Friday, June 4, 2010

Deep Water - A Lot Of Oil Out Of The Well . . . A Lot Of Other Stuff Too . . .

 

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28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

Greetings from the Deep,

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Detail of 28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

More painting pics  are further below.

 

Deep Water Horizon has been in my thoughts for a month.  It is pretty much unfolding as I expected when news first broke;  DISASTER.

This week I joined a new Facebook group titled;

“I vote we plug the Gulf oil leak with BP executives.” 

Here is a link to that Facebook page for those logged in. 

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=122603081095826

The company’s PR position has thus far often been an absurd act of corporate covering the liability butt.  This one will be in courts for a couple  decades to come. BP appears to have been doling out information slowly and only when pressured.  Company officials have made some callous remarks. Tony Hayward, BP CEO (for the moment) said on internationally broadcast television he hoped this would all go away so he could have his life back.  So would the folks in the Gulf Tony.

Here is an article from the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail that outlines Hayward’s prospects of remaining BP’s CEO.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/eric-reguly/why-bps-tony-hayward-must-go/article1589387/

As seen in a video posted on YouTube the gentleman has made some fairly stupid and offensive comments such as “The overall environmental impacts of this will be very, very, very modest.”   Tight reins on information about accident and the well capping process plus such statements convey a strong impression of cover up to limit BP’s liability. On occasion Hayward has back pedaled from some of his verbal gaffs.  Hayward’s  life in the hot seat is not over yet and he likely will find himself in a court and in front of the American Congress investigating committees.

The American Congress has proceeded with some investigation of the Deep Water Horizon disaster.

“The investigation began with the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where the executives of the three companies involved in the disaster came under fire from lawmakers.
They testified under oath in a room steeped in history.
It was the same room where Congress investigated the sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago.”  Voice Of America, News.com

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Senate-Opens-Hearings-on-Oil-Spill-93423134.html

 

BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will have very little environmental impact said BP CEO early on as the Deep Horizon oil well blow out disaster unfolded

 

 

"We want our way of life back too Tony" - people of the Gulf of Mexico - jrr

 

It is challenging to be optimistic about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico.  Here is a toast to the future with a song from LHO.

Lee Harvey Osmond performs Leonard Cohen’s ‘The Future’

Leonard Cohen's classic 'The Future' performed by LeE HARVeY OsMOND

 

On to lighter things.

Here is  some Yo Yo Ma to balance the gulf-gloom.

 

The couple of paintings I was slowly working on this past weeks are now varnished.  I played around when I was applying the white undercoat which created quite a few layers of texture.  This is especially so at the bottom of each painting.

I put undercoat on four canvases having the same 28” x 20” dimensions but at this time have added colour to only two of those canvases.

 

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Details of a 28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

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These detail images of the full painting seen at the very top of this blog post seem to be under worldly – from the Deep.

 

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Details of a 28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

 

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28” x 20” x 1/2” acrylic painting by John R Redmond

Click click click and you can view this album as a slide show in full screen view.

 

I had to write a song to express my thoughts and feelings about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico.  It is aptly titled, ‘Deep Water Horizon’.  At Howlin’ Dog Studio I recorded a rough rough one mike, one guitar, one dog howlin’  version which is posted on my Facebook page in the My Band section.  http://www.facebook.com/johnredmond 

 

Deep Water Horizon by john r redmond

Deep water horizon
Deep water below the ocean wave
Crude oil arising from a grave, Neptune’s bed
Mother nature gonna shed a tear again
Mother nature gonna cry some more


Top kill horizon
Top kill
Top kill horizon
Deep water horizon


Deep water below the ocean wave
Twenty ten you’d think we’d learned
Learned it all by now
Mother nature she knows how to shed a tear
Mother nature on the run some more


Top kill horizon
Top kill
Top kill horizon


And when the mother’s bleed is through
There will be a mighty starting over
Starting over
Oh . . .


I believe you didn’t mean it
Never wanted the rig to come burning down
But you have got to think
Think of what you’re doing
When you dig beneath the ocean floor
You better drill inside your head again


Companions of the blue
Human today . . . gone tomorrow
What kind of crude is flowing
Flowing through your veins
Better drill inside your heart instead
You’re gonna make our children’s world dead


Top kill horizon
Top kill
Top kill horizon
Deep water horizon


Deep water below the ocean wave
Crude oil arising from a grave, Neptune’s bed
Mother nature she knows how to shed a tear
Mother nature on the run again


 

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John Redmond

Ottawa, Canada

 

John Redmond Art

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