Pictured: my wife and our girls.
On June 24th, I’ll be walking in the Scleroderma Walk for a Cure. Scleroderma is a little-known auto-immune disease with no cure, and my wife was recently diagnosed with it. This occurred just a month after her sister died from complications of the same disease.
The Scleroderma Walk for a Cure will help raise much-needed money in pursuit of a cure. We all get bombarded daily with more media-grabbing requests for money, time and attention than any of us like. If this is something that you can throw some extra dollars at, it could make a difference in the lives of the few hundred thousand people suffering from it. Thanks for reading.
Brillo Box, 1964
Andy Warhol, at the Huntington
As with much of Warhol’s work, Brillo Box was meant to provoke anxiety about the nature and value of art. Under Warhol’s direction, the boxes themselves were created by a local cabinet maker in New York. Warhol then had James Harvey, the original Brillo pad logo artist, create the logo, which was silk screened onto the boxes. Brilliant or absurd? I’d say yes. (Taken with instagram)
(via Waiting #55)
“Waiting #55” by artist Brett Amory - oil on wood- (2010)
The painting series entitled “Waiting” depicts the urban individual’s yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, an anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.
Faith is the new black, #seen on Melrose (Taken with instagram)
#streetart on Melrose (Taken with instagram)
Adriatic, 1968
by Helen Frakenthaler
One of the youngest and few women who were part of the #abstractexpressionist movement, Helen Frakenthaler’s piece, Adriatic, hangs at the Huntington in San Marino, CA. (Taken with instagram)
Contemplating #art and #meaning at the Huntington. Only later did I realize the coordinated color and composition of the viewers and the art. (Taken with instagram)
Vincent van Gogh, A Corridor in the Asylum (1889). Black chalk and gouache on pink Ingres paper, 61.5 x 47 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Japanese Letterpress Moveable Type.
It’s widely believed that Gutenberg created the first printing press in 1450 (or more accurately, the first machine to utilize moveable type for the purpose of print reproduction). It was actually invented in Asia some 400 years earlier. I’m a bit of a type junkie, and enjoy the aesthetic aspects of design and art with typography. Interesting article here on the old school use of moveable type in Asia, here.
