Sunday, December 22, 2024

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.


#art #artwork #poster #painting #acrylic #abstract #FluidPainting #KathleenJaneKost #Showreel #video #MP4

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.

Lawrence Clark Powell, on books:



Books are islands in the ocean of time.
They are also oases in the deserts of time.
 
- Lawrence Clark Powell.



Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader 2

 

Film Noir Reader 2

Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini

 

Published by Limelight

Published 2004.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0879102802

ISBN-13: 978-0879102807

 

Description:

Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, “Hitchcock's Noir Landscape” “Samuel Fuller's Tabloid Cinema” “Son of Noir” “Noir Science” “Girl Power: Female Centered Neo-Noir” and “Abstract Expressionism and Film Noir.”


Born on this day – Lil Green:


Lil Green


Blues singer

Songwriter

December 22, 1901 – April 14, 1954


Credits:

Albums:

1940-1941 (2008); 1942-1946 (2008); 1947-1951 (2008); Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Lil Green 1940-1941 (2003); Give Your Mama One Smile (2023); Greens Got The Blues (2020); Instinctively the Blues - Lil Green (2020); Lil Green (2016); Love In The Dark (2023); No Stranger to Trouble (2015); Romance In The Dark (1971); Romance In The Dark (Original Recordings 1940 - 1944) (2015); The Blues Collective - Lil Green (2023); The Blues Mama (2019); The Very Best Of (2010); Why Don't You Do Right? 1940-1942 (Remastered Historical Recordings) (2006).

Songs:

Aggravatin' Papa; Because I Love My Daddy So; Cherry Tree Blues; Country Boy Blues; Give your mama one smile; Hello Babe; How Can I Go On?; How Come You Do Me Like You Do; I Gotta Have It; I Have a Place to Go; I Want A Man; I Won't Sell My Love; If I'm a Fool; If You Want to Share Your Love; I'm going to start a racket; I'm Wasting My Time on You; Just Rockin'; Keep Your Hand on Your Heart; Knockin' Myself Out; Last Go Round Blues; Let's Be Friends; My Mellow Man; No, Baby, Nobody but You; Outside Of That; Romance in the Dark; Take Me Back To Little Rock; What Have I Done; What's The Matter With Love?; Why Don't You Do Right; Why Don'y You Do It Right; You're Just Full of Jive; You've Been A Good Old Wagon.


Born on this day – Fred M. Wilcox:

 

Photographed with Pal (as Lassie), on the set of Lassie Come Home (1943)


Fred M. Wilcox


Director

December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964




Born on this day – Doris Miles Disney:


Doris Miles Disney


Writer

December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976

Credits:

Books:

A Compound for Death (1943); Murder on a Tangent (1945); Appointment at Nine (1947); Fire at Will (1950); The Last Straw (aka Driven to Kill) (1954); Dark Road (aka Dead Stop) (1946); Family Skeleton (1949); Straw Man (1951); Trick or Treat (aka The Halloween Murder) (1955); Method in Madness (aka Quiet Violence) (1957); Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959); Find the Woman (1962); The Chandler Policy (1971); Unappointed Rounds (1956); Black Mail (1958); Mrs Meeker's Money (1961); Shadow of a Man (1940); Who Rides a Tiger? (aka Sow the Wind) (1946); Enduring Old Charms (aka Death for My Beloved) (1947); Testimony by Silence (1948); That Which Is Crooked (1948); Count the Ways (1949); Look Back on Murder (1951); Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952); Do unto Others (1953); Prescription: Murder (1953); Room for Murder (1955); My Neighbor's Wife (1957); No Next of Kin (1959); Dark Lady (aka Sinister Lady (1961); Should Auld Acquaintance (1962); Here Lies... (1963); The Hospitality of the House (aka Unsuspected Evil (1964); The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (aka Fateful Departure) (1965); At Some Forgotten Door (1966); The Magic Grandfather (aka Mask of Evil (1966); Night of Clear Choice (aka Flame of Evil (1967); Money for the Taking (1968); Voice from the Grave (1968); Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (aka Death by Computer) (1970); Fatal Choice (1970); Three's a Crowd (1972); The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972); Only Couples Need Apply (1973); Don't Go into the Woods Today (1974); Cry for Help (1975); Winifred (1976); Muppets Most Wanted (2014); The Last Straw / The Pale Door / The Dead Don't Speak (1955).

Movies and television:

Betrayal (1974); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Kraft Theatre (1958); La strada buia (1950); Stella (1950); The Straw Man (1953); Yesterday's Child (1977).


Born on this day – Barbara Billingsley:


Barbara Billingsley


Actress

December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010


#JuneCleaver, #LeaveItToBeaver



Born on this day – Freddie Francis:

 

Freddie Francis


Cinematographer

Director

December 22, 1917 – March 17, 2007



Born on this day – Peggie Castle:

Peggie Castle


Actress

December 22, 1927 – August 11, 1973



Born on this day – Lynne Thigpen:

 

Lynne Thigpen


Actress

December 22, 1948 – March 12, 2003


Credits:

