Social Network? 4 Oct 2010.

I’ve been getting daily hits from viewers in Moscow City, Russian Federation for the last month. Pretty interesting. I suppose that the world, after all, isn’t flat. And the hamlets that we all live in, in a global sense, really are just smallish hamlets. I just shipped a large painting to a very well respected gallery in San Francisco last week. Someone said isn’t it a shame that artists have difficulty showing work in their home states or cities. I said: ‘I don’t think so,’ ‘Willie Nelson wrote country music but couldn’t make it in Nashville.’ The effect of not being accepted in Nashville to Willie: ‘Zero’.

Newest. 26 Sept 2010.

I hate it when the digital dopplegang fails. Here it has. It’s a PNG file which has worked flawlessly ad naseum. Not this time. So we shall rescue it with the good, old analogue version.
Chin-chin.

International Film Series
Chasing Keino
Ebony Goddess
Mozambique
Run Away Slave
Cold April
Example of Fighting Against Exclusion
Sortie 67
Nego Fugido
The Story of the Mean Dragon

IBFFN Music Series
Walk Right In
Liebes Lied “Love Song”
Voices of the South
Broke Struggling and Still Independent
The Wayman Tisdale Story

This year’s festival expects filmmakers from all over the world to converge on Nashville. The festival presents more than 65 films representing the United States, Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe and South America to name a few.

Since its start in 2006, the number of films submitted for consideration and attendees has nearly tripled. This year, organizers expect thousands to be in attendance.

Fantastic, 5.0. 20 Sept 2010.

A funny thing happened in California on Saturday. My friend, Chuck Sampedro, and I went surfing at Moss Landing. We’re out waiting for a set — when, all of a sudden, Chuck sees something… Something ‘SPARKLING’. He says. Apparently, under a coconut tree. I told him to stop the tom-foolery — we’re not out here looking for ‘glimmering treasures’ — we’re out here to surf this mess around. So we catch a wave and I’ll be DAMNED if he doesn’t start in on it again. So I say — ‘if it’s so ALL-FIRED important — then go look — and stop burbeling on about it…’ So he approaches this tree like some kind of DOG on a scent trail — going left and then veering uncontrollably right and back again. All uncontrollably. Anyhoo. He finally stops at this coconut and turns it over. Except this coconut — has a three inch cork stopper in the back of it. So we look at each other, slowly, and then back at the coconut. With great trepidation — Chuck pulls the plug — guess what falls out? Apparently a prototype of the new iPad 5.0. We thought that maybe the Tradewinds washed it ashore from China or something. We were scared to touch it with anything other than a white glove — sort of like the ‘Monolith’ in Kubrick’s ‘Space Odyssey’ — but it was so beautiful! And you’ll notice how small it is. The transparent skin allows you to see the ‘guts’ of this iPad just like a 430 Modena. The reduction of the internal processors and ephemera to nanoparticles is nothing less than stunning. The one thing that didn’t seem as stellar was the fact that Apple has chosen to move from a colour screen back to a 1990 black+white version. Some thought the b+w screen might be attributable to cost cutting — a way of shoring up the costs associated with the iPhone 4.0 losses due to the reception issue. Anyway… We were nervous about having such a cool device and its effect on the world if it got into the wrong hands — so we decided that it was best to just place it back in the hollowed-out coconut and throw the coconut back out to sea.

And you though California was just about taking Yoga classes. Shame on you… You, you… Philistine!