In September 2002 Musea will turn ten years old. How the decade flew! In this issue we are beginning our 10th celebration with all things 10 - lists of all kinds of 10's in the arts and media. Enjoy! And as always, your comments are welcome. - editor Art S Revolutionary.
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, and she shall 'art surf' wherever she goes - Nursery Rhyme.
TEN BRIGHT IDEAS:
1. Build a library that's main goal is to get all the books and reference materials that other libraries across the country are now selling or throwing out.
2. Set up a Board Game Building at Fair Park where every board game that can be found is housed under one roof. Then anyone can, for a deposit, check one out and play at the tables there. Also set up tournaments where people can sign up to compete with others at chess, checkers, Monopoly, Clue, card games, etc.
3. Assemble a band that only plays covers of TV Theme songs. The Reruns?
4. Build not a bridge, but a town square across the Trinity River; a gathering place for pedestrians to meet others, read a book, or have a meal in a pleasant surrounding over the river; maybe two layers so that the lower one would be protected from bad weather.
5. Stop all wars - declare that only people OVER 40 can fight. Old soldiers never die; they send young ones to do it for them.
6. Mix housing in ALL Dallas neighborhoods with both rich and poor. That way we can have some affordable housing everywhere, and no property values would go down anywhere because they'd be similar throughout the city.
7. Invent a smell amplifier that does what microphone and amps do for the voice, telescopes and microscopes do for the eyes.
8. Set up days when the Amtrak trains go non-stop between major cities. That would invigorate the system by cutting down time lost in all the stops.
9. Set up a 2-SHARE DAY on every 2nd of the month. On this day instead of buying things for yourself, you buy something for someone else, or better yet share what you already have with someone else.
10. Set up a 'Round the World' radio show, where you travel once around the world and at every stop you play the music from that area.
TEN THINGS MOST PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD ANYMORE:
I work at a theater box office. When I tell people the price of their ticket, more and more of them flinch in horror at the high price. What I wish I could tell them is this: the truth is the arts aren't made for poor people, and fewer and fewer middle class people anymore. If a concert promoter can get 10 people to pay $100 each for a ticket, why wouldn't he do that instead of selling 100 people tickets for $10? The prices of art events and all things art related has gone up and up. Perhaps they've gone too far. Here are 10 things I can't afford anymore - and maybe you can't either:
1. Concert tickets and Ticketmaster fees.
2. Film tickets, theater tickets and concession prices.
3. Computers and computer games.
4. New CD's, DVD's, and Videos
5. Sports events, and pay-per-view TV
. 6. New hardback AND paperback books; and glossy magazines
7. Photography and cameras
8. Theme parks and souvenirs
9. Travel, airline, train, and cruise tickets. Hotel rooms.
10. Major art exhibits
TEN SAYINGS (from editor Art)
1. Blank texts say the most.
2. The writing's on the wall and you're calling it graffiti
3. Money is more important in societies that don't share.
4. All mortar - no bricks.
5. An ocean of stories in a bottle of ink.
6. Like trying to influence a baby with money and prestige.
7. Do you think your atoms are more important than other atoms?
8. She had rhythms that weren't 4/4.
9 The moon pulls tides seen and unseen.
10 Until the wind comes the chimes don't exist.
TEN CLASSICAL PIECES (to get you started) - Hey, this stuff won't appreciate itself!
Here is an introduction to the beauties of classical music. You may not think you like classical music, but you'll probably love almost all of these. Most people do.
1. BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for Organ. This is haunted house music at its best, and no one has surpassed it for chills in the 300 years since it was composed. Booo!
2. BEETHOVEN: Two choices (among a plethora): For romantics start with the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata. For the rest its the best symphony of all the Symphony #9 in D Minor with the Ode to Joy finale. Music at the highest level, period! Those who know it can add their own novel of praise here.
3. CHOPIN: The Minute Waltz. The best composer for piano has a fast trilling piece with a 'deep lilt' to it. Once hooked, listen to his nocturnes, etudes, and preludes, oh my!
4. DEBUSSY: Claire de Lune. Heavenly music - moon inspired.
5.GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue. What's this - classical AND jazz from a pop song composer? It's the cat's meow!
6. MENDELSSOHN: Incidental music for a Midsummer Night's Dream. Bubbling magic in assorted themes - and the overture written at 17!
