tom balderas

wanna see how i do it sometimes ?

2011-10-30T14:07:00.000-07:00

i made this dvd of painting. it is very "homemade" and i want to believe "down to earth".

i hope you get it.

here is a link to get it.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/84990221/dvd-still-life-demonstration?ref=pr_shop

burn me out

2011-10-08T17:42:00.000-07:00

pat the king at burn out -

photographer unknown

i knew this...

2011-09-28T18:04:00.001-07:00

http://www.ksnz.org.nz/peter_crawford_rip.php

just the spots please

2011-09-15T11:48:00.001-07:00

2011-09-10T13:37:00.000-07:00

irony

i·ro·ny

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2010/10/16/paul-strand-october-16-1890-–-march-31-1976/

moral to the story - don't hang around coffins before your time

well - well - well

2011-03-31T17:14:00.000-07:00

i am back

and there

is so much

catching up

to do...

keep your eyes peeled for some cool stuff coming your way via this here old blog site.

hope all of you have been well.

tommy

oh, and by the way, check this out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU&feature=related

dear folks

2011-01-04T10:40:00.000-08:00

in the interest of time and hopefully more interesting posts i am scaling back the daily bullshit you often find here.

please continue to check back often as i will be publishing more personal insights, ideas and heart felt words in the coming year.

don't be a stranger. you have my word i won't be...

dicky

2011-01-02T22:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6A2EDSg2o

Oh yeah - a happy albeit delayed new year

2011-01-01T09:50:00.000-08:00

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what will you be reading this year...

2010-12-30T20:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/default.aspx

fine art

2010-12-29T22:44:00.000-08:00

Fine art

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Self Portrait with Two Circles, oil on canvas, Rembrandt c. 1665-1669.

Black Square, oil on canvas, Kasimir Malevich. 1913

Fine art or the fine arts describes an art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery".^[1]

Historically, the five greater fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, with minor arts including drama and dancing.^[2] Today, the fine arts commonly include the visual art and performing art forms, such as painting, sculpture, collage/assemblage, installation, calligraphy, music, dance, theatre, architecture,photography and printmaking. However, in some institutes of learning or in museums fine art, and frequently the term fine arts (pl.) as well, are associated exclusively with visual art forms.

The term is today usually avoided by academic art historians^{[citation needed]}, and is much less used in any context in the UK than North America, especially in the singular form.^{[citation needed]}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art}

woof

2010-12-28T20:47:00.000-08:00

my girl is my world

2010-12-27T21:25:00.000-08:00

Sophia (wisdom)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Personification of wisdom (in Greek, "Σοφία" or "Sophia") at the Celsus Libraryin Ephesus, Turkey.

Sophia (Σοφíα, Greek for "wisdom") is a central term in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism, Orthodox Christianity, Esoteric Christianity, as well asChristian mysticism. Sophiology is a philosophical concept regarding wisdom, as well as a theological concept regarding the wisdom of God.

study

2010-12-26T19:54:00.001-08:00

robert bly

2010-12-25T20:26:00.000-08:00

Dawn
Some love to watch the sea bushes appearing at dawn,
To see night fall from the goose wings, and to hear
The conversations the night sea has with the dawn.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Now you know why I spent my twenties crying.
Cries are required from those who wake disturbed at dawn.

Adam was called in to name the Red-Winged
Blackbirds, the Diamond Rattlers, and the Ring-Tailed
Raccoons washing God in the streams at dawn.

Centuries later, the Mesopotamian gods,
All curls and ears, showed up; behind them the Generals
With their blue-coated sons who will die at dawn.

Those grasshopper-eating hermits were so good
To stay all day in the cave; but it is also sweet
To see the fenceposts gradually appear at dawn.

