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Month: April 2008

  • Yoga enlightens me (or not) with dreams

    I was at a spaghetti western yoga retreat in a courtyard of one of those beautiful Spanish style villas. With a pre Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood. There we were, Clint Eastwood and me and a bunch of other people, in this lovely courtyard, doing sun salutations, and it was so nice, the light of the…

  • The Stage – Aria from an Onion Operetta (digital painting)

    The Stage – Aria from an Onion Operetta (digital painting)

    The Stage – Aria from an Onion Operetta 30 by 20 inches, digital painting 2008 by J Kearns Detail.

  • What they did opening for Todd Rundgren

    I wasn’t at the Variety Playhouse yesterday, where Marty was playing, but I’m still going to try to provide a basic description of the scene, via his telling of it. Not only was I not at the Variety Playhouse, I didn’t do my yoga yesterday. It’s the first time in the nearly seven weeks since…

  • Then we headed home

    If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One— I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds. [clear] On July 16, 1945, the first test of a nuclear weapon, Trinity, an implosion-design plutonium bomb, the type dropped on Nagasaki, took place…

  • The Real Wild Wild West

    The last leg of the trip is the return. East of Phoenix, we passed through mountains filled with monolithic Easter Island rocks into mining territory landscapes of pityless or pitiful Golgothas, I don’t know which, and the surrounding communities look none the richer for it. Open Pit Mine, Miami, Arizona, 2008 Google Earth view of…

  • The Heard Museum

    Day 10. We went to the Heard Museum. Untitled (the hunter/hunted) by David Hannan b. 1971 Metis Untitled (the hunt/hunted), 2006-2007 Mixed media installation Metis artist David Hannan works with taxidermy-form sculptures to explore aspects of union, adaptation and metamorphosis. Hannan’s taxidermy hybrids present tension and beauty in the merging of animals into sculptures. Many…

  • Taliesin West Tour Guide

    Taliesin West Tour Guide

    Taliesin West, Tour Guide, 2008 View On White

  • An Unintentional Comedian at Taliesin West

    An Unintentional Comedian at Taliesin West

    Taliesin West, Tour Guide, 2008 View On White We went on the Taliesin West tour back in 2005 and did it again this trip.

  • You can do me a favor, the next time you’re in Sedona

    And then we went to the old Douglas Mansion in Jerome where H.o.p. (who carries his sketchpad with him everywhere) drew a gargoyle that was leering down from a bookcase. The Artist at Work, H.o.p. sketching at the Douglas Mansion, Jerome, Arizona, 2008 And we watched one of the worst and yet one of the…

  • In which I torch any future I could have had as a psychic in Sedona

    Sedona – Above is a Psychic Expo, next to Crystal Castle and a center for Sedona Toruist Information and Activities. Across the street were art galleries. Light box enlargement Yesterday, I should have been getting ready for my brother-in-law spending the night but I decided this time he could face a dirty apartment, because I’d…

  • H.o.p. and Pokey in Sedona, 2005

    H.o.p. with Pokey in Sedona, 2005 Light box enlargement Below is a picture I took of H.o.p. in Sedona in 2005. He’s holding the new Pokey he had just gotten at The Coffee Pot. This time we purchased, at the Coffee Pot, the Gumby to go along with it.

  • Into The Petrified Forest

    Into The Petrified Forest

    Closed for Businesss, the Museum of the Americas Dinosaur Park Enlargement Sleep was tough at the Holiday Inn at Holbrook.