Norm van Maastricht | October 25, 2008
I had a period of about ten years where I painted some. I was inspired to do so by a lifelong love for the artwork of Alberto Vargas. While I never came remotely close to his skill I did the best I could to portray femininity with affection and taste. My poroprtions were often wrong, [...]
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Tags: airbrush, painting, vargas, watercolor
Norm van Maastricht | October 24, 2008
The Mating Dance is a series of obvservations of human natrure in pursuits of (more or less) romantiic endeavor They are not in any particular order. That would imply rationality . The Mighty Hunter Speech. This is the verbal resume’ a guy goes into when he see a girl he like and wants to be with. [...]
Category: From the Bar |
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Tags: courtship, mating, speech
Norm van Maastricht | October 23, 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… It was the best of times; it was the worse of times… Today is tomorrow’s History and soon will exist only in old [...]
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Tags: backbar, brunswick, drinkhouse, salon, saloon, tavern
Norm van Maastricht | October 17, 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 actual running of a small bar is usually done by the owner or his Designated Lieutenant known as “The Bar Manager,” usually the [...]
Category: From the Bar |
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Tags: bar manager, charter boat, fishing, p.r. key
Norm van Maastricht | October 14, 2008
Somewhere lives a computer programmer who should be drawn and quartered. He/she would be the person who came up with the idea that the already frustrating task of making a phone call to a company and having to go through endless selections, menus and button pressing is lightened by creating something called “voice [...]
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Tags: robot, telephone, voice reckognition