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All of Britain is going gaga over the royal wedding today. Parades, parties you name it. It is a big deal over there.

But here in America much less so. We have our own problems and diversions. Some of the hoopla has been taken over (usurped) by our morbid fascination with Hollywood.   

Hollywood.  

Not to mention sports.

Sports.

Now there is a topic we Americans love to bite our teeth into. Some athletes date and marry movie stars.

Can you think of some?

 

--WW

While on hold...

Starting off the work week with drawings WW has made while on the phone. Check back for more of these every Monday.

Kids' Art

If your child would like to send artwork to William Wegman, please leave a link to where it can be seen (flickr, etc) in the comments.

The Hardy Boys

I grew up reading The Hardy Boys stories from the early 50's. Never as good as the covers, the books with numbingly memorable heroes and villains were a staple of every adolescent boy's reading in that era.

My favorite cover, and because of that, my favorite book, was The Missing Chums. I related to The Hardy Boys because of the danger the boys found themselves in -- which was not much, but enough to be fun. Reading the series as a kid, I never imagined that I might one day create my own version of The Hardy Boys.

In 1994, with my cast of four weimaraner stars, I set my mind to work on stories set in Rangeley Maine. The Hardy Boys become The Hardly Boys in my film Hardly Gold, starring sisters Batty and Crooky. Hardly boys, they are girls and dogs. Sequels in print and film were planned but not completed...yet.

 

 

- WW

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While on hold...

Starting off the work week with drawings WW has made while on the phone. Check back for more of these every Monday.

Kids' Art

If your child would like to send artwork to William Wegman, please leave a link to where it can be seen (flickr, etc) in the comments. 

Borges and Others

Jorge Luis Borges's writing had a big impact on my video works in the late sixties and early seventies. I was influenced in particular by the collection of stories called "Labyrinths". After reading that, I came up with ideas about narrative and circular time. Since my video was linear, narrative and circular, which was different than what other artists were doing. I found great solace in the Borgesian approach to time...circular linear, narrative .

More recently I have found inspiration in Adolfo Bouy Casares, another 20th century Argentine writer. "The Invention  of Morel" is of particular interest, as is "Asleep in the Sun". "Asleep in the Sun" was lying around the house, so I picked it up, read it and enjoyed it. When I finished, I realized one of my photographs was on the cover. 

I like very much Wallace Stevens and Wordsworth. "A violet by a mossy stone, half hidden from the eye" etc etc.

 

Happy Poetry Month...

-- WW