What’s a blog? I remember asking that question. This blog is my sixth, and now I am retiring this one in order to start my seventh. My first post on this blog was July 10th, 2008, so this fun exercise of collecting “eye candy” for visual thinkers lasted two years. Not bad for someone who bores easily; brought to an end because of the time demand of writing my second book and a desire to move on to a blog that satisfies my need to write. This blog required a lot of net surfing and that bores me now.
I am an introvert. My friend Bruce educated me about that. And my birth parents are both Quebecois. This film appeals to me, therefore, and it is made by a soeur de l’âme. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish.
Around 1980, I was running a public art gallery in North Vancouver (Presentation House) whose mandate I had changed to one of photography. In the early days, I brought to it, two exhibitions of work by Ansel Adams. I love his photography and it seemed like a good fit for our mountainous region of Canada, famed for its outdoors and mild climate. I had the opportunity to purchase one work (Moonrise over Halfdome) for just over $2000 I believe. Oh, how I wish I had kept that piece and a few others I bought and that went on to achieve amazing and huge prices at auction. But I didn’t. Rick Norsigian was luckier than me!
Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Rick Norsigian’s hobby of picking through piles of unwanted items at garage sales in search of antiques has paid off for the Fresno, California, painter.
Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 — negotiated down from $70 — are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.
Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.
One tree + four mirrors = an entire forest! Step into a small booth and experience an infinite number of trees. This installation by DUS Architects was shown to folks in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam last month.
Two Russian curators who angered the Russian Orthodox Church with an exhibition that included images of Jesus Christ portrayed as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin were convicted Monday of inciting religious hatred and fined, but not sentenced to prison.
Ok, it is not right to be judgemental but there is already a room in hell reserved for me. I love animals and like people but whatever it is that makes people want to look at accidents or the images of Diane Arbus or freak shows will be satisfied by scrolling through the website “Awkward Family Pet Photos.” Via Neatorama.
Hypnotic. 
