Sunday, October 28, 2012
Quote of the Day for Sunday, October 28, 2012
Quote of the Day:
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone
--Tom Peters
Verse of the Day for Sunday, October 28, 2012
| 1 Peter 1:24-25“For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Verse of the Day for Saturday, October 27, 2012
| Hebrews 4:12“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Merchandise For Sale
I have several things for sale if anyone is interested. CDs, Books, magazines, records, some christmas lights that don’t work completely, etc. Most items are under $5 and most items I’m willing to ship to anywhere in the world at an extra cost if anyone is interested in anything. I accept PayPal or money orders only. The following photo albums have pictures of what is available. If you are not able to view the photo albums please let me know and I’ll post some other links you can try:
Records for sale: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152184094710341.920022.783165340&type=1&l=6d20a95a0b
General Merchandise for sale: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152184073880341.920017.783165340&type=1&l=4c9a37704e
CDs for sale: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152183979165341.920004.783165340&type=1&l=4ce4180180
Some pics of the things for sale:
Verse of the Day For Tuesday, October 23, 2012
| Galatians 6:2“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Quote of the Day for Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Quote of the Day:
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Monday, October 22, 2012
F.D.A. Receives Death Reports Citing Popular Energy Drink - Yahoo! Finance
I see no reason why we have or even need energy drinks. Some may think I don’t like them because I don’t follow trends. No that’s not it, I just think it’s silly. We never needed them before so why now?
With that being said, I think they are dangerous. There was a reason the Coke product “Surge” was taken off the markets, folks. It had way too much caffeine. I remember in high school drinking a 20oz of Surge in 30minutes and it made me very shaky and jittery. I couldn’t do my school work because I was so shaky, and one night after a bottle of Surge I had a migraine. It had too much sugar. they take it off of the market because of it’s caffeine/sugar content. However shortly after it was taken off, these energy drinks started popping up. I just don’t get it. and parents allowing there kids to even drink them? that’s just ridiculous! I’m 32 and I have no desire to drink one for obvious reasons. I may as well take speed pills. the stuff will kill you! common sense, people!
should we ban them? no. we have enough laws. however we should raise awareness to how bad these things are. if people quit buying them companies will see that and stop making them, or at least put warning labels on them making people aware of the harms (which I haven’t seen on them yet) or at least make it like cigarettes or alcohol where you have to be a certain age to purchase one.
Five people may have died in recent years after drinking Monster Energy, a popular energy drink that is high in caffeine, according to incident reports recently released by the Food and Drug Administration.
F.D.A. Receives Death Reports Citing Popular Energy Drink - Yahoo! Finance
News flash: Huey Lewis and band are going strong | Music | Kentucky.com
Huey Lewis and the News is one of my favorite bands ever. I remember the first album I ever had by them, and I’ll explain in a minute.
I first heard the band like most my generation have probably first heard the band:: “The Power of Love” when it was in the 1985 film “Back To The Future.” I first saw the film in 1988 when I was 8 years old. At the age of 10 there 1990 album “Hard At Play” came out and that was the first album of there’s I owned. Sometime shortly after that I had purchased 1982’s “Picture This” and 1983’s “Sports”. I love there cover of well known Stax recordings on there recent “Soulsville” album and there classic covers that are on the “Four Chord and Several Years Ago” album. Such an amazing band, and very talented and gifted songwriters! Glad to see that they are still performing. Would be neat to see them live someday.
"To be honest, we're having a better time now than we ever have," said Lewis, 62, who will lead a rock and soul revue-style version of The News into Danville's Norton Center for the Arts on Friday for its first Central Kentucky performance in more than 25 years.
News flash: Huey Lewis and band are going strong | Music | Kentucky.com
I Voted
Today marks the first day of early voting in the state of Arkansas. I live in Harrison, so right after my 1:00 Basic Design class I rushed over to the Durand Center and cast my vote and I’m not afraid to let everyone know who I voted for. Mitt Romney. I am conservative first, libertarian second and a republican third. I believe in less control, less spending and more freedoms. Mitt Romney will hopefully cut the spending spree America has been on. There are several things we should cut out.
