The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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It's all beautiful, CC. Thank you for posting it!

Thank you Hartz. I'm going to get busy and spend more time doing the things I love again. I only have a month to go before I retire and I'm going to live this summer to the hilt. When I was younger I used to get as dark as an Indian in the summertime, and for some strange reason I feel a strong desire to get dark-skinned again. I think I'm associating my dark summer skin with freedom and feirceness. Fearlessness, even. How have you been doing?

Very creative and beautiful CC! I can't help but notice that she has the same "mona lisa" smile as your avatar pic.

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Pixels, well not really, but monitor (TV) screens, dead pixels and I. I worked as an inspector in a tv tube facotry. Give an aspie with anal retentive traits a microscope and tell him to look for dead pixels? I think I went into meltdown mode after that little job for about half a year before I could face the work force again.

Thanks for the pictures, even if you didn't intend to post them here. They're superb (except... I couldn't help seeing the Queen of Cups as Queen Victoria.)

I was wondering. That introduces yet another distortion, maybe. It's very difficult, and uncomfortable, to get the camera plane perfectly parallel to the subject plane. You are very likely to err toward a tilt, which will invariably make an image that is distorted to show as wider than it should.

Yet another snippet of "Trivia" - doors... check out where the hinges are placed. It's pretty standard, but varies between countries. It has nothing to do with any mechanics - it's purely visual effect.

I didn't know that about hinges. The hinges on this door, obviously, are on the right and the door opens into the kitchen.

Silly me. I didn't have time to check up on the figures. I got distracted, and after that, now I've finished watching Doctor Who, and this gives a good description of door hinge heights.

The painting on the Queen of Hearts is by Raphael. "La Velata" Dated 1516 and in Forence at the Galerie Palatine.

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So... a possibility I have seen it up close. I've been to Firenze several times.

Still looks vaguely like Q. Vic. The pose, I guess.

CC, my dear CC, you have confirmed somthing I have thought, but had no proof and actually no need for proof any more. .. let me explain. . .

I had a dear friend that painted like you do. Sometimes he was silent for years. Sometimes he would NOT SHUT UP! He was prone to outbursts of violent temper and horrindous cussing spurts, but they never seemed to be AT anyone, although if you were an inantimate object, you could be kicked, punched or launched into the wild blue yonder. We never knew what was up with him, but his dad bought him a farm and he had a wonderful attitude that no one could be turned away and I used that to my advantage over the years.

I have a painting on my wall of the sun as a Spanish Contessa playing castinets across the mirage -ed plains of Toledo. There it is, and as he stated: The abstract expressionist works, in acrylic, thrown from mustard/catsup plastic squeeze bottles, misted with water to flood the field with spontaneous color, reentered with brush and lyrical shapes, thinking of Miro, Klee, Gorky, Kandinsky, Pollock, et. al. All the while considering the nature of space, harmony, chaos, unfoldment of creation contained in the infinite possibility of variation and interaction of line within this world of a hologram that we know as existence, was my meditation.

He passed away from Lou Gerhig's disease last August, he was 58. In October I learned about Asperger's Disorder and I thought of my friend. I would have loved to tell him about AS.

thank you for causing me to think about my friend. I have some more of his thoughts about how he painted and what he thought about it, if you like.

Merle

I'm sure we like, Merle. I do, at least.
He sounded a little Dali-esque, there, maybe. Have I got the quote right: "There's only one difference between me and a madman. I'm not mad.".

I've been doing okay, thanks! I have never understood the concept of tanning, having been born with a built in one But I like your take on it. Associating it with a certain positive time in life.

Lau

Beautiful picture of Queen Victoria. She does have the look of the woman in La Velata. Did you notice the sameness of the hands, and isn't it the same aura, if that's the right word, or a certain state of mind or emotional something or other that each is emitting. Like each had the same thing on their mind. The gaze too. I was in Florence once only. My sister and I took our father for his 80th birthday. We went to Rome, Assisi, Sienna Ravenna and Milan also. We went with a group with the local community college. I'll try to scan some pictures of our trip and post them.

Hartz

I'm glad to hear you're doing better. What have you been up to. Anything fun?

Merle

I would love to hear more about your friend. Maybe you could photograph his painting of the woman with castanets and share it with us. Sorry he had to leave so soon.


I am in Heaven. Just bought myself an inexpensive but great little ipod, Zen Stone by Creative, only $34.00 in Walmart and holds 250 songs - and as I write this I am listening to Led Zepplin "Kashmir". ooh ooh yeah yeah, ooh ooh my baby let me take you there.

Ah, now it's Guns & Roses "Since I Don't Have You" Almost sounds like the original until you get to the end and they do their thing with it.

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I am looking for fun things to do that don't spend too much energy. You know, I've been wanting to get an ipod player. If they're that cheap at Walmart, I'm going to check it out!