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.

On this day in Star Trek history - Star Trek, Voyager (1968, 2000)

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Paradise Syndrome.

Released October 4, 1968.

Directed by Jud Taylor.

Written by Margaret Armen, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Marj Dusay, Sabrina Scharf, Rudy Solari, Richard Hale, Vincent St. Cyr, Naomi Newman, John Lindesmith, Peter Virgo Jr., Lamont Laird, George American Horse, Bill Blackburn, Roger Holloway, Foster Hood, Jeannie Malone.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 7. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Unimatrix Zero Part II.

Released October 4, 2000.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Michael/Mike Sussman, Michael Taylor, 

Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Mark Deakins, Jerome Butler, Joanna Heimbold, Susanna Thompson, Ryan Sparks, Andrew Palmer, Clay Storseth, Majel Barrett, Patrick Barnitt, Tarik Ergin, Susan Henley, Dieter Horneman, Irving E. Lewis, Brandon Nyte, Louis Ortiz, Stephen Pisani, Keith Rayve, Pablo Soriano, Phoenix Wong.

Betsy Byars, on writing:

 

Writing is like anything – baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails.

The more you work on it, the better you get.
But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.
- Betsy Byars.

Born on this day – Damon Runyon:

Damon Runyon

Writer

October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946

Credits:

Books:

The Tents of Trouble (1911); Rhymes of the Firing Line (1912); Guys and Dolls (1932); Little Miss Marker (1934); Money From Home (1935); More Than Somewhat (1937); Furthermore (1938); Take It Easy (1938); My Wife Ethel (1939); The Best of Runyon (1940); Damon Runyon Favorites (1942); Runyon a la Carte (1944); In Our Town (1946); The Three Wise Guys and Other Stories (1946); Poems for Men (1947); More Guys and Dolls (1950); Runyon On Broadway (1950); The Turps (1951); From First to Last (1954); A Treasury of Damon Runyon (1958); Slow Horses and Fast Women (1979); Guys and Dolls of Broadway (1986); Romance in the Roaring Forties and Other Stories (1986); Stories of Damon Runyan (1988); The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories (1990); Trials and Other Tribulations (1991); The Damon Runyon Omnibus (2001); Guys and Dolls and Other Writings (2008); The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew (2010); A Slight Case of Murder (1940); My Old Man (1939); Short Takes (1946).

Movies and television:

40 Pounds of Trouble (1962); A New York State of Mind: Written by Damon Runyon (2007); A Slight Case of Murder (1938); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); Arm, aber Ehrlich (1964); At the Round Table (1930); At the Stroke of Twelve (1941); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952 / 1989); Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018); Broadway Stories (1994); Butch Minds the Baby (1942 / 1979); Butch passt aufs Baby auf (1961); Continental Showcase (1966); Daisy Kenyon (1947); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); Die Gräfin vom Naschmarkt (1980); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Guys and Dolls (1955); Hold 'Em Yale (1935); Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944); It Ain't Hay (1943); Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939); Johnny One-Eye (1950); Just a Cute Kid (1940); Lady for a Day (1933); Little Miss Marker (1934 / 1980); Madison Square Garden (1932); Midnight Alibi (1934); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989); Money from Home (1953); No Ransom (1934); Oh, Baby! (1926); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Princess O'Hara (1935); Professional Soldier (1935); Racing Lady (1937); Sorrowful Jones (1949); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Straight Place and Show (1938); Suspense (1950); Talisman (1968); The 3 Wise Guys (1936); The Big Street (1942); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Great White Way (1924); The Lemon Drop Kid (1934 / 1951); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); Three Wise Guys (2004); Tight Shoes (1941).

Born on this day – Buster Keaton:

Buster Keaton

Actor

Comedian

Director

Stuntman

October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 30 Years of Fun (1963); 4 Clowns (1970); A Country Hero (1917); A Desert Hero (1919); A Forbidden Orange (2021); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Reckless Romeo (1917); A Southern Yankee (1948); A Tribute to Lucy (1989); Alberto Mazarro: Desvesiculado (2025); All Star Summer Revue (1952); Allez Oop! (1934); America After Dark (1957); America at the Movies (1976); American Experience (2021); American Masters (1989–2000); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Astronogeek (2025); At the Circus (1939); Back Stage (1919); Bathing Beauty (1944); Battling Butler (1926); Beach Blanket Bingo (1965); Beer Commercials of the 50s & 60s (2015); Best of Buster Keaton (2024); Big Band Treasures (2008); Biography (1987–2004); Blue Blazes (1936); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (2004); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Bollywood Hero (2009); Breath Death (1964); Broken Horses (2015); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Burke's Law (1964); Buster Keaton and Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle (2002); Buster Keaton in Wildwest (1962); Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965); Buster Keaton, the Genius Destroyed by Hollywood (2016); Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987); Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts (2006); Buster Keaton: Head Over Heels in Hollywood (2008); Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face (1968); Buster se marie (1931); Buster's Bedroom (1991); Ça c'est du cinéma (1951); Calendar (1962); Camera Three (1970); Candid Camera (1962–1967); Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles (2005); Candid Camera's 50th Anniversary (1996); Casanova wider Willen (1931); Casanova wider Willen (1931); Catalogue of Ships (2008); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); Celebrity Time (1950–1952); Century of Cinema (1995); Character Studies (1927); Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020); Cinéphiles de notre temps (2012); Clapper Board (1976); College (1927); Columbia Laff Hour (1956); Compression (2023); Coney Island (1917); Convict 13 (1920); Cops (1922); Court-circuit (2010); Crazy Days (1962); Cynthia (1947); Dans les yeux de Johnny Depp (2022); Day Dreams (1922); De frente, marchen (1930); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Ditto (1937); Doughboys (1930); Duels (2016); Easy Go (2010); Easy to Wed (1946); Edge of Outside (2006); Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015); El moderno Barba Azul (1946); E-penser (2022–2025); Es darf gelacht werden (1962); Estrellados (1930); Excuse My Dust (1951); Fast Company (1938); Film (1965); Film Breaks (1999); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Flicker Flashbacks No. 3, Series 2 (1944); Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (2021); Forever and a Day (1943); Four Star Revue (1950–1952); Fractured Flickers (1963); Free and Easy (1930); Funny Business (1992); Funny Show Part Two: The Video - Movie (2012); General Nuisance (1941); George Jessel Show (1958); Go West (1925 / 1940); God's Country (1946); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Good Night, Nurse! (1918); Grand Slam Opera (1936); Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Hard Luck (1921); Harold Lloyd: Hollywood's Timeless Comedy Genius (2017); Hayseed Romance (1935); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999); His Ex Marks the Spot (1940); His Wedding Night (1917); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Babylon (1971); Hollywood Cavalcade (1939); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood in Spanien (1966); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Television (1949–1953); Hollywood Rivals (2001); Hollywood Rivals: Chaplin vs Keaton (2006); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004); Hypertelia (2015); I Dood It (1943); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); In the Good Old Summertime Intro (2004); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's Showtime (1976); I've Got a Secret (1952–1957); Jail Bait (1937); Jeopardy! (2004); June Night (2020); Kaleidoscope (2015); Keaton: The Great Stone Face (1982); La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935); La profondeur de champs (2017); Landesschau (1962); L'Art de Buster Keaton (2001); Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (2011); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2017); Le plombier amoureux (1932); Le roi des Champs-Élysées (1934); Legends (2008); Legends of Comedy (1993); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les Douze Glorieuses de Buster Keaton (2017); L'Histoire nous le dira (2019); Life Begins at Eighty (1954); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938); Life with Buster Keaton (1951); Lifetime of Comedy (1960); Li'l Abner (1940); Limelight (1952); L'incantevole nemica (1953); Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died (2022); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Love Nest on Wheels (1937); Lucy and Desi (2022); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Magic with the Stars (1982); Make 'Em Laugh (1982); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Make the Connection (1955); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Matinee in New York (1952); Medicine Man (1962); Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! (2026); Mixed Magic (1936); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Mooching Through Georgia (1939); Moonage Daydream (2022); Moonshine (1918); Morir de humor (2008); Movie Star Commercials and Important Messages (1983); Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning (2004); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1963); Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007); Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (2022); My Wife's Relations (1922); Neighbors (1920); New Moon (1940); Nickelodeon Days (1962); Nordschau-Magazin (1962); Nothing But Pleasure (1940); Nothing But Trouble (1944); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Oh Buster, Where Art Thou? (2022); Oh Doctor! (1917); One Run Elmer (1935); One Week (1920); Our Hospitality (1923); Our Turn (2020); Out West (1918); Pajama Party (1964); Palooka from Paducah (1935); Paradise for Buster (1952); Pardon My Berth Marks (1940); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931); Pest from the West (1939); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pritzker Military Library Presents (2009); Producers' Showcase (1956); Quick Millions (1939); Return of the General (1962); Révolutions surréalistes (2024); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Route 66 (1962); Salute to Stan Laurel (1965); San Diego I Love You (1944); Savoring the Scarecrow: Or Buster & the Sybil Trilogy (2011); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Screen Snapshots (1932); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 19, No. 6: Hollywood Recreations (1940); Screen Snapshots, Series 21, No. 1 (1941); Screen Snapshots, Series 24, No. 9 (1945); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 15 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 30, No. 9: Hollywood Pie Throwers (1951); Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 1 (1924); Screen Snapshots, Series 9, No. 11 (1930); Seeing Stars (1922); Sergeant Dead Head (1965); Serling (2026); Seven Chances (1925); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); She Went to the Races (1945); Sherlock Jr. (1924); She's Oil Mine (1941); Showtime, U.S.A. (1951); Sidewalks of New York (1931); Silent Clowns (2006); Silver Rainbow (2009); Slaphappy (2001–2003); Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 4: Keaton, Arbuckle & St. John (1998); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Snarbuckled (2010); So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004); So You Won't Squawk? (1941); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Speak Easily (1932); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Spite Marriage (1929); Sprockets (1991); Stan Laurel Funeral (1965); Star of the Family (1950); Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025); Stars of the Silver Screen (2014); Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928); Streamlined Swing (1938); Stu's Show (2023); Sunday Showcase (1960); Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Take It or Leave It (1944); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Tars and Stripes (1935); Telescope (1964); Televisión registrada (2012); Ten Girls Ago (1962); That Night with You (1945); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); That's the Spirit (1945); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Actor's Society Benefit Gala (1949); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The Adventures of Mr. Pastry (1958); The All New Truth or Consequences (1963–1965); The Art of Action: Martial Arts in Motion Picture (2002); The Art of Buster Keaton (1995); The Arthur Murray Party (1951–1952); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Balloonatic (1923); The Bell Boy (1918); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Betty White Show (1958); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Blacksmith (1922); The Boat (1921); The Buster Keaton Collector's Classic (1984); The Buster Keaton Show (1949–1951); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Butcher Boy (1917); The Cameraman (1928); The Chemist (1936); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Comic Kino-Eye (2013); The Cook (1918); The Dead Sullivan Show (2017); The Devil to Pay (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Donna Reed Show (1958–1965); The Double-Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973); The Dreamers (2003); The Dunninger Show (1955); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950–1963); The Ed Wynn Show (1949–1950); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The E-Flat Man (1935); The Electric House (1922); The Fall Guy (1965); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Footage Detectives (2023); The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle (2005); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Frozen North (1922); The Garage (1919); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The General (1926); The Giant Mechanical Man (2012); The Goat (1921); The Gold Ghost (1934); The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979); The Great Buster (2018); The Great Chase (1962); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Haunted House (1921); The Hayseed (1919); The 'High Sign' (1921); The Hollywood Clowns (1979); The Hollywood Palace (1964); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Home Owner (1961); The Image Book (2018); The Invader (1936); The Iron Mule (1925); The James Melton Show (1952); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963); The Jonathan Winters Specials (1965); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Ken Murray Show (1952); The Lovable Cheat (1949); The Love Nest (1923); The Man Who Bought Paradise (1965); The March of Time (1930); The March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 12: The Movies March On (1939); The Martha Raye Show (1956); The Misadventures of Buster Keaton (1950); The Navigator (1924); The New Bike (2009); The New Flesh (2024); The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962); The One Show (2011); The Paleface (1922); The Passionate Plumber (1932); The Play House (1921); The Railrodder (1965); The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021); The Red Skelton Hour (1951–1952); The Revlon Revue (1960); The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956); The Rough House (1917); The Round-up (1920); The Saphead (1920); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1951); The Scarecrow (1920); The Scribe (1966); The Secret Genius of Modern Life (2023); The Smelly Janitor (2008); The Sound of Laughter (1963); The Spook Speaks (1940); The Steve Allen Show (1956); The Stolen Jools (1931); The Sunday Spectacular: Show Biz from Vaudeville to Video (1955); The Taming of the Snood (1940); The Three Stooges Follies (1974); The Timid Young Man (1935); The Tonight Show (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1961); The Triumph of Lester Snapwell (1963); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940); The Voice of Hollywood (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 26 (1931); The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (1930); The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988); This Is Show Business (1951); This Is Your Life (1957); Three Ages (1923); Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations (2010); Three on a Limb (1936); Tide of Empire (1929); Timeshift (2005); Today (1963); Too Hot to Handle (1938); Un duel à mort (1947); Walt Disney World 4th of July Spectacular (1988); War Italian Style (1965); Welcome to the Basement (2016); What-No Beer? (1933); What's My Line? (1951–1957); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When Comedy Was King (1960); White Rabbit (2011); Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931); Wonderful Times (1950); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); You Asked for It (1958); You Must Remember This (2015); You're My Everything (1949); Zaz: Prends garde à ta langue (2018).