I wanted to vote for libertarian Gary Johnson but I heard that voting libertarian or other 3rd party formats you will just throw your vote away because those parties are just so small, so I will always vote for the republican person. I don’t like where most republicans stand on issues but I do feel that for a freer America they are the best way to go.
Arkansas is also trying to get a bill passed for medical Marijuana. I’m all for this. Marijuana has some good medical usages. look at all the folks with AIDS or MS or have an immune deficiency? It can even help those with high stress and eating disorders.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Quote of the Day for Sunday, October 21, 2012
Quote of the Day:
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
--Samuel Goldwyn
Verse of the Day for Sunday, October 21, 2012
| Psalm 40:8“I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Ansel Adams
Thumbing through various magazines as a kid, I saw some interesting black and white photos that I thought looked very interesting. One in particular was a night sky image taken in the desert that had a shot of the moon in the top right corner. I didn’t even really think of how famous the photograph was when I first saw it, I just knew I really enjoyed it. Some years later (2003) a friend of mine wanted to take me to an art museum in Springfield, Missouri to see a traveling exhibit. He mentioned it was an exhibit of Ansel Adams. I asked him who was that and he described him as a famous black and white photographer. I thought it was cool but didn’t take any interest at first because I didn’t recognize the photographer’s name at the time. When we got to the museum and I saw the Ansel Adams exhibit, I was shocked at how familiar I was to his photographs after all. I knew the artist’s work for years and didn’t even realize it! He’s an awesome photographer. I really enjoy his work.
He wasn’t just a photographer – he was also an environmentalist and was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. His father was a businessman by the name of Charles Hitchcock Adams and his grandfather was a wealthy timber baron. When he was four years old, an aftershock of the great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906 threw him to the ground and broke his nose very badly which had distinctly marked him for life. Ansel was an only child and his mother was almost 40 years of age.
He had problems fitting in at school as a child due to his shyness, his nose and his genius. At one point later in his life he had noted that he might’ve been diagnosed as being hyperactive. He may have also suffered from dyslexia. His parents sent him to several different schools, but he wasn’t very successful. His dad and aunt ended up tutoring him. He got a “legitimizing diploma” from the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School, equivalent to completing 8th grade.
He had a very solitary childhood, and he found joy in nature. He took long walks to the Golden Gate Bridge, hiking the dunes and meandering along Lobos Creek.
At the age of 12, he taught himself how to play the piano and read music. This was his primary occupation and in 1920 became his intended profession. Even though eventually he gave up music for photography, the piano brought discipline to his frustrating and erratic youth. Also, the training as a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry as well as influential writings and teachings on photography.
His first camera was a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie that his parents gave him and from 1916 to his death he spent a lot of time in the Yosemite Sierra. He had hiked and climbed and explored the area and he gained self-esteem and self-confidence and joined the sierra club in 1919. He met Virginia Best and they both were married in 1928 and had 2 children. The marriage ended his attempt at a music career.
The Sierra Club scene played an important role in Ansel’s early photography success. The club’s 1922 Bulletin featured his first published photographs and in 1928 he had his first one man exhibition at the club’s San Francisco headquarters. Also, each summer the club would have a month long hiking trip normally in the Sierra Nevada. The participants hiked each day to a new campsite, as the official photographer of the outings he realized he could earn enough to survive with his photographs.
In 1927 he made his first fully visualized photograph “The Face of Half Dome”. He also met San Francisco insurance magnate Albert M. Bender. Bender was also a patron of arts and artists. Right after they met, he literally set out to prepare and publish Adams’ first portfolio! This changed Ansel’s life tremendously! He than was able to pursue his dreams.
He also made several trips to the southwest where he collaborated with Mary Austin and together published a book titled “Taos Pueblo” in 1930. He also met Paul Strand who is another photographer that inspired him to move away from the pictorial style he favored to a more “straight photography.” Ansel was about to become straight photography’s mast articulate and insistent master.
