Perfect spring weather since my last posting. Nothing new at the slough, but there are all sorts of birdlife there, and an occasional sneaky deer.

Sitemeter Sez: Auckland, New Zealand; Morristown, New Jersey; Little Rock, Arkansas; Montreal, Quebec; Oakdale, New York; Phoenix, Arizona; Valencia, Spain; Warsaw, Poland; Los Angeles, California; Quezon, Phillipines; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; Ankara, Turkey; Ketsch, Germany (Home of the bad art movement?) and Maryville, Tennessee.

NEW Mime Troupe History 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!
MORE UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and especially Cellulose to Celluloid, Even more Flash Gordon comparisons from the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics.





Many 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 including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!

Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

In The Community: Seldom Seen II and Larry Johnson's photos of local characters are on display at the Hockaday Museum of Art, and the school show is making way for the Plein-Aire paint-off at the start of June. Dan Fagre's show will go up again next week -- it is about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park, and a true labor of love by Fagre and other scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and recent decades.

Last week, I ran sound for Carol Buchanan's public discussion of her historical novel God's Thunderbolt -- The Vigilantes of Montana at the community college. Here's the link to a live-blog of the event.

Media Watch: The Dancer and the Dance (1983) with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Shirley MacLaine, and Marianna Tcherkassky (Baryshnikov's dance partner). It is a made-for-TV film originally shown in England. Besides chatter and biography about Baryshnikov, it was built around a new ballet in production, choreographed to a difficult Samuel Barber concerto. The young choreographer was Singapore-born Choo-San Goh. (See his Wikipedia article.) What made this video special to me was the presentation of the whole piece at the end -- beautifully photographed and edited. Unless you yourself have tried to capture Dance with a camera, you have no idea how difficult it is, or how special it is to see a quality result.

My digital reinterpretaion of Mikhail Baryshnikov onstage in his prime. Ignore the cruel discipline of Ballet, which he mastered -- he DANCED through all the posturing and athletic technique dictated by the art form. You'd think it would happen more often, but it doesn't.