Watch the Feet!

For my regular readers, my auntie has just a couple days left from the cancer. For new readers, well my auntie has cancer. I wanted to post some dancing videos from my culture. We have old school fancy dancing and then we have fancy SHAWL dancing. It just makes me feel better to watch these videos. I hope all is well and thanks for sharing, thanks for reading. ;-) peace

For my Aunt D.

Old School


The new Fancy.

Watch the Feet!

For my regular readers, my auntie has just a couple days left from the cancer. For new readers, well my auntie has cancer. I wanted to post some dancing videos from my culture. We have old school fancy dancing and then we have fancy SHAWL dancing. It just makes me feel better to watch these videos. I hope all is well and thanks for sharing, thanks for reading. ;-) peace

For my Aunt D.

Old School


The new Fancy.

Watch the Feet!

For my regular readers, my auntie has just a couple days left from the cancer. For new readers, well my auntie has cancer. I wanted to post some dancing videos from my culture. We have old school fancy dancing and then we have fancy SHAWL dancing. It just makes me feel better to watch these videos. I hope all is well and thanks for sharing, thanks for reading. ;-) peace

For my Aunt D.

Old School


The new Fancy.

Our New Couch

A few days ago the co-ep of the current show I'm working on and I were talking and she mentioned that she is moving and selling everything. I asked if she had a couch since Harry and I were looking for a new one. She did have one and I asked what it looked it. When she described it to me it sounded like everything that Harry and I were looking for. I asked her to send a picture (above) and once I saw it and knew it was exactly what we were looking for. She was going to give us a great deal (which she did) but the only problem is she was moving the weekend and Harry and I were going to the Star Trek Tour Friday through Sunday. So we had a few days to find a truck and get it from her place in Venice. Luckily my friend Chris let us use his truck so after work today Harry and I drove to my friends Chris's place, pick uped his truck then drove to Robyn's place and loaded up the couch, then drove to Reseda to our place and dorpped it off then drove back to Chris's place in Hollywood to drop off his truck.. when we finally got home it was around 11pm and after working 11 hour day then 4 hours driving and moving I was exhusted, but we got our beautiful new couch in and set up.

Stiletto setup

Today's photo is artist Jay Rolfe setting up his show, with the reception to be held tomorrow evening from 6-8 pm, to benefit Action AIDS at Stiletto in Bryn Mawr. The 4 feet long red Ferrari 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas painting has just emerged from the bubble wrap and is about to be placed. We hope to see you Friday night!

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create Uplifting Conversation Pieces.

BSG Figures

Today when I got home there were several packages. I pre-order a bunch of things and sometimes wait over a year for things to arrive. Today I got series one of the Battlestar Galatica figures.. I ordered these figures early last year and it's taken a while for them to arrives but they are pretty cool and well worth the wait. Also I got my Picard in Starfleet chair, this figure was a replacement figure. The first one was sent to our old apartment and the person there accepted it and signed for it... can you believe it. So they had to re-send me a new one. So now I have my Riker in chair which I got about a week earlier and my Capatian Picard in Chair..

Matisse "Moroccans"

Artist Jay Rolfe is involved in preparing for an opening reception on Friday February 1, 2008. See my website for details. There are a million things to do, some large, some small.

Henri Matisse painted "Moroccans" in 1915-1916. It's on display at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC where artist Jay Rolfe has seen it many times. The representation of the figures and the objects in the scene are somewhat difficult to decipher. When one looks at it long enough, one can clearly see all the elements. It is today's photo of the day.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create Uplifting Conversation Pieces.

Friends with God

More Jon Lajoie, seriously he could put out a CD, I love his voice...hmm...he could do voice over work. He's just frickin hot! He's on the right road though, 'cause he is funny! ;-) enjoy!

Friends with God

More Jon Lajoie, seriously he could put out a CD, I love his voice...hmm...he could do voice over work. He's just frickin hot! He's on the right road though, 'cause he is funny! ;-) enjoy!

Friends with God

More Jon Lajoie, seriously he could put out a CD, I love his voice...hmm...he could do voice over work. He's just frickin hot! He's on the right road though, 'cause he is funny! ;-) enjoy!

Giclee

Artist Jay Rolfe is getting giclees on canvas produced of some of his paintings. After a lot of time spent on the proof stage over the past two weeks, they are finally printed and look great. Most of today was spent by Jay Rolfe putting together stretchers and stretching the canvas giclees over them. They look great! Before the giclees were ready, artist Jay Rolfe photographed some of his recent paintings.

