December 2011
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Unveiled: The Midnight Movie Ticket That Exploded
Click the Dream-Machine to learn about the first ever live, simulcast, international, synchronized world-wide open mic reading event.
November 2011
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December 17 Spectacular Literary Event →
Organizing a very novel literary event unlike any that has ever happened at all before ever! :) To take place December 17, 2011.
Early details will be announced in a message to http://vivelarocknroll.wordpress.com subscribers in a private message I’m sending December 7.
Q&A with The Lit Coach - Issue 4 Announcement |... →
Please re-blog. The Lit Coach is doing a writing/publishing Q & A on the LitReactor website this week.
National Novel Writing Month →
At 4,250 words of the #NanoWriMo 50,000 word count so far.
October 2011
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Andy Warhol - "Marilyn" Analysis
Text is by Michael Wais; Copyright October 3, 2011
Andy Warhol - “Marilyn”
Andy Warhol’s Marilyn is illumined by successive intense colors.
The colors and background used are concentrated in an extremely minimal manner of painting. Each of the successive colors are merged together in such a photorealistic manner as if to create a “collage” type of effect. Instead of the use of...
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Claude Monet - "Poppy Fields" Analysis
Text is by Michael Wais; Copyright October 3, 2011
Claude Monet - “Poppy Fields”
Claude Monet’s painting Poppy Fields is full with the same green tone through the broad landscape shown.
Multitudinous dabs of red follow a buoyant representation of a child following an older woman in this light-hearted piece of art. The dabs are thin until they lead up to the closest perspective of...
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Peter Paul Rubens - "Peace and War" Analysis
Text Content by Michael Wais; Copyright October 3, 2011
Peter Paul Rubens - “Peace and War”
Peter Paul Rubens’s painting Peace and War is a portrayal of a concentrated successive clock-wise cycle that is illustrative of the dialectical conflict of war and fertility.
Unlike in landscape paintings, the background is indefinite behind all of the characters. A grey and blue pattern is ...
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“Painting at The Hyde” - Opening Reception for...
Text Rights: Michael Wais October 4, 2011. All images are the copyright of the artists shown at the “Painting at The Hyde” event.
Some of the paintings from Grossmont College’s “Painting at The Hyde” reception
The October 3 Hyde Gallery reception at Grossmont College happens to be as much of a change of pace as the autumn season itself.
Daphne Hill’s creations are...
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Salvador Dali - "Metamorphosis of Narcissus"...
Text Content by Michael Wais Jr. - Rights September 24, 2011
Salvador Dali - “Metamorphosis of Narcissus”
Salvador Dali’s “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” is surreal enough to come from hypnogogic sleep. Its shapes take on regenerative abstract forms that are not geometric renderings from “Classical” or “Cubist” periods. Instead, Postmodern theory’s undermining of the “myth-making”...
September 2011
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"Acorn Review" at Grossmont Club Fair
by Michael Wais - September 29, 2011
“Acorn Review” Editor Stephanie Butterfield (left) and “Acorn Review” Editor and Student Representative Michael Wais (right)
Editors of Grossmont College’s literary anthology, Acorn Review , were at the Grossmont Club Fair to provide information about the club yesterday.
Michael Wais, Student Representative and editor for the...
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Grossmont's Master Plan
by Michael Wais - September 22, 2011
Grossmont College held its 2011 Educational Master Plan yesterday.
The plan was an effort for faculty to hear out students. The GC body brought up their concerns as district and campus officials listened to them with open ears.
The chancellor of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, Cindy Miles, hosted the first part of the event. She took...
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Marilyn Manson Covers William Blake
by Michael Wais - September 11, 2011
To Top Off Acting, Lectures, and Painting, Rocker Marilyn Manson Takes on Poetry
Marilyn Manson captivated the audience of a free spoken-word reading at the The Getty Center auditorium last night. Dark Blushing was a one-night event with renowned poets expressing their interpretations of classic British watercolors and drawings shown in...
August 2011
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“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
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Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
(via bookshavepores)
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“Sometimes I’m afraid that you’ll tell me that this is not a work of...”
– “Donnie Darko”
Red Night - Associated Content from Yahoo! -... →
“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
Stephen King, Book Signing Event at Mason Award... →
“When i got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close...”
– Andy Warhol (Via)
“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.”
– Scott Adams (via myquotelibrary)
W. W. Norton: What Do You Really Want to Do? →
wwnorton:
I want to make big important gestures. I want adventure. I want to get wild and walk away from a burning car. I want to get political. I want to publish a novel. I want to write a novel. I want to come home one day and surprise my lady friend with tickets to Monte Carlo. I want the president of…
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...”
– White Oleander by Janet Fitch (via hernamewasveronica)