Category Archives: art
Alain Silberstein And The Triumph of Whimsy
In the late 1980’s, Parisian Alain Silberstein upset the staid watchmaking world by producing fanciful watch pieces the likes of which had never been seen before. A professional interior architect and industrial designer, Silberstein was so enamored with watches and … Continue reading
Conceptual Art is Still With Us!
You didn’t miss it! That Thing From The Nineties is still here, still throwing out nonsense to justify something easy to make. In the Belgian city of Ghent this month, conceptual artist Kris Martin is having a retrospective entitled Exit. … Continue reading
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Tagged art, belgian, conceptual art, kris martin, movies, the shining
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We Are All Locked in The Greenhouse
This sign used to hang in one of the many greenhouses on the U.C. Davis campus. I like its chatty, humorous tone, something rarely seen when needing help. It also reminds me of Kafka’s The Castle, in which a driven … Continue reading
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Tagged German, internet archive, Kafka, Max Brod, Muirs, novel, shocked books, The Castle, translators, writing
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The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
The only poem Lewis Carrol published that had an unhappy ending. Make no mistake, this is a happy and sometime joyous poems that revels in the English language. Some say this is the most extended example of nonsense poetry in … Continue reading
A Different Look at Time
Isn’t this amazing? This is a Ressence watch, their TYPE 1² Squared.(external link) The indicators or complications are disks that revolve and are always in motion, just as the hands of a conventional watch are always revolving. The orange tinged … Continue reading
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Tagged dials, ressence, time, timepieces, type 1 squared, watches
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Prufrock
Miranda Hale delivers a slower and better paced reading than most video tellings. She reads with a smile in her voice for the first minutes but then settles down. The epigraph recalls Dante’s travel through the Underworld. Seeing that Dante … Continue reading
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Tagged miranda hale, Poetry, prufrock, the love song of j alfred prufrock, ts eliot
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Quick Takes
The preview for episode four of “Picard” shows Patrick Stewart’s character saying, “One impossible thing at a time.” No. Better, “One miracle at a time.” Which reminded me of what of a rarely said but accepted motto for our group … Continue reading
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Tagged actions for photoshop, black and white, line art, Minerals Unlimited, monochrome, rock shops, sketches
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I, a Stranger and Afraid In a World I Never Made
Alfred Edward Housman was a turn of the century English poet and scholar. A man at the end of the Empire. He penned beautiful, short, jewel like poetry that could be incredibly depressing. His poetry went beyond cynical to about … Continue reading
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Tagged ae housman, melancholy, Poetry, shropshire lad, soldiers, the british empire, World War I
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Images for My New Book
My new book (external link) will be in black and white to save costs. Color is the most expensive part of any hardcopy book or magazine. While my readers would certainly enjoy color, they would not enjoy paying for it. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, black and white photos, book illustrations, book publishing, david walblom, Desert Gardens, dinosaur, dinosaur statute, Fiverr, graphics, images, lapidary, monochrome, pencil sketching, Photoshop, quartzite, southwestrockhounding.com, susan walblom, walblom
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