– LIGHT BLOGGING – There will probably be few substantive posts this week and none the next; I’m preparing for and then executing a trip to my brother-in-law’s wedding and then a week in Michigan researching my thesis project.

– HUE AND TERROR – It will hopefully be a week of hue and terror, since I will be alternately in Flint and the middle-of-nowhere, studying serial killers and evil ex-lumberjacks.

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Painting became the expressive use of color, line, and volume as it addressed the demands of bringing working space to the flatness of the canvas.

– AUGUST – Is the month of the Grateful Dead.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Liz.

– STATE OF THE WEEK –
Michigan.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s your favorite song, Deadhead?

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Ignoring the artists’ claims for the semantic significance of their formal experiments, Clement Greenberg cast them as seeking autonomous, self-contained states earned by following the Kantian imperative to concentrate on the properties distinctive to the medium.

– AUGUST – is Cataract Awareness month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Antonio Banderas for real (thanks for nothing, Wikipedia).

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
.:: beedogs ::.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Wow, not one QotD response in two days.

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Second, the versions of modernism reconstructed after World War II in both painting and literature were as tepid as surrealism was radical.

During the month of Lumas (June 23 – July 22), I began an exploration of Hip Hop. I had three goals:

#1. To listen to a broad spectrum Old School Hip Hop (pre-1985).
#2. To listen to a broad spectrum from the Golden Age (1985-1993).

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– AUGUST – Is the month of Vision & Learning.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Whitney Houston and Grandma Coyne.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Moosebeck Hideaway: The Catskill foothills, where I wish I was right now.

Blue Skies Falling has finally reached 1,000 posts on the long walk from February, 2004!

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Hey! Look what I found!

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And modernism’s insistence on refined, concentrated intelligence seems better suited for repressing poetic logic than for making it a social force.