But today there is no day or night, Today there is no dark or light, Today there is no black or white, Only shades of gray. My wife and I are avid accumulators. Our house is an interesting amalgam of pop culture pieces from our youth and antiquities that predate even our parents’ childhoods. Don’t …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “yield”. The players tried to take the field. The marching band refused to yield.
This week’s Illustration Friday word suggestion is “intention”. I’m pretty sure my dad’s intentions were good, but he had his own quirky method of making them known. My father followed an old-time, though slightly skewed, set of ethics. He was a hard worker and blindly devoted to the company he worked for no matter how …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “capable”. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. Mohandas Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi began a law practice in South Africa in the late 1800s, after several failed attempts at establishing a practice in his …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “fluid”. No matter what anyone says, Andres Serrano is an artist in every sense of the word (or at least by Andy Warhol‘s definition). Like Ansel Adams, his medium of choice is photography and he photographs ordinary subjects in an artful fashion. Unlike Adams, Serrano finds beauty in …
The new Illustration Friday suggestion for inspiration is “popularity”. “Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette – the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.” — John Tyler, Tenth President of the United States John Tyler knew of what he spoke, as popularity certainly …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “suspense”. Alfred Hitchcock – Hollywood’s master of suspense. He was a technical innovator, a masterful storyteller and a visionary director. In his career, that spanned six decades, he never won an Oscar (aside from an honorary and conciliatory lifetime achievement award).
When my parents gave me my first box of crayons and a blank drawing pad, they had no idea I would turn it into a career. I majored in art in high school and attended a vocational art school after spending a year in the retail world and realizing that I was better suited for …
For as long as he could remember, Tommy Lasorda, the longest tenured employee with the Dodgers organization, including twenty years as team manager, loved baseball. Growing up in a poor family in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Tommy could never afford to attend to a real Major League baseball game. When he was fifteen, Tommy joined his high …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “prepare.” “Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and a player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.” Paul Simon I understand the popularity of Simon and Garfunkel. I am aware of Paul Simon’s songwriting ability …
