MORE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE / life & art offer cosmic synchronicity

+DAVID FOBES, ARTIST / PROF+

>built an installation a few years ago that i<

>photographed & >show tonight as a time<

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+>>> / TIME MACHINE)+

>machine that we can use to >travel to other<

>dimensions w/ several family-friends there< 

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+RAY BRADBURY+

>the great los angeles sic fi writer w/ time<

>machine interest became my friend after<

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+>>> / RAY BTADBURY)+ 

>a lecture to a >packed audience< at SDSU<

>i have written about our long time affinity<

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+BUCKMINSTER FULLER+

>became our friend after i heard his lecture<

>at LSU in 1965 / >in 1970 he sent to me a<

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+BUCKMINSTER FULLER)+

>copy of his "sky ocean world" map / 1994<

>his foundation selected us for a final conf.<

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+JIM BOURKE & ALICE ANDA+

>provided me >great help< in those final<

>years at SDSU, before i caught malaria<

+(AFTER THIS I FOCUSED on+

+BINDER BOOK >ARCHIVE)+

>after my >exhibition & lecture< in brazil<

>(intense illness caused retirement / 1996)<

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+THIS BLOG and  FACEBOOK+

+NOW PROVIDE A RADIANT+

>despite great international<

>problems >life is exciting<

+STAGE / >PRESENTATION of+

+>COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS+

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>i am very grateful to our friend and<
>talented alum, prof dave fobes who<
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+ / RADIANT CONCEPTS)+
>has >constantly produced art< that so<
>radiantly relates to my >cosmic work<
>his installation here so synchronistic<
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 >i am very grateful to all fine students of<
>my classes at SDSU / >such joy it is for<
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+L.A. TIMES COMPETITION)+
>me to reflect on our work / we won many<
>awards in competition during those years<
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 >our >young family about 1980< after we<
>moved into the >silver ship / our children<
+(JOYOUS DAYS >in+
+OUR SILVER SHIP)+
>all graduated from >lajolla high school &<
>derek from UCLA, bronwen from UCSD<
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 >i am very grateful to >my family for<
>their patience >during those years of<
+(DEREK, BRONWEN AND+
+LESLEY / >ABOUT 1971)+
>intense effort to develop a profound<
>architectural polemic / it wasn't easy<
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 >my first >serious international camera<
>was a >german voigtlander< folding<
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+ / 1950s FOLDING CAMERA)+
>vitex which i photographed plantations<
>with / (i remember the bellows aroma)<
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 >my talented friend & former student john<
>messina & his wife tania were my special<
>confidant's in new orleans as i constructed<
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+TULANE EXHIBITION 69)+
>my mfa radiant architecture exhibition 69<
+(GOOGLE : JOHN MESSINA+
+ / SEVERAL FINE BOOKS)+
>john also photographed my work in nola<
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 >it pleases me greatly that our son derek<
>took this radiant photograph of a mayan<
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+READER / YUCATAN)+
>temple in the yucatan / this architecture<
>has >earned much of my blog attention<
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 >it pleases me that i >designed this early<
>biomorphic ferro cement shell structure<
+(GOOGLE :>> EUGENE RAY /+
+BIOMORPHIC STRUCTURE)+
>in our ancestral milieu of new orleans in<
>67 just as i >started my tulane mea work<
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>our degruy ancestral magny fouchard<

>chateau in the orient forest was very<

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+ / KNIGHTS TEMPLAR)+

>old when it was destroyed in the first<

>world war / history here was fantastic<

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 >my beloved wives >marianne (above)<
>and marian are the stars of my family<
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+MARIANNE CONWAY RAY)+
>life & i can >never thank them enough<
>for the inspiration they have given me<
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 >st jean cap ferret france< is >my favorite<
>ligurian coast town (see my Facebook pg)<
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+> ST. JEAN CAP FERRAT)+
>our >"brise marine" hotel above, special /<
>the marina here is a magnificent archetype<
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 >hotel >"la colombo d'or" is a fabulous<
>artists venue (picasso etc) my favorite<
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+ / ST. PAUL de VENCE)+
>in our >favorite hill town< (st. paul de<
>vence) / >again see my Facebook text<
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>there are >many heroes of this blog &<
>one that i finish this cinematic blog w/<
>was a talented scholar : charle gayarre<
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+ / CHARLES GAYARRE)+
>of de bore-foucher  plantation history /<
>spent many research years in paris and<
>wrote poetically / (see harpers weekly)<
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+CHARLES GAYARRE >WROTE+
+A  >FINE HISTORY< OF NOLA+
>(french king< >louis philippe<
>head of >french mason lodge<
>inspired degruy >domed mill<
>stayed @ foucher plantation)<
+READ his >HARPERS WEEKLY+
+ACCOUNT OF FOUCHER LIFE+
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>(my architectural career may be<
>traced to >this genetic memory)<
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eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu