This is an older image was recorded on a Kodak Tri-X Pan 100 film negative using a Minolta XGM camera with a fast f1.2 50mm prime lens. This image, a self-portrait, was manipulated in the darkroom using a variety of things that may be found in a typical darkroom. The finished print was then coated with a photographic lacquer and then hand-tinted using a set of Marshall's Photo-Oil Colors. Thanks for visiting and please come back often!

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A color field. An interesting image taken on Memorial Day 2009. Yes, the chemtrails appearing in the image are real. Go figure. Thanks for visiting and please come back often! Your comments are always welcome ... thank you for supporting the arts.

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Right from this DJ's own hometown...The Starkweather Boys...and their album Archer St. Blues...you've gotta hear this!

Archer St. Blues is a super kick ass rockin' tour of virtually every style of American roots music: Rockabilly, 50s Rock & Roll, Honk Tony, and Western Swing. This record is sure to be a hit with anyone who loves any or all of these music genres. And, if you're new to the scene, why not give it a listen?

The Starkweather Boys have also opened for many legends in the American music such as Wanda Jackson, Big Al Downing, Eddie Bond and Vernon Sandusky. They have also played at two of the biggest roots festivals in the country — the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender and the Rockin’ 50’s Fest in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This is the way music was meant to be! Archer St. Blues rocks from A-Side to B-Side and from front-to-back in fine style! Good work 'Boys! In fact, they are doin' so good that they are now on iTunes.

Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), was a Swiss-French architect who played a decisive role in the development of Modern Architecture. He first studied (1908-10) in Paris with August Perret, and then worked (1910) for several months in the Berlin studio of industrial designer Peter Behrens, where he met the future Bauhaus leaders Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Shortly after World War I, Jeanneret turned to painting and founded, with Amedee Ozenfant, the purist offshoot of cubism. With the publication (1923) of his influential collection of polemical essays, Vers Une Architecture (Towards a New Architecture), he adopted the name Le Corbusier and devoted his full energy and talent to creating a radically modern form of architectural expression.

In the 1920s and '30s, Le Corbusier's most significant work was in urban planning. In such published plans as La Ville Contemporaine (1922), the Plan Voisin de Paris (1925), and the several Villes Radieuses (1930-36), he advanced ideas dramatically different from the comfortable, low-rise communities proposed by earlier garden city planners. During this 20-year span he also built many villas and several small apartment complexes and office buildings. In these hard-edged, smooth-surfaced, geometric volumes, he created a language of what he called "pure prisms"— rectangular blocks of concrete, steel, and glass, usually raised above the ground on stilts, or pilotis, and often endowed with roof gardens intended to compensate for the loss of usable floor area at ground level.

After World War II, Le Corbusier moved away from purism and toward the so-called New Brutalism, which utilized rough-hewn forms of concrete, stone, stucco, and glass. Newly recognized in official art circles as an important 20th-century innovator, he represented (1946) France on the planning team for the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City — a particularly satisfying honor for an architect whose prize-winning design (1927) for the League of Nations headquarters had been rejected. Simultaneously, he was commissioned by the French government to plan and build his prototypical Vertical City in Marseilles. The result was the Unite d'Habitation (1946-52) — a huge block of 340 "superimposed villas" raised above the ground on massive pilotis, laced with two elevated thoroughfares of shops and other services and topped by a roof-garden community center that contained, among other things, a sculptured playground of concrete forms and a peripheral track for joggers.

His worldwide reputation led to a commission from the Indian government to plan the city of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Punjab, and to design and build the Government Center (1950-70) and several of the city's other structures. These poetic, handcrafted buildings represented a second, more humanistic phase in Le Corbusier's work that also was reflected in his lyrical Pilgrim Church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1950-54) in the Vosges Mountains of France; in his rugged monastery of La Tourette, France (1954-59); and in the several structures he designed (from 1958) at Ahmedabad, in India. Le Corbusier accidentally drowned in a swimming accident off Cap Martin in the Mediterranean on August 27, 1965.

We all judge the times by our personal situations and how hard we are affected by the not so good times. If you think times are hard now you are correct, and things will most likely get worse before they get better. However, to put things in some sort of perspective, let's realize that we aren't the only ones to experience less than great periods in history. So, let's flashback to the year 1984, when a little hardcore punk rock band called The Circle Jerks penned a little song about the hard times they were experiencing amidst the Los Angeles punk scene in the early 1980s. The song is called When The Shit Hits The Fan and it  is very interesting to note that these lyrics sound as if they were written in the last few months of this decade – 24 years after the song was written. If it's coming back around, then we should see a punk, ska and reggae scene develop with the increasing unhappiness over our current situation. Remember, disaffected  and unemployed youth have caused some of our most interesting and memorable times as well.

	When The Shit Hits The Fan   by The Circle Jerks (1984)
	In a sluggish economy inflation,recession hits the land of the free standing in unemployment lines blame the government for hard time we just get by however we can we all gotta duck when the shit hits the fan 10 kids in a cadillac stand in lines for welfare checks let's all leach off the state gee!the money's really great! soup lines free loaves of bread 5 pound blocks of cheese bags of groceries social security has run out on you and me we do whatever we can gotta duck when the shit hits the fan

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A back alley can be described as a dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine area behind or between buildings. The typical back alley is a less prominent or inferior location; also, the term back alley is used to describe a scene of clandestine or illegal dealings. Rich in detail and dirt, these images are certainly a street apart from the main or business area of a town. Thanks for visiting and please come back often!

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The world of country and western music suffered the loss of one its original stars last week. Carl Smith, the ruggedly handsome and tall country music hit maker of the 1950s died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 82 years old. Carl Smith had the ability to croon and he mixed those vocals with upbeat musical arrangements that brought the honk-tonk sound of Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams to a more current audience by employing the elements of rockabilly and what would come to be called rock 'n' roll.

Mr. Smith, the Country Gentleman, was a very tall and handsome man who liked to wear very finely tailored western suits that gave him the aura of a bona fide "star." The people who attended shows by Carl Smith and others like him showed up to see the stars of the country and western circuit – not someone dressed like themselves, in just jeans and boots. This was also the infancy of television and the country and western stars, who were very popular on TV shows, needed to look extra special for the camera. Brenda Colladay, curator of the Grand Ole Opry Museum in Nashville, was quoted as saying, “He was tall and handsome, with thick, wavy dark hair, a huge smile and eyes so blue you could tell how blue they were, even in black and white.”

In 1952 Carl Smith married June Carter, a fellow Grand Ole Opry member. The couple gave birth to the singer Carlene Carter and divorced in 1956. Mr. Smith was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990 and he had at least one single on the charts every year from 1951 to 1973. He eventually retired from the music business to become a champion horse breeder in 1978, “Call me lucky,” Mr. Smith said. “Ever since I can remember I wanted to be a hillbilly singer and a cowboy. I was fortunate enough to do both of them.”

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