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• At the University of Washington in Seattle, Jacob Lawrence was an excellent teacher in addition to being a world-class (and African-American) artist. One day, an art student brought a bad painting for Mr. Lawrence to look at and told him that the painting was exactly the kind he wished to paint - it was painted in his "style." Mr. Lawrence looked at the painting, then told the student, "Don't bluff. If you paint, do it well or not at all."
• When James McNeill Whistler was at West Point, he took a drawing class with Robert W. Weir. In one class, Mr. Whistler drew a young girl. Mr. Weir picked up a pencil and was about to make corrections to the drawing, but Mr. Whistler cried, "Don't, sir, don't! You'll spoil it!" Mr. Weir understood Mr. Whistler's feelings and did not correct the drawing.
• Children's book author/illustrator Vera B. Williams has fun with children when she gives presentations in school. Sometimes, she draws an oval on a chalkboard and asks the children if it is a boy or a girl. Some children answer "a boy," while others answer "a girl," then Ms. Williams tells them, "Don't be silly. It's a potato."
• People who read the satiric magazine MAD pick up useful information. A Danish fan of MAD once visited New York City. He was able to identify the strange insects in his hotel room because in MAD he had read about and seen illustrations of cockroaches.
• Choreographer Léonide Massine once saw Pablo Picasso carefully study a painting that was conventional, so he asked him why he was studying that particular painting. Mr. Picasso replied, "I am studying it carefully in order to learn how not to paint."
Exhibitions
• Hugh Troy once attended a crowded exhibition of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, but he felt that the numerous viewers at the museum were more interested in the lurid details of the painter's life - such as cutting off his ear so he could give it to a prostitute - than in the paintings themselves. Therefore, Mr. Troy used his talents as an artist to fashion a severed ear (using dried beef) and to construct a box with the inscription "This is the ear that Van Gogh cut off and sent to his mistress Dec. 24, 1888." Placing the ear in the box, Mr. Troy smuggled it into the museum, then unobtrusively placed it in the exhibit. Almost immediately, everyone crowded around the "ear" and ignored the paintings. This allowed Mr. Troy to get close to the paintings and enjoy them.
• As a radical who broke new ground in art, Mary Cassatt rejected some things that many artists accept. After she was informed that she had won a $300 Walter Lippincott Prize for work shown in the 1904 exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she turned down the prize, writing, "Of course it is very gratifying to know that a picture of mine was selected for a special honor. I, however, who belong to the founders of the Independent Exhibition, must stick to my principles, our principles, which were, no jury, no medals, no awards."
• One of artist Louise Nevelson's early exhibitions was of a group of sculptures she titled Circus. The exhibition received rave critical reviews, but none of the works of art she had exhibited sold. Ms. Nevelson was so angry that she dismantled the sculptures and burned them. She also burned approximately 200 of her paintings. Because of this explosion of anger, very few of her works of art from before 1943 exist today.
The O'Jays' first and only number-one hit single reached number one on both the R&B Singles and the Billboard Hot 100 in February and March 1973 respectively. What is the title of this song that served as the unofficial anthem of the old BartCop Treehouse?
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999), nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.
Tormé made nine guest appearances as himself (and one as a guardian angel) on the 1980s situation comedy Night Court. The main character, Judge Harry Stone played by Harry Anderson, was depicted as an unabashed Tormé fan, an admiration that Anderson shared in real-life; he would deliver the eulogy at Tormé's funeral. Tormé appeared in Mountain Dew commercials and on an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld ("The Jimmy").
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mj wrote:
Harry Stone's favorite performer
And half responsible for The Christmas Song, Mel Tormé.
Alan J answered:
Mel Torme.
Mac Mac responded:
Mel Torme
Randall wrote:
Mel Tormé
Dave wrote:
Mel Tormé. Besides being a highly regarded singer, he composed the music, and co-wrote the lyrics (with Bob Wells) to The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire). He acted in TV and movie Westerns and was known as a quick draw artist.
Kevin in Washington DC , responded:
That was Mel Torme. Fun fact: on his 1974 album "Walls and Bridges", John Lennon nicknamed himself "Mel Torment".
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Mel Tormé
Michael Dare wrote:
My mother was a landlord. When I was very small, she used to take me around with her when she collected rent. She took me to this one house full of musical instruments so I started banging on one of the keyboards. The tenant came up to me and said "That's no way to play" and he showed me what to do. And thus I received my first piano lesson from Mel Torme.
