Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Noble Toad


Noble Toad
Originally uploaded by douglasstruth

Don't you wish you had one of these old Douglass Truth Institute Tshirts? I do. All gone, gone, gone. Being used now, I suppose, to clean carburator parts for an old Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine. Or dusting the parlor. Or sent somewhere, ignominiously, as part of a bale of cotton to be used in paper-making. No one knows what happens when you die.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

sun needed


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Originally uploaded by Teahouse of Danger

my toes are complaining about having to be inside shoes all day long. here they are relaxing in Paul Graubard's Pittsfield art studio.

I told him I was working there.

I'm doing this instead of figuring out what the opening for my show is. It's the hardest part, you know. A couple of bad jokes in the beginning and you're saying, like Moms Mabley, "well, you might not like it now, but you'll be glad when it's over..."

The Douglass Truth Institute

Feels like a renaissance is in the works. The Institute is weed-grown, paint-chipped, silent. The cafeteria echoes with the olden sounds of happy, dynamic students. But now.. now... perhaps spring comes for the Truth as well. A ver.

VIDEO!

At long last, we got the Lantern video edited.


check it out! We're really really going to make a real movie out of this story some day.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Scene from maybe my favorite movie. Something about the corporate/government talk in this movie is so accurate, and in its precise way says something profound about the old world which is soon to be gone...