Miscellaneous thoughts and things to write in a blog.....

 Yesterday I sketched Jingu Stadium, today I've started on a picture I took of our dining table, loaded with liquor bottles (actually, four bottles plus flower holder ain't much!).  I then re-charged and set up my M10 to go out on a photoshoot.  That camera is a heavy motherfucker but the pictures generated from that lens are the best I have ever taken - continually.  I also re-loaded a complete M10 guide on my Kindle.

The Jingu sketch, if nothing else, captured stadium stands with lighting atop.......I could not expect more.  I penciled my sketch for today....got to ink outline it next.  This is more of a drawing than a sketch yet I do have the ability to do something like this fairly rapidly and this portends both being able to do more and being able to do more better because I am practicing - so far - every day.   Can I eventually do cartooning this way, too?

Last night I started watching MI 1 on Netflix.  Over the past couple of years I've gained 'newfound' respect for Tom Cruise as a film artist.  Frankly, I do not recall any of MI1 - but will complete watching it again in a day or two...then I will resume MI6!

It has been a long, long, long, long time but while I am still reading far too many books at the same time, two that are most currently important to me are:

Melting Point by Rachel Cockrell is non-fiction compilation of journalist writings from the first Zionist Conference in Basel, Switzerland through an attempt to found a Jewish colony in........Galveston, Texas.  

AND

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls.  This is a graphic memoir, the first graphic to win a Pulitzer with the winner totally unprepared for winning - as was Amazon, which was selling the book for $US3.99 before the Pulitzer.   This is a MUST read for those involved with China.

By the way.......4 June has past.  What will history recall?  I was in China....and later, in Hong Kong's Victoria Park with upwards of 50,000 there to remember.......

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