People in love with the setting stars are right
To adore the baby who smells of the stable, but we know
That even the setting stars will disappear at dawn.
[First appeared in The Paris Review, #154, Spring 2000. Thanks to the editors for permission to reprint.]
This is from a sequence of 48 poems, each of them 18 lines long, which are based loosely on the Islamic ghazal form. In its classic form, each stanza stands alone–has its own landscape, so to speak–and the theme of the poem is never stated. So the reader has much more to do than he would be used to in the contemporary English poem. When the ghazal has its full development, each stanza in a given poem ends with the same word. This collection of poems will be published by HarperCollins in April of 2001.

http://www.robertbly.com/

santa is in the shop

2010-12-25T00:05:00.000-08:00

ssshhhh...

poem

2010-12-23T22:45:00.000-08:00

this is a word

for the soul

this is a word

for the soul

this is a word

for the soul

amen

tyler with four fins

2010-12-22T20:25:00.001-08:00

http://www.myspace.com/video/jsmartfilms/quot-the-tyler-warren-experiments-quot-mandala-quad-test/21973740

2010-12-21T23:05:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1V7jBMXLvk

2010-12-21T01:33:00.001-08:00

i dont care i dont care i dont care

you will be mine you will be mine all mine...

2010-12-19T19:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTbTzUqJtM

what are you gonna write about ?

2010-12-18T22:27:00.000-08:00

the truth +

it is out there somewhere...

another day

2010-12-17T22:37:00.000-08:00

it's just...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_Jao8hMPA

cloister

2010-12-16T19:39:00.000-08:00

these times are sacred

nada

2010-12-15T21:43:00.001-08:00

surf...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulU08Se7Qs

how much do you drink on a tuesday evening? work night that is...

2010-12-14T18:58:00.000-08:00

painters tools

2010-12-13T17:43:00.001-08:00

something like that

now i hunger

2010-12-12T20:31:00.000-08:00

Jesse Nuñez's Photos - Mobile Uploads

Mana from Heavean (aka My Mom's Tamales)

Tamale

A tamale or tamal (Spanish: tamal, from Nahuatl: tamalli)^[1] is a traditional Latin American dish made of masa (a starchy dough, often corn-based), which is steamed or boiled in a leaf wrapper. The wrapping is discarded before eating. Tamales can be further filled with meats, cheese, vegetables, chilies or any preparation according to taste, and both the filling and the cooking liquid may be seasoned.

Tamales were one of the staples found by the Spanish Conquistadors when they first arrived in Mexico and were soon widely spread throughout their other colonies. Tamales are said to have been as ubiquitous and varied as the sandwich is today.^{[citation needed]}

Tamales originated in Mesoamerica as early as 8000 to 5000 BCE.^[1] Aztec and Maya civilizations as well as the Olmeca and Tolteneca before them used tamales as a portable food, often to support their armies but also for hunters and travelers. There have also been reports of tamal use in the Inca Empire long before the Spanishvisited the new world.^[1]

The diversity of native languages in Mesoamerica led to a number of local words for the tamal, many of which remain in use.

more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale

2010-12-11T20:46:00.000-08:00

drib·ble

1. To let saliva drip from the mouth; drool.

driv·el

1. To let saliva drip from the mouth; drool.

ms. chiefious

2010-12-10T20:05:00.001-08:00

and i ate french food.

oh no i have been a

2010-12-09T19:25:00.000-08:00

slacker

essentially a painter on the boards

2010-12-07T17:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/

plug

2010-12-06T18:50:00.000-08:00

for shame

it's a

selfish plug

once again...

http://www.tombalderas.com/index2.php

john surfed

2010-12-05T20:11:00.000-08:00

John in Surfer Magazine 1977. Honolua Bay.

how could i be so lax in my duties ?

2010-12-05T13:16:00.000-08:00

where did yesterday go ? into thin air...

photo by tim

where two or more are gathered...

2010-12-03T19:50:00.000-08:00

Chris Kent

2010-12-02T20:08:00.000-08:00

all that ever needed to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIwpByCrsTc

click on the above link for a sweet free ride...

Peace

paradise

2010-12-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

leave me in paradise

1.	Grommet
	Surfer slang (although also extends to other boardsports, and surf sports) for a young surfer. Can also be used to refer to children in general, although usually they have some association with surfing/etc. Although usually there is no ill-meaning behind the term, it is often used to poke fun at younger surfers. It can sometimes be used as a derogatory term when younger surfers are annoying, bad or otherwise difficult. It is frequently abbreviated to grom. On a beach crowded with children: "Where did all the grommets come from?" pulled from the pages of http://www.urbandictionary.com/

2010-12-01T08:27:00.000-08:00

for the record - i know - i know - i know you don't know - about last night -

sam i thought i told you never to play - sam nods over to his left - that's when he sees her...

