Another happy birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong!
So let’s raise a cold one in his honor while we listen to one of his greats, Stardust.
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Well I did the free first Thursday at Seattle Art Museum. yesterday. Because I have a membership I generally avoid it because the usually large crowds make it difficult me to get into my sketching zone. But I had gone downtown for The Pioneer Square Art walk and decided to stop at the museum as a way to finish my evening. (and use the bathroom before a long ride home)
This time I was actually enjoying being there to watch people look at the art. But I did get around to looking doing some quick sketches.
These are mostly pieces I’ve sketched before but I found looking at them at different angles to be interesting and informative.
The top right picture is a Congolese Hemba mask. the rest are examples of the Igbo people from Afikpo in Nigeria the one on the bottom right is a “Mma Ji” or Knife Yam mask .
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Today’s Rhapsody is Song & Rhapsody by Nikolay Myaskovsky (opus 58) performed by Grigory Ginzburg.
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Having heard way to many creationists, pundits and other idiots and con artists going on way too much recently; this truism has got to go viral. Thanks to the great George Takei for bringing it to my attention.
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Yuki Onna has made several appearances in this strip. What can I say she’s one of my favorite characters in Japanese Folklore. In the popular media I’ve enjoyed her appearances in both Kwaidan and Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams as well as numerous anime (there’s a pretty good list in the wiki link.)
Somehow I never thought she’d stoop this low.
http://youtu.be/Mt8phTy5-gk
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