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Already I am back with my latest artistic effort. This painting came together more rapidly than any I have worked on for quite some time. Two weeks total from start to finish: not bad for a painting that measures 80x44"... especially when one considers the unbearable heat and humidity in my studio as of recent.

I had initially intended a clothed figure... something perhaps based upon the theme of Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Boccaccio and Keats) but all of the preliminary ...

So last night i hosted a movie. The gang came, well except Alex but that was because he was in Germany(although he's coming back today! yay) Sadly, i'm a horrible host and the entertainment until the movie started was my year and half old nephew. He's SO cute! I have to admit. Like someone did something and i was like, "O my gosh! Shut the door!" and he walks to the front door and shuts it!! XD And then he got a hold of a pocket dictionary and he would pretend to give it to people but ...

Found presents for both of them, I am sure you are all pleased to hear that.... I bought a book for my brother about all plants in Iceland and how to use them. He has been talking about it for a long time, I am also gonna bake a small cake and have a bakery here in town make the star trek symbol on something they call 'food paper' and put on top of the cake, I'll take a picture of it and put it in my album here on lit-net. For my friend I got a small book about dogs (the only kind of books she ...

Hungry vultures hover and circle over a boundless wilderness;
a traveler
lies alone on his belly.

No more story,
only vines of bleeding hearts grow wild
all over his body.

Cinema as it seems has been regarded by some film critics as a lost art, in its prime once but now sold-out to endless Hollywood blockbusters and mindless rom-coms. But this is excessive cynicism for the film art has not died out and in a sense it has even been getting better at what it does, though only in small hidden layers of the film world, with a good deal of the talent coming from non-Hollywood sources. In order to acknowledge some of the best art the cinema has produced in the past 25 years, ...