Even though he was profoundly a man of the west, during the 1930s and 1940s he spent a good amount of time in New York where he met photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Ansel admired Alfred’s work and philosophy. The Stieglitz circle played an important role in Ansel’s artistic life. The Delphic Gallery gave him his first show in New York in 1933 and in 1935 his first widely distributed book “Making A Photograph” was published.
All the recognition though didn’t get rid of his financial pressure. In 1935 he stated in a letter “I’ve been busy, but broke.” He spent a lot of his time working for clients such as The National Park Service, Kodak, Zeiss, IBM, AT&T, Life Magazine, Fortune Magazine and Arizona Highways Magazine. In 1938 he wrote to a friend “I had to do something in the near future to regain the right track in photography. I am literally swamped with commercial work. It is very restraining to my creative work.” He constantly worried about how he was going to pay his next month’s bills. This was very stressful for him until late in his life.
Ansel’s technical mastery was legendary. He was probably to photography what Jimi Hendrix was to guitar playing. He was arguably, probably the greatest photographer there ever was. He was frequently consulted for technical advice and was the principal photographic consultant for Polaroid. He also developed the famous and highly complex “zone system” of controlling and relating exposure and development, enabling photographers to creatively visualize an image and produce a photograph that matched and expressed that visualization. Books he has written on the topic are the most influential ever written on the subject.
He endlessly travelled the country looking for natural beauty to photograph. He also felt an intense commitment to promoting photography as a fine art and played a major role in the establishment of the first museum department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
He was a major activist in causes dealing with protecting the wilderness and the environment. Over the years he has been a part of several meetings and has written many letters in support of his conservation philosophy. However his greatest influence came from his photography. His pictures became the symbols of wild America. When people think about national parks or the nature of the environment itself, they often think about an Ansel Adams photograph.
Even though wilderness and the environment were his passions, photography was his calling but he never made a creative photograph specifically for environmental purposes. He was also criticized constantly for never including humans or evidence of them in his landscape pictures. French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once said “The world is falling to pieces and all Ansel Adams photographs is rocks and trees!” Many national parks are preserved and protected to this day, mainly because of Ansel and his colleagues efforts.
In September of 1983, he was confined to his bed for four weeks after a leg surgery to a remove a tumor and on April 22, 1984 at the age of 82 he passed away from a heart attack. His vast archive of papers, memorabilia, negatives and proof prints are in the John P. Schaefer Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He has received a number of awards during his lifetime and posthumously, even some have been named for him. In 1968 he was awarded the Conservation Service Award by the Department of the Interior and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. He was also inducted into the California Hall of Fame posthumously by Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger and in 1985 the Minarets Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest were renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Mount Ansel Adams, and the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography was created in 1971 and the Wilderness Society created the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation in 1980. In December of 1992, Abigail Foerstner wrote in an article in the Chicago Tribune about Ansel Adams: “He did for the national parks something comparable to what Homer’s epics did for Odysseus.”
This article is original, but I have to give credit where it’s due so here’s the bibliography.
Ansel Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 19th October 2012. 15th and 20th October 2012 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams>.
Turnage, William. ANSEL ADAMS BIOGRAPHY | | The Ansel Adams GalleryThe Ansel Adams Gallery. 2012. 15th and 21st October 2012 http://www.anseladams.com/ansel-adams-information/ansel-adams-biography/.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Verse of the Day For Saturday, October 20, 2012
| Psalm 51:12“Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Quote of the Day for Saturday, October 20, 2012
Quote of the Day:
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
--Albert Einstein
Friday, October 19, 2012
“I love Big Bird - But He’s Got To Go”
A few weeks ago during the first 2012 presidential debates, Mitt Romney said we should cut out funding for PBS even though he liked Big Bird. Last week while in Little Rock with my mom, I was reading the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, and I saw an editorial that I thought was very funny so I thought I would share it on my blog. I’m not too sure who the cartoonist was. I do have some other comics and editorials over the years I have enjoyed enough to clip out also that I will eventually share when I find them. maybe even put them in there own blog posting and facebook album as well when I find them.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Verse of the Day for Thursday, October 18, 2012
| Psalm 27:14“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Quote of the Day for Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Quote of the Day:
ARH!! I found it!
