Really sad that the school that Fred Fixler built, That produced Jeff Watts, where I did almost all the oil painting I did, is closing in days. Just randomly happened on the news because of a Jeff Watts youtube video I came across. Made me search for the school site. And there it was. The main announcement.
Too much competition out there now teaching the Riley method.
I have to notify the guy that got me involved with the school.
Jeff Wand. I'm on linkedin with him.
I wonder where all those fabulous figure sketches will end up.
I think half of them are Glenn Orbik's.
Really proud to have had a couple of classes with him.
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It says it is closing after the 13th. My birthday is the 12th. It's closing on the day between our birthdays Ellis. We are both going to be thirty-one this year.
I always get that wrong. I thought we were a day apart.
I'm happy to be elderly. One more year before I get my first social security check.
I'm being optimistic that the country will still be intact enough to be issuing SS checks a year from now.
Reading between the lines on the school closing announcement- disposable income has ceased to exist.
Worse economy since the depression and we still haven't weathered the big market crash to come.
Here's a recent youtube showing how I look right before turning 61. These will be remembered as the happy times. Before it all goes into Road Warrior dystopia mode.
I watched a full sixty seconds of that youtube.
Ha ha, I watched about 30 seconds. It started reminding me of an Andy Warhol film.
"Empire is a 1964 American silent black-and-white film made by Andy Warhol. It consists of eight hours and five minutes of continuous slow motion footage of the Empire State Building in New York City. Abridged showings of the film were never allowed, and supposedly the unwatchability of the film was an important part of the reason the film was created."
It's not unwatchable. I've watched in 3 times. I like the part where I get serious at the halfway mark. I put on my magnifier glasses.
Can you imagine the amount of film that was exposed to make 8 hours of slow motion footage. At least 16 hours worth of film.
Jeff Wand replied to my message on linkedin. I learn from him that Glen (one N, I've been spelling it wrong) Orbik owns the school.
Jeff feels there are too many schools teaching the same thing now. But it's due to this school that it all started. Still a shame.
I say "that it all started." More like, that it stayed alive.
"Empire was filmed on the night of July 25–26, 1964 from 8:06 p.m. to 2:42 a.m. from the 41st floor of the Time-Life Building, from the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation. The film was shot at 24 frames per second but is projected at 16 frame/s, so that, even though only about 6 hours and 36 minutes of film was made, the film when screened is about 8 hours and 5 minutes long."
I like this tidbit - In 2007, website Nerve selected Empire as one of "The Thirteen Greatest Long-Ass Movies of All Time""
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