tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77303250818644803762024-03-16T13:53:02.244-05:00Rain in LafayetteSharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-85536285342052568452013-11-21T20:35:00.000-06:002013-11-23T17:55:08.542-06:00#InCharge @yrincharge #YoureinCharge #SouthernScreen#InCharge<br />
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Southern Screen Film Festival 2013<br />
Lafayette, LA<br />
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link to Southern Screen webpage...<br />
<a href="http://southernscreen.org/site/">http://southernscreen.org/site/</a><br />
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link to Southern Screen Facebook page...<br />
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What's Better than Popcorn?<br />
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link to The Ind - Article: Southern Screen Film Festival Returns...<br />
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link to The Ind - Acadiana 365 - Nov 14 - 17, 2013...<br />
<a href="http://acadiana365.com/11-14-2013/">http://acadiana365.com/11-14-2013/</a><br />
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Loved their Postcard Surveys...<br />
that were good for a prize drawing -<br />
haven't gotten called yet, so am guess 'not' a winner, me...<br />
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note: I answered (tried) The Movie Buff Questions<br />
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I could of never answered the other postcard surveys--even with Googleing for sure!<br />
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Got me a Pass to get a Pass into everything...<br />
First off World Premiere of "You're in Charge"<br />
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Poster for the film--"You're in Charge"<br />
note: taken really after the after party--like the light inside the AcA then...<br />
Also I put this photo out on Facebook...<br />
asking folks if anyone else saw a 'face' in ??<br />
only 1 person replied, Yes--from my expat friend's in Norway no less<br />
(hmm...curious...<br />
do I guess it's something up with fb per usu & rest of the friends didn't see it...<br />
or nobody else wanted to guess...)<br />
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from the Southern Screen Film Festival Program<br />
"You're in Charge" 88 min's<br />
I hadn't a clue really what I was in for...<br />
a lot of laughing in the end<br />
even near tears--not from laughter but from the heartfelt storyline<br />
did realize as it went along that a lot of folks I know were in the thing<br />
also a lot of folks in the audience knew the people in the movie<br />
so whenever anyone would show up onscreen, at least the first time,<br />
there would be all sorts of noise/cheers/catcalls from their fan cheering section<br />
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#InCharge<br />
the button, my button<br />
in the color of his cape--duh...of course...<br />
Oh & I am now, after watching, a serious #FanGirl of this film too<br />
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"Ici on Parle Cajun?"<br />
aka Cajun is Spoken Here<br />
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note: one Fav scene in this movie is when someone fills in a blank with 'Cajun' - after that I can't say that there's any Cajun/French spoken in the movie that I remember, but will have to watch again & Again as soon as I can, to be sure...that & to laugh a lot more?! ;oD<br />
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link to a little French/Cajun language lesson - on Lafayette Travel webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.lafayettetravel.com/essentials/culture/language/french-phrases">http://www.lafayettetravel.com/essentials/culture/language/french-phrases</a><br />
(note: there's the word 'Lagniappe' but not this phrase on the postcard...)<br />
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link to You're in Charge webpage...<br />
<a href="http://youreincharge.org/">http://youreincharge.org/</a><br />
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link to You're in Charge Facebook page...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/youreinchargemovie">https://www.facebook.com/youreinchargemovie</a><br />
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Twitter...<br />
#youreincharge @yrincharge #InCharge<br />
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link to The Advertiser article by Dominick Cross - Laughs abound in Local Comedy You're in Charge...<br />
<a href="http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20131120/ACADIANA01/311200027/Dominick-Cross-Laughs-abound-local-comedy-You-re-Charge-">http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20131120/ACADIANA01/311200027/Dominick-Cross-Laughs-abound-local-comedy-You-re-Charge-</a><br />
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link to the Vimeo of the "You're in Charge" film Trailer...<br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/71986679">http://vimeo.com/71986679</a><br />
note: 1:53 min's of the 88 min's of the film<br />
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who do I spy with my lil eye (OK, cell phone camera)<br />
in the audience below...<br />
but Jim Phillips & Christy Leichty (in the movie!!)<br />
not to mention Mr Pink Pants (who's also in the movie!)<br />
I know these good folks from Cite des Arts/local grassroots theater<br />
didn't know they were up to this kind of acting, but obviously they are!<br />
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link to Cite des Arts - Lafayette, LA - webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.citedesarts.org/">http://www.citedesarts.org</a><br />
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link to Cite des Arts - Facebook page...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/citedesartslafayette?rf=175984985779243">https://www.facebook.com/citedesartslafayette?rf=175984985779243</a><br />
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Julie Bordelon introducing the Premiere of "You're in Charge"<br />
at Southern Screen Film Fest 2013<br />
in the theater of AcA/Acadiana Center for the Arts<br />
then an intro for the Director of the film: Tom Kreuger<br />
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link to the AcA/Acadiana Center for the Arts...<br />
<a href="http://www.acadianacenterforthearts.org/">http://www.acadianacenterforthearts.org/</a><br />
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"You're in Charge" Director<br />
Tom Kreuger at the beginning<br />
afterwards there will be a Q&A<br />
and all the cast that's in the audience will go up onstage too<br />
(note: Mary Kay Place didn't show up, maybe at the Movie Opening in Feb/March next year??)<br />
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And a lot of snaps of the cast in attendance, some answering questions too<br />
for the Q&A up on stage after the film with the Director: Tom Kreuger<br />
The Cinematography: Paul Sanchez (who said a lot of nice things about filming in Lafayette, LA!!)<br />
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link to Harmonic Pictures webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.harmonicpictures.com/">http://www.harmonicpictures.com/</a><br />
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Let's see some questions...<br />
included...<br />
How was it working with Mary Kay Place--did it up your game kind of thing...?<br />
there was a story told, of course, it's storytelling land--which I've mentioned before...<br />
and there was some snapping of fingers in faces, mention of focus--repeat focus, etc...<br />
you'll have to ask them to repeat their fond stories about Mary Kay Place...<br />
(note: I do so love her - or I guess I have to say her work, her acting, her movies...since I don't really know her right, but still 'love her!"...and wish she were here for this World Premiere with all the local folks in attendance--maybe, fingers crossed, she'll come for the Movie Opening at theaters, again fingers crossed, sometime end of Feb/beginning of Mar...or so that's the 'talk' now...)<br />
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link to the YouTube of Mary Kay Place's interview--about what she thinks of Lafayette, Louisiana...<br />
http://youtu.be/7kIUfooSdDU<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIUfooSdDU&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIUfooSdDU&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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(note: apparently there were a number of versions of the title of the movie--Daisy Chain, Hail Mary & I guess finally, no finally--You're in Charge...now I think I love her even more--am asking myself where was I in March to have missed her...except I don't go dancing at the Blue Moon, so that may be why--I missed out, were some lucky dancing folks then when she was in town...so Fab u lous for Lafayette, LA--her Favorite Louisiana Location...Ma' Ya' Chere!!)<br />
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another question had to do with a crying scene<br />
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there was the UL Ragin Cajuns connection & those stories<br />
especially one about a reluctant lawyer & a reshoot on the field<br />
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what was the funnest part? the Director--This...<br />
having the movie premiere for all the local folks (I agree!)<br />
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I'm sure there was mention of someone getting into that Speedo<br />
but I won't be a Story Spoiler, you'll have to Go See the Movie!!<br />
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note: After Party at the Lafayette Science Museum<br />
I did not go to the Photo Booth, because I'm like 'not' famous nor in the film<br />
plus I was leaving when I heard someone mention they were going to find it--I didn't see it...<br />
hopefully there are photos up somewheres--if I find them will add a link...<br />
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Was a lot of fun to be at an After Party period--not to mention recognize all the actors that were up on the stage & in the film & get to talk to some of them to tell them how Fab u lously Fun/Funny it all was...<br />
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So so many great scenes, great lines...can't wait for the DVD's--I asked, not yet...sigh...but when there are, if before X-mas, that's what everybody is getting...if afterwards, then that's what everybody is getting for their B-Days or maybe "Just Because I Love You" hah?!<br />
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mwah hah hah...lookie what I found in the Props cage...<br />
I opened this box that said Save Tom, then I stared at it a moment--<br />
Wait, I've seen this stuff before...now where was it--Oh Yeah!<br />
In a movie! In You're in Charge...then I had a funny feeling come over me,<br />
giggled, then thought 'what if they get famous--would they want any of this again?'<br />
hmm...so silly, hats/a red shirt went to costume cage then plastic bottles/box off to recycle...<br />
still I hope they all do get famous--they just won't miss all this prop stuff...<br />
I do wonder tho about all those other movies, TV shows, plays...<br />
what all happens to all that 'stuff' ??<br />
all the props, all the costumes, hmm...ponder ponder...<br />
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side note--maybe this coming Mardi Gras, first week in March 2014<br />
if the movie - You're in Charge - has played or will be here on the big screen<br />
Harmonic Productions could have a float in the Independent Parade with throws...<br />
these throws--plastic green topped pee cups with Mardi Gras Beads stuck on them<br />
(maybe with gold, green, purple - faux - pee inside...or beads inside or candy pills maybe...)<br />
I may Tweet @yrincharge 'axe' them what 'day' think?!<br />
another--mwah hah hah... ;-))<br />
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Back to the Southern Screen Film Festival Weekend...<br />
Yes, there was more...<br />
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Saturday I missed out...<br />
But I've seen "Forks Over Knives" on Netflix at home on my TV, which was 1 film showing<br />
still it would of been nice to see up on the big screen, but couldn't make it both days of the weekend..<br />
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and even tho I missed Design is One: The Vignellis on Saturday too<br />
they re-showed it on Sunday, since the Shorts didn't last as long as they thought...<br />
so after the Music Video Shorts go to see it, I had wanted to see it so that was a Fab<br />
Lagniappe (aka little something extra in Cajunspeak)<br />
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link to Design is One: The Vignellis<br />
I never knew all this about this design team couple from Italy<br />
I know I've seen their work & never knew they were behind it<br />
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link to YouTube Design is One Trailer 2:39 min's...<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglaQekqrWU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglaQekqrWU</a><br />
quote I caught that I'd agree with after just watching the film...<br />
"there's a fire in their belly--all the time"<br />
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link to his Wiki--Massimo Vignelli...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli</a><br />
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link to her Wiki--Lella Vignelli<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lella_Vignelli">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lella_Vignelli</a><br />
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With the magic Pass I went nearly All Day Sunday--Whew...<br />
I got Motion Sickness for a spell, had to take a break/breather, then went back in for more!!<br />
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Shorts to Music I think were my Fav Shorts...<br />
this one here about colored pencils (Hudson - Against the Grain)<br />
I tried to snap the big screen, but way Way too much motion going on<br />
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from the Program Guide...<br />
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Music Video Series:<br />
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Shugo Tokumara - Katachi<br />
(note: my Top Fav...I couldn't believe all the paper cut outs--read 2,000 precision-cut shapes...<br />
or "katachi" in Japanese...mesmerizing...)<br />
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note: you can go to the Facebook page for the Southern Screen to click on all the links to watch clips or trailers or descriptions of all these<br />
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Brass Bed - Please Don't Go<br />
Hudson - Against the Grain (note: this is the 'colored pencil' animated film)<br />
Rich Aucoin - Brian Wilson is Alive<br />
Wordburglas - Croque Monsieur<br />
Ryan Stinson - Melt (Ft. Ghettosocks)<br />
Jenn Grant - The Fighter<br />
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Shorts Series 1:<br />
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Horska<br />
(note: animated & I liked this one...with the flying machine I was thinking Steampunk again)<br />
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Georgia Howl<br />
Mobile Homes<br />
(read in the description that this one is being adapted for a feature film--the premise I recall tho seeing in another film, but can't think of that one...nor find it at the moment--if I do I will add, yet again, another note...)<br />
Written in Ink<br />
Ten to Sing<br />
(I didn't know until this one was over that again I know the location & the actress in this film--saw in the Credits Rip Van Winkle Gardens & I've been there, taken photos there then Amanda's name popped up knew I'd seen her before...then at the Q&A after the film they mentioned her again & she was in the audience stood up & Bingo--remembered her from at least one play at Cite des Arts, if not two...she doesn't talk in the film--if she did would of given her away, she has a very British accent yet?!)<br />
Dotty<br />
(this was so endearing, especially at the end when you find out who the characters are really...)<br />
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Shorts Series 2:<br />
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I didn't watch, this is when I 'had' to have a break/breather & hot tea/food...it's sooo frigid in the LITE Center, even with a scarf--I came back in with hot tea & a rain jacket to stay warm for the rest of the films...<br />
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Shorts Series 3:<br />
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Native Owl<br />
(after seeing the jewelry in this film I knew it was familiar, I knew I'd seen it before & again somehow it came up or I read in the credits Native Owl Jewelry...so went to find her Facebook page - Jamie Faulk - & told her I'd seen her jewelry on the movie & just knew it was hers--also that it would be lovely to use, she replied back that she does on her webpage...only not the version with the words...)<br />
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<img alt="Lace Jasper necklace" height="125" src="http://img0.etsystatic.com/018/0/6368894/il_570xN.495705762_kv0g.jpg" width="200" /><br />
a sample of Native Owl jewlery from her webpage shop on Etsy<br />
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link to Native Owl Etsy shop - Native Owls Nook...<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/NativeOwlsNook">http://www.etsy.com/shop/NativeOwlsNook</a><br />
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link to Native Owl Facebook page...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Native-Owl/219437204863612">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Native-Owl/219437204863612</a><br />
(note: the photo at the top if from the short film--in the tent...)<br />
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link to Native Owl webpage - the film - 2:02 min's...<br />
<a href="http://www.nativeowl.com/film.php">http://www.nativeowl.com/film.php</a><br />
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Shale<br />
Cabbie<br />
(OK, I'm sorry--but by the end with the Taxi & the rider & the incident toward the end I started thinking...wait a minute I think I've seen something like this scene before, only two males instead of two females...Fight Club--with the alter ego character & all those driver's licenses...if you'll remember how he took them & what happened to all those folks that had theirs taken away from them then you'll see the resemblance here...anyways, I thought it was familiar enough for me to remember it--but it's only a Film Fest Shorts so no worries...)<br />
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I didn't stay for the rest, the last 2 Shorts--'cause I'd read/heard they were scary & I don't like scary...<br />
plus I am moving & I shoulda been home all day doing something like Oh packing up my office--lol<br />
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link to the Acadiana Life Style article: For The Love of The Big Screen - November 2013...<br />
<a href="http://www.acadianalifestyle.com/2013/10/30/in-the-november-2013-issue-of-acadiana-lifestyle?tracking=related">http://www.acadianalifestyle.com/2013/10/30/in-the-november-2013-issue-of-acadiana-lifestyle?tracking=related</a><br />
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For The Love of The Big Screen<br />
Southern Screen Film Festival Celebrates Movie Making<br />
by Michelle Matthews Calloway<br />
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Designed with the Southern Region in Mind<br />
Southern Filmmakers and Films<br />
The Submission Process<br />
Educational Components and Opportunities<br />
Premiere Events<br />
One Festival in Multiple Locations<br />
Something for Everyone<br />
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<i>"We like to talk about how we're bringing independent film and the film industry to the 'Southern screen.' We wanted to give people in the South the opportunity to see productions they would not normally get a chance to see." -- Julie Bordelon, Director and Founder, Southern Screen Film Festival</i><br />
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(note: right now I can't find the article online, the link above doesn't let you open the articles...I will keep looking...above is the summary of the bullet points in the article...I was hoping under the Premiere Events section they would mention You're in Charge but they didn't...also they used last year's photo of the Yoga Session before the showing of the Yoga Woman documentary at the LITE Center on the floor outside the doors that you enter where the screening took place...I saw that one too, but I did not go do the Yoga bit...outside was Coffee from The Lab--I did coffee instead...next year maybe I'll do Yoga...)<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-44471373166039688942013-11-19T00:39:00.000-06:002013-11-19T21:43:28.179-06:00a vest, a button, a gear, a black flower, a brown hat, goggles...<br />
Steampunk & Makers Fair 2013<br />
Cite des Arts<br />
Lafayette Science Museum<br />
InventureWorks at The Vault (AcA)<br />
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9 November 2013<br />
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link to Steampunk and Makers Fair webpage...<br />
<a href="http://steampunkandmakersfair.org/">http://steampunkandmakersfair.org/</a><br />
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link to Lafayette Science Museum webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.lafayettesciencemuseum.org/calendar/events.html">http://www.lafayettesciencemuseum.org/calendar/events.html</a><br />
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<i>"Part costume play, science & county fair, and part something entirely new, The Steampunk & Makers Fair is an all-ages festival by Cite des Arts & Lafayette Science Museum, showcasing & celebrating Science, Technology, Education, Art and Mathematics."</i><br />
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link to InventureWorks at The Vault (AcA)...<br />
<a href="http://inventureworks.com/vault/">http://inventureworks.com/vault/</a><br />
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<i>"One of the premier innovation Pitch events of the South, InventureWorks will again host THE VAULT during the way cook 'Steampunk and Maker's Fair' hosted by the Lafayette Science Museum and Cite' des Arts.</i><br />
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<i>What's a Steampunk and Maker's Fair? Find out <span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><b><a href="http://citedesarts.org/Cite_des_Arts/Steampunk_%26_Makers_Fair.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007ab6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a> ."</b></span></i><br />
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<img alt="Steampunk and Makers Fair 2013 Poster - Steampunk Owl" height="200" src="http://steampunkandmakersfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013_SteamPunk_Poster_18x24sm.jpg" width="150" /><br />
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This year's Festival Poster<br />
Art by Lance LeBlanc<br />
It was also a T-shirt<br />
all the men's in black in this design sold out--I know I was there<br />
but there were other men's in brown in another design that are left<br />
(see below...go to Merch on the Webpage & Order Ya' One...<br />
until they reorder the black ones--then order that too...)<br />
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link to Lance LeBlanc Design webpage...<br />
<a href="http://lanceleblanc.com/">http://lanceleblanc.com/</a><br />
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First Question Answered...<br />
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What is Steampunk?<br />
answered by GD Falksen here - Steampunk 101...<br />
<a href="http://www.gdfalksen.com/post/20357409792/steampunk">http://www.gdfalksen.com/post/20357409792/steampunk</a><br />
(I must read his book & soon...The Ouroboros Cycle...)<br />
link to GD Falksen's book - The Ouroboros Cycle...<br />
<a href="http://www.gdfalksen.com/ouroboroscycle">http://www.gdfalksen.com/ouroboroscycle</a><br />
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Steampunk does not mean 'just glue some gears' on it...<br />
(I sewed mine--hah hah?!)<br />
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My Steampunk bits<br />
for the 'creation'<br />
(next year there will be more - no time with moving for an entire outfit...<br />
so there is a hat & there is a vest & there will be a Steampunk tee-shirt under it & voila...)<br />
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gears and buttons--Oh My...<br />
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an aside...the Steampunk jewelry (in part, last year was a Nautical Octupus)<br />
Arts Kinetic earrings (from watch parts - j'adore Forrest)<br />
a propellor ring...that--eee...turns!!<br />
(0_o sorry can't find the business card for the vendor lady who made it)<br />
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link to Arts Kinetic...<br />
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the brown hat<br />
the goggles (thank you Le Garage--NOLA)<br />
some feathers on a lovely handcrafted headband<br />
a felt ribbon<br />
a lovely (new) antique looking pair of tiny birdie scissors<br />
gears & buttons<br />
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Link to Le Garage Yelp Page--don't find a webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/le-garage-antiques-and-clothing-new-orleans">http://www.yelp.com/biz/le-garage-antiques-and-clothing-new-orleans</a><br />
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where I've put the eyeglasses magnifiers<br />
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on a clip can be moved for variety--where to go next year...<br />
thanks Jim for giving up your 2nd pair!!)<br />
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why a fish button<br />
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Cite des Arts<br />
Steampunk Art Exhibit<br />
and it's Downtown Art Walk Saturday as well<br />
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link to Cite des Arts webpage...<br />
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link to Cite des Arts Facebook page...<br />
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The Collaboration, Repetition, Experimentation Exhibit<br />
which I am not sure between who & who<br />
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I just know I Love the Street Art aspect of it all<br />
since recently there was an arrest of a Street Artist<br />
this perhaps is a FAB solution<br />
bring Street Art inside, collaborate with Indoor Art<br />
it's safer that way<br />
it could broaden the audience too<br />
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I met one of the collaborators<br />
that let me run off with the little industrial man stencil on cardboard at the front door<br />
love it as much as any other pieces of art on my wall<br />
still contemplating how to frame it or if I'll frame it<br />
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found them out on Facebook...<br />
It's Herbert Leavitt & Abed Balbeis<br />
(but I can't say now which one I met<br />
who said I could have this, but I thank them again!!)<br />
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"This is a three person show Consisting of two Artist. the third Person being A Collaboration of the two. the show is mostly inspired by graffiti and street art. Consisting of stencils, prints or a combination of the two on cardboard and other recycled materials. This work is about experimentation, collaboration and repetition. the hasmat figure is symbolic of overprotection and isolation, and various forms. the figure...in symbolic of that. The Vetruvian figure is an icon of Perfection, much of the work involves him being...or modified. Sending a message about the nature of human imperfection. The reoccuring figure of the open mouth is about speaking your mind. recognizing the power of words and ideas, exercising the right of free speech. while acknowledging words as weapons. Generally the work is an experiment with ideas and images. it's a work in progress."<br />
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(note: as is my translation--a work in progress...or at least my attempt at reading their writing on their poster...forgive me if I've missed a few words or typed them wrong...I still get the idea--how 'bout you...)<br />
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I think it's a fine one<br />
I wanted to keep one of these<br />
couldn't decide which one<br />
one printed on canvas<br />
one printed on glass and canvas<br />
but he says I can 'have' one<br />
'cause I'm the Bestest Volunteer<br />
Wardrobe Mistress Sometime Props Master<br />
Kindness abounds in this theater<br />
I'll make a Donation instead...mwah hah hah... ;-))<br />
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link to more about Jim Phillips on Linked In...<br />
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-phillips/2/202/27b">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-phillips/2/202/27b</a><br />
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that comes with a price<br />
Ooo...can I afford a Louisiana Art Souvenir to move with...hmm...<br />
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these two I think are my Fav (before I change my mind I snapped a pic of them)<br />
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Tom Secrest: Whimsy & Mastry of the Different Worlds<br />
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Note: this is what was written about him back in 2010 at an Art Walk Exhibit in AcA...<br />
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(note: can't find a webpage, facebook, twitter, tumblr...where oh where are his images...)<br />
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Link to his Artist Statement for Steampunk and Makers Fair on 9 Nov 2013...<br />
<a href="http://www.katc.com/news/art-opening-for-tom-secrest-nov-9th#.UosEHqtHFus.blogger">Art Opening for Tom Secrest Nov. 9th | KATC.com | Acadiana-Lafayette, Louisiana</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.katc.com/news/art-opening-for-tom-secrest-nov-9th/#_">http://www.katc.com/news/art-opening-for-tom-secrest-nov-9th/#_</a><br />
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is it Steampunk--am not totally sure<br />
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They Call Him "Icarus"<br />
or She does--it's by Lisa Osborn<br />
who's shown at the AcA & is in a Gallery in NOLA at the moment<br />
I didn't see how they hauled this monster in here but it will be staying the month I'm guessing<br />
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Now y'all all go look up the story of "Icarus"<br />
to remember it...<br />
summary: made wax wings, flew to close to the sun, guess what happens next<br />
perhaps 'this' is what happened next...falls to pieces either before or for sure when he hits the earth once again<br />
Oh my My the imagination<br />
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Really I'm rather scared of it, couldn't ever have it in my house or be alone with it<br />
I'm just not that confident--maybe one day (or I'll need to have become blind...)<br />
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Link to Wiki to brush up on your Myth of Icarus...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus</a><br />
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Link to Lisa Osborn Scuplture page...<br />
<a href="http://lisaosbornsculpture.com/?page_id=572">http://lisaosbornsculpture.com/?page_id=572</a><br />
(note: it needs updated for 2013...there's Icarus in Cite des Arts for November I'm guessing, then there's a Gallery in NOLA I've heard just got something of hers & I want to say that the UL Museum has a sculpture but I can't find anything on their webpage--I will have to go take a wander at the LuLu Hilliard Museum to find out...an art adventure--away...)<br />
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had my (tarot) cards read<br />
it made me feel way better, it's what I needed to hear<br />
of course love the original Steampunk costume<br />
that she made herself--duh<br />
it's Miss Lauren Greene Whyte<br />
director of She Stoops to Conquer recently<br />
and of course CostumeMaker<br />
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my Fav Foto from Steampunk Fest<br />
her in costume as the best handmade by a woman costume<br />
standing next to him in costume as the best handmade (over years he says) by a man costume<br />
he's with the Airship Isabella I believe<br />
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my volunteer table - the merch table<br />
and the donated CD's/Vinyl table<br />
and the Coat & Tails rack<br />
with some plastic black tophats for the kids<br />
(white marker nearby to draw gears/clocks on if they want)<br />
a few took me up on it, some I guess were too shy<br />
or boys in ballcaps weren't willing to change up<br />
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taking note of dapper man trying on a coat & tail<br />
already with his tophat on<br />
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before or after the 4 or 5 hrs I went running up & down the street<br />
or up & down inside the theater<br />
or was sitting for a spell in the main theater watching the costume contest<br />
MC'd by the Airship Isabella--as were the judges I believe<br />
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it was all well done--my photos however were not<br />
go troll thru Facebook or Twitter to find better photos<br />
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@SteampunkandMakersFair or #SteampunkandMakersFair<br />
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first annoucements<br />
Hello and there's a Key<br />
a Steampunk Key to keep the Festival Free<br />
with the owl designs on both sides<br />
