Category: Artist

Favorite vs. Best

What is the best film of all time?

Most film scholars (and wanna-be film scholars) proclaim that it’s Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’s 1941 masterpiece that inarguably changed filmmaking forever. Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, and Gone with the Wind are often in the conversation as well.

Excluding The Godfather, how many times have you heard someone mention one of those films as their absolute favorite? How many are populating a casual filmgoer’s top five? How many Lawrence of Arabia conversations have you experienced in your life?

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Artist Books Life Passion

Whatever You Do, Do It for Yourself

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date February 3, 2016
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Over the weekend, I attended a reception near my hometown for Blydyn Square Books, a small publisher in the area that I first became aware of when I reviewed one of the first books it released, a novel by Everett De Morier titled Thirty-Three Cecils.

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Tags Creativity, Feeding my Passion, Legacy, Self-Publishing, Thirty-Three Cecils, Writing

Artist Documentary Tuesday

Documentary Tuesday: “The World’s Most Expensive Stolen Paintings”

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date December 1, 2015
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Most people care little about art theft. Unless it’s the Mona Lisa or something equally as famous, very few people give much thought to what a painting being stolen means to us. However, as the film suggests, art is part of our culture and having it stolen is an assault on all of us.

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Tags Art, BBC, Crime, Paintings, Theft