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Read this comment today on a YouTube video: "my gosh this takes me back.......when life was simpler and I was oblivious to the meaning of song lyrics..."

I understand what that person means.

I was born in a time when Big American Iron ruled the roads and a party line was your telephone system.

When it seemed like the snow only got deeper every Winter. One year the snow was so deep, all I could see were the tops of my parent's cars in the driveway. They owned a 1977 Lincoln Continental and Mercury of 1970-something vintage. Well, I suited up and went out and had me a great time sliding from the roof, down the windshield and over

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Jazz ElixirVibrations trembling.
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Mere Vulcan instinct?

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It's musical medicine.
Soul's pain distilled.

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I'm the receipts from unpaid dreams that were bought with their money.
I'm a caricature of masculinity, chained to a broken body.
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I'm a member of loved one's prayer lists
I'm a fool.
I'm a relic.
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I'm a brother and a best friend.

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When She SmiledIt's a beggars life, said the Queen of Spain
I believed that I was dreaming
Got a feeling I've been here before
On the water down in New Orleans

I'm reading last year's papers
Like a thousand times before
What are the secrets
Of the man that I once knew

Panatela and old black derby hat
It started out good
For you and me we understood
The mechanized hum of another world

It seems like only yesterday
I was out of mind and you
Tell me I'm the only one
The groove that never quits
That's my claim to fame

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Darling if you only knew
All the signs are right this time
I'm gonna let it roll

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Remembering Bierstadtby *Blacksand459

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Weather and Sky

Lapeer Count, MI.
All Rights Reserved. Sept. 2011
Comments welcome

To me, this photograph is reminiscent of an Albert Bierstadt painting.

Who is he?

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lush, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.

Bierstadt was part of the Hudson River School, not an institution but rather an informal group of like-minded painters. The Hudson River School style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. An important interpreter of the western landscape, Bierstadt, along with Thomas Moran, is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.
~ From wikipedia: [link]

~BrokenShell121 May 3, 2012

The sky looks amazing!

*Blacksand459 May 4, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks! Yeah, I really liked this one myself.

And thanks for the fave!

~BrokenShell121 May 4, 2012

sure!

~beyzayildirim77 Sep 10, 2011 Student Digital Artist

very beautiful.....!!!!!

*Blacksand459 Sep 10, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you, Beyza...my dear!

~beyzayildirim77 Sep 11, 2011 Student Digital Artist

You're very welcome my friend

~meganbednarz Sep 9, 2011 General Artist

This is pretty surreal. Cool contrast! Well the difference between this and Bierstadt, is that Bierstadt added a ridiculous amount of detail to his paintings

*Blacksand459 Sep 10, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you for the compliment!!

I just love Bierstadt and his contemporaries, like Frank Church, and others from the Hudson River School.
I wonder how long it took him to complete a canvas? How long have you been painting, Megan? Were you formally trained?
Or is it an innate talent?

Here is a wiki article on Luminism and Bierstadt. [link] and [link](American_art_style)

~meganbednarz Sep 10, 2011 General Artist

I studied Bierstadt, Church, Moran, and JMW Turner in a course in college. There's a wonderful book called the American Sublime, from which I did several studies. [link] [link] ... and one of Turner: [link] I have to say that was actually a turning point in my art, a breakthrough in my digital painting abilities. Of course I've been trying to gradually improve, but I always like the dramatic lighting and contrast, grandiose vistas and magnificent landforms/cloudforms.

I suppose my artistic abilities are a mix of formal training, informal training, and talent. I've been drawing since I was 2 years old, taking art lessons at various points along the way. (I know almost everyone draws at that point, but I never gave it up

.) I am not one who believes much in innate talent, but I am the daughter of an artist and an engineer, and I ended up being a computer artist, so maybe there's something to that.

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