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Category Archives: Arts-a-Poppin’
BRIER PATCH in MADISON SQUARE PARK
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', The Teaching Artist, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged American Dream, art, Brier Patch, Conservatory, education, exhibition, Hugh Hayden, installation, Madison Square, New York City, park, photography, progress, public art, school desk, sculpture, tree branch, winter
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TELL-TALE HEARTBEATS
In all this time writing about my first short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” I have kept one crucial secret: how are the famous tell-tale heartbeats rendered in this version? It must be … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Musicabilia
Tagged adaptation, cello, Edgar Allan Poe, heart, heartbeat, horror, murder, musicabre, musical, narrator, nervous, short film, short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, very dreadfully nervous
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MADISON SNOWSTORM
Just a little blizzard in Wisconsin’s capitol…
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged blizzard, Capitol, Christmas, Edward Elder, Forward, lights, Madison, Orpheum, Rainbow, Snow, snowstorm, State Street, statue, Wisconsin
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The Sci-Fi Lego Skyscrapers of Porocity
I saw these nine gigantic towers of white lego building blocks in the Pompidou museum in Paris in 2018. They reminded me of science fiction movies of my childhood where fantastical models would be filmed to look like immense futuristic … Continue reading
TELL-TALE MURDER IN RUSSIAN
Tell-Tale Subtitles #3 Welcome to the third and (so far) final installment of Tell-Tale Subtitles, where I share screenshots of my first short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” with subtitles added. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged Award, cello, Covid 19, Cyrillic alphabet, Edgar Allan Poe, heartbeat, horror, Moscow, murder, musicabre, musical, Russian, Russian International Horror Film Festival, subtitles, The Tell-Tale Heart, travel restrictions
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LIGHTSCAPE at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A magical trail of fantastic light installations weaves its way through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden at night these days. Ed and I took the tour.
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged botanic garden, brooklyn, Cathedral, chandelier, Cherry Esplanade, Color, Ed Elder, fire, laser, light, Lightscape, night, Overlook, Pyramid, tree, water
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Pit & Pendulum Posters
Introducing the poster design for “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“: and its alternate / sibling poster: You probably noticed some imagery from the film that is being introduced for the first time on my blog’s discussions about … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Notes in the News
Tagged design, Edgar Allan Poe, imagery, macabre, musicabre, poster, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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LOVING – Photographic Treasures from the Nini-Treadwell Collection
Glimpses at a Photographic History of Men in Love 1850 – 1950 Twenty years ago Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell were browsing through stacks of vintage photographs in a Dallas antique store when they came upon a 1920s photograph of … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged collection, couples, history, homosexuality, Kitbühel, Love, Nini, photography, soldiers, Treadwell, vintage
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P&P Portraits in Color Grading
Here is a little portrait gallery from “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“, my second short film musical adaptation of a classic Edgar Allan Poe short story (after “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre“). I’m focusing on close-ups … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On
Tagged adaptation, cinematography, Color, color grading, Director of Photography, Edgar Allan Poe, Gallery, Jason Chua, Jimmy McCoy, lighting, musicabre, musical, narcissism, portrait, post-production, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart
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SCHWARZWALD – Views of the Black Forest
The Schwarzwald – Black Forest – is one of the most famously beautiful regions in Germany. Located East of the Rhine and North of the Alps in Germany’s Southwest, this bucolic region of rolling hills, quaint towns and, yes, romantically … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Baden-Baden, Black Forest, Black Forest cake, Breitgau, Brigachquelle, carved wood, Courbevoie, Cuckoo clock, Danube, Elbbachsee, Fachwerk, Freudenstadt, Germany, Guiness Book of World Records, half-timber, Haslach, Hornberg, Pilgrimage Church, Schiltach, Schwarzwald, Schwarzwaldtorte, Triberg, viewing platform, Waterfall, World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
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NEUSCHWANSTEIN – King Ludwig’s Fairy Tale Castle
On a high hill flanked by the Tegeler Mountain in the Bavarian Alps sits Neuschwanstein, King Ludwig’s “Fairy Tale Castle”. King Ludwig didn’t look far to build his fantasy castle. Hohenschwangau Castle, where Ludwig was raised, lies just across the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 19th Century, Alps, Alpsee, Bavaria, Castle, Cinderella, court jester, Covid, Disneyland, fairy tale, FFP2, Frauenstein, Hohenschwangau, King Ludwig, Lohengrin, Louis XIV, mad king, Marienbrücke, masks, medieval, Neuschwanstein, Schwansee, selfie, swan, Tegeler Mountain, Versailles, Wagner
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Some Mile High Fun …
… No, not THAT kind of Mile High fun On a recent overseas flight, I found the airplane’s bathroom as tiny as such facilities usually are, but this one also had small mirrors facing each other, allowing for repeating images. … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin'
Tagged cascading, images, Mile High, mirror, photography, plan, repeating, restroom
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Landing in JFK …
… with the sun shining against a scratched up window. We were arriving in NYC. JFK airport was just below us. But we were clearly too high to land directly. The plane would circle out south of Long island over … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged airport, JFK, Long Island, Minneapolis, NYC, photography, sky, Snoopy, sunlight, window
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Notes from a Composer 