--vyacheslavkozlovfan
Monday, October 15, 2012
Verse of the Day for Monday, October 15, 2012
| 2 Samuel 7:22““How great you are, Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Quote of the Day for Monday, October 15, 2012
Quote of the Day:
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Quote of the Day for Monday, October 15, 2012
Quote of the Day:
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Verse of the Day for Saturday, October 13, 2012
| Jeremiah 29:11“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Quote of the Day for Saturday, October 13, 2012
Quote of the Day:
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amazed at the possibilities of Microsoft Office 2010
I’m really glad I decided to stay in my Introduction to Information Technology class even though I know the stuff pretty well. This week for class I had to 3 chapters of work in Microsoft Word 2010. I also been experimenting some with Microsoft Publisher. Today I also did a small activity in Excel and Access and can’t wait to learn more about those programs.
Using Word I was able to print addresses directly onto an envelope. very cool. I sort of knew about this, but never thought to use it until I started learning about Word. and the Mail Merge feature is really cool! I am hoping to get a book sometime on MS Publisher and MS Onenotte.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Romney's 'Big Bird' comment goes viral - NYPOST.com
I’m all for PBS and Big Bird. I think educational programming for children is important. but as a libertarian I’m also thinking: should tax payers be paying for it? seriously? I mean, PBS has regular telethons for a reason. Cut out such subsidies! cut out the GM subsidies as well! Cut out the GE subsidies even! You want to know why this country is so broke? it’s because we gone away from donations from investors and business people and donations from the kindness of our hearts to donations by force through taxes! ridiculous! You can learn a lot on how to save our economy by thinking and acting like a real libertarian. I honestly don’t know how I really think about Romney, but I do agree with his statement about cutting out PBS funding.
The Republican candidate pledged to cut funding to PBS, the station that airs the puppet bird’s educational show “Sesame Street,” during Wednesday’s debate with President Obama. PBS also happens to be the longtime network of Jim Lehrer, the debate moderator.
“I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS,” Romney explained. “I like PBS, I love Big Bird. I actually like you too.”
Verse of the Day for Thursday, October 11, 2012
| Psalm 62:1“[Psalm 62] For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Quote of the Day for Thursday, October 11, 2012
Quote of the Day:
It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it
--Thomas J. Watson
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Quote of the Day for Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Quote of the Day:
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
--Franz Kafka
Verse of the Day For Wednesday October 10, 2012
| Psalm 62:1“[Psalm 62] For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Monday, October 8, 2012
Pablo Picasso
I remember growing up thumbing through some art books and going to museums and coming across some Pablo Picasso paintings that I really found out that I enjoyed very much. I am really only familiar with two or three of his paintings, and one of them I learned was painted during his “blue period.” That painting was of course “The Old Guitarist” from 1903. I am an amateur musicologist so one of my hobbies is music and music history and so the painting represents a lot to me: with it’s dominant color being blue it could represent the blues genre. The way he’s strumming the guitar, it kind of looks like how someone might strum a classical song. Or a blues song even. He painted it in 1903, and so looking at it also makes me imagine the American roots stuff of that era. Another painting of his that I really like is “Three Musicians” from 1921. I think it’s a really colorful painting and in a way reminds me of the jazz era.
On October 25, 1881 Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso – Pablo Picasso – was born to Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. He was a painter, co-founding the Cubist movement and he was also a sculptor. His dad was also a painter and taught at the School of Crafts and ran a museum. He was born in Malaga, Spain.
