On Sunday, October 26, I attended the Art For Life fundraiser in downtown Columbus's new Arts District. This event occurs every two years and benefits AIDS research. Artworks are chosen from submissions and auctioned in either the silent auction or the live auction. All of the proceeds go to Art For Life. My photo, Speak the Truth, ended up going for $610! I'm very pleased that my small effort (very small - 6 X 6!) was able to raise that much for such a good cause. It was an

This is a repost of my Halloween post for 2011 on my photo blog, All Eyes And Ears. I drove around central Ohio and took the photos, and it's still one of my favorite pieces I've done. It's a strange feeling standing directly over the grave of a known murderer. I've done it a couple of times now for these old Halloween features. Original Post Date: OCTOBER 31, 2011 “On Tuesday, February 19, 1918, Forest Bigelow, a forty-two-year-old agent for the Ohio National Life Insurance

Vincent Price with his art collection, 1940s Yes, Vincent Price! And while I am A Halloween Girl and I've called him one of my "October boyfriends" for a while (I see a LOT of him, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee every October) that's not even why! I mean, there's a lot there to admire. He had a classic, upwardly mobile Old Hollywood career throughout the '30s and '40s - Dragonwyck, Laura, etc. - and was then graylisted during the McCarthy witch hunts . This altered the

I love and work in (not nearly often enough) a number of different aesthetics and I'll cover them on the blog, explaining each as I have my names for them and don't expect anyone else to know what the hell I mean by them. One that I love is vintage Halloween. The early part of the last century's ornate, odd postcards, the creepy-that-was-cute-at-the-time style of the '20s and '30s, on up through the '70s and '80s. And don't forget the Beistle decorations! Crimson Peak Anothe

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