Posts Tagged ‘Carly Simon’

CC CHRONiCLES: Two Little Sisters / Flin Flon, Manitoba 2013

Published by cctadmin on May 20th, 2013

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Something I’d like to do a little more often in life, & particularly on this website of mine, which I tend to view as a sorta crock-pot of my world as it may be – is to honor the people, places & situtations I get to be a part of.  Trouble with that for me has always been – where does one draw the line?  I certainly don’t like sharing too much about my personal life or the personal lives of my friends & family – one ought to be mindful in sharing things with a sense of purpose.

In the case of these photos – I wanted share them as a testament to those little moments in life where I find myself surprised & touched by the love of people’s families. I have many wonderful friends, old & new – I haven’t necessarily plastered photos of their personal lives on the internet regardless of how often they inspire me yet these chosen images sum up something rather simple yet so big about life: the love of family.

I was invited by a friend to come to her two daughters joint birthday party & from it came a few colorful images of those tiny ‘moments’ that can pass all top quickly but are worth remembering forever.

Thank you friend for inviting me in – may you & your family be blessed! Enjoy these.xo


My TEXAS STUD: KRiS KRiSTOFFERSON / “The great thing about being a songwriter is you can hear your baby interpreted by so many people that have creative talents vocally that I don’t have.”

Published by cctadmin on March 7th, 2012

With songs such as “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and “Help Me Make It Through The NightKRiS KRiSTOFFERSON brought a literary quality to country at the dawn of the 1970′s that won new fans and set the standards for other writers.  KRiSTOFFERSON’S own hit records, including “Why Me Lord” (1973) and films such as ALiCE DOESN’T LiVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) and A STAR iS BORN (1978) raised his profile even further.

Born in 1936 KRiSTOFFERSON is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for such hits as “Me and Bobby McGee” and “For the Good Times” – as well as for helping to launch the careers of SAMMi SMiTH, JANiS JOPLiN, JOHNNY CASH and JERRY LEE LEWiS by providing them with original music.   KRiSTOFFERSON is the sole writer of most of his songs, and he has collaborated with various other figures of the NASHViLLE scene such as SHEL SiLVERSTEiN.  On providing people hit records he has said: “The great thing about being a songwriter is you can hear your baby interpreted by so many people that have creative talents vocally that I don’t have.”

In 2004, he was inducted into the COUNTRY MUSiC HALL of FAME and in 2006 he recieved the Johnny Mercer Award from the SONGWRiTERS HALL of FAME.

Check out these images below and the youtube links for KRiSTOFFERSON’s music:

 

 


Excerpt: ‘NOSTALGiA iN VOGUE’ : ON THE BRiNK w/ CARLY SiMON; 1971

Published by cctadmin on December 31st, 2011


ANDY WARHOL: THE KiNG of the POLAROiD AGE & CELEBRiTY PORTRAiTS

Published by cctadmin on October 13th, 2011

ANDY WARHOL’S Portraits of Celebrities remains the most illustrative demonstration that abstract can be found in the obvious and that details are the natural way of underlying art.   ANDY WARHOL was an eccentric in an age of photography when the relevance of art was defined by daring actions.

Below are a portion of his legendary series of CELEBRiTY POLAROiD PORTRAiTS – including some sexy and some not-so sexy portraits of DEBBiE HARRY, YVES SAiNT LAURENT etc.  I especially love the PAUL ANKA portrait – as he balances sexy-cheese.  Also stand outs are the FARRAH FAWCETT and DENiS HOPPER shots.  What can I say – they are unique.  Not so hot to me is the shot of JANE FONDA – whom I normally love but quite frankly can’t get past the hair and make-up.  In the grand scheme of things I put ANDY WARHOL’S polaroid series right up there with the best of the best in portrait photography.

For more on WARHOL, check out www.warhol.org.