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Will be updating the blog very soon, with some new photographs.

Another great Mexican photographer, working in black and white that I discovered in Oaxaca Mexico, is Eniac Martinez. Here are some striking images from Mexico that he has shown:

Some wonderful images from Graciela Iturbide, a Mexican photographer I discovered in Oaxaca Mexico. If you enjoy black and white silver gelatin photography you should Google her on the Web.

Democratic Capitalism-Free Market and Free Fall

It seems abundantly clear that the free markets can not operate effectively without government regulation. Greed is the operative word in free markets and the free marketeers will optimize profits even if its at the expense of the demise of the entire system. That was clear in J.P Morgan's time and it is clear now. In 1907 J.P. Morgan was required to round up the private capital to bail out the failing banking system. After 1929 the government began to play a strong role in regulating markets. However, in the post Reagan era everyone forgot what is required for the system to work. Now we are re learning the lesson with around $7oo billion dollars in government financed bailouts. Ye the Republican free marketeers in the House continue to worship at the altar of the invisible god of the free market. Despite the failure of the free market to operate effectively without regulation, they are still loathe to vote for their own President's backed bail out. Throw more virgins into the volcano in the belief that it will stop the eruption. In this case the preliminary vote rejecting the bailout in the House has cost 600 points on the Dow. Let the Republican true believers beward. No one knows where the bottom is if they don't vote this bill out of the House.

Let's Update to a Recent Visit to Oaxaca Mexico.

Well, to leave the past for a moment and update a recent trip to Oaxaca Mexico. Oaxaca is a beautiful south central Mexican city to visit for a taste of authentic Mexican culture. The streets are filled with a Zapotecs and other indigenous Mexican people. Sidewalks are broken, cracked, and full of holes, but almost every street in the center of the city has a restored Spanish colonial building housing another impressive art or cultural museum. White washed Spanish stucco walls, restored wooden vigas in the ceilings, and beautiful Mexican light playing on photographs, textiles, or paintings. The markets are filled with tropical fruit offerings and grilled and spiced chippolinas (for los gringos those are local grasshoppers). Chippolinas are a real snacking favorite in Oaxaca. The only problem is the recurring appearance of black trucks filled with the Prevention Police. These police are in black uniforms with black kevlar helmets, and they are armed with M-16 rifles and light machine guns. As soon as any large gathering or festival is about to happen, the black Prevention Police trucks appear seemingly out of nowhere. Probably they are a reaction to the riots in 2006, but they certainly make anyone around feel that the government has a boot on their neck.

Biography, Illustrators New Jersey, Manhattan and Beyond

Just to finish the biography, before moving on. Move back to NYC to continue research career at Columbia, and help the wife with her illustration career. After all husband and wife are a team right? One for all and all for one. Find a place in New Jersey with a studio- Doris Ettlinger Studio. Children's book illustrator in New Jersey..... Ooops, must have been some miscommunication here. Doris Ettlinger illustrator despises living in New Jersey. Meets another artist with a loft in Manhattan, starts an extramarital affair, and decides the marriage is over. Leaves New Jersey for Manhattan, NYC, the Big Apple, where all the serious artists live and play. Sometimes they play with other men's wive's from New Jersey. Hey, it's only your marriage, right? I got to be me.

Well it's over when it's over, right? Don't get stuck. So it's time to move on. I move to Boston, MA to begin work with Genetics Institute the up and coming Harvard biotechnology company. Help to develop the anti anemia drug, erythropoietin. Originally meant to help anemia in patients, but eventually it helps cyclists struggling to win the Tour de France as well as patients struggling with anemia. I even testify in the patent suit with Amgen. Expect the unexpected and move on.

Providence Rhode Island, New Jersey, Children's Book Illustration

Shunned House, Benefit Street
Providence, RI


Best place to start on a blank page is with an introduction, and the best introduction is a bit of biography. This blog was born and bred in Brooklyn, and the best exit from Brooklyn was the City University of New York. Now with that academic preparation it was only a short drive to Providence, Rhode Island, and graduate school at Brown University. As Paul Simon said, "Sweet New England, sweet New England". Besides starting my Ph.D. in the home town of H.P Lovecraft (you remember The Shunned House) , I met the love of my life, Doris Ettlinger at the Rhode Island School of Design, right on Benefit Street, that same street on which the shunned house sat. Now Doris Ettlinger children's book illustrator, talented draftsman and book illustrator she was (is). Actually, it was she who showed me just where the shunned house was on Benefit Street at the bottom of the Brown hill. Now, when I first introduced her to my little brother, her long chestnut hair was pinned up tight against the back of her head, and he afterward he told me she reminded him of Hester Prynne. You remember Hester from the old Hawthorne story. New England can be such a dark place. Well, that was prescient of my bro', or perhaps precognition. I went on to graduate and marry D. Now, see I've finished my degree, and I'm planning to be a scientist, cancer research and all that, so I line up a research fellowship at a major cancer lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Now the new wife Doris Ettlinger is accepted into a fine arts program at the same university. Here we move to Madison, which is even colder than New England and the plot thickens.