Cal in Vermont said:
Mel Tormé.
Kenn B answered:
Mel Torme
David of Moon Valley replied:
ooooh oooh i know this one....
that'd be the late and great Mel Tormé….
John I from Hawai`i says,
Mel Torme
Jacqueline responded:
Mel Torme
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
Mel Tormé was called The Velvet Fog. What a voice.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Mel Tormé
DJ Useo answered:
Mel Torme. A favorite performer of mine. I normally gravitate towards hard rock, heavy techno, & mashups, but Mel
holds my interest through his great voice, & transformative arrangements. I have 6 of his albums, & enjoy them much.
Daniel in The City replied:
Mel Torme
Dave in Tucson responded:
The Velvet Fog would be Mel Torme. Seen here serenading Seinfeld's Kramer.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
I know! I know! It's Mel Torme. For the longest time I thought he was The Velvet Frog, he seemed to fit the description. Don't get me wrong, I really like Mel Torme.
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Can you embed this in an issue? It is well done and anti-Trump.
Gestapo Trump
What's going on in Portland and across the country is not only wrong, its criminal. Federal agencies should never be used as the President's private army.
This is a low-key, long-form story about self-awareness and a lovely part of Texas. I spent the last trimester of my first pregnancy, and all of my second, in South Texas. The evening trips we made to Padre Island from Corpus Christi so I could float in what was essentially a saltwater bath were the best. There's so much beauty along that coast, along with the monotony of very flat topography, which some would consider beautiful.
Noticed "demon sperm" trending in stories today? Meet the respected doctor we can expect to be named Surgeon General at any moment. Predator praised her again at his off-the-rails pandemic lie-fest today:
This is how Immanuel introduced herself in the video that both Trump and son saw fit to share.
I'm Dr Stella Immanuel. I'm a primary care physician in Houston, Texas. I went to medical school in West Africa, Nigeria, where I took care of malaria patients, treated them with hydroxychloroquine and stuff like that. So I'm used to these medications.
On her Facebook page, Immanuel describes herself as a "Physician, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Deliverance Minister, God's battle axe and weapon of war."
Immanuel is significantly less accomplished than Dr. Fauci. She runs a medical clinic out of a strip mall next to her church, Firepower Ministries. She claims Congress is run by "reptilians" and aliens, and while it might seem a stretch to consider Ted Cruz human, this just isn't true.
The last image being a reference to the announced, unnecessary Rose Garden renovation--renovation designed to make it easier for Predator to violate the Hatch Act and hold his new version of hate rallies (televised "events" where the press are used to broadcast his grievances & propaganda) from OUR taxpayer-provided White House.
The blurb below is from this AM's Politico. 2-year-olds have more emotional intelligence and self-control than the Orange Stain:
via NYT'S KATIE ROGERS and NOAH WEILAND: "'Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees,' Mr. Trump, referring to the president of the baseball team, told reporters on Thursday as Dr. Fauci was preparing to take the mound. 'And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I'm doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium.'
"There was one problem: Mr. Trump had not actually been invited on that day by the Yankees, according to one person with knowledge of Mr. Trump's schedule. His announcement surprised both Yankees officials and the White House staff.
"But Mr. Trump had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci's turn in the limelight, an official familiar with his reaction said, that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from Mr. Levine to throw out an opening pitch. No date was ever finalized.
"After the president's announcement, White House aides scrambled to let the team know that he was actually booked on Aug. 15, although they have not said what he plans to do. Over the weekend, Mr. Trump officially canceled."
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Every time you think the stupid has bottomed out, it's the next day.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Tough As Nails', followed by a RERUN'The Price Is Right', then a RERUN'SEAL Team'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 7/13/20) are Norah O'Donnell and IDK.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 4/20/20) are Taraji P. Henson, and Andrea & Matteo Bocelli.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a 'American Ninja Warrior'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ice T, Jack Whitehall, and Charlie Wilson.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers is David Schwimmer.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/21/19) are Susan Kelechi Watson and Tig Notaro.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'United We Fall', followed by a RERUN'The Goldbergs', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Sean Hayes, (from 7/23/20) is Jason Bateman.
