On this day in music history - The album Crystal Ball, by Styx (1976)

Crystal Ball

by Styx

was released on October 1, 1976.

#PutMeOn #CrystallBall #Mademoiselle

On this day in movie history - Old Henry (2021)

Old Henry

directed and written by Potsy Ponciroli,

was released in the United States on October 1, 2021.

Music by Jordan Lehning.

Cast:

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, Stephen Dorff, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter, Kent Shelton.

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.

Anne Rice, on writing:

If you want to be a writer, write.
Write and write and write.
If you stop, start again.
Save everything that you write.
If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again.
Write.
Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
- Anne Rice.

Recommended reading - More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts

 

More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts

More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
by James Naremore.

First published 1998.
Published by University of California Press.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0520254023
ISBN-13: 978-0520254022
 
Description:

"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s―melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.

Born on this day – Renée Adorée (1898)

Renée Adorée

Actress

September 30, 1898 – October 5, 1933

Credits:

Call of the Flesh (1930); Redemption (1930); The Pagan (1929); Tide of Empire (1929); The Spieler (1928); Show People (1928); The Mating Call (1928); The Michigan Kid (1928); The Cossacks (1928); Forbidden Hours (1928); A Certain Young Man (1928); Back to God's Country (1927); On Ze Boulevard (1927); Mr. Wu (1927); Heaven on Earth (1927); The Show (1927); The Flaming Forest (1926); Blarney (1926); Tin Gods (1926); Exquisite Sinner (1926); La Bohème (1926); The Blackbird (1926); The Big Parade (1925); Exchange of Wives (1925); Parisian Nights (1925); Man and Maid (1925); Excuse Me (1925); The Bandolero (1924); Defying the Law (1924); A Man's Mate (1924); Women Who Give (1924); The Eternal Struggle (1923); The Six-Fifty (1923); Day Dreams (1922); Mixed Faces (1922); Monte Cristo (1922); Honor First (1922); West of Chicago (1922); A Self-Made Man (1922); Made in Heaven (1921); The Strongest (1920); 500 Pounds Reward (1918).