Hey everybody, you really owe it to yourself to click the link and check out Ken's book review. It's wonderful to read someone who has put a lot of thought into what they write, AND it's very enjoyable.
Here's one taken by me at the NGA show, and I might mention (obviously) with no filter. Those colors look really fresh in a way I would have never expected for 54 year old acrylic painting
GHOST APPLES - ice formations formed by freezing rain coating the apples. The rotten apple inside falls out of the bottom of the ice spheres, leaving them perfectly translucent.
Debuted on this day (11 December) in 1967 on NBC: Movin’ with Nancy, the sixty-minute TV special starring perennially fabulous pop sex kitten Nancy Sinatra at her bouffant-maned, white lipsticked and go-go booted peak. Movin’ offers a swirling kaleidoscope of Sinatra’s dreamiest hits and features special guest stars like her father Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr (they share a then-daring quick interracial kiss at the end of singing Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say?”) and – best of all – her definitive musical collaborator Lee Hazlewood (their duets on “Some Velvet Morning” and “Jackson” provide the musical highpoints). The show was sponsored by Royal Crown Cola and the “groovy” ads ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cola!") are simultaneously kitsch and grating. The soundtrack album Movin’ with Nancy (pictured) followed shortly after. When Movin’ was released on DVD in 2000 it was one of the first I ever bought. The special opens with Sinatra driving her candy apple red ’57 Thunderbird while lip syncing “I Gotta Get Out of This Town”. As Sinatra explains in the DVD’s audio commentary, in the long shots the car is driven by a male stunt double wearing a replica of her wig and mini-dress!