Paradiso kisses

As a boy, Salvatore spends all his free time at the local movie house.  During the films, he often hears the audience booing whenever there are missing segments,  a local priest has ordered anything romantic to be censored. The deleted scenes lay in a pile in the projection room.

Years later, Salvatore returns to his childhood home, and receives a reel from the widow of the former movie house projectionist. It contains all those censored scenes...mostly kisses.

A good soak

There are shower people

and there are bath people.

I've always enjoyed a good soak.

For me, the ultimate luxury is a

freestanding bathtub. Add a plaster vaulted ceiling,

 a French window and muted blue tiles and

you can call me gobsmacked!

Thread of a story

Amazing yarn portraits by Daniel Kornrumpf

Yan Nascimbene

I was so sad to hear that Yan Nascimbene passed away this month.

Watercolor requires great precision and agility, but the delicate light and

refined layout of Yan's watercolor paintings made them truly magical.

Yan Nascimbene

1949-2013

Book in a box

Most of my books are in storage, but when we meet again I'll be open to 

purchasing a great bookcase like this one:

SJ Bookcase

by

We Do Wood

Life, with a soundtrack

Pigments

Another reason to visit Venice, Italy:

Arcobaleno

3457 San Marco

Venezia

Pigments for artists

I wonder, what is the price for a jar of cobalt blue?

Or a heaping spoonful of alizarin crimson?

Portrait of an artist

Portraits by Duane Michals

 Willem de Kooning

 Andy Warhol

Balthus and Setsuko

Kubrick at LACMA

I was in LA over the weekend and visited the

Los Angeles County Museum of Art to see

 the Caravaggio exhibition before it heads to the east coast.  Yep, amazing.

Afterwards, I viewed the Stanley Kubrick exhibition  and was surprised how 

extensive and interesting it was.

Snow (Yuki)

Yuki is the Japanese word for snow. 

These Japanese illustrations of snow are especially delicate.

Ilonka Karasz

Lovely New Yorker covers by Ilonka Karasz