similar to a boulevard, and yellow taxi cabs are often the predominant vehicle on the Avenue. It also takes you directly to Grand Central Station.<br />
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Sometimes change is good; sometimes change is too abrupt, too radical, too swift <b><i>for my tastes.</i></b><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-47635604950859049142014-10-12T20:31:00.000-04:002014-10-14T14:10:52.547-04:00Is the Amazon that long?According to this <a href="http://petapixel.com/2014/10/12/amazon-will-soon-open-first-brick-mortar-location-new-york-city/#more-147919" target="_blank">piece, </a> Amazon, the mega on line retailer, will open a bricks & mortar store on 34th Street, New York City.<br />
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A great name for the retailer as the Amazon River is perhaps the largest to discharge in the world.<br />
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And the retailer sure knows how to race across a Continent.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-26988153777853849922014-10-11T14:34:00.000-04:002014-10-12T20:23:34.513-04:00The Hacket on HachetteThe authors uniting. <br />
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Prize winning author <a href="http://www.ursulakleguin.com/" target="_blank">Ursula Le Guin,</a> three of her books in my re-read pile, including The Left Hand of Darkness, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/business/literary-lions-unite-in-protest-over-amazons-e-book-tactics.html?_r=2" target="_blank">says</a>:<br />
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<span id="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/high-profile-writers-set-to-join-authors-united_b91401">“We’re
talking about censorship: deliberately making a book hard or impossible
to get, ‘disappearing’ an author. Governments use censorship for moral
and political ends, justifiable or not. Amazon is using censorship to
gain total market control so they can dictate to publishers what they
can publish, to authors what they can write, to readers what they can
buy. This is more than unjustifiable, it is intolerable.”</span></blockquote>
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Other notable writers engaged include <span id="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/high-profile-writers-set-to-join-authors-united_b91401">Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul and Milan Kundera,</span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041347313441482810.post-71051255856960528522014-10-11T10:27:00.001-04:002014-10-11T14:20:16.395-04:00Book Stores: Lamenting, at a distance, another closure<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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