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Aquabee Sketchbook: Untitled Pastel by Eleanor Hilowitz

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Aquabee Sketchbook: Untitled Pastel - My grandma used to sit and do pastels for hours and hours. I remember seeing her do this as a small child. It was a medium she was always very fond of. Once, when I was maybe 11 or 12 she gave me a set of pastels for my birthday.

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Aquabee Sketch: Man Reclining by Eleanor Hilowitz

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Aquabee Sketchbook: Reclining Man - I really like this sketch! I especially like the expression on the man's face.

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Aquabee Sketch: Child with Book by Eleanor Hilowitz

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Aquabee Sketchbook: Child with Book - A portrait of a child holding a book (my interpretation) taken from her Aquabee sketchbook. The more I look at these sketches the more I wonder what period they date from. Could probably be determined from the Aquabee design on the cover (when were these made?). Of course that would only tell us when the sketchbook dates from, not when the sketches were made.

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Aquabee Sketch: Man by Eleanor Hilowitz

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Aquabee Sketchbook - A portrait of a man taken from her Aquabee sketchbook.

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Aquabee Sketchbook: Seated Woman by Eleanor Hilowitz

Saturday, October 06, 2007

An Aquabee Sketch Book that Eleanor filled up

Aquabee Sketchbook - My grandmother recently passed away. As a something of tribute to her, I will be posting a curated selection of sketches from her oeuvre every few days (so basically forever -- she drew a lot!).

Aquabee Sketchbook: Seated Woman - This one is of a seated woman. She didn't title it, I did.

Labels: art, eleanor hilowitz, sketches

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Grandmother Movie Stills: Man Experiences Trauma

Monday, September 03, 2007

My grandmother, Eleanor, was a film producer and distributer for 30+ years. As a result, I've now come into a huge number of film stills all ostensibly from b-movies she produced/helped distribute. I will be publishing them here on a weekly basis. The first one shows a man clearly experiencing some sort of trauma. May he recover from what ails him, God willing.

Labels: eleanor hilowitz, grandmother, movie stills

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Moving Blogger posts

Sunday, July 08, 2007

I'm in the position of wanting to move a crapload of my old blog posts to either this blog or to my other, rockstar, blog without doing real work. Blogger doesn't offer anything in the way of tools to do this.

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Tour De France 2K7

I've decided that I want to care about the Tour De France this year. I guess some part of it is nostalgia from when I lived in Switzerland--I remember everyone watching it religiously, but of course at that time I wasn't really very into it. I'm not that intent on watching it actively, but I really want to be able to have it on in the background. The problem is, ESPN doesn't seem to be carrying it (at least not on any of the basic cable channels we get). So I've turned to the WEB. Here's what I've found:

Ubilabs has an online map (mapping courtesy of Google Maps) that displays the actual real-time positions of all the cyclists. This is sort of hard to deal with (at least for me), because by the time I'm ready to watch some real-time action, each stage is already over. I'm beginning to see that even if ESPN televise this I wouldn't be watching it. http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/
Yahoo UK! has a nice page with a bunch of different panels including a tracker, live audio, and a breakdown of each stages winners, times, etc. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/

Labels: bicycling, cycling, sports, tour de france

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