2010-11-29T22:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2Lof_5dy4&feature=related

far better than the chimichanga

2010-11-28T20:03:00.001-08:00

Enchirito is the trademarked name of Taco Bell's menu item of the Tex-Mex food similar to an enchilada. It is composed of a flour tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef taco meat (with options to substitute steak or chicken), beans, diced onions, cheddar cheese, and "red sauce".

The Enchirito was invented in 1968 by Bob McCrea, who submitted the recipe to Dan Jones (who now owns several Taco Bell franchises in Los Angeles County) for 50 dollars and a thank you. It was first test marketed in Albuquerque and then was officially placed on the menu and patented in 1970. In 1993, in order to make room for new menu items, Taco Bell discontinued the Enchirito, but brought it back in December 1999. It continues to be available as of 2010.

The Enchirito was originally composed of a soft round yellow corn masa tortilla, filled with ground beef taco meat, beans, and onions, rolled into a tube shape. It was then placed in a paper tray coated with aluminum foil, and topped with what Taco Bell refers to as "red sauce," grated cheddar cheese, and three black olive slices. Alternatively, it can be topped with "green sauce" which is a spicy sauce made from green chilies and onions. Burritos can also have the "green sauce" in them. They were originally called "Green Burritos." The Green nomenclature has been removed from the current menu.

The coining of the name Enchirito (a portmanteau of the words enchilada and burrito) for this item was a bit of a peculiar action by Taco Bell. It was the only item on the menu, at the time, to not use the common Mexican food nomenclature for that item. Whereas a burrito is typically a flour tortilla filled with beans, and an enchilada is typically a corn tortilla filled with meat and smothered in chile sauce, the name Enchirito communicates the combination of these elements. On the other hand, it appears the unusual name was not to help Americans unfamiliar with the Spanish names of the food items; indeed, for many years Taco Bell menu boards featured a system of phonetic pronunciation guides next to each item.

Even after the Enchirito was officially discontinued in 1993, some customers still ordered them, and word spread through the Internet that many restaurants would still make them with the ingredients they had available. Due to this underground popularity, it was decided to bring it back, and commercials, featuring the Taco Bell chihuahua promoting the Enchirito, began airing on December 26, 1999, with later commercials in mid-2000 featuring the rapping or singing styles of the "five guys with no talent". However, some things about the item had changed. The serving container had become a coated pressed-paper oblong bowl when dining in, or a black plastic bowl with a clear plastic lid if ordering from the drive-thru. Most significantly, the character of the dish was altered by changing the yellow corn masa tortilla to a white wheat flour tortilla. The sliced olives were omitted. The chicken Enchirito and the steak Enchirito, which respectively substitute chicken or steak for the ground beef, were also introduced as options. The Enchirito is served with a plastic spork.

^{this article was ripped from wikipedia - see the original here.}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchirito}

cutting your hair doesn't have to hurt

2010-11-27T17:18:00.000-08:00

lori is behind the cutters...

http://lorimccawhair.blogspot.com/

at no woman like the one i got...

2010-11-27T00:01:00.000-08:00

blind boy fuller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_D1Gy7IB8

ghost ship afloat

2010-11-25T23:54:00.000-08:00

keep afloat...

hey look at me - i kill things - this makes me tough - boy i am cool

2010-11-24T16:49:00.000-08:00

sophia's dream

2010-11-23T21:39:00.001-08:00

right here

2010-11-23T00:00:00.000-08:00

whitman, robert

2010-11-21T21:25:00.000-08:00

film maker, photographer, interested...

things can get interesting...