He became interested in drawing at a very early age and painting realistically throughout his childhood and teenage years. “Piz”, which is a short form of the Spanish word for pencil “lapiz”, was his first word according to his mom and at seven years old his dad taught him figure drawing and oil painting.
Picasso’s family moved to LA Coruna, Spain in 1891 where his dad started teaching at the Instituto da Guarda art school and in 1892 Picasso joined his dad at the art school as a student. He attended the school for three years where he received a classical art education.
In 1895 Picasso’s father started to work at the La Lonja Art Academy in Barcelona joined once again by Picasso. With help from his uncles, he decided to move to Madrid, Spain in 1897. He dropped out of school around this time because his teachers couldn’t help him solve the technical problems he had. He wanted to be more like the classical painters Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and Diego Velazquez. No matter how great he was at such a young age, he couldn’t match the masters.
He realized he would not progress while in Madrid so he decided to quit his studies and with his father’s aid he was able to have two of his first paintings “The First Communion” and “Science and Charity” included in a large exhibition which made him a recognized artist in Spain, and he wasn’t even seventeen years old yet!
The organic forms that we associate Picasso with today were due to what he learned from a Catalan architect by the name of Antoni Gaudi when he lived in Barcelona, Spain. Picasso went from being “Picasso the traditionalist” to “Picasso the Great Innovator.” Also while staying in Barcelona he would visit the Els Quatre Gats Cafe (“The Four Cats”) often. On his visits to the café he met and befriended several artists that regularly made visits to Paris, France for work. Picasso soon followed suit.
At the turn of the 20th century, Paris had become the center of avant-garde art and Pablo Picasso had become an avant-garde artist and while still living in Barcelona he helped found a magazine with a writer by the name of Francesco de Asis Soler called “Arte Joven” (young art). When the magazine folded, Pablo moved to Paris.
Pablo Picasso was like the famous singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a sense, as in his style of painting changed a lot over the years, just like Bob Dylan’s musical styles changed a lot over the years as well. Between 1899 and 1900 his painting style changed tremendously from a very dry style to a romantic style. The Picasso we know today was just starting to flourish. Some artworks by him from that era would remind you of work done by Henri de Toulouse-Latrec or Cornelis Theodorus Maria Van Dongen.
Picasso and an artist friend of his by the name of Carlos Casagemas got there first studio together in Montemarte, Paris, France in 1900. Around this time Picasso used a technique of oil painting that’s a bit blurred and reminds one of soft pastels. “Dancer In Blue” was painted around this time and shows off his fascination with the Paris night life. Another painting of the time is “Le Moulin Galette” which was an homage to Toulouse-Latrec.
Picasso changed his painting technique to divisionism in 1901. He also experimented with expressionism around this time. He also began to paint circus artists.
He found a way to use his imagination, poetry skills and ability to spot artistic innovations and use them in his work with modern art. While in Paris he had some difficult years where he didn’t earn enough from his work.
His “Blue Period” began around 1901 and ended about 1904. This was a time when he used the color blue as the dominant color in his work. At 20 years old he was an accomplished classicist painter and he was also dissatisfied with traditional art. Picasso and his contemporaries were experiencing the after-shock of an artistic eruption by the name of Vincent Van Gogh which hurdled the art world towards abstract art. Inspired by this, the blue period marked the end of his development and his work eventually would culminate into cubism and the first steps to modern abstract art.
On an interesting side note, he started painting in blue because his friend Carlos Casagemas committed suicide which caused Picasso some trauma which he found expression for in a series of sentimental paintings that he painted in blue. He also lived in poverty during part of his stay in Paris which may have contributed to the melancholy paintings.
Picasso’s next period was his “Rose Period,” which was an era where pink dominated his paintings, however he still continued his blue period work until his cubist period which followed his rose period. It wasn’t until the period after that – his “neo-classicist” period did his work begin to show playfulness that would remain a feature in his work the rest of his life. Picasso also had a “black period” which occurred from 1906 to 1907 and is an era where his work was heavily influenced by African art. One famous piece from this period is “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
Even though his blue period seems to be more popular, his rose period has greater importance to art history. In 1904 his work regained it’s romantic style with paintings that had warmer colors in them – many in pink, hence why the art world called it his “rose period.” The most expensive painting in the world from May 2004 to June 2006 was Picasso’s rose-era painting “Boy With Pipe” from 1905. It sold for a whopping $104,000,000!!
