CHURCH STREET STUDIO

Once upon a time my brother owned and operated a recording studio in Nashville TN. I did the logo/graphics for him, as pictured here. Alert: all the contact info is many, many decades out of date...

AFTER KLIMT

Look, you just can't read three books in one week about Gustav Klimt and not want to experience the exuberance first hand if you can at all paint or draw. I painted the above oil and mixed media on cardboard* from a photo of Klimt's teenage girlfriend Mizzi Zimmermann and made it late period unfinished Klimt, remembering the key to decorative elements is knowing when to stop. He worked from live models not photos, 

so this is not a copy of anything whatsoever by Klimt.

Mizzi was pregnant with his child when she posed for Klimt's Schubert at the Piano, oil on canvas, 1899, seen far left. This gorgeous work was destroyed in WWII (fortunately Kodachrome had been invented prior to same and we have its image in color.) Below, Klimt's The Bride, unfinished oil on canvas, 1917-18.

*the cardboard in question is a photographic mailing envelope proclaiming "DO NOT BEND" which I left in the composition as a random Marcel Duchamps factor a la the glass broken in transit of his The Bride Stripped Bare of Her Bachelors, Even.

Trivia: my better half Mr. Twister's favorite "Klimt" is a cartoon (left, fair use © Lessing Images) by the latter's pal, Austrian illustrator Remegius Geyling, of Klimt pausing from painting on his scaffold to be be served lunch by his nude models, also spoofing the artist's penchent for floating nudes with limbs akimbo (right, study for the now destroyed Medicine mural, oil on gesso on canvas, 1899.)

The Klimt is appealingly wry in the same fashion as the photo, fair use © Julian Wasser, above of author Eve Babitz with Dada artist Duchamps, referenced above.

SWISS FAIR 2015 with MR. TWISTER

Mr. Twister looking very Robert Redford at the 2015 Swiss Fair in City of Industry (Los Angeles outskirts.) 

His marksman team had just returned triumphant from the once every

5 years competition in

 Switzerland (see LINK),

Mr. Twister at right

in center.

 A Bernese Mountain Dog and me (guest photographer © 2015 Kurt Ingham.)

 

Swiss Fairground attraction: William Tell game wherein you shoot the apple off the head of the faux son with a crossbow.

GIA GOES TO LOMPOC

Gia goes to Lompoc CA, beloved of W.C. Fields in The Bank Dick to show in the Western Sighthound Specialty 7.24.15. No joy except seeing friends both human and canine. 

 

Above, what the modern dog showperson does in downtime, (in my case besides  encroaching on the bivouac of Borzoi owners Ian and Sherry O'Connor. Lebensraum!) Gia relaxes, Sarahbelle basks. Guest photographer © 2015 Kurt Ingham.

SUNFLOWERS 2015 BY DAY

Guest photographer: © 2015 Kurt Ingham. True height of sunflowers: gi-normous. I wear celebratory Klimt leggings* obtained after seeing Woman in Gold and reading its source Lady in Gold by Anne Marie O'Connor.

*design based upon Hope II by Gustav Klimt

SUMMER MOONFLOWERS: SUNFLOWERS AT NIGHT 7.21.15

                                                                                                                               Gia and Sarahbelle enjoy the summer night air in their back yard (daytime too hot.)

CALIFORNIA ROCKER INTERVIEWS MY BETTER HALF MR. TWISTER!

Left, Mr. Twister onstage in 1970; right, at the range in 2015. Still bad ass!

Wowza! Great interview by Donna Balancia with my better half Mr. Twister in today's edition of California Rocker. Click : LINK

LAWN GATOR

All the creatures came out for our extremely rare summer (or any) rainstorm. Some folks have flamingos, we have lawn gators. Actually, it hasn't rained for more than 8 minutes of sprinkles for four and a half years (the Great Western US Drought starting 2011, ongoing) so the unexpected precipitation was particularly enjoyable. I hadn't realized how much I missed genuine rain...

 

DR. BOOGIE DOUBLE DOWN AND RIP IT UP LIVE!

  In my car I played "Personal Matter," one of the new Dr. Boogie songs from their soon to be released album to Los Angeles scene chronicler/author of 8 music books Harvey Kubernik and he yelled "This is the best song you've played for me in 22 years! And with horns! Keyboards!"  Well, yeah, they do sound like The Bigs, something of a mashup between The Faces (without the sloppy) and The Rolling Stones,  groovesome, tight, with  swagger. They fit right in with all the prior favorites on my iPod.

To hear this particular all-pistons-firing foursome is to transmogrify into an instantaneous admirer, to see them is to become a lifelong fan. They've been together less than a year but have had their songs played on mainstream radio in Japan (76.1 InterFM) and repeatedly on Hollywood's KROQ via Rodney Bingenheimer's Rodney On The ROQ show. 

With reputation and cred growing exponentially, Dr. Boogie recently played two cool gigs: with pal Patrick French on harp in tow, 7.11.15 at Echo Park's Cafe Nela, a club which boasts a helluva inspired lighting technician (this vintage 1960s light show veteran loves shooting there consequently) and 6.27.15 at The Cochran Club, located at The American Legion Hall in Bell Gardens CA. The latter is so named because actual Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues," "C'mon Everybody") played there in the 1950s!  Enjoy these visuals until you can see/hear/experience the real thing live...

PHOTO OPS, Cafe Nela:

Rock couturier Evita Corby, vintage/original clothier Nena Garcia and Dustin James with a background glimpse of Irene LoConto and Jeff Turpin; California Rocker editor Donna Balancia and Dustin.

THE COCHRAN CLUB at THE AMERICAN LEGION HALL
 

 

 Charismatic frontman Chris P

testifies of Dr. Boogie's

rock and roll mission

to the enraptured

 crowd

Dr. Boogie are
Chris P, lead
vocals, guitar,

Dustin James,

guitar, vocals,

Jeff Turpin,

bass, vocals,

Luis Herrera,

drums.

PHOTO OPS, The Cochran Club:

Irene LoConto and California Rocker Editor Donna Balancia