Month: March 2014
-
Weekly Photo Challenge–Street Life
These guys had a beautiful day to play and gathered a sizable crowd for their street performance. The washboard was very interesting. I didn’t know you could find those things around anymore. It went nicely with the banjo. Weekly Photo Challenge–Street Life
-
Artists in Healthcare–Yo-Yo Ma and Wounded Veterans
Yo-Yo Ma and Lance Corporal Timothy Donley perform A Wide River to Cross in this video from MusiCorps founder Arthur Bloom and the Aspen Institute. In the second video, Lance Corporal Donley explains how music, Sing for Hope and the MusiCorps group has helped him put his life back together. In the final video, Yo-Yo Ma…
-
Weekly Photo Challenge–Street Life
This rolling bar has patrons pedaling around the streets of Nashville while drinking themselves into oblivion. I don’t think the guy on the back is pulling his weight in the first pic. The others don’t seem to notice. Maybe they’ve had too much already! I hope the bartender is keeping them on the road…
-
Sunday Slideshow–Cherry Blossoms
The Cherry Trees are blooming all around Nashville and today the weather is beautiful. Its time to go out and play after the long cold winter we have had this year. An uninvited guest made an appearance in a couple of these shots. He must be ready to go out and play too!
-
Weekly Photo Challenge–Street Life
This old building is crumbling and in disrepair but has so much more beauty and character than its sleek, glassy newer neighbor. The street life remaining for this beautiful building is probably very short. Someone will likely soon knock it down to put up another sleek, glassy characterless tower. Weekly Photo Challenge-Street Life
-
Weekend Inspiration–Forging Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s energy, so evident in all his work, is not as easy to emulate as one might think. Follow the Master Forger as he helps three artists try to capture Van Gogh’s energy in self portraits. My first attempt at painting was a go at emulating Van Gogh. While the emulation was not…
-
The Whispering Heart
“The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.” R.S. Donnell (from The Painter’s Keys) The world is full of quotes about different drummers and roads less traveled, not following the crowd and so on. Who are these different drummers, these solitary travelers? They are the ones who get things done,…
-
The Non-fiction Artist
“All has not been said and never will be.” Samuel Beckett (from The Painter’s Keys) Does originality and imagination require an artwork be cut from a whole new cloth or is it simply to look from a fresh angle? The push to constantly startle the viewer has led art further and further out on a…