Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2:

 

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2

This is the second in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5 by Lilo Sound.

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Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1:

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1

This is the first in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

 

Themes:

art, artwork, poster, painting, acrylic, abstract, fluid painting, Kathleen Jane Kost, showreel, video, MP4

 

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

 

Music credit:

Ambiance#5

by Lilo Sound.

Born on this day – Marcia Resnick:

Marcia Resnick

Photographer

Writer

Artist

Actress

November 21, 1950 – June 18, 2025

Credits:

Books:
 

Landscape-Loftscape (1986); Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982 (2015); Re-visions (1978); Tahitian eve (1975).

Movies and television:

Chess (2016); G Man (1978); Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories) (2023); Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos (2024); Looking for Johnny (2014); Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019); Marcia Resnick's Bad Boys (1985); Marcia Resnick's New York City: Photos from 1977 to 1982 (2016); Seduction of Patrick (1979); Story of a Junkie (1985); The Offenders (1980); The Trap Door (1980).

Henry Ward Beecher, on books:

Books are not made for furniture,

but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

- Henry Ward Beecher.

Born on this day and Recommended reading – Walt Whitman:

 

Walt Whitman

Writer

May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892

Credits:

Poems:

1861; A Boston Ballad, 1854; A child said, What is the grass?; A Child's Amaze; A Clear Midnight; A Farm-Picture; A Glimpse; A Hand-Mirror; A Leaf For Hand In Hand; A March In The Ranks, Hard-prest; A Noiseless Patient Spider; A Paumanok Picture; A Proadway Pageant; A Promise To California; A Riddle Song; A Sight In Camp; A Song; A Woman Waits For Me; Aboard At A Ship's Helm; Adieu To A Soldier; After The Sea-Ship; Ages And Ages, Returning At Intervals; Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats; All Is Truth; American Feuillage; Among The Multitude; An Army Corps On The March; Apostroph; As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free; As Consequent, Etc.; As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life; As I lay With Head In Your Lap, Camerado; As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores; As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days; As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing; As If A Phantom Caress'd Me; As The Time Draws Nigh; As Toilsome I Wander'd; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods; assurances; Bathed In War's Perfume; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Beautiful Women; Beginners; Beginning My Studies; Behavior; Behold This Swarthy Face; Bivouac on a Mountain Side; Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand; By Broad Potomac's Shore; By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame; Camps Of Green; Carol Of Occupations; Carol Of Words; Cavalry Crossing A Ford; Chanting The Square Deific; City Of Ships; Come Up From the Fields Father; Come Up From The Fields, Father; Come, Said My Soul; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Darest Thou Now O Soul; Darest Thou Now, O Soul; Debris; Delicate Cluster; Delicate Cluster; Despairing Cries; Dirge For Two Veterans; Drum-Taps; Earth! my Likeness!; Elemental Drifts; Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States; Excelsior; Faces Facing West From California's Shores; France, The 18th Year Of These States; From Pent-up Aching Rivers; Full Of Life, Now; Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun; God; Great Are The Myths; Had I the Choice; Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me; Hush'd Be the Camps Today; I Am He That Aches With Love; I Dream'd In A Dream; I Hear America Singing; I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ; I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing; I Sing The Body Electric; I Sit And Look Out; I Thought I Was Not Alone; I Was Looking A Long While; In Cabin'd Ships At Sea; In Former Songs; In Midnight Sleep; Italian Music In Dakota; Joy, Shipmate, Joy!; Laws For Creations; Leaves Of Grass. A Carol Of Harvest For 1867; Lessons; Locations And Times; Long, Too Long America; Long, Too Long, O Land!; Look Down, Fair Moon; Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering; Mannahatta; Me Imperturbe; Mediums; Miracles; Mother And Babe; Myself And Mine; Native Moments; Night On The Prairies; No Labor-Saving Machine; Not The Pilot; Now Finale To The Shore; Now List To My Morning's Romanza; O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig!; O Captain! My Captain!; O Hymen! O Hymenee!; O Living Always--Always Dying; O Me! O Life!; O Star Of France; O Sun Of Real Peace; O You Whom I Often And Silently Come; Of Him I Love Day And Night; Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances; Of The Visage Of Things; Offerings; Old Ireland; On Journeys Through The States; On Old Man's Thought Of School; On The Beach At Night; On the Beach At Night Alone; On The Beach At Night, Alone; Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City; One Hour To Madness And Joy; One Song, America, Before I Go; One's Self I Sing; Or From That Sea Of Time; Or From That Sea Of Time; Other May Praise What They Like; Out From Behind His Mask; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Out of the Rolling Ocean, The Crowd; Over The Carnage; Passage To India; Pensive And Faltering; Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All; Perfections; Pioneers! O Pioneers!; Poem Of Remembrance For A Girl Or A Boy; Poems Of Joys; Portals; President Lincoln's Burial Hymn; Primeval My Love For The Woman I Love; Proud Music Of The Storm; Quicksand Years; Race Of Veterans; Reconciliation; Recorders Ages Hence; Respondez!; Rise, O Days; Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone; Salut Au Monde; Says; Scented Herbage Of My Breast; Sea-Shore Memories; Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break; So Long; Sometimes With One I Love; Song At Sunset; Song For All Seas, All Ships; Song of Myself, X; Song Of The Broad-Axe; Song Of The Exposition; Song Of The Open Road; Song Of The Redwood-Tree; Song Of The Universal; Souvenirs Of Democracy; Spirit Whose Work Is Done; Spontaneous Me; Starting From Paumanok; States!; That Music Always Round Me; The Artilleryman's Vision; The Base Of All Metaphysics; The Centerarian's Story; The Dresser; The Indications; The Last Invocation; The Mystic Trumpeter; The Prairie-Grass Dividing; The Singer In The Prison; The Sleepers; The World Below The Brine; The Wound Dresser; There Was A Child Went Forth; These, I, Singing In Spring; This Compost; This Dust Was Once The Man; Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling; Thou Reader; Thought; Thoughts; To A Certain Cantatrice; To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire; To A Historian; To A President; To Old Age; To Rich Givers; To The East And To The West; To The Garden The World; To The Man-of-War-Bird; To Thee, Old Cause!; To Think Of Time; To You; Unfolded Out Of The Folds; Unnamed Lands; Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night; Virgil Strange I Kept On The Field; Virginia--The West; Voices; Walt Whitman's Caution; Wandering At Morn; Warble Of Lilac-Time; We Two Boys Together Clinging; We Two-How Long We Were Fool'd; Weave In, Weave In, My Hardy Life; What Am I, After All?; What Weeping Face; When I Heard At The Close Of The Day; When I Heard the Learned Astronomer; When I Peruse The Conquer'd Fame; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; Who Is Now Reading This?; Who Learns My Lesson Complete?; Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now In Hand; With Antecedents; World, Take Good Notice; Year Of Meteors, 1859 '60; Year That Trembled; Years Of The Modern; Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours.

