Oppenheim Arts & Letters

Epigram

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16
אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן
Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman
All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.
More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."
Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php
Abraham Isaac Kook
"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.
Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).
Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."
Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."
Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.
Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Notes

Care to Read What I Read?
I've embarked on a great reduction in privacy by bookmarking my web-based reading on the "delicious.com" utility. It may tip my hand as to what I have in mind for blogging, but the same may help friends and frenemies alike track my thinking: here is the URL:

http://www.delicious.com/commart
Author's Wish Each Friday Night
Shabbat Shalom. May our arguments be resolved through perceptive words and good deeds only; may we live another week helpful to one another in relative peace.
Photography: Prints & Services
A gentle reminder: I'm in business as a producer of fine art prints and as a provider of shoot-for-fee services, including portraiture and weddings plus assigned photojournalism. My general location: intersection of I-70 and I-81; core camera system: Nikon; transportation: Mustang.
Main web: www.communicating-arts.com
E-Mail: [email protected]
Also: as of 2011, I am building a photography print-on-demand presence at Fine Art AmericaM. This is the address:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/james-oppenheim.html

Effort in print-on-demand will not offset the production nor value of signed, limited edition prints made under my own hand. However, for very good convenience, price, and quality, print-on-demand may work out well for many fans and patrons.
Research Services
If you're engaged in funded research in conflict analysis or other areas that may be addressed here and wish to engage my mind in your project, feel welcome to drop me a note at [email protected].

J. S. Oppenheim's Other Blogs and Webs

January 20, 2015

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July 07, 2013

That Darned Beautiful Logo! Shaping the Web Dimension

I've left this Typepad field fallow while sorting out how one may work -- actually exist as mind -- online. At this point, I don't know what to do with my domain name web site and e-mail, which produce a real kick in the wallet annually, but am okay with the division in Wordpress blogs attempting to separate business, personal, and political interests.

The basic layout:

Level I

Business

Main Communicating Arts Web

Communicating Arts -- The Journal

Personal

J. S. Oppenheim -- All Together

Political

Backchannels

Personal Political-Social Network on Facebook

Twitter

Level II

Business

Amazon Author's Page for James Oppenheim

Fine Art America - James Oppenheim

Reverbnation (established, not built)

Business and Personal Publicity for Photography

Flickr

In addition, I've a spot on the royalty-free photography market site "Alamy" but it does not seem searchable by photographer or maintain a link to a photographer showcase.

Level III

Google+

Modelmayhem.com

Peace and Collaborative Development Network

Plaxo

Zoetrope.com

Xing

*****

Although I've previously posted some of the known numbers in posts around the web, I haven't worked through an inventory like this one in quite some time. The scope of participation online seems to me at once both breathtaking -- from account setups to outbound messaging, there's been an astounding expense in time, and time that could have been used making photographs, writing songs, working on short stories, or, as seems my interest here today, just plain working for someone else!

In addition to the expense in time, there have been real costs in the dollars involved in sustaining Communicating Arts, the web domain and e-mail address, which have been my online anchors since about 1996.

How does one retreat?

If one retreats completely from life online, one most certainly will disappear from the online environment while declining in presence as regards distant real space relationships.

On the other hand, and having complained about this for a few years now, there seems to me no longer any point in maintaining such a spread of portals, especially absent of the focus of either studio projects or contracts.

One, of course, need not attend to all of one's pages at one time and some elements seem to be working, especially Facebook.

*****

This blog automatically renewed this year, and as its logo has become an icon for me on Twitter, I may return to it.

I felt Oppenheim Arts & Letters -- what a narcissistic and romantic thing to launch on behalf of one's self-concept as "artist-intellectual" -- a bit heady and pretentious as well as "too much too much" especially with, say, haiku on one post-- or a pretty photograph -- and notes about terrorism on another.

Fundamentally, it's good to have some separation in the world itself as well as along the spread of one's own activities, enthusiasms, and interests.

I would like to see this blog continued in the area of arts, entertainment, and leisure but in ways that are not so much about me me me me me me!

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Posted on July 07, 2013 at 12:21 PM in Journal | Permalink | Comments (0)

May 03, 2013

Published! For Kindle.

Oppenheim, James S. A Younger Soul: Seven Short Stories. Hagerstown, Maryland: Communicating Arts, 2013.

The busyness enabled by the web -- the Facebook thing and its 570 buddies; the several blogs; the unbridled span of artistic and intellectual interests -- finally staggered me, and the whole "Bertha-the-Printer" thing (she's checking herself out by spitting ink as I type) feels like the last straw: I've done enough for glory! My environment may be rich, but I seem to remain ever the bohemian rattling around inside of it. I haven't set down the cameras, far from that, but am more inclined to license images than print them (unless there's an order out there tall enough to cover the complete costs of the work and produce some pizza on the side), to continue shooting for fee (of course), and then, using Amazon's vendor program, to get started on the next e-book.

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Note: reblogged from Communicating Arts - The Journal.

Posted on May 03, 2013 at 12:43 PM in 19th Century Modern, Aesthetic and Literary Experience, Journal | Permalink | Comments (0)

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January 20, 2015

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July 26, 2013

Summer Haiku From a Journal, Hunter Hill, July 3, 2013 - 4:10 a.m.