Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Thank you, Artguy.

I like seeing your new ( and older) stuff too . . .


--ZW

A few more drawings, including a self-portrait . . .

Some recent figure drawings. Most were made from life . . .

A rapid, sure and articulate sketch . . .

--ZW

A FEW PICTURES/ 2

A few images of my drawings and paintings ( below) over the past two and one-half years.

All my Flickr work ( over 3,300 drawings and paintings) is available on my Flickr site. Just click here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustusswift/

First, thanks to the stalwart Doreen for hosting this shindig, symposium, exorcism- fest or whatever it is, called STUDIO EIGHT . . . It's fun and I always learn something when I visit. Six years ago ( approximately) I was a regular around these parts. Here are excerpts from my Flickr site below-- t...

Seasons Greetings to Doreen and all.

I want to contribute my voice and images ( quietly) in the coming year, to Studio 8.

Warm salutations,


Zlatko

My FLICKR site:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/augustusswift/

All in the service of "sales", as e-dog rightly states, Hester . . . This country and its mass media know how to sell, and live or die through sales. Movie stars and their suicides, early and accidental deaths, agonies and drunken driving are just sales boosters, slammed together on TV with the deat...

Dear Hester: Here's a fine overall analysis of "what's wrong with the media . . ." by Glenn Greenwald on Amy Goodman's DEMOCRACY NOW. In this interview, Greenwald analyzes the overall structure and dynamics of American "journalism" at the present time which accounts for the silliness of the TV progr...

In my former life I stood in front of a classroom ( often I moved around to the side or back) and watched the tone of things at the universities and colleges where I worked for over thirty years change. Numerically there are doubtless many more really bright, compassionate kids and young ( 20's--ish...

Again, the incisive Scott Ritter shows us where our ( and Congress's ) priorities are:


( the story)

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ritter.php?articleid=12370


--Z

To all-- especially Jack and Jimbo: I read the massive tome, JOURNALS 1952-2000 ( A.S., Jr. lived to age 90 . . .) by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and it was revealing and entertaining until he reached the Carter ( Carter terrified him-- a true bloodless Machiavellian . . .) years. Schlesinger's favorite...

Both my wife and I have had this influenza, Hester. We still have it after several weeks. It convinces you it's about to leave and re-pounces. It is, for me, just about the worst flu ever. Mary keeps getting it from her students. Every student from the university has it, nearly every teacher. Rest i...

Dear Clay:

I'm not writing much on S8 these days, as everyone has no doubt noticed-- or not noticed-- as Korzybsky said: Can you hear me in the back of the room?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski

I left you a personal message. Read it and answer if you like.

--Z