2010-11-20T21:09:00.000-08:00

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 13 | May 1 -31 2006

Eye on Art

Stephen Korbet

Eva Hesse circa 1959

Eva Hesse: Material Evidence

By Jerry Tallmer

Eva Hesse, who’d been schooled and had worked as an oil painter, watercolorist, lithographer, sculptor, what have you, felt her art was at a dead end when, in June of 1964, at the age of 28, she returned with her husband Tom Doyle to the Germany where she had been born and from which, at 21/2, in 1938, she had been evacuated to Holland by kindertransport, thus saving her life.

Her parents got out too, later. Her grandparents all died at Auschwitz or Belsen Bergen. Eva grew up in Washington Heights. When she was 18, the magazine Seventeen, where she was interning, did a feature on her as a “young artist” along with some photos of her work in gouache, watercolor, charcoal, and lithography.

Tom Doyle, a sculptor whose medium was steel, had converted from Roman Catholicism to Jewish for the sake of Eva’s father. Doyle had been invited by industrialist and art collector F. Arnhard Scheidt to come use the old Scheidt textile mill at Kettwig-am-Ruhr as studio workspace. It would be in that same vast old textile mill, full of materials that artists didn’t then normally use, that Eva Hesse, picking up a piece of rope here, a piece of plastic there, would find a path reopening in directions that would lead an assessor, more than 40 years later – Elizabeth Sussman, a curator at the Whitney Museum – to speak of Hesse as “one of the greatest artists of her generation.”

Which may or may not be. But that art can and does reach out to embrace plastics, latex, cardboard, fiberglass, rope, and other such “anti-artistic” industrial materials, is proved – no, brought back to attention — by “Eva Hesse: Sculpture,” an exhibit through mid-September at New York City’s Jewish Museum, put together by Ms. Sussman and the Jewish Museum’s own Fred Wasserman.

Among other things it recapitulates the (then) shocking “Chain Polymers,” Hesse’s one-woman show at the Fischbach Gallery in November 1968, a year and a half before brain cancer killed her at 34 in May 1970.

“I would like the work to be non-work,” she wrote – typed by hand — in a statement for the gallery. “This means it would find its way beyond my preconceptions. What I want of my art I can eventually find. The work must go beyond this.”

One’s thoughts hit on Heinrich von Kleist’s “On the Puppet Theater” as metaphor of such abnegation. It is as if the work (non-work) makes itself, with no artist involved – no hands – but that of course is not the case. In Eva Hesse’s case she was very much involved, right down to the most scrupulous details and dimensions. Here is one small, lined notebook page on which is scrawled all the precise specifications for Sans II – the very word sans means “without” — a huge 35-foot-long polyester-resin and fiberglass wall piece in five sections of six panels each.

They are today, these sections, separately-sold inhabitants of venues around the world. “Never seen together since 1968,” says Fred Wasserman. How did they come back together for this show? “Don’t ask,” says Wasserman with a cocked eyebrow. “Some very generous lenders.” He himself has been a Hesse nut ever since he saw some of her things at a show in Buffalo when he was 17.

She was meticulous, also, as we see from other scrawled pages, about titles for her pieces, scouring thesauruses and dictionaries for definitions like:

ACCRETION: The growing of separate things into one, the whole resulting from this.

SEQUEL: What follows after, continuation or resumption of a story or process or the like after a pause or provisional ending.

And here is Accretion itself: fifty 58-inch fiberglass and polyester-resin tubes, each wrapped about a cardboard tube like those at the core of fabric rolls, the whole a little standing forest of identical rods, or tree trunks, except that they aren’t totally identical (because how can they be?) and aren’t identically spaced apart. Some gaps are 2 inches, some are 3 inches. “Serial repetition with randomness,” says Wasserman. “Expandable or contractable.”

In the industrial age, there are flyspecks. See Chaplin, Modern Times. Hesse wanted those flyspecks there. Working out of her studio at 134 Bowery, in the lighting and kitchenware district below Houston, she had found a fabricator, Doug Johns of Aegis Reinforced Plastics, on Staten Island, who made her speculations at lot more possible.

But when, with Repetition Nineteen III, an assemblage on the floor of 19 fiberglass “buckets,” Johns smoothed off all the rough imperfections to make them identical, she got angry with him. Artist Hesse wanted those imperfections there. “Each one a little different,” says Wasserman. “Each with its own character,” like faceless people (yes! paradox!) standing around, now this way, now that way, in a large lobby.

