A few nice image shack images I found:
White Christmas
Image by Martin Beek
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
“There are many threads connecting the series, the same mountain, for example, appears in the background of all the drawings. It represents both a high place and a hard place to reach, reflecting man's spiritual and physical struggle, an ever-present obstacle which needs to be overcome. Time is another recurring theme and is explored in a number of ways. The falling leaves mark the succession of the years and snails give a feeling of the slowness of time passing. Dandelion clocks express the ephemeral nature of life while clock faces indicate no time at all, perhaps a reference to eternity and the timeless drama we are all engaged in. The shack is a shelter from the storm of life. It's contents mirror the man's state of mind, it's starkness reflects the harsh reality of life in a land where the elements, like the passing years, show no mercy. It's ever changing layout gives the shack a dream-like feel and brings into question what's real and what is not.
What is the significance of the crucifix, the guns, the bottles of wine, the various books and the other elements that are featured? Like a Rorschach test, the story that we each read into these drawings will tell us as much about our own world view as it will enable us to glimpse Martin Beek's own vision portrayed in this work.” (From a review by I Clow)
White Christmas is like a Christmas Card image; I have been told that Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas on Waikiki Beach, when I drew this back in 1997 I was thinking about how I’d be like to be in America too, maybe even Waikiki; I wanted this not to necessarily be a comforting image of hearth and home but one of a bleak battle with the elements like other pictures such as Worst Of The Storm and A Cold Wild Wind . Incidentally the “Berlin" theme is carried throughout the series on the mailbox, it could allude to European settlement of north America or the once divided city. The hill/ cliff that appears in many of these drawings particularly “Lovers Leap “ and is an inversion of Mount Nebo Arkansas depicted in a number of my earlier works and first exhibited at 1984.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
AT&T Point Reyes Radio (KMI) Receiver Site
Image by Matt Blaze
AT&T Point Reyes, CA High Seas Radio Receiver Site (KMI), 8 March 2003.
This was the receiver shack, guarded by a chain link fence and a large, carved wooden sign. The transmitter site was in Dixon, CA. The AT&T high seas HF radiotelephone service was discontinued in 1999; the KMI facilities were abandoned shortly thereafter. The site was razed in 2004.
Image taken with a Nikon D-100 digital camera, handheld.
More at www.crypto.com/photos/misc/kph/
Center and Left side of my desk
Image by Psychlist1972
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