A Mother's Instinct (1996); A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (1996); ABC Afterschool Specials (1989–1993); All My Children (1983–2000); Amazing Graces (1981); American Playhouse (1982–1983); Anger Management (2003); Article 99 (1992); Bear in the Big Blue House (1997–2003); Bear in the Big Blue House: Bear's Sense of Adventure (1999); Bicentennial Man (1999); Blankman (1994); Bob Roberts (1992); Broadway Plays Washington on Kennedy Center Tonight (1982); Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling (1995); Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time (1999); Chance of a Lifetime (1998); Dear John (1991); Eve and the Fire Horse (2005); Fear Stalk (1989); FM (1989–1990); Fol-de-Rol (1972); Frank's Place (1988); Freedom to Speak (1983); Gimme a Break! (1985–1986); Godspell (1973); Hello Again (1987); Homicide: Life on the Street (1997); Hunter (1990); Impulse (1990); Just Cause (1995); King of the Hill (1998); L.A. Law (1991–1992); Law & Order (1995–1999); Lean on Me (1989); Lou Grant (1981); Love, Sidney (1983); Loving (1992); Naked in New York (1993); Night Ride Home (1999); Novocaine (2001); Once in the Life (2000); Pretty Poison (1996); Promised Land (1997); Random Hearts (1999); Reading Rainbow (1993); Rockabye (1986); Roseanne (1989); Running on Empty (1988); Separate But Equal (1991); Sesame Street (1968); Shaft (2000); Skull Session: The Making of 'Anger Management' (2003); Spenser: For Hire (1986); Streets of Fire (1984); Sweet Liberty (1986); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 51st Annual Tony Awards (1997); The Boys Next Door (1996); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1991); The District (2000–2003); The Ellen Burstyn Show (1987); The Equalizer (1987); The Insider (1999); The News Is the News (1983); The Paper (1994); The Puzzle Place (1995); The Recovery Room (1985); The Warriors (1979); Thirtysomething (1989); Tintypes (1982); Tootsie (1982); Trial by Media (2000); Walls of Glass (1985); When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate (1979); Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991–1998); Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? (1996–1997).                                                       

 #Warriors, #WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego


On this day in music history - Symphony No. 5, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1808)

 Symphony No. 5

by Ludwig van Beethoven,

was first performed in Vienna on December 22, 1808.

Symphony in four movements.

Opus 67, in C minor.

Composed: 1804–1808.


On this day in music history - A Streetcar Named Desire (1998)


A Streetcar Named Desire


by Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Rodney Gilfry,
Anthony Dean Griffey, San Francisco Opera and André Previn,

was released on December 22, 1998.



On this day in music history - The album Disconnect, by Helen Jane Long (2022)


Disconnect


by Helen Jane Long

was released on December 22, 2022.




On this day in movie history - Do Not Disturb (1965)

Do Not Disturb

directed by Ralph Levy and George Marshall,

written by Richard L. Breen and Milt Rosen,

based on the play Some Other Love by William Fairchild,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1965.

Music by Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage.

Cast:
Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney, Aram Katcher, Leon Askin, Lisa Perav, Michael Romanoff, Albert Carrier, Barbara Morrison, Dick Winslow, Raquel Welch, Britt Ekland.

On this day in movie history - Always (1989)

Always

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Jerry Belson and Diane Thomas,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1989.

Based on the movie A Guy Named Joe (1943), directed by Victor Fleming and John E. Burch.

Music by John Williams.

 

Cast:
Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn, Roberts Blossom, Keith David, Ed Van Nuys, Marg Helgenberger, Dale Dye, Brian Haley, James Lashly, Michael Steve Jones, Kim Robillard, Jim Sparkman, Doug McGrath, Shereil L. Bowens, Ascension Fuentes, Todd Jacobson, DeMarious T. Morganfield, Mike O'Neal, Larry Landless, Steve Shatnyski, James Pruitt, Joseph McCrossin, JD Souther, David Jackson, David Kitay, Gene Strimling, Roy E. Harrison, Ted Grossman, Gerry Rothschild, Loren Smothers, Taleena Ottwell, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Braveheart, Jim Dunkin, Douglas 'Hurricane' Hall, Tim Hiser, Jaclyn Nagata, Joseph Michael Roth.

On this day in movie history - Grumpier Old Men (1995)


Grumpier Old Men


directed by Howard Deutch,

written by Mark Steven Johnson,

was released in the United States on December 22, 1995.

Music by Alan Silvestri.


Cast:
Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert, James Andelin, Marcus Klemp, Max Wright, Cheryl Hawker, Wayne A. Evenson, Allison Levine, John Patrick Martin, Adam Ward, Ryan Waldoch, James Cada, Jaclyn Ross, Kyle Christopherson, Jeffrey L. Smith, Geraldo Rivera, Warren Schueneman, Jack Mitsch, Sterling Robson,Gregory Schuneman, Denny Schusted, Michelle Johnston, Wallace Olson, Carl Johnson, Eugene Karels, Lawrence Grivna, Joel Edwards, Larissa Lowthorp, Johnny Luckett, Tammara Melloy, Shirley Stoler, Ryan Wotherspoon.

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Happy Solstice:


Happy Solstice - wherever you are!

#WinterSolstice #SummerSolstice



Lena Dunham, on reading:

 
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
- Lena Dunham.


Recommended reading - Be Cool

 

Be Cool

by Elmore Leonard.
 
Published 1999.
Published by Mariner Books.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062265997
ISBN-13: 978-0062265999
 
Description:

“The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” – New York Times Book Review.

“An absolute master.” – Detroit News.

Get Shorty's Chili Palmer is back. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

After a smash hit and a flop, B-movie producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea – until the exec, a former "associate" from Chili's Brooklyn days, gets whacked.

Segue from real life to reel life. Chili's found his plot. It's a slam-bang opener: the rubout of a record company mogul. Cut to an ambitious wannabe singer named Linda Moon. She has attitude and a band. She's perfect. Zoom into reality. Linda's manager thinks Chili's poaching and he's out to get even, with the help of his switch-hitting Samoan bodyguard. But somebody else beat them to the punch, as Chili discovers when he gets home and finds a corpse at his desk. Somebody made a mistake….