Sequel, as the name implies (see above), follows Schema, and Schema is a 40-inch-square grid of 144 halves of Spalding-type latex balls – the “Spaldeens” of legendary four-sewer New York City stickball. Sequel takes the rubber halves off the grid and mixes them up in a stew – true random.

A piece that combines papier-mache, Masonite, cloth-covered electrical wire, pencil, ink, acetone, varnish, and enamel paint – all adding up to a nippled small circle atop a nippled large circle – is called Ringaround Arosie, another touch of New Yorkese, in honor of Eva’s close friend Rosie Goldman. Fellow artist Sol Lewitt called it “the breast job.”

Elsewhere in the Jewish Museum layout are the literature and documentation of Eva Hesse’s short, not overly happy life, in particular the proud-papa tagerbucher – combination scrapbooks, datebooks, photo albums, clipping collections, diaries – that businessman William (originally Wilhelm) Hesse faithfully if not to say overbearingly kept through the years for daughters Helen and “Evchen,” the tiny 21/2-year-old who would grow up to be imaginative, troubled, fiery Eva.

There was reason for her to be troubled. In January 1946, three days before Eva’s 10th birthday, Ruth Hesse, Eva and Helen’s mother, would, as newspapers used to say, jump or fall to her death off the roof of the Eldorado Apartments, Central Park West at 81st Street.

Ruth Marcus Hesse had escaped the Holocaust, but her parents had not, nor her husband’s parents, Eva’s grandparents. Eva’s 1964 trek with husband Tom to Germany was more traumatic than anticipated. She had nightmares, bad ones. The six-months’ stay stretched to 15 months. The Scheidt factory (sounds a little bit like the Germanic for excrement) was near Dusseldorf; Eva wanted to visit what had been her mother’s girlhood home at Hameln, near Hamburg. In Hamburg was the apartment where Eva had spent the first two and a half years of her life. She and Tom knocked on the door. The couple within opened the door, heard Eva say (in German) she’d lived there as a child, then shut and locked the door in Eva and Tom’s faces.

The marriage to Doyle did not last, though not, so far as I know, because of Germany. The Fischbach one-woman “Chain Polymers” show was followed by a year, 1969-’70, of three operations, radiation, chemo. In May she was gone. Some of the industrial material is now beginning to go too. This looks to be the last chance to catch this much of it while you can.

deadringer

2010-11-19T20:27:00.000-08:00

that's the idea ladies...

one thing to learn

2010-11-18T19:38:00.001-08:00

How to Do a Cartwheel
By following this step by step guide on how to do a cartwheel for kids and adults, you can soon master this move. It is not a very dangerous move and most people can easily carry it out. One does not require some high level of physical fitness or any advanced equipment, in order to do a cartwheel.

The first thing to remember is that there should be enough space when you are doing a cartwheel. You need to take a slight run up and land in a clear area, or you may end up slamming your body against some object which could potentially hurt you. Or you could even end up breaking something. Either way, ensure that there is adequate space and room when you are attempting to do a cartwheel. Another pointer for you is to attempt to do the cartwheel on a soft grassy area, or on a floor with a rug. The landing can be harsh sometimes, and landing on a soft surface will reduce the possibility of injury.
The instructions, here, are for carrying out a front to back cartwheel which is the toughest one. The other variant, the side to side cartwheel, is comparatively much simpler to do. You need to raise your arms straight up in the air, and make them touch your ears. You will be taking the support of your arms and your upper body strength, so make sure that they are stretched out absolutely straight. Failure to do so could cause you to crumble when your weight is held up by your arms. For someone setting out to learn how to do a cartwheel, it is important to build upper body strength, and also the muscles in the arm. You cannot learn how to do a cartwheel without hands that are able to support your body weight.
Point your left foot towards the front and place it slightly forward now. This front foot will always point in the direction which you mean to go. Some people find it convenient to point the other foot in an outwardly direction, in order to get better balance while performing the cartwheel. Do not forget to keep an eye on where you are going to place your hands. Noting the exact spot, right before your feet leave the ground is advisable. Many people fail to do this, when learning how to do cartwheels and end up losing their balance.
Now start bending over and place your left hand on the ground first. The right hand will soon follow the left hand to the ground, and you must simultaneously lift up your right leg from the ground as well. As soon as the right hand reaches the ground you must kick out strongly with the right leg, so that your left leg also rises in the air. You will now be in a vertical position and you must tighten your back and keep your balance. Since, you are practically doing a headstand and balancing on your arms, having strong arms will definitely help.
You will now land on the ground due to the momentum, and your right leg, which was in the back of your body when you started, will now come in the front front of it. The left leg will soon follow through and you should be in the same position that you started out in. Maintaining your balance and composure through the process is something that you will learn over a period of time.

