The word this week for Illustration Friday is adapt. Word! You know me, I say, “adapt or die!” So, no more chicken talk. Chickens are so OVER. The only cats allowed (since Tony hates cats) on this blog will be kittens with whips. Oh yeah. Lots of half-naked women draped over the top of Mercedes. [...]
First, I wonder if all the things I’ve discovered about the ordinary mulberry tree in our back yard is interesting to anyone else. For instance, I never knew why they were pruned back so hard until the year we didn’t do it to ours — a million, zillion messy mulberries were dropped! I’m weird enough [...]
Fieri and Lucinda We’ve all heard of a Bucket List, right? It’s like a “Hump Island” list. What, you don’t know about Hump Island? It’s a magical place where you get a pass to — ahem — spend time with your dreams. Like watching Guy Fieri make dinner and “stuff.” But Hump Island has it’s [...]
Alexander Calder American 1898-1976 Big Crinkly 1969 Painted steel Another art image from the rooftop sculpture garden at San Francisco’s MOMA. Alexander Calder’s “Big Crinkly” didn’t make me swoon but I think the juxtaposition against the building is pretty cool. It’s my entry for this week’s “Skywatch Friday” You can see sky photos from around [...]
Mark Rothko American, 1903-1970 No. 14, 1960 Oil on canvas I’m not embellishing this story one bit — it happened exactly as I describe it. Firstly, when it comes to abstract art, I’m pretty finicky. I’d go on but that’s all I want to say about that so I can get to the good part [...]
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