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The Fox In Winter

Here's another scan from my postcard collection. It's of & by Franta Skála, the last one I have of what was a series of about 6 or 8.

Igls Austria 1970

In the early 70s I was a member of a Christian youth group called Agapé. I kid you not. We met in the basement crypt of some gothic church in Paris. Seriously. I can't ever remember doing anything vaguely religious, except maybe something to do with a Leonard Cohen album. "Suzanne" was big back then. Anyway for most of us, Agapé mainly was an excuse to get out of our houses, hang out in a crypt & get high & stuff. One of our members, who didn't get high, was Bobby Massie, the son of Robert K. Massie who wrote Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie the elder was inspired to write that book partly because of Bobby's hemophilia. What was uncool about Bobby was that he wore one of those Greek fisherman's caps, and what was cool about him was that he used to do wheelies - in his wheelchair - up and down the dozen or so steps into the crypt. He turned into a pretty amazing adult as well.

Anyway, the other great thing we did at Agapé was go on ski trips every year to Igls, Austria, where some of the events of the the 1964 & 1976 Innsbruck winter olympics were held. It was a small pretty town, we were young & stupid, we'd play a card game called Token which was just an excuse to creatively cheat, we'd drink Stroh rum, go puke in bars, smash ourselves witless drunkenly sledding into fenceposts at the bottom of the bunny slope. Good times.

Anyway I have scanned a couple postcards that I have had forever & this is the first one I'm posting, it's a postcard of Innsbruck etc that I bought on one of those Agapé ski trips.

Altiplano

Uschi

CHRISTMAS SPIDER

GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY

NOTHING STIRRING

AILEEN STREET CHRISTMAS LIGHTS 2008

AILEEN STREET CHRISTMAS 2008

Playons

Iodine sheet

La Florida

MSM BDAY

It's my mom's 78th birthday today. This is a drawing I did of her when I was 11 years old.

ALTAMIRA

PLAY MAS

SINK THE BISMARK Again

Boojum In Sunshine

Cozumel

Fog

Time for the Christmas Boot!

Radana

Wingless White Angel

Shelter

Jakub Open Studio

My friend Jakub Kalousek is having an Open Studio this Saturday & Sunday the 13th & 14th, showing some new prints he made recently back in Prague. Directions to his studio are below.


He'll also be launching his new project wherein you can buy time-shares in his original paintings. Actually it is really space-sharing: you get to buy a portion of the painting & have him paint whatever content you want him to in that area that you have purchased. Check this scheme out at Jakub Kalousek “R-Evolving Timeshare” series

From Marin
East on San Rafael Bridge
Take Hwy 580 East-Hwy 80
West
through Berkeley
Bear toward the left
lanes ….
Go about 4 miles
At the major interchange known as the McArthur Maze
take 880 toward San Jose
Go 1/4 mile and take the West Grand Ave/Maritime exit
Make a right on West Grand
Go about 1/2 mile
Make a left on MaritimeTurn on first traffic lights left into fenced gates - 2419 Ukraine Street - see Kalousek, Ranahan Productions signs out front on the building....drive through the gate with guard waving at you - if padlocked by some mysterious occurence, call me at 225 5837 or open it - the combination is 1-3-5-7. and drive into Ukraine street/yard/parking lot - and keep to the left . Look for building 2420 Ukraine - the last building on the left as you drive through another fence gate at the end of the parking lot - It’s one of the old Army Base Warehouses - STEINHEIMER LIGHTING HAS SIGN OUT THERE out front and you can see a access ramp on the side off the building.SEE PICTURE BELOW of my building and Look for my red ford minivan, ... my door are the last sliding door on left
>From 580/Hayward
Go toward the Bay Bridge on 580
The last exit before the bridge is West Grand/Maritime
Do a rapid dive to the right after 580 merges with 80
The exit will take you over the approach to the bridge
and reverse direction
Make a right on Maritime
Make a left on MaritimeTurn on first traffic lights left into fenced gates - 2419 Ukraine Street - see Kalousek, Ranahan Productions signs out front on the building....drive through the gate with guard waving at you - if padlocked by some mysterious occurence, call me at 225 5837 or open it - the combination is 1-3-5-7. and drive into Ukraine street/yard/parking lot - and keep to the left . Look for building 2420 Ukraine - the last building on the left as you drive through another fence gate at the end of the parking lot - It’s one of the old Army Base Warehouses - STEINHEIMER LIGHTING HAS SIGN OUT THERE out front and you can see a access ramp on the side off the building.SEE PICTURE BELOW of my building and Look for my red ford minivan, ... my door are the last sliding door on left


>From 24/Walnut Creek
Go toward the Bay Bridge on 24/580
The last exit before the bridge is West Grand/Maritime
Do a rapid dive to the right after 580 merges with 80
The exit will take you over the approach to the bridge
and reverse direction
Go about 1/2 mile or 3 traffic lights
Make a left on MaritimeTurn on first traffic lights left into fenced gates - 2419 Ukraine Street - see Kalousek, Ranahan Productions signs out front on the building....drive through the gate with guard waving at you - if padlocked by some mysterious occurence, call me at 225 5837 or open it - the combination is 1-3-5-7. and drive into Ukraine street/yard/parking lot - and keep to the left . Look for building 2420 Ukraine - the last building on the left as you drive through another fence gate at the end of the parking lot - It’s one of the old Army Base Warehouses - STEINHEIMER LIGHTING HAS SIGN OUT THERE out front and you can see a access ramp on the side off the building.SEE PICTURE BELOW of my building and Look for my red ford minivan, ... my door are the last sliding door on left

Fun Family Facts

Muddy Path Through Field of Yellow Flowers

Upcoming show at Room For Paint Room For Paper

(an excerpt from the catalogue essay:)

For the third installation in the room for paper, we’re showing early work—quite early in fact—of MacLeod’s, pencil and colored pencil drawings he did between the ages of four and six as a response to the world while living abroad with his parents. We’re treating the show as just that: early work by a mature artist. MacLeod defies easy categorization as a creative person. He is a maker of objects, a publisher of books, a performer, and a keen and compassionate social critic. A brief perusal of his bio will show that he has lived his life in such a way as to reach back and validate this precocious accomplishment in a manner few could. Any questions raised by showing a child’s art in a commercial gallery are assuaged by the fact that these renderings are simply very good drawings by any standards, from the deft sensitivity of the line to the economy of handling to the unhinged titles MacLeod later gave the works, such as Cowboy Jumps Statue, Angry at Snowman, and The Trouble I Had. Scott MacLeod’s unfiltered gestures in pencil on paper from 1960 and 1962 reveal an already differentiated perception of the world, presage a lifelong effort holding true to that vision, and underscore the best of what we hope to showcase here with future exhibitions in the room for paper.

George Lawson, Director
room for painting room for paper

Kathryn Kenworth

Just saw this great show of small sculptures by Kathryn Kenworth: "Boxcutter" at Soap Gallery - where next up is The Hoop Show.

Hello Hello

Camp

Settled

Fred Kahlo Self-Portrait

I found this sign, from the SFMOMA bookstore, in the dumpster after the Frida Kahlo show & just couldn't resist.

Mooses In Bathtubs with Budweisers

Sweets

After Dinner Mint

Marshmallow On Stick

CRAFT MATTERS

Craft Matters

Angus Podgorny

Lauren's Igloo

Lauren Davies bought this from me the other day. She has a keen interest in abject & imperfect attempts to represent the real world, especially the "exotic," the "foreign" and the "other."