Lady Gaga can you hear/see me now?!?
Help! I need / want your help.
Please will you help me?
What can this 55-something balding, bronzed, energetic Capricorned-people-oriented-extroverted male artist/ person need your help for?
My seventeen year-old son, that's what for!
And what will I do in return for you : I'll shoot some more pictures like these for you and make the wine bottles and their dried acrylic colored paints act as accessories for you and your clothes, that's what I will do.
In exchange I would love for you to invite my son to meet you after your concert here in the Washington D.C. area in early September. He will be with two other friends - three of them in total.
Can/will you help me? Please contact me at : tonythewineguy@gmail.com.
Do you like what you see here?
Is there anything inspiring about any of it for you / Do you want to see more?
For me being an artist on a path all the time - my own path - no one else's - this is simply the start of what could be a beautiful/fruitful/playful/meaningful relationship and even collaboration with time ...
I have much more and I do like the way your image comes through the painted wine bottle glasses here - sometimes vaguely and sometimes quite loud and clear.
Do you see it? Do you like it?
Do you want to develop this idea of being seen/scene nouveau/newly through glass as it does change and amplify and extend and add a level of gravitas and distortion and both the beautiful and the ugly and everything in between as well as the comical, sad, cheerful and festive, too : all wrapped up into one image : all fascinating when you scroll from one image to another that adds to a more complete sense sensical/non-sensical, too of the " now " of place and time, mood, fear, emotion and hidden and raw/virgin/blatant/brash/demure/dainty and savage moment - ours - the one we share and that is ours to occupy fully and enjoy completely for the moment or lose completely/quickly for the moment as we pine for an other's?!?
Que lastima. Quel dommage, comme c'est triste, what a pity, what a shame , shame on us!!!! Let us be enough of an individual to own our own moments and to own up fully to them, badges that we wear and display boldly and clearly to show where and what we have done as well as what we currently are and where we might be in the future ...
Anyway, look at these pictures and please leave a comment here on this blog so that I may contact you and arrange for this next " moment " I hope to be shared by you and my son and his two friends in September. Myabe if all goes well we may share our own moment together and toast to each other over a good meal and good glass of wine? That would be an adventure for me I know and feel in every fiber of my artistic being ...
By the way I loved your live performance with Sir Elton John on the Grammy's was it with your face-t-face pianos. The song/ the collaboration really worked for me. It charged/energized, balled, encapsulated, drew me in, gutted and filled and hit me in the guts, head, heart and pretty much everywhere as I focused and listened intensely and stopped everything else, craning and trying to get everything from the all-too-brief moment that you shared singing and playing your pianos together. It was simply put quite raw and marvelous, serendipitous, momentous and movingly wonderful. Thanks for that : I loved it as an artist myself.
I'll be off to the beach with my family, Salvo, Outer Banks North Carolina where I will be doing lots of portrait sketches and sea and beach scapes and I cannot wait. You may reach me at : tonythewineguy@gmail.com. I am a wine-enabler/educator and have been following both my art and my wine career and never stopping either as they coexist really well. Perhaps I can do some portrait sketches of you while I am there though I do not as yet have a strong enough sense as to which face of yours I should capture? I will mull this over as I enjoy the moment there with family and friends, food and wine.
I hope you enjoy these pictures that I have taken with the juxtaposition of my acrylic hand-painted bottles done back in 1989 or so ( there are many ) and these two posters that we purchased of you recently and gave to our son.
I am posting this now as time is of the essence.
It's Sunday afternoon here in northern Virginia at 12:18 PM on July 25th, 2010 as I post this and get ready to take our Terrier mix-breed Dod Rescue Shelter 7-year old dog for a walk now in this sweltering heat and humidity of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
I must say that in my humble artistic disposition of a 55-something male artist these colors of acrylic paint on the deep olive green empty wine bottle with the light filtering through work nicely with these two pictures of you.
Anyway, thanks for anything that you may do for me and my son in advance. It's a long shot I know but nothing is ever shared, grown, sporn, seeded, sprung, evolved, enlarged, minimized and given/gained without an effort. I hope that this one of mine takes root and produces a flower or a picture, a meeting, a bottle of wine, some sketches and some more interesting juxtaposition to flame the heart and feed the thirsty soul. Cheers to you and good luck on your musical and artistic, photographic and film career. May you sing again so wonderfully with Sir Elton John. That was a grand Kodacolor collaboration indeed - lofty even.
A la prochaine La Gaga e a presto e hast luego and until I hope you meet my son and his two friends. Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn
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