Month: March 2015

Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary

Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary, PO Box 877, Montgomery, Texas, 77356

Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary (SFWS) is a registered 501©(3) nonprofit charity in Montgomery, Texas, run by volunteers and created to provide a permanent home for non-releasable wolves and wolfdogs to live out the rest of their natural lives safely and comfortably with loving care and attention.

Wolves are born in the spring, so this year Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary will be holding our first ever “Birthday Celebration for the Wolves” on Saturday, April 18, 2015 between 12:00 pm and 4:00 pm. We invite everyone to join us for a fun, family-friendly experience. Please inquire about visiting. For information: info@wolvesofsaintfrancis.org.

The Red Rug

Photographer Unknown, (The Red Rug)

“The thing about nature is that each species does what it’s best at. That’s why it’s all so locked together. I’m certain that at its center is some kind of peace or unity or harmony – the white light people speak of having when they come back from “the dead.” And what does our species do best? We construct artificial systems wherein we are mighty predators, or mighty thinkers, or sagacious, benevolent rulers of the universe – allies with God even.”

-Rick Bass, The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

Chris Burdon

Chris Burdon, “Urban Light”, Installation of 202 Restored Cast Iron City Street Lights, 2008, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Standing in front of LACMA, “Urban Light” consists of 202 restored cast-iron street lamps, most of which used to light the streets of Southern California. Burden began collecting street lamps in 2000 without a specific work in mind. Ranging from 20 to 30 feet tall, there are a total of 17 different lamp styles represented in Burden’s sampling. Photos do not do this installation justice; you have to be there at night to experience it fully.

The Wolf Man, 1941 Trailer

 

The Wolf Man, 1941 Trailer

After teasing his friends for believing in werewolves, Larry (Lon Chaney Jr.) is promptly bitten by a rabid wolf and faints. Horror superstars share the screen when Larry wakes to find a gypsy (Bela Lugosi) who moonlights as a werewolf. Cursed by the werewolf’s bite, Larry suffers torturous full-moon transformations and tries to escape the townsfolk who hunt him. Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers and Ralph Bellamy also star in this film.

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Maurice Heerdink

Paintings and Drawings by Maurice Heerdink

Born in 1955 in The Hague, Maurice Heerdink is a Dutch painter known mostly for his subtle painted photo-realistic male nude art. After graduating in 1981 from the Royal Art Academy in The Hague, The Netherlands, he traveled extensively through north and middle America. Heerdink illustrated books and magazines from 1989 to 2000, writing and publishing short stories of his own.

Heerdink developed a modern Caravaggio-style during the 1990s, emphasizing drama and lighting in his paintings. Focusing on mythology, he painted a series of figurative scenes, receiving a first prixe in 1999 at the “The Jesus Mystery” exhibition for his painting “The Return of the New Messiah”. A documentary of his life and art, “The Playful Eroticism of Maurice Heerdink” was shown on MVS Gay TV Amsterdam in 1998.