The Day I Met David Hockney At Laurel Canyon Dog Park in Los Angeles Where His Dogs and Our Dogs Played and He Signed Two Pieces of Art For Me.

David Hockney!

Born in 1937, Hockney is a pop art legend whose depictions of pools, cherry blossoms and sausage dogs brighten up the contemporary art scene

When Andrew and I lived in West hollywood California we used to take our dogs to run in Laurel Canyon dog park. At that time David Hockney was having an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. his art was everywhere. Each piece was magnificent. In one section of the exhibition was work that he did with Xerox Photocopying. As I mentioned before I was a paper man, selling paper ephemera. The Xerox art on the walls, there was one from interview magazine and I believe the other one was from life magazine. The narrative on the wall talked about him going to Laurel Canyon Dog park with his dachshunds. I went to the museum shop to see what they were selling and it was a poster from the show. I decided at that moment, I would search out the magazines that he put art in that were on the wall in the museum that he had made for the masses. It took me awhile but I found them in a store on Venice Blvd that sold all kinds of old magazines and books. It was one of my favorite stores to find paper ephemera. I left the magazines in the car knowing that I had made my mind up that I would take my dogs up to the park in hopes that he would be there with his dogs one day. Sure enough on the first day that I went, there he was. I was so elated that I almost could not contain myself. My dogs first played with his dogs and then I introduced myself. I told him the story I just told you here and he laughed and laughed. he told me to go to the car, get the magazines and he would sign the pages that had his xerox art in them. As he began to sign them, he began to doodle on them with a sharpie adding new detail and then signed them to Andrew and I. He laughed again and said you will be the only person in the world that will have these. I laughed back with him and said I could never afford your work and this is beyond anything I could have imagined. He gave me a hug and my wish came true. I had two pieces signed and doodled by the one and only David Hockney, one of the great modern artists.

Here are the pieces that David Hockney signed and doodled on to both of us.

The Grocer’s Son -2007 French Film

Nicolas Cazale

Clotilde Hesme

Wikipedia,

The Grocer’s Son French Le Fils de l’épicier Directed by Éric Guirado Screenplay by Éric Guirado Florence Vignon [fr] Produced by Miléna Poylo Gilles Sacuto Cinematography Laurent Brunet Edited by Pierre Haberer Music by Christophe Boutin The Grocer’s Son (French : Le Fils de l’épicier) is a 2007 French drama film about a family that runs a grocery business in Provence, France; the business includes a single truck that travels the countryside making deliveries to customers. The director, Éric Guirado, had previously made television documentaries about traveling grocers in rural France. The film, released in France as Le Fils de l’épicier, was first presented as part of the 2007 Namur Francophone Film Festival.[3] It was sufficiently successful that in 2008 subtitled versions were released internationally. Synopsis It concerns Antoine (played by Nicolas Cazalé), who must leave Lyon to help his mother (Jeanne Goupil) who runs the family grocery store in a village in Southern France. His father (Daniel Duval), stricken with a heart attack, can no longer drive the grocery truck that supplies the isolated hamlets around the village. Antoine discovers the charm of these people, “bons vivants” (good living) ways and gradually comes to love his eccentric customers and finds the country of his childhood. He also discovers the joy of living and perhaps the joy of love with Claire (played by Clotilde Hesme). The film uses the beautiful landscape of Mont Sainte-Victoire as a regular backdrop.[4] Cast Nicolas Cazalé as Antoine Sforza (the Grocer’s son). Clotilde Hesme as Claire. Daniel Duval as Antoine’s father, the proprietor of Alimentation Générale (lit. Grocery). Jeanne Goupil as Antoine’s mother and the proprietress. Stéphan Guérin-Tillié as François Sforza (Antoine’s brother). Liliane Rovère as Lucienne (a customer). Paul Crachet [fr] as Le Père Clèment. Chad Chenouga [fr] as Hassan. Benoit Giros as Fernand. Ludmila Ruoso as Sophie

Four More Years ‘Fyra år till’ – Movie 2010 Directed by Tova Magnusson

Here is a sweet film about gay love, I hope you enjoy and if you get a chance catch the movie if you can,
Four More Years 2010 ‘Fyra år till’ Directed by Tova Magnusson

Fyra år till (Four More Years) Year 2010 Running time 87 min. Country Sweden Sweden Director Tova Magnusson-Norling Screenwriter Wilhelm Behrman Cinematography Trolle Davidson, Victor Davidson

Cast Björn Kjellman, Eric Ericson, Tova Magnusson, André Wickström, Sten Ljunggren, Inger Hayman, Richard Ulfsäter, Christina Stenius, Erik Lundin, Iwar Wiklander, Adam Lundgren, Jacob Nordenson, Lisbeth Johansson

Click here to see photo gallery of pictures from the film.

Four More Years 2010 ‘Fyra år till’ Directed by Tova Magnusson Fyra år till (Four More Years) Year 2010 Running time 87 min. Country Sweden Sweden Director Tova Magnusson-Norling Screenwriter Wilhelm Behrman Cinematography Trolle Davidson, Victor Davidson Cast Björn Kjellman, Eric Ericson, Tova Magnusson, André Wickström, Sten Ljunggren, Inger Hayman, Richard Ulfsäter, Christina Stenius, Erik Lundin, Iwar Wiklander, Adam Lundgren, Jacob Nordenson, Lisbeth Johansson Political party leader David Holst, one of Sweden’s most popular politicians, is handsome, funny, popular and predicted as the country’s next Prime Minister. But what at first appears to be an easy victory turns into a humbling defeat as another party wins the elections and four more years of leading the country, Then, when David suddenly falls in love, the problem is not that he’s already married or that he’s fallen in love with another man….but that the man he’s fallen head over heels in love with, Martin, is the only man on earth he cannot love. He is an up-and-comer in the rivaling party that won the elections! David is risking everything – his family, his party and his own name. If they can’t keep their relationship a secret, a public scandal could be a career destroyer. But David doesn’t have the nerve to play this kind of game and eventually the mistakes and misunderstandings pile up and their love is threatened to be lost. Almost. “Four More Years’ is a funny, daring, clever and extremely romantic comedy, proving once again that love conquers all. —Quintiane