Bali Kecak Dance in Stereoscopic 3D
Posted on July 15, 2010 - Filed Under Video, Culture, Indonesia | Leave a Comment
OK you flatscreeners, get out the red and blue glasses. We shot the Bali Kecak Dance we posted earlier in Stereoscopic 3D. Still the weird comic book 3D, but this is new territory and once shutter glasses become less expensive and geeky, we will re-post a few of these in less-hallucinogenic colors.
Read More..>>Dancing With The Apes: The Bali Kecak Dance (video)
Posted on May 14, 2010 - Filed Under Video, Culture, Indonesia | Leave a Comment
I hate monkeys. Maybe it is just envy. Although there is ample evidence that our evolutionary stem has developed a superior brain, deep down at the coccyx of my psyche there may still exist the tail stub of an ape. Maybe I still have a repressed urge to play with myself in public, [...]
Read More..>>Day at the Newseum: Madeline Albright Meets J. Edgar Hoover
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Culture | Leave a Comment
A bit much, I think, meeting J. Edgar Hoover and Madeline Albright on the same day. OK, Hoover was quite dead, the late FBI boss a statue bending over assertively, as if ready to pounce, in the the main foyer of the Newseum in Washington DC, but the former Secretary of State/UN Ambassador looked quite [...]
Read More..>>Art in Carmel: The Not-So-Good, The Bad and the Badder
Posted on September 1, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture | Leave a Comment
Moseying ’round Carmel, California Saturday, I wondered how its tourist trap economy could survive when one of its major exports is cheese-ball art. There are often three or four stores selling similar product in a single block. But then, it doesn’t take too many sales to make the monthly nut. The Golden Gate Bridge picture [...]
Read More..>>What Would Hopper Paint?
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under Culture | 1 Comment
I wondered what American Realist painter Edward Hopper would paint if he were alive today. One possibility I came up with after horsing around with Photoshop:
