Persistant snowfalls, not like ten years ago when over ten feet accumulated in the valley, but anywhere from a few millimeters to a few inches the last few days.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Los Angeles, California (looking for Wini Shaw); Jamaica, New York (YO Stozo!) and West Orange, New Jersey.

REAL SLC Punk, not the movie, at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics!





Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.

In The Community: A good idea from the director at the Hockaday Museum of Art. Artistic Contrasts -- featuring traditional landscapes, portraits, wildlife etc. contrasted with modern versions of the same genres. We all enjoyed interpreting the theme, and putting art from our permanent collection on the walls instead of storing them in the vaults.

Media Watch: The DVD of Daredevil was alright, but I liked the way it began more than I liked the development of the story or the way it ended. I haven't heard much about the private lives of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner since they paired up around the time this flick was made -- no news is always good news on that front. There was a DVD-ROM section that outlined the history of the Comic Book, and some of its artists, especially Frank Miller. It credited Bill Everett and Stan Lee as creators, which is mostly right, but I would have preferred seeing Jack Kirby's name too.


The Art of Daredevil
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In a rather spontanious collage, starting from the top left and moving clockwise, we see Jennifer Garner as Frank Miller's Elektra 2003; Miller (pencils) with Wallace Wood (inks) in Wood's last job for Marvel Comics 1980; Wally Wood cover from 1965; One of Miller's last DD covers circa 1986; In the center is Wood's definitive Daredevil design from 1965; Left of that is Miller's FIRST DD cover 1979; The lower two covers were pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith in 1969 and 1986. There are inks by Klaus Jansson, George Klein, John Romita, and Al Mingrom. That tiny logo picture in the corner of DD #51 is by Gene Colan. Other artists who have graced DD over the last 44 years include Carmine Infantino, Al Williamson, and John Romita Jr.