No, my wife and I have not entered the transfer portal, or the gate into the great Beyond. It is however true that I have now lived through 70 years of life. I share a birthday with sports legends— Sandy Koufax, my childhood pitching idol, Michael Jordan, my homeboy Tar Heel, LeBron James, and yes Tiger Woods. I’m older than all of them, except Sandy. I was never a sports legend. I was a pretty decent basketball player in junior... Read more
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer— The Untold Story Rudolph was awkward as a young reindeer, and the other young reindeer teased him mercilessly because he had an odd, bulbous pinkish-red nose unlike any other reindeer. He tried hard to fit in with the herd, but alas, no one would ever pick him to play reindeer games. For one thing he had four left feet and when he tried to kick the ball he would muff it or just miss and... Read more
What happens when you wait fourteen or so years to do a sequel? Well much depends on how much buzz the earlier movies created and how devoted the fans of the earlier Matrix films were and are. And in that regard the first Matrix movie created enough buzz to start a whole beehive, the sequels less so. This particular movie is long by modern standards, indeed a whole extra longer than your average films these days— 2 hours and 38... Read more
Nope that’s not them. Cut and paste the two links below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFG_nvreoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoc-TbVxXBc Read more
Curating a major exhibit of a major painter, and borrowing paintings from all over the world is a huge undertaking, to say the least, and an expensive one as well. A lot of time, planning and money goes into it, and kudos to the curators at Kimbell for this very fine exhibit. Various of the paintings of course come from the major art galleries in England, for example the Tate, but the list of sources goes far beyond there. Read more
This is certainly one of Turner’s most famous paintings, and one thing you notice is that some of these seascapes are more impressionistic, long before the Impressionists, and some more realistic. Read more
Turner was most famous for his seascapes, and part of this is because he was present at major battles— like Trafalgar. He was probably the most well known and widely recognized British painter of the earlier 19th century. Like many artists of his age, Turner travelled freely in Europe especially Italy. There were early imitators (see above) who learned from Turner’s style and choice of subject matter. We are fortunate in this exhibit to have some of Turner’s... Read more
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