Movies and television:

A Noiseless Patient Spider (2009); A Poetic Experiment: Walt Whitman (2015); A su aire (1974); Actor's Choice (1970); Aliment Roots (2018); American Experience (2008); Amerikai anzix (1975); Amici Novum (2021); Ancient Aliens (2011); Beyond the Unknown (2019); Calamus Variations (2024); David Byrne's American Utopia (2020); Dead Poets Society (1989); Drum-Taps (2019); Facing West (2020); Intolerance (1916); Lo que cuento al viento (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Maestro (2023); Manahatta (2011); Manhatta (1921); Messengers (2004); Middle Voices (2022); O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn! (2010); On the Trail of Mark Twain (1998); Plain-chant (1974); The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020); The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (2016); This Is What You Shall Do (2017); Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971); Whitman in the Woods. (2021); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Recommended reading:

Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose

by Walt Whitman.

Edited by Justin Kaplan.

Published by Library of America.
Published 1982.

ISBN-10: 094045002X
ISBN-13: 9780940450028
 
Description:

“Beautiful and authoritative . . . the most comprehensive volume ever published of the works of Whitman.” – The New York Times.

This Library of America edition is the biggest and best edition of Walt Whitman's writings ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, which prompted Emerson’s famous message to Whitman: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” These twelve poems, including what were later to be entitled “Song of Myself” and “I Sing the Body Electric,” and a preface announcing the author’s poetic theories were the first stage of a massive, lifelong work. Six editions and some thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Grass became one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry.

Each edition involved revisions of earlier poems and the incorporation of new ones. As it progressed, it was hailed by Emerson, Thoreau, Rosetti and others, but was also, as with the sixth edition in 1881–82, beset by charges of obscenity for such poems as “A Woman Waits for Me.” Printed here is the final, great culminating edition of 1891–92, the last supervised by Whitman himself just before his death.

