Wandering Artist's Journal

This past Sunday I saw the Rockwell Kent film which showed at the de Young Museum . It was three hours long - a fact that was not revealed to us until right before the movie started. Maybe they were afraid no one would come. Which might be true, since there were only about a dozen people in the Koret Auditorium, for this one and only showing, even before it was announced how long the documentary would be. A mathematician sitting in front of me (or was he a physicist - he was scribbling formulas* on the program) got up at the announcement and headed up the aisle, muttering and shaking his head. But most of the rest of us stuck it out. I was glad I did. I was never bored, but I'm afraid this movie might need further editing before it's ready for prime-time. My main impression after the movie finished was that Rockwell Kent perfectly illustrates the saying of the philosopher Seneca , " Life is long, if you know how to use it ." Regardless of how you feel about his polit...

Detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, appeared at her front gate yesterday as several hundred courageous monks marched through barricades blocking access to her home in Rangoon. LINKS: Chevron and Burma Photos from a "brave Burmese living in Rangoon," who cannot be identified right now. What's the Story with Burma? BBC Profile of Burma New York Times on Burma Huffington Post on Burma Independent Media looks at Burma US Campaign for Burma Human Rights Watch on Burma Democracy Now on Burma Amnesty International on Burma