Serenade for a Young Woman

May 25

“Fortress of the Village of Najac, France, 12th Century”

9x12, work in progress

by yours truly

May 21

Click the photo

May 15

clairedonnelly:

Cellar Point #gazebo (Taken with instagram)

May 05

“Uncharted” 

18 x 24

by yours truly, May 2012

May 02

“Ab Initio”

by yours truly, April 2012

Acrylic on canvas.

“Meserves”

by yours truly, February 2012

Oil on canvas.

Apr 28

February’s Featured Artist: Beck and Cilla -

Again, more from yours truly

Apr 23

zveneczi:

Mednyánszky László (April 23, 1852 - 1919): Hillside at Springtime (Little Landscape)

1903-04, Oil on canvas, 24,5 x 31,5 cm, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Apr 13

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Our omnipresent new technologies lure us toward increasingly superficial connections at exactly the same moment that they make avoiding the mess of human interaction easy. The beauty of Facebook, the source of its power, is that it enables us to be social while sparing us the embarrassing reality of society—the accidental revelations we make at parties, the awkward pauses, the farting and the spilled drinks and the general gaucherie of face-to-face contact. Instead, we have the lovely smoothness of a seemingly social machine. Everything’s so simple: status updates, pictures, your wall.

But the price of this smooth sociability is a constant compulsion to assert one’s own happiness, one’s own fulfillment. Not only must we contend with the social bounty of others; we must foster the appearance of our own social bounty. Being happy all the time, pretending to be happy, actually attempting to be happy—it’s exhausting.

The more you try to be happy, the less happy you are. Sophocles made roughly the same point.

thedailywhat:

Weekend Read of the Day: Esquire columnist Stephen Marche investigates how Facebook and social media have made us more densely networked — and more lonely — than ever.

Within this world of instant and absolute communication, unbounded by limits of time or space, we suffer from unprecedented alienation. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are. We were promised a global village; instead we inhabit the drab cul-de-sacs and endless freeways of a vast suburb of information.

[atlantic]

Here we go, another good read re: the alienating aspect of facebook.

Thanks,

Becks

Apr 10

“Just as Instagram makes bad photos look good and good photos look great, Facebook makes you look happy and loved if you’re not, and joyous and adored if you are. Self-brand and share. Filter, and share. Share the edited stuff, the varnished stuff, the stuff with the halo around it. Take a step away from truth for the sake of beauty.” — Dan Zak, in a day-after essay on how Facebook and Instagram were meant for each other. (via washingtonpoststyle)

Apr 09

“Forged in the absence of responsibility for a nuclear family, friendships of particular vitality and import are a signal achievement of this stage of life – and a way to survive it.” —

Thank you, Irin Carmon, for this perceptive piece on women in their twenties: 

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/10/first_world_problems/singleton/

Apr 06

“Mollusk No. 2”

pencil on mix media paper, 9 x 12

By yours truly

April 3, 2012

Apr 05

mejirushi:

銀の森のパット Pat of Silver Bush (by Tatsuro Kiuchi)

Frantisek Kupka