Month: June 2007
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Girl with Little America Penguins
Girl with Little America Penguins 30 inches wide by 18.62 inches high Digital Painting 2007 Enlargement There’s a Little America not only in Wyoming, but one in New Mexico now. We stopped briefly at it in November for coffee and to purchase a penguin refrigerator magnet. As Tom Waits would say, “It’s cold out there!”…
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I’m an insomniac and was painting anyway
No Impact Man today endorses himself with philosophers from “Locke to Sartre”, and, specifically, Aristotle, Confucius and Aquinas. Some readers have taken No Impact Man to task for calling for financial contributions to aid our Super Green No Impact Hero in his No Impact activities and to support his blog. They ask how his fortune-favored…
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No Impact Man Leaps Tall Questions But Does Not Clear 5th Avenue Prewar, Elegant Apartment Building
There was a stampede at No Impact Man yesterday to discuss Kant and who is the preferred philosopher of No Impact Man’s Faithful. Yet there was one among his supportive readers who picked up on Colin’s plea for financial support, writing: BTW, Colin, I’m curious – why are you looking for monetary support from your…
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Southwest Seekers – Pygmalion’s Granddaughter at Zabriskie Point
Southwest Seekers – Pygmalion’s Granddaughter at Zabriskie Point 20 by 14.04 inches Digital Painting 2007 Thanks to Intergalacticstock for photoshoot3 as model source.
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Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening
Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening Enlargement It’s harsh to admit it, but beauty seems sometimes in short supply on the corner of our block. We had rain yesterday, a brief break from a long drought, and today this purple flower had sprouted up in one of our pots in the back. We brought…
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The Year Long Christmas Angel
The Year Long Christmas Angel Has sat outside on a storeroom’s ac unit ever since we moved in the apartment building. View On White
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Digital Paintings: Bathsheba 1 and 2
Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing Bathsheba 1 Digital Painting 2007 Lightbox enlargement Thanks to Cookiekitty for use of her Nude 84 for model reference. when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah…
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If you love Kant, you’ll love No Impact Man, and make a donation to help him out, please
When there’s a plea for help in the name of Kant’s “Formula of Universal Law”, will you answer it in the name of Kant’s “Formula of Universal Law”? I should hope that you would. Colin Beavan entered his No Impact Man project as a Fifth Avenue living (only one bedroom though), published author, his wife…
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Reprieve from the Drought
Reprieve from the Drought Light box enlargement As I post this, it rains! A man in summer yellow linen ran from the building , attempting to reach his car, a street over, before the storm. Another man returns home and checks his mail box. “Getting some good pictures tonight?” he asks, friendly. “No, but rain…
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“What did her friend think of me? Why did she make that face at me?”
The Gargoyle Guards the Door on His Perch, 2007 H.o.p.’s questions on someone visiting the building, who made a face at him and sighed, it seems, with some contempt when she was passing and he was playing the gargoyle. I hadn’t noticed it but H.o.p. did and asked me about it several times. What I…
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Back Courtyard Buddha
Back Courtyard Buddha Light box enlargement