Larry taught me how to read images, movies, televised story form for cultural historic purposes. Both from the writer(s)’ perspective and audience engagement. This post is going to take some time to draft, but The Bear episode I reference hit the bullseye. As said many times, Art will save us. At least it provides a common language (spoken or otherwise) with which to think and feel. Direction toward salvation/relief/release that is creative, inclusive, joyful, challenging and worth the effort.

Power Sex Money

mark rothko | black on grey (1969)

“It means you belong to a family and crew. It means that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything.”

America Is Great

Bullies in the Oval Office made mockery of America, today.

The man, the work, the intellect, the joy and curiosity that changed my life.

Thank you Larry, on the date before your birth. I miss you everyday.

Grateful.

"The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over."

I don't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it.

“Freedom, Movement, and Migration” on the National Mall

Title might change. Cheap lazy steal from the documentary title ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot.’

I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I'm forced to be an optimist. I'm forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

His playbook for court is pure Roy Cohn.

A film that started out to be a 10 minute short became a 44 minute documentary classic.
Full movie can be found at folkstreams.net/films/its-grits

Jacob Lawrence, "Brownstones," detail, gouache on board, 31.5" x 73.25", 1958. Clark Atlanta University Art Museum; Gift of Chauncey and Catherine Waddell, WC45. © 2018 Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society, New York.