Tuesday, December 30, 2008

New Year!




Sunday, December 7, 2008

Philippe Petit



Man on a Wire, the movie is really good, lots of footage of World Trade Center in 1974.






Philippe Petit wire act at Cathedral of St John the Divine where he is Artist in Resident.!

Upper Cathedral


We were taken to the upper reaches of the Cathedral.










Not into tours but this was something else, notice the stairs winding through solid stone.

St John the Divine Rededication after Fire in 2001

Add the Organ music of the newly refurbished Organ.







Hillary Clinton the day before accepting Secretary of State post.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Monday, October 13, 2008

Himalaya




I met Tenzing Norbu Lama at Studio Center.

He is a painter visiting as a resident there.

He was the subject of a movie, Himalaya, by Eric Valli.

The Movie is great, with a feel like Akira Kurosawa's, Dersu Uzala.

I recommend it.




The most interesting part is that he then illustrated the movie which is his life.

People from his village are the actors. His real mother the wife of the Chief in the movie.


What I find so interesting, the movie is mythic in feel, but after real events, and then repeated as Tenzing's art, in the book he illustrated.





Tenzing Norbu Lama was born in the village of Tinkyu, in Dolpo, Nepal, and hails from a lineage of painters dating back four hundred years. At the age of eight he went to live in a monastery where he was trained by his father in the art of traditional Tibetan thangka scroll painting and where he prepared to be a lama.

Vermont Studio Center










I was just up at Studio Center. The leaves were just peak and so very beautiful. I got to make a few paintings between the critiques with the Residents. They were a good group.






Monday, September 15, 2008

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Hurricane Waves at Napeague, NY





Hurricane Hanna September 7, 2008.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Night Sky New Mexico.

I was up late and there were no clouds, a spectacular sky which I havent seen for awhile that clear.




Not wanting to come back right away to NYC.



So clear it is scary. One feels one will be sucked right up!

That's Jupiter in Sagittarius.

And the cluster in the Trees, Pleaides.

Sunflowers and Morning Glories

A close to the summer season.





Like Sun and Stars.

Albuquerque

These houses from the air look like old civilizations. I've seen very similar pictographs.






An amazing thunderhead!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Strange Weather, NYC

Tornado Warning just north of Manhattan.

Couldn't be more beautiful today.