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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Shakespeare and Yogi:''Our Similarities Are Different!''
William Shakespeare: ”You Sirrah that ball was fair!” Yogi Berra: ”That ball was foul!” William Shakespeare: ”So Fair a Foul I Have Not Seen!” Thus, a foul ball of fate that henceforth became commonly known as ” the long and … Continue reading
Fini-All In One But Not One For All
Fini from SPC in Canada is an acrylic water-based fast dry glaze. Fini is appreciated by decorative painters due to exceptional results and time saving advantages. Fini is used in place of water as it combines properties of an extender, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolero, Earth Safe Finishes, Final Coat, Fini, Mark Jenkins, VOC's
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Grateful For An Art Thats Not Dead
Stanley ”Mouse Miller” is one of a select few surviving , legendary graphic artists of the West Coast Hippie era. With the recent death of friend and associate Alton Kelley the genre is fading and Kelley’s passing may define the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alton Kelley, Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, LSD Art, Mark Jenkins, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller
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Masterpiece of Marketing
Just where is the tipping point when the avant garde loses credibility and becomes ridiculous? With the ”Imagine” exhibition in Montreal opening in conjunction with the 40 th anniversay of ”Bed-In” you do not have to be an art gumshoe … Continue reading
Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit of Us All
DecoArt Glass Stain is a new American contribution to the faux-glass craft painting industsry. Glass Stain has no artistic pretensions though accomplished results were achieved with some imaginative stretching of the users guide Starting with a suggested retail of 1,50$ … Continue reading
Satchmo: A Splice of Urban Art
A recent publication of a sampling of collage art from musician Louis Armstrong opens a new chapter on the artistic accomplishments of this cultural icon. Backstage to the public image of black american ambasador , an African American ragtime to showtime … Continue reading
Twin Towers Still Standing
Vimy Ridge Day on April 9 th is a remembrance and elaboration of a national myth that resonates in a powerful and meaningful way into the psyche of a flexible Canadian identity. Vimy is so ingrained with Canada it is irrelevent to what … Continue reading
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Tagged Mark Jenkins, vimy ridge, vimy ridge monument, walter allard
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R.P.Feynman:The Nude truth,Its beauty & Nuthin' But
Hang-ten sized waves have been E-Reaming over the starboard side of the two blogs posted on April Fool’s on this site. It is not mere coincidence that Feynman was attracted to visual representation of beauty due to his imagination and … Continue reading
Solomon's Art and the Dead Sea Scroll's Curse
Controversy and heated debate over interpretations of the Dead Sea Scrolls has boiled anew with a recent leak that pinpoints the precise locations of King Solomon’s cache of fine art and sculptures amassed during his reign. The Dead Sea scrolls … Continue reading
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Tagged April Fool's, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hoaxes, King Solomon, Mark Jenkins
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Dead Physicist Society Deciphers Giaconda Code
An intimate journal from the pen of deceased Nobel price winning physicist Richard Feynman may serve as mythbuster to many of the enigmas surrounding the Leonardo Davinci painting ”La Giaconda” . This unpublished study by Feynman was found accidentally in … Continue reading
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Tagged April Fool's, Giaconda, Hoaxes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mark Jenkins, Richard Feynman
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