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UFO Noir
Car horns and angry shouting. Big band music. Loud conversations and a woman’s laughter. Dogs barking. Gunshots in a darkened alley. If it weren’t for the damned UFOs, it would have been a night like any other night in the city that never sleeps.
This 8 x 10 framed poster is available in my Etsy store! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1161365351/ufo-noir-science-fiction-8-x-10-framed
Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica
NEWSFLASH! Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica is one the best movies ever made! (My reviews are super edgy)
I saw this film at TCU Film School so many years ago and clearly I was not paying attention. Probably just too young and dumb to understand. (Where are all the ninjas? Not one dinosaur or explosion??)
My viewing stream has taken me down the Italian neo-realism route recently and my brain is better for it.
Hailed as one the best films ever made there is nothing I can really say that hasn’t already been said. It might be one of my favorite films ever now and I am not sure exactly how that was pulled off. Maybe it’s the way that the simple plot presents every single person on camera in a way that is so realistic and understandable you can’t help but connect and care? The lighting. The locations. The actors. The action. The story. The relationships. The ending. Beautiful. Funny. Sweet. Sad. Perfection.
If you were like me and just never gave this film a thought before, please revisit it. Often.
Art On The Wall
Very excited to have my artwork hanging up at Alfalfa in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It’s very surreal.
The art will be on display all month long, so stopped by and grab some lunch or dinner if you’re in the area.
You can also purchase original art on my Suspend Animation Etsy page.
Ideal Artists
“We are all artists in the sense that we are all engaged in some kind of activity by which we are realizing our ideals. What kind of ideals are you realizing?”
-Howard Thurman, Deep is the Hunger
Working Together
You are but
A collection of atoms
Working together
In temporary harmony
Before being dispersed
Back into the universe
Your earthly task
Is to help those atoms radiate
Imagine the simplicity
You need not
Achieve anything but
Gently glow
-Daniel Baylis
The Reward of Faith
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo
In The Imperfection
“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
― Shunryu Suzuki
For Each Other
“Not only may we realize that we belong to each other, we must take the initiative. We must do something for each other.”
-Jeff Blake, The Seven Last Words of Christ
art by Hasui Kawase
All Our Days
“We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners all our days.”
– Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer
Art by Yokouchi Kiyoharu
Open Life Up 