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[S. Woody White]

Green Acres was a docudrama.

[bk]

And one for Mahler.

[S. Woody White]

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=20]Texas Two-Step!!![/size][/move]

[bk]

Other favorite illustrators: John Clymer, W.T. Benda, Andrew Loomis, Steven Dohanos.  Of paperback cover artists: Robert Maguire, Robert McGinnis, Victor Kalin.  Pinup artists: Elvgren, Earl Moran.

[George]

As for the TOD: I have always been a big fan of Seurat and pointilism in general. There is one in the IMA that I like quite a bit. I believe it is of a woman in a field.

Glad you're feeling better Joey, but actually, it's a picture of Louis' Waffle Stove!

[Sandra]

My favorite painter, and artist in general, is Isabella Taylor, wife of the celebrated author Philip Taylor. I had the pleasure of meeting Isabella at the Desert Botanical Garden when she was here in town. She was sketching a picture of a prickly pear cactus and stopped to ask me what I thought about it. She was really nice and it was really great meeting her.

[bk]

Rodzinski - did you ever finish viewing the movie?  Strange seeing a different version, eh?

[bk]

Haven't heard from Mr. Walter Willison.  So, I don't know whether to eat or save myself for dinner.  Perhaps I'll eat, and then if dinner happens I'll just do a salad.

[Rodzinski]

I have not, BK. Yesterday the Gal had her shows to watch and we saw a movie at the movies, but I am going to have to lay down the law and tell her in no uncertain terms that if we can't watch that DVD, I shall cry.

[JMK]

Venosa did a lot of Santana and Miles Davis covers.  You would probably recognize his truly freaky Davis covers, including the one with people's skins pulling back--but it is not representative of the bulk of his work.  There is some truly beautiful visionary stuff he did, all glowing trees and ethereal bodies.  Methinks he did a lot of "vitamin A", if you catch you my drift.

[Jrand74]

MR BK did you watch Mr. Arch Hall in WILD GUITAR.  The first few minutes are a trip back to Benjamin's LA!

[Jrand74]

Was he young and healthy?

[JMK]

What about Vargas?   The stuff adolescent boys' dreams are made of!!

[Charles Pogue]

Well, baseball season is here.  I turn into my hometown team to the Cincinnati Reds who have a 3-1 lead.  After ten minutes of watching they're tied at 3-3.  I'd like for them not to disappoint me until at least AFTER the All-star break this year.

The premimun channels are giving us a free preview today, so instead of watching ESPN, I'm watching their feed which gives us local commercials.  So seeing a commercial for Skyline Chili is interesting.

Speaking of hometown matters, my interview came out in the local hometown monthly newspaper INSIDE FORT THOMAS.  It was complete and intact with lots of pictures.  Probably the best interview I've done after my Unseemingly Interview on this site here.

[Joey]

Glad you're feeling better Joey, but actually, it's a picture of Louis' Waffle Stove!

I don't get it. You'll have to explain it to me then I will need to do penance for not knowing something that should be common knowledge.

In the meantime, more pointillism!! I am admittedly no expert. I just like the style.

[vixmom]

So, what happens if you don't own a video camera? We don't own one, and I certainly wouldn't jump to buy one for an assignment. Heck, much of the time my kids were in middle and and high school, we didn't even have a working television, which presented a problem when the kids were assigned to watch a movie for an assignment. The teachers always looked askance at us for not having a television.

My point exacty.  Fortunately we do have a working one at the moment and we will allow her to use it, but we resent the fact that the teaher just assumes that this is something everyone will have. We happen to personally know a child in that class that not only doesn't have a video camera, they don't have a car and for a good few months  recently they didn't even have a home as they were foreclosed upon.

Out here in many of the schools, teachers are no longer using red pens to correct students' work, because the red ink hurts the children's feelings and lowers their self esteem.

I heard this on NPR this morning!!! I also heard recently that some schools are no longer publishing  "Honor Rolls" as it hurst the feelings of the children that aren't included on the list.

Also, out here, teachers have been known to show movies in class instead of teaching. Not educational movies, but "movie-theater movies."

