Unusual and controversial images that enhance the ideas found throughout this site, or provide a distracting amusement.
David demonstrates an advanced version of tenth-century technology.
The American Ragtime Ensemble: Musicians are included with the instruments.
Standard High-Class Rags (aka “The Red Back Book”), only the second known complete collection extant. The usual first reaction to seeing them is “They actually are red!”
“American Gothic Retuned” [photo by Peter Lundberg]
The Flag of Poggle Heights
One of these people is David…
…the other doesn’t think so.
The only known photo of Gunther Schuller and Joshua Rifkin, at a ragtime double bill, Pasadena, California, April 8, 1984 [photo by David Reffkin]
Donita Joplin Fowler, niece of Scott Joplin, in 1981
At home amidst the Cosmic Microwave Background
David with mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, one of 65 world-renowned guests on “Static Limit,” February 25, 2005
Examples of David’s “Fortune Art,” created for sale at Readers Bookstore, Fort Mason…
…for Friends of San Francisco Public Library
Northern California artist Diana Krevsky’s nearly accurate imagining of a day in the life of Micky the cat
Original fundraising concept, New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, early 1970s.