Category Archives: art

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Bucolic Labarinth by Paz DLC

Posted on August 14, 2020 by markweiss86
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Whitney Denson tribute to Greg Brown

Posted on August 10, 2020 by markweiss86
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A gap-toothed woman I met at the cafe reminds me of Dori Seda, who I never knew except in the Les Blank film

Posted on August 7, 2020 by markweiss86

When I saw “Gap Toothed Women” I called Les Blank to express my enthusiasm and admitted I had a little crush on Dori Seda, who had also done the poster. He sadly shared that she had passed away.Richard Van Busack … Continue reading →

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Diptych

Posted on August 1, 2020 by markweiss86

1) Marguerite is my neighbor although I’ve only met her once or twice;2) Jesse her daughter I’ve not quite met, but I know her husband, her kids and her mother in law;Good luck Jesse Fletcher Ladomirak running for School Board! … Continue reading →

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David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer: nearly 14 years ago

Posted on July 31, 2020 by markweiss86

Annealed knees  

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Bill Frisell epistrophy

Posted on July 29, 2020 by markweiss86

Not sure what the word means but it says “Monk” to me and thanks Bill for posting this video.

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Richter, Serra, Ruscha

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

    I’m also wondering about: Manifestoes including Cate Blanchett as 15 different artists, Rose B Simpson driving her El Camino Maria down our El Camino from Menlo Park El Palo Alto to San Jose and filming in two directions … Continue reading →

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‘O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend; And of the curveship lend a myth to God’

Posted on July 27, 2020 by markweiss86

We are approaching the centennial of Hart Crane’s epic “Bridge”. Contemporaneous depiction of Brooklyn Bridge, new to me as of Emma Acker’s “Precisionist” show at the DeYoung Museum in 2018: Quirky and superficial but I did correspond with my former … Continue reading →

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Lions With Wings logo reveal

Posted on July 18, 2020 by markweiss86

By Queen Sara Saturday:

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Should the new Palo alto police headquarters be reviewed in the light of Black Lives Matter and coronavirus?

Posted on July 12, 2020 by markweiss86

Should the new Palo alto police headquarters be reviewed in the light of Black Lives Matter and coronavirus? The answer is yes of course. I wrote separately about my dismay that the bureaucracy arbitrarily cut the guts out of the … Continue reading →

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