You must also remember to breathe properly, during the entire process to get the best results. Once you have practiced, how to do a cartwheel enough number of times, you will be able to carry out this maneuver with increasing confidence and considerable ease.

By Rahul Thadani
Published: 2/8/2010

my godfather

2010-11-17T19:22:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DO-nDW43Ik

btw - have you ever noticed how much i lead you away from this blog page?

captain comes ashore

2010-11-16T20:54:00.000-08:00

and finds himself lost without his salt, daggers and banshees...

what a grand daddy

2010-11-15T18:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdbvWP-59M

so you want perfection ?

2010-11-14T20:00:00.001-08:00

i happen to know too many fuckheads

2010-11-13T18:48:00.001-08:00

allaloneallaloneallalone

2010-11-12T21:06:00.000-08:00

yeah right

2010-11-11T18:47:00.001-08:00

steve talks and so do the other guys

2010-11-10T17:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhHditxX3u4

Lewis Carroll

2010-11-09T22:23:00.000-08:00

Solitude



	I love the stillness of the wood:
	I love the music of the rill:
	I love to couch in pensive mood
	Upon some silent hill.

5	Scarce heard, beneath you arching trees,
	The silver-crested ripples pass;
	And, like a mimic brook, the breeze
	Whispers among the grass.

	Here from the world I win release,
10	Nor scorn of men, nor footstep rude,
	Break in to mar the holy peace
	Of this great solitude.

	Here may the silent tears I weep
	Lull the vexed spirit into rest,
15	As infants sob themselves to sleep
	Upon a mother's breast.

	But when the bitter hour is gone,
	And the keen throbbing pangs are still,
	Oh, sweetest then to couch alone
20	Upon some silent hill!

	To live in joys that once have been,
	To put the cold world out of sight,
	And deck life's drear and barren scene
	With hues of rainbow-light.

25	For what to man the gift of breath,
	If sorrow be his lot below;
	If all the day that ends in death
	Be dark with clouds of woe?

	Shall the poor transport of an hour
30	Repay long years of sore distress —
	The fragrance of a lonely flower
	Make glad the wilderness?

	Ye golden hours of Life's young spring,
	Of innocence, of love and truth!
35	Bright, beyond all imagining,
	Thou fairy-dream of youth!

	I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
	The slow result of Life's decay,
	To be once more a little child
40	For one bright summer-day.

	March 16, 1853.

hi

2010-11-09T08:57:00.000-08:00

i am back. pushing away from who i used to was...

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about last night

2010-11-04T07:46:00.001-07:00

dear friends, family and unknown fans of comic books,

no blog. out of the zone on the big sur coast.

see you monday.

sincerely,

Tom

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andy irons

2010-11-02T18:32:00.000-07:00

i can't believe the news today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1s_O8QrNmI

giants win

2010-11-01T20:07:00.000-07:00

story

2010-10-31T19:00:00.000-07:00

Urban Legend: Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon her vengeful spirit.

The Story: Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off. Bathrooms seem to be perfect for this since they almost always have a mirror and are usually dark at night with the lights off and the door closed. Light a candle, look into the mirror, start chanting "Bloody Mary" . You have to do this 13 times, of course. You should see Bloody Mary behind your left shoulder after the thirteenth time.

