The Red Rocks Collection

After various trips to the Red Rocks state park in Nevada, I am please to showcase my collection of Black and white, sepia and color prints, many of them available for sale at Imagekind. com and Red Bubble.com

The Vegas Neon Boneyard Collection

The Vegas Neon Boneyard Collection will not be available for sale due to property release rights, but you are welcome to scroll down and read my article for Everwhere Magazine.

Las Vegas Neon Boneyard

So you just realized you are down to your last twenty bucks while visiting Vegas and uncle Bill, who you just called for a loan doesn't remember you due to Alzheimer's. You have no bride to wed and the five dollar "all you can eat buffets"? well, just found out they are a thing of the past. Vegas can be an unforgiving place for those with empty pockets, but not all is lost! you can still grab your camera and head out for a "Rendezvous" with gambling history. The Neon Museum better known as the "Boneyard" is located just north of Downtown Las Vegas, across the street from Cashman Field, just minutes from where all the tourist action takes place. The Neon Boneyard comprises of two city blocks of old "glitzy junk" or vintage Americana representing an are gone by, a place where you come face to face with iconic symbols from a glamorous past.
The Neon Boneyard is a cemetery for all things electric and forgotten. All these signs were replaced by new and vibrant ones representing a new Vegas that is as corporate as Silicon Valley can be. While some of the signs are being restored to their original glory, most of them are laid to rest forever baking in the desert sun. All the museum ask from it's visitors is a kind donation (tax deductible) along with a pledge and a promise not to use the images for commercial use (rates for professional photographer are slightly astronomical), and of course reservations are highly recommended.
The Neon Boneyard is sure to give you a different perspective and a completely different view of the Las Vegas history. It is good clean fun and it is something you can safely show your wife when you get back home to Iowa from your "stressful" business trip.

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The attack killed between 250 and 1,600 people, and many more were injured.

A huge mural had already been commissioned from Picasso by the Spanish Republican government to decorate the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition (the 1937 World's Fair in Paris). The bombing of Guernica provided Picasso with the inspiration for the mural which he had previously lacked. The striking black and white photographs that appeared in newspapers within days after the bombing made such a lasting impact that, within fifteen days, Picasso began work on the final canvas for the mural. "Guernica" became an iconic work after touring overseas while raising awareness about the civil war in Picasso's homeland, Spain. It also foreshadowed the horrors that would occur only a few years later in World War II. The work has come to represent the suffering of war victims and acts as a reminder of the horrors they have survived. It has surpassed the limits of the event which inspired it, becoming a timeless icon for all generations to ponder.

Picasso said as he worked on the mural:

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The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, and in all my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death.[1]

Diane Arbus

Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park,^[5] New York City (1962) — A scrawny boy, with the left strap of his jumper awkwardly hanging off his shoulder, tensely holds his long, thin arms by his side. Clenching a toy grenade in his right hand and holding his left hand in a claw-like gesture, his facial expression is maniacal. Arbus captured this photograph by having the boy stand while moving around him, claiming she was trying to find the right angle. The boy became impatient and told her to "Take the picture already!" This photo was also used, without permission, on the cover of punk band SNFU's first studio album, And No One Else Wanted to Play.

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