It’s World Octopus Day! My wife, who is a great artist drew this large octopus a number of year’s ago. She had posted it on her Facebook page commigrating World Octopus Day.
This is what she had to say in her post: If you have yet to see the Academy Award winning My Octopus Teacher., get carried away to a very sacred place with this glorious documentary. One of the first of many Giant Pacific Octopus drawings in my old Venice studio: 77” x 120” charcoal on vellum 2010
One of the great activities of the last 70 years is skateboarding. And what better day than to relive the past is to dig out the skateboard buried in the basement or garage and head out to a nice concrete spot and celebrate Go Skateboard Day.
I did some skateboarding when I was in my teens and early twenties. Much later, after I was first married we had moved into our first home. It was in my old neighborhood so some of the neighbors knew me. But I was older now, married and settled down with a small child of my own. One day there was a knock at the front door. A kid about twelve from the group spoke up and asked, “Can John come out and play?” They wanted me to come out and skateboard with them. My wife turned to me and said, “Get your skateboard but be home by dark”.
And here is a piece of skateboarder art that I did a few years ago. I live in a town of both surfers and skateboarders. Only a few blocks from me is a promenade along where a couple of good surfing spots are located. So the surfers gather in the parking lot and in between trips to the water some will break out their skateboards. Others are just skaters coming down to watch the surfers and skate. In the case of this skateboarder, she was standing on the promenade looking out at the surf at Ventura Point in Ventura, Ca.
Low tide at “C” Street beach in Ventura. You don’t see it often - people riding a bike on the beach, or, in this case walking his bike on the wet, compact sand.
