To never be silent again, we are who we are. Never let your voice be taken away. It has taken me a life time to get free. From all the people who looked away when bad things were happening to me. Speak Up., Don’t be afraid. If they don’t help you, you must do it on your own. This film is for the young people who’s lives are just starting and to all the gay and lesbians souls who gave their lives so we can have better ones. And to my beloved Andrew Reach my soulmate for 32 years now. who has helped a broken soul find his way and his voice.
Andrew Reach’s Circles 2012 Calendar: Available on Amazon.com
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Article on Truthout.org about Digital Art and Culture: by Max Eternity featuring Andrew Reach & Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum
When Andrew began doing his art out of his hospital bed, one of the ways that I inspired him to work through his severe pain was that I would say, “Someday you’re going to be in the Whitney Museum in New York.” I had put all his art on our walls in our home in Miami Shores, Fl. Little does one know what lies in their future.
This year has been filled, like many of us, with great difficulty. We were told that Andrew now has a complication to his first disease, Scheuermann’s Kyposis, which is called the Viking gene which is affecting Andrew’s left leg motor skills and muscles. With pain beyond his normal pain, which means he was beyond the pain; he was the pain. Two times this year his right leg was affected and he could not walk. With multiple shots and a tremendous amount of physical therapy, he has gotten himself back up. Living with such pain is a horrible place to be.
So Andrew and I continue with the life that we now have which is being happy for what we have and never looking back to what has been lost. The secret to life is to keep going and always to see the wonder. The magic is all around us.
We were thrilled when this article came out. Both of us laughed when we saw it. There was Christiane Paul, curator of New Digital Media from the Whitney Museum of American Art, speaking on a podcast mentioning Andrew Reach, as an example of digital art in the United States, in the same story. Life is filled with so many circles.
Peace
Bruce Baumwoll
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Digital Art and Culture: A 21st-Century Paradigm Shift
Monday 26 September 2011
by: Max Eternity, Truthout | News Analysis
At a time when extreme, economic austerity measures are being considered and/or enacted by a number of Western governments – Greece, Spain, Germany, the US, and elsewhere – one has to wonder why, in the UK, a collective of government agencies in England have just allocated $815,000,000 for digital art and culture. Read more…
Block’s Luncheonette, Edgemere Long Island 1950’s- Vintage Postcard
Block’s Luncheonette: vintage postcard from the library of Les Block
Les Block remembrances:
This is a picture of my families business. sometime in the 1950’s. They had boardwalk vendors selling the Drink You Eat With A Spoon.
And yes if you have ever been on a boardwalk when there was hustle and bustle the picture makes you smell the ocean and the boardwalk itself. Those were the days, no computers but I think we all had more fun interacting with one another.
What a wonderful photograph. All I know is boy do I want an Egg Cream.