7. MOZART: Variations on a French Theme. The title sounds snooty but what it is is variations on the theme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star- an enchanting genuis at work here. (And for the more serious among us try Symphony #40 in G Minor K. 550. The opening has a real kick to it.)
8. SCHUBERT: The Unfinished Symphony #8. Lost then found again by a conductor on the prowl for missing manuscripts, this bit of music has been called the 'greatest fragment in music. Symphony music of stark beauty by a composer who died too too young.
9. JOHANN STRAUSS: The Blue Danube Waltz. Ballroom waltzing music that takes you straight to turn of the century Vienna - perhaps classical music's best 'bandleader' - even among a family of them.
10. TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker Suite. A Christmas favorite and perhaps the most beautiful and melodic of all ballets - Watch for the Sugar Plum Fairies!
TEN TYPES OF PREDATORY ADS
If you're the target audience, advertisers are aiming at you. And they are everywhere, everywhere - the poor people's paparazzi ! Here are the worst examples:
1. Computer spam and pop-ups
2. Mail circulars - small newspaper sized! Also newspaper inserts, magazine renewal slips (I say collect them all, drop them in the mail and use up their postage till they cry 'uncle'.)
3. Telemarketers. Put me on your no call listers!
4. Rubber banded to your doorknob, (ransom note?) or slipped under your windshield.
5. Cereal boxes, fruit (with movie ads!) anything bought at the store + the store sacks.
6. Radio - 40 min. of music, mean 20 minutes of ads!
7. TV ads where they pump up the volume till its blasting out your TV.
8. Billboards and storefronts. Beautify America - buy a billboard and tear it down. 9. Sales receipts, store displays, and packaging.
10. Movie and TV product placement.
I say 5 strikes and you are out. If customer, us, doesn't reply within 5 attempts, then advertiser must stop the onslaught for that year. If not then the customer can charge the advertiser with harassment and/or stalking. This is especially true for 1-4 above.
10 ROCK OPERAS I'VE WRITTEN (and how I almost invented the idea)
It was a big deal when the Beatles album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band came out. It was so different - a pop group doing art songs with the most extraordinary arrangements! But the biggest thing to me was the idea that they ran a few of the songs together into a story. I didn't know you could do that. And I being a singer/guitarist/composer/vocalist in a vocal group since the year I first heard the Beatles, wanted to try my hand at the idea. I was working on an imaginary album - I always liked to arrange the songs I wrote into an album format - when I decided that one side was going to tell a story.
Those days were all hippies and psychedelic-ish so I thought of a story I called Jenny Snatchbuttons Platinum Train. But the fantasy part kept getting in the way of the story. And soon the thing had changed to a very simple love story, 16 songs long, called John & Martha. I began spending more and more time working on it. Soon I had incorporated the idea from Shakespeare of having 5 acts with each act having scenes and each scene being a song. It was all coming and evolving nicely when - and I remember this moment in time - I was laying on my bed reading the latest Billboard magazine - it was affordable then - and there was this story or ad, I forget which, saying that the Who have recorded a rock opera called Tommy. Here was a major group doing MY idea - FIRST. And not only that but they named it with MY NAME.
Truth is the Who's Tommy was a very cool and original idea. And I admit it. They beat me to the finish line. It was a shock though. I really thought I was going into untrod paths. But so be it. I finished John & Martha about 1970. And in parts you can even hear the Who's influence in my work. I was so enamored with the possibilities that I kept writing my - not quite rock operas, that's a phrase too melodramatic - but my 'illustrated short stories' for the next 10 years. I did about 2 a year and each became more and more complex with plot, characterization, action - all through music....
Since I first wrote this for my e-mail club, I've learned from a reader that there was a rock opera that preceded Tommy by the British group, "The Pretty Things" called S.F. Sorrow. And here's another fact/surprise, the world premier for the '75 film, Tommy occurred at the Inwood Theater where I now work (and play music).
1. JOHN & MARTHA. John looses one love and finds another. This simple love story was highly influenced by the love story in Romeo & Juliet. Instead of a balcony scene, they fall in love in the more mundane laundromat, but the passion is still just as real.
2. 76Th STREET. The story is about the people living on 76th St. including a single mother, Kandy Wilson who falls in love with a runaway.
