“...Datsun's Roadster helped pave the way for the entire Japanese auto industry to get taken seriously in the sports-car world. In the play "My Fair Lady," a humble flower girl learns to speak like a sophisticated lady in order to fit into high society. Like that character, a humble manufacturer's sports car gained success and respect. While the Fairlady name didn't cross the Pacific, perhaps it wasn't completely off the mark...”
Inside and outside of my creative life, I always find those valuable moments of time to draw and sketch the some of events, spaces and environments on my journeys... Sometimes I think about Robert Byron touring through regions of the Middle East in search of unique towers and monuments, and wonder about Bruce Chatwin venturing through the southern tip of South America and falling in love with Patagonia...Douglas Wittnebel...
Monday, September 30, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
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Sunday, September 8, 2019
Washoe Zephyr
Zephyr Cove is named after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind. Mark Twain and Dan De Quille both wrote about the strong west winds that blow over Lake Tahoe and on into Nevada, called the “Washoe Zephyr.”
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Sunday, September 1, 2019
The blue of the lake ...
“A noble sheet of blue water,” Mark Twain wrote of Lake Tahoe in 1871, “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.”
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A selection of ink sketches done at the Ryoanji garden in Kyoto, a magical space full of mystery and a wonderful confluence of the simpl...
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#Domo-kun #どーもくん sighted on the side of the bus from Shibuya station #NHK mascot found dressed up in costume...
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Was fascinated and intrigued by the scale of the circular plans of Connaught Place, also known as CP Delhi, and also as Rajiv Chowk, and thi...