I'm awfully tired. Out walking a while and and a workout. Ready to hit the sack. Still have a bunch of photos to process. With a selection of apps, waste a lot of time in duplication until I see what looks best. The above turned out very good. This is a room centerpiece. It can be printed up 24x32 on plastic poster board and framed for a pittance. Don't even think about it unless you remit $500.
Going home to read myself to sleep with de Gaulle. Well written book, fills in information about his career previous to WWII where he had terrible repute as a very difficult man to deal with. Self-appointed leader of the Free French and a pariah to the Vichy military establishment spread throughout the world by dint of French colonies, whose manpower the Allies sought. He was not a 'government-in-exile' like the Dutch and Scandinavians; he had no standing and chaffed at not being consulted as plans for the invasion of Europe progressed. Complicating things, he was at odds with leaders of the French Resistance too, some of whom were communists waiting to fill power vacuum after the Nazis and the collaborators were evicted.
De Gaulle's pique derives of his old aristocratic family's (they rode against Henry V at Agincourt) insularity with regard to all things French. His father wouldn't let him learn English for the tainting it would bring. Always a stickler, de Gaulle, not a royalist except for his pretense, was opposed to imperialism as well, especially the bourgeois variety effected by the Third Republic. It was unbecoming and defending that turf drained resources required to defend France itself as Germany rearmed. He couldn't convince the antebellum generals of the tactical value of tanks - they wouldn't believe it's capability to bust defensive lines let alone the mobility to flank them. The Panzers taught them that lesson. Meanwhile General Patton was more successful convincing the hidebound about combined arms tactics and the fire power of what came to be regimental combat teams inclusive of armor. De Gaulle was prescient and correct.
De Gaulle's pique derives of his old aristocratic family's (they rode against Henry V at Agincourt) insularity with regard to all things French. His father wouldn't let him learn English for the tainting it would bring. Always a stickler, de Gaulle, not a royalist except for his pretense, was opposed to imperialism as well, especially the bourgeois variety effected by the Third Republic. It was unbecoming and defending that turf drained resources required to defend France itself as Germany rearmed. He couldn't convince the antebellum generals of the tactical value of tanks - they wouldn't believe it's capability to bust defensive lines let alone the mobility to flank them. The Panzers taught them that lesson. Meanwhile General Patton was more successful convincing the hidebound about combined arms tactics and the fire power of what came to be regimental combat teams inclusive of armor. De Gaulle was prescient and correct.
Took a walk at sunset along Grand Avenue. First Friday thing. Thought I'd stick around for some music. Have been going to this place for years. When they first contemplated rehabbing the area it was the Paisley Violin. Said area is still, after all these years of municipal bullshit about an 'arts district' oasis, derelict. The places that do display, display student art. They've been looking to replicate SoHo for decades in many urban enclaves that have more or less passed away.
The successful artists I know market, one way or another, decor. Only rich people buy this stuff and it can't look like recycled junk. I used to work with interior designers and once you were on their referral radar... cash flow. Nobody in Phoenix skulks the bohemian abodes looking for undiscovered greats. LOL
Did get decent shot. Inexpensive presentation courtesy someone and slanting light.
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