Where Do I Start? Is There a Map?

I am convinced that from the beginning, there is a thread that weaves itself  through our lives.  We don't have any idea what it will be, but it gets there.

This is a digital collage I made yesterday.  The first thing is to find images that are cool.  Intertwining them is lot of fun. Giving the work a title is really the hardest part for me.  I love putting jazz with the works I create.  I should start with that instead of the other way around.

Here are two people deeply related by DNA and sharing the talent that runs in those mysterious strands.

Straighten Up and Fly Right

So the BP Oil guys think they can fix the gusher! Popular pre-bop jazz crooner Nat King Cole wrote the song “Straighten Up and Fly Right”. The lyrics are totally appropriate for the BP crew.


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1919-1965. Crowned long before Elvis. The King Cole Trio was a popular pre-bop jazz group (with the definitive "Route 66"). He had huge pop success as a crooner of the 50s/60s: "Ramblin' Rose", "Nature Boy", "The Christmas Song"... "Send For Me" was great rock and roll, but he didn't pursue that road. His 50s NBC variety show was controversial, not for its innocuous fare, but because he was black. Father of Natalie Cole, who duetted on "Unforgettable", via the alchemy of digitalia.