A constant theme in Pablo Picasso’s blue and rose periods was the desolation of social outsiders: prisoners, beggars, circus people or poverty stricken people. Paintings of the lower classes of society was a conscious move towards the political left. He also became commercially successful during his rose period.
One very interesting trait of Picasso’s was how he was able to emulate styles and methods of other painters and still create original paintings. For example: Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh were the influence for “The Death of Casagemas” and “Portrait of Jaime Sabartes (The Beer Glass)” and the work of Paul Gauguin were his influence for “The Absinthe Drinker.” He enjoyed imitating other artists like an actor enjoys portraying different people.
His Cubism period lasted from around 1909 to about 1912 and it refers to a style of painting he developed with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors. A further development in the genre was where cut paper pieces or even parts of newspapers were cut out and pasted into compositions – making it the first time the art of “collage” was used in fine art.
After World War I, Picasso was in his “Neo-classical” era. His works from this era were influenced by the work of renaissance painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) and French neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. In the 1930s, the minotaur became a common motif in his work. What is probably his most famous painting was painted in this era and was inspired by the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. This painting is called “Guernica.”
In the 1950s his style changed yet again: He made a series of works influenced by Diego Velazquez, Fracisco Goya, Nicolas Poussin, Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet and Eugene Delacroix. He was also commissioned to sculpt a 50-foot high sculpture in Chicago, Illinois known as the “Chicago Picasso.” It is one of the most recognizable landmarks in downtown Chicago and was unveiled in 1967. He even donated it to the city, refusing the $100,000 offer the city offered him!
His final works were more daring, colorful and expressive. Some were even dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or as slapdash works from an artist who was past his prime.
He passed away from a heart attack at 91 years of age in Mougins, France on April 8, 1973 while entertaining friends with his wife Jacqueline, who committed suicide 13 years later at the age of 59 because she was very devastated and lonely after Picasso’s death. His final words were “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink anymore.”
During his lifetime, Picasso had produced around 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, 12,000 drawings, and numerous tapestries and rugs. There are now museums that house his work exclusively: Musee Picasso in Paris, France; Museo Picasso Malaga in Malaga, Spain and Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain. He is also featured on several postage stamps around the world.
The following are some of his paintings:
The Old Guitarist The Three Musicians
Dancer In Blue Death of Casaemas
Guernica Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Science and Charity The First Communion
This is an original article, but some research was made while writing it.
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Pablo Picasso – paintings, biography, and quotes of Pablo Picasso.
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BBC On This Day | 8 | 1973: Art Master Picasso dies. BBC.
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Verse of the Day for Sunday October 7th, 2012
| Psalm 63:1“[Psalm 63] A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Quote of the Day for Sunday October 7th, 2012
Quote of the Day:
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
--Jane Wagner
My Online Presence
I will re-post this article every so often so that anyone who follows my blogs will be able to access my various social network profiles (yes, I do have a lot these days lol). I used to believe in not having so many, but I found out that the best way to really promote your work is to be a part of as many social network sites as possible because some people may not be able to view your facebook stuff because they don’t have a facebook account but have a twitter account. Or they may want to access your graphic portfolio or favorite paintings easier so they go to your flickr account page. Or they may want to browse images that interest you that organized a bit better so they may want to access your pinterest account instead. Or they may want to just read what you have to say so they just want to read your blogs or they may just want to watch your videos so they go to YouTube, etc. Here are my various social network site profiles:
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
I Am Going To College Because…
I am going to college because I have been out of school since 1999 and I have been working since than at minimum wage jobs and couldn’t find any jobs that pay well or any jobs that involve my hobbies or interests.
