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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Boone. 21 Jul 2010.
Richard Boone was one of my very all-time favorite actors. He starred in Paladin, the 1960 TV series. His most memorable role, to me, was his role as Cicero Grimes in the Paul Newman film, Hombre. It was a revisionist western, not unlike my favorite western, the Jim Mangold re-do of 3:10 to Yuma. 3:10Continue reading “Boone. 21 Jul 2010.”
Riddles. 13 Jul 2010.
Ridley Scott has spent more time making films that ‘mean something to someone’ or have a less than populist appeal than anyone that I can think of. And still emerged from the other side of the tunnel for it. Back to artists. Back to belief systems. He’s King Kong, in my book.
Digits. 13 Jul 2010.
This is Nori, K and Lago. I had taken my watercolour kit to Venice and the girls wanted to try it. So here we are in San Marco Square after having bought them materials. Their clothes became part of their artwork as well. I just finished a large digital drawing that will be digitally packedContinue reading “Digits. 13 Jul 2010.”
Ferguson. 12 Jul 2010.
I was delighted to read Niall Ferguson’s article “The People’s Banker”. On my way from two years in Wall Street to Bombay in 1962, I accepted an invitation for lunch in London from a then recent friend, Ronald Grierson (now Sir Ronald). I arrived at SG Warburg & Co and was pleasantly surprised to beContinue reading “Ferguson. 12 Jul 2010.”
Stretching. 9 Jul 2010.
In America, the stretching seems to flummox about – not here.