Group Artist Demonstration at Autry; California Art Club

The California Art Club held an outdoor "Paint-Out" at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park.  A wide range of artists were working side by side:  oils, watercolors, sculptors, pencil.

With the Autry Western Heritage theme in mind, several models of the Old West were on site for the artists.  These include a cowboy at the corral, salesman, a lady reading a letter, and two gamblers playing cards.

A link to the Art Club Event is here:  http://www.californiaartclub.org/2012/02/paint-outsculpt-out-at-the-autry/

Og Mandino on Self-Esteem

From The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino (1975)

Why are we unhappy? I will repeat it for you. We are unhappy because we no longer have our self-esteem. We are unhappy because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have become cattle, numbers, punch cards, slaves, ghetto residents all. We look in our mirrors and no longer see the godlike qualities that once were so evident. We have lost faith in ourselves. We have really evolved into the naked apes that Desmond Morris wrote about.

Beating Heart Cadavers--Discover Magazine

The cover story of the May issue of Discover Magazine deals with how beating heart cadavers are used for organ donations. It gives a good overview on the evolving medical definitions of "dead". In the past several years, about 22 women who were brain dead were still able to gestate a fetus, including one case of 107 days after brain death.

Another blog post on Democratic Underground touches on the issues raised in the article: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002467953