I'm at work today, so I had to post a little early.

JON

...without this:

Fountain (Duchamp)

:-)

died this morning; when the nurses checked her around 5 am, she was still alive; when they came again shortly after 7, she was gone. Now, here at my house, my alarm clock was set for seven; I woke shortly before that and looked at the clock. You know how digital clocks, when the power supply is interrupted, revert to flashing 12:00? Well, when I looked at the clock it was flashing, but it was flashing something like 6:40. I've never seen it do that before, and in retrospect, I'm inclined to attach some significance to it.

My cousin told me she went back to the nursing home last evening, and gave her mom some messages from me, for which I'm grateful.

In other news, the funeral for my mother's cousin went well. There were more people there than I expected, and I was rather proud of the diocese. The cousin used to work for Catholic Charities, but retired years ago, and yet representatives from Catholic Charities came because 'she was one of their own.'

What a scandalous idea to create an alter identity called Rose Sélavy.

The histories say she: She also appears on the label of Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette, a 1921 readymade that is a perfume bottle in the original box.

He is the greatest Modern/Post-Modern artist who perhaps not only brings Modern Art to it's pinnacle with Dada, but personally pushes it finally over the edge.

It took me ten years to finally get my Fine Arts degree, but I brought Duchamp with me before college. The best Dada collection in the country, including Duchamp and Mann Ray, can be found at the Philadelphia MoMA. They also have the best Rodin collection and Calder.

But, back to Duchamp, there you can find The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even along with his final work which can not be photographed it has to be experienced as one walks up to an old wooden double doorway from Spain, the kind that curves at the top, to peer through a peephole. Thru the peephole you look out on an idyllic garden of Eden with the partial figure of a person laying in the grass though obscured by a bush.

Instead of living in that garden we are caught, like peeping Tom's snatching a glimpse of someone else' life

His story is a sad one. He lost his older brother, a great Modern Bronze sculptor (like myself) who died on a battlefield in Italy during WWI and his opposition to war was intense.

At my senior Art Opening I showed a couple of my own films that were based on the Dada films of Dali (who was a Dadaist before he was a surrealist) Duchamp always remained purely Dada. What else was left?

Thanks for the Coffee Grinder Coffee Hour

Peace (It don't come nice or easy).

I love space art. One of my favorite artists, and a man who gave me a lot of encouragement in my art, is Frank Lurz.

Frank Lurz Home Page

is a budding artist.  She's loved art from an early age.  At 3 she would go to the Carnegie Art Museum and be thrilled.  At 4 she decided she was going to be an artist.  At 13, she is learning about different art mediums and what she likes and does  not like.  

Tonight was left-overs for dinner.  The best of the left-overs was the chocolate birthday cake!

Well... this stuff is not taken seriously. I like it though. Cartoons of any kind is considered lowbrow

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I suppose I am a bit of a lowbrow
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... Heh!

to the mix.  Alun Lewis was Welsh, born in 1915, and died in Burma in 1944, possibly by suicide.  He was a pacifist who enlisted during WWII.  I had this written on the back of my high school notebook:

Must
All this aching
Go to making
Dust?

This is actually a misquote.  It is part of a longer poem, and includes another bit that changes it pretty dramatically:

Must
Such aching
Go to making
Dust?

Whispered the bee to the olive tree
In the garden of Gethsemene

And speaking of serendipity, I was looking for a site to link to, and found this, which was just broadcast today:

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/13129

I don't think so!

MSNBC Monday Night

In a brief snippet from his remarks at the public hearing BP's Senior V.P.  Kent Wells offers up plan D. If the current containment fails, if the relief wells don't work, drum roll, BP will construct pipelines to other facilities. " We are gathering the pipe and making plans where it will go."  

Some time you just know. It is consistent with the nature of the beast. When the "Top Kill" didn't work it was obvious they would not do anything to hurt this well.   From a business standpoint this is to good a Well to kill.  

I'm sure while they are aware of the cost of the original drilling and associated losses from the disaster, they are aware of the reserves and value of same.  They are working toward production.

was L.H.O.O.Q. -- and a saucy pun at that.

How did it get so late?  Past my bedtime -- and still need to take the trash out!

...this is a great quotation:

"Work as hard as you ask others to. Strive for what you believe is right, no matter the odds. Learn that mistakes can be the best teacher." -- George Steinbrenner

RIP, George.