January 4, 2008

Through a series of events starting with the uncovering of an 8 mm tape from 1979, I have rediscovered an album from 1982. The album was "Utopia" an honest attempt by Todd Rundgren to market a band that was brilliant musically. listening back this week the masses missed this altogether. The band consisted of Kasim Sultan, Roger Powell, Willie Wilcox and Todd Rundgren. The songs were all potential pop hits but none never panned out more than short little blips on the music hit screen.

What I love most about music and I realized it while listening to this album was how I remember the lyrics even to songs that seemed unfamiliar.

Love music.

Love this album. Dig into the past and have fun and give this album a listen

B.T.W. the uncovered 8 mm can be seen on You Tube. The artist is .
db7247 is a professional cinematographer and has been for the past 25+ years. The videos on Youtube of Utopia, were taken standing on chairs after waiting 9 hours in the sun and rain in the summer of New York City .
1979 Central Park and 1989 Dr, Pepper, New York City


Peace Always

Sharon

January 2, 2009

Photo by Rick Brandt


I'm at a standstill with my book, "Adventures of Sophie". The type has been edited and laid out (I used Pages). Not such an easy task for a luddite but I managed to muddle my way through with the help of the tutorials. The original art is being photograph and will then be processes into TIFF files which I will take, clean up and layout besides the type. All in all things seem, thus far, to go smoothly. That's leaves me with no art projects and time to think of the ridiculous. Such as Black Ice.

Why is Black Ice so terrifying?

My mother calls regularly to ask if I have seen any, my neighbor heard a newscaster talking about it with the same alarm as finding Anthrax in the Postal System. It kills, it maims.

Black Ice...fear it!

Peace Always

Sharon

January 1, 2009

7 Rays
2006
acrylic on canvas
38" x 30"


Kwanzaa Day 7

Imani
(Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Peace Always
Happy New Year 2009

Sharon

December 31, 2008

Kwanzaa Day 6

Kuumba
(Creativity)
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Happy New Year

December 30, 2008

Photo by Sharon Lee
Wilkinsburg, PA

Kwanzaa Day 5

Nia
(Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

December 29, 2008

Photo by Sharon Lee
State College, PA

Kwanzaa Day 4

Ujamaa
(Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together

December 28, 2008

Photo by SharonLee
Scotia Range, central Pennsylvania
Kwanzaa Day 3

Ujima
(Collective Work and Responsibility)

To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together