Actually, this is a photo of "a formally attired audience sporting 3D glasses attending the opening night screening of 'Bwana Devil', the 1st full-length 3-D motion picture at the Paramount Theater on November 26, 1952."
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"If you're listening to the noise of the world,
its impossible to hear the whispers of your soul." -- Marie Forleo The Denver Post newspaper turned 125 yesterday. Its first edition published August 8th, 1892. The newspaper industry has always been a turbulent one. And it was no different when I was there doing graphic arts from 1996 to 2009. Amazingly, for 1/10th of its history! The biggest story while I was there was the downing of New York's World Trade Towers in 2001. Also impactful that same year was the creation of the joint operating agreement that allowed the 'merger' of the Post and the Rocky Mountain News. I took the photo of the new building above, the merging of the rectangle and the arc symbolized the combining of the two papers creating the Denver Newspaper Agency. Typically mergers are good for companies and not their employees. The buyouts and layoffs began, and accelerated when the housing market tanked along with the economy. Alas, The Rocky having lost the newspaper war, never recovered and folded in 2009, less than two months shy of its 150th anniversary. Over 400 were laid off, including myself. Still, I have a lot of good memories, like the time I met Woody Paige, I walked into the men's room and there was the big guy in his blue pinstriped suit. He had just been hit in the face with a cream pie on his TV program! All in all, it was a good experience at the Post/Rocky/DNA, and the layoff allowed me to shift into doing more painting. Always a silver lining, which is what I hope for for the Post. Check out this Westword article from last year:
http://www.westword.com/news/can-the-denver-post-survive-its-hedge-fund-owners-8348203 Happy 141st birthday! Colorado, the Centennial State, came into the union on August 1st, 1876. President Ulysses S. Grant signed Proclamation 230 admitting us as the 38th state. In honor of the occasion, I'm posting a plein air oil painting I did years ago of Guanella Pass near Georgetown at an elevation of 11,669 ft. (3557 m.) Alas, the image is a photo of a photo, but you can still see that purple mountains majesty thing going on! 'Tis a privilege to live in Colorado!
Honoring Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), born 100 years ago today, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The first time I ever saw his work in person was at the De Young Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The show was titled, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures. Then, a 'scandalous' group of drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, which where done over a fifteen year span, unbeknownst to anyone, including his wife. The 1981 painting "Lovers", shown above, was in the show. Here in late 2015 thru early 2016, we were blessed with a show at the Denver Art Museum of Andrew and son Jamie's work. It was great some of the Helga pictures I'd seen so long ago were included, and amazingly so was the original thumbnail sketch of his most famous painting, Christina's World. To learn more click: andrewwyeth.com/
Dots1 7x7" Graphite on paper Dots2 Landscape 7x7" Graphite on paper Dots3 7x7" Graphite on paper Dots4 7x7" Graphite with red pastel highlights on paper
Happy Summer! It arrives with this offering of a couple drawings that were inspired by an image in a dream. First came the title, which alas, I couldn't quite remember when I woke up, other than it was two words and both began with "P". Below is my representation of the image I clearly saw: six inverted triangles on a rust orange background, Triangles 2, below. The bottom image, Triangles 1, is a preliminary sketch I liked... Their meaning is unclear. Sometimes things just want to come through! You know how images percolate thru your psyche... A couple days ago I was looking at a David Hockney painting of a southern california suburban lawn-scape with the sprinklers going, looking like little white V-shaped fans balancing against the greens. I'm not sure if that was the genesis? There is a certain erotic charge to them as well. It was nice getting reacquainted with my pencils. The process on these was much more vigorous and tactile than the more etheric, painted Veil series I've been doing of late. Triangles 2 8x12" Graphite and colored pencil on paper Available Triangles 1 10x14" Graphite on paper Available
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