Sound City Studios, 2013 152 minutes Produced and Directed by: Dave Grohl Production Company: Therapy Content Diamond Docs Sound City Studios is a documentary film produced and directed by Dave Grohl (formerly of the bands SCREAM and NIRVANA, and currently with FOO FIGHTERS). While the style of music recorded in this Van Nuys, California, studio … Continue reading
JOHN IWERKS, Joy Ride from Start to Finish http://www.johniwerks.com/ Santa Barbara artist John Iwerks is well-known for his landscape paintings and murals, such as the large mural he made for the Visitors’ Center on Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Park, California. Over the years, John has also created stone animal sculptures, right in line … Continue reading
FAME STUDIOS + MUSCLE SHOALS RECORDING STUDIO If you think Motown was the recording studio that boosted Aretha Franklin’s career, you need to see this documentary, and learn where it really happened. In the small town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, one and then two sound studios (FAME Studios/Rick Hall and then later Muscle Shoals Recording … Continue reading
To write about Pynchon, you don’t have to say much. He says it better. For no good reason, except maybe fear, I have avoided reading Thomas Pynchon. When Gravity’s Rainbow came out in 1973, everyone was reading it. Not me, even if there was a dog-eared copy laying on the coffee table right in front … Continue reading
Randall Wyn Fullmer Wyn Guitars When I was a kid in Washington State, Randy Fullmer was another kid down the block. Our fathers worked together at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and our families would get together for BBQs. How I looked forward to going over to the Fullmers! Instead of being a stuffy scientist like everyone … Continue reading
PLAYERS IN THE UNIVERSE Photo used with permission from Jenny Hankwitz. In honor of Earth Day 2014, my artist friend Jenny Hankwitz posted this beautiful portrait of she and her artist husband Greg Botts taken a few years back when they lived on Mercer Street (New York City). They planted and grew these sunflowers on … Continue reading
MY GALLERY OF FRIENDS: Creative Inspiration: An Interview with Colleen McCarthy-Evans READ IT HERE: Toy and Game Designer Continue reading
Creature Comforts MY FAVORITE MOVIE, Numero Uno CREATURE COMFORTS by Nick Park (1989) 5:17 minutes Continue reading
William B. Dewey: Photographer, Artist, Explorer See his website A few years ago, a woman came into my office and, upon seeing a Bill Dewey photograph on the wall, mentioned she’d gone to high school with him. I asked, “Tell me, what was he like?” She said, “He was the smartest person in the school.” … Continue reading
The Kizaemon Tea Bowl, Korea, 16th Century (used for Japanese Tea Ceremony). From: Plate 1. The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu Yanagi. There is one image I have looked at maybe one hundred times. A simple utilitarian ceramic bowl made in Korea in the 16th century. How could it have so stunned me? In the hierarchy … Continue reading
Did you know Oak Group artist Larry Iwerks is also a musician? I just acquired copies of two recently-released CDS featuring Larrry* and the Ocean All Stars Band. They performed recently at the Cold Springs Tavern on Saturday, January 25. Website: Larrry.com (yes, spelled with three Rs). And when you are in downtown Santa Barbara, check … Continue reading
CANCUN UNDERWATER MUSEUM Here in Santa Barbara, de-commissioned oil platforms have become ocean habitats. Now, who wants to disturb such re-appropriation and tell Mother Earth she can’t homestead in the Santa Barbara Channel? I have mixed feelings about this issue, but hold no reservations about the underwater sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor, created in the … Continue reading
In the late 1990s, photographer Jeff Brouws had a gallery in Santa Barbara called BIG. As Jeff describes it: “Big. Two small rooms devoted to art that doesn’t fit.” The gallery was a gold mine for Santa Barbara—work was shown by artists Michael Blaha, Lucy Brown, Colin Gray, Ed Gregory, Philip Koplin, Keith Puccinelli, Bob … Continue reading