3. CHARLIE & GEORGIE. Two shoe clerks try to escape their hum-drum lives, move to another town where they hope to buy their own liquor store. Gang aft agley!
4. SENLIN. Senlin is the world's best modern dancer. Yet her love life is a disaster. This tells the story of one day and night with the legendary Senlin.
5. MORGAN'S WIFE. Morgan's wife is trapped in a bad marriage where her only identity is through her abusive husband. She tries to run away with a photographer she has met.
6. THE EVE OF THE FULL MOON. A puppet show, a theater, and the full moon, all influence the characters in startling ways - characters include the theater manager, the puppeteer, a child escaping from bullies, a superstitious widow, etc.
7. EVERYTHING'S PEACHY, EVERYTHING'S DUCKY. Raoul just lost his wife. His friends and family get him to take a trip to end his sorrow. The bulk of the story is his road trip adventure, and his awakening from his lost love.
8. Unfinished (working title Fox & Geese. Erotic story of two passionate lovers.)
9. THE CHEERLEADERS OF NATHAN HIGH. The story of two generations of a proud southern family.
10 CENDRILLON, THE TRUE STORY OF CINDERELLA, a radio play: see Musea #110-111.
11. HEARTS & FLOWERS. The story of Hart and Flora Baker, brother and sister. She is a 'B' actress who's boyfriend is missing, and he is accused of stealing an Impressionist painting from an office building.
12. Unfinsihed (working title Gifted. This will be the biggest project by far in this genre. It has over 50 songs already with the main story being a portrait of a major city in our day and age. The main character is the 'gifted' daughter of Flora Baker (see #11) who begins as a doctor in training, but changes to a healer - add to this all the sights and sounds of a major metropolitan area. Even the author makes an appearance as Tom Hendricks, the rock star - in a mix of story and truth.
13. Unfinished (working title The Play of the Waves. A fantasy of the sole survivor of a shipwreck who is saved by an abandoned Flying Dutchman type ghost ship.
14. Unfinished (working title, The House of the Late Mrs. Finely. The haunted house has secrets that only the late Mrs. Finley can reveal.
Someday I hope I can finish the last few, and you can hear all 14. One final 'note'. In 1984, I was able to assemble a small cast and record John & Martha starring the gifted Karen Bella as Martha, and me as John.
TEN WE REMEMBER.
We remember the passing of these artists:
1. Dave Berg, Mad Magazine cartoonist known for "The lighter side of...". 2. Jack Kruschen, a versatile and hard working TV and film character actor - with 75 films, and even more TV shows to his credit. You'd recognize his face but not his name. 3. Otis Blackwell, 50's songwriter of Breathless, Fever, etc. 4. Bill Peet, Disney artist whose characters included Dumbo, screenwriter of 101 Dalmations, plus author of 35 children's books. 5. Lew Wasserman, movie mogul who along with partner Jules Stein, turned MCA (Universal) into a powerhouse where he reigned for 50 years. 6. Milton Berle, 'Uncle Miltie, the king of the new medium of TV in the 50's in his Tuesday night Texaco Star Theater, comedy show. 7. Billy Wilder, major director of dark classic comedy dramas such as Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard and many more. 8. Mildred Benson, writer of 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books including the first volume of the series, The Secret of the Old Clock -under the pen name Carolyn Keene. 9. Robert Urich, charming actor best known for his detective TV series, Vega and Spenser:For Hire. 10. Linda Boreman, starred as Linda Lovelace in the '72 porn film, Deep Throat, and later became an anti-porn advocate. [Note: Death refuses to play by the rule of tens so we'll add a few more] 11. Joe Cobb, the fat kid in Our Gang, the Hal Roach silent classic comedies of some mischevious but inventive Little Rascals. He appeared in 86 installments. 12. Ken Gjemre, co-founder of the Dallas based used book store chain , Half Price Books, always a booklover and browser's delight. 13. Steven Jay Gould, superb writer of biology related essays, and books, co-author of the theory of 'punctuated equilibrium' and often defender of evolution against creationists. 14. Dudley Moore, actor in such films as Arthur and Ten (how appropos); and a fine pianist too. 15. John Agar, husband of Shirley Temple, and actor in such wide ranging roles as John Ford westerns to 50's 'B' sci-fi films such as Mole People, The Brain From Planet Arous, Tarantula etc. 16 Maria Felix, glamorous actress of 47 Mexican films from 42-66. 17. Dee Dee Ramone, bassist of the Ramones rock group.18. Bill Blass, 3 decade long, fashion designer. 19 Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember a riveting true account of the sinking of the Titanic.
