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The Illustrations of Edward Gorey

A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBS Mystery series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey’s masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world. Link

The Photography of Bobby Neel Adams

Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and now resides in New York. After graduating from Goddard College in Vermont he moved to San Francisco where he resided and worked for the next eighteen years.

Much of Adams’ photographic work addresses the transformation of the human body by aging and circumstance. In the late 1980s he began using a photo montage technique he termed “photo-surgery,” in which photographs were altered though manual excision, collage, and sometime defacing of the subject. These projects included the series AgeMaps, FamilyTree, and Couples. Link

Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to others is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life is to do nothing.

The person who risks nothing,
does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave,
they forfeited their freedom.

Only the person who risks can be free

One Sentence Website

One Sentence is an experiment in brevity. Most of the best stories that we tell from our lives have one really, really good part that make the rest of the boring story worth it.

This is about that one line.

This is about telling the most interesting or poignant story possible in the least amount of words.

This is about small bite-sized pieces of extraordinary lives and ordinary lives alike… the happy, the sad, the funny, the depressing. Link

The Art of Ric Stultz

One of the most fascinating things that I find amusing about Ric is the ability to take ordinary objects, and some which have seem the passing of time, and turn them into ordinary everyday folks. His work is very creative and very thought prevoking. Link