not to forget it's also a bottle opener<br />
how clever is that<br />
cut by the sponsor Begneaud<br />
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Dare I say--Dapperest Gentleman on the left is Rick Rowan<br />
he'll be The Undertaker shortly after the festival<br />
in the orig Steampunk Musical play: The Undertaker & His Wife<br />
I believe I heard he made a different Steampunk costume just for the festival<br />
(remember last year he was the Puppet Master--kinda glad no puppets this year, freak me out...)<br />
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next to him Christy in the Raffle Scarf*<br />
next to her Jim showing off the regular size key for sale<br />
but next up is the giant key that only an Award Winner can receive<br />
it's the Biggest Liar Contest Winner coming up<br />
(or the Bestest Tall Tale Teller--aka Storyteller)<br />
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And who's the winner?<br />
who gets the giant key award?<br />
who's the biggest bestest liar/storyteller?<br />
I think on the Facebook page/webpage/somewhere's it says<br />
"of the South" no less!<br />
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It's Sally O Donlon<br />
and of course, Of Course, she has to tell us the story<br />
the what I'll call 'the whomping bats' story<br />
from growing up in Lafayette<br />
like right smack downtown where Parc San Souci is nowadays<br />
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*note: about that especially beautifully made Raffle Scarf from the Festival's Facebook page...<br />
<i><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Susan Burden is bringing her Pine Wind Shibori to The </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SteampunkAndMakersFair?directed_target_id=0" saprocessedanchor="true" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Steampunk and Makers Fair</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> and will be raffling one of her one of a kind, hand made shibori scarves - don't miss out on this opportunity to win a piece of sculptural, wearable art"</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>link to a beautiful set of photos of her Pine Wood Shibori Scarves on the Artisan Gallery Facebook page...</b></span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.172723649428047.36875.108670179166728&type=1">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.172723649428047.36875.108670179166728&type=1</a><br />
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There was also a Beard & Facial Hair Contest - that's their Logo above (easy enough to spot eh)<br />
their t-shirts were outside somewheres on a table for this too--later I would see a photo of their table, never actually got to go find it & see it...'cause I was at my/the Steampunk Fest t-shirt table?!<br />
I did see some of the judges--a Fav was the all over the face red haired guy<br />
(as I have an son who's a red head I'm a bit partial)<br />
after that met the 3rd place Moustache winner, very neat curls on the ends<br />
and next Fav saw 3 girls going for the Ladies' Faux Beard Contestant winner<br />
I just know 1 of them won--prob the one with the tiny black/white ribbons in her faux beard<br />
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Look they had my Fav Faux Beard Lady's Foto<br />
complete with her wee black/white ribbons tied up in her faux beard<br />
it was on their Facebook Page--<br />
don't know for sure if she won but she should have?!<br />
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link to Louisiana Beard & Facial Hair Assn Facebook page...<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">www.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">face</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">book.com/</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">LouisianaBeard</b><br />
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link to the Louisiana Beard & Facial Hair Assn...<br />
<a href="http://louisianabeard.com/">http://louisianabeard.com/</a><br />
note: they donated their monies to Healing House in Lafayette<br />
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and don't hate me for these<br />
they are the only photos I have of the Fab u lous Costume Contest<br />
surely someone else took in focus fotos<br />
sigh...if only I could use my camera phone--later I think I will remember<br />
there's a low light selection...<br />
maybe Airship Isabella had someone taking photos<br />
or Cite des Arts<br />
or somebody anybody<br />
(am thinking throw away cameras would of been a good idea...<br />
give 'em to everybody & surely something will come out?!)<br />
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liink to Airship Isabella for way Way better photos of everybody...<br />
<a href="http://www.airshipisabella.com/">http://www.airshipisabella.com/</a><br />
(or that's at least the MC & the Judges for the Steampunk Fashion Contest...)<br />
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link to the Airship Isabella Tumblr...<br />
<a href="http://theairshipisabella.tumblr.com/">http://theairshipisabella.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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link to their Etsy page so you can go buy goods to look like Airship Isabella...<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/AirshipIsabella">http://www.etsy.com/people/AirshipIsabella</a><br />
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link to the Airship Isabella Facebook page...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.521099371275873.1073741826.107629302622884&type=1">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.521099371275873.1073741826.107629302622884&type=1</a><br />
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FAB Fotos from their Facebook page...<br />
Airship Isabella<br />
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black & white photos are so FAB u lous<br />
this is the Captain I'd guess - Cedric Whittaker<br />
he was deff the Captain of the Steampunk Fest here in Lafayette<br />
thankfully he was a judge at the Costume Contest or nobody would of had a chance<br />
the weapons too<br />
there needs to be a separate category for this & a weapons demo show as well<br />
next year--things keep getting bigger & better so it will be<br />
something to look forward to<br />
I have to drive back from The Woodlands just for it<br />
OK Mardi Gras as well--first that then the Steampunk & Maker's Fair<br />
am just hoping Airship Isabella will be there again & Again & AGAIN!!!<br />
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Suzeaux Ryette was the MC for the Costume Contest<br />
what a FAB u lous job she did<br />
she should do standup<br />
Standup Steampunk<br />
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I wish someone would of recorded the whole thing<br />
that & all the costume contestants that I forgot<br />
or took horrible photos of...sorry...<br />
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Well Airship Isabella, from what I can tell, is full of beautiful creative people<br />
wish they were closer--but NOLA not so far Far away...<br />
Thank you for coming to Steampunk and Maker's Fair--you made it for me!!<br />
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Mwah kiss kiss all y'all Steampunk and Maker's this year ox ;o)) ox....<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-30391624176463820452013-11-02T01:13:00.002-05:002013-11-02T15:01:54.974-05:00Walk, Dance, Sing, Drum, Paint, Write, Play your way to the Creative SideExploring Our Creative Side<br />
Engaging in <i><b><span style="color: blue;">Community Arts</span></b></i><br />
Brings Unexpected Rewards<br />
by Judith Fertig<br />
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Sept 2012 - pg 22 - 24<br />
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link to Natural Awakenings Publishers - Acadiana...<br />
<a href="http://www.napublishers.com/acadiana">http://www.napublishers.com/acadiana</a><br />
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<i>"...experience proves what many dancers, artists, writers, actors and musicians know:</i><br />
<i>Active, hands-on, group participation in the arts is beneficial on many levels."</i><br />
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<i>"...study...Wallace Foundation...'Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts'... found 'People that engage in arts in a group setting develop a sense of community as they exchange favors...identify themselves with a cast, music ensemble or choral groups; and develop a sense of trust and expectations of reciprocity.'...also notes 'through the arts of ethnic traditions--such as classical Indian dance, Jamaican steel drums or Japanese raku ceramics--participants develop and maintain their cultural heritage and communicate their cultural identity to outsiders.' "</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Gateway Experiences</span></i><br />
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<i>"Most art disciplines can be experienced at any age. No previous training or ability is required, just a curious spirit and willingness to participate and learn. Fun options range..."</i><br />
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note: locally Painting with a Twist, where you can drink wine & paint a set project in an evening with a group<br />
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link to Painting with a Twist - Lafayette, La...<br />
<a href="http://www.paintingwithatwist.com/lafayette/">http://www.paintingwithatwist.com/lafayette/</a><br />
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Link to Painting with a Twist - Lafayette, La - Event: Just Koi...<br />
<a href="http://www.paintingwithatwist.com/events/viewEvent.aspx?eventID=163948">http://www.paintingwithatwist.com/events/viewEvent.aspx?eventID=163948</a><br />
(note: for an example...I would be interested in painting this Koi fish, as I adore them & perhaps have a tattoo of one or two of them somewheres on my body as well, different kind of art that, it's the Pisces/water sign of the Zodiac, in me is my excuse...)<br />
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<img height="200" src="http://admin.paintingwithatwist.com/images/paintings/medium/3540.jpg" width="157" /><br />
Tues Nov 12, 2013 7-9 pm BYOB<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Gateway Experiences - cont'd</span><br />
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<i>" 'A drumming class is a great way to reduce stress, have fun, relax and reenergize, all at the same time, it has even been shown to positively affect your immune system,' say co-founders...' "</i> African drumming... www.DrumRise.net (in Decatur, GA)<br />
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link to YouTube - Women's Drum Circle at Festival International de Louisiane - Lafayette, LA - Festival International - April 28, 2009...<br />
http://youtu.be/a5SiW6WdFWM<br />
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note: this example for a feel of a Drum Circle, locally...funny tho I know one of the French ladies in the drum circle that happens to also volunteer a lot in the evenings at the AcA in downtown Lafayette, LA where I often did most of last year too, but didn't know she could beat a drum?! And I know I've read somewheres a listing for local Drum Circle but right now, online, I can't seem to find it...Now I've, in the past, had a great desire to play the violin/the fiddle just not the drums...<br />
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other examples of the serious "power of drums" is the Japanese Kodo or Taiko Drummers...<br />
search Japanese Big Drums & all sorts of Videos will come up on YouTube<br />
different groups of these drummers have also come to Lafayette, LA for the Festival International de Louisiane or just Festival International...<br />
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link to Wiki for an explanation of Kodo (Taiko Group)...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodo_(taiko_group)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodo_(taiko_group)</a><br />
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<i>"In Japanese the word 'Kodo' conveys two meanings: 'heartbeat' the primal source of all rhythm and, read in a different way, the word can mean 'children of the drum,' a reflection of Kodo's desire to play their drums simply, with the heart of a child."</i><br />
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link to a clip from the DVD: Big Drum -- Taiko in the United States - Feb 10, 2009 - 8:14 min's...<br />
http://youtu.be/AiIuZdD0sCA<br />
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link to Japanese American National Museum webpage store where you can buy the DVD & read more about it, the many groups all over the USA, plus historical footage...<br />
<a href="http://janmstore.com/230013.html">http://janmstore.com/230013.html</a><br />
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Burundi (African) Drum Music is another drum group with the "power of drums" - in both cases perhaps began as war drums, but now it's entertaining & if you're participating serious aerobic exercise I would guess...<br />
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link to Wiki for an explanation of the Royal Drummers of Burundi...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Drummers_of_Burundi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Drummers_of_Burundi</a><br />
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note: watch a YouTube for the entrance & exit carrying their drums on their heads...<br />
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<img height="150" src="http://www.heavenlyplanet.com/featured/artists_img/dob3.jpg" width="200" /><br />
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Drummers of Burundi at the Univ. of Indiana...<br />
link to the YouTube...<br />
<span style="color: purple;">http://youtu.be/IzO_TludzTU</span><br />
(note: if nothing else watch the entrance with the drums on their heads coming thru the audience to get to the stage...to about 6:42 min's in the video)<br />
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link to YouTube - Women Burundi Drummers...<br />
<span style="color: purple;">http://youtu.be/XGwwojIbQVI</span><br />
(note: and as they remark--didn't know there were 'women' Burundi Drummers...but there are...dressed in similar colors...& they are having a blast in their women's drumming circle I'm thinking--no matter I don't know the language...)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">back to the article...</span><br />
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<i>"Such activities allow us to dabble and explore amidst the power of a group and maximize the joy of artful endeavors, which many prefer to the cost of individual lessons."</i><br />
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<i>"One of the most accessible community arts is choral music, as it requires no special equipment. Singing in a group can also become a community tradition that gathers people of all ages and lifestyles in fellowship and celebration."</i><br />
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<i>"Storytelling is yet another community performing art that requires no special equipment...members include professional and amateur storytellers, poets, actors and newcomers that love to practice--or just listen to--this ancient art."</i><br />
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note: locally there's a Hub City Theater & Storytelling Festival...<br />
this description is for the one held last year, 2012...<br />
notice too there's a Liars Contest too (or aka The Honorable Practice and Art of the Tall Tale)<br />
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<i>"Hub City Theater and Storytelling Festival -- Dec. 6-9, 2012</i><br />
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<i> Lafayette - Cite' des Arts, Acadiana Center for the Arts and Theatre 810 are presenting the <b>Hub City Theater and Storytelling Festival</b>, Thursday, Dec. 6, Sun., Dec. 9, 2012. The Festival will consist of original works, plays, storytelling, readings, street performances, workshops and panels -- and a Liars Contest (aka the Honorable Practice and Art of the Tall Tale.) Signups are online for the Liar's contest or open registration and preliminary rounds are Saturday, December 8th upstairs at ACA. The performances, workshops and group panels will be for writers, directors, actors, storytellers, teachers, parents and kids -- and audiences of every character and spirit.</i><br />
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<i> The HCTSF mission is to foster the Southern literary arts by supporting, encouraging and cultivating new and emerging voices in the performing arts, as well as, developing new audiences for these voices. the festival will take place at three locations: Cite' des Arts, Theatre 810 and Acadiana Center for the Arts (ACA.) Theatre 810 is hosting the first annual Entrances Student Theatre Festival where theatre students in our area can present their mid-year work to one another, network and attend workshops on both performance and technical aspects of theatre.</i><br />
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<i> For a copy of the schedule and to purchase tickets for performances, go to <span style="color: purple;">www.citedesarts.org</span> .</i><br />
<i>For more information call Christy Leichty, Cite' des Arts Program Director...."</i><br />
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<i>--Acadiana Theatre Happenings Blog</i><br />
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note: then last year there was something even bigger locally--the Biggest Liar in All The South Contest...<br />
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link to article on local Lafayette, LA KATC Channel 3 - Biggest Liar in All the South Contest...<br />
<a href="http://www.katc.com/news/biggest-liar-in-all-the-south-contest/">http://www.katc.com/news/biggest-liar-in-all-the-south-contest/</a><br />
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"Can you tell the biggest and best story of all? Can you make your friends/child/parents/professors believe anything you say? Can you weave a tale so amazing that folks can't help but believe it? Come and lay a claim and bragging rights to the title of "The Biggest Liar In All The South" at The Streampunk and Makers Fair, downtown Lafayette on Saturday, November 9th. Pay the $5 entry fee, weave your story in 5 minutes or less, then pick up the cash prize ($100 Adult 18 and up - $50 Youth 5 to 17) and elegant stainless steel Steampunk and Makers Fair award made by our Title Sponsor, Begneaud Manufacturing.<br />
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Pre-register online at www.steampunkandmakersfair.org , or, register before 11 a.m. when the stories commence. Guest Judges start judging at the Liars Contest stage, Cite' des Arts, 109 Vine St.. Join the fray or be a part of our gullible - uh gracious audience. Finalists and winners will be on the main stage at 5 p.m.<br />
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Co-sponsored by Cite' des Arts and The Lafayette Science Museum."<br />
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note: this year I think they're doing the same...<br />
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link to this year's Steampunk and Makers Fair - Lafayette, LA...<br />
<span style="color: purple;">http://steampunkandmakersfair.org/</span><br />
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link to this years Liars Contest...<br />
<span style="color: purple;">http://steampunkandmakersfair.org/?page_id=202</span><br />
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(note: I'm here to tell you, as I heard a lot of these "Tale Tales" last year--local folks & beyond can tell some Fab u lous 'stories,' but are they Liars? I'm never quite totally sure...)<br />
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link to another local Storytelling Night--The Spinner's Web, again last year 2012...<br />
<span style="color: purple;">http://www.downtownlafayette.org/Events/EventsDisplay_asp?p1=9833</span><br />
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="fontpoint" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">"Jim Phillips will present The Spinner’s Web, Storyteller’s Night, taking place at Cité des Arts on Friday, September 28th, and featuring Barry Ancelet, storyteller and folklorist; Sally O. Donlon, storyteller and educator; Bill Matthews, renaissance man and chef; Hogie Seibert, artist and musician: and, the master of ceremonies will be Jim Phillips, storyteller and artistic director.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Telling and listening to stories is the way to make sense of one’s life. Stories help people connect in ways they might not otherwise. Folks get to see the world through different eyes. Audiences gasp, applaud, and sometimes cry, but, the most exhilarating and healing experience of The Spinners Web is laughing yourself out of your chair...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">'Jim Phillips is a lyrical BS’er and 'natural born' storyteller! We have</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">learned to trust and believe in him here in Cajun Country. He is the</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">genuine article. I feel very lucky to count him among my many, talented,</span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">artist-friends and colleagues. 'You bet!!' – Pat Mire, Filmmaker"</span><br /><br />note: Oh my, if I could only remember any of these stories...I especially adored the ones told by Sally O. Donlon about her childhood growing up--were they 'tall tales' or is she a 'liar' or a great 'storyteller' or maybe all of the above?!<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">again back to the article...</span><br /><br /><i style="color: black;">"Strong community and cultural identity is forged on other stages, as well. The Community Actors Theatre...'They have the raw talent that could be developed into something wonderful. People don't just learn to be actors and playwrights. They learn to work together, to commit to a common struggle. When they leave, they know how to work with people, to be team players.' "<br /><br />"Sometimes, a life change can open the door to a creative outlet...dance scene...'It became my primary social life.' "</i></span></span><br />
<span class="fontpoint" style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><br /><span style="color: blue;">Auditioning for the Role of a Lifetime</span></i><br /><br /><i style="color: black;">"The next level of volunteer arts participation may involve an audition and a greater commitment. At the same time these pursuits offer prime opportunities to expand artistic skills and join in something bigger than one's self."</i><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: black;">"Plein air painters forsake the indoors to take their paints, easels and canvases outside...regularly paint in groups in the fresh air and then hold an exhibition; annual workshops help teach techniques (p-a-p-a.com)...featured artists set up alongside amateurs eager to learn more (PleinAirfl.com)"</i><br /><br /><i style="color: black;">"Whatever one's newly discovered or longtime treasure, individuals engaging in a group arts activity forge strong social bonds, keep ethnic arts traditions alive, learn new things in new ways and experience joyous personal growth. ...All while creating something wonderful"</i><br /><br />Judith Fertig - contributor to Natural Awakenings<br />Award-winning cookbook author: AlfrescoFoodAndLifestyle.Blogspot.com<br /><br />~~~<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Quotes from her article...</span><br /><br /><i style="color: black;">"Turning, moving, spinning, dresses swirling, music beating, eyes in contact with a partner, then another, then another, then another, and the fiddle turns a corner, the phrase repeats, the dance repeats. You smile. Your body smiles."</i> --Doug Plummer, photographer and contra dancer, Seattle, Washington<br /><br /><i style="color: black;">"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."</i> --Pablo Picasso<br /><br />note: OK, I've heard this one before...but then I've seen & read a lot of Pablo Picasso over the years...<br /><br />link to Pablo Picasso - The Barefoot Girl - painted in 1895...</span></span><a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/pablo-picasso/the-barefoot-girl-1895" style="color: black;">http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/pablo-picasso/the-barefoot-girl-1895</a><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;">note: he was born in 1881...so he was 14 yrs old when he finished painting this...the earliest painting I can find online of a painting he did as a teen but not as a child...I was hoping to find one of his paintings or drawings or sketches from when he was a small child...he started young & was sent to art school young as well...</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><i>"When I'm not doing any plays, things just don't go right. This is my justification. This is my opportunity to just be me."</i> --Eva Jones, foster parent and member of Community Actors Theatre, Oak Park, California<br /><br />~~~<br /><br /><br />My Final Note: the magazine clipping continues, as we've not moved yet...photos, ideas, recipes, articles, whatever from whatever years that are still laying around in boxes, bins, file cabinets, in drawers, under the bed, up in the closets, on the bookshelf, stuffed in books, up in the attic...on and on they go, one day it will all be recycled, shredded, trashed, burned perhaps, but until then, saving every scrap or until I move just simply Blog about it...</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-20639412868761818952013-10-22T01:25:00.001-05:002013-11-01T22:13:22.376-05:00He's neither black...nor white...nor red...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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link to The Ind - Entertainment article - Red by John Logan...<br />
<a href="http://www.theind.com/a-a-e/arts-a-entertainment-stories/15412-wanderlust-theatre-presents-red">http://www.theind.com/a-a-e/arts-a-entertainment-stories/15412-wanderlust-theatre-presents-red</a><br />
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link to Wanderlust Theatre Co...<br />
<a href="http://www.wanderlusttheatre.com/">http://www.wanderlusttheatre.com/</a>#!<br />
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link to Wanderlust Theatre Co Facebook - Red in September/October Timeline...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/wanderlusttheatre?hc_location=timeline">https://www.facebook.com/wanderlusttheatre?hc_location=timeline</a><br />
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link to YouTube - Red (John Logan) - Theatre Trailer...(another production)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLeIRtaBbok">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLeIRtaBbok</a><br />
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link to YouTube - Highlights from "Red" Starring Alfred Molina Jonathan Groff...<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED0hrzFWZrI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED0hrzFWZrI</a><br />
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love the beginning line: "What do you see?" followed later by all the lines rapid fired back & forth regarding the color of red...I'd never thought of so many colors in the world that are the color red in all it's many multi- faceted versions of...<br />
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link to Wiki of artist - Mark Rothko...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko</a><br />
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link to Wiki of the play - Red...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(play)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(play)</a><br />
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link to the chapel - Rothko Chapel...<br />
<a href="http://www.rothkochapel.org/">http://www.rothkochapel.org/</a><br />
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<img alt="Thumbnail for version as of 19:36, 7 October 2013" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Rothko_Chapel_2.jpg/120px-Rothko_Chapel_2.jpg" /><br />
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<img alt="Thumbnail for version as of 19:36, 7 October 2013" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Rothko_Chapel_1.jpg/120px-Rothko_Chapel_1.jpg" /><br />
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photo credit: Wiki - Rothko Chapel<br />
(inside...taken from the doors looking to the back wall & then from the back wall looking toward the doors)<br />
photographer: Woderful Tree (aka Wonderful Tree)<br />
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link to YouTube - The Power of Art - Rothko (BBC Documentary)...<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WAjk0DIU00">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WAjk0DIU00</a><br />
documentary length 59:01 min's long<br />
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link to Tate - London - Artists: Mark Rothko...<br />
<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mark-rothko-1875">http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mark-rothko-1875</a><br />
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link to Tate Modern Exhibition - London - 26 Sept to 1 Feb 2008...<br />
<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/rothko">http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/rothko</a><br />
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Rothko Room - The Seagram Murals<br />
"...desparate for pockets of silence where we can root and grow..."<br />
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51:39 Rothko Chapel - Houston, TX - 1965<br />
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link to Tate Modern Exhibition - London...<br />
<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/rothko-0">http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/rothko-0</a><br />
Curator meets Conductor...sound--music is added<br />
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The History and Manufacture of Lithol Red, a Pigment Used by Mark Rothko in his Seagram and Harvard Murals of the 1950s and 1960s...<br />
<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/history-and-manufacture-lithol-red-pigment-used-mark-rothko-his">http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/history-and-manufacture-lithol-red-pigment-used-mark-rothko-his</a><br />
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<em>"...Rothko’s use of lithol red has had significant implications for the longevity and understanding of his artworks: the extremely high light levels suffered by the Harvard murals mean that they have faded to the degree that they are no longer considered suitable for display, whilst the fading of some of the Seagram murals – although much less dramatic – has altered the colour and tonal balance of the works, which must influence our interpretation and appreciation of them. It is only through the study of the history, properties, and behaviour of such materials that we can begin to understand how best to care for works of art that incorporate them, to admit the possibility that gross colour changes may occur, and to incorporate this into our understanding when there is good evidence that they have occurred..."</em><br />
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link to Room Guide - Rothko Room - Room 1-9...<br />
<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/rothko/room-guide">http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/rothko/room-guide</a><br />
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Room 1 - The Seagram Murals between NYC & London<br />
Room 2 - Four Darks in Red<br />
Room 3 - The Segram Murals<br />
Room 4 - Material History<br />
Room 5 - Towards the Houston Chapel<br />
Room 6 - Black-Form Paintings<br />
Room 7 - Seagram Studies<br />
Room 8 - Brown and Gray Works on Paper<br />
Room 9 - Black on Gray<br />
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<em>from Room 3 description...</em><br />
<em>"...His studio assistant, Dan Rice, recalls that Rothko ‘was very reflective, gathering all the paintings together again and jumbling them up. It would be very difficult to say that one was intended as part of the murals and one was not’..."</em><br />
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note: in the play Red the studio assistant's name is Ken--here I find the real assistant's name is Dan (tho it's possible there was more than one studio assistant over the years)<br />
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link to the Menil Collection - Houston, TX...<br />
<a href="http://www.menil.org/collection/modern.php">http://www.menil.org/collection/modern.php</a><br />
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<em>“ A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer.”<br /> —Mark Rothko</em> <br />
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note: the Rothko Chapel & the Menil Museum will be the only place I'll be able to view Rothko's paintings...tho I may have passed the Rothko Rooms while visiting the Tate Modern in London once--as I was with another who didn't care to stand still long in any museum I really don't remember them, the Segram Murals...I do know for sure I've seen any of them 'pulsate' & for that alone I will revisit at least what I can view & stand a bit longer in meditation to try for this feeling or the idea of the 'gate' or 'gateway' inside the light & shadows of the Rothko paintings or murals...<br />
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<img alt="Thumbnail for version as of 11:22, 26 September 2013" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/NewYorkSeagram_04.30.2008.JPG/78px-NewYorkSeagram_04.30.2008.JPG" /><br />
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link to the Wiki about the Seagram Building - 1958 - Midtown Manhattan, NYC...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram_Building">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram_Building</a><br />
