Monthly Archives: October 2018

TROLL AFFECTION!

Posted on October 29, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

  How a genre and boundary bursting Swedish movie brought back to mind a certain LGBTQ friendly First Grade Opera Tune I just saw the movie “Border”, Sweden’s entry for this year’s Foreign Film Oscar, and let me say, right … Continue reading →

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FIRST MAN Takes This Waltz with 2001’s BLUE DANUBE

Posted on October 25, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

First Man – Docking Waltz – Justin Hurwitz   Ed and I were watching the marvelous, heart-grabbing “First Man” in the next to uppermost row in the huge Upper West Side Imax theater, when we reached the point in the … Continue reading →

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VERSAILLES – Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors

Posted on October 21, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

  Paris provided a wealth of imagery and perspectives for me to share – it’ll probably take me a year to process it all in blog post sized bits (here the first one two three four five posts). Why, alone the long … Continue reading →

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TELL-TALE OMENS

Posted on October 14, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

  What is this about? Have I decided to add cartoonist to my jack-of-the-arts-box?     No.  I am quite aware that my drawing skills are more on the feeble side. These sketches are for practical reasons, which however are … Continue reading →

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Sensual Statues of the Musée D’Orsay

Posted on October 5, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

Tensions of the world making you anxious? Here is much soothing, sculptural sensuality but also some less comforting, chiseled objectification Continuing my fascination with sensual statuary in Paris, the greatest concentration of such aesthetically, artistically, and, let’s admit it, amorously … Continue reading →

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