EmptyPage (2025)

20/09/2025

Someone says there's something more to payFor sins that you committed yesterdayIt's really rather drippyBut something oh so trippySomething happened to me yesterday. Something Happened to Me Yesterday Lyrics .and music by Keith Richards/Mick Jagger Oh, I see in your prisonYour chains how they cling, how they clangLike fingers reaching in the darkness…...

Someone says there’s something more to payFor sins that you committed yesterdayIt’s really rather drippyBut something oh so trippySomething happened to me yesterday. Something Happened …

30/08/2025

This is my letter to the world,That never wrote to me.—That simple news that Nature told,With tender majesty. Her message is committedTo hands I can not see;For love of her sweet countrymen,Judge tenderly of me. Emily Dickinson Like a photographer I use composition as an early tool. I see some thing, start with a composition which is determined by the camera and lens and later often find my self in the process of cropping the image....

This is my letter to the world,That never wrote to me.—That simple news that Nature told,With tender majesty. Her message is committedTo hands I can not see;For love of her sweet countrymen,Judge t…

16/08/2025

The Steps are about a quarter mile from the Beard Rd staging area, I live on Beard Rd about seven houses down.from the staging area In this image you can not see the camera, just my hands holding it. The above image reminds me of of another “box art” made in late 1960s by a friend of mine, Winifred Russell, influenced by the assemblage with found objects art of …...

The Steps are about a quarter mile from the Beard Rd staging area, I live on Beard Rd about seven houses down.from the staging area In this image you can not see the camera, just my hands holding i…

02/08/2025

“And in the dark tunnel, in the haste, heat, and darkness which disfigure and make freaks and fragments of nose and eyes and teeth, all of a sudden, unsought, a general love for all these imperfect and lurid-looking people burst out in Wilhelm’s breast. He loved them. One and all, he passionately loved them.” Seize the Day Saul Bellow Often when someone has worked hard and wins a competition or perhaps its a proposal which has been accepted or a commission which has been awarded the winner or an election, they complement the “loser” by saying how good their efforts was and how qualified they are....

“And in the dark tunnel, in the haste, heat, and darkness which disfigure and make freaks and fragments of nose and eyes and teeth, all of a sudden, unsought, a general love for all these imperfect…

12/07/2025

“The real terror that engulfs the white world now is a visceral terror. . . It’s the terror of being described by those they have been describing for so long.” James Baldwin 1984 Logs being sent down the Kennebec River in Maine 1970 . The last log drive in the USA was down the Kennebec River in 1976. words words…...

“The real terror that engulfs the white world now is a visceral terror. . . It’s the terror of being described by those they have been describing for so long.” James Baldwin 1984 Logs being sent do…

28/06/2025

When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”...

When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—…

07/06/2025

I don’t like ol’ Satantell you the reason whytell one lie to fool youand another to make it true. 1920s blues song Market Street You come home late and you come home earlyYou come on big when you're feeling smallYou come home straight and you come home curlySometimes you don't come home at all…...

I don’t like ol’ Satantell you the reason whytell one lie to fool youand another to make it true. 1920s blues song Market Street You come home late and you come home earlyYou come on big when you& #…

24/05/2025

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco. Gene Fowler texture as design Grant Street, China Town, San Francisco Leo Laporte was host of The Tech Guy weekly radio show for 19 years answering tech questions about computer usage. Later he founded TWIT, an internet podcast network focusing on technology. This man and his sign were standing on Market and Powell one day when I got off BART, must be many years ago or maybe more....

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco. Gene Fowler texture as design Grant Street, China Town, San Francisco Leo Laporte was host of The Tech Guy weekly radio sh…

12/05/2025

The " caution optimist Morgan do not remove" stickers were a tagging system so that police wouldn't think their art was common graffiti and paint over it. (And became a big part of their art). The stickers you see in other places most likely came from their 'zine. They were selling a zine of their art for $10 and it came with a small “Caution Optimist Morgan” sticker....

The ” caution optimist Morgan do not remove” stickers were a tagging system so that police wouldn’t think their art was common graffiti and paint over it. (And became a big part o…

26/04/2025

I only use the Word Press free site. They no longer will send a notice to subscribers of new publications of this blog, I have to upgrade to a paid something or other. I am 80 years old, have been using wordpress for over 25 years, as a graphic designer I used to design wordpress sites, i.e. write themes, for my clients I am retired and no longer am earning income .You will no longer get a notice of the latest publication....

I only use the Word Press free site. They no longer will send a notice to subscribers of new publications of this blog, I have to upgrade to a paid something or other. I am 80 years old, have been …

12/04/2025

A monk said to Joshu, “I have just entered this monastery. I beg you to teach me.” Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice gruel?” “I have .” replied the monk. “Then”, said Joshu, “Go and wash your bowl.”(The monk was enlightened.) Mumonkan Case VII Mumon Ekai (1183-1260)., Blyth translation Department store in Shibuya Shibuya streets Akihabara streets…...

A monk said to Joshu, “I have just entered this monastery. I beg you to teach me.” Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice gruel?” “I have .” replied the monk. “Then”, said Joshu, “Go and wash your …

08/03/2025

Some history of EmptyPage Blog I began EmptyPage in early 1990s when Japan was interesting to Americans,. I had some family history with Japan, my wife is from Japan, and I was involved with Keizai Society in Silicon Valley, the largest active Japan-US business organization in the United States. I wanted something to send clients to use for marketing, my business so I created some print “flyers” about Japanese culture....

Some history of EmptyPage Blog I began EmptyPage in early 1990s when Japan was interesting to Americans,. I had some family history with Japan, my wife is from Japan, and I was involved with Keizai…

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