Today's photo is of a recent version of Jay Rolfe's Red Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder 3DSSC painting, this one 6 feet long as opposed to the 8 feet in length of the first one. You can actually watch a video of Jay Rolfe painting this very painting on You Tube. Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvOtBjc5om8 The video is a little slow, as is painting, but not like watching paint dry.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create Uplifting Conversation Pieces.

Surprise in the Mail

Today before I headed into work the Fedex guy dropped by the house. He had two large boxes. I signed for them and figured Harry had bought something because I knew it wasn't something that I bought. I put them in the car and figure I would give them to him after work. As I was getting out of my car at work I noticed the name on the address of who they were coming from and knew they were the speical gifts that we were to get with the purchase of the Captain's VIP Package for the Star Trek The Tour. When I got home I opened them and they were these really nice and well made messenger bags with the Star Trek The Tour logo on the front. We also got our VIP badges... can't wait for the weekend!!!

"The Wind and the Lion"

Jay Rolfe's updated website can be reached either through www.3dssc.com/ or www.jayrolfe.com/.

Jay Rolfe has been reading about Matisse's time in Tangier Morocco in the winter of 1912 in the Hilary Spurling bio "Matisse The Master." While Matisse was there, the French signed a treaty with the Sultan in Fez and made Morocco a French protectorate. That sounded a little like an old movie Jay Rolfe enjoyed, "The Wind and the Lion" made in 1975 starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen with John Huston and Brian Keith. In the winter of 1913 Matisse was back in Tangier and wrote postcards to his son Jean. "One showed a Riff tribesman from the same village as the bandit king Raisouli, a local Robin Hood famous for charging exorbitant ransoms to release Westerners ... whom he kidnapped on the outskirts of Tangier." In the movie, Sean Connery played a Riff tribal leader named Raisouli who kidnapped an American woman played by Candi Bergen. The movie is a great adventure, and the idea at least seems to be drawn from history. Jay Rolfe recommends "The Wind and the Lion" as a charming historical adventure. It is rated PG and available on DVD from Netflix.

Candi Bergen attended Penn while Jay Rolfe was at Penn Law School. They never met. It was before her acting career, but Candi was famous as Edgar Bergen's daughter (Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy), a model, and dating Hollywood leading men. Today most people know Candi as Murphy Brown from the long-running TV show.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create Uplifting Conversation Pieces.

Everyday Normal Guy 2

Just a regular Everyday Normal Mother Fucker... :) LOL here is part 2 of Jon Lajoie's Everyday guy.

Everyday Normal Guy 2

Just a regular Everyday Normal Mother Fucker... :) LOL here is part 2 of Jon Lajoie's Everyday guy.

Everyday Normal Guy 2

Just a regular Everyday Normal Mother Fucker... :) LOL here is part 2 of Jon Lajoie's Everyday guy.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

We had planned to visit my Dad today but since it's raining and at time very hard we decided to stay in. Since we had some time to kill and nothing was on TV Harry and I decided to watch The Sarah Jane Adventures. This is another spin off of the Doctor Who series. Sarah Jane was a very popular companion on the old Doctor Who series. They brought her back in an episode of the new Doctor Who and she was such a hit they decided to do a show for her. I have had the episodes for quite some time just haven't had the time to watch them. I finally burned them to DVD and we started to watch the 10 episode series. Each story made up two of the 1/2 hour episodes. So it was like watching 5 one hour shows.

This series is geared toward kids and you can tell that while watching but it's not so kiddy that adults can't enjoy it. I really liked the stories, some were better then others but overall this was a great addition to the Who world along with Doctor Who, Torchwood and now The Sarah Jane Adventures.

I heard this series was picked up for 24 more episodes... can't wait.

Will the rain every stop

It's been raining for seven days straight and they say we have an on and off chance of more rain until Tuesday evening. At this moment in time So.Cal has had more rain then Seattle WA.. now that's crazy.

New Website Up!

Finally, artist Jay Rolfe has uploaded his new website! You can see it at www.3dssc.com/. It has a lot more color and reflects the feeling of Jay Rolfe's paintings. It is also a more modern design, and one the artist can update easily with his latest paintings. In fact, more new paintings need to go up. The artist thought it was more important to get the new design up and running than to have all the new paintings up. The new paintings will be added in the near future. It feels like quite an accomplishment for a novice to learn Dreamweaver CS3 well enough to put together a 47 page website, let alone one with a menu bar that uses Java script. Jay Rolfe had no idea how much work he was getting into when he started.

