Here is the text of a 1974 trip journal by Hazel M. Falk. The entries covered a family vacation to parts of Oregon, Idaho, Montana; and to the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. During the journey, the Watergate case ended the Nixon presidency -- I recall seeing a newspaper headline concerning this, around the time we were in Banff. -- JBF
An experiment artificial intelligence created on 31 March, 2023. At one time, the Dream Deep program resulted in some unsettling and engaging psychedelic permutations of imagery. I abandoned using it eventually, as the move toward AI created ethical concerns -- plus the results were unsatisfactory, having a uniform fantasy-airbrush appearance. I'll make an exception and post this already-made work, which resulted from me inputting photos of Aleister Crowley, and a collage using the dust jacket from Colin Wilson's book The Occult (among other things). I added a tad to it. The piece did end up with a super creepy feel to it.
To celebrate the 17th anniversary of this blog, here's a new cartoon I drew (digitally) recently: An imagined trip, including both Ken Kesey and John Creasey on the bus, Furthur. Their lifespans overlapped in part, although they belonged to different generations. Outside of a slight similarity in their names, and the fact both were writers, they had few similarities in their approaches.
-JBF
Slide photo by Bruce W. Falk; WWII-era Naval station, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, circa 1958.
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35mm,
35mm film,
Alaska,
analog photography,
Cold War,
Dutch Harbor,
White Alice
A new cartoon I created (drawn digitally), based on my mother's accounts of a restaurant operated by Greek immigrants, where she was employed as a waitress. The time frame was toward the end of World War Two.
Parental slide photo (by Bruce W., or Hazel M. Falk). Inscription Rock, El Morro National Monument, New Mexico; circa 1958.
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digital art,
experimental,
Japan,
Kyoto,
photography,
train,
train station,
travel
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anniversary,
blog,
blogging,
Collage,
digital art,
digital collage,
selfie,
surrealism
Here is a bit of postal/correspondence material (from 1958) from my father's (Bruce W. Falk) time in Alaska, connected with the White Alice project. -JF
Here are WWII-era draft cards for Jerome Horwitz, Louis Feinberg, Moe Horwitz, and Samuel Horwitz (AKA Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Shemp Howard, all members of the Three Stooges, in various lineups -- along with Joe Besser, and Curly Joe De Rita). The draft cards have a straightforward, sober feel, in contrast with the Stooges' comic personae. Source: Ancestry .com
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--JF
