No longer the Only One

The Huffington Post is featuring one of photographs of New Harmony.

It's a variation of this shot from my 2008 Opera album.

Some of these are revisited and more have been added in my latest New Harmony photo album.

After the occurrences of last week, maybe it is time for another calming visit!

I wondered how long it would take before the art installation installed a couple of weeks ago in Heman Park, "Domestic and Wild" by Aly Strubberg, would succumb to the wilder members of our human population. Well, they made their mark by today:



You can see how it part of it originally looked here and below:


I had hoped that the deliberate 'tear' introduced into the sculpture would be enough to cause people to leave it alone, but I was optimistic. Now I wonder how much longer the rest of it will last!

About this time last year, I wrote about the actor Sam Dale who, at the time, seemed to be in almost every radio drama I was listening to.

Well, even though Sam Dale is still around (most recently heard in the "On Mardle Fen" comedy dramas), his ubiquity has been supplanted by Carl Prekopp. Prekopp's in the classic serial, "Out Of the Hitler Time", that I'm listening to right now. Last week he was in was the moving "Pink Mist" radio poem. Prekopp was also in the preceding classic serial, "The Cruel Sea" - Prekopp everywhere!

Just as Sam Dale had a defining role for me, Toby Esterhase in the adaptation of the John le Carré novels, so did Prekopp as the scheming Steerpike in the recent adaptation of the Gormenghast novels.

Like Sam Dale, Carl Prekopp is an enormously talented and versatile actor. It's good to hear him.

A belly dancer at the Venus Envy art show tonight. (Larger, high quality, here)

From a few years ago, but I was looking for something colorful and evocative. Larger photo here.