TEN IN DECORATIVE ARTS.
Too often the decorative arts play 2nd fiddle to the fine arts. Each demands creativeness and craftsmanship. Perhaps the decorative arts needs a better agent! Anyway here are some of my favorites in the field:
1. SHAKER FURNITURE etc. The American religious group, Millenial Church or better known as the 'Shakers' founded in 1747, is also known for their simple and zen-like elegance in everything they make and design. Religious based craftsmanship pares everything down to the essentials.
2. TIFFANY. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) started an interior decorating firm in N.Y. that soon had the reputation for making classic vases, lamps, stained glass, etc. - all in a fluid and Art Nouveau style.
3. PUEBLO & NAVAJO. The Native American artists were masters of indigenous crafts. Specifically I'll mention the weaving of blankets, rugs, clothes etc., and the weaving of baskets of the two southwest tribes, the Pueblo and Navajo. Both types of weaving are highly prized for their geometric designs and often bold colors.
4. FABERGE. Peter Carl Faberge inherited his father's jewelry worshop in St. Petersberg, Russia. He is best known for the "Faberge" eggs he made for the Tzar (though he never actually made one - they were created by a division of his workshop). Also made were one of a kind jewelry, silver, picture frames (my favorite) objects d'art, etc. All take elegance and extravagance to unheard of heights.
5. WILLIAM MORRIS. This English Pre-Raphaelite, began Morris & Co. in 1861 as a revolt against growing industrialization. He wanted to bring back craftsmanship. He is considered the greatest English designer of the 19th cent. with output in wallpaper (my favorite) , tapestries, furniture - all kinds of things in what I call a sort of Victorian meets Medieval style.
6. GEODESIC DOMES. The brain child of architect R. Buckminster Fuller, geodesic domes are bubble like structures based on triangles arranged into diamond shaped squares. The buildings produced are lightweight, strong, requires no internal support, and can be built in any size. "Bucky" was way ahead of his 20th century time period in design and ideas.
7. BAKELITE. Trade name of one of the earliest plastics, invented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland. It can be formed in any shape, was mostly in browns and blacks and is relatively inexpensive. Look for it at its best in old time radios - an elegant plastic!
8. RAYMOND LOEWY. Industrial designer who brought the world into the future, spotlighted in his 1939 NYWorlds Fair exhibit with drawings of a 4 decker airplane, streamlined trains, triple unit truck, double decked autobus, single masted ocean liner, etc. His motto was MAYA = Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable. Think of the clunky 'Model T" Ford, then imagine the sleek and streamlined Car designs of the 40's. He was key in that Depression era change.
9. BOOK DESIGN. Two favorites here. In the professional level - Dover Books for being well made and designed, easy priced, and with subject matter that covers a wide range of hard to find classics. On the not-quite-prime-time level - Zines. Those 1,000's of single author, illustrator, editor, designer desk top publications from the 80's to today. Design is always one of a kind and in the best works they rival any works of art in bookmaking + they suggest a new form of book art - the all by a single author/craftsman, type book run.
10. YVES SAINT LAURENT. Opened his own clothesmaking shop in '61 with the chic Beatnik look, and from then on it was classic clothes after classic clothes. This French contemporary clothes designer (he retired this year) is the best from a land of great designers.
TEN REASONS TO HAVE CAR FREE ZONES IN BIG CITIES
Who rules? Do we rule cars or cars us? It's time for like-minded people to take back some of the streets... from cars!
1. Elders who don't drive, but still need access to stores, post office, etc. Where they can walk or be strolled to safely.
2. Kids who play. They can safely walk or bike to school, church, stores, etc. And car-free zones make room for parks, playgrounds, etc.
3. Exercise (walking, jogging, skating, biking) for the fat in all of us. It's not only more physically healthy to walk or exercise often, but less stressful in every way.
4. No drive-by shootings. All crime would have to run away. Police could be on foot, horse, bike, or motorbikes. Most criminals would target other areas. Also more people on the street mean more 'eyes' to catch criminals.
