\npg 57, ‘Julia Child – A Life’, Laura Shapiro. Penguin Books, 2007.<\/p>\n
so was Julia right on, about EVERYTHING, or what !!<\/p>\n
I also really like the book’s cover photo because it relates time-wise and utility-wise to JERRY BLACKMAN’s landline ‘telephone’, below.<\/p>\n and NO, I’m not making light of it, the Marathon Bombing. it was esp terribly sad to target a celebration of life and a new age aspiration .. to bio human green-ness !! I’m just saying, anybody else notice both parents were safely out of the USA. it’s like they came here, and dropped their evil Chechen seed, and split. see: ‘BELIEVE .. Ever Meek, Ever Malleable’, FRANK BRUNI, NEW YORK TIMES, AUG 26, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n which brings me to .. this past weekend I went up to YALE, to see the Graduate Open Art Studios. it got me thinking back to my OWN time in grad school. well luckily, or unluckily .. pretty much just as much (!!), unlike most of the world .. I was born a dyed-in-the-wool CONTRARIAN, as opposed to a BELIEVER. though I have been, and still pretty much am, quite naive .. which is why the topic holds so much interest for me, I guess.<\/p>\n while everybody else was doing huge, and I mean huge !! acrylic color field paintings, with mad use of masking tape to delineate the sharp compositional edges .. I was drawing, with pencil, tiny 4 x 6 inch drawings .. riffing off 18th Japanese woodblock prints. go figure !! it didn’t change when I got to New York either.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/julia-child.jpg\" "\\"julia-child\\"")
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\nI’m just saying I feel for the younger kid .. because he didn’t have a chance. nature & nuture. it’s totally in-wired for humans, esp young humans .. to BELIEVE and to be manipulated . . that’s why their parents are supposed to stick around !! and to set them straight. not twist them out.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nIMAGE GRAPHIC\/Gullibility .. BELIEVE\/FRANK BRUNI, NYT<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthe one thing that struck me, was .. how much they were bullied by their teachers. produce produce produce. grow grow grow. hey, even the WALL STREET JOURNAL will tell you that sometimes your best ideas come when you sleep, and that the world’s top ten start-up entrepreneurs say number one: .. take time to walk in the park and smell the daisies !!
\nso, FILE UNDER: pressure cooker, TAKE II.
\nteachers, ambitions .. living in a bubble. boil. boil. whatever.<\/p>\n
\nI had a lot that said: “UP YOURS” !! though I can’t find one like that, exactly at this moment.
\nbut here’s another one:
\nnote the funky hair, and dazed expression .. looking both backwards and forwards at one and the same time, wtf ?
\nI saw something. but how to put it to .. words.<\/p>\n
\nKiki Smith conceptualism, Basquiat primitivism .. I was painting flower & vase watercolors.
\nJeff Koons hyper-fabrication. I learned to stitch and repair antique quilts.
\nCindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson fabricated narrative photography ? ha. that’s the best !!
\nI became a paparazzi.
\nBrooklyn, and back-to-the-earth drawing, with homemade pigments. I started a blog.
\nI guess that’s just another reason why .. they call me: CRACK, for short ?<\/p>\n