YES!!!

[vixmom]

I have not, BK. Yesterday the Gal had her shows to watch and we saw a movie at the movies, but I am going to have to lay down the law and tell her in no uncertain terms that if we can't watch that DVD, I shall cry.

  You're my kinda man Rodzinski!!

[Rodzinski]

When I taught Composition at a college in Ohio, we were told not to mark with red ink. And that was for COLLEGE STUDENTS!! Of course this was a system where you had the choice of grading papers "Pass" and "No Pass". And some teachers developed more comically arcane grades like "No Pass Plus". If a student failed, or I should say, Did Not Pass the class, they had so many levels of appeal, they could usually move right on.

[JMK]

When I taught Vocal Jazz at Clark College in Washington, we had actual grades, but they were pretty much pointless, since the whole raison d'etre (or so it seemed) of the school was to get bodies in classrooms with tuition checks in hand (and a failing student is most likely not going to be around next term).  It was one of the reasons I left after a couple of years.

[Jrand74]

Is there a link to said interview, DR CP?

[JMK]

I started watching Darling with Julie Christie last night.  Forgive me if there are those who love this film, but I am finding it pretty unbearable.  Schlesinger just does not strike me as someone who should be trying an English version of new wave cinema.

[vixmom]

When I taught Composition at a college in Ohio, we were told not to mark with red ink. And that was for COLLEGE STUDENTS!! Of course this was a system where you had the choice of grading papers "Pass" and "No Pass". And some teachers developed more comically arcane grades like "No Pass Plus". If a student failed, or I should say, Did Not Pass the class, they had so many levels of appeal, they could usually move right on.

When I was taking an Oceanography course in college I had a question on a test

"What are sea mounts commonly called?"

Being a smart-ass and also not knowing the correct answer  I wrote 'I commonly call them sea mounts"

I was given full credit!

Same test we also had an essay question "Why is the sea salt?"

Again, not knowing the correct answer I replied with  a old folktale I had learned as a child regarding a magic mill that would grind out whatever you commanded and the thief who had taken the mill out to sea and commanded it to grind salt without knowing how to turn it off. "

I also received full points for that essay with a note from the teacher saying he remembered this story fondly from his youth

And hence  I remain an uneducated moron regarding all matters of oceanography  but I have darn good self esteem!!!

[JMK]

When I was taking an Oceanography course in college I had a question on a test

"What are sea mounts commonly called?"

Hump-back whales?  

[Rodzinski]

I guess what we are learning is that the children of Long Island are being prepared quite nicely for college!

[William F. Orr]

Same test we also had an essay question "Why is the sea salt?"

Again, not knowing the correct answer I replied with  a old folktale I had learned as a child regarding a magic mill that would grind out whatever you commanded and the thief who had taken the mill out to sea and commanded it to grind salt without knowing how to turn it off. "

I also received full points for that essay with a note from the teacher saying he remembered this story fondly from his youth

And hence  I remain an uneducated moron regarding all matters of oceanography  but I have darn good self esteem!!!

I believe it is in Grimm and is called "Why the Sea Is Salt".

[S. Woody White]

What about Vargas?   The stuff adolescent boys' dreams are made of!!

Speak for yourself.  I already mentioned Tom of Finland.

[vixmom]

"Why the Sea Is Salt"

You can read it here

http://www.readprint.com/chapter-6500/Andrew-Lang

[Charles Pogue]

No link to said interview.  Their website is in the process of being reconstructed.

[William F. Orr]

When I was at Caltech, I used to walk to the Huntington Gardens in San Marino to study on the weekends.  I would read in the gardens and then get out of the sun by wandering through the mansion, which contains an incredible collection.

One room has, on the wall facing you as you enter, Jushua Reynolds' Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse

,

on the wall to your right Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: The Blue Boy



And to the left Thomas Lawrence's Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie



I have ever since had a special affection for those paintings and the lovely spring days I spent with them.  

[William F. Orr]

They also have a large collection of William Blake watercolors, but only a few of them are on display at any one time, as the sunlight deteriorates them.  So there were always new Blakes to discover.