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Sledding at Windford

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This is today's plan B painting. I could not get the originally planned one to work out. I probably should be a little more selective in the pieces I post, as this one is a bit marginal, but what the heck... you see I have a new hobby and it's given me an insight into what I'm doing.

My new hobby is listening to all the music that I've somehow missed over the last 60 years. It appears to amount to about 10 million tunes... I must make amends. Of course, I can't afford to buy these tunes, which is mostly why they have escaped my notice, but I've discovered lala.com, which in the 'States at least, lets me listen to most of the 8 million tunes they have once without paying anything. (It cost a dime if I want to hear it over (and over) again streamed from the 'cloud'.) While I like lots of different types of music, I've been mainly a mainstream jazz fan, but now I'm branching out and discovering new music... any suggestions are welcome.

Anyways, it is a somewhat sad fact that for the vast majority of tunes I can listen to them once -- even in the background -- and live the rest of my life without ever having to hear them again. I was feeling sorry for these artists when I realized that the same can be said for all art, paintings, writing, music, etc -- a glance, a listen, once read, and you move along. Unless some guy in a suit has figured out a way of making himself some money on your work, most artists reach so small of an audience that we are pretty much talking to ourselves -- out loud....which I, at any rate, find a liberating concept, but that's just me. And that is why I posted this painting: just talking to myself out loud...

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard
Image size
1950x1461px 1.34 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot G1
Shutter Speed
1/40 second
Aperture
F/2.2
Focal Length
13 mm
Date Taken
Jan 29, 2010, 4:27:57 PM
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