Beware, she has been reported to 1.) Kill the person calling her, 2.) Scratch their eyes out, 3.) Drive the person mad or 4.) pull the person into the mirror with her. This is an old legend, it has been around for ages. A folklorist, Janet Langlois, published an essay on the legend back in 1978. At that time, the legend was wide spread across the USA and a popular slumber party ritual done by girls as well as boys. No one knows the true origins of the Bloody Mary tale, she's been known to be anything from a witch that was killed for practicing witchcraft to a modern day woman killed in a car crash, depending on what part of the country you live in. It was made popular again in the film Urban Legends in 1999.

bella degas

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Edgar Degas^[p] (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (French pronunciation: [ilɛʁ ʒɛʁmɛnɛdɡɑʁ dəˈɡɑ]), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionismalthough he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.^[1] A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and depiction of human isolation.^[2]

Early in his career, his ambition was to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties, he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.^[3]

^{more here:}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas}

the ghost

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx52pLFVtR0

cut it out

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it was a welcome change from the sight of you hanging like a willow off the arm of yet another visionary prophetess east van punk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccf4xuf_kIY&feature=related

the battle commander

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my boy likes this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f0aS6VuQlM&feature=grec_index

a child at her table

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hangs upon someone's wall

thank you john and shannon for making it possible

tom

this boy is no heathen and will always go his own way...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFpFE37_z5A

my boy d-boy at work...

heathen's of all types unite...

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no nada

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y tu

yes you are right

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there is no one out there. soon i could be...

i think. a place in my mind.

learn something

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQORnYPqU3A&feature=related

bali high ? hawaii high ?

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seems everyone these days is trying to make a film like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4j4hx1jUc

someone you need to follow

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because

she is a

gift

jennifer mcchristian - artist

http://jennifermcchristian.com/

13 is the magic number...

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happy birthday

the

boy on the bike

beauty can be so many things

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and i personally wish the word had never been coined

so much more is important...

when artists throw artists under the bus for personal gain

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the almighty beauty gets really sad...

fine art

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Historically, the five greater fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, with minor arts including drama and dancing.^[2] Today, the fine arts commonly include the visual art and performing art forms, such as painting, sculpture, installation, Calligraphy, music, dance, theatre, architecture,photography and printmaking. However, in some institutes of learning or in museums fine art, and frequently the term fine arts (pl.) as well, are associated exclusively with visual art forms.

The term is today usually avoided by academic art historians, and is much less used in any context in the UK than North America, especially in the singular form.^{[citation needed]}

this article was ripped from here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art

magnets and what you don't know

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but now do...

History Of Magnets

As with all great discoveries the history of magnets is very colorful and interesting too.

The Shepherd Magnes

The most popular legend accounting for the discovery of magnets is that of an elderly Cretan shepherd named Magnes. Legend has it that Magnes was herding his sheep in an area of Northern Greece called Magnesia, about 4,000 years ago. Suddenly both, the nails in his shoes and the metal tip of his staff became firmly stuck to the large, black rock on which he was standing. To find the source of attraction he dug up the Earth to find lodestones (load = lead or attract). Lodestones contain magnetite, a natural magnetic material Fe3O4. This type of rock was subsequently named magnetite, after either Magnesia or Magnes himself.

The Greek & Chinese

The earliest discovery of the properties of lodestone was either by the Greeks or Chinese. Stories of magnetism date back to the first century B.C in the writings of Lucretius and Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD Roman). Pliny wrote of a hill near the river Indus that was made entirely of a stone that attracted iron. He mentioned the magical powers of magnetite in his writings. For many years following its discovery, magnetite was surrounded in superstition and was considered to possess magical powers, such as the ability to heal the sick, frighten away evil spirits and attract and dissolve ships made of iron!

People believed that there were whole islands of a magnetic nature that could attract ships by virtue of the iron nails used in their construction. Ships that thus disappeared at sea were believed to have been mysteriously pulled by these islands. Archimedes is purported to have used loadstones to remove nails from enemy ships thus sinking them.

People soon realized that magnetite not only attracted objects made of iron, but when made into the shape of a needle and floated on water, magnetite always pointed in a north-south direction creating a primitive compass. This led to an alternative name for magnetite, that of lodestone or "leading stone".