Today's photo is an image from the website of artist Jay Rolfe.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

Everyday Normal Guy

Hilarious! Jon Lajoie is a comedian who put this on youtube, I like it and he's cute...so here he is. :)

Everyday Normal Guy

Hilarious! Jon Lajoie is a comedian who put this on youtube, I like it and he's cute...so here he is. :)

Everyday Normal Guy

Hilarious! Jon Lajoie is a comedian who put this on youtube, I like it and he's cute...so here he is. :)

Torchwood Season 2 Episode 2

Today I managed to get a copy of Torchwood Season Two Episode Two. I had high hopes for this episode since the first episode was really good and this one did not disappoint. Like I have said.. everything is better about this series. This was a very well written and intense episode. This one was setting up some thing that I'm sure will see later this season. The problem with last season is all the characters were so hard to like.. they were all so very flawed. But this season each character is shining and coming into their own. I can't wait for episode three.

Juno

Today I saw Juno, I have heard some good things about this little film. I have to say it was very cute.. kind of a slice of life type of film..It was a simple story told through the eyes of a 16 year old pregant girl named Juno. The acting was great and I like the quirkiness feel to it. This is a must see.

My First Race!

I am too cool. I ran my very first race this morning. It was rainy and cold, but oh my god it was awesome!

Originally, I went down to watch and cheer on a friend, but before I knew it I was signing up and pinning on my race number.

There were hundreds and hundreds of people: men, women, senior citizens, kids. I lined up with everybody (in the back, mind you--no way I was getting run over). I thought I was just going to walk it, but before I knew it the race started, and all these people were passing me by, and my adrenaline kicked in, and I was off!

I only stopped once (okay twice) for a walking break. The streets were closed for the race and lined with people cheering all of us on. It was like nothing I had ever experienced before and definitely something I'll do again!

Oh, and they tied this micro chip into my running laces and had a computer that clocked my time. Pretty nifty!

Citronelle

Other appropriate names for this post:
We're Number One
How The Other Half Lives
Hm--I Don't Know What It Is But It Tastes Great
Foie Who?

The experience I had at Michel Richard's Central last spring, while very pleasant, does not even fall upon the same map as what happened to me yesterday. We arrived at Citronelle and our friends were stuck in traffic--we later found that this doesn't matter when your dinner is 5 hours long, because they aren't expecting to ever turn your table over. Until tomorrow. Hah.

When you walk through the doors you are at the bar, and down a few stairs a friendly-looking man is smiling at you, wondering if he can lead you to your table downstairs. And he did.

We had the nine course tasting menu, and I wouldn't have done anything differently. The idea of fifteen was a little scary, and any less than nine would have sacrificed the experience of tasting more of the kitchen's magical creations.

As a whole, the menu was fantastic. I tried foods I'd never had before, and even if I had, those foods took on a completely new and unexpected form. The wine was incredible (we shared two bottles, one white and one red, instead of doing the pairings), the sommelier was so adorable we wanted to take him home with us (yes, and he was very learned in the ways of wine selection), and the thick pieces of crusty bread kept reappearing on my plate all night long. At first I was confused, because I was sure I had eaten it all, but BAM there it was again.

While everyone had a different opinion about what was out-of-this-world, I'll give you my highlights from the complete menu, or at least my favorite part of each dish.

1. Amouse bouche: The escargot crumble (crumble being mainly pistachio nuts) was the most incredible item on the plate, but best presentation goes to the egg surprise (cauliflower mousse topped with tiny pieces of smoked salmon, inside a perfectly-lengthwise-cut hollowed eggshell with a tiny round handle glued (?) to the top half).

2. The chestnut-peanut soup was smooth and rich, not too peanut-y.

3. I liked the abalone, but can't explain why. Leave me alone!

4. The sablefish was marinated in miso for three days, and you can taste that fact. The top had those delicious flavors, while the inside was creamy and just melted in my mouth. The temperature was nice and hot, but the fish was still so moist.

5. My favorite part of the fun lobster burger was the incredibly tiny and perfect fresh bun and the homemade potato chips that tasted like a piece of heaven. A friend said they were "salty" but I respectfully dissent!

6. The veal steak was tender and flavorful, and the sweetbreads, despite their happy sounding name, come from a strange place--but they tasted great to me, almost in a crispy outside--it seemed like if you had breaded and fried something with the consistency of a soft fresh mozzarella, very smooth and creamy.