Born on this day – Kathlyn Williams:

 

Kathlyn Williams

Actress

May 31, 1879 – September 23, 1960

Credits:

1861 (1911); A Colonel in Chains (1914); A Girl Named Mary (1919); A Little Child Shall Lead Them (1913); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Man's Home (1921); A Private Scandal (1921); A Romance of the Western Hills (1910); A Single Man (1929); A Sultana of the Desert (1915); A Virginia Courtship (1921); A Welded Friendship (1913); A Wise Old Elephant (1913); A Woman Laughs (1914); An Unexpected Fortune (1912); As the Fates Decree (1912); Back to the Primitive (1911); Big Timber (1917); Blasted Hopes (1910); Blood Money (1933); Broadway Gold (1923); Busy Day at the Selig General Office (1911); Captain Kate (1911); Caryl of the Mountains (1914); Chip of the Flying U (1914); Clarence (1922); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Dad's Girls (1911); Dora Thorne (1910); Driftwood (1912); Ebb Tide (1915); Everything for Sale (1921); Forbidden Fruit (1921); Getting Married (1911); Gold Is Not All (1910); Harbor Island (1912); Hearts and Masks (1914); Her Husband's Women (1929); Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919); Her Only Son (1913); Her Purchase Price (1919); Her Sacrifice (1914); Honeymoon Flats (1928); How They Stopped the Run on the Bank (1911); Hush (1921); I Hear Her Calling Me (from the Heart of Africa) (1917); In Old California When the Gringos Came (1911); In the African Jungle (1917); In the Midst of the Jungle (1913); In Tune with the Wild (1914); Into the Primitive (1916); Jealous George (1911); Jim and Joe (1911); Just a Wife (1920); Lieutenant Jones (1913); Life on the Border (1911); Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909); Locked Doors (1925); Lost in the Jungle (1911); Lost in Transit (1917); Man and His Other Self (1913); Maud Muller (1911); Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse of Tartary (1910); Morals (1921); Mrs. Hilton's Jewels (1913); Number 13, Westbound (1916); On Thanksgiving Day (1908); On the Trail of the Germs (1912); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Out of the Wreck (1917); Paid Back (1911); Pioneer Days (1917); Quest of His Youth (1920); Redeeming Love (1916); Rendezvous at Midnight (1935); Road to Paradise (1930); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Single Wives (1924); Sons of the North Woods (1912); Souls for Sale (1923); Sweet Alyssum (1915); Sweet Lady Peggy (1916); Taming Wild Animals (1910); Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1911); The Adopted Son (1912); The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); The Artist and the Brute (1913); The Best People (1925); The Better Wife (1919); The Black Orchid (1916); The Brand of Cain (1916); The Brotherhood of Man (1912); The Burglar Who Robbed Death (1913); The Carpet from Bagdad (1915); The Child of the Sea (1913); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Coming of Columbus (1912); The Coquette's Awakening (1915); The Cost of Hatred (1917); The Court of Death (1914); The Cruel Crown (1914); The Curse of the Redman (1911); The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1912 / 1916); The Enemy Sex (1924); The Fire Chief's Daughter (1910); The Flight of the Crow (1913); The Forged Parchment (1914); The Garden of Brides (1914); The Girl and the Judge (1913); The Girl at the Cupola (1912); The Girl with the Lantern (1912); The Governor's Daughter (1913); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Horseshoe (1912); The House of His Master (1912); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Inner Mind (1911); The King's Will (1914); The Lady or the Tigers (1914); The Last Dance (1912); The Leopard's Foundling (1914); The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton (1913); The Losing Fight (1914); The Love of Penelope (1913); The Man from the East (1911); The Mansion of Misery (1913); The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910); The Ne'er Do Well (1915); The Painted Flapper (1924); The Prince Chap (1920); The Prosecuting Attorney (1912); The Queen of Hearts (1910); The Return (1916); The Rosary (1915); The Rose of Old St. Augustine (1911); The Royal Slave (1914); The Single Standard (1929); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spellbound Multitude (1914); The Spoilers (1914); The Stolen Melody (1913); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Stronger Mind (1912); The Survival of the Fittest (1911); The Temple of the Lion (1914); The Temptation of Adam (1916); The Thing We Love (1918); The Tide of Destiny (1913); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Tree and the Chaff (1913); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Turning Point (1912); The Two Ordeals (1914); The Two Orphans (1911); The U.P. Trail (1920); The Unwelcome Throne (1913); The Valiants of Virginia (1916); The Vision of the Shepherd (1915); The Wanderer (1925); The Warrior Maid (1914); The Wheels of Justice (1911); The Whispering Chorus (1918); The Witch of the Everglades (1911); The Woman of It (1914); The World's Applause (1923); The Young Mrs. Eames (1913); heir Stepmother (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not (1910); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Three Bags of Silver (1914); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Trimmed in Scarlet (1923); Two Men and a Woman (1913); Two Too Many (1913); Unholy Love (1932); Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924); We Americans (1928); We Can't Have Everything (1918); Wedding Rings (1929); When a Girl Loves (1924); When Memory Calls (1912); When the Heart Rules (1912); With Love's Eyes (1913); Woman: Past and Present (1913).