the restaurant The Four Seasons opened in 1959...<br />
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Re: the art in the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building & Mark Rothko the artist...<br />
(because I was curious about the 'rest of the story' - if there was no Rothko Murals then what...)<br />
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<i>"The artist Mark Rothko was engaged to paint a series of works for the restaurant in 1958. Accepting the commission, he secretly resolved to create 'something that will ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room.' Observing the restaurant's pretentious atmosphere upon his return from a trip to Europe, Rothko abandoned the project altogether, returned his advance and kept the paintings for himself. </i><br />
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<i>The final series was dispersed and now hangs in three locations:</i><br />
<i>London’s Tate Gallery, </i><br />
<i>Japan’s Kawamura Memorial Museum </i><br />
<i>and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. </i><br />
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<i>During the period in which Rothko worked on his murals, the Four Seasons rented Jackson Pollock's masterpiece Blue Poles from its then-owner, art collector Ben Heller. </i><br />
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<i>John Logan's Tony Award-winning 2010 play Red dramatizes Rothko's time working on the Seagram Murals.</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>From 1975 until 1985 four paintings by Ronnie Landfield from the collection of Philip Johnson were installed on the wall that had been initially planned for the Mark Rothko commission. </i><br />
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<i>In 1985 the artist James Rosenquis was commissioned to install a permanent mural on the wall; the Landfield paintings were returned to Philip Johnson...</i><br />
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<i>The large curtain designed by Pablo Picasso for the Ballets Russes ballet Le Tricorne (1919) has been hung between the Grill Room and the Pool Room since the restaurant opened.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 13.328125px;">..</span></span>"</i><br />
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<img src="http://kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/collection/images/rothko_room.jpg" /><br />
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link to Wiki of Japan's Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art - Sakura City: Collection - Mark Rothko's Segram Murals...<br />
<a href="http://kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/en/collection/mark_rothko.html">http://kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/en/collection/mark_rothko.html</a><br />
note: 7 of the murals...9 of the murals are in London at the Tate & once they were all together there...in both locations they have their very own room--The Rothko Room...<br />
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my program...Wanderlust Theatre Co. Presents Red by John Logan</div>
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note: I don't have enough words in me to describe the feeling of this play...I tried not to read much about Rothko or the play before watching this local presentation of the play...my first reaction was just simply Wow...I wanted to read the play--now I've forgotten that I did ask if I could read a script, must follow up on that and soon (before I go back to the Menil & the Rothko Chapel... or I may just buy the script to have my very own clean copy to read & reread ad fin)<br />
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There is so much physicality going on in this play that I did not expect, I also did not expect Rothko/Duncan to light a cigarette, (OK, a red ended e-cigarette...but it was well realistic what with him clicking a real lighter to light up the thing,) mix red paint, paint on a canvas or two--with his assistant Ken, speak about Art, speak about the color Red...that I could read & re-read, all the permutations of the color Red...afterwards on social media, prob fb, all I could manage to say was thank you thank you thank you--as there were the 2 actors & the 1 director & am not sure too many others in this play, which you wouldn't think would hold you enthralled--but it does...I am now so over curious I've been reading, watching video's about Rothko--when I should probably just go stand in front of his canvases again...and again...I'm waiting for the 'pulsating' to occur at some point in time...<br />
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link to John Logan quotes from Red on Goodreads.com...<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19586.John_Logan">http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19586.John_Logan</a><br />
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<em>“ROTHKO: (Explodes) 'Pretty.' 'Beautiful.' 'Nice.' 'Fine.' That's our life now! Everything's 'fine'. We put on the funny nose and glasses and slip on the banana peel and the TV makes everything happy and everyone's laughing all the time, it's all so goddamn funny, it's our constitutional right to be amused all the time, isn't it? We're a smirking nation, living under the tyranny of 'fine.' How are you? Fine.. How was your day? Fine. How are you feeling? Fine. How did you like the painting? Fine. What some dinner? Fine... Well, let me tell you, everything is not fine!!<br />HOW ARE YOU?!... HOW WAS YOUR DAY?!... HOW ARE YOU FEELING? Conflicted. Nuanced. Troubled. Diseased. Doomed. I am not fine. We are not fine. We are anything but fine.” <br />― </em><em>John Logan</em><em>, </em><em>Red</em><br />
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aka the 'Fine' rant...now to find the color 'Red' rant...<br />
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link to quotes about red, the color red--not the color red rant in the play Red between Rothko & his assistant Ken...<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/red">http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/red</a><br />
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link to Wiki, regarding the color Red...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red</a><br />
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<img alt="File:Color icon red.svg" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Color_icon_red.svg/300px-Color_icon_red.svg.png" width="320" /><br />
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photo credit: Wiki...9 diff shades of red color (tho I don't think of pink at first)<br />
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link to an aside of the color red--Carmine...made of Cochineal...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal</a><br />
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(note: aka bug guts, dried or otherwise...ew...think about that wearing red lipstick...again ew...or worse--food dye...pst pst...or even worse--in yogurt...noo, I liked yogurt...no more red yogurt my friends...)<br />
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note: I must find the script lines, must borrow a script...until then...I'll see Red when I close my eyes before falling asleep, which if the light is just right I will, I have before, but soon it fades to black...and sleep...<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-13724399833734326292013-10-07T20:44:00.002-05:002013-10-07T22:27:15.520-05:00"...you eat like crap & expect your body never to retaliate? really?"remember article culling continues<br />
my idea of recycle reuse<br />
save paper save (freight) weight<br />
and I like to be reminded of healthy things<br />
when I'm about to go under the stress gun<br />
what with moving and all that 'fun'--right...<br />
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<b><i>Wellness</i></b><br />
<b><i>The Three Laws of Healing</i></b><br />
Live long and live strong!<br />
by Dr. Bart Precourt<br />
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pg 34 The Thirty-A Review<br />
Sept/Oct 2012<br />
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note: the 30-A is a highway in FL<br />
Grayton Beach may be my fav along it<br />
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link to the article...<br />
<a href="http://www.thirtyareview.com/SeptOct2012/page38.htm">http://www.thirtyareview.com/SeptOct2012/page38.htm</a><br />
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Three Laws of Healing<br />
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1. Law of Cellular Replacement<br />
2. Law of Time<br />
3. Law of Supply and Demand<br />
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note: you could prob guess Law 1 (your body replaces cells) & 2 (it takes time to heal) but 3?<br />
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"your body will heal accordingly to the <i>supply and demand</i> of healthy options for your body"<br />
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"remember you are what you eat"<br />
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note: now that last phrase I have heard before...and more than once<br />
tho I did 'not' know it was a TV show, cookbook, other books, an eating plan, a Wiki, etc etc...<br />
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link to Wiki - You Are What You Eat...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_What_You_Eat">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_What_You_Eat</a><br />
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I love this subject line...<br />
because it struck a chord, in me, I've done this--like a lot...<br />
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here's the rest of the paragraph it belongs to:<br />
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"Our health care system has taught you to believe that things happen to you' that you 'catch' a cold or have hormonal imbalances because of something other than your own doing. then of course you need them to fix you. You let yourself get run down, stressed, <i>you eat like crap and expect your body never to retaliate? Really?</i> In reality we are at fault. And this is a good thing, because it means we have the power to do something about it. We are not victims that can only be saved by more frequent doctor visits and drugs."<br />
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and from another source regarding the same phrase: You Are What You Eat, Digital Cafe...<br />
(or Vegetarian Diet for Optimum Health)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">"Experts say that ninety nine percent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap food-like processed stuff. Processed food are dead food. They are 'hurt' food. Not health food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17px;">The trillion cells in our body regenerates every few days crying out for nourishment. Whatever you ingest or consume becomes YOU."</span></div>
link to You Are What You Eat.com...<br />
<a href="http://www.you-are-what-you-eat.com/">http://www.you-are-what-you-eat.com/</a><br />
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about that phrase:<br />
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You Are What You Eat<br />
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here's more about the origins of it...<br />
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link to Phrases.Org...<br />
<a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/you%20are%20what%20you%20eat.html">http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/you%20are%20what%20you%20eat.html</a><br />
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1826<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">a translation from French:</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are" - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">link to his Wiki...</span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anthelme_Brillat-Savarin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anthelme_Brillat-Savarin</a><br />
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note: love this part...grow fat 'willy-nilly'...<br />
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"Brillat-Savarin is often considered as the father of low-carbohydrate diet. He considered sugar and white flour to be the cause of obesity and he suggested instead protein-rich ingredients."</div>
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"Sure enough, carnivorous animals never grow fat (consider wolves, jackals, birds of prey, crows, etc.). Herbivorous animals do not grow fat easily, at least until age has reduced them to a state of inactivity; but they fatten very quickly as soon as they begin to be fed on potatoes, grain, or any kind of flour. ... The second of the chief causes of obesity is the floury and starchy substances which man makes the prime ingredients of his daily nourishment. As we have said already, all animals that live on farinaceous food grow fat willy-nilly; and man is no exception to the universal law. <span class="citation book" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme (1970). <i>The Physiology of Taste</i>. trans. Anne Drayton..."</span></div>
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1863 or 64<br />
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another translation from German:<br />
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"...man is what he eats." - <span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">link to his Wiki...</span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Andreas_Feuerbach">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Andreas_Feuerbach</a><br />
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1920's or 1930's<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat." 1923 beef advert</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">(note: surprisenly sounding like the blog above--You are what you eat, digital cafe...hmm...)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> phrase take from the nutritionist Victor Lindlahr who developed the Catabolic Diet...</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">in 1942, he published: "</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">You Are What You Eat: how to win and keep health with diet"</em><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">link to his Wiki...</span></span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lindlahr">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lindlahr</a><br />
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note: says his book sold over a 1/2 million copies<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">link to Amazon.com & all of Victor Hugo Lindlahr's books, you can still order...</span><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Victor-Hugo-Lindlahr/e/B001KMGD3A">http://www.amazon.com/Victor-Hugo-Lindlahr/e/B001KMGD3A</a><br />
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(note: $9.95 you can still get a copy of the original 1942 paperback...it makes me itch, from paper mites, to even think about it...)<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">1960's</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">referred to as the hippy era</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">during the macrobiotic wholefood phase of diets</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">and then it stops following the phrase</span><br />
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<img alt="Vertumnus (Emperor Rudolph II) - Giuseppe Arcimboldo" src="http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/vertumnus-emperor-rudolph-ii(1).jpg!Blog.jpg" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Artist: Giuseppe Arcimboldo</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">my description: you are what you eat?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">link to Wiki Paintings...</span><br />
<a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giuseppe-arcimboldo/vertumnus-emperor-rudolph-ii">http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giuseppe-arcimboldo/vertumnus-emperor-rudolph-ii</a><br />
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link to the References there on Wiki Paintings...<br />
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description of painting at Tigtail.org...<br />
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Vertumnus<br />
Emperor Rudolph II<br />
about 1590-1591<br />
oil on wood; 68 x 56 cm<br />
Skoklosters Slott<br />
Balsta, Sweden<br />
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clip clip...recycle...trash...cull...declutter...show time...stage...it's like theater...<br />
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so for the next few weeks to months<br />
I will post articles I've discovered/rediscovered<br />
to recycle them in yet another way<br />
much easier on the moving boxes<br />
and freight weight for sure<br />
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yes there will be a new blog<br />
but that will all come later<br />
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The Free Press Houston aka FPH (newspaperly magazine) - Issue 155<br />
note: take a hint on where this newspaper is from for what's up next in the blog dept for me<br />
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link...<br />
<a href="http://www.freepresshouston.com/">http://www.freepresshouston.com/</a><br />
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note: I have also taken note that under Staff there is a Wolf<br />
his name is Paul Holzhauer, tho as well under Wolf the he could be a she Wolf<br />
I will keep an eye on this position/job description & also try to figure out what it is<br />
I have never heard of this title in a newspaper/anywheres before<br />
(other than the zoo or the wild animal reference)<br />
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link to the article that caught my eye...<br />
<a href="http://www.freepresshouston.com/featured/top-ten-annoying-food-trends/">http://www.freepresshouston.com/featured/top-ten-annoying-food-trends/</a><br />
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<b>Top Ten Annoying Food Trends</b><br />
<b>Hey, Foodies! Stop Doing These Things</b><br />
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by Omar Afra and Rob McCarthy<br />
Images by Arthur Bates<br />
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1) Over-Glorified Junk Food<br />
2) Truffle Oil<br />
3) Fried Egg Topper<br />
4) Bacon Everything<br />
5) Cross-Cultural Fusion Poserdom<br />
6) Kimchi<br />
7) Locally Sourced<br />
8) Water, No Ice (This is America)<br />
9) Have it Their Way<br />
10) Science "Food"<br />
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Thoughts on No. 1 - 10<br />
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1 - Over-Glorified Junk Food<br />
no mention of in this article--but now there are french fries in burgers on TV adverts...<br />
really? this is creative, the next step, are we kids again...(I 'know' this is not a 'new' idea too btw)<br />
it all makes me remember when my sister & I made bologne & honey sandwiches, hot dogs with pancake syrup on them, on & on...that "I'm bored this summer let's make something silly outta the ingredients left in the refrigerator/pantry" kind of thing<br />
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Wiki will need an update...to add the French Fry Burger...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries</a><br />
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as will the Wiki on Hamburger...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger</a><br />
(note: there is a photo of No3, see below, on a burger)<br />
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<img alt="Burger King reinvents the wheel." height="120" src="http://media.theweek.com/img/dir_0104/52146_article_full/burger-king-reinvents-the-wheel.jpg?187" width="200" /><br />
I don't often post fast food--like never, I think, because...I don't eat it, unless I'm in an airport with absolutely nothing else & starving, near migraine level...but I refuse to make a hamburger to put 4 french fries on top for my own photo of this dumb duo, so here's their promo photo from Facebook that I borrowed still from an article in The Week on why the BK FF Burger is a Bust (duh)<br />
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2 -Truffle Oil<br />
I heard this a long while ago on I think it was Master Chef or maybe Hell's Kitchen (all official like right, no matter)--it was a big No No on the show...ever since, I'm wary of when I spot that ingredient on a menu item description (I'd much rather have real mushrooms, real truffles even the better--after I found out how expensive they can come)<br />
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link to what a Truffle is...nearly the uglest veggie in the world, maybe...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Wiki quote: "Most 'truffle oil,' however, does not contain any truffles.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13.328125px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">The vast majority is </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" title="Olive oil">olive oil</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> which has been artificially flavoured using a synthetic agent such as </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-dithiapentane" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="2,4-dithiapentane">2,4-dithiapentan</a>e." (ew...how bad can that be for you?!)<br />
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<img height="150" src="http://vanessafrance.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/limogne-truffles.jpg?w=512&h=384" width="200" /><br />
black (foodie) diamonds?<br />
from a French truffle market<br />
I've never understood the attraction<br />
nor the absurd price they go for<br />
(photo credit: VanessaFrance blog - Life on La Lune - March 2012)<br />
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3 - Fried Egg Topper<br />
this choice I can imagine at breakfast, at any other meal of the day--forget it...<br />
what are you adding, is it attractive--nothing/more calories & no I'd say<br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="115" src="http://thefrenchpresslafayette.com/images/slide13.jpg" width="200" /><br />
the local The French Press Lafayette Restaurant - added fried egg on a sandwich menu item<br />
there are more than one item now with fried eggs on top<br />
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4 - Bacon Everything<br />
when they added this to chocolate to make bacon chocolate cake I knew we (the people of the US) were in trouble...tho I adore bacon & eggs, after that it's overkill not to mention greasy & I think possibly the wrong kind of fat to be eating period...the worst tho was walking thru the French Quarter (for those who live under a rock--New Orleans) only to first see the sign & then see people walking around with them...Bacon-tini's (yes, as in Martini only made with bacon & big strips of bacon hanging out of Martini glasses like massive gross stir sticks...can you say Yuck, like a lot...later I will read in one recipe that you smear the bacon grease around the rim of the Martini glass, ugh, double Yuck...) & somewhere these have been referred to as 'Shock-tails' (I'm beginning to think all these 'annoying food trends' have something to do with 'shock' value...sad to say...)<br />
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link to Bacon Today & recipe for a Bacon-tini...<br />
<a href="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-martini/">http://bacontoday.com/bacon-martini/</a><br />
(don't know what's scarier--that there's a webpage to Bacon Today or a Bacon Martini...sigh...perhaps they are done, after this, with the exploration of Bacon in Everything...wait--there's more, there is a Bakon Vodka...)<br />
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<img alt="Bakon Chocolate Martini - CoCo pig" height="200" src="http://www.bakonvodka.com/media/drinks/coco_pig.jpg" width="200" /><br />
from Bakon Vodka recipes<br />
there is not just a Bacon/Bakon Martini, but a Chocolate Bacon Martini...<br />
(so adds to my earlier troublesome Bacon Chocolate Cake discovery)<br />
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5 - Cross-Cultural Fusion Poserdom<br />
the worst I'd seen & experienced, at least visually--that I refused to eat, was TexMex Sushi at what was suppose to be a Mexican Restaurant (or so I thought from the signs & the menu--at first)...needless to say that restaurant is no longer in business - and - it didn't take long to go under either<br />
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links to further definitions/photos...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex-Mex">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex-Mex</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi</a><br />
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(I don't know who would want to put them together, really...unless they're trying to just add a sauce to the sushi rolls, but even then I'm not sure the marriage of these two flavors is tasty enough for a whole restaurant to stand by - or well, locally, it wasn't...)<br />
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6 - Kimchi<br />
let's see what are the origins of this food--is it food, something ethnic, and to do with burying jars in the ground for long periods of time with old vegetables/cabbage is it, in them until they rot & stink & ferment... Yum--no Not yum, at all...how can people put it on anything & actually eat it...luckily where I'm living they haven't discovered this as a 'topping' on anything (perhaps they're still not done with bacon or fried eggs to go there yet)<br />
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link to if you want to learn more about Kimchi...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi</a><br />
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<img alt="Kimchi in jars" height="200" src="http://www.easykoreanfood.com/images/Kimchi_in_jar.jpg" width="168" /><br />
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from Easy Korean Food online Cookbook - Kimchi Recipe<br />
(maybe if I liked cabbage or fermented or pickled foods more, but no--I don't think so...says even better if fermented for 6 to 12 mo's....uh, don't know how I could get past the smell at that point...)<br />
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7 - Locally Sourced<br />
hear hear...I agree, I try very hard to support local...but am not going to buy it just because it's made/processed/sold locally...<br />
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for instance now here in specifically Southern Louisiana they're trying to make local Rum--No, not drinking it (am wondering if Pirates would want to drink it--but I've sworn off alcohol for so many more years than when I could drink that I wouldn't know how awful/good the stuff was anyways)...<br />
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or local coffee? really, it's just roasted locally right (isn't that the way coffee works--they're 'not' growing coffee plants/harvesting coffee beans in Southern Louisiana...caveat, I did hear a rumor some old lady in the country was growing/roasting--but I have not met her/seen this coffee plant or coffee beans to date...) but I do still support the local roasters because they have good (local) guy Baristas that can make a descent cup of coffee (ie an espresso)...<br />
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have found many a Fab local Barista so that often makes up for it & really many of their coffee shops bring in small batch roasted local elsewhere coffee, which isn't supporting the machine or some non-fair trade coffee farmer so I'd like to feel I'm helping out the small business owner even if not a local one (for the beans, but for the barista/the coffeeshop--those are local...tho I will drive quite a long Long way for good coffee!)<br />
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and also here of late there's Pecan Oil to try 'n replace Olive Oil, they say, but I don't see that blowing up all over the country & I love pecans & all things baked/cooked with pecans but Pecan over Olive Oil am not convinced of...<br />
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there is local cheese, is it just goat cheese am not sure--but to find it, well you have to look...once spotted it at Great Harvest, perhaps it's been at the Farmer's Markets & I've missed it, then one time at a test tasting at e's Kitchen I think it was--then never saw the lady again, was talk then of opening up a cheese shop downtown (now maybe with the Astra Market setting up downtown she may show up again...)<br />
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there are local 'jars' of I don't know what all--condiments? sides? appetizers? veggies? fruit/jams? pickled quail eggs? on & on of what they could be--all in jars...those I see all over, in stores/shops/farmer's markets, but do I want to try them? uhm...no, not really...except, there's got to be an exception--I'll try anything in jars from Bread & Circus, nothing has disappointed me there & I'd like to think I know the 2 behind this 'jar' food or 1 of them actually does cured meats of all sorts to boot (not in a jar) & so far, knock on wood (or a jar) they've been oh so very de-lish!<br />
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I admire local supported/local made - some foodie items are just best as original (say Cajun or Creole--if there's not a chef/food stuffs in the kitchen from Louisiana I have great doubts about how original that dish is coming out to the table) & I think these originals (esp if made in the USA) should be sold as such but still sold local so we can still support the local shops...<br />
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this is all starting to sound like when I found out after the French Fry ban that there are way Way more things made in France or owned by French companies than we'd like to think about in the good ole' local USA...if you dig far enough what is grown/made locally--do we want to know...<br />
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but I have to say they're trying really Really hard at the Farm to Table/Farm to Fork idea here--more power to them & the few restaurants/chefs that are trying really Really hard to keep up with this trend/good idea (a lot of people will have to be reminded of Seasonal Foods though along the way--we are So use to having what we want to eat whenever we like that we've forgotten how Mother Nature really works at different times of the year...)<br />
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<img src="http://www.gourmetfoodmall.com/merchants/Kinloc01/homeimage.jpg" /><br />
Pecan Oil from Kinloch Plantation Products<br />
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link to what Cajun food is or Cajun Cuisine (or per the World According to Wiki)...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_cuisine">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_cuisine</a><br />
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link to what Creole food is, as differs from Cajun food...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_cuisine">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_cuisine</a><br />
(mostly folks will just tell you there's more tomato/tomato sauce in these dishes)<br />
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8 - Water, No Ice (This is America)<br />
water is always a subject to ponder...but with or without ice I thought was only to worry about in foreign countries where the tap water was suspect, so that you had to drink bottled water...we'd like to think that here in our own country that we didn't have to worry about that--but lately after contaminated water in a nearby town/Parish I can see you'd go for not just bottled water but no ice as well...really as for me I like lukewarm/room temperature water--I think it's better for you (& as a kid I would eat ice cubes in Florida growing up & have a hard time 'not' crunching on them--which I think my teeth are not the better for...) so I would probably go with this water, no ice...tho I have heard at least one college age girl order this at a table next to me recently & wondered why did she order that? I didn't know it was a thing<br />
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<img height="200" src="http://www.lifefactory.com/media/cache/lifefactory_16oz_grassflip_lg_matte_870_1110_matte_290_370.jpg" width="156" /><br />
this is where I put my filtered water, no ice when I'm at home or in the car or at friends or anywheres really 'other' than taking it inside a restaurant or a coffeeshop...<br />
glass water bottle in sleeve by Life Factory...see more of these at their link... <a href="http://www.lifefactory.com/">http://www.lifefactory.com</a><br />
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9 - Have it Their Way<br />
because we have gotten use to a lot of choices...and...we all seem to have allergies or are watching what we eat for whatever diet/exercise program there is--I can't imagine a restaurant now a days 'not' taking a request for a revision to your order...I know that most restaurants will charge a split fee for halving an order & I've been told I'll have to pay the full price for a menu item that I've asked for something to be left off of it, which I've not argued about (at the time didn't think of it, I just wanted what I wanted to eat & not have to pick out the offensive item so that by the time I did everyone else at the table would be done eating) -perhaps they'll start a charge for mucking up their recipes as well in future...<br />
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link to article considering restaurants substitutions & paying more for them...<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-goldwyn/restaurant-menu-substitutions_b_1317023.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-goldwyn/restaurant-menu-substitutions_b_1317023.html</a><br />
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link to Restaurant Hospitality's spin on that same article...<br />
