with the sound of jazz, rock and blues as some of the biggest acts in music entertain at the annual
Blue Balls Festival.
Travel: Switzerland - The hills are alive; IF THE thought of Jailhouse Rock captures your imagination consider a trip to the historic Swiss city of Lucerne. For one week during the summer the lakeside town is alive
Except for the remarkable "
Blue Balls" pictures of the early '60s (which were "inspired," as it were, by another illness, this time renal tuberculosis, which painfully swelled and discolored Francis's eponymous testicles), his paintings started to look like an ongoing technique applied to large or small formats, depending on what the market would bear, and varied in configuration (the almost-vacant "Edge" paintings, 1966-69, the transparent wet grids corralling his liquid primaries, the snaky-patterned pictures done more or less the same way, and so on) according to the influence of the moment (Minimalism, a Jungian therapist).
Sunny side up
At the countdown, the tree factory, or "solar green machine," showed the workings of a tree by spraying out water (evapotranspiration) and inhaling red balls (representing carbon dioxide) and exhaling
blue balls (oxygen).
And this is just the prelims!
WE WROTE: Thousands of small
blue balls have been washed up at Saltburn over the last few months.
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Is it their esthetic value, their ability to express or engage their times?--are given the philosophical equivalent of
blue balls: they're raised but left hanging.
"Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time)." (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City)
Thousands of identical small,
blue balls have been washed up at Saltburn over the last few months together with other plastic and nylon items.
Pellets on beach warning