George Pali
Towards the end of my drippy, slushy day in New York City, I walked by a small gallery in SoHo that caught my eye. In the window was a “George Pali.” I didn’t know the name, but he is a New York artist dealing in collage and oil. I won’t go into much detail for fear of sounding trite but the paintings were beautiful (so bright, textured, viscous) and combining found objects (musical scores, carpet roughly stapled in place) to juxtapose (I hate that word) the plastic-y smooth/sharp edges of the oil with smooth perfect musical notes on white paper and rough real woven fibers. Ok, pretty detailed, so sue me. You can’t really see all that in this small pixelated digital version, but if you have a chance to see the real thing, do. I’m sure if I followed more of the art scene I would know the name; After looking online it seems as though he has paintings in the 100’s. Of course, I can’t afford to have one of his $1000+ paintings on my wall, yet… If I could make a dance that felt like his paintings…in a heartbeat. The one that caught my eye was probably one of his Piano Concertos, it had a piano and a yellow chair with beige rug pieces around the bottom. I couldn’t find an online version.
really *see* the magical creatures that ILM created for us. I wanted to see every wart and I just felt like I didn’t see enough of the magical land or the details of the creatures. They could have gone into more detail with the entire story and let us see a little more of the world that Arthur Spiderwick wrote about in the actual chronicles. I felt a little cheated; there are 5 books and extended books for this series and although I haven’t read them, I think they could have found some room in the movie to let us see a little more. The 