<a href="http://restaurant-hospitality.com/operational_tips/charge-for-substitutions-0711">http://restaurant-hospitality.com/operational_tips/charge-for-substitutions-0711</a><br />
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10 - Science "Food"<br />
at first I thought they were going to go off on GMO's & that kind of science made food...guess they mean more the equipment of science (but as of today I have never seen anyone try to laser my food at the table like flaming desserts kind of deal) I don't much like being a lab rat in a doctors office nor in a restaurant...it's like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain or a Dog & Pony Show is done to entertain/to cover up the bad/cheap food or in an attempt to be new or creative--that's not the way to do it I'm thinking & my taste buds too...did someone say you eat with your eyes before (then again I've not tried the restaurants in the dark and am not about to anytime soon...) also along with this I personally like food that I can eat easily--if I have to wait forever or make a huge effort at getting to my food to eat it or too have so many oddball ingredients or cooked oddly items on my plate...my tastebuds are confused & I'm not a happy satisfied (tummy/) customer, esp if just laid down a day to a week's pay for a meal...<br />
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link to New Scientist magazine & article on 'laser cookery'...<br />
<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628965.200-laser-cookery-makes-your-food-more-fun.html#.UkZPONLa_4Y">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628965.200-laser-cookery-makes-your-food-more-fun.html#.UkZPONLa_4Y</a><br />
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<img alt="No miracle <i>(Image: Kentaro Fukuchi)</i>" height="152" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg21628965.200/mg21628965.200-1_300.jpg" width="200" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">No miracle </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Image: Kentaro Fukuchi)</i></span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(yes that is a QR-Code...could you actually use your cell phone to look up anything with this--I don't know, but obviously somebody in Japan is trying)</span></i><br />
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I'm sorry all in all I want to taste good whole real food, that simple, thank you & good night<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-76647450788914968682013-08-20T00:40:00.000-05:002013-11-02T16:07:58.060-05:00Take a walk...in the shop...on the wild side...Talk a walk...<br />
in the shop...<br />
on the wild side...<br />
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but first Thai<br />
I don't know how they oragami'd that napkin like that<br />
and then there was Thai Coffee--so very sweet (when I thought nothing could be sweeter than sweet tea)<br />
the seafood treasure was a surprise, it wasn't mine but it was fun to see come out to the table<br />
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link to Nidda Thai Cuisine restaurant...<br />
<a href="http://www.niddathai.com/">http://www.niddathai.com/</a><br />
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note: Thai toasts & Nidda Salad were my fav (but then I love crispy tofu)<br />
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that flag, you can't tell, is so enormous--I can hear it flapping over the noise of the rain thru the hotel window<br />
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Blacksmith Coffee<br />
Lucky Cat collection (some with price tags still on...I wanted to ask if tiny yellow one was really for sale or they'd forgotten to take the tag off--but I didn't)<br />
wallpaper, loved the design, is that dated or is it new or is it new made to look old - black & white graphics pull me in (like babies with mobiles in black & white over their cribs...I am mesmerized...)<br />
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link to fb pg, don't find a webpg...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/blacksmithhouston">https://www.facebook.com/blacksmithhouston</a><br />
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Lucky Cat Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko</a><br />
note: read this you know in case you live under a rock 'n never saw one or heard of one before<br />
(talk about a sheltered life then...)<br />
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description from Fab.com fits these guys pretty darn well...<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">The epitome of </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16px;">creepy-cute</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">, these </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">Max</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> & </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">Moritz Salt and Pepper</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> Shakers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">were designed by Chris Collicot for Kikkerland...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">(I know I couldn't have them looking at me all day or night from the kitchen--so no, no way...)</span><br />
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Take a walk...in the shop...on the wild side...<br />
4 floors or creative energy, topped off by a top floor to wander thru the sale items<br />
strewn every which way, as it should be, like a bazaar or a souk--gawd I miss a good souk...sigh...<br />
but this will do, in a pinch...<br />
sense of touch & sight very happy in here, if only there were spices (like at the souks) then it would be grand<br />
btw I am in (lust) love with this warehouse of a store...I will return to wander & wander, another day away...<br />
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link to the store, there is as well (of course) a catalog...<br />
<a href="http://www.highfashionhome.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bing_Branded">http://www.highfashionhome.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bing_Branded</a><br />
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note: lots of fun to wander past a whole side of a room dedicated to being set up for photos<br />
all the set ups were marked 'not' to move anything for the photoshoot...<br />
but alas I musta missed it as there was already a man with a skateboard type cart already as if it were all done, wheeling chairs, etc's away...<br />
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2013 Summer Catalog<br />
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another link, another of their shops--but just for Fabrics...their High Fashion Fabrics shop, just across the side street from them...<br />
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another note: there is a whole other just Fabric Shop as well as the Home Shop...if I were a fabric/sewing person I would be in awe as well over there, just cross the side street, I'm sure...<br />
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for summer...the bbq--in fabric...oh why not<br />
it's kinda looking like a robot, alien, crown kind of image anyway to me<br />
if nothing else there is orange, red orange, orange going on all over it<br />
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ps: the horse photos were all for my sis, of the Rescue Ranch--got a dozen horses kind of gal...<br />
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this one a Vietnamese coffee<br />
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take a walk...outside a shop...on the wilder side...<br />
Party Boy...is not just interesting on the inside--be sure to walk the outside...<br />
then keep going into the next building where there is a warehouse of costumes<br />
for only $100 bucks can put together a Steampunk costume for 2 or 3 days<br />
that you can take from Houston back to say Lafayette then ship it back when you're done<br />
come November 9th, or before, with the Steampunk Festival & Maker's Fair going on in downtown Lafayette, LA<br />
I may just reconsider to drive back earlier to Houston to rent me a whole costume<br />
then take a million photos & I'm good--one day I may own such a thing, but until then renting is fine with me<br />
(well I did buy a brown felt top hat & a vest to start a costume with--it's a start...)<br />
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link to Party Boy...<br />
<a href="http://partyboytexas.com/">http://partyboytexas.com/</a><br />
(note: don't get excited, there is 'not' a link to the warehouse of costumes--so you can't see them all online, you have to go there...I need to go back, check it out like a library or a bookshop--see what I can put together...try a few, few too many, things on--then we'll see if I'll end up with my very own Steampunk costume or not, finally...hmm...one day...<br />
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a sneak peek inside...Party Boy's costume warehouse...<br />
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and I did find a top hat, brown, felt/fuzzy, nearly like this one...<br />
what could I do with it--well I went to look see...<br />
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I like this idea to start: brown/yellow feathers, some pin on lapel type mini gears, prob a clock or some watch gears, plus coppery eye goggles...(and me, I want to add some buttons somewheres--I envision a vest as well, covered in buttons...if not completely...but can I sew that many buttons, hmm...)<br />
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from a thumbnail photo, the webpage will not come up on Chrome<br />
also cannot search for the hat for halloween link below--I get an Opps<br />
took note that there was a box & a blank on my blog post so went to look for the photo<br />
I did not copy it into my picture file, so went back to find it by Google Search<br />
this may or may not have been the hat--but it's the idea<br />
add feathers, gears, watch parts or keys or etc plus goggles & voila--a Steampunk hat?!<br />
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thank you steampunk.com<br />
<a href="http://www.steampunk.com/find-your-perfect-steampunk-hat-for-halloween/#more-2153">http://www.steampunk.com/find-your-perfect-steampunk-hat-for-halloween/#more-2153</a><br />
note: tho it says for Halloween, works for Steampunk Festivals as well...<br />
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of course too there has to be an octupus, a kraken...<br />
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or--there is this octupus...whoa...I may have to look up all the different kinds of octupus...<br />
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<img alt="File:CirrothaumaMurDraw2.jpg" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/CirrothaumaMurDraw2.jpg/415px-CirrothaumaMurDraw2.jpg" width="221" /><br />
can you say bizarre-o<br />
oh my<br />
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from Wiki<br />
he's a--<i style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">Cirrothauma murrayi </i><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">(octupus)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">drawn sometime in 1910</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">if you believed in nightmares, aliens & such</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">(the Kraken is looking really lovely right about now...)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">enough--I will stop before I go to bed or I will have octupus filled nightmares for sure</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">like ear worm music, I must now go look at a lot of something else...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">oh wait--there was more shopping, there was more coffee...</span></span><br />
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NL aka No Label Beer<br />
the choices at Spec's<br />
I was sent to Oh just pick up a sixpack while you're in town...uh huh...<br />
so there are no less than 5 choices--I was told 'not' to choose the jalapeno pepper beer<br />
well that was the 1 choice they didn't have<br />
rest of the story--pale ale won out<br />
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somebody I know knows somebody who knows/is perhaps related to somebody at this crafty brewery<br />
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link to NL/No Label Beer...<br />
<a href="http://nolabelbrew.com/">http://nolabelbrew.com/</a><br />
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<i>"friends, sunshine, beer</i><br />
<i>no labels necessary"</i><br />
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that's their line, not mine...<br />
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link to Specs - wines, liquors store...<br />
<a href="http://www.specsonline.com/cgi-bin/showpage?pageid=main">http://www.specsonline.com/cgi-bin/showpage?pageid=main</a><br />
note: they're huge, they're in houston, they're in Texas, they're Texas-size<br />
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started with (iced) coffee...end with (not iced) coffee<br />
espresso--cortado, on the go<br />
plus a garden of 'Goofy' grafitti art, street art<br />
in the making or it's what you do with a broken pot<br />
the clean white chalky surface was too much for someone<br />
they had to draw, they had to draw 'Goofy'<br />
Oh really why not<br />
Cheers<br />
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link to Catalina Coffee...<br />
<a href="http://catalinacoffeeshop.com/">http://catalinacoffeeshop.com/</a><br />
there's prob already lots & lots, loads even, of coffee photos online<br />
so why not a pot of cactus with 'Goof' Grafitti<br />
(now I've nearly forgotten about creepy cute salt/pepper shakers or ancient octupus...nearly...)<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-19474157929064660152013-08-02T01:26:00.000-05:002013-08-04T17:41:45.906-05:00#OITNB Am Totally Obsessed Y'all & Withdrawing--so I will Blog About It#OITNB S1<br />
aka Orange is the New Black<br />
NetFlix TV Series - Season 1<br />
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In the beginning there were 13 Episodes<br />
now there are none<br />
we the followers await Season 2<br />
until then<br />
there are:<br />
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articles<br />
interviews<br />
youtube<br />
music - OK, a song<br />
photos of cast as they are in real life<br />
a book & a real author, a real Piper<br />
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in hopes that withdrawals won't continue too long<br />
the #OrangeWriters will have to put us out of our misery come Season 2<br />
thankfully there 'will' be a S2<br />
I am trying 'not' to be too pissed over the ending of S1<br />
But in S2 I'm guessing there will be 'new teeth' to start<br />
(I am not a Spoiler)<br />
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so even in lil ol' Lafayette, LA<br />
on Facebook<br />
a local comment: (in so many words) I watched #OITNB & I hate TV Series--they End<br />
I feel their frustration<br />
tho they claim they will not be watching S2<br />
uh huh, we'll see how that goes comes next year when it's back again on NetFlix TV<br />
(it's a hard habit to kick?!)<br />
on Twitter<br />
a local comment: #OITNB is not American Pie...<br />
I have never watched American Pie, other than a TV trailer<br />
I only knew the fiance looked familiar from some movie or another<br />
after that the only character/actor I recognized was - of course - Captain Janeway (StarTrek--duh)<br />
and Whoa--can she play Russian Red or What?!<br />
OK, so there is 1 more character/actor I know--That 70's Show, Girl Next Door<br />
again Whoa--can she play Drug/Lesbos Queen or What?!<br />
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before...Captain Janeway on Star Trek<br />
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<img height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8ONu72R9wnFySr73S-tssrgJxRE7G5zZZSKiqQGjbYT9_K7PuTQ" width="133" /><br />
after...Red on Orange is the New Black<br />
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before...That 70's Show - Girl Next Door<br />
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after...Alex - Orange is the New Black (you know what I said earlier)<br />
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This is not a review<br />
I will for my own satisfaction just list everything I am interested in/blown away by in this Netflix TV Series<br />
this after I was sooo disappointed in Netflix Movies, streaming or otherwise, that I was out picking up movies from RedBoxes all over town instead<br />
now I've been sucked back in<br />
this from someone who does not like TV, nor TV series<br />
(Alright except Downton Abbey/Christmas shows or the weather channel when I have to due to say hurricanes or tornadoes...and on Netflix, again,--Lilyhammer, mostly because I lived in Stavanger, Norway for years so I could relate to the Norwegian parts - and - it also made me giggle with my hand over my mouth, like I wasn't)<br />
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Links will begin here...<br />
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NetFlix TV - Orange is the New Black...<br />
<a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Orange_Is_the_New_Black/70242311?mqso=81003328">http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Orange_Is_the_New_Black/70242311?mqso=81003328</a><br />
(note: there are summaries here of each episode...to start off easing those withdrawals)<br />
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In Withdrawals where else to go...<br />
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Amazon.com to order the book:<br />
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1) the orginal...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-New-Black-Womens/dp/0385523394/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375412722&sr=8-1&keywords=orange+is+the+new+black">http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-New-Black-Womens/dp/0385523394/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375412722&sr=8-1&keywords=orange+is+the+new+black</a><br />
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or 2) the tie in TV Series edition (tho don't know why they call it the Movie Tie in--there's no movie...)<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Black-Movie-Tie--Edition/dp/0812986180/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375412722&sr=8-2&keywords=orange+is+the+new+black">http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Black-Movie-Tie--Edition/dp/0812986180/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375412722&sr=8-2&keywords=orange+is+the+new+black</a><br />
(note: this one won't be released until August 6, 2013...I couldn't wait, so I've ordered the Original above)<br />
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Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison by Piper Kerman<br />
Orange shoes on the cover (courtesy of Amazon.com)<br />
but on the Netflix version on TV there were blue shoes<br />
(note: first favorite line...Piper: Oh they're kinda like Toms Guard: Toms? then Piper explains Toms...that's about when I started giggling, with my hand over my mouth like I wasn't & knew too that I wouldn't miss any more lines right)<br />
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Wiki link--wait there's a Wikipedia already...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_Black">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_Black</a><br />
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Twitter<br />
@OITNB @OrangeWriters<br />
(or all the actors who have Twitter too--I have, not yet, gone that far...)<br />
Hashtags<br />
#OITNB #OrangeWriters<br />
or #AskOrange when they have that Tweet the Cast going on<br />
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Facebook<br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Netflix TV Series</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> www.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">facebook</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">.com/OITNB</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Piper Kerman Book</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> www.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">facebook</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">.com/</span><b id="yui_3_8_1_1_1375414541920_423" style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">orangeisthenewblack</b><br />
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<img src="http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000052097923-omdqcf-t300x300.jpg?5ffe3cd" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then there is the Series Song--You've Got Time by Regina Spektor on YouTube...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: #1e7d83; font-family: helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://youtu.be/w9_isl1jjHc</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Regina Spektor webpage...</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.reginaspektor.com/youvegottime">http://www.reginaspektor.com/youvegottime</a><br />
(note: where I find no Tour Dates for the USA...if I could be in the UK or Stockholm or Belgium or Krakow or Prague...sigh...but no I will not be there, so I have to wait--tho there is YouTube, for now)<br />
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Twitter - Regina Spektor...<br />
<b id="yui_3_8_1_1_1375415411932_410" style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">twitter</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">.com/re</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">spektor</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">OITNB Opening Credits with the song You've Got Time by Regina Spektor...</b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBITGyJynfA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBITGyJynfA</a><br />
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The Song...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i>You've Got Time</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i>Regina Spektor</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The animals, the animals</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The cage is full</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Stay awake</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">In the dark, count mistakes</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The light was off but now it's on</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Searching the ground for a bitter song</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The sun is out, the day is new</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And everyone is waiting, waiting on you</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And you've got time</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And you've got time</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Think of all the roads</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Think of all their crossings</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Taking steps is easy</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Standing still is hard</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Remember all their faces</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Remember all their voices</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Everything is different</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The second time around</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The animals, the animals</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The cage is full</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Stay awake</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">In the dark, count mistakes</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The light was off but now it's on</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Searching the ground for a bitter song</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">The sun is out, the day is new</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And everyone is waiting, waiting on you</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And you've got time</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And you've got time</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 13px;">And you've got time</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Then you find the article that makes it better--Orange is the New Black Withdrawal? 13 Things You Can Do...</span></span><br />
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/orange-black-withdrawal-13-things/story?id=19746831">http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/orange-black-withdrawal-13-things/story?id=19746831</a><br />
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(note: what I've done so far off the list...#2 Buy the Book, #3 Listen to the Song, Repeat, #11 follow on Twitter/Facebook, #1 Listen to the Real Piper Kerman TV Interview...she sounds a lot like the actress when she's being all serious or perhaps it's the other way around & the actress did a very good job at studying her character)<br />
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See them interviewed together on Hey You Guys Co. UK - Piper Kerman author/writer of the book & Taylor Shilling/Piper Kerman character on OITNB...<br />
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http://youtu.be/JCiliDcpuNI<br />
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Piper Kerman Interview on ABC News...<br />
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/piper-kerman-incarceration-does-not-lead-to-rehabilitation/">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/piper-kerman-incarceration-does-not-lead-to-rehabilitation/</a><br />
(note: hear about her book & not so oddly her work to further women prisoner's opportunities - WPA... <a href="http://www.wpaonline.org/">http://www.wpaonline.org/</a>)<br />
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<img height="154" src="http://www.wpaonline.org/images/2013/WPA%20cocktail%20party%20STD.jpg" width="200" /><br />
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WPA - Women Prisoner's Association...<br />
<a href="http://www.wpaonline.org/">http://www.wpaonline.org/</a><br />
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Piper Kerman's webpage...<br />
<a href="http://piperkerman.com/orange">http://piperkerman.com/orange</a><br />
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NYTimes Article - Prison Day 1 by Piper Kerman (written March 2010)...<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21lives-t.html?sudsredirect=true&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21lives-t.html?sudsredirect=true&_r=0</a><br />
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The Pipe Bomb - Piper Kerman's - FAQ Blog - starting Feb 1, 2004 & writing in the 3rd person...<br />
<a href="http://thepipebomb.com/archives/000244.php">http://thepipebomb.com/archives/000244.php</a><br />
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IMDB - Orange is the New Black...here you can look up all the actors & what movies/TV they did before, or even if none at all (lucky b*tches for this to be their First Acting Gig huh?!)<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372162/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372162/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">IMDB - about the Writer/Producer/Actress: Jenji Kohan...</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463176/?ref_=tt_ov_wr">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463176/?ref_=tt_ov_wr</a><br />
(note: I did not watch Weeds...I have a feeling I should have, maybe I still will--while I'm waiting/withdrawing from Orange is the New Black...but then I don't watch TV/TV Series...there's something like a hundred of them too...sigh...so many--will they last until S2 of OITNB)<br />
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Splitsider Nov 2011 - Jenji Kohan...<br />
<a href="http://splitsider.com/2011/11/trade-roundup-pilots-from-weeds-happy-endings-and-everybody-loves-raymond-producers-affion-crockett-canceled/">http://splitsider.com/2011/11/trade-roundup-pilots-from-weeds-happy-endings-and-everybody-loves-raymond-producers-affion-crockett-canceled/</a><br />
(note: she's wearing my Jewish neighbor friend's glasses from when I was in Elementary School...and nevermind the rainbow hat...she could be off color Crazy Eyes on Orange is the New Black, until she lets her hair loose...I like this photo of her, before Weeds, before OITNB)<br />
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Then there is this Transgender, Sophia--which come to find out, is, & the pre-transgender parts were played by 'her' twin brother (who is not an actor) in the backstory episode...<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/orange-is-the-new-black-laverne-cox_n_3660712.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/orange-is-the-new-black-laverne-cox_n_3660712.html</a><br />
(note: who could make this stuff up, is truth stranger than fiction? I keep finding it so...also I like her character a lot, I like a lot of the characters a lot--I can't wait to read the book to find out more about the characters, their backstories, if they match anything to the parts being played on the Netflix TV Series...then to top that all off--Jodie Foster directed this episode, or so the Huffington Post article says so)<br />
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An Excerpt from the Interview on HitFix (about Jodie Foster coming in for an episode)...<br />
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<i><strong>Jenji Kohan: </strong>Truthfully, Jodie got a project at Showtime and realized that she'd never done television before and, to her credit, wanted to say, "Lemme try this to see how this goes before I go do my own thing." And when Jodie Foster says, "I wanna do this," you say, "Yes." So she came to us and I think we were sort of her dry-run for when she does her television thing.</i></div>
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<strong><em>HitFix: </em></strong><em>And based on what you saw, how do you think she'll do?</em></div>
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<i><strong>Jenji Kohan: </strong>Look, I think she's super-smart and really good. Movie directing is different from TV directing and I think some things were like a culture shock for her because, in way, you know the director's not the king in TV. It's more collaborative with the writers than she's used to. I hope she has a lot of power on her show [She laughs] so she can really do it all her way. That said? She was incredibly collaborative and really game and came in saying, "I haven't done this before. It's a learning curve." She was just delightful and she's really, really smart and really talented. And fast!]</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />Read more at <a href="http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/interview-orange-is-the-new-black-creator-jenji-kohan-talks-prison-netflix-and-jodie-foster#RarHxd70Lo1Z34Jj.99" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/interview-orange-is-the-new-black-creator-jenji-kohan-talks-prison-netflix-and-jodie-foster#RarHxd70Lo1Z34Jj.99</a> </span><br />
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OK--have obsessed, withdrew enough, about #OITNB or at least on a Blog...cheers 'n prison cheesecake until S2, next year?? - now to go find out how to make Cronuts that all the #OrangeWriters are eating in NYC...sigh...since they don't seem to sell them elsewhere--how unfair is that?! I do love them all tho, as long as they keep writing this series--no matter what they're eating, if that's what it takes then by all means...<br />
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Further Note--as far as I can tell there is no connection what so ever to Louisiana or Lafayette...but when I do find one I will mention it...for now there's only that I am in Lafayette & I am watching this & will be watching this (but then there's who's to say where I'll be for S2...not wearing Orange is about all I know for sure right now?!)<br />
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eee...my book arrived a day early--thank you Amazon.com...<br />
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"Now A NetFlix Original Series" (just saying, just so ya's know, uh huh...)<br />
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note: so now tonight I 'know' what I'll be doing (into the wee hours)<br />
has nothing to do with screwdrivers either btw, hmm... ;oP<br />
bah--I'll be reading 295 pgs plus some after words...<br />
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More interviews--this time from a writer on Orange, she/Lauren Morelli calls it that--Orange...<br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2013/07/23/orange-is-the-new-black-writer/">http://mashable.com/2013/07/23/orange-is-the-new-black-writer/</a><br />
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Article Title...My First Writing Job: 'Orange is the New Black'<br />
(I can hardly imagine--it makes me want to swear, but nicely...)<br />
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noted: 5 women, 2 men write for Orange she states...and I count something like 53 women, 20 men on the cast list of Orange off of IMDb's webpage<br />
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A Guide to the Cast of Orange is the New Black...<br />
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/a-guide-to-the-cast-of-orange-is-the-new-black">http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/a-guide-to-the-cast-of-orange-is-the-new-black</a><br />
note: I like seeing the what they look like on the show photos next to the what they look like off the show/in real life photos...at least for a lot of the main characters, that we see on S1<br />
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<img alt="gingerhaze:
Remember all their faces
Remember all their voices
Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard.