7. The imported cheeses were great, I loved the goat and the blue (bleu?) in particular. J & I were surprised at how well the dark raisin/pistachio bread slices we received complimented the cheese so well. How can we be skeptical of these people, they clearly know best, but still--he's not the biggest fan of raisins OR nuts. If there was ever a time for us to trust the chef, it was last night.


8. Jolie Pomme: This deconstructed caramel apple might have been my favorite dish--definitely my favorite "dessert." The most real tasting mini-apple-shaped granny-smith-apple sorbet with a vanilla/cinnamon piece of bark for a stem, sitting on just enough caramel. Those are paper-thin slices of apple in the photo. which tasted almost like a sugary-candy that melts on your tongue, but we were assured they were real apple. Photo credit to Washingtonian magazine.

9. The chocolate three ways had one piece I found bland, the white chocolate panna cotta, but the middle piece was a gem--very cold chocolate-shell-covered chocolate mousse on a mini popsicle stick. It was good AND fun to eat.

10. The petit fours gave me an unexpected (and unwanted) surprise in the chocolate/raspberry malt ball. But another, what seemed to be a ball of white chocolate with a lemon meringue pie explosion inside, was very fun. Dessert in one bite.

Will I go back? If I can, I will--but it may take years. I had never been exposed to a tasting menu before, and it's everything I've ever wanted (besides good health, world peace, safe families, etc etc). You can have just a bit of everything without being wheelbarrowed home. The food was like art--luckily I didn't think it was too beautiful to eat.

I don't know if they read the blog, but I want to thank our hosts for providing the best company a couple could ask for, and inviting us to the best meal we've ever had.

Michel Richard Citronelle
3000 M Street NW
Metro: Get to Georgetown (walk/shuttle from Foggy Bottom or Rosslyn Metro, or take the DC Circulator)
Better off in a cab or valeting.

Five Episodes Down

Today I finished our fifth episode of Big Medicine... only eight more to go. Online went pretty smooth today. Video, Audio and then layback.. nothing like watching a show three times in a row in a matter of 10 hours.. fun fun.

Matisse "Woman In Blue"

Last night some local artists got together and talked painting and artists' legal matters. Surprisingly, two of us used to practice law but now paint. It was lots of fun!

I'm still reading Hilary Spurling's Matisse bio, "Matisse The Master," and probably will be for a while. So today's photo of the day is another Henri Matisse painting from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this one titled "Woman In Blue" and painted in 1937. I've seen it many times, and the color must have faded, as it looks like a woman in gray to me.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

TV Night

Tonight for TV night we watched our ususal Buffy episode but for treat we watched the first episode of season two of Torchwood. I enjoyed season one of Torchwood, it had it's ups and downs but WOW.. the first episode of season two was AWESOME!!! The writing, the acting, the story, the over all look of the show. I looked forward to season two of Torchwood.

Early Matisse "Still Life"

Artist Kiki Smith was scheduled to speak at U Penn yesterday and artist Jay Rolfe was one of 500 people registered to attend. Alas, less than 36 hours before, the talk was cancelled with an email message saying Kiki had the flu. That was disappointing.

Today's photo is an early Matisse, from 1901, before he got into color, line, and form, when he was still doing traditional paintings in a traditional and somewhat impressionistic way and earning money copying old master paintings at the Louvre. It is titled "Still Life" and is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

Rain, rain and more rain

It's been raining all week and they expect it to ran until next week. At times it's difficult to drive in it because it's coming down so hard. Streets are flooded but luckily we haven't had any problems with our house.

Henri Matisse "Bather" at MoMA

Giclee prints of some of artist Jay Rolfe's paintings are coming soon. He's had 2 paintings scanned and been working on the proofs the last few days. Soon he'll have the giclees ready to go to collectors who want the image.

The photo of the day is another painting by Henri Matisse, this one at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and painted in 1909. It's called "Bather." The colors and shape are familiar from "The Dance" painted the same year and featured on this blog a few days ago, Friday January 18, 2008.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

In Memory of Heath Ledger

Such a loss, so talented and so young.
1979-2008

In Memory of Heath Ledger

Such a loss, so talented and so young.
1979-2008

In Memory of Heath Ledger

Such a loss, so talented and so young.
1979-2008

Torchwood Season 1 on DVD

Today I picked up Torchwood Season One box set on DVD. This is a spin off series of Doctor Who. It's more adult with much more adult themes then Doctor Who. Season one was pretty good.. it's had some okay episodes but then it had some AWESOME episodes. I look forward to season two.

Matisse "Le Bonheur de Vivre"

Hilary Spurling's Matisse biography "Matisse The Master" is really entertaining artist Jay Rolfe. It's hard to appreciate today that Henri Matisse's color, line, and form were at the time considered very, very radical.

