From The Bar ~ The Other Place…

| October 30, 2008

Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon In The Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails…                                                                                           The Other Place Every business has one.  They try to avoid calling the Other Place by name but every business does have one.  The [...]

Paper Dolls~ The Ink…

| October 30, 2008

This one has a story… My painting lapsed for a while and I was looking at my stock of material one day and noticed that a certain color of red was getting low.  It was made by a company called Pelikan in Germany. It was this red that I depended on when I painted my [...]

From The Bar ~ The Face On The Barroom Floor…

| October 28, 2008

Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon in the Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails…                                         The Face On The Barroom Floor… Actually, that’s a poem by Hugh Antoine D’Arcy. This is more about the face on the [...]

~ Station Break…. Nice shots from Nice Folk…

| October 28, 2008

A couple of quick photos, nicely done…. Sarah Sewell…she has a nice website… http://www.sewellphotos.com/   …then there’s this…     Mike Kolb took this shot in the summer of ‘08 with a digital camera.  It’s one of those shots… You could burn throught a box of batteries taking pictures all day and not get a [...]

From The Bar ~ Bartending, Cocktail Waitressing

| October 27, 2008

Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon in the Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails… Bartending and Waitressing The Focus of the job is this: The Perfect Customer Space: 1. A clean, dry surface 2. One Drink 3. A dry napkin 4. A clean [...]