P A T R I C I A C H I D L A W A R T I S T Riverbed and Freight, oil on canvas, 24″ x 52″ Cafe, Salton Sea, oil on canvas, 20″ x 60″ Patricia Chidlaw is an unassuming artist. In fact, were you introduced to her, it might … Continue reading
Skaggs Island, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36 inches Night Sky 2, 2013 oil on canvas, 12 x 24 inches In the mid-1980s, my husband’s softball team, The Range Animals, was invited (or invited themselves) to a summer party at writer Thomas Sanchez’s beautiful home in the hills above Santa Barbara. It was there … Continue reading
Emanuele Cacciatore, ARTIST Archimedean Boast, 2010 Oil and Alkyd on canvas 30″ x 40″ Ephemeral Like Abandon, 2009 Acrylic on wood gesso panel 18″ x 24″ I met Manny circa 1987, when he showed at the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery (now reconfigured and in New York City), in Santa Barbara, where I worked. He had … Continue reading
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TOM POST and PATRICIA POST, Artists Tom Post, Magic Potion, oil on canvas, 30″ x 36″ Patricia Post, Reckon, etching, 10″ x 8″ Continue reading
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Jack White, Musician This is SO stuck in my head! Somebody help… The White Stripes-Seven Nation Army 4:00 minutes Jack Black, Musician School of Rock (2003) — click The kid in all of us — you gotta see it once. Continue reading
C A R O L K A Y E Studio Musician / Riff Mistress 4:45 minutes TO SEE MORE: The Wrecking Crew (movie) Thanks to my friends Laurie and Charles for turning me on to this! Continue reading
Peter Callas: Ceramics Peter Callas, Tea ware, TB 052, 4.5″ L x 4.5″ W x 3.5″ H © Peter Callas I was recently reading the May 2013 issue of ceramics monthly, and was rewarded by seeing the spread on pages 16-17, which features work of exceptional quality, including exquisite tea ware of ceramist Peter Callas. … Continue reading
Charles Nelson Johnson has serious music passion, and his instrument of worship is acoustic guitar. To hear him stir tunes from within his vessel of wood and earthly strings fills the soul with dark and light and in-between. Mostly recently, Charles has played with Steel Cut, incarnate of The Lynn Mullins Band, Ojai, … Continue reading
© Tehching Hsieh http://www.tehchinghsieh.com/ T e h c h i n g H s i e h Performance Artist The Performance Work of Tehching Hsieh first came to my attention in the early 1980s and then I lost track of him. Tehching Hsieh executed one-year long performance pieces, including one year of living outdoors … Continue reading
P H I L I P G U S T O N, A R T I S T, 1913-1980 See this interview. 3-Minutes. Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Philip Guston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Continue reading
What does this painter… Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Lovers’ Boat oil on wood, 11-3/8″ x 12″ Smithsonian American Art Museum 2005.14 http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=74942 …have in common with this painter? Albert Bierstadt, San Francisco Bay, oil on paperboard mounted on paperboard 13-3/4″ x 19-1/8″ Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1979.98.440 http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=2060 ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER AND ALBERT BIERSTADT LIVED … Continue reading
GOOD NEWS Robert Johnson’s novel, The Momentum of Folly, has been re-issued in January 2014 by his new publisher, Permanent Press, under the title, The Culling. You may read a review on GoodReads.Com: The Culling by Robert Johnson This is Sheila‘s review, Dec 12, 2013 5 of 5 stars Carl Sims is a young virologist … Continue reading
L u i s M u ñ o z Composer Musician LISTEN to Luis Muñoz’s composition: “Invisible“ L O V E I T ! Continue reading
What is a seed vault doing on an island in the Arctic, 600 miles from the North Pole? The Svalbard Seed Vault in Norway. Have you thought about what will happen if there is a food blight? And if only one company owns all the seeds, and all these seeds are sterilized seeds through terminator … Continue reading
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