Days of Art 2025-36: Life, Love, Joy & Pain

Back in my Flickr days, I curated a street photography group called Life, Love Joy & Pain (LLJP). It targeted one of the many street photography subgenres I have identified. A list of some of them are below, along with examples of famous shooters who popularized them. I’ve added some sub-bullets to show how even…

Days of Art 2025-21: Dieselpunk Photography

As a child of the 1960s, I am drawn to photos taken during my youth. Colors were primary; cars were large, loud, inefficient, and unapologetic. Gas stations were a way of life. No refilling every two weeks for that lot. You bought gas often and since it was cheap, you liked. Filling stations were like…

Days of Art 2025-15: Louis Prima

These Days of Art posts are not meant to be informative, but inspirational. I hope to present you with a little piece of art that you may be unfamiliar with. Take from it what you will, whether it is new or simply a reminder of something forgotten. Today’s art is presented by Louis Prima, trumpter,…

Days of Art 2025-9: Paul J

I don’t need to say much about this one. If you know music, you will hear the arrangement, the skintight musicianship, the moodmelting backing vocals, and the brainfreeze lead’s vocal range. J Paul is here, and he’s live with a remake of Aerosmith’s “Dream On.”

Days of Art 2025-8: My Sweet Lord

My wife knows I don’t want a funeral when I die, but should she survive me, and I hope to God she does, it will be up to her. Funerals aren’t for the dead; they’re for the living. Instead of a bunch of words, I’d rather people just hear and see … me. Not my…

Days of Art 2025-7: Am I the Same Song?

In 1968, music producer Carl Davis gathered a group of session musicians and laid out a track written by Eugene Record and Sonny Sanders called “Am I the Same Girl?” The song was accompanied by lead vocals provided by Chicago native and Brunswick Records recording artist, Barbara Acklin. Barbara’s vocals were not to Davis’s liking,…

Days of Art 2025-6: Black Filmmaking

Even though few people ever read this blog, and though we’ve stopped regularly posting to it for years, I believe keeping a live conduit to art is more important than ever. Put simply, Earth culture sucks. That being true, I will attempt to reinstate something I was doing years ago: Days of Art. That is…