The CW offers a RERUN'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Bulletproof'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'Ultimate Tag'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Escape Plan', followed by the movie 'White House Down'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Spam
[6:15AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evolution
[7:15AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Ensigns of Command
[8:15AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Survivors
[9:15AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Who Watches the Watchers?
[10:15AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Deja Q
[11:15AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Matter of Perspective
[12:15PM] CONEHEADS
[2:13PM] EVOLUTION
[4:12PM] THE BIG LEBOWSKI
[6:45PM] POLICE ACADEMY
[9:00PM] GROWN UPS
[11:15PM] POLICE ACADEMY
[1:30AM] GROWN UPS
[3:45AM] CONEHEADS
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - The Spanish Inquisition (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'South Park', followed by the movie 'South Park Imaginationland: The Trilogy', then a FRESH'Corporate'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
Lights Out with David Spade
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Deadpool', then the movie 'Deadpool', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and 'Forged In Fire: Beat The Judges'.
IFC -
[6:30A] Police Academy
[8:45A] Brick Mansions
[10:45A] Braveheart
[2:45P] The Warriors
[5:00P] The Godfather
[9:00P] The Godfather, Part II
[1:30A] The Godfather
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Pop Goes the Easel (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever
[7:00am] criminal minds
[8:00am] criminal minds
[9:00am] criminal minds
[10:00am] criminal minds
[11:00am] criminal minds
[12:00pm] criminal minds
[1:00pm] criminal minds
[2:00pm] criminal minds
[3:00pm] criminal minds
[4:00pm] criminal minds
[5:00pm] criminal minds
[6:00pm] criminal minds
[7:00pm] the godfather, part iii
[11:00pm] a few good men
[2:00am] the godfather, part iii (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2', followed by the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2', again.
Barack Obama and George Clooney's friendship came through in a virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden, a 45-minute event Tuesday in which they traded a few jokes and talked of the urgency of defeating Donald Trump (R-Failure).
Obama and Clooney appeared via Zoom at their own homes, and spent a good share of the time making the case for Biden, characterizing the former vice president as a figure who could restore government and "pass the baton forward" on issues like climate change and racial justice, according to a source who viewed the event.
But there also were humorous moments, as when Obama's remarks were interrupted by dog barking, reflecting a problem that has become ever too common for many people on Zoom calls. Then Clooney apparently had the same problem and muted himself. According to event attendees, after the former president asked him a question, Clooney apologized for it and joked that his dogs "must be Tea Party members because every time you started talking about Obamacare" the barking would start.
The event, billed as a virtual conversation between Clooney and Obama, drew a few thousand donors, with tickets starting at $250 per person and topped off at $250,000, for those who contributed or raised that amount.
Dr. Anthony Fauci just earned Brad Pitt an Emmy nomination.
Pitt is aiming at a rare film-TV trophy double, scoring an Oscar and an Emmy in the same year. The actor, who won an Academy Award in February for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, landed a surprise Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy nomination this morning for his brief appearance in a Saturday Night Live at Home cold open.
Pitt's SNL cameo stemmed from a quip Fauci made during a TV interview where he was asked who he would want to play him on Saturday Night Live and jokingly said Pitt. The movie star obliged, and a memorable TV moment was born.
In the category, he will face two full-fledged SNL hosts from the show's studio-based editions last season, Eddie Murphy - in his headline-making return to the late-night program - and Adam Driver, as well as Dev Patel for Modern Love, Luke Kirby for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the late Fred Willard for Modern Family.
Dozens of high-profile musicians in pop, rock and hip-hop have partnered with the Artist Rights Alliance in an open letter demanding that politicians get clearance on the music they play at campaign rallies and other public events.
The letter calls for major political party committees in the U.S. to "establish clear policies requiring campaigns to seek consent of featured recording artists, songwriters and copyright owners before publicly using their music in a political or campaign setting."
"As artists, activists and citizens, we ask you to pledge that all candidates you support will seek consent from featured recording artists and songwriters before using their music in campaign and political settings," it reads. "This is the only way to effectively protect your candidates from legal risk, unnecessary public controversy and the moral quagmire that comes from falsely claiming or implying an artist's support or distorting an artists' expression in such a high stakes public way."
The letter's signees include the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Sia, Regina Spektor, R.E.M, Lorde, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, Lionel Richie, Pearl Jam and Green Day.
