Thursday, January 31, 2008
Watch the Feet!
For my Aunt D.
Old School
The new Fancy.
Watch the Feet!
For my Aunt D.
Old School
The new Fancy.
Watch the Feet!
For my Aunt D.
Old School
The new Fancy.
Our New Couch

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.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
BSG Figures

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.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Friends with God
Friends with God
Friends with God
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.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Surprise in the Mail

"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.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Everyday Normal Guy 2
Everyday Normal Guy 2
Everyday Normal Guy 2
The Sarah Jane Adventures

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
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.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Everyday Normal Guy
Everyday Normal Guy
Everyday Normal Guy
Torchwood Season 2 Episode 2

Juno

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
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.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Five Episodes Down
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.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
TV Night
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.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Rain, rain and more rain
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.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Torchwood Season 1 on DVD
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.
Monday, January 21, 2008
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.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Smogging Harry's Jeep

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.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Tom's Birthday Party

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.
Friday, January 18, 2008
"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.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Just because....
;-) peace



Just because....
;-) peace



Just because....
;-) peace