Born on this day – George Sidney:

George Sidney

Director

Producer

October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002

Credits:

A Door Will Open (1940); A Ticklish Affair (1963); Alfalfa's Aunt (1939); Anchors Aweigh (1945); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Bathing Beauty (1944); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Bye Bye Birdie (1963); Cass Timberlane (1947); Clown Princes (1939); Cousin Wilbur (1939); Dog Daze (1939); Duel Personalities (1939); Football Romeo (1938); Free and Easy (1941); Half a Sixpence (1967); Holiday in Mexico (1946); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Jupiter's Darling (1955); Key to the City (1950); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Loews Christmas Greeting (the Hardy Family) (1939); Love on Tap (1939); Men in Fright (1938); Murder in 3-D (1941); Of Pups and Puzzles (1941); Pacific Paradise (1937); Pacific Rendezvous (1942); Pal Joey (1957); Party Fever (1938); Pepe (1960); Pilot #5 (1943); Polo (1936); Practical Jokers (1938); Quicker'n a Wink (1940); Scaramouche (1952); Show Boat (1951); Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937); The Cliff Edwards Show (1949); The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); The Harvey Girls (1946); The Red Danube (1949); The Swinger (1966); The Three Musketeers (1948); Thousands Cheer (1943); Tiny Troubles (1939); Viva Las Vegas (1964); 'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two (1940); What's Your IQ? (1940); Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965); Who Was That Lady? (1960); Willie and the Mouse (1941); Young Bess (1953); Ziegfeld Follies (1945).