For many years following the discovery of lodestone magnetism was just a curious natural phenomenon. The Chinese developed the mariner's compass some 4500 years ago. The earliest mariner's compass comprised a splinter of loadstone carefully floated on the surface tension of water.

Early Discoveries

Peregrinus & Gilbert Peter Peregrinus is credited with the first attempt to separate fact from superstition in 1269. Peregrinus wrote a letter describing everything that was known, at that time, about magnetite. It is said that he did this while standing guard outside the walls of Lucera which was under siege. While people were starving to death inside the walls, Peter Peregrinus was outside writing one of the first 'scientific' reports and one that was to have a vast impact on the world.

However, significant progress was made only with the experiments of William Gilbert in 1600 in the understanding of magnetism. It was Gilbert who first realized that the Earth was a giant magnet and that magnets could be made by beating wrought iron. He also discovered that heating resulted in the loss of induced magnetism.

Oersted & Maxwell

In 1820 Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851 Danish) demonstrated that magnetism was related to electricity by bringing a wire carrying an electric current close to a magnetic compass which caused a deflection of the compass needle. It is now known that whenever current flows there will be an associated magnetic field in the surrounding space, or more generally that the movement of any charged particle will produce a magnetic field.

Eventually it was James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879 Scottish) who established beyond doubt the inter-relationships between electricity and magnetism and promulgated a series of deceptively simple equations that are the basis of electromagnetic theory today. What is more remarkable is that Maxwell developed his ideas in 1862 more than thirty years before J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897, the particle that is so fundamental to the current understanding of both electricity and magnetism.

The term magnetism was thus coined to explain the phenomenon whereby lodestones attracted iron. Today, after hundreds of years of research we not only know the attractive and repulsive nature of magnets, but also understand MIR scans in the field of medicine, computers chips, television and telephones in electronics and even that certain birds, butterflies and other insects have a magnetic sense of direction.

this article came from here:

http://www.howmagnetswork.com/history.html

where it's at

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the future that is.

ck - cummins is gonna make me one of these...

3 not of a kind

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Lucian Freud, "Girl with Fuzzy Hair," 2004
Etching on Somerset white paper, signed with initials in pencil, number 5/46 (plus 12 artist's proofs), published and distributed by Acquavella LLC with full margins
Sheet: 26 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches, Plate: 17 3/4 x 14 7/8 inches

André Derain, "Le Pont de Chatou," c. 1904
Ink on paper, 12 3/4 x 19 inches

thank the lord

Richard Diebenkorn, "Untitled," 1956
Gouache and ink on paper, 16 x 10 7/8 inches

under everything we are antiques

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taking my time

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just like a moon rises

some places are best left alone

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this is for oscar

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba-Zaba

kook

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i am

you am

plaskett creek

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http://jrabold.net/bigsur/roadpt1250.htm

fall balls number one

just goofing

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take a long holiday

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riders on the storm...

gee

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your hair smells terrific

PLEASE play your favorite music while watching this video

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one man show

tonight i am proud of my brushes

watts fine art

october 1 - october 2o, 2010

chris and the one foot wave

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here is a pic from wednesday's session at the spot that is always waiting, cooks, cleans and wets one's whistle...

that is dirk about to get mowed over.

yeah i noticed i missed a spot

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on the rock

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rodney on the roq that is...

Penelope on Rodney on the ROQ, 1978

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Bingenheimer

here is a scene of germs interview with rodney in the big hollywood movie... go holly wood...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NonUZYBUVE

for mr. kent

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I am not sure why Magic Mountain opened Spillikin Corners in 1978. They billed it as the only year long large scale crafts village in Southern California. It was kind of like the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach but smaller and full time.

But I loved it as a kid and basically ran around the entire park to get there. Once I got there, the only thing I remember doing was making some candles. But I kept those candles for years and never lit them.

for the record the information and pictures above was written and uploaded by another blogger

the link can be found here

http://mistertoast.blogspot.com/2006/09/spillikin-corners.html

thanks - mistertoast

it has begun to bloom

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bowling alley

spillikin corners

boneyards

all miss you...