Guys I’m so excited about Orange is the New Black right now
The cool thing about this show is that my favorite character is everyone." height="111" src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/02a12fa58d3e662156de29e875f7b897/tumblr_mqh2k7txuV1qeqx7ko1_1280.png" width="200" /><br />
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from Ginger Haze on TooMuchNick...<br />
"...my favorite character is everyone"<br />
(that's what I think!)<br />
I like her character drawings too<br />
and that's just 12 of them<br />
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Rocky Mountain High Colorado trip again<br />
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(note: it wants you to log onto Word Press...I didn't do that, you shouldn't have to do that--they must be working on their webpage...go back, look again--later...)<br />
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to the right, to the middle, to the left, to the sky...</div>
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Day of Ft Collins done</div>
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we'd talked about going, our niece went to college there, we'd never been, we thought we should at least once...as there's continual talk of where we might buy property, if ever, now we know for sure only that it will not be beside a national park or a forest (as in CO of late, or last year & now again this year, they're tending to burn down?!)</div>
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but so much more could have done in town, but only had hours with a drive back to Fountain & the weather/clouds not looking too FAB either--like there is a Univ there for one thing & even a regular downtown, but we only had time for old downtown...</div>
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earlier even drove thru the town park, see a kid's water park in the middle of it</div>
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wonder why the kids/grands/cousins/their kids went to Denver for that</div>
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when there's a water park up here in the mtns (but maybe Pirates Cove was better)</div>
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link to Visit Ft Collins...</div>
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link to official city webpage...</div>
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link to Artists Transforming Electric Boxes...</div>
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(note: see above, where I spotted the pink bubble painted one in old town square)</div>
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link to Art in Public Places: City of Ft. Collins...</div>
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or more about those painted pianos, which I took a photo again of one in old town square...</div>
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see above where I took a photo of one, but there were 2 more we saw in the streets--plus a store front which you could see inside the windows, lined up with painted pianos (am guessing they'll be next to take a turn in the streets)</div>
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Drove thru Erie, CO after Ft. Collins, CO on the way back down to Fountain, CO because niece from CO now in CA said it was worth checking out for property...we saw sad old downtown street, if that, then some new subdivision looking area & poof outta town & well not impressed...so far as we can tell will 'not' be buying investment property up there (besides I am not the Mountain Momma, will prob never be, so Give Me The Beach...a cottage at/on/near/with a view of the beach & I'll be good to go?!) If folks want to commute out to Boulder or Denver--well then let them have at it...we couldn't hardly believe the traffic in the summertime during the hours we were on the highway from Denver to Ft. Collins (wouldn't want to do that everyday of the week)</div>
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Feed the Giraffes...lettuce at the hour we were there</div>
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link to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo webpage...</div>
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link to Rock the Zoo...it's a fab fun family way to donate to the zoo...</div>
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2 miles</div>
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I read 1 mile on the sign & thought it was for both the up & down</div>
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so really now I can brag I did 2 miles in the Rocky Mountain High</div>
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as we'd come from like below sea level only days before I thought I couldn't do it but I did - yay!</div>
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we did also see a deer, a big one, I was surprised</div>
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by the time we realized it was a deer & maybe someone should take a photo of it, poof it was gone?!</div>
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then of course we didn't see another</div>
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not a deer but a butterfly, that posed, am not sure that made up for it but it was something</div>
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dog legged tree roots</div>
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lightning struck/streaked tree trunk</div>
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Morning Call<br />
Cafe au lait<br />
River Boat Night Cruise<br />
Creole Queen<br />
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Louisiana Bistro - Feed Me!<br />
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first time...at any of his restaurant's<br />
scallops<br />
melt in your mouth<br />
skipped the BAM...it was on the toast points with fire red chilis<br />
after dinner coffee--not the $12 cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain<br />
James Richards...Who?? (he's on the cup/saucer)<br />
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walking down Loyola to Canal for the street car<br />
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Street Car Canal named City Park<br />
teased elsewhere...sigh--not Desire<br />
there are 3 Street Cars that go to different places coming down Canal<br />
I did not know this, but luckily got on the right one & with 5 quarters in my hand<br />
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City Park soon after<br />
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Lily Pond<br />
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Cafe NOMA<br />
Art Magazine<br />
Cabinet Curiosities article<br />
look it's a Banksy, I knew it<br />
called--wait for it...IKEA (see the box)<br />
as I love streetart/grafitti on or off the walls of the streets<br />
from the French Market vendor I have heard there are/were Banksy's walls in NOLA<br />
or maybe in the French Quarter--he had photos of them on tiles, but I've never been lucky enough to find one...sigh...one day...or I'll just fondly look at my two tiles I bought of Banksy pieces that may or may not be painted over by now...there is a push for Grafitti Cleanup--when I think they should just go for the tags or maybe overlapping stickers/paste, after that the 'art' walls should stay...there should be a group for that huh?!<br />
OK--back to cafe, coffee, my cappuccino was a CC's - didn't have a Cafe au lait here<br />
(later at Morning Call--where I'll find they have an iced Cafe au lait?!)<br />
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inside NOMA<br />
maybe the top floor<br />
don't recall see no photos<br />
or it's no photos with flash<br />
here a Kochina Doll (sp?)<br />
the mischvious one<br />
American Indian peoples<br />
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what a fun hat, mask, costume<br />
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didn't find a plaque for this at the entrance/exit doors<br />
definitely a period piece, that prob weighs in a ton<br />
kinda wished I were Mary Poppins...<br />
to put that lamp straight away into my carpet bag<br />
only to float away with it all at the end<br />
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the Sculpture Garden of City Park<br />
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word man in contemplation<br />
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run men run<br />
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there's a giant spider in the park<br />
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her spider is dancing in the park<br />
I've seen another, larger of hers<br />
maybe not so much dancing<br />
in London outside the...<br />
I think Contemporary Art Museum along the river<br />
Wait--it's the Tate Modern Museum...<br />
(and to think I don't like real spiders one bit?!)<br />
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link to Louise Bourgeois Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois</a><br />
note: her first largest spider she named Maman...Yes, after her Mother...<br />
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all you need is Love<br />
I've seen this image before<br />
even framed on a wall<br />
but may be the first sculpture size one I've seen<br />
thru the L & the O there is more art beyond<br />
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link to Robert Indiana Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Indiana">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Indiana</a><br />
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link to Robert Indiana Love Sculpture Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVE_(sculpture)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVE_(sculpture)</a><br />
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Monkeys<br />
but is it just that...no...<br />
you have to, really I'm not kidding, have to walk all around this sculpture<br />
or you'll miss not just more arms, but the faces<br />
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this may be the most bizarro, fascinating, captivating, shiny art, park thing<br />
that I've even seen, it was mesmerizing, it was beautiful & awful at the same time<br />
I had to step away<br />
if anyone every puts something like this into motion<br />
Oh my...nightmares will abound...<br />
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link to Rona Pondick Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Pondick">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Pondick</a><br />
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link to NOMA - click on recording at the top for a description about the Monkey piece by Rona Pondick...<br />
<a href="http://noma.org/collection/detail/120/Monkeys">http://noma.org/collection/detail/120/Monkeys</a><br />
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walked outside the Sculpture Park<br />
went in search of Morning Call<br />
went the wrong way, as I do<br />
passed the stadium<br />
behind the wall...I heard...<br />
a Cock a doodle do<br />
I turned around the end wall to the wire fence<br />
and there he was...crowing & pecking<br />
I didn't see any hen friends<br />
they are great for bug control<br />
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skipped the Botanical Gardens<br />
because I really/Really needed an iced coffee<br />
not to worry there is greenery elsewhere<br />
I also passed a stone bridge or too<br />
but didn't stop to photo them as I had a mission<br />
to find Morning Call Coffee<br />
despite my phone's navigation<br />
I even ignored the pretty colorful fancy car up on the trailer in the parking lot<br />
that will come into closer view later & elsewhere in the park<br />
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but first an iced Cafe au Lait<br />
this place so said is Open 24 hrs<br />
they also have Beignets<br />
I didn't need a puffy powdered sugar donut square<br />
I needed a Coffee & like an hour ago<br />
No, I sucked that puppy down without one photo<br />
I'd never tried an iced one, always hot with beignets on the side--maybe, at least once or twice<br />
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link to Morning Call Coffee Stand...<br />
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an oak tree with a history<br />
somewheres else in the park, City Park<br />
on the map<br />
there is a Suicide Oak<br />
skipped that this trip in<br />
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then came the rumble of an odd engine<br />
what I thought was an old car<br />
it wasn't reved up to make me think it was a race car engine<br />
it passed<br />
saw the flowery sides<br />
knew it was from the same artist as was in the NOMA<br />
it circled around<br />
stopped in front of the NOMA<br />
people, cameras popped up like popcorn, all over the front steps, circle of the NOMA<br />
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I took my iced coffee over sat a spell on the steps<br />
took two pics<br />
could of take hundreds<br />
at least one photographer was<br />
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fav passer by with a camera was old guy on a bike that I think had gone fishing<br />
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guy cleaning the car wore a Lambo...GoneWild T-shirt<br />
so far I have found nothing searching on line for that<br />
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the serious art car would be on display for the gallery opening<br />
of Rashaad Newsome - King of Arms exhibit is hung in the NOMA<br />
was told there was a video, missed that walking around the floors of the NOMA<br />
but how lucky to catch the art car parked out front<br />
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his art is Bling combined with Heraldry or so says the local newspaper<br />
the Bling part you can deff get<br />
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apparently from overheard conversation<br />
they have driven the car from New York<br />
I think I've read that's where the artist is now<br />
but he's from NOLA (or at some point in time)<br />
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link to Rashaad Newsome webpage...<br />
<a href="http://rashaadnewsome.com/#work/performance/shade-compositions-sfmoma-2012">http://rashaadnewsome.com/#work/performance/shade-compositions-sfmoma-2012</a><br />
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link to Rashaad Newsome - King of Arms - under Collage/Sculpture<br />
<a href="http://rashaadnewsome.com/#work/collage-sculpture/king-of-arms-2013">http://rashaadnewsome.com/#work/collage-sculpture/king-of-arms-2013</a><br />
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note: for s & g have a watch/listen to one of his performance pieces...<br />
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link to LambosGoneWild FB page...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/LambosGoneWild/500295213338059">https://www.facebook.com/pages/LambosGoneWild/500295213338059</a><br />
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note: where you'll see the trailer pulled up to NOMA with Rashaad Newsome's art car strapped down still on it...later it will be taken off the trailer & driven out front of City Park/the MOMA to part where the trailer was & then begins all the photographs in earnest...<br />
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leaving City Park<br />
Street Car named City Park<br />
it's the end of the line<br />
it turns around here<br />
the view from the seats back toward the statue in front of the park<br />
the electric box has been painted with the front & back views<br />
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along the way pass the newly opened Joy Theater<br />
another time will catch a play here<br />
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the street car benches along Canal are covered<br />
also with art<br />
here the artist has taken the Street Car named Desire<br />
and a classic French Quarter lamp post along with a colorful garden home maybe<br />
as the inspiration/backdrop to their glass shell canvas<br />
my photo was taken from the streetcar so I couldn't find the artist's name<br />
it's a series, there are a line of them on either side of Canal Street<br />
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link to City Park New Orleans/NOLA...<br />
<a href="http://www.neworleanscitypark.com/">http://www.neworleanscitypark.com/</a><br />
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note: where the NOMA is & the Sculpture Park<br />
& the Bontanical Gardens & the NOMA Cafe<br />
& Morning Call...<br />
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Aw...I see I missed the Zombie Run?!<br />
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link to NOMA - New Orleans Museum of Art...<br />
<a href="http://noma.org/">http://noma.org/</a><br />
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also where the NOMA Cafe is<br />
had a lovely cappuccino, no matter it was CC's coffee<br />
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Louisiana Bistro - French Quarter - NOLA<br />
Feed Me! menu<br />
which I would call the Chef's Choice<br />
we were brave, we hadn't a clue<br />
but after the surprise chef's dinner at e's kitchen back in Lafayette<br />
knowing there's a good chef in the kitchen then you have to 'trust' them<br />
and we did<br />
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each course, we went with three rather than five or more,<br />
the chef - Chef Mars - comes out to tell you what you're eating<br />
so there were frog legs, then tiny quail, then a beef short rib<br />
all of which had a lot more than that going on - touch of creole spice<br />
as I was worried about the spicy part, so was not told not Cajun spice (or Cayenne pepper)<br />
at the end there was coffee (but no espresso)<br />
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link to Louisiana Bistro, French Quarter, New Orleans...<br />
<a href="http://louisianabistro.net/">http://louisianabistro.net/</a><br />
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note: it is a Bistro, so size wise it's small...read 40 seats, but your tables aren't touching... and we made reservations, then showed up early & they kindly let us in...<br />
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WWII Museum<br />
no longer the D-Day Museum<br />
tho there is a film about D-Day with Tom Hanks narrating at the beginning<br />
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there are 4 bldgs, now with another at least to come<br />
this the Boeing bldg houses the planes<br />
later we'll return to watch the Final Mission - the Tang (sub) experience<br />
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next WWII Museum bldg is for reconstruction projects<br />
and by Tour only<br />
so here they're reconstructing a PT Boat<br />
it will return to the water<br />
for a time you'll be able to ride on it<br />
then it will be put to work again & no more tour/free rides<br />
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as it's Sunday when we're there we don't have to wear hardhats<br />
and the guys/gals aren't there working on it<br />
but our tour guide guy is one of those guys so he can tell us what's what<br />
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then we're allowed to go up top for some quick snaps<br />
to see the all wood work everywhere & all the copper screws/bolts is amazing just that<br />
(even for me who could care about a boat for one or a PT Boat for another)<br />
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I like they're having fun too<br />
they're recreating history<br />
telling old war stories for sure<br />
may watch one of those old war movies with PT Boats in them with a little more respect<br />
McHale's Navy for one--which we were told at least one old guy thought they'd pretty much nailed it how it was back then on those PT Boats...haha...<br />
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model of what the original PT 109 would of looked like<br />
tho they used a lot of plans to reconstruct this one in the bldg, we'll see what it looks like at the end<br />
also it's 'all' wood, really, all that grey painted stuff uptop--it's all wood, the part the captain/crew look out from, the round gun holes--all wood...<br />
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The Final Mission - The Tang (Sub) Experience<br />
an interactive kind of experience<br />
I was one of the guys stationed on the radar<br />
we had to live up the position knobs over the blip & then hit the red lock button<br />
we were given cards at the beginning of our sailor on the crew<br />
at the end we went to the board to find out who survived<br />
my guy lived!!<br />
(I've done this one other time for the Titanic Exhibit & my girl lived on there too?!)<br />
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their Victory Garden<br />
just like back in the day<br />
on the HomeFront<br />
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inside the building where the Soda Shop is, on the other side,<br />
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here the pigeon trailer<br />
obviously they used pigeons to relay messages<br />
and an amphibious vehicle (that looks like I took it from underwater)<br />
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Link to National World War II Museum...<br />
<a href="http://www.nationalww2museum.org/">http://www.nationalww2museum.org/</a><br />
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link to more about the PT Boat reconstruction at the Restoration Pavilion of the Nat'l WWII Museum...<br />
<a href="http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/05/national_world_war_ii_museums.html">http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/05/national_world_war_ii_museums.html</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"Built at Higgins Shipyards’ City Park plant, the boat known as PT 305..."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">so it seems the PT Boat has some local connection/history</span><br />
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walking the streets, my fav thing to do--discover grafitti<br />
Hecho in New Orleans on a deserted bldg wall with a hashtag no less, #Hecho<br />
Blue Dog Splat...LoL... (on the sidewalk, even better)<br />
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Creole Queen<br />
Mississippi<br />
New Orleans<br />
Leaving from Riverwalk/Boardwalk<br />
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Super Moon<br />
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went to the bridge in one direction, then turned around<br />
trying out my new cell phone camera, low light, forgot the motion bit--lots left to learn<br />
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my first PaddleBoat Riverboat Cruise<br />
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stop at Red Velvet Coffee--finally<br />
their 2nd location, prev known as Mabel's<br />
machiato, sparkling water<br />
poppy seed--is it a scone<br />
both so del-ish<br />
at the bottom of my cup--a tiny star<br />
yes that's a prayer flag--I'd like to think it's from when the Dali Lama came to town<br />
(I missed all that visit, including the sand mandala's being made/then swept up & let loose in the river...)<br />
on the wall, painted art--this piece is from my fav doc movie of Louisiana:<br />
Beasts of the Southern Wild<br />
what's curious is when I wrote down the artist's name I didn't realize it's the name of the actor in the movie, who played the Dad, who also runs a bakery in NOLA...did he paint it? now I'm curious--one day I'll make it to the bakery or back to Red Velvet Coffee to ask/find out?!<br />
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Red Velvet, Velvet to Geaux, Throw a Cupcake...all related...2 locations, prev also a popup trailer...<br />
<a href="http://www.throwacupcake.com/throwacupcake/throwacupcake.com.html">http://www.throwacupcake.com/throwacupcake/throwacupcake.com.html</a><br />
note: am happy that finally I at least found 1 location, Tamara wasn't there but will tell her saw her in The Lab in Lafayette & even before that had heard of her coffee shop/trailer & wanted to find her...now I have...I will be back...I will search out the other location & dig for what happened to the popup trailer as well...always a mystery--coffee, coffeeshops, coffee folks, baristas, farms/farmers, on & on...but I love it?!<br />
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The end of w/e in NOLA, until next trip to the Crescent City, the Big Easy, NOLA, Nawlin's, New Orleans...or whatever else you care to call it...until we meet again?! :o))<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-88242986457833264222013-06-08T17:35:00.004-05:002013-06-09T00:52:25.513-05:00The Orange House is not all an orange show & not all orange either<span style="color: orange;"><b>Orange House is not all an orange show & not all orange</b></span><br />
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from previous post<br />
only not next door "green" Smither Park<br />
it's Orange House/Orange Show/The Orange Show...<br />
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on with the show<br />
the orange show<br />
sometimes too there really is a show<br />
but a concert maybe<br />
instead of what was imagined when the postman lived here<br />
one idea for a show<br />
in the center ring filled with water<br />
would be something like a squirrel water skiing<br />
which he'd seen before<br />
and I actually vaguely recall seeing a photo of such a thing<br />
the kid's I'm sure woulda loved it<br />
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link to Twiggy's Wiki--the (not necessarily one & only) water skiing squirrel...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy_the_Water-Skiing_Squirrel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy_the_Water-Skiing_Squirrel</a><br />
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link to Twiggy's webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.twiggyskis.com/">http://www.twiggyskis.com/</a><br />
(Twiggy was touring in 2010, but don't see anything after that date...)<br />
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not just carnival/circus parts<br />
to the Orange Show/House/Monument<br />
but there is love, there are (a lot of) hearts<br />
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so of course the Lone Star flag would be flying<br />
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down below the view of the ring<br />
where the skiing squirrel would have maybe performed<br />
if the ring were full of water<br />
now it's a ring for concerts, an orchestra I'm told has been here<br />
some players down below<br />
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the metal blue birds have been repainted<br />
as are a lot of other metal parts or walls or who knows what all objects<br />
while I was there a Community Service bunch was working<br />
cleaning/sweeping the house, the show, the monument...<br />
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if I could find it I would use it<br />
reminds me of fallen leaves<br />
or stones in a shallow pool<br />
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around a corner going to The Side Show<br />
there is a statue/fountain<br />
that reminds me of the Morton Salt Girl with her famous umbrella<br />
(do y'all remember those adverts?)<br />
only this one has a little dog underneath her feet<br />
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link to the history of the Morton Salt Umbrella Girl...<br />
<a href="http://www.mortonsalt.com/our-history/history-of-the-umbrella-girl">http://www.mortonsalt.com/our-history/history-of-the-umbrella-girl</a><br />
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the man behind it all<br />
Jefferson Davis McKissack<br />
aka the postman from up north<br />
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link to Jefferson Davis McKissack Bio - Texas State Historical Association...<br />
<a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmcdb">http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmcdb</a><br />
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some of the mosaics<br />
the words, the orange words<br />
"Go Orange, Be Strong"<br />
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local wild life comes for a visit<br />
the green chameleon/lizard<br />
no flash of his orange throat<br />
which of course would be appropo for The Orange Show<br />
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thru the wagon wheel, of many<br />
boulders, rocks around the 'pond' below<br />
metal blue birds fly above<br />
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"Birds of a Feather, Flock Together - Aesop"<br />
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mosaic prosaic looking toward the pond<br />
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stone lions guard the gates<br />
"Love Me Orange"<br />
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there is a heart in the 'o' of the word love as well<br />
you feel the love in the whole of the place<br />
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mosaic prosaic with a cement owl on top<br />
"A Wise Old Owl, Sat in a tree, The more he saw, The less he said, The less he said, The more he heard, Why can't we be like the Wise Old Owl"<br />
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hearts abound, as wishes may well have<br />
no water in the well, no bucket above it - but maybe in the past there were both<br />
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pan the piper<br />
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rowed by hearts of every color<br />
a rainbow of love<br />
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"Be Smart..."<br />
Be Smart Be Orange...really am not sure what was next, as I didn't take a photo of the rest<br />
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looking out one of the wheel gates to the front yard<br />
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"Time for Orange"<br />
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Conficious Say...(did he spell that right? Opps--No, it's suppose to be "Confucius")<br />
"If you do not want to be criticized, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing"<br />
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note: later I will read, though he's educated/degreed he is not a good speller - the brochure mentions him being a 'creative speller' I believe, which leaves the window open for parents/teachers to tell their kids/students--no that's not how you spell that word<br />
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the Oasis<br />
which now has a water fountain in the back<br />
but I've read he had planned to have orange juice in there instead<br />
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clown face of found parts near the exit<br />
as much a part of a circus as the orange/white canopy above<br />
which I don't mind as much as the ones that are live, in costume<br />
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a bucking bronco by a cactus, tho could be a Texas cowboy<br />
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it does spin 'round<br />
so creatively simple<br />
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note: I did miss photographs in the only interior part of the Orange Show<br />
it's got A/C in there so a nice respite, if not an Oasis in itself only of cold air rather than cold orange juice (or now a days cold water--I was given a cold water bottle to walk around with though...)<br />
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inside the inside museum part of the orange show/museum are listed: Santa's Son, Woodman, Blacksmith, Scarecrow, Indian, Clown, Deer heads, Chandeliers, Orange Trees, Frog/Churn, Bride...or from what I gather of the Annotated Tour Visitor's Guide Brochure (printed on orange paper, for a Dollar)<br />
