Archive for the ‘Blue Moon’ Category
Blue Moon Art (Early 1990’s) — Image by kenne
In the late 1980s, Robbie Robertson released a song, “Somewhere Down the Crazy River.”
I loved the song so much in the early 1990s that I created the art image, which I titled “Blue Moon.”
The distant red neon shivered in the heat
I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land
You know where people play games with the night
God, it was too hot to sleep
I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee
All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling from right behind me
I turned around and she said
“Why do you always end up down at Nick’s Cafe?”
I said “I don’t know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way”
She said “Hang the rich”
Catch the blue train
Places never been before
Look for me somewhere down the crazy river
(Somewhere down the crazy river)
Ooh, catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me somewhere down the crazy river
See you somewhere down the crazy river.
2020 Harvest Moon (October 1, 2020) — Image by kenne
October’s first full moon is the harvest moon on October 1,
and the second full moon will occur on October 31.
While the moon won’t actually look blue, the second full moon in one month
is usually referred to as a blue moon. This happens every 2.5 to three years,
or “once in a blue moon.”
Dancing to the Blues at Houston’s, Mr. Gino’s Lounge (03/09/08) — Image by kenne
The Blues
“The fundamental form in all of American music —
that’s what the blues is. It’s in every folk song,
The sound of the banjo and the sound of the guitar.
It’s in the sound of ragtime, it’s in the sound of
John Philip Sousa’s marches. It’s hard to get the
blues out of your sound. Blues is also call and
response, which is democratic form. It generally
has lyrics that described something tragic or sad.
But many times it reverses that and gives you
something that’s hopeful.”
— Wynton Marsalis (NY Times, June 28, 2020)
Mixed Media Art II — Digital Art by kenne
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
— Wallace Stevens
“Moon Glow” — Computer Painting by kenne
Sometimes happiness is a blessing,
but generally, it is a conquest.
Each day’s magic moment
helps us to change and sends us off
in search of our dreams.
from By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Blue Moon Over Tucson, July 31, 2015 — Image by kenne