18 posts tagged “art”
I'm not sure why I never have anything to say anymore, on either of my blogs. I'm usually spewing some drivel or another so you might think it would end up here, but well, I have to chalk it up to laziness.
At least with a list like this it proves you can find pretty much anything you want on the Net. And that Stumbleupon rules. Here are a few of my favorites to keep you busy for hours.
And so, for your lazy link pleasure:
- Sunbeam Poem Projector
- LSD vs Alcohol vs Tree
- Stun your friends with these crazy Latin sayings!
- Mentos and Coke Record Explosion
- An Error
- Lots and lots of cat facts
- I am a Zombie Filled with Love
- The Ten Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
- Star Wars Urban Photography
- 100 greatest dance songs of the 90s
- I'm a Creep
- Frank Melech's Dreamworld
- Book Autopsies
- Velociraptor season is here. Are you prepared?
- Don't Panic!
- To satisfy your morbid fascination
- 19.20.21
- Forbidden books
- World of Inspiration
- Sickeningly cute
- How to make roses from maple leaves (useful, I know!)
- CandyKitty will take care of your money (coveting)
- Cottonmonster
- May the force be with you
- 349 scandals in eight years with time for more!
- Face your childhood fears
That should keep you busy for now. :)
Oh yeah.
It's a short one when you aren't a kid and have to work for a living. Joe and I are wrapping up a nice few days in the Berkshires doing mostly nothing other than relaxing, drinking and eating, something I have desperately needed after such a stressful week at work and worrying about my father. He's doing okay...we're hoping that he'll go home from the hospital today. When I talk to him he's been in good spirits. His father and brother arrived in town yesterday and I know that really pleased him.
Over the last few days we did hit up Mass MOCA, which is one of our favorite museums. It's always been a source of some of my best photographs but I'm sad that they have signs up all over about no photographs now, mostly because of this idiot. Still, I managed to get a few subversive shots, both by artist Spencer Finch.
Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004)
You know it's summer when the ladybugs want to come help you with your laptop:
But don't mess with them or they'll tell you how they really feel:
Yesterday we hit up the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park for a picnic and afternoon of art exploration. One of the artists, Nina Levy, had two sculptures upstairs on the roof terrace. Both are equally creepy and are pictured here.
Nina Levy: Headlong and Big Baby. The frustrating thing is that if I had looked down when taking the big head above me picture, I would have found money...instead the couple after us that wandered over found it. My missed opportunity!
I also figured out how to finally use the Macro feature on my camera. Only had it for 6 months now.... YAY ME!
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.
What an apropos poem for today! Everything is starting to soften--the earth in particular is no longer hard and is starting to sprout the first green grass. In the backyard the tiger lilies have started to shoot up through the earth on their journey toward a full bloom in June. No leaves on the trees but the oaks in the front yard have thousands of little red buds on them--tomorrow's near 80 degree heat should bring them to near full bursting. Rilke captures the sense of early spring perfectly with the vanishing harshness, softness, rivulets, tendernesses, subtle risings, expression. The sounds are there, the images are there, the little green song is peeking through the words and through the poem, just as the spring is beginning to poke through the oppressive winter that we've had here in New England.
April really is the perfect month for poetry.
because it's a massively photoshopped version of my lip, stitched up after being split up to my nose after our taxi accident in 2005--we smashed into the plexiglass and messed up our faces. Joe broke his nose in six places and had to have reconstructive surgery. We were really miserable for a long time.
I photoshopped the picture around because I felt so ugly and I wanted to turn it into something beautiful. Here is the full picture:
Moral of the story:
1. BUCKLE UP WHEN YOU ARE IN A CAB. And don't feel bad telling them that they are driving like a maniac--and that you will get out if you have to. And if you do, report their medallion. Don't let them take your life into their hands.
2. If you live in Boston and end up in a bad accident and have the wherewithal to ask, have them take you to Beth Israel emergency room--they have plastic surgeons on staff there. We were both fortunate to have that--being able to have a plastic surgeon stitch you up the first time may make all the difference in your appearance.
It's true. Project 365 has fallen by the wayside. I just FORGET. And after 3-4 days of forgetting or taking pictures at the last moment in the day just to say I took something, well, I'll just stick to taking pictures as I think about it. But I have scored some interesting shots over the last couple of weeks, so here is my last almost-365 post.
Chihuly glass sculpture at Mohegan Sun. They finally cleaned it. When I saw it last it was covered in the most disgusting layer of yellow gray smoke crud. I used to work at a bottle supply company that Chihuly used to buy containers to mix his paints. He would always send a cab driver over to get the delivery which I thought was so strange.
Joe took care of me this Valentine's day, with roses, a gorgeous handmade card, a big box of Burdick's chocolates and dinner--filet mignon with a port cherry sauce, cheesy potato napoleon and two kinds of potstickers; BACON/pea and pork! I made a port stout chocolate mousse for dessert. YUM!
There's a picture of the potstickers in my most recent Project365 batch:
- The potstickers
- VERY tasty chocolate cherry marshmallows that I got for Joe
- Blue lights in our living room
- The fence outside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Trees taken at twilight on our way home from Kittery, ME last weekend
- The contents of my bag (for a Voxhunt I never managed) --you'll see my journal, a book by Umberto Eco, my wallet, smartphone, foldup brush, ipod, usb stick and other miscellaneous crap
- A wall at work
- Twilight over a snowy field in Concord, MA
- Thom Yorke hanging out in my car
courtesy of my awesome artist valentine, Joe!!!
Here's the next project 365 installment:
Downtown Boston
The view as I drive into work every day...
The little acupuncture statue with all the points in my acupuncturist's office:
The emergency water wheel in the fire escape stairwell at work...
