BETWEENTHETREES

1. Saturday I went to an intro to meditation session at meditationinnewyork. Exactly what I need. I’m going to the same type of thing the next three Sundays.

2. Monday I started taking Japanese language classes at the Japan Society. I’ve flirted with the subject off and on for several years, but with no real devotion. This time something is different. I’m different or the class is different, or no It’s me.

Next things on the list are music lessons, an html course ….

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I entered the image on the left in the Artists Wanted The Power of Self Competition. The image on the right is an interesting Sun drenched photo. The winners will be announced by March 12. Grand prize is 6 months living free at The Edge in Brooklyn or $7,007, international publicity and a big reception. A separate part of the competition was the People’s Choice Award. Thanks for the 22 votes. The People’s Choice was already decided with the top 15 vote getters going to photographers (there are 2 # 1s). http://www.artistswanted.org/self_peoples_choice.html

Dec 17 2009 Working on this concept for a mural idea. The murals would be on the two taller buildings. I think the deadline had passed, but I will still submit this anyway in a few days.

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Born October 17 1943 Bronx, New York. Passed away November 12 1:45pm 2009 Richmond, Virginia.

Thomas Kevin Kull talking about the work he’s most proud of — “Today them… Tomorrow Me: The Journey of Sam Itzkowitz© began in the fall of 2002. Sam was looking for someone to write his story, and contacted the Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia where I was a volunteer; the Director of Exhibits and Collections recommended me and introduced the two of us. Our meeting felt guided, almost predetermined… why else would this astute survivor ask an unknown writer, a Gentile no less, to help him tell the world about the Holocaust. I let him know it would be an honor, but never mentioned how much the responsibility concerned me. It soon became clear that Sam had no use for either over thinking or for worry: ‘You just do what you have to do’ .”

My Father is the most unique person I’ve ever known. Faults like all of us, but he was his own person. Think for yourself. Choose your own path. An easy thing to say but to accomplish is special. UFO’s are real. Aliens are real. Angels are real.

Dreaming is better. What is therapy. Relief? Forgetting? A process of movements through what may be staged events through the final event leading to freedom? Forgiving. Understanding. Appreciating. Loving. Desiring. Never wishing. Never wish! Dreaming is better. Wishing is weak. Wishing is waiting. Wishing is taking no initiative. Wishing is time ticking past you with swirling hands. Wishing opens you up for repetition. A repetition of wishing and waiting giving birth to wishing and waiting and wishing and waiting and wishing and waiting. Dreaming is better.

Went to the Guggenheim for the first time Friday. The permanent artwork is great. Can’t take photos of the art though. Saturday went to Joshua Liner Gallery opening. Great art, my pics don’t do it justice. Go check it out. ALL of the sculptures sold. Made somewhere over $100 grand. Someone still has money out there. I also went to the Whitney Sunday, but not interesting. A few O’Keeffe’s were nice.

> Hells Kitchen (Clinton) NY. Nov 6-8, 2009 http://www.artistsinthekitchen.org/

I’m blessed to work one block from the MOMA museum.

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After finishing the 56 String Movement mural I now have time to explore again. The first two pics are looking over the East River from Carl Schurz Park. Great park if you haven’t checked it out. My new new temporary apt is only 2 blocks from it.
Then exploring for possible gallery or coffee shop type places around Hell’s Kitchen I passed by The Colbert Report & The Daily Show.

The first photo is taken from Jersey on a cloudy night looking towards the wtc site on Friday 9/11.

While I was resting across the street, kids standing in front of the Earth were debating what the land is on top of the Earth. That’s the kind of thing I wanted. They thought it was Greenland because its icy blue, but it’s that color because its in the Moons shadow. It’s Africa by the way. Way too much Sun painting for at least 4 hours in the 90+ degrees Monday. Actually felt a little sick afterwords and very sore now. Everything around the Earth is looking good, but I’m still struggling with the Earth itself.

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I met Dick Cavett while painting the mural this morning. He had The Dick Cavett Show from 1968-75 and 1977-82. He told me about his 1970 tv interview with Salvador Dali. Pretty entertaining. Dali brought an anteater on stage with him. Cavett asked Dali if he got good reception, talking about the mustache. Cavett said he can’t find a drawing Dali drew for him at the interview. I tried to find the interview on youtube with no luck.

Here is a Dali replica I painted
for some friends a few years ago.

I probably won’t have to much variety on my Blog until I finish this mural -
I decided I needed to take this part of the mural in a different direction then my oil painting sketch. The dark background of the Bass island shape just wasn’t happening on the giant mural scale. The mural looks so much better now, but now my painting sketch isn’t happening. I’ve been having to carry my wet oil painting on the subway or taxi, so it’s gotten a bit muddy and has bits of the trees on that sidewalk stuck in the paint now.

Wacky Transformer looking car outside Tompkins Square Park.

Thursday night went to Brooklyn Heights, a great area, then ate at Jack the Horse Tavern, a great restaurant, then walked to Brooklyn Bridge Park and then walked over the Brooklyn Bridge. Friday met my Aunt Kathleen, ate at Rue 57, and walked Central Park for an hour.

Started back on the 56th Street mural Saturday July 11th after 7 months. 7 months? Yes, the Winter, many rainy weeks and much procrastination.

Tomorrow, Wednesday is the day.
Had a dream last night. babazim bahbazihmbaniyhh. I saw a book. A smallish medium sized faded light blue book titled Disappearing. How does the subconscious know the exact word to cut through the bullshit? Ah but bullshit is so nice. Anyway – this Disappearing is anything you put off ’til another day, and the putting off collides with itself and makes friends, and the putting off becomes addictive. Blah blah blah, I can’t let that book be written, or finished. So here’s to not Disappearing.

I can only imagine who I would have seen if I had a descent zoom on my camera. As Richie Havens says in his concerts, very roughly quoting, ‘we go through all the trouble and money to get to space, when the Earth and us are already in space.’

[July 21] – So this is Wake Up playing The Gowanus Recordings. See the Comment for this post from Wake Up.

The Gowanus Recordings playing live in Tompkins Square Park.
00:08:44 long. From 00:00:37 to 00:02:29 is “silence”.
I bought their cd. All original, very good music plus a piano player. Much better than what I recorded. It can be found on 577records.com The Wake Up Blog
Word on the street is, you have to go to Europe to make descent money playing Jazz.

For the 4th fireworks I was behind many buildings and got no good pics, so I cropped away at a few to salvage something from them.