I mentioned a few months ago that Googlepages was switching over to Google Sites so I didn’t know what would happen to my old Googlepage that housed my very first uploads. Well the switch has been made and I still hate the backend of Google Sites but the switch didn’t really change much and everything [...]

Part 2 of a set of abstract paintings by Mark Rothko.

“It’s like looking into something very deep. You could fall in.” –Ken Cosgrove, upon seeing Bert Cooper’s Rothko painting for the first time on Mad Men.
Mark Rothko was an abstract expressionist (though he rejected the term himself) during the mid century. The Mad Men character Bertram Cooper (Cooper of Sterling Cooper ad agency) had [...]

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Warning! Pic intense post below.

When I think of Norman Rockwell I think of typical Americana: cherry pie, Grandma’s Thanksgiving dinner, a young couple eloping, you get the idea. I ran across this 1969 album cover on Vanity Fair’s website of all places. The story about how Norman Rockwell came to illustrate the cover of “a couple of bona-fide 60s [...]