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looking across the street from where the artist's house once stood<br />
now the admin bldg for the organization<br />
that runs not only The Orange Show, but the Beer Can House<br />
and the Art Car Parade - am not sure if they all keep up with Smither Park too<br />
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the Art Car Parade flame<br />
close up of possibly all the up to this date art cars, but I doubt it & there will be more<br />
this year was their 26th year for the Art Car Parade<br />
flame on Art Car Parade!<br />
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link to The Orange Show, The Orange House, The Orange Monument...<br />
<a href="http://orangeshow.org/">http://orangeshow.org/</a><br />
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note: where you'll also find Smither Park & the Art Car Parade<br />
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link to Facebook - The Orange Show...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/theorangeshow">https://www.facebook.com/theorangeshow</a><br />
link to Twitter - Orange Show...<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/orangeshow">https://twitter.com/orangeshow</a><br />
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link to National Center for Preservation Technology & Training...a video and speakers in 2012 in Louisiana regarding the conservation of Jefferson Davis McKissacks Orange Show - cleverly entitled The Greatest Show on Earth, tho not Barnum & Bailey's Circus but The Orange Show...<br />
<a href="http://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/the-greatest-show-on-earth-the-history-and-conservation-of-jefferson-davis-mckissacks-orange-show/">http://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/the-greatest-show-on-earth-the-history-and-conservation-of-jefferson-davis-mckissacks-orange-show/</a><br />
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note: the video lasts 40:26 min's - thought at first Wow I'll learn a lot, but then the sound when she starts speaking is so awful/ting-y am not sure can listen to it all...<br />
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link to The Orange Show Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_McKissack">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_McKissack</a><br />
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note: it is on the National Register of Historic Place as of 2005...<br />
link to other articles under the National Register/National Parks when you search for The Orange Show--it goes back to the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training...<br />
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<a href="http://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/the-orange-show-center-for-visionary-art/">http://ncptt.nps.gov/blog/the-orange-show-center-for-visionary-art/</a><br />
video runs 16:08 min's<br />
part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art...<br />
(note: I may have said Outside Folk Art earlier, thinking Outside as in Outdoors rather than Outsider as in not an Insider/not a Fine Artist then...)<br />
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link to what is hopefully the slide of the Museum Interior, so you can see the woodman sign & model next to the deer head with the ping pong ball eyeball & tied on with a string antlers...<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nKm6sIutsMA#t=404s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nKm6sIutsMA#t=404s</a><br />
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link to YouTubes...<br />
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What is the Orange Show? by Fresh Arts Houston...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/h538GgHNR-Y">http://youtu.be/h538GgHNR-Y</a><br />
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Mother Falcon live @ orange show Houston 3/23/13...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/TnFeCPDsVD4">http://youtu.be/TnFeCPDsVD4</a><br />
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Driven by Vision - Don't Mess with Texas...<br />
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And here Jeff McKissack speaks on these videos - recordings done in 1978/1979...<br />
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<em>"What is the strange "folk art" experience in Houston, Texas, known as the "Orange Show?" The one person who knew was its creator--the elusive "creative artistic building genius"--Jeff D. McKissack, who died in 1980. This is a five part documentary of his thoughts and inspiration."</em><br />
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Jeff's Tour of the Orange Show - Part 1...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/mDZRlI1dyfk">http://youtu.be/mDZRlI1dyfk</a><br />
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Jeff's Tour of the Orange Show - Part 2...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/T4cI1O0rmTI">http://youtu.be/T4cI1O0rmTI</a><br />
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Jeff's Tour of the Orange Show - Part 3...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/UCsAzUjzitQ">http://youtu.be/UCsAzUjzitQ</a><br />
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Jeff's Tour of the Orange Show - Part 4...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/eesMSiWQVjI">http://youtu.be/eesMSiWQVjI</a><br />
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Jeff's Tour of the Orange Show - Part 5...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/hrokmMyOgdc">http://youtu.be/hrokmMyOgdc</a><br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-17291452079907846502013-06-02T23:21:00.002-05:002013-06-08T15:54:26.439-05:00An Orange is Orange is an Orange Show - Smither Park<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>An Orange is Orange is an Orange Show -</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Smither Park where green is Green</b></span><br />
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stumbled into Smither Park first off<br />
after waiting for The Orange Show/House to open up for the day<br />
am totally mesmerized by the walls, the art walls, all of them, every bit of them, done or undone<br />
sucked in, find myself taking a lot of photos<br />
see seashells all over & think I should donate 'all' my shells, the whole collection, to this project<br />
I've lived in Florida & visited a lot of beaches, I have a lot of seashells<br />
signed the guest book, left my e-mail, asked if they wanted any more shells, have bunches<br />
I don't live in Houston, TX right now - but did - so can't just show up any/every Saturday while they're said to be working on these walls, have to do what I can long distance or when I visit town<br />
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I have forever been in love with Art Cars, but have never made it to 'the' Art Car Parade<br />
again this year I missed it by days<br />
there are no Art Cars here at The Orange Show, nor at Smither Park<br />
but they organize the thing<br />
am told they have been donated 2 ambulances, so they'll be decorated at some point & we'll see those in an upcoming Art Car Parade<br />
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for a short time I owned a Honda Element, green one<br />
which I covered the whole back end in magnets<br />
I'd take stickers or postcards or whatever & stick them on magnet sheets that I stuck on the metal of the rear end of the Element<br />
until one day, we had to wash it to give it away & it all had to be taken off<br />
thankfully there are photos<br />
even a tourist at the bread/coffee shop at the time was found taking photos of it<br />
(so who's to say who else may have snapped a quick pic while it was parked somewheres?!)<br />
one day I will own another old/used car that I can again cover the rear end & perhaps the whole thing in magnets (or glue/weld who knows what objects upon it's whole exterior...interior...who's to say)<br />
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grew up in Florida so I know a lot about Oranges<br />
am ever curious, as to how this man became obsessed with Oranges<br />
tho I was happy to see he did not paint everything Orange<br />
nor did he cover the place in fake Oranges either<br />
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the man who created this Orange House, this The Orange Show<br />
was not a Southern man, but he ended up in Texas<br />
and at some point fell in love with Oranges<br />
and I'd say Folk Art, but am sure he didn't think of it as that<br />
someone just told me it's now called Outside Art<br />
(as in outside the field of regular art - fine art or contemporary art, or so I'm guessing)<br />
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he's written a little book, which I will get am hoping (fingers crossed) in the mail soon<br />
called something like How to Get to 100 & Still Be Spry...<br />
which you then know he's a really old guy because who says 'spry' anymore<br />
(how many will even know what that means, won't have to Google it, look it up in the dictionary...<br />
sometimes it's sad to know words are gone, they once were but no more...sigh...)<br />
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I'll have to send this little book to my Father in Law who was also a Mail Carrier<br />
and he's in his 80's now - so maybe he'll be inspired not just to be Spry again but to Create<br />
doesn't have to be an Orange Show/House but something<br />
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am told there are concerts in his little outside stage or his side stage<br />
know I will return, if nothing else to find out what progress is going on in Smithers Park<br />
or to join in (when I can--perhaps I'll move back one day, then I'll be closer to do so on w/e's)<br />
since I have fallen in love with the art walls there<br />
and there is, from the drawings on the webpage/billboard, still a lot more to come...<br />
not just walls but swings, tunnels, an amphitheater, ??<br />
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on with the show<br />
it's a Circus out there<br />
an Art Circus<br />
and I can't wait to go back<br />
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link to The Orange Show - Houston, TX...<br />
<a href="http://orangeshow.org/">http://orangeshow.org/</a><br />
(note: home to the Orange House, the Beer Can House, the Art Car headquarters - from where the Art Car Parade begins & Smither Park...as well as an Orange Show Bus, soon to be out & about at schools nearby...)<br />
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link to Smither Park Newsletter - Fall/Winter 2012...<br />
<a href="http://issuu.com/orangeshow/docs/fallwinter_2012_smither_park_newsletter/1?e=5899733/1079240">http://issuu.com/orangeshow/docs/fallwinter_2012_smither_park_newsletter/1?e=5899733/1079240</a><br />
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link to The Orange Show Wikipedia...<br />
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<a href="http://www.artcarmuseum.com/">http://www.artcarmuseum.com/</a><br />
(note: it's up in the Heights, will find that museum another trip to Houston...go here, to this link, check out the photo gallery...love the seashell art car, to start...or the Derby Racer--which looks like maybe you could copy it by using a lot of Mardi Gras Beads...hmm...we do have a lot of those in Louisiana--but then I'm sure there's already a Mardi Gras Bead Art Car roaming the streets somewheres for sure...)<br />
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there are numbers<br />
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after hummingbirds--this head dressed Koala bear<br />
type guy with the Nautilus shell nose that I love right away<br />
many of the creations are still a work in progress,<br />
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and a cup of coffee in his hand<br />
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mostache man<br />
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"Fifty Shades of I Don't Give a Shi**"<br />
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the only such section<br />
antlers archway<br />
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there once was a blue dog (think Louisiana y'all)<br />
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her wings of keys<br />
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but beside her above the cracked wall<br />
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well I dreamed I saw the silver space ship<br />
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mermaid at the helm<br />
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Pisces Fish<br />
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behind the wall sections<br />
the wire fence, the vines, the pallet park<br />
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so ends Smithers Park<br />
with the Pallet Park behind the fence behind Smithers Park<br />
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it's a FAB backdrop<br />
one day maybe they can incorporate pallets as well<br />
if nothing else you cannot see the highway or<br />
urban decay skyline behind the Pallet Park<br />
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(note: for now the end - next up The Orange Show...<br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-1383863912163551782013-05-09T19:09:00.000-05:002013-08-02T23:15:57.334-05:00Espresso 'n Eggs<div align="center" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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<strong><em>Espresso 'n Eggs</em></strong><br />
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Breakfast<br />
Brunch<br />
Espresso<br />
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Foodie Heaven on Earth<br />
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if it just wasn't on the other end of town<br />
still I will drive to the ends of the earth<br />
for a good espresso at the very least<br />
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Brick & Spoon<br />
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How I discovered them<br />
Chef first<br />
make that the Exec Chef<br />
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having coffee at The Lab Handcrafted Coffee & Comforts<br />
in River Ranch (per usual)<br />
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see this guy first off with his sunglasses tucked in the back collar of his t-shirt<br />
then I read the t-shirt<br />
Logo for Brick & Spoon<br />
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Hey, I've heard of them<br />
I'd read they were a new restaurant going to open up in Lafayette soon<br />
as we're not only a Festival, Foodie, Tourist mecca it seems here in Lafayette<br />
but also a Startup town too<br />
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As I've said & will repeat I love the Creativity here especially<br />
in so many ways I'm losing count<br />
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so back to the coffeeshop<br />
I get my macchiato in my espresso size Keep Cup...<br />
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link to Keep Cup...<br />
<a href="http://www.keepcup.com/">http://www.keepcup.com/</a><br />
(if you haven't seen them before or me out with my different sizes/different colors, ordering coffee, bugging baristas 'round town)<br />
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and turn to face him & point at his t-shirt/logo<br />
I know that name--Brick & Spoon<br />
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he tells me his name is Jonathan (Kastner)<br />
I get a business card - read Exec Chef<br />
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I remember that E's Kitchen is having an intro to his restaurant<br />
and he's due to intro us/demo us some samples off the menu I thought<br />
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link to e's kitchen...<br />
<a href="http://www.eskitchen.com/">http://www.eskitchen.com/</a><br />
(note: sign up for a newsletter - check out the classes, the gadgets, the calendar for the next Food Truck Roundup at PARC Lafayette...plus for some who care, he's got his liquor license now so you can cook with it & buy it there too--am guessing he'll have some local distilleries/maybe craft breweries & vinos, which you can cook up some new dishes with new flavors...just saying--I can't cook so don't ask me for details or recipes?!)<br />
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It's like Monday & he'd due to do this on Wednesday<br />
I realize I have 'not' signed up yet at E's Kitchen<br />
I have only Liked the comment on Facebook--Opps!<br />
(so when I get home do that Tout Suite!!)<br />
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Chat about his name being Jonathan <br />
and I know another Chef Jonathan only he's in NOLA<br />
at HerbSaint, after Cochon's closed here in Lafayette<br />
(it's a small world of Chef Jonathan's mai wee cher?!)<br />
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So off to get signed up for Cooking Class on Wednesday<br />
Wednesday evening rolls around & make it with minutes & seats to spare<br />
In front of me the nicest man I think I've ever sat next to<br />
he makes sure I have a copy of the recipe<br />
& passes to me in the very back the sample first of the white choc bacon bread pudding<br />
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Cleverest gadget I've seen in long while<br />
it's a flat whisk then with the turn of the handle bottom, it's a full out whole/round whisk<br />
and it's got coated wires so it won't scratch your coated fry pans when you need to whisk eggs or cream or whatever else (say cream with white chocolate chunks in it?!)<br />
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Twist Whisk by Joseph Joseph (trademark) - on order at E's Kitchen<br />
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Well, the whole bunch of owners of Brick & Spoon are in the house too<br />
Two from Lafayette, One from Orange Beach (as in Alabama, not FL or CA)<br />
Of all the names this owner/manager's name is Mr Beach<br />
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With that bit of trivia, his last name, I answer the trivia question to win a Brick & Spoon Mug<br />
inside a postcard invite to the soft opening on Saturday at 7:00pm<br />
OK I admit I was a bit excited, we all were, as we would not just raise our hands but all yell out the answer--like to the First Trivia Question, so that the Second one I couldn't help it & did the same...<br />
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I was happy with the coffee mug & tiny ceramic spoon in the handle, they have them at their restaurant--I was extra happy then to find a postcard invite inside, really the chef had to tell me it was in there as I carried it around checking out the spoon probably or the saying on the back...<br />
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<em><strong> A morning ritual that's</strong></em><br />
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At the Soft Opening with Invite postcard in hand, went at like 7:30pm & place was packed<br />
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Hearing that their coffee was going to be Cuvee Coffee Roasters out of Austin, TX<br />
that Thomas at The Lab Experience/The Lab Handcrafted Coffee & Comforts in River Ranch<br />
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link to Cuvee Coffee...<br />
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(note: have met Lorenzo on a number of visits to Carpe Diem Gelato & Espresso, then when Cafe Cohen was in Great Harvest Bread Co & maybe even at The Lab--now will just miss him when he's in with Mike/#TeamCuvee to setup/train the staff at Brick & Spoon...maybe another trip from Austin to Lafayette, since I think they're getting hooked on Cajun Food--say Gumbo for one thing?!)<br />
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link to The Lab Experience/The Lab Handcrafted Coffee & Creams...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheLabExperience">https://www.facebook.com/TheLabExperience</a><br />
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Carlos Lopez--or he signs "los" & then meet him too, just 2 people down from the end of the bar--nearly under his main painting up above the bar & kitchen window...<br />
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Exec Chef Jonathan at work<br />
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poor thing couldn't even wave--in the Zone!<br />
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<strong><em>Back on Thursday - Day Two</em></strong></div>
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Noo...another day w/o espresso...but hear the good news, tomorrow the part will be in & the Italian (aka Ferrari) Machine will be up & ready to go Go GO...or so I hope, but to be sure I may wait til Monday--there's still more tweaking/staff training...but never fear Thomas/The Lab will be there to "make it so" - for now there's not just a French Press but the other airpot machine that's working, so have a cup of two of Cuvee Coffee the old school way & wait, patiently til the w/e passes (plus they prob's want a break from seeing me, their new regular customer--maybe I could be the weekday regular & they can have another weekend regular?!)<br />
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Brunch/Lunch order with a friend, we sat outside on the patio watching the rain/rain clouds, in the cool wet fresh air, we could pretend we live somewhere's else other than Southern Louisiana - but when the heat comes they'll be prepared with outdoor circulating old fashion looking fans up above<br />
(didn't notice before but there's a TV outdoors to one section & that's in addition to the 2 TV's up above the bar indoors - not that I like/watch TV while I'm eating, but it's there for those that do...)<br />
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but forgot to snap a pick of my friends Spinach Salad with Grilled Veggies<br />
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mentioned Lafayette is a hard place to find a good salad<br />
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we shared this too - that way you get to eat more<br />
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am wondering if this is painted by "los" too, tho don't see his signature<br />
I see a "u" - will ask another time, as I'll be back (for an espresso)<br />
now am also pondering if the guy's get a guy walking on the other half<br />
in their Water Closet right?! hmm...sending a guy in to tell me, another time...<br />
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I am losing track of how many things I think these guys/gals are doing right!!<br />
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link to my foodie friend's article in the Acadiana Gazette about our brunch/lunch visit...<br />
<a href="http://www.acadianagazette.net/archives/volume9/issue20/food/chere_COLUMN_FINAL_may_15_2013.php">http://www.acadianagazette.net/archives/volume9/issue20/food/chere_COLUMN_FINAL_may_15_2013.php</a><br />
(note: my 15 min's of-newspaper foodie article-fame...LoL...I will be watching--no more outings with my friend when she has a camera 'round her neck hah?!)<br />
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photo credit: Chere Coen - Acadiana Gazette - grilled veggie salad<br />
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link to one of her Blogs--Have Books, Will Travel, Let's Eat...<br />
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<strong><em>Saturday/Sunday (Mother's Day Brunch) - Skip</em></strong><br />
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<strong><em>Monday</em></strong><br />
Not only No Espresso but Closed due to 'extraneous circumstances' (or so they say on FB)<br />
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Maybe there will be Espresso--is anticipation good for you, if so then I'm set even before I get there...<br />
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Uh Nooo--again there is no working Espresso Machine, tho the part is in it I'm told...but never fear Thomas (aka the Coffee Knight) from The Lab Handcrafted Comforts & Creams is working his magic over it--so by tomorrow...<br />
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Tomorrow, tomorrow, there's always tomorrow...and tomorrow is just a day away...<br />
(isn't that how that Annie song goes...fitting...)<br />
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So what to do--have regular airpot Cuvee Coffee with cream instead...and...<br />
Shrimp & Grits--my way...as in 'not' on the menu way with all the 'stuff' mixed in - which of course the FAB Exec Chef Jonathan will do...Yay!<br />
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my plain Shrimp & Grits<br />
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buttery, warmy 'n sticky bits...mmm...<br />
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<strong><em>Wednesday</em></strong> - skip (really I can't go e-v-e-r-y day...sigh...)<br />
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<strong><em>Thursday</em></strong> - the day I get an espresso...<br />
(there should be music--instead there's wind)<br />
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See the Espresso Machine is working when I walk in, with the grinder at it's side full of Cuvee Coffee beans...a good sign...<br />
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Was suppose to meet a friend there whose daughter got sick in the morning, so she couldn't come...then had reminded my realtor she'd not been yet & she text me she was going out after a Open House so she'd stop by the Brick & Spoon - would be great fun to hear she'd been taking all (OK--many of) her Real Estate clients there for breakfast/brunch/lunch while out House Hunting right?!<br />
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Today even though a blustery day, sat out on the patio, with things falling over right & left...<br />
had to order me those Beautiful Beignets & of course coffee with espresso in it--how to put that machine to the test? hmm...Well, went with the Cappuccino--that came out in a glass with a tiny latte art letter character in the middle of it (nice try Mr...) Not your usual way to serve a Cappuccino<br />
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link to Wiki--What is a Beignet...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beignet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beignet</a><br />
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link to a History of & a Recipe for Beignets...What's Cooking America...<br />
<a href="http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/BeignetsHistory.htm">http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/BeignetsHistory.htm</a><br />
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It was great tasty fun to have Brick & Spoon Beignets with Fig Jam to spread on them, bit harder to dip in the tiny cup on the plate--maybe a ramekin next time (but who am I)...love fig spreads, especially on goat cheese & crackers...<br />
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I was not convinced it was the best coffee to put in a thin glass, so always open to suggestions I said they could use maybe a thicker glass if not a ceramic one-they do listen, which is nice-as they're being different but really are doing things right in so many other ways it's hard to keep count so I can't complain while they're hardly a Week Old...<br />
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Bea-u-ti-ful Beignets with fig jam<br />
an early attempt at a capucciono from the new Italian expresso machine<br />
with a touch of latte art lettering to top it off<br />
(I know I'd never try it--these fancy machines scare the...uh hum out of me?!)<br />
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I've still got fingers crossed they'll have a full time Barista on staff one day--soon?!<br />
They have an Exec Chef in the kitchen why not a Barista at the coffee bar along with the Bartender at the Bar bar...it's all Foodie Art in my book?!<br />
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Well the Will-I-Get-An-Espreso Saga is over--I got an espresso, kinda sorta...cappuccino...may go back next week for another try at it, but off for the weekend to Houston, TX where I'll check out Montrose & look for that new location of the next Restaurant Opening for Brick & Spoon after Orange Beach, AL opens (with I don't know when Baton Rouge/New Orleans will open following)--something to look forward to when traveling around LA, TX or AL?!<br />
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link to Brick & Spoon Webpage...(or it's Coming Soon)<br />
<a href="http://www.brickandspoonrestaurant.com/">http://www.brickandspoonrestaurant.com/</a><br />
(note: right now you can sign up for their e-newsletter, which I did...)<br />
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Later I'll find out Adcetera in Houston, TX is their Ad/Design company<br />
Because--not that they're not staying local, it's just they're a Franchise<br />
and they'll be in Houston, TX soon too<br />
(note: have read in the Montrose area, maybe where Brocados use to be...)<br />
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link to Adcetera...<br />
<a href="http://www.adcetera.com/">http://www.adcetera.com/</a><br />
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<em>"You're in the Creative Jungle</em><br />
<em>We'll be your machete."</em><br />
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link to their Blog--under Thinking...<br />
<a href="http://www.adcetera.com/thinking/">http://www.adcetera.com/thinking/</a><br />
(note: don't see mention of Brick & Stone anything yet, but they must be busy)<br />
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Right now they are in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, soon to be NOLA/New Orleans<br />
next up will be Orange Beach, AL<br />
followed by Houston, TX<br />
and then ?? who knows<br />
all that in 2013--what a good year for Brunch!!<br />
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I love hearing how much they're trying to support Local<br />
Local Farmers like Gotreaux Family Farms for all their eggs<br />
(they must go thru a lot of eggs...<br />
in the White Choc Bacon Bread Pudding I think there were 12 eggs?!)<br />
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link to the Gotreaux Family Farms--not just eggs...<br />
<a href="http://www.gofamilyfarms.com/">http://www.gofamilyfarms.com/</a><br />
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link to Brick & Spoon Facebook page...<br />
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link directly to Brick & Spoon Facebook page - Menu...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/brickandspoonrestaurant/app_337670556303383">https://www.facebook.com/brickandspoonrestaurant/app_337670556303383</a><br />
(note: so far, have tried the Stuffed French Toast Sliders with Berries, the coffee, the French Press coffee & next up will be an Espresso! Took Takeout to my spouse, a Cali Burger on Pretzel Bun with a side of Rosemary SeaSalt Potato Chips...and for me--a Benedict Poboy without the French Bread, so I guess that makes it a Classic on an English Muffin instead with a side of Pomme Frites...aka French Fries...plus a tiny fruit cup...so far so Wonderful, can't wait for more--like every item on the menu, or maybe we'll try every item...or I'll make my friends/family try something we haven't so I can have a taste too right?!)<br />
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link to Brick & Spoon LA Twitter...<br />
<cite><a href="https://twitter.com/brickandspoonla">https://twitter.com/<b>brickandspoon</b>la</a></cite><br />
<cite>(note: Brick & Spoon for LA/Louisiana...am guessing there could be a brickandspoon___ </cite><br />
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<cite>link to Brick & Spoon Restaurant Pinterest...</cite><br />
<cite><a href="http://pinterest.com/brickandspoon/">http://pinterest.com/brickandspoon/</a></cite><br />
