Tom Waits: On the Nickel

Tom Waits – On The Nickel

What else is their to say? master Tom Waits.

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Microsmic Echo by Ed Tajchman ©2007

                   

Microsmic Echo 18 x 24″ watercolor and ink by Ed Tajchman ©2007

One of many somewhat similar abstract watercolors that I have done, to see more check out the Eds Art Workshop link on your right.

Thought of the Day: A Quote From Georges Rouault

This quote ties in with an online discussion I have been having recently about the work of the old masters and the work of 20th century artists. (from preface to Stella Vespertina, 1947)

“We can do something else, but we cannot re-create what the collective, spontaneous effort of generations built with the faith that was theirs.”               -Georges Rouault

Ginsberg’s America

Allen Ginsberg’s America

Ginsberg’s America, with photo montage and Tom Waits music.
Two of my favorite things: the beat writers, and T0m Waits. I’ve always thought that Waits was like directly descended from the beats or something. Like a lot of them he is a stripped down raw voice from New York. It’s fitting the soundtrack is Waits, and hearing Ginsberg read his own work is really great. His words are has true today has when they were written.

 from: mikechase777

Michael Vick’s Career Is Over

Michael Vick has pleaded guilty to sponsoring a dog fighting operation. The following statement is coming from someone who really hoped Vick would be found innocent (me),… his career is over. The only thing that could have saved it is if he was honest from the beginning, which he was not. The Falcons and NFL (and me) were pulling for him, then he makes us all look like fools by lying. On top of the ugly truth of what he was involved with; career over, close the book, won’t see ya later. Some of the charges (which all four defendants have reached a plea agreement to) are hanging, shooting, and electrocuting the dogs that did not perform well in the dog-fighting operation. His former friends who turned against him painted Vick has the money man behind the operation, claiming that none of it would have happened had he not funded the entire thing. There is rumors that they have a picture of Vick with some of the bloodied dogs. The NFL made a statement today saying they know Vick pleaded guilty, which was not what he has been telling the NFL and Falcons for months. That is the nail in the coffin, nobody likes being made a fool of, and after both the Falcons and NFL came out so ready to defend Mr. Vick, giving him every benefit of the doubt.

                  

5 Reasons Why Karl Rove Will Be Remembered Has A Liar and A Cheat

Karl Rove is one of the most infamous political tricksters in U.S. history. Early in his career he toured to teach other college republicans how to perform these tricks: – ‘dumpster diving’ (looking through opponent’s trash) and crimes such as identity theft, petty larceny, and campaign fraud. He never served in the military, some would even say he enrolled in college (never graduated) to avoid being drafted. Despite that fact, he’s managed to spread lies on several prominent U.S. military patriots. His history in politics proves that sometimes cheats and liars not only get away with it, but win in the process. Here’s 5 reasons why Rove should be remebered has the low-life cowardly criminal that he is, and not some kind of hero.

1. In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead. Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers promising “free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing”, and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon’s rally (Dixon eventually won the election). Rove’s role would not become publicly known until August 1973. Rove told the Dallas Morning News in 1999, “It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret it.”

2. In 1972, (even though Rove never served in the military), under mentorship of dirty trickster Donald Segretti (who later went to jail for Watergate), Rove paints McGovern as “left-wing peacenik,” in spite of McGovern’s World War II stint piloting a B-24. (Not to mention the fact that Nixon himself asked the FBI to look into Rove’s involvement in Watergate.)

3. Even though Rove never  served in the military, Rove is at heart of Bush’s vicious smear job on John McCain in South Carolina primary: Thinly disguised Bush surrogates claim McCain was a stoolie while a P.O.W. Rove also credited with spreading rumor that McCain’s adopted Bangladeshi daughter is black and illegitimate and his wife a drug addict.

4. Rove was required to sell his Enron stock before Bush takes office. Reportedly still holds between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of shares when appointed.

5. FEBRUARY 11, 2005: The Bush administration denies having had anything to do with the Swift Boat Veterans, who smeared John Kerry during the campaign and denounced his war stories as lies. But rumors persist when Rove pays tribute to the group at the Conservative Political Action Conference during the annual Ronald Reagan banquet in D.C.

^{Some of these items were directly quoted from these articles:} 

^{http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0529,ridgeway,66005,6.html}

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1165126,00.html

“Stomping Grounds” by Ed Tajchman

22×28″ mixed media.
This painting was worked on at different points over the course of the late 90’s and early this decade. You could say its abstract expressionist style in the vein of Wassily Kandinsky, although I am proud to admit, it is completely ‘my style’.

    
          Ed Tajchman ©2007

Paulie The French Bulldog

                      

                               Paulie the French Bulldog by:
                               Ed Tajchman©2007

                                   
    

The Fathers of Abstract Expressionism

There was definitely no love lost between two of the main forefathers of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Jackson Pollack was a wild man from the west, William DeKooning was a cultured European style gentleman. Both were hard drinkers. The Cedar Tavern in New York City was once the unofficial bar of the abstract expressionists. During the height of the movement it was often a riotous place where they harrassed and debated each other.

“I will tell you a story about de Kooning,” Lee Krasner, the painter and widow of Jackson Pollock, reminisced once. “Jackson and he were standing at the Cedar bar, drinking. They started to argue and de Kooning punched him. There was a crowd around them and some of them started to egg Jackson on to hit de Kooning back…” (quote found from an article that appeared in The Guardian. )http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,789869,00.html#article_continue

one of my favorite paintings of all time:

Jackson Pollack’s Guardians of the Secret

Dekooning’s Asheville

Depp Reading Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s “MadRoad Driving” Read by Johnny Depp, Art by Cobi

More of Johnny Depp reading Jack Keroauc. An excerpt from the album, “Kicks, Joy, Darkness” a tribute to Jack Kerouac. Steven Tyler and Hunter S. Thompson also pay tribute, amongst others, on this album.

 from: Cobicube

Johnny Depp reading Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – (Johnny Depp)

1940’s America experienced a radical cultural expansion. The abstract expressionist painters, bebop jazz, the rise of method acting, and the “beat” writers. Check out this video of Johnny Depp reading Jack Kerouac. The first line is Ginsberg’s America, the rest is Depp reading Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues “Chorus 113″
 (an excerpt from the film “the United States of Poetry” by Washington Square Films.)

Thought of the Day: A Quote From C.G. Jung

This quote from Carl Jung relates to what I was trying to get at with my blog entries concerning the philosophy of expression and modern art. (You can find those here in my blog.) To learn more on Jung check out the links at the bottom. (where I found the quote.)

“The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is ‘man’ in a higher sense – he is ‘collective man,’ a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind.” (Carl Jung, Psychology and Literature, 1930)

I could not have said it better myself.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cjung.htm

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Carl-Jung.htm