Today's photo is a good image of Matisse's "Le Bonheur de Vivre" or "The Joy of Life" painted in 1905-06. Artist Jay Rolfe enjoys seeing the original is the wide stairwell to the second floor of the Barnes Foundation in Merion PA. This painting was painted before cubism started, and before Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" of 1907 (which was reputedly painted in part as a response to Matisse's "Le Bonheur de Vivre") which is now at MoMA in NYC.

The second photo is Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" painted in 1907. Here's the link to the painting on MoMA's website. http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4609&page_number=17&template_id=1&sort_order=1

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

Stiletto

Today artist Jay Rolfe took 2 of his 3-D stiletto paintings to Stiletto in Bryn Mawr in preparation for the reception on Friday February 1, 2008. Please see my website for details, and you are invited. They look great - you can see them in the windows. One of the paintings is the photo of the day. This one is 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 6 inches deep, and is titled "Hot!, Hot! Hot!".

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

Smogging Harry's Jeep

Today I put the new battery in Harry's Jeep and everything seems pretty good. It started up and ran pretty well. Since the jeep was running and his tags were out of date, though the registration is up to date just needed to get smog. I knew we had a pretty slim chance of passing but I hoped for the best. After an hour of testing the guy came back to me and say I have bad news.. the jeep did not pass.. he tired three times and said everything was great except they car wasn't getting enough gas. I told him the car has not run for a year and a half and he said.. that's probably the issue.. maybe the carburetor needs to be cleaned out. So it did not pass and we have 30 days to fix it and have it re-tested for free. Now we just have to find someone who knows about jeeps.

Car problems seems to be a family curse, I know my dad always had issues with cars and it seems that he passed it on me. I hope we can fix Harry's jeep in time so we don' t have to pay for the smog again.. seems like smog tests keep going on $60 bucks now for a test.

Tom's Birthday Party

Tonight Tom invited us out to celebrate his Birthday (which is tomorrow). He planned Dinner, Theater (his play) and dancing. Harry and I weren't feeling so hot all week but we didn't want to miss out on his Birthday celebration so we managed to go to Dinner. We went to a place in Studio City called Miceli's, where the waiters sang. It was a fun night. We opted out of the play and dancing as we didn't feel up to it.. but dinner was great and I heard everyone had a great time at the play and dancing afterwards.

Ferrari Rolling Sculpture

Again this Saturday morning artist Jay Rolfe viewed some exotic rolling sculpture at the local Starbucks in Dilworthtown PA. You may recall a large group of exotics last Saturday which was in the post on Sunday January 13, 2008. Although several car guys came out today, only one true exotic, a beautiful silver Ferrari 360 Modena, came out. The other guys came in BMW sedans, etc. I assume the reason is the snow we had on Thursday. You can see a pile of snow in the background of the photo of the day. While it had largely melted, there were some spots on the rural roads where snow melt had flowed across the road and frozen in the night. It was still below freezing this morning when the car guys met, so there was some risk to their cars.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

"The Dance" by Henri Matisse at MoMA

On Tuesday January 15, 2008, artist Jay Rolfe posted about Matisse's two Nasturtium paintings, one at the Met in NYC and one at the Pushkin in Moscow, both of which Jay Rolfe has seen and liked, with "The Dance" in the background. Here is "The Dance" from 1909 and now at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

Just because....

...I needed something pretty here! :) Hope everyone is well. Not much new going on here, just tired and tired of working. I have family from S. Dakota coming next month so I'll take a day or two off for that, they want to go to S.F. :) I think I can be a tour guide for them, last year we did S.F. this year my relatives want to go to Alcatraz, that should be fun.
;-) peace

Just because....

...I needed something pretty here! :) Hope everyone is well. Not much new going on here, just tired and tired of working. I have family from S. Dakota coming next month so I'll take a day or two off for that, they want to go to S.F. :) I think I can be a tour guide for them, last year we did S.F. this year my relatives want to go to Alcatraz, that should be fun.
;-) peace

Just because....

...I needed something pretty here! :) Hope everyone is well. Not much new going on here, just tired and tired of working. I have family from S. Dakota coming next month so I'll take a day or two off for that, they want to go to S.F. :) I think I can be a tour guide for them, last year we did S.F. this year my relatives want to go to Alcatraz, that should be fun.
;-) peace

First Look at the New Enterprise

They just released the first photo of the "New" Enterprise from the upcoming Star Trek 11 movie.. check it out.