>Contemplating Navels

by | Jan 28, 2011 | Art Hoppe | 3 comments

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Back in the mid-80s I taught drawing at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California (near Santa Cruz).  We had large flat tables in the studio and one day a student, a woman in her 30s, stood up on one of the sitting benches to look straight down at her drawing on the table.

I was standing next to her, but on the floor, looking at her drawing with her.  As she looked at her drawing she first raised her arms to stretch then put her hands on her hips. When she did that her blouse came up and showed her midriff and belly button.  There, no more than 2 feet away from me, at face level, was a very bright and ornate piece of belly button jewelry.

I had actually never seen a belly button pierced (it was 25 years ago after all), much less a whole piece of jewelry in that location!  I exclaimed pretty loudly, ‘WOW, that is amazing!  Look at this everybody.’ and of course the students all looked our way.  Some had seen that sort of thing, but most had not. It was an attention getter no doubt. She was very proud and happy to show it off.

My how times change. I wonder what would amaze people now, in 2011?  What has amazed you recently?
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Arthur Hoppe, 1925-2000,  San Francisco Chronicle columnist

If There is No God, Who Pops Up The Next Kleenex?

by | Feb 22, 2009 | Art Hoppe | 0 comments

“If there is no God, who pops up the next kleenex?” – Art Hoppe

And not only that, but who takes the socks and hides them, who makes the cat throw up, who eats the last cookie in the cookie jar, who allowed the Brooklyn Dodgers to win a World Series and, most importantly, who, who wrote the book of love?

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