*Photos and video of Frau kolb and "Endeavor," © HC Kolb,
*Iggy Pop lyrics keep coming to mind. Hah!
On 12 October 2012
We rushed. We made it just in time. We got to see the space shuttle “Endeavor,” parked in a parking lot we often visit, near LAX, the Los Angeles Airport. If we had arrived a few moments later we would have missed seeing the majestic monster posing for the people and paparazzi.
To get a gander at the battered building sized ship was worth the run, the trot, the hustle involved in getting there. It was so BIG! White, like snow, crushed under rain boots. It was an elegant monster. Representing the hight of human achievement and technical prowess... Its rocket, thrusters, or cone shaped flame funnels were majestic sculptural objects, yet so... very... absurdly functional.
Well... not any more. The shuttle is on its way to permanent retirement, eternal parking, for children and curious adults to gawk at, at the California Science Center.
Fascinating.
Now, follow me. I’d like to invite you on a number of related journeys... deep into ART minds, Baby! Let’s GO!
12 Oct. 2012 Here's Looking ART you, KID.
It is raining outside and everything feels quite regular and clear. I'm sitting here. I'm loving LIFE.
That is the beauty of this BLOG. This blog celebrates life and for me, ART, is a big part of the party.
Art inspires me to face each day with style and conviction that somehow we can and should enjoy every second of everyday in this glorious experience which is being here now. Anybody with eyes, capacity, education, time, and means to read this message is a priviledged being. YES! I do mean YOU!
Now, I have so much material to share with you. I have more awesome footage from Frau's recent ART excursion into New York City.
10 October 2012
On my recent trip I got to meet three New York artist whose work I've followed for years.
The first was Mike Cockrill. He welcomed me into his Williamsburg Brooklyn Studio, last week.
What drove me to go out of my way to meet this artist is that his work has undergone a radical shift in recent times.
I am fairly new to his work, having "discovered," him on Facebook as a mature artist of Norman Rockwellish nightmares. Initially, I found the work witty and good on the level of gag and fun fluff. Of course, his pastle pallet and frothy sexual undertow pulled me in bit by bit, until I found myself becoming deeply interested in his work. When… BOOM! Suddenly, his work CHANGED!