Robert Brault
Archive for July, 2010
It’s good to toss in a stone and begin our own ripples of influence.
July 8, 2010Joy Cooper
West Virginia Flyway
It’s amazing what happens to you if you just go along with the flow. My husband Doug and I could never have predicted that we’d be living in West Virginia’s mountains (on a genuine country road) and hosting guests from all over the world in our Bed & Breakfast, Nakiska Chalet.
We’re native West Virginians and whitewater paddlers. We’ve enjoyed exploring our state and I enjoy sharing those experiences with my watercolors. I seriously began to paint in 1995 and offer my work on this site and in Artists at Work Gallery in Elkins, WV, Showcase West Virginia at the Charleston Town Center, Tamarack in Beckley, and several other shops and galleries. I have exhibited my work in state and local art shows and have been pleased that several have received awards. I’m a Juried member of the West Virginia Watercolor Society and Allied Artists of West Virginia.
In addition to all that, I love to plan “dates” with Doug, I’m a mom to two great young men, love my daughters-in-law, and adore our three grandchildren. They, as well as painting, keep me happy and busy.
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
July 7, 2010Eileen Caddy
Eileen Caddy MBE (August 26, 1917 – December 13, 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, in northeast Scotland. The commune which she started with her then husband, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean in 1962 was an early New Age intentional community, has today been home to over 400 residents and thousands of visitors from over 40 countries, today it is one of the UK’s largest alternative spiritual communities, and also known as the ‘Vatican of the New Age’.
There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.
July 6, 2010Steve Chandler
Steve Chandler is now the author of 20 books that have been translated into over 20 languages. His personal success coaching, public speaking and business consulting have been used by CEOs, top professionals, major universities, and over 30 Fortune 500 companies. He has twice won the national Audio of the Year award from King Features Syndicate. A popular guest on TV and radio talk shows, Steve Chandler has recently been called “the most powerful public speaker in America today.”
Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
July 5, 2010John Beecher
John Beecher (22 January, 1904 – 11 May, 1980) was an activist poet, writer and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movement. Beecher was extremely active in the American labor and Civil Rights movements. During the McCarthy era, Beecher lost his teaching job for refusing to sign a state loyalty oath; seventeen years later the California Supreme Court overturned this law in 1967, and he was reinstated in 1977. Beecher’s books include Report to the Stockholders, To Live and Die in Dixie, In Egypt Land, and a 1974 Macmillian edition of his collected poems.
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don’t do it, you don’t know what might happen.
July 4, 2010Harry Callahan
Eleanor, Chicago 1954
Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was an American photographer who is considered to be one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. He was also one of the few innovators of modern American photography noted as much for his work in color as for his work in black and white. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and started photographing in 1938 as an autodidact. By 1946, he was appointed by László Moholy-Nagy to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Callahan retired in 1977, at which time he was teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Callahan left almost no written records–no diaries, letters, scrapbooks or teaching notes. His technical photographic method was to go out almost every morning, walk the city he lived in and take numerous pictures. He then spent almost every afternoon making proof prints of that day’s best negatives. Yet, for all his photographic activity, Callahan, at his own estimation, produced no more than half a dozen final images a year.
He photographed his wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Barbara, and the streets, scenes and buildings of cities where he lived, showing a strong sense of line and form, and light and darkness. He also worked with multiple exposures. Callahan’s work was a deeply personal response to his own life. He was well known to encourage his students to turn their cameras on their lives, and he led by example. Callahan photographed his wife over a period of fifteen years, as his prime subject. Eleanor was essential to his art from 1947 to 1960. He photographed her everywhere – at home, in the city streets, in the landscape; alone, with their daughter, in black and white and in color, nude and clothed, distant and close. He tried several technical experiments – double and triple exposure, blurs, large and small format film.
In 1950 his daughter Barbara, was born. Even prior to her birth she showed up in photographs of Eleanor’s pregnancy. From 1948 to 1953 Eleanor, and sometimes Barbara, were shown out in the landscape as a tiny counterpoint to large expanses of park, skyline or water.
In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Callahan died in Atlanta in 1999. He left behind 100,000 negatives and over 10,000 proof prints. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, which actively collects, preserves and makes available individual works by 20th-century North American photographers, maintains his photographic archives. His estate is represented in New York by the Pace/MacGill Gallery.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
July 3, 2010Anonymous
The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.
July 2, 2010Dennis S. Brown
Dennis S. Brown, President of Destiny Investments, firmly believes that “Your Attitude is Showing!” and it is also the topic of one his most powerful talks as a major force on the national public speaking circuit
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
July 1, 2010Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.
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