Last October I was visiting my wife at NorthArk (she was going to school at the time) and was looking at the choices of degrees northark had to offer, and decided to go for digital media but because I worked in Branson at the time and living in Harrison I was trying to figure out how to go to school and work in Branson for a while and than on February 29th, 2012 the tornado that went through Branson destroyed the store I was working at. Unfortunately that was too late to sign up for classes so I did everything I could to start this fall so I could better my digital media skills in hopes of after I graduate getting a job that pays well doing something I really like to do.
I have actually been flirting with the idea of going to college since 2004, but I was stuck at what I should go for. I didn’t want to spend money (whether my own or grant or loan money) on classes for a degree I may not even want. I wanted to go to school on my own terms and not on what others tell me I should go for. I also know I should go for something that would hopefully guarantee me some real work.
One time I wanted to go to film production school. There’s a really good one in New York. A few years ago I found out about FullSail University in Florida, which is my dream school but it’s not in my cards to go there. Probably never will be. I’m a firm believer that if you don’t go for the degree you want you are going to fail at your education. I want to be successful at college and my future endeavors.
All last spring my dad tried to convince me to go to college to be a nursing aide because my uncle does that and enjoys it. I never once had any desire to be a nurse’s aide. Yes, the pay is good but if it’s not what I want to do than I will fail at it. You have to go where your heart is. Do what you love to do, not something that you don’t want to do. I have always been into the digital arts – sound production, video production, graphic design etc. I know that jobs in that field are hard to find in Harrison, but I’ll figure that out when I get out of college. Maybe even go into business for myself if necessary. I have been trying to start a business doing that sort of thing since 2003 called “Strawberry Lane Media Design” and I’m hoping after I graduate college in a couple of years I will be able to be much better at my craft.
I’m 32 years old, it’s about time I do something to better myself and my lifestyle so I can support my family better. That’s why I’m going to college.dd
Friday, October 5, 2012
Quote of the Day for Friday October 5th, 2012
Quote of the Day:
Opinions are like armpits: Everybody has two of them and they stink most of the time.
--Anonymous
Verse of the Day for Friday October 5th, 2012
| Isaiah 55:6“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Thursday, October 4, 2012
How Big Bird won the first presidential debate of 2012 | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
I didn’t watch the debate but heard bits about it on Fox News this morning. This was one I heard about on there and thought it was kind of funny - and Mitt Romney makes a very valid point: PBS gets donations from it’s viewers so why in the world is it one of America’s millions of subsidies? I’m all for PBS but people should donate to it out of the kindness of their hearts, not by force. Where is it in our US constitution does it state we have to pay for all the subsidies?
To the list of "unlikely subjects of political discussion, 2012," please add one beloved "Sesame Street" character. The 8'2" bird entered the conversation at Monday's first presidential debate in Denver, Colorado, when Republican candidate Mitt Romney answered a question about what he would cut from federal spending. He included the federal subsidy to PBS, which broadcasts "Sesame Street."
How Big Bird won the first presidential debate of 2012 | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
Quote of the Day for Thursday October 4th, 2012
Quote of the Day:
I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
--Voltaire
Verse of the Day for Thursday October 4th, 2012
| Proverbs 27:1“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Monday, October 1, 2012
Quote of the Day for Monday October 1st, 2012
Quote of the Day:
It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
--Elvis Presley, celebrity singer
Verse of the Day for Monday October 1, 2012
| Proverbs 29:25“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved. |
Come Together
I was at a friend’s house this morning doing some yard work and I was listening to my MP3 player. “Come Together” by The Beatles started playing. Ever noticed how it has a “work-man’s” beat to it? (as in a song you can work to). I never noticed that until this morning. very interesting, lol. I have no clue what John Lennon was trying to say when he wrote that song. It is and always will be one of my favorite Beatle songs but I will never figure out what the lyrics actually mean. LOL. Come Together, Right Now - Over Me!
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