Born on this day – Don Ameche:

Don Ameche

Actor

Comedian

Vaudevillian

May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993

Credits:

59th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement (1987); 209 Hamilton Drive (1991); A Century of Cinema (1994); A Fever in the Blood (1961); A Masterpiece of Murder (1986); A Welcome Guest in the House (1957); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978 / 1986); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); All Star Revue (1951); Angels of Mercy (1940); Beloved Infidel (1959); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1995–1999); Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000); Burke's Law (1964); CBS Mornings (1988); Celebrity Time (1949–1951); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Climax! (1958); Clive of India (1935); Cocoon (1985); Cocoon: The Return (1988); Coke Time (1953); Columbo (1971); Coming to America (1988); Compression (2015); Confirm or Deny (1941); Corrina, Corrina (1994); Dante's Inferno (1935); De película (1985–1989); Des O'Connor Tonight (1985); Detective in the House (1985); Don Ameche's Musical Playhouse (1950–1951); Down Argentine Way (1940); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2001); Ellery Queen (1975); Entertainment Tonight (1990); F for Fake (1973); Family Theatre (1953); Fantasy Island (1980); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); Filmmaker Focus: Director John Landis on 'Trading Places' (2021); Fire One (1954); Folks! (1992); Four Sons (1940); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Gateway (1938); General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957); Gidget Gets Married (1972); Girl Trouble (1942); Good Heavens (1976); Goodyear Playhouse (1957); Greenwich Village (1944); Guest Wife (1945); Happy Land (1943); Happy Landing (1938); Harry and the Hendersons (1987); Heaven Can Wait (1943); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood Cavalcade (1939); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993); Hour Magazine (1982); Hy Gardner Calling (1962); In Old Chicago (1938); Insider Trading: The Making of 'Trading Places' (2007); International Showtime (1961–1965); It's in the Bag! (1945); I've Got a Secret (1954–1962); Josette (1938); Julia (1969–1970); Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941); Ladies in Love (1936); Land of Liberty (1939); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); Les Chroniques du Mea (2022); Lillian Russell (1940); Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004); Love Is News (1937); Love Under Fire (1937); McCloud (1975); Midnight (1939); Moon Over Miami (1941); Mr. Smith (1983); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Not in Front of the Kids (1984); Oddball Hall (1990); One in a Million (1936); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Oscar (1991); Our American Heritage (1961); Our Shining Moment (1991); Pals (1987); Password (1961); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1958–1961); Person to Person (1956); Petticoat Junction (1970); Phantom Caravan (1954); Picture Mommy Dead (1966); Probe and Night Beat (1957); Pros and Cons (1991); Quincy, M.E. (1979); Ramona (1936); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1991); Rings Around the World (1966); Rough But Hopeful (1946); Saturday Spectacular: High Button Shoes (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 8 (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 32, No. 2: Hollywood Night at '21' Club (1952); Seabiscuit: Racing Through History (2003); Shadow Over Elveron (1968); Shepherd's Flock (1971); Sins of Man (1936); Siskel & Ebert Holiday Gift Guide (1988); Sleep, My Love (1948); Slightly French (1949); So Goes My Love (1946); Something to Shout About (1943); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Sunstroke (1992); Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970); Swanee River (1939); Take a Chance (1950); That Night in Rio (1941); That's My Man (1947); The 12th Annual People's Choice Awards (1986); The 1930's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988); The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1990 (1990); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The 58th Annual Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon (1986); The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008); The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards (1991); The Arthur Murray Party (1957); The Bickersons (1967); The Boatniks (1970); The Bob Braun Show (1972–1977); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949); The Chinese Typewriter (1979); The Christophers (1963–1964); The David Frost Show (1970); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Frances Langford Show (1960); The Frances Langford-Don Ameche Show (1951–1952); The Frank Sinatra Show (1951); The Golden Girls (1990); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Hollywood Palace (1967); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1985-1989); The Love Boat (1979–1984); The Lux Show (1958); The Magical World of Disney (1978); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Match Game (1964); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1963–1970); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1954); The Movies That Made Us (2021); The Name's the Same (1954); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1958); The Polly Bergen Show (1957); The Price Is Right (1964); The Roy Leonard Show (1971); The Saturday Night Revue (1953); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1971); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Three Musketeers (1939); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1985–1986); The Trade in 'Trading Places' (2007); Things Change (1988); This Is Your Life (1984); To Tell the Truth (1957–1964); Too Young to Go Steady (1959); Trading Places (1983); Trading Places: Dressing the Part (2007); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1958); We, the People (1949); Week End in Hollywood (1947); What's My Line? (1953–1957); Wing and a Prayer (1944); Wogan (1985); You Can't Have Everything (1937).