5. More fun and socially engaged: walking, strolling, window shopping, dating, congregating together, partying, celebrating holidays, etc. Also a great place for the rest of the city to visit and have fun - but park the cars outside the zone!
6. Improves the sense of community through more physical contact between neighbors. People feel less isolated from others, more in touch with their neighbors, and more helpful and understanding in a crisis. Also builds friendships among people and support for the welfare of the city.
7. Supports those who oppose the excesses of cars, traffic, billboards, sprawl, and the noise and pollution they bring. Also those who don't want to waste time in rush hour traffic or the cost of owning and maintaining a car. The zone could even have a fleet of cars that anyone in that community could sign up for when they needed to travel to other parts of town. Also allows for smaller independent stores to have a fair chance against the huge mega parking lot chains.
8. Ends pollution (fumes, gas use, noise pollution etc,) in the car free parts of town plus takes traffic pressure off the other parts of town due to fewer commuters.
9. Sets up other types of transportation, bikes, trolleys, electric golf carts, electric trains, rickshaws, horse carts, - all the things that are interesting in big cities. Also allows for street venders, strolling musicians, etc.
10 Raises overall quality of life for the people in that car free zone - and by having that alternative in the city, it raises the living standards for the entire city.
10 GREAT PLAYWRIGHTS
Here is editor Art's choice for the best playwrights in literature:
1. AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, and EURIPIDES. Aeschylus added a 2nd reader (before that it was oratory) and drama is born and quickly flowers in the stark tragedy and elegant poetry of these three contemporary masters (c. 450 B.C.)
2. PLAUTUS (251-180 B.C.) etc. The greatest comic playwright of Rome translated Greek comedy into his own brand of theater fun with light plots of assorted mix-ups, tricky servants, boastful royals, sly wives, and witty farce of all kinds - situation comedy, the early days. Of his 130 plays, 21 remain.
3. KALIDASA (c.400 A.D.) Perhaps India's greatest writer in Sanskrit, of the masterpiece Shakuntala, a sophisticated erotic drama/poem with a happy ending.
4. JAPANESE DRAMATISTS. Too much to choose from: the highly stylized NO plays with their mostly historical themes, ex. The work of Seami Motokiyo (1363-1443); or KABUKI that evolved out of puppet theatre with its greatest master Chikamatzu Monzaemon (1653-1725). And we haven't even touched on all the Chinese drama masterpieces!
5. MYSTERY & MIRACLE PLAYS. Medieval plays at first done to illustrate bible stories (mystery) or lives of the saints (miracle), but later taking on a dramatic life of their own - pageantry that often reached literary heights with superb storytelling written in simple and profound language.
6.SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS. William Shakespeare was far from alone in playwright excellence around 1600. Also see MARLOWE, JOHNSON, KYD, WEBSTER, BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, FORD etc. And don't forget the often overlooked Spanish contemporary LOPE DE VEGA, the worlds most prolific playwright and certainly the most overlooked master.
7. ARISTOPHANES (Greek 445-380 B.C.) & MOLIERE (French 1622-1673) Both masters of witty, and satirical comedies: In Aristophanes The Birds visit cloud cuckooland, and in Molieres' Misanthrope find out why Alceste has become bitter about the goofy world he lives in.
8 IBSEN (1828-1906) The Norwegian shocked the world into modern drama with his then controversial, now multilayered dark plays. Anything from 1877 Pillars of Society on is a masterpiece.
9. THE EUROPEANS. Each country seemed to have a modern master: Russia, CHEKOV- 4 masterpieces from perhaps the greatest short story writer of all time; Italy, PIRANDELLO - Six Character in Search of an Author where what's real and what's play is askew; Germany, BRECHT inventor of the 'epic' theater , vast casts in big stories - choose any of numerous masterpieces ; Ireland, SHAW, plays with philosophy in the plots, including Pygmalion (later made into My Fair Lady); and perhaps we should add the French SARTRE- the diabolical No Exit and the Czech, CAPEK R.U.R.which introduced the word 'robot'
10. THE AMERICANS. EUGENE O'NEIL incredible innovator in American theater . Ex. from his prolific output includes a personal fav. The Harry Ape - and TENNESSEE WILLIAMS with his poetic losers in a cruel world starting with Laura and her "Glass Menagerie"
TEN COOL THINGS ON OUR WEBSITE THAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT.
