Today's Beautiful Thing

"The Cat Piano" by writer/director Eddie White ...

Beautiful Thing

Topping my list of beautiful things for the month may be this find by Calvin Trillin ... a poem about Roman Polanski: http://bit.ly/1AGLh5.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. 

- Erma Louise Bombeck

Today's Beautiful Thing

Song of the day ...

" The noblest question in the world is, "What Good May I Do In It?"

-Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

Beautiful Things

Recent beautiful things ...

1. The lovely, purple-turbaned, silver bearded Punjabi man who daily haunts the wooded trail, wearing sneakers and American tees. He asks: "You speak Punjabi, yes? You are from India, yes?"

2. The work of Yuta Onoda ... & this illo.

3. Missing a gunshot, but not the police on my doorstep.

Modify

For IllustrationFriday.com: "Modify"

Adapt

The much-debated mystery of what I could possibly be keeping in my large tote bag is finally revealed here.

I am adapting to an absence of clutter.

Beautiful Things

A portrait of myself, by an amazing young artist.

Beautiful Things

Three recent beautiful things ...

1. Trying to juggle several identities ... only one human.
2. Fierce, nightly editing ... that seemingly never ends.
3. Being surprised with a lavender bouquet.

"Subtract"

I've recently subtracted from one of my older paintings (seen above, left) which resulted in the image you see directly below it.

(With a few new digital additions, as well - click on the image for a closer view.)

As inspired by Illustration Friday's topic, "Subtract."

And speaking of addition and subtraction, I add here several mathematically beautiful things:

1. "A Head With a Heart"

2. Adding one vegetable garden to the White House. "Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's victory garden in World War II." - Marian Burros, March 19, 2009, NYTimes

3. Stumbling across Bob Dylan's Love Minus Zero/NoLimit on YouTube (full [slightly flawed] lyrics here.)

"My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn't have to say she's faithful
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire."

"Resolve"

Clandestine

Here is my contribution to IF's word of the week - "clandestine."

Happy New Year! (Today's beautiful things: sleep, bonsai gardens and large land mammals.)

The Perfect Gift

The perfect gift for the woman who has everything ...

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6329980*

( A "Nuclear Spring Beard" may be especially nice for this time of year.

Please also see "Dark Brown Lumberjack Beard.")

*I know what some of you are thinking, but no, the beard artist and I aren't at all related, nor are we one and the same.