Great songs from the 80’s? The top 80’s songs? The best songs of the 80’s? I recognize that compiling a unique list of the best songs of the 1980s is a highly subjective process open to a great amount of debate and discussion. I have endeavored to select songs that are still good. As such, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
Photos Of The Day: Dog Days In Domingo
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Continue reading
Photos Of The Day: Gold Mining In The Democratic Republic of Congo
Local mining for gold in the village of Mongbwalu in Eastern Congo: Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Gang Members In Haiti
Photos Of The Day: Gold Mining In Myanmrar/Burma
Photographs by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo… ****** BURMA: At a gold mine some 30 miles from the town of Myitkyina, dozens of Burmese miners, some as young as 14, work from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The technology is very rudimentary, and the work is hard: BURMA: This mining site, like others … Continue reading
Paintings Of The Day: The Solar Wind
A couple of my favorites from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto… The Polaris, Far North by William Bradford: Return of the Head Hunter by Arthur Heming: Continue reading
Paintings of the Day: Arnold Böcklin’s Island of the Dead
Now located in Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie: As an interesting “oh by the way”… Adolf Hitler was a great admirer of Böcklin and in 1933 acquired this painting, hanging it first in the Berghof in Obersalzberg and then, after 1940, in the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Fortunately, this version (my favorite) survived the war, unlike … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 