Category Archives: Art/Photography

Arthur and Marilyn

Posted on May 18, 2013 by sheila
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Happy Place: Ragtime, part II

Posted on February 27, 2013 by sheila

I love to add to my collection. I am always on the lookout for beautiful sheet music from the early part of the 20th century (and the late part of the 19th). Ragtime and traditional music hall sheet music. I … Continue reading →

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The Graveyard of the Atlantic

Posted on January 16, 2013 by sheila

This map, of Sable Island, is the most frightening map in the world. Those little markings all around the perimeter are the dates of shipwrecks. (There are larger versions of this map online if you want to look closer.) Also, … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Blame Her. He Looks Very Huggable.

Posted on October 7, 2012 by sheila
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A Moment

Posted on September 25, 2012 by sheila

I love how he is holding her matching jacket, and I love how she is reaching out to him with one hand as she tilts precariously away from him. I love how the waitress is holding up her hand to … Continue reading →

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So Do I

Posted on September 13, 2012 by sheila

“She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.” – Nancy Lemann, The Fiery Pantheon

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Not In 1913 It Didn’t

Posted on April 10, 2012 by sheila

Graffiti seen on a construction site over by the West Side Highway two days ago

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Woodcuts + Hollywood = Heaven

Posted on February 29, 2012 by sheila

Loren Kantor is a woodcut artist living in Los Angeles and he has created a wonderful blog of his work. Many classic films and actors represented, but some surprises as well. Politics, family, old propaganda posters. The Tom Waits one … Continue reading →

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The Elvis Hallway

Posted on February 14, 2012 by sheila

Elvis walking out of the Richmond Train Station, June 30, 1956. Photographer: Alfred Wertheimer In Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis, photographer Alfred Wertheimer recounts his time spent with Elvis Presley over the course of a couple of weeks. … Continue reading →

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“Because creation, you know, it means that you don’t have any salary, you don’t have any retirement, all of that. So if you don’t have the security, at least have the freedom. I go for the freedom.”

Posted on February 8, 2012 by sheila

Really inspiring interview with Marjane Satrapi, best-selling author of the graphic novel Persepolis. I think if somebody has to make an artistic work, he will finish it no matter what. It has nothing to do with the money, with the … Continue reading →

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