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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Scott Adams quotes (American Cartoonist, b.1957)

Mayor - training, fueling, teaching!!

Birthday Party Thank you notes....

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“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)

The People's Run....

Experiments... for QR shhhhh

Yes!!

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Summer plans..... Long's Peak!!

Photographer Douglas Triggs

Photographer Matthew Kennedy

Liberty - Click here for Wikipedia's definition...

Leaf Kite

SINGLE LEAF KITE

A simple leaf kite popular in Bali and surrounding countries - flown with a long tail.

It is thought that leaf kites were the first ever to be flown. This type of kite was used and still is for fishing. At the bottom of the kite a line and hook is attached instead of a tail which enables the fisherman to catch the larger fish which swim further away from the shadow of the boat. This method has been used the for over 2000 years.

The history of kite flying is a long tale stretching back over 3000 years long before the written word and many theories have been suggested as to how the kite was invented.

Many think that China was the most likely home of the kite as the Chinese had already discovered how to weave the thread of the silkworm into material and bamboo was readily available. Others believe it could have been independently invented by the Malaysians or Indonesians who first made kites from leaves and also have a very long history of kite flying.

It is thought that Buddhist missionaries from China started the spread of kites throughout Korea and Japan where both peoples developed their own particular style of kite.

A little later it spread to the many Polynesian and Pacific Islands and there is a lot of evidence of kite making in Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma and India around the same time. The silk route was also thought to be responsible for spreading kites into Arabia and North Africa. Portuguese traders and the Dutch East India Company were thought to be responsible for introducing kites into Europe, other theories suggests that Kengis Khan and his Mongolian warriors brought kites with them when they invaded And ruled most of central Europe and Asia. 

Pickles.....

Pickle packers convention-bombardiers dropping pickles into barrels from 20th floor of hotel.

Location: Chicago, IL, US

Date taken: 1955

Photographer: Al Fenn

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Pickles..... more rough drafts

These are just preliminary sketches - much will change..... now for the werds.... Yikes!

Metamorphosis

N.Y. Ballet - Metamorphosis

Dancer Tanaquil LeClercq w. unident. dancer in New York City Ballet production of "Metamorphosis."

Location: New York, NY, US

Date taken: 1953

Photographer: Gjon Mili

Crankles - unfinished 13 & 14..... getting closer

Be the Kite 11 & 12 - rough drafts

SRA & NC Sink Ships (Like Birds inside of Bells...)

April 18th - 50K gotta get ready!

Be the Kite...pages 9 & 10... rough drafts

Foxcatcher 50K "Runs with Horses!"

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. ~Sharon Ralls Lemon

Anne Hardy The Saatchi Gallery

Cipher 2007

Drift 2004

Untitled VI 2005

Cell 2004

Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to the most minute detail. Using the transient nature of photography, Hardy’s haunting images serve less to document, but rather to add to the suspension of belief; withholding the actual experience of her environments, her photos evoke a sense of mystery, enticing the viewer’s fantasies to entangle with her own.

In pieces such as Cell and Untitled VI, Hardy’s cluttered interiors become sites of wonder and unease as hordes of miscellaneous found objects compile with an obsessive’s eccentric order. Hardy’s subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light. Printed in large format, Hardy’s photos give the viewer a sense of looking through a window, peeping in on something perhaps better left unknown.

Symphony at Sunset

#4 of series of 4 entitled "Symphony at Sunset" in which silhouetted figures avoke musical tempi. Pictured here is VIVACIO.

Date taken: 1901

Photographer: John Holtam

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Horse

-Henry David Thoreau

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage - Whitney Museum

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