Month: August 2018

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Maverick

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At 10:51am July 29, 1967, the USS Forrestal, an American aircraft carrier positioned in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam prepared a flight deck for participation in the strategic bombing campaign, Rolling Thunder, and had a deck full of fighter aircraft loaded with ordinance. Completing the dangerous process of loading live ordinance […]... Read More
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JMW Turner – At Romanticism’s Edge

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JMW Turner (1775-1851) lived the life of a radical genius.  You know you are making an intense impression when two avowed art critics can look at your work , one critic seeing an artist that “most stirringly and truthfully measures the moods of nature“, the other that sees only “blots“.  In 2016, I had the […]... Read More
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How Did We Get Here?

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A respite from this blog for a few weeks to recharge my creative juices hasn’t made the world seem to be an any more enlightened place.  We are seeing across the world a progression in dissonance and downright strife when anything short of a passive acceptance of another’s world view is expressed.  Express free speech […]... Read More