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Hunter S. Thompson

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

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Christo’s got nothing on this guy…

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Well sure. It would be nice to be able to see the real installation of Christo and Jean-Claude’s The Gates. If you can get to Central Park I highly recommend it. Here’s an alternative if you happen to live in Massachussetts and you can’t make it to New York. (Thanks to Anne B. for the link.)

Update: The photographs have unfortunately been removed from the site.

Update: The photographs are once again available.

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Some moments are too sweet for words…

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Like when you get to this part…

of Tito Puente’s Oye Como Va performed by Santana.

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The Old Man Mad About Drawing

Monday, February 7th, 2005

A few months ago, our friend Aamir made a gift of a special book to Eva. The other night as I was unable to sleep at 2:30 AM, I read the 110 pages of “The Old Man Mad About Drawing”  by François Place with much delight. The story is a fictional account of a young boy’s relationship with the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

Woman in court dress, with a fan at her feet —Katsushika Hokusai

The book is a visual feast. Place’s illustrations are beautiful and give a great sense of the culture of the time. The typesetting in the book is also gorgeous and combined with a number of prints (actually photos of prints), by Hokusai himself, the read actually becomes therapeutic for the eyes.

Hokusai is probably most famous for the painting, “The Great Wave at Kanagawa”  from a series entitled “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.”  I believe he is also considered to be the inventor of the “Manga” technique of “thought up drawings.”

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