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TEN FAVORITE ALBUMS FROM THE 60'S ERA.
What a time that was for music lovers! You probably know the big albums from the'British Invasion"era - they're still playing them on radio now, 40 years later! But here is a list of 10 from the mid 60's to the start of the 70's that are not only personal favorites but in my opinion, so wonderful that you've got to search them out and hear them.
1. THE VENTURES ON STAGE. The best instrumental group in one of the best live albums, performing most of their hits for maniacal crowds in Japan, England and the U.S. (Dolton Records)
2. NEW YORK TENDABERRY. One of the era's best songwriters, Laura Nyro, does her own stuff with her stark piano playing and a mountain range of high and lows. What extraordinary emotional depth in music. (Colombia Records)
3. ASTRAL WEEKS. Van Morrison is in a mostly jazz mode in this unique atmospheric album. Nothing else like it. History notes that even the jazz musicians backing him up didn't get what is was about. Most critics praise it as one of the best of the era - and I agree. (Warner Brothers)
4. BLUE. Joni Mitchell's best with her lilting and passionate love-lost stories with the sexy edge she adds. (Reprise)
5. RAM. Paul McCartney's second solo album after the Beatles break up, has tons of wonderful gems, including Ram On and Monkberry Moon Delight (Apple)
6. FOREVER CHANGES. Love has one of the era's classic albums. It's not that any single stands out but more that all the songs fit together into such a sustained mood of incredibly exciting and moving music. It is orchestra rock at its very best. (Elektra)
7. PURE DYNAMITE! LIVE AT THE ROYAL. Who was the best live performer in the 60's? James Brown. Who did the best live show on record in the 60's? James Brown. Hot! Hot! Hot! (King)
8. ODE TO BILLY JOE. Too many dismissed Bobbie Gentry because of the ubiquitous title hit. But this album is all southern atmosphere. The real ode is to growing up in rural Mississippi, and no other album of the era is as autobiographical and personal.(Capitol)
9. YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY. The Byrds best with every song a folk rock gem: So You Want to be a Rock 'n Roll Star, Have You Seen Her Face, etc. etc. (Columbia)
10. A MAN AND A WOMAN. The soundtrack to the most romantic film of the era, also has the most sensual and sexy music with a mix of bossa nova and French lyrics - by overlooked master Francis Lai. And listen for the song with heart beats as notes! (United Artists)
Too few numbers - too many choices. Here are some more to consider: A Tramp Shining, Richard Harris sings Jimmy Webb, If I Could Only Remember My Name, solo album by David Crosby, And the Hits Just Keep Coming from ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith, Rewind Johnny Rivers, The Moth Confesses, Neon Philharmonic, The Point, Nilsson. Etc. Etc. Etc.! What a plethora!
TEN QUOTES ON THE ARTS/MEDIA:
1. "We are not obliged to be surrounded by ugly things." - designer Philippe Starck.
2. "It's so literary, its unreadable!" - editor Art.
3. "When I have a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." - Renaissance scholar Erasmus.
4."It cannot be mere coincidence that most of the cultures we admire as having represented high points in the world's history also were great patrons of art." - William McCarter, Rita Gilbert.
5. "Cynics have said since the first outpourings of men's hearts, "There is nothing new in art; there are no new subjects." But the very reverse is true. There are no old subjects; every subject is new as soon as it has been transformed by the imagination of the poet." Hubbell, Beaty
6."Conciseness in art is both a necessity and an elegance. A concise man makes us reflect; a verbose man bores us." - painter Edouard Manet.
7."One morning, one of us was out of black and used blue. Impressionism was born." - painter Auguste Renoir.
8. "When Belo (or any media source) refuses to respond to inquiries, it suggests a secret agenda or secret policies that can't be questioned by outsiders. That may be acceptable for business, but it destroys any journalistic credibility." - editor Art.
9. "Frank (Sinatra) was in his trailer enjoying a drink when he was notified he had to be on the set, pronto. The shoot was two weeks behind schedule. Frank then tore twenty pages out of the script. "Now we're on schedule," he said." David Konow.
10. 'It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur." Alfred North Whitehead
Thanks for reading Musea. We are taking August off and will return in September. See you then.
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