Memory of Fat Elvis, a 1979 Dodge Ram van. In Dinosaur National Park we drive down a rocky road into a canyon, red and yellow rocks rising above us, striped with black. At the bottom a stream parallels the face of a rock behind which air moves through a black gap opening deep into the cliff. High above head height on the rock wall, petroglyphs.
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Photograph of Fat Elvis, manufactured the year the King died. A 1979 Dodge Ram van my then-boyfriend bought used from a nice Vietnamese family. Pictured here in Dinosaur National Park, Utah circa 1995 on the way home from a Seattle-Chicago road trip, covered in dirt that matches the van. 5 x 6" color Kodak print.
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Fat Elvis, a 1979 Dodge Ram van, V6, 4-speed automatic with custom pumpkin orange-and-lime green shag interior and matching pumpkin orange velour seats.
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The Treachery of Images ("Ceçi n'est pas une pipe"), René Magritte, 1928-29, Oil on canvas, 63.5 cm × 93.98 cm (25 in × 37 in), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Chestnut Bent Dublin pipe by Dunhill
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In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan, 1968
The tale of a commune organized around a central gathering house named "iDEATH". In this environment, many things are made of watermelon sugar (though the inhabitants also use pine wood and stone for building material and fuel is made from trout oil). The landscape of the novel is always changing. Each day has a different colored sun which creates different colored watermelons, and the central building also changes frequently. - Wikipedia
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The color "watermelon red" was commissioned by Anthony Lawler on Facebook and Twitter
Watermelon smoothie in a tall faceted glass.
Ingredients:
2 cups seeded watermelon chunks
1 cup cracked ice
1/2 cup plain low fat yogurt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
Watermelon: Results of Google image search
Complacency: 1. self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies 2. an instance of usually unaware or uninformed self-satisfaction - Merriam Webster
1 Gallon Acrylic Latex | Eggshell Finish | Do Not Stir
A Bigger Splash, David Hockney, 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 242.5 x 243.9 cm (95 1/2 x 96 in)
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In the picture the woman wears a two-piece, scarlet wool dress by Alexander McQueen. It's sculptural, with a rounded collar dipping to a slotted neckline, fitted at the waist and skimming the knee. The woman looks dark and determined. The lampshade glows red on my desk. I glance at the upper right of my screen. 2:00 am.
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The Woman in Red. Perhaps the first female costumed comic book superhero, the character was created by writer Richard E. Hughes and artist George Mandel for Thrilling Comics #2 (March 1940), published by Nedor Comics. The Woman in Red is the secret identity of policewoman Peggy Allen. Frustrated by the limitations of her job, Peggy creates a secret identity. She wears a red, floor-length coat, hood, and mask. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, Kasimir Malevich, 1915. Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 20 7/8 in (53 x 53). State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao. Built by Ferrovial in Bilbao, Spain, 1997. Steel frame sheathed in titanium, with glass and limestone. Designed in the Expressionist Modern style, the Bilbao reads as a free sculpture of curvaceous metal-clad forms.
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Silver tureen, 1757–59. Marked by Edme-Pierre Balzac (French, 1705–ca. 1786). French; Paris. H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm), W. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm), L. 15 3/8 in. (39.1 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Balzac's tureens are notable for their highly sculptural finials; in this case, a stag is being pulled down by three hounds—perhaps an allusion to the type of stew the tureen might contain.]]>
Gold amulet in the form of a vulture. Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period-Late Dynastic Period, c. 1000-300 BC. Width: 3.2 cm
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Consecutive retinal contrast: Edouard Manet, Olympia (detail, bed). 1863. Oil on canvas 130 × 190 cm (51.2 × 74.8 in), Musée d'Orsay | Digital painting in four parts, Julia Hensley 2011
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Consecutive retinal contrast: Edouard Manet, Olympia (detail 3, cat). 1863. Oil on canvas 130 × 190 cm (51.2 × 74.8 in), Musée d'Orsay | Digital painting in four parts, Julia Hensley 2011
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Consecutive retinal contrast: Edouard Manet, Olympia (detail 2, standing figure). 1863. Oil on canvas 130 × 190 cm (51.2 × 74.8 in), Musée d'Orsay | Digital painting in four parts, Julia Hensley 2011
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Consecutive retinal contrast: Edouard Manet, Olympia (detail 1, reclining figure). 1863. Oil on canvas 130 × 190 cm (51.2 × 74.8 in), Musée d'Orsay | Digital painting in four parts, Julia Hensley 2011
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Houston Humidity, Latex Pearl Finish. Commissioned by @isitart on Twitter in response to an invitation. She requested the title which I have envisioned as a paint store color based on my imagining of the place where the sky fades toward the buildings of downtown Houston on a steamy day in June
Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510, Right Panel: Hell. (220 × 97.5 cm, 87 × 38.4 in). Oil on wood, 220 × 195 cm, Prado, Madrid
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Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510, Center Panel: Ecclesia's Paradise. Oil on wood, 220 × 195 cm, Prado, Madrid
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Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510, Left Panel: The Earthly Paradise (Garden of Eden). Oil on wood, 220 × 195 cm, Prado, Madrid
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