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link to Brick & Spoon on Yelp...<br />
<a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/brick-and-spoon-lafayette">http://www.yelp.com/biz/brick-and-spoon-lafayette</a><br />
<em>"Think of it as an expansion of your culinary comfort zone--daily."</em><br />
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In the restaurant there's a...Bryan, Ryan, Jeff, Jordon (or so far that I've met)<br />
but don't ask me who's an owner/manager/bartender/??<br />
or yet--I'll get to be a regular (on first name basis) yet?!<br />
Plus of course there's the Exec Chef Jonathan<br />
(am hoping he's not just a startup guy in the kitchen...really hope that's not the case & he'll stay forever--or he best train up some Chefs to be 'as good as' if he does go--fingers crossed?!)<br />
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link to their 1st Review--by me...(haven't done one in long while, if ever?!)<br />
<a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/brick-and-spoon-lafayette#hrid:pG6RWmVBWppQ6Gbkn87Jig">http://www.yelp.com/biz/brick-and-spoon-lafayette#hrid:pG6RWmVBWppQ6Gbkn87Jig</a><br />
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link to The Ind article--Brick & Spoon Serving a New Take on Brunch by Elizabeth Rose...<br />
<a href="http://www.theind.com/food/12913-brick-a-spoon-serving-a-new-take-on-brunch">http://www.theind.com/food/12913-brick-a-spoon-serving-a-new-take-on-brunch</a><br />
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<em> [The owners also designed the menu and they wanted it to be “as creative as possible,” says Trahan. “We want people to like what we do. We don’t want to be something that you can find anywhere. We want it to be unique to us.”]</em><br />
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link to 2nd The Ind article---Brick & Spoon Opens Wednesday...<br />
<a href="http://www.theind.com/food/13795-brick-a-spoon-opens-tomorrow">http://www.theind.com/food/13795-brick-a-spoon-opens-tomorrow</a><br />
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link to Developing Lafayette - Facebook Page - Comments on Brick & Spoon...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DevelopingLafayette">https://www.facebook.com/DevelopingLafayette</a><br />
(note: who signed up for the Brick & Spoon Newsletter before I did off their Coming Soon Brick & Spoon webpage...Go to Tues Facebook post where Developing Lafayette shares a link to a Notice on the Brick & Spoon Newsletter--includes mention of Mother's Day Brunch with a band to play & that you can Rent the place out for a Night, that would be so incredibly fun...am hoping someone I know does that & soon?!)<br />
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link to about Brick & Spoon's Trademark by Eggspressions of North America in Lafayette, LA...<br />
<a href="http://www.trademarkia.com/brick--spoon-85813501.html">http://www.trademarkia.com/brick--spoon-85813501.html</a><br />
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July 25, 2013 There was French Toast<br />
they posted photos on Facebook--I couldn't not look<br />
I couldn't not go & order them<br />
I don't know how they get it that thick 'n fluffy<br />
yes there was butter<br />
and yes there was powdered sugar<br />
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In search of a black Smith Corona<br />
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on a Play's Prop list of course<br />
which leads to days in antique shops & a flea market<br />
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Underwood typewriter in poor sad repair, does not work</div>
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I went out to hunt & gather props</div>
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antique shop two</div>
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a beaut (as in a beauty)</div>
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this Sterling Smith Corona</div>
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telling them it's for the theater</div>
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It's on the List--now it's on My List of the Best One</div>
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but guess what--it's not black & it costs more than the first Sterling one found</div>
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a classic Brunswick record player - different from the Victrolas on the other side of the room</div>
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Link to a Brunswick Cortez playing Marvelous/Jazz from the 1920's...</div>
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Note: there are Brunswick phonograph ads, they are for sale, many of them on e-bay or Amazon.com (one I found was $5.95...hmm...for an old newspaper/magazine advert...maybe I should look harder at the antique shops/garage or estate sales--these could add up, these ads eh?! LoL...)</div>
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I've really never seen this many antique typewriters--ever</div>
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Not one legal desk or desk lamp</div>
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so far that's maybe 2 things off the long Props list</div>
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a typewriter, some hatchet choices</div>
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good thing have until July for this play</div>
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Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-27806838884611178952013-05-03T01:37:00.000-05:002013-05-03T18:02:33.832-05:00Hell Week or would some say Heaven WeekHell or Heaven Week<br />
(if you believe that sort of thing...<br />
or perhaps Death or Rebirth Week<br />
again if you believe...)<br />
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Monday Boston Marathon news came on TV<br />
There was a bomb go off at the Finish line, then there was another bomb went off<br />
as per past disasters, not understanding, watched news/CNN nervously/constantly for days<br />
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Local Marathon runners, there were 95 from Louisiana, were reported to be all OK<br />
at least 1 local runner was interviewed on local evening news<br />
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Tuesday as still watching the news about the Bombing/the backpack/the suspects/the hospitals<br />
most griping was the chief surgeon at the hospital where many went<br />
as he talked you got the feeling he'd seen these things before--but in war<br />
not say on the streets of Boston during the Marathon<br />
as many also would say it could not have happened at the worst/best place<br />
medical staff were ready, were numerous--this tho was not what they were expecting<br />
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the phone rang, at our house, the Father in Law--no not to talk about Boston, no ties there<br />
the Mother in Law or as he says (insert son's name) Mother had passed that morning & he wanted to talk to his son--who was at work, which I will have to call to tell him to call home<br />
so I was surprised, kept it brief, hung up, called the office<br />
then came the packing, the run the dogs to the kennel, the text a friend to watch the house, dropped off the keys, then the late start to the day of driving towards Colorado<br />
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<em>a memory of her house, her kitchen</em><br />
<em>we will have to go say Goodbye</em><br />
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She had been in the hospital with pneumonia<br />
they had sent her to the Nursing Home<br />
it was a week later, she had been battling a bacteria<br />
she had a fever that Monday night<br />
was given Tylenol<br />
she did not wake up Tuesday morning<br />
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when we stopped for the night in Denton, TX<br />
we turned on the TV news<br />
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West, TX had just hours earlier blown up<br />
due to a Fertilizer Plant<br />
we had maybe driven by on the highway<br />
we didn't stop there<br />
we weren't far away<br />
we'd gone for dinner at the German restaurant in old downtown Denton, TX<br />
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<em>we'd walked around the courthouse, later reading it & nearby buildings are haunted by ghosts</em><br />
<em>now there would be a town full of ghosts, in West, TX (who names a town West--I kept waiting for the rest of the city name when I first heard the news on TV...)</em><br />
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Full Moon while we were in Colorado<br />
It would snow twice, even tho nearly end of April<br />
When we returned home we would watch the Weather Channel<br />
watching it snow again on May 1st, for May Day, for the Day in the past folks would put flower cones on other folks/neighbors doors & dance ribbons around a May pole<br />
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<em>out the window, along the highway</em><br />
<em>from Colorado Springs to Denver, CO</em><br />
<em>snowing in late April</em><br />
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Along the drive my sister would text me that she was expecting to be layed off the next day<br />
then she'd gotten my text that we were driving to CO, that my mother in law had passed<br />
this too after she'd watched the news, first the Boston Marathon, then the Fertilizer Plant blowing up a town & her blood pressure rising with the expectation of being layed off & to top it off me driving to a funeral in CO, where it would then snow twice<br />
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Was it the Full Moon<br />
Were the Stars mis-aligned<br />
or what<br />
all that with a side of Global Warming<br />
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Thursday night we arrived<br />
Family gathered<br />
Friday more family flew in<br />
Phone calls/e-mails/text's/Facebook continued<br />
Skype call on Friday afternoon for the Wake<br />
as all her family, my Mother in Law, was in Japan<br />
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She was to be cremated & buried the next Thursday<br />
I the Daughter in Law sat with the son, the daughter, the husband<br />
the funeral director & his assistant for hours earlier on Friday before the Wake<br />
going over all the ridiculously costly details<br />
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I will have none of that<br />
I didn't want to see any of that<br />
I didn't even do that for my Grandmother or Grandfather or Mother<br />
who have all passed a long, Long time ago<br />
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<em>just an example, from Urn Garden webpage</em><br />
<em>of what an urn for ashes would look like</em><br />
<em>with the smaller keepsake urn beside it</em><br />
<em>(not shown is the necklace you can also get - to carry tiny ashes with you as a keepsake</em><br />
<em>or to go further you can get a necklace made of your loved one's finger or thumb print...</em><br />
<em>those last 2 are just way/Way too much for me...never in a million years...on another note there are urns that are biodegradable & some look like seashells...why not a real seashell, aren't they biodegradable...as I adore the beach I may consider this over scattering to the winds...or we'll see what the future will bring--my Grandmother wished for a phone box to walk into that would vaporize her, she was ahead of her time with that way of thinking...either that or read too much...)</em><br />
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her ashes would be separated<br />
one small mini urn, will be at some point taken to Japan to join with deceased family inside the family crypt...<br />
where her brother is, passing from a heart attack (as many males of the family did, I was told)<br />
where her mother, who was over 90, if not close to 100, passed & is there in the family crypt<br />
she had been for a visit at least the 1st Anniv, if not 2nd or 3rd Anniv, (which is in like year 3 or 7 & not year 2 or 3) to celebrate her mother's life, to honor the family crypt--by a traditional visit, as the Buddhist's do, as she was raised that way in Japan before marrying an American & leaving everything, including her language to come to the USA - can you call her a war bride, I'm not sure...<br />
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Now my Mother in Law will have Anniv visits in possibly 2 places<br />
1 in the Nat'l Cemetery in Denver, Co - as her husband is a retired soldier from both the Army & the Navy so his ashes will be buried there also<br />
the other will be in Japan, outside Tokyo, in Yokohama I think, where the family crypt is<br />
she is survived by 3 sisters & their families who will carry on that Buddhist tradition<br />
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My Father in law/her husband will be given a certificate of the Anniversary schedule to be followed for a Buddhist tradition from the Buddhist Reverend--at 49 days there is a date, at a month after that I think, then comes the 1 year, the 3 years, the 7 years & so on & on until up to 75 years after the person is cremated/buried<br />
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<em>"The 49th day is significant because Japanese believe that the spirit lingers in the body for 49 days before departing. This is in when the soul goes on a 49-day journey through the land of the dead and is judged and assigned where it is going to go in the six realms of Buddhist cosmology.</em> "<br />
from Funerals in Japan...Remembering the Dead...<br />
<a href="http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=604">http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=604</a><br />
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On Skype at the funeral home for the Viewing there was her oldest sister & another sister who's daughter's daughter was the one to set up the Facebook interaction with the grand daughter in Colorado, who will be the one to Skype her & the family that could gather at the house in Japan to attend the Family Viewing in the US by way of Skype on an Apple laptop<br />
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Link to Skype, we use the Free Service...<br />
<a href="http://www.skype.com/en/">http://www.skype.com/en/</a><br />
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Many will speak Japanese, only 1 will speak English, trying to translate for both sides<br />
Many will say she's Beautiful, she does afterall look as if she's just sleeping<br />
Her sister will try to touch her face from their laptop in Japan to the laptop in Colorado via Skype<br />
it's a bit blurry if anyone moves too quickly or they move the laptop but at times it's as if they are in the room<br />
There are boxes of tissues everywhere, in this Viewing/Wake Room, peeking out the curtains to the side chapel, there are 2 boxes of tissues on every pew...<br />
the Father in law/the husband still uses a cloth handkerchief, which I don't remember seeing anyone use for real since maybe my Grandfather or on TV on a Victorian show or maybe workers in a field<br />
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My Mother in Law looks like a doll in a doll bed, her head on a pillow, a patchwork blanket over her & pulled up to her chin - her daughter will bring her a favorite red scarf of hers for her to wear around her neck while the family views her...they have put 'light' makeup on her face, she is not wearing her dark brown wig (as she use to do before Parkinson's froze her up to the point of not being able to swallow or talk or move...) & there are blue/low light spotlights turned on overhead, the rest of the room has a sofa/chairs/side tables/lamps as if it's a Living room, would they call it a Drawing room in the past (today it's a Viewing Room, a Wake Room)<br />
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She is at peace, she is relaxed, she is not struggling, she is not in pain, she doesn't have to try to communicate, she is frozen in sleep, as she was, when you are nearly as peaceful as in death - I cannot be sad for her, her Parkinson's is gone, I can be sad for her family/friends left behind except for the good memories of when she was well, alive, active, involved, traveling, a friend, dancing, a crafter of so many things...<br />
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We will remember her oragami, her lace making, her doll making, her cooking, her perfect gifts, her slipping money to you when you left the house from a visit, her being well dressed, her translating for us, her watching Japanese kid cartoons with the grandkids/great grandkids, so many such moments make up a life time, make up our memories, captured in so many photos, to relive those memories, stories to retell, remembering when...<br />
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So many things in the house remind us of her, especially while cooking in her kitchen...<br />
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<em>a tiny example of remembrance - her old electric fry pan, her using chopsticks to turn the bacon</em></div>
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<em>Lillies...Oh the scent of these, even before they're fully open</em></div>
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<em>am not sure why a Lily is the funeral flower/the sympathy flower</em></div>
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<em>I did not know you could order from a florist, a gift basket for sympathy (is it comfort food)</em><br />
<em>like one full of snacks, meat, cheese, mustard, crackers, pretzels, candy, cookies, etc...</em><br />
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<em>One night it was Chicken Enchiladas with lots/Lots of cheese sauce</em><br />
<em>my niece's recipe/her grand daughter (she woulda been proud) and I helped...chop, a lot...</em><br />
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We will watch the TV news about Boston, about Texas, about snow in Colorado<br />
We will read the same news in the local newspaper that Poppa/Grandpa gets delivered every day<br />
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<em>already in the local Colorado Springs, CO or was it Fountain, CO newspaper there are political/ editorial cartoons - </em><em>this one in reference to the Boston Marathon - by Gary Varvel</em><br />
<em>Link found here...(but I just snapped a cell phone foto of the newspaper page, hope that's OK?!)</em><br />
<a href="http://www.cagle.com/2013/04/i-see-you/">http://www.cagle.com/2013/04/i-see-you/</a><br />
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Over the weekend the Army son/grandson has been planning on attending the funeral on Thursday<br />
Monday he is finally allowed officially to have leave, then he tells his Mom<br />
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We will spend more than 1/2 the day, 2 nieces & his Mom, trying to call 3 airlines (Delta, SW Airlines, KLM) to get him from NC to CO - he was not allowed an Emergency/Bereavement or Funeral rate, he was allowed a Military rate, he cannot use his Mom's huge mileage amount on one airline for another...<br />
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We will have to drive an hour away ourselves to the airport in Denver to pick him up, from Colorado Springs<br />
It will have snowed, it will be slushy roads, it will snow more, there will be accidents, the car tires will be slippery, we will run out of window washer fluid & have to stop at a gas station for more & to scrape all the dirty icy slush off the car<br />
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My Niece, the grand daughter, his cousin, will be the one to drive his Auntie, his Mom to the airport to pick him up--he will then walk to the wrong side of the airport & we will have to drive, due to construction, a long way to the other side to finally get him, then back again to the house for the weather to have finally have cleared up a bit<br />
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<em>Denver Int'l Airport - the new one, still under construction</em></div>
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<em>(or if you're old enough & don't think about it too much, there's a fleeting resemblance to the Herculoids - old morning space cartoon, same time Johnny Quest/Space Ghost were on - or the two called Gloop & Gleep...only this would have to be if they went home & the whole village showed up kind of thing...)</em> </div>
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On Monday the son & the husband/father in law/grandfather will have driven to Denver, to downtown, to near Sekura Square, to speak with the Buddhist monk, he's from Japan (that's all my father in law cares about) - but he calls himself a reverend - he has asked him to do the funeral ceremony on Thursday, over the phone but has to still come sit in front of him (he cannot hear well on the phone, he still won't get a hearing aide) - there will only be a 1/2 hour for a service, you get an app't, you can't be late (we are told it's like an airport, you're late, you don't get the time) that's all you get at the Nat'l Ceremony<br />
In the end he will have like 20 min's at the Pavilion for the service & 10 more min's at the gravesite for his shortened Buddhist rituals of chanting/words/incense...<br />
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We will hear the ceremony in English & Japanese, there will be chanting in the later, we will be asked to say a few chanting words, there will be incense, we will be asked to light some incense each & say whatever words we want to the wife/mother/mother in law/grandmother/great grandmother, there will be a chime or bell struck, a number of times (maybe before/after the chanting)...<br />
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We all say words in our heads as we toss the tiny incense granules onto the tiny square burner on the foldup table with a black/gold cloth over it with the Urn on it & another tiny container on it that looks like an incense holder maybe...<br />
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We will all bow & take our seats again...there will be more chanting...we will put our palms together as if in prayer & we will meditate (we will be told none of this has to do with religion, we are honoring the departed, we are only meditating...)<br />
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They were told earlier that there must be all white flowers, the daughter will have to call to have this changed last minute on Monday...but we are still allowed to wear all black, someone thinks they will do this in Japan too, wear all black to funerals (we've had to consult Wikipedia as well, not to be disrespectful...)<br />
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The grand daughters, one especially, will have to call/visit/get online to help set up the Internet page via the funeral home--mostly for the relatives in Japan, this is where a lot of the found photos have gone to be put on a jump drive, to be taken in for their computer to upload or for photos to be scanned<br />
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At the funeral service/by the grave the nieces will use an ipad & Galaxy phone to video the ceremony, the Buddhist reverend - again for the family back in Japan, as the time there is 3 or 4am in the morning during this 1:30pm/afternoon funeral in Denver, CO<br />
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We will all wear black, we will try to take a lot of photos of us all together by the lake--afterwards we will realize that the husband/father/father in law will have been talking with the two funeral driver/attendant the whole time & is not in any photo<br />
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We followed the hearse over from Fountain, CO to Denver, CO - there would be a white drape over a box insert in the back of the hearse where the Urn of ashes/remains will be set into for the ride to the Nat'l Cemetery...<br />
up behind the front seats there is a place to carry the flowers that will go the length of what will be a headstone...<br />
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after 30 - 90 days when it's engraved there will be a military, arched, headstone & will be set into place at the Nat'l Cemetery...(on the front with the military members info & on the back the spouse, the inscription will not be much more than loving wife, mother, grandmother we are told...)<br />
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there is a whole section being dug with temporary markers & wood walking on boards over the plots that have been dug up, there are at least 2 of them with dried up/dead flowers over them...Nat'l Cemeteries have a lot of rules for bringing/laying flowers on graves, there is also something called a grave blanket reference on the list of instructions--I have never heard of that before..<br />
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<em>Ft Logan Nat'l Cemetery - all the armed forces are buried here</em><br />
<em>Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard</em><br />
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While taking photos by the admin bldg we will see a Coyote, mistaken for a dog at first, running across the green space on the other side of the lake from the admin bldg...<br />
there is a couple of geese on our side & on the other some ducks on the bank who will flap into the water on the other side when the Coyote will run down to the waters edge...<br />
then on the corkboard by the admin door we will read about the Coyote's<br />
we are to keep our distance<br />
if they approach we are to yell at them<br />
we only saw one, he had no intention of coming near us--he was not small like a fox, he was big like a dog, like say a skinny Germany Shepherd size dog<br />
I've lived here & don't recall seeing them in broad daylight, running around before - we are some distance from the mountains or the foothills even, they must know it's a protected cemetery & folks with guns aren't likely to be roaming around trying to shoot them<br />
tho there are blank guns shooting off 21 gun salutes for the dead soldiers being buried with honors here at the Nat'l Cemetery<br />
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<em>Ft Logan - by the Admin bldg, across the lake</em><br />
<em>there is a Coyote running</em><br />
<em>then he/she passes the flag</em><br />
<em>it is still at half mast I'm guessing for honoring the dead in Boston</em><br />
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We will see one van load of guys drive up/park/come up to the admin bldg, with civilian clothes on, carrying their uniforms/bags to change into uniform to attend a funeral service/perhaps as the gun salute unit, we don't talk to them, we don't know for sure - we're told the one with the yellow stripe down his leg is a superior officer<br />
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We have among our family unit, 1 Army Soldier who has his Class A uniform on & his black super polished jump boots on - he will carry his Grandmother's ashes in an Urn from the hearse to the pavillion stand for the funeral service & then again back, this time, to the car, to be driven by the family to the grave & then he will carry her to the Buddhist reverend who will say a few words over her ashes, then he will again take her to the grave to be placed in the NASA material container, to be sealed up inside, then covered first with our white roses, then the dirt/the earth, then be covered with a board & finally the white flowers, which we will leave there<br />
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Link to see what the New Class A Uniforms will look like...<br />
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At the gravesite we are told our family member's ashes are a lesson<br />
she is teaching us, even as ashes in an urn<br />
we are asked if we have something we want to do in say 20 yrs<br />
in 10 yrs, in a year, in a month, in a week, in a day...<br />
Or some such like this, not word for word<br />
by that time there are tissues, there is weeping, there is hugging<br />
we are all standing in muddy grass, as it's snowed & it's been driven on, dug up by now too<br />
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We were also told by the funeral director I think that there should not be more than 6 family members at the gravesite<br />
since at the time there can be say a 100 graves open at a time<br />
really there were no other's open, they were covered in boards or earth<br />
again 2 with flowers already dried up/dead & should be removed soon am hoping<br />
nothing sadder than dried up/dead flowers left at graves<br />
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We are still waiting to find out if the nieces/cousins/daughters/grand daughters have figured out how to put the 2 videos together for us all to watch online somewheres<br />
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It was also found out later back at the house, an hour away, that the husband/the grand father/the father in law didn't hear a word of the service & is hoping to hear it when it's put on the computer...<br />
he won't wear a hearing aide, the man who couldn't hear his wife clap/bell ring/bike honk/cell phone call during her years with Parkinsons in/out of the hospital/nursing home (with many I'm sure telling him gently hearing aides are not what they use to be) - now to top it off he could not even hear his wife's burial ceremony, but still no hearing aide (this is beyond my understanding...)<br />
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Driving back an hour in 2 family cars, I am the one on the cell phone texting the nieces, their daughter, my sister in law/the daughter, nobody thought to stop for food in the car I'm driving in, their car stops for the kid to eat & for gas, I want to be in the car with the girls, there is no music, there is very little talking in the car I am in, there is no celebration of life, again I do not want any of this when I pass...<br />
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Denial or is it sadness continues all week, no one will do more than wash some old clothes, return the photos to their photo albums, talk about what dishes the grand daughters might use, what handmade dolls nobody wants, except the traditional dressed Japanese ones, as the rest of the dolls are scary (good for horror movie props perhaps, it's the eyes, that following you kind of thing...perhaps we've watched too many scary movies--we will watch more movies this week than maybe a year's worth per normal weeks...)<br />
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We have movies from RedBox, we will get more movies, every night we will watch a movie--we will try to laugh & not cry, we will either cook/clean up for a dinner at the house or go out - it becomes family time, we are together, there is a rare mention of Oh Momma would love this, Momma would say this/do that, Grandma would know...we go to her favorite Sushi Restaurant, Tako, then we go to Poppa's/Grandpa's/The Father in Laws suggestion of a Steak House... by the end of the week, one day for dinner I will eat a container of Greek Yogurt (I'm done, cannot consume anymore full out lunch or dinner...the comfort food is no longer a comfort...)<br />
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<em>We will go out to her fav Japanese/sushi restaurant in town</em><br />
<em>Tako we're guessing means kite</em><br />
<em>the servers will ask who is missing</em><br />
<em>her daughter will have to tell them, that's why we are here</em><br />
<em>to celebrate her life, to come to her favorite restaurant</em><br />
<em>we order too much sushi (but then that always happens)</em><br />
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By fateful accident we will go shopping, we will go thru an outside section of a mall into the inside section--we will pass a shop, almost, when I read the name of it, then I recall it's the name of the shop my dear friend works at now...<br />
