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Poodle Pie? Poodle Pudding? Poodle Smothered in Onions? (OK that was fun!)

Jonny - I never implied that Poodle Primavera was on the menu... How did you make that connection? :blink: I was just showing that fluffy poodle in contrast to the "manly" hunting dog....

Poodles: German Shorthair Pointers: Maybe this will shed some light.

Chas - Thomas Kinkade is the artist I refer to when I speak of little brighly lit cottages. His nephews went to school with my oldest. His sister-in-law ran his gallery here in town. He calls himself "the painter of light." That's just stupid IMHO. (The subject of another rant.) His work changed for a reason - he stopped doing it all himself. He started to do something that Reubens had done. He started to get a stable of artists to paint all the "underpainting" and he just came in and painted the top layer. (Reubens did this with his apprentices) The thinking is that the top layer is all that the public sees anyway. The end result was paintings that were bad in many ways. Architects cringe when they see them. I cringe when I see the bad perspective and poor design. He also made some bad business deals that affected the franchises he had set up around the country. I think, but am not sure, that he over sold his limitied edition prints. (Again, I'm not confident on this point - so take that with a whole salt lick.) The gallery owner I work with quoted her Daddy as saying, "Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered." I believe that's what happened to Kinkade. Yes, the market got flooded. On top of that you have other artists also painting scenes and adding scripture to the bottom (and doing a better job at it.) Many times the work is beautiful - but the addition of the scripture is in my opinion, a manipulation that the Christian public falls for. Now, maybe because most folks are so ignorant about art, that the addition of a verse at the bottom is sort of a subliminal, "Buy me! I'm Godly art" that helps clinch the deal. As for what art will be accepted in Christian homes... I also agree that saccharine sells. OTOH people feel. They get depressed and cry out to God. They work through their stuff. I am convinced that although the market would take a while to come around - that there would be a market for some really fine work with cutting edge messages. Two things: 1. The work needs to be well done - not schlocky, academic or amateurish. Hence my passion for teaching. 2. Hit the hard messages. Good Gawd, I'm ranting again.

Mo Better Blues?

That's from a cartoon called "Spy v Spy" I believe it originally was in Mad magazine. I saw it on Mad TV years ago....

OK I had to think some more..... Christian artists are taking the easy way out. Going for the bucks. I'm not talking about musicians here - I'm talking about the visual artists. Think about it - suppose one picture could show the pain of abortion? No preaching. No guilt. Just an image with the simple clarity of that Rockwell painting. We don't need to be preaching to the choir - that's for sure.

This seems timely..Shawn Phillips - "Mr. President"

Why do we have to assume that the dog was killed? It could have been given away.

Frank Zappa - "Don't Eat That Yellow Snow"

Here's the piece that inspired me to find my voice again in the visual arts: "The Problem We All Live With" by Norman Rockwell Wikipedia Article This work depicts Ruby Bridges, who was one of the first African American children involved in the initiation of school desegregation in the deep South during the early and middle 1960s. Ruby attended the Frantz School in New Orleans. Federal marshals were assigned to protect the six-year-old from the mob that assembled outside the school on a daily basis. For months she was the only student because of a total boycott of the school. Here what I read in a book I have: When initially interviewed, the one of therioters were spoke of why he was irate over the decision to ban segregation. He was\y angry because he felt that the decision was made by a "bunch of boys on the Hill" who would never have to live with their decision because their kids went to private schools. Then the issue with this cover came out.... That same man we again interviewed and he said that he had softened his opinon. That the magazine cover had brought home to him that this was just a little girl. Here a painting had the power to wake a man out of his anger. To help him see what a thousand words would never have shown him. That is why I teach drawing. That is why I paint. That is my mission..... I will not be talked out of it again.

Ferris Bueller??

Ahhhhhh....But how many Rhinos does it take too......;)

Satori is making me look tame when it comes to posting.....I'm gonna' have to start cranking it up.....

Dion ale/beer/ bottle Barney/Rubble light bulb Stack/Ness F Peeing/boy/ imp/ calvin "The Beer Bottle Barney's Light Bulbs Stacked On F Boy"

I sure hope that we don't have to put all the lightbulbs on staff....

Maybe we need to ask for more abundant sharing..... (PUKE!)

Are lightbulbs even in the budget???

Well, of course that lightbulb has to WANT to change...... Can we M&A a lightbulb?....hehehehehheh

A friend requested this one: Shawn Phillips "Moonshine" quite a bit different from the other songs I posted by him. Click on the link below. It should open right into "Moonshine" if not you can click on "Moonshine" in the media player on the right. You can even enjoy more of his great music: Shawn Phillips - Music

Ahhhhh - but what about dimmer switches? Or are they really reostats??? ;)

Hey Jonny! Happy Birthday!

By request: Frank Zappa - "He's So Gay": this band is sooo tight!

Satori - I thought of starting a thread for jazz or blues,,, You're a funny guy!

Satori - I've actually thought about posting a jazz lovers thread You're a funny guy! ;)