I fell in love with this sculpture on the grounds of the Bass Museum, Miami Beach.

I took this photo from my Lyft after a very early morning meeting. I see a face in each color.

I posted this photo on Facebook yesterday and a few hours later, my friend from Vegas, Frank Siciliano, replied that the same sculptures are in the desert 10 miles outside the strip.

The artist is Ugo Rondinone.

Frank and his lady Amy.

Seven Magic Mountains,

Las Vegas

Internationally renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains is a large-scale site-specific public art installation located near Jean Dry Lake and Interstate 15, approximately ten miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada. Comprised of seven towers of colorful, stacked boulders it stands more than 30 feet high, 

Miami

Mountain 2016

Bass Museum

Permanent Collection

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Apple Unveils Historic Store

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Photos by Eliot Hess, April, 2019

See E.L. James on The View

https://youtu.be/gGvGN772AAw

I never read any of E.L. James’ books. I had absolutely no desire to do so even though she sold over 125 million copies worldwide, 35 million in the United States. They are classified as erotic romances.

The following trilogies that James is so well-known for are: Fifty Shades Of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed. Her latest book is The Mister.

When I heard that James was going to be interviewed by Mitch Kaplan of Books & Books at the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in Miami last week, I knew I had to attend. I wanted to meet the woman who was considered to have one of the sexiest minds in the world.

I looked around the room. Approximately 200 women and three men showed up for the event. Many of the women I spoke to were huge fans. They spoke of James like they personally knew her. They wait patiently for every new book. There was no question in my mind, after I saw most of the audience line up to get their books autographed, that many women today still have an active fantasy life. It doesn’t matter what their circumstances are.

I am amused by the pseudo intellects who say James is a terrible writer. She doesn’t claim to be Harper Lee or Jane Austen. She knows exactly who she is, a happy wife and mother who knows how to entertain other women who love to dream.

The strangest thing is going to happen to Facebook in the next 50 years. The Oxford Internet Institute says “the dead will outnumber the living” on the social media site.

It’s very possible that one to five billion Facebook users will have died by 2100.

That means the number of dead Facebook accounts will surpass the number of live accounts by 2070.

Digital lives exist forever.

“People can continue to interact with a person’s digital remains long after their physical remains have decayed.”

The OOI thinks that folks will start asking if their social posts should continue online after they’ve passed? “Who will make sure their accounts will be closed upon death?”

The OOI believes there might even be a “Facebook for the Dead.”