A little fruit for the ladies
After posting the drawings from yesterday, my mom wrote me... it seems she was disappointed that there was not more fruit. I can only guess what she meant by that, but it started me thinking that I may be neglecting my female readers, so tonight is ladies' night at the Bastish Net.
There are also some nudie women in today's drawing samples too. I figured as long as I am developing the male photos, there is no harm in throwing up the women too. Not that I almost didn't put one of the drawings up, (the one that is tastefully altered from the original photo). Luckily I remembered that this is supposed to be a record for me as much if not more than for anyone else who reads this, and if I start editing and censoring myself it aint so good.
I probably wont be putting these drawings up so regularly in the future, in fact I only planned to put up the drawings from my Friday night sessions... but, since this is what I'm "in to" now, it makes sense to post them.
One of the great things about drawing like this all day or night, is that I can do this and listen to the radio of NPR at the same time. Most other things require more concentration. Yesterday I heard this interesting The Connection where they were discussing Mirroring Evil, an exhibit in the Jewish Museum that raises a lot of issues regarding how people can and can't, should or shouldn't represent the holocaust in art and writing.
This was especially interesting to me after I was in a class in University about the holocaust, and out of maybe 300 students, I think there where only about 10 of us who weren't Jewish, and even among the Jewish students, the vast majority of them had a family member who was a survivor. The question came up often "Who owns the holocaust?". In the beginning I thought I might be a little uncomfortable talking about it in class and giving my opinions, since I felt that I did not own it and they did, but what I realized, and wrote one of my papers about was that I (non-Jewish / Christian) in a way owned a part of it also... not a good part.. not that there was a good part, but I owned a part in that I could identify with the "villains", and could very well have been one. I'm confident I would not be one of the top echelon of the Third Reich, but what if I had been a regular citizen who got caught up in everything? The topic of my paper was about how similar the upbringing of one of the soldiers was to my own...
Anyway, in the program they talk about an exhibit that contrasts a famous exhibit at the Holocaust museum which passes out name tags of Jews who died to each of the visitors. This time, the exhibit passes out name tags identifying the visitor with taxi drivers, train conductors, and normal people who helped to kill and persecute the Jews. The point being that unless we put ourselves in these peoples place, and realize that they are not so terribly different than us, (even good Jews as well, as can be seen in Israel*) we can not really face what happened and prevent it from happening again.
*I think I may be treading on very dangerous ground if it sounds like I am comparing Isreal to Nazis. I don't think I ma though, I am comparing naturally "good" people to other natuarlly "good" people, not Hitler and the war criminals.
I have four second round World Cup tickets, and no one to buy them. I would go myself, but it is in Kobe, and the price to get there would cost more than the ticket. If anyone wants them or knows someone that wants them, let me know... maybe we can make a deal.