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P&P – DAY 9 – The Day the Hair Went Bye-Bye!
Alt Title: The Day the Hair Got Snipped, Shorn and Shaved Off! The announcement, take one (with AD Charlotte Purser): Day 9 in the 10 days shooting “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was fully devoted to the … Continue reading
The Art of Pompeii
Part 4 of the Pompeii Series Plenty of ancient Roman art was on display in the first three posts of the streets and homes of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But much more art dug up by the archeologists – sculptures and … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged amphitheatre, Ancient Rome, art, brass, brothels, erotica, Herculaneum, maenad, mythology, Naples, nymph, Pompeii, portraiture, pottery, religion, satyr, sculpture, sensuality, still life, wall paintings
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HERCULANEUM
Part 3 of the Pompeii Series Above is the entrance gate into the Herculaneum museum/park, and below is the first view one gets of the ruins walking down the path to the official museum entrance. Herculaneum, like its more famous … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged altars, ancient, Augustales, bathhouse, chariots, Ed Elder, Ercolano, eruption, Herculaneum, Marcus Nonius Balbus, mosaics, museum, paintings, Pompeii, pyroclastic flow, ruins, skeletons, statues, thermopolium, Versuvius, Volcano
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The Homes of Pompeii
Post 2 of the Pompeii Series In the first post we explored the streets of Pompeii, with the temples, the Forum, the amphitheatres, bathhouses and the Coliseum. This time we will look at the homes of the inhabitants of Pompeii. … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Actaeon, ancient, art, cistern, courtyard, Diana, Ed Elder, erotica, guard dogs, mosaic, museum, Painting, photography, plaster cast, Pompeii, rituals, ruins, skeleton, slave, victims, Villa dei Misteri, Volcano, wall painting
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P&P @ GUTTERCAST
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screens for free on-line this Saturday courtesy of GUTTERCAST Gutterbliss, an art collective in Wilmington, North Carolina, is holding its annual Guttercast film festival at Jengo’s Playhouse in downtown Wilmington this Saturday, … Continue reading
HAUNTED HOUSE FEARFEST Nomination
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” has been nominated for Best Horror Short by Haunted House FearFest Haunted House FearFest will take place October 6 and 7 at The Midnight Theatre at 75 Manhattan West Plaza in Midtown … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Award, best, FearFest, Film Festival, Haunted House, horror, Manhattan, Midnight Theatre, midtown, musicabre, musical, nomination, short, The Pit and the Pendulum
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Looking Through Leaves From My Lawn Chair
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin'
Tagged abstract, art, bushes, framing, Garden, green, lawn chair, leaves, light, nature, negative space, perspective, photography, shade, sky, trees, vines, yellow, Zoom
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Return of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions
And we’re back! The New Yorker chose not to include any of my first six suggestions as a finalist in their “make up your own cartoon caption” contest. And they haven’t chosen any of these either. So the sequel apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism
Tagged Bergkäse, bilingual, black market, caption, cartoon, Contest, frogs, humor, Iceberg, Internet, Magazine, Netflix, New Yorker, Twilight Zone, William Shatner
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Watch “OPERA KIDS”, now on-line
“Opera Kids”, a documentary about “Creating Original Opera” a performing arts program I was part of defining, teaching and implementing in schools, in one form or another for over three decades, is now playing (for free) on-line on ALL ARTS … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in the News, The Teaching Artist
Tagged All Arts, Creating Original Opera, documentary, education, film, Max Sturm, Opera, Opera Kids, talking heads, teaching artist, WNET
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VISITING VAN GOGH’S CYPRESSES
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Notes in the News
Tagged Bridge, Cypress, exhibit, nature, orchard, Painting, poppies, sky, Starry Night, still life, Van Gogh, Vincent
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A VIEW
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Tagged frames, gym, Hotel, rectangles, swimming pool, water, window
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P&P @ LAIFF
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screens on-line for 3 days via the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival You can watch “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” – and many other films – on-line via the … Continue reading
NAPLES’ GALLERIA UMBERTO
One particularly photogenic part of Naples, Italy – worthy of its own little blog post – is the Galleria Umberto 1. It is a public shopping gallery with apartments built 1887-1890 across from the opera house, and named after the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 1890, Edward Elder, Galleria, Gallery, glass dome, mosaic, Naples, photography, San Carlo Theatre, shopping, Umberto, Umberto I, Unesco, Via Toledo, World Heritage Site, Zodiac
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