The area depicted in "Tree Roots," believed to be the final work of legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh, may have been located. A postcard bearing a striking resemblance to the work was found by Wouter Van der Veen, scientific director for Institut Van Gogh, leading him to believe it to show the same location that the Dutch artist painted in "Tree Roots."
"The similarities were very clear to me," Van der Veen said, explaining that the revelation was made during lockdown.
The postcard in question has been dated to around 1900-10, only a decade or two removed from Van Gogh's death. It depicts trees on a riverbank near Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The location is a mere 500 feet from the inn where Van Gogh allegedly committed suicide in 1890.
Van der Veen has presented his findings to experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Researchers conducted a comparison of the postcard's photo and "Tree Roots," and have said that the potential discovery has merit.
Trip Jennings doesn't know why law enforcement agents Portland shot him in the head, nor if there will be lasting damage to the eye in which he was struck with a less-lethal round.
But the videographer for PBS and National Geographic fully understands that if this can happen to him - a 6'2" white guy with a fancy camera around his neck; a veteran journalist complying with a police order to disperse - then what about those without that privilege?
"It's a rare moment where my white privilege doesn't fully protect me," Jennings said in an interview with Business Insider on Monday, hours after checking out of the hospital where he was treated for a hemorrhaging eye.
"I know in almost any situation that I interact with the cops, I might get in trouble if I've been speeding but I'm not going to die," he said. "This is one of the few moments in my life, in the United States, where I wasn't sure."
A veteran journalist who has covered protests around the world, Jennings was a block and a half from the Portland Federal Building in Oregon's largest city, the scene of daily clashes between protesters and a growing assortment of US law enforcement deployed by President Donald Trump, when around midnight he heard a muffled order shouted through a loudspeaker.
A former Border Patrol agent describes the special federal unit deployed in Portland as one of 'the most violent and racist in all law enforcement'
A former senior Border Patrol agent described an elite federal unit deployed by the Trump administration to quell protests in Portland, Oregon, as one of the "the most violent and racist in all law enforcement."
Jenn Budd, who worked at the agency for six years until 2001, described her encounters with the US Border Patrol's unique unit, known as the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or Bortac, to The Guardian in a story published on Monday.
The specially trained officers are the "biggest guys, like the jocks in a football team," Budd told The Guardian. "They live in tight groups like the Navy Seals, spending their time in military-style training," she said.
Budd added: "They don't exist within the realm of civilian law enforcement. They view people they encounter in the military sense as enemy combatants, meaning they have virtually no rights."
Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had lain dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of the dinosaurs, allowing the organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the deep.
Their research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of Earth's most primitive species, which can exist for tens of millions of years with barely any oxygen or food before springing back to life in the lab.
A team led by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology analysed ancient sediment samples deposited more than 100 million years ago on the seabed of the South Pacific.
The team incubated the samples to help coax the microbes out of their epoch-spanning slumber. Astonishingly, they were able to revive nearly all of the microorganisms.
Perhaps the Cubists were right. Researchers have found that when everything from icebergs to rocks breaks apart, their pieces tend to resemble cubes. The finding suggests a universal rule of fragmentation at scales ranging from the microscopic to the planetary.
The finding builds on the previous work of mathematician Gábor Domokos of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, who in 2006 helped prove the existence of the gömböc, a gemstonelike shape that has only one stable balance point. Set a gömböc down on a table, and it will always come to rest in the exact same position, unlike, say, a cylinder, which can rest on its end or its side. In subsequent work, Domokos and his colleagues found that entities such as pebbles washing downriver and sand grains blowing in the wind tend to erode toward gömböcish shapes without ever achieving that ideal. "The gömböc is part of nature, but only as a dream," Domokos says.
He and his team then turned to the other side of this process-how rocks themselves are born. They started their study "fragmenting" an abstract cube in a computer simulation by slicing it with 50 2D planes inserted at random angles. The planes cut the cube into 600,000 fragments, which were, on average, cubic themselves-meaning that, on average, the fragments had six sides that were quadrangles, although any individual fragment need not be a cube. The result led the researchers to suspect that cubes might be a common feature of fragmentation.
The researchers tried to confirm this hunch using real-world measurements. They headed to an outcrop of the mineral dolomite on the mountain Hármashatárhegy in Budapest, Hungary, and counted the number of vertices in cracks in the stone face. Most of these cracks formed squarish shapes, which is one of the faces of a cube, regardless of whether they had been weathered naturally or had been created by humans dynamiting the mountain.
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