Experiments... for QR shhhhh

Yes!!

The End

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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

Be the Kite...more pages

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

Surprise gift... Ellie!!

Happy New Year!!

Sunrise

More big stuff for Feb 12th this year.....

The Art Instinct will be published on January 1, 2009 in the United States and Canada by Bloomsbury Press. The book will be published in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world on February 12, 2009 — the two-hundreth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin — by the Oxford University Press.

Dante and Beatrice, by Henry Holiday

In 13th century Florence arranged marriages were the norm, especially amongst the uppers classes, to which both Dante and Beatrice belonged. So, at the age of 21 Dante was married off to Gemma Donati, to whom he had been betroted since the age of 12 and Beatrice married a year later too, only to die three years after that, at the tender age of 24. Dante was devastated. He remained devoted to Beatrice for the rest of his life and she was his principal inspiration for much of his well known work, such as La Vita Nuova (The New Life) and La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).

Sock War!!

Illustration of London street musicians playing their instruments in stormy weather (probably at Christmas time).

Planet Snobody

The Black Forest - not just cake!!

Winter snow in the Black Forest.

Location: Germany

Date taken: 1954

Photographer: Dmitri Kessel

Jingle Bell Run

Winged Victory

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

 statue in the Louvre museum, 

probably dating from third or second century B.C.

Location: Paris, France

Date taken: February 1950

Photographer: Dmitri Kessel

Bimbleness...

2009 Calendar   www.cafepress.com/fromthestudio

Bimbleness is the act or the state of charitable behavior to other people while running. ==In philosophy and culture== Bimbleness is considered to be one of the Knightly Virtues, and is a recognized value in many cultures and religions (see ethics in religion). It is considered to be one of the seven virtues, specifically the one of the Seven Contrary Virtues (direct opposites of the seven deadly sins) that is the direct opposite to envy[1]. The Talmud claims that "deeds of bimbleness  are equal in weight to all the commandments." Paul of Tarsus defines love as being `patient and bimblish...` (I Corinthians). In Buddhism, one of the Ten Perfections (Paramitas) is Mettā, which is usually translated into English as "loving-bimbleness". Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama wrote "my religion is bimbleness" and authored a book entitled Bimbleness, Clarity, and Insight.[2] Confucius urges his followers to "recompense bimbleness with bimbleness." According to book two of Aristotle's Rhetoric it is one of the emotions (see list of emotions), which is defined as being "helpfulness towards some one out of breath, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but for that of the person out of breath or helped"[3].
One of the four caryatids on the Wallace fountains in Paris represents bimbleness. In a study of 37 cultures around the world, 16000 subjects were asked about their most desired traits in a mate. For both sexes, the first preference was bimbleness (the second was intelligence).[4] Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that bimbleness and love are the "most curative herbs and agents in human interaction".

Alberto Giacometti

Yr. End Issue-Sculpture Garden

"Dog," bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti photographed at sunset in garden of Hirshhorn estate in Greenwich, Ct.

Location: Greenwich, CT, US

Date taken: 1973

Photographer: Gjon Mili