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I will go inside & ask at the cashier counter--Yes, Becky works here...<br />
She will go in the back & bring my friend that I've known for 30 plus years back out front where we will hug & Hug & take photos & get a tour of the store & the family in the car at this point will come into the shop too & there are more hugs, more photos...<br />
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She has not seen the Army boy since High School Prom, when she came to the house for a visit to go see New Orleans (aka in her book--the Mardi Gras Epicenter) at the time & she braided his hair for Prom photos...<br />
It's been a long time, her girl now out of the military as is my oldest son but not this youngest son<br />
We see photos of her girl with her husband who is a Marine<br />
Of all the Malls, of all the Shops--I would pass hers...<br />
I think we all needed more Hugs<br />
It's a Small World, it's a Big World<br />
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So again some will call it Hell Week (we did have to drive a day & half home again too, stuck in a truck driving thru Nowhere Texas, eating road food 'til you felt like you could Fast for a Week when you got home...) and some will call it Heaven Week--there were a lot of folks went to Heaven that week...<br />
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Link to Wiki--Yes, even for funeral info there is Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_funeral">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_funeral</a><br />
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Link to some explanation for Parkinson's...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_disease">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_disease</a><br />
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Link to the National Parkinson's Foundation...<br />
<a href="http://www.parkinson.org/">http://www.parkinson.org/</a><br />
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Link to Zen Center of Denver, CO...<br />
<a href="http://www.zencenterofdenver.org/home.aspx">http://www.zencenterofdenver.org/home.aspx</a><br />
(note: I have been to the Zen Center of Houston, TX...it's where I learned to meditate--not very well, the noise in my head never did stop for very long...but I tried...so when he said meditate at the ceremony, I had an idea what to do...)<br />
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Link to Ft Logan National Cemetery - Denver, CO...<br />
<a href="http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftlogan.asp">http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftlogan.asp</a><br />
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Link to Available Emblems of Belief (aka Faith/Religion) - some I've never heard of or seen before...<br />
<a href="http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/emblems.asp">http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/emblems.asp</a><br />
(note: Buddhist are allowed to use The Wheel of Righteousness or the Dharma or The Wheel of Life...)<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/AFReligion3.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail for version as of 17:38, 22 September 2007" height="120" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/AFReligion3.jpg/120px-AFReligion3.jpg" width="120" /></a><br />
<em>Dharmacakra - per Wiki</em><br />
<em>that the Armed Forces Chaplain would wear as their insignia</em><br />
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Link to Arapahoe County, Colorado - Animal Control - What to do if you see a Coyote...<br />
<a href="http://www.co.arapahoe.co.us/Departments/PW/AnimalControl/What%20to%20do%20if%20you%20see%20a%20coyote.asp">http://www.co.arapahoe.co.us/Departments/PW/AnimalControl/What%20to%20do%20if%20you%20see%20a%20coyote.asp</a><br />
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<em>a Coyote - per Wiki</em><br />
<em>(note: from a distance, across the lake, the Coyote in the cemetery did not look this good/healthy)</em><br />
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1. NEVER feed or throw food at
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2. Do NOT turn your back on it, ignore it or run away.<br />
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try to pet or touch it.<br />
4. NEVER move towards it, or corner it where it can't
run away.<br />
5. YELL and make a lot of noise while slowly moving towards other
people.<br />
6. Make eye contact and make your self look bigger-raise your arms
high, hold up your jacket or backpack.<br />
7. If a coyote moves towards you,
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you:</b>1. Keep yelling.<br />
2. Punch it.<br />
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Link to Sekura Square - Denver, CO...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Square">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Square</a><br />
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Link to the Tri State Denver Buddhist Temple...<br />
<a href="http://www.tsdbt.org/web/">http://www.tsdbt.org/web/</a><br />
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<a href="http://tsdbt.org/web/" title="Home"><img alt="Home" height="80" src="http://tsdbt.org/web/sites/default/files/chameleon_logo.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<em>the first photo in the row, on the left, is the Buddhist Reverend in his black robe</em><br />
<em>he is the Head Minister at the temple</em><br />
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Link to a Sutra that perhaps was read or in part at the funeral service, in Japanese...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabha_Sutra">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabha_Sutra</a><br />
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Link to Japanese Buddhist Funeral Customs...<br />
<a href="http://tanutech.com/japan/jfunerals.html">http://tanutech.com/japan/jfunerals.html</a><br />
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Link to the Dali Lama chanting the Heart Sutra...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/aMnKHZCcfYA">http://youtu.be/aMnKHZCcfYA</a><br />
(note: I don't know what Sutra's the Buddhist Reverend chanted at the funeral service or at the grave site...perhaps the Amitabha Sutra, as I've read both Buddhists in or out of Japan will chant this at funerals<strong>...</strong>this link however is to a 2 minute Heart Sutra by the current Dali Lama to hear just a sample of what chanting might sound like for those that haven't heard it before...)<br />
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namaste<br />
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Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-3644863544730324322013-04-15T17:41:00.000-05:002013-05-05T21:54:25.951-05:00are we still waiting--for a rebirth of wondera rebirth of wonder<br />
Lawrence Ferlinghetti<br />
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am reminded of an Italian sports car whenever I try to type/say his name<br />
he's said he is not a Beat Poet--they came after, that he is a 'lyrical' or was it 'lyric' poet<br />
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photo credit: bongos...Wikipedia...<br />
Beat Poets were not necessarily Beatnik's tho of the Beat Generation<br />
and for sure then did not all beat bongo's...tho there is that stereotypical image<br />
of men slapping out rhythms on bongo's, they or another poet reciting lyrically, whilst women moved oddly (can it be called dancing) about in black leotards, perhaps snapping their fingers (yes, we have been influenced by the movie version--later I will read the poets of this generation...)<br />
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<img alt="Lawrence Ferlinghetti" height="130" src="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/uploads/authors/8e2b3b437a/448x/lawrence-ferlinghetti-448.jpg" width="200" /><br />
<span class="photocredit">photo credit: © Soheyl Dahi, 2010</span><br />
<span class="photocredit">my favorite vision of the poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as shown in the documentary film</span><br />
<span class="photocredit">- found at this link of the Poetry Foundation...</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lawrence-ferlinghetti">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lawrence-ferlinghetti</a><br />
(being from Louisiana now, first thing I thought of was--Whoa, wouldn't that make a great Mardi Gras Mask?!)<br />
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I had also never put the connection together the 1+ 1 = 2 before<br />
until watching this documentary<br />
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City Lights - Bookshop - San Fran, Cali, USA<br />
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Shakespeare & Company - Bookshop - Paris, France<br />
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City of Lights - Paris, France<br />
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photo credits: above, all three taken by--me...at Shakespeare & Co in Paris, France...<br />
(there is another of me hamming it up reading in a little stuffed chair somewheres in the back of the shop, followed by my friend at the stacks pointing to a book somewheres in the middle of the shop & one more of her browsing at a table taken thru the front window of the shop...)<br />
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as to these 2 founders, who didn't just know each other<br />
they had both opened bookshops & had each intended to swap bookshops for a year at a time<br />
but in the end, we are told via the documentary, via the relative/daughter (could it have been Sylvia they spoke with) of Shakespeare & Company's owner, George Whitman, that this did not happen because each of their shops got too big for them to leave them<br />
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now I have been in Shakespeare & Company in Paris, France (what other, really) at least twice if not three times--as that's how many times I have visited Paris & so must of wandered into this most famous bookshop I'm sure whenever I was close by<br />
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photo credit: one more by me (now am wondering who's upstairs with the window cracked...)<br />
take note--just under the Shakespeare and Company sign, that's in Paris, France...<br />
to the left..."City Lights Books" (a nod to Lawrence in SanFran, Cali??)<br />
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recall too that while living in Stavanger, Norway & planning the trip to Paris in order to visit/stay with a dear expat friend there (who was living in Paris near Pere Lachaise Cemetery & I was never jealous, because I was so happy to be able to go visit her...with that most famous cemetery nearby that I would visit for hours & take even more & more photos of--so much so I use to tease that her French husband & I should so make a book of nothing but?!) <br />
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back to it--I would make a list of Things to Do/Things to See while in Paris & there would first/ always be Madam Eiffel (as in the tower, esp at night when she glitters...) then there would be the Bookshop, as in "The" Bookshop of Paris, which one internet search in particular brought up that upstairs at Shakespeare & Company there were not just Readings going on but Writing Classes you could take...I tried & tried to plan just the right dates to go there & stay during 'any' of these Writing Classes, but I could never do it...sigh...one day...(but now my Paris friend has moved to the South of France & so there will be no dear expat friend to stay with while I took a Writing Class at Shakespeare & Co...)<br />
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link to Shakespeare and Company Bookshop, Paris, France...<br />
<a href="http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/">http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/</a><br />
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<em>"This is the creed of Hotel Tumbleweed</em><br />
<em>give what you can take what you need"</em><br />
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<em>"Be not inhospitable to strangers</em><br />
<em>lest they be angels in disguise"</em><br />
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I find this flyer, but not an old photo right off of him on the Shakespeare & Co webpage<br />
it's full of photos/flyers/words...<br />
as you click thru different sections they will change, if you click back they will change again<br />
and you can click on the photos & the spread on the page will change<br />
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this one of Allen Ginsberg<br />
as he happens to look in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's documentary<br />
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link to City Lights Bookshop - San Francisco, California...<br />
<a href="http://www.citylights.com/">http://www.citylights.com/</a><br />
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link to Bio, photo, list of books of/by Ferlinghetti on the City Lights Bookshop webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.citylights.com/ferlinghetti/">http://www.citylights.com/ferlinghetti/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.citylights.com/Resources/titles/87286100560980/Images/87286100560980L.jpg" lang="EN" rel="lytebox" title="cover: A Coney Island of the Mind"><img alt="A Coney Island of the Mind" class="coverImage" src="http://www.citylights.com/Resources/titles/87286100560980/Images/87286100560980M.jpg" /></a><br />
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This is the book that I read of his<br />
A Coney Island of the Mind...a kind of circus of the soul...1958...<br />
(there is also a 50th Anniv edition for sale)<br />
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"...This special 50th Anniversary Edition comes with a newly recorded CD of the author reading the 29 poems of the title section of <i>A Coney Island of the Mind</i> as well as selections from <i>Pictures of the Gone World</i>."<br />
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(note: I may have to revisit this book, these poems & let the author Ferlinghetti himself read them to me...which I think is the best, to have 'the' author themselves read their works outloud?!)<br />
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<strong>Beat's I have read...</strong><br />
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<strong>Allen Ginsberg</strong><br />
Howl, Illuminated Poems (illustrated by <strong>Eric Drooker</strong>*)<br />
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<strong>Williams S. Burroughs</strong><br />
The Yage Letters, Queer (I could not finish Naked Lunch)<br />
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<strong>Jack Kerouac</strong><br />
(hmm...did I read the Road trilogy...you know, On The Road/The Dharma Bums/Big Sur, or not--I no longer own these books so right now I don't remember, as college was a long/Long time ago in a land far/Far away...or thereafter when I took years of Creative Writing, again too many books read/too many words away...)<br />
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<strong>Peter Orlovsky</strong><br />
Straight Hearts' Delight...<br />
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<strong>Neal Cassady</strong><br />
(thought I'd read him, but maybe just 'about' him in these other's books/letters...as I've browsed thru his book list on GoodReads but don't recall any of them...)<br />
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*<strong>Eric Drooker</strong> - webpage link...<br />
<a href="http://www.drooker.com/books/illuminated.html">http://www.drooker.com/books/illuminated.html</a><br />
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link to the phrase the Beat Generation on Wikipedia...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation</a><br />
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but I am sad to say I have 'not' read the Women Beat's...<br />
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<span class="mw-headline"></span><em>The female contemporaries of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs were intimately involved in the creation of Beat philosophy and literature, and yet remain markedly absent from the mainstream interpretation of the most important aspects and figures of the movement. Further, the Beat writings of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs often portray female characters in flat, traditional gender roles most typical of an ideal 1950s American housewife. Rather than offering liberation from social norms, Beat culture actually often marginalized and further culturally repressed American women and, more specifically, many of the female writers of the time period. Although women are less acknowledged in histories of the first Beat Generation, the omission may be due more to the period's </em><em>sexism</em><em> than the reality. </em><br />
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<em>Joan Vollmer</em><em> for instance did not write, although she appears as a minor figure in multiple authors' works.<sup> </sup>She has become legendary as the wife of William S. Burroughs, documented in Kerouac's novels, and killed by Burroughs in a drunken game of </em><em>William Tell</em><em>. Corso and Diane Di Prima, among others, insist that there were female Beats, but that it was more difficult for women to get away with a Bohemian existence in that era.</em><br />
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<em>Notable Beat Generation women who have been published include Edie Parker; </em><em>Joyce Johnson</em><em>; </em><em>Carolyn Cassady</em><em>; </em><em>Hettie Jones</em><em>; </em><em>Joanne Kyger</em><em>; </em><em>Harriet Sohmers Zwerling</em><em>; </em><em>Diane DiPrima</em><em>; and </em><em>Ruth Weiss</em><em>, who also made films. Poet </em><em>Elise Cowen</em><em> took her life in 1963. Later, women emerged who claimed to be strongly influenced by the Beats, including </em><em>Janine Pommy Vega</em><em> in the 1960s, </em><em>Patti Smith</em><em> in the 1970s, and </em><em>Hedwig Gorski</em><em> in the 1980s."</em><br />
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link to Wiki about Lawrence Ferlinghetti...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti</a><br />
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link to Wiki about just this one book of his--A Coney Island of the Mind...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Coney_Island_of_the_Mind">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Coney_Island_of_the_Mind</a><br />
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3 sets of poems: 29 poems
under same title as the book - 7 poems under title of Oral Messages (to be read aloud/accompanied by live jazz) - 13 poems from
his 1st book of poetry: Pictures of the Gone World, 1955<br />
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link to YouTube - Lawrence Ferlinghetti actually reading his poems during Lunch Poems...15:25...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/prJdq9BjAvQ">http://youtu.be/prJdq9BjAvQ</a><br />
"why is there darkness at night..."<br />
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link to YouTube - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Poetry Reading in the Cellar with Cellar Jazz Quintet - The Statue of St Francis...2:08...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/nfZW-4LFGfw">http://youtu.be/nfZW-4LFGfw</a><br />
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"I Am Waiting" & "Junkman's Obbligato" were both written (so says Wiki) for jazz accompaniment...<br />
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link to the poem - "Junkman's Obbligato" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti - from his A Coney Island of the Mind book of poetry...<br />
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/oh/BringUsAnotherBeer/junkman.html">http://www.angelfire.com/oh/BringUsAnotherBeer/junkman.html</a><br />
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link to documentary movie: Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder...2009...<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251754/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251754/</a><br />
or the orig title: Ferlinghetti: A City Light<br />
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti<br />
aka Lawrence Ferling<br />
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link to Ferlinghetti Film Trailer...2:26...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Vgec1sXIaiw">http://youtu.be/Vgec1sXIaiw</a><br />
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link to Trailer for documentary...2:36...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/7loxs9m5YC4">http://youtu.be/7loxs9m5YC4</a><br />
a Dutch Rainbow Trailer, but there are as well 2 Trailer videos on IMDB--see link above...<br />
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link to Blog City Lights...Feb 6, 2013 post about...Trailer: Ferlinghetti, A Rebirth of Wonder...<br />
<a href="http://www.blogcitylights.com/2013/02/06/trailer-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder/">http://www.blogcitylights.com/2013/02/06/trailer-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder/</a><br />
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What it says about the Director/Producer...<br />
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<em>"Christopher Felver is a photographer and filmmaker. He’s maintained a longstanding friendship with Ferlinghetti, beginning with the collaborative book, Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre in 1984. Critic Peter Frank wrote, “Felver’s oeuvre has documented the American intellectual class – it’s thinkers, its writers, its artists, the people who have been shaping the higher discourse in our country since the 1950’s.” His latest book, Beat, is a collection of over 400 photographs and ephemera from his involvement with the Beat generation."</em><br />
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link to film's play dates on First Run Features...<br />
<a href="http://firstrunfeatures.com/ferlinghetti_playdates.html">http://firstrunfeatures.com/ferlinghetti_playdates.html</a><br />
taking note--played in NOLA before coming to Lafayette at Cite des Arts...<br />
other than that it's been in NY, MA, OH, VA & last on the schedule for this year IN<br />
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link to how teachers review the documentary movie for students...<br />
<a href="http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/Books-Films/Reviews/2009-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder-movie-review.htm">http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/Books-Films/Reviews/2009-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder-movie-review.htm</a><br />
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<em>"We strongly recommend this film for illustrating the counterculture of the 1950s, and how it influenced future generations."</em><br />
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link to Cite des Arts - Calendar - April 13, 2013 - 8:00 pm film - for the Festival of Words shown by Cane Fire Film Series, along with a Silent Auction, Catering, Beat Poetry Readings prior to film...<br />
<a href="http://www.citedesarts.org/Cite_des_Arts/Calendar_Tickets.html">http://www.citedesarts.org/Cite_des_Arts/Calendar_Tickets.html</a><br />
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link to Cane Fire Film Series - Facebook Page...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CaneFireFilmSeries">https://www.facebook.com/CaneFireFilmSeries</a><br />
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link to The Vermilion article by Corey Vaughn: Cane Fire Film Series Brings Indie Movies to Lafayette...speaking with Michael Scott Myers - the film series producer in August--after the Cane Fire Film Series started last year in May 2012...<br />
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<a href="http://www.thevermilion.com/cane-fire-film-series-brings-indie-movies-to-laf-1.2885366">http://www.thevermilion.com/cane-fire-film-series-brings-indie-movies-to-laf-1.2885366</a><br />
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(so far in the Series I've seen: A Cat in Paris, Nobody Else But You, A Royal Affair, Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder... this has been amazing that we've gotten these films here in Lafayette, LA - usually showing at the LITE Center, this last film due to the Festival of Words/Auction/Beat Poetry Reading was shown at the Cite des Arts in downtown Lafayette...)<br />
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link to The Ind article...Cane Fire Films Series Presents...Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder...<br />
<a href="http://www.theind.com/a-a-e/arts-a-entertainment-stories/13483-cane-fire-films-series-presents-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder">http://www.theind.com/a-a-e/arts-a-entertainment-stories/13483-cane-fire-films-series-presents-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder</a><br />
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<img alt="ferlnghetti" src="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2013/02/ferlinghetti_a_rebirth_of_wonder.jpg" /><br />
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and his hero--Charlie Chaplin...(ie: the hat, the bowler hat)<br />
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link to KATC - Channel 3 - Acadiana - Lafayette...<br />
<a href="http://www.katc.com/events/fundraiser-for-festival-of-words-with-film-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder/">http://www.katc.com/events/fundraiser-for-festival-of-words-with-film-ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder/</a><br />
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link to Acadiana Theatre Happenings - Blog - Fundraiser / Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder...<br />
<a href="http://acadianatheatrehappenings.blogspot.com/2013/04/fundraiser-ferlinghetti-rebirth-of.html">http://acadianatheatrehappenings.blogspot.com/2013/04/fundraiser-ferlinghetti-rebirth-of.html</a><br />
by Brady McKellar (aka Wanderlust Theater)<br />
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link to NUNU Arts & Culture Collective...<br />
<a href="http://www.nunucollective.org/">http://www.nunucollective.org/</a><br />
Casa Azul Fundraiser...Let's keep Festival of Words articulating...Screening of "Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder" ...at Cite des Arts in Lafayette...come out & help keep words going...<br />
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<a href="http://deepsouthmag.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="National Poetry Month" border="1" src="http://www.deepsouthmag.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/NPM2013_logo_350.jpg" /></a><br />
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Nat'l Poetry Month...<br />
but of course--so what a 'perfect' time for the Festival of Words, for a Beat Poetry Reading, for a documentary film to come to Cite des Arts - Lafayette, LA...<br />
"Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder" <br />
Ferlinghetti--a poet, among many another hat that he wore (activist, artist--painter, Charlie Chaplin fan...)<br />
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link to some/three poems by Jerry McGuire (PhD UL Professor English Dept) who headed up the beat poetry performances before the documentary & he read, at the end of the performance pieces, a poem of Lawrence Ferlinghetti that was not in the film entitled He...<br />
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<a href="http://hoboeye.com/2007/01/poetry-jerry-mcguire-lafayette-louisiana/">http://hoboeye.com/2007/01/poetry-jerry-mcguire-lafayette-louisiana/</a><br />
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Two Dances - 1) Square 2) Triangle<br />
Dreaming Wakes Me<br />
(I know this blog post is dated 2007, but this is just a quick sample of his poetry/his poems)<br />
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<img alt="" height="130" src="http://users.lusfiber.net/~jerry.mcguire/images/dist%20prof05_judith_me.jpg" width="200" /><br />
Judith & Jerry<br />
looked pretty much the same at the beat poetry reading/documentary film showing of Ferlinghetti<br />
(except he's in a different jacket, a b/w striped one)<br />
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<a href="http://english.louisiana.edu/creativewriting/creative%20writing%20faculty%20jerry%20mcguire.html">http://english.louisiana.edu/creativewriting/creative%20writing%20faculty%20jerry%20mcguire.html</a><br />
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<em>"Much of his work is poetry and experimental fiction done in collaboration with musicians, dancers, and visual artists and designed for specific performance environments.."</em><br />
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(taking note I came at the end of the beat poetry performances this evening, so only heard 1other poem read by a girl with a nearly shaved head somewhat Sinead looking--that I liked a lot & should of asked afterwards about her/her poem...there were chimes in the background & some guitar sounds as well, while she held a circle of tamborine cymbals--a headless tamborine...that I've not seen before...almost a bracelet size circle...she mentioned her poem was in the fashion of someone else, that I'm guessing was also done as a performance type piece as this one was...)<br />
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Darrell Bourque, Louisiana Poet Laureate from years past, 2007-08 & 2009-11, was in the audience, but I'm not sure if he was one of the earlier beat poets reading or not during the evening--at the end of it all I do know that he & his friends, obviously great supporters of Festival of Words, walked away with a lot of the Silent Auction Art...including that recycle fish I bid on?! (He probably doesn't remember but in a time long ago during Deep South Writer's Conference earlier years, at USL then. I was there & I tried to write & I tried to write poetry & I took a Writer's Workshop for Poetry with him, remembering he was very kind at the time & imagine he still is as he's still teaching, only it's UL these days...)<br />
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link to Deep South Magazine--under Literary Events...<br />
<a href="http://deepsouthmag.com/2013/03/literary-friday-edition-50/">http://deepsouthmag.com/2013/03/literary-friday-edition-50/</a><br />
(note: barely a paragraph...sigh...rather sad--but there was the Nat'l Poetry Month poster above, in the sidebar, so--that was something...)<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Howlandotherpoems.jpeg"><img alt="File:Howlandotherpoems.jpeg" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Howlandotherpoems.jpeg" width="155" /></a><br />
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link to Howl - 1955 - Wikipedia...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl</a><br />
Pocket Poet Series from City Lights Publishing/Bookshop<br />
co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti<br />
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line...<br />
"who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue... the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising"<br />
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reference...<br />
"Ginsberg worked as a market researcher for Towne-Oller Associates in San Francisco, on Montgomery Street, not Madison Avenue.<sup>"</sup><br />
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(note: I find this hilarious...for more than one reason, but one of which is that I majored in Marketing in college & continually find that amusing..."fairies of advertising"...& so wanted to crack into Advertising that I considered a move to Houston, TX from Lafayette, LA--because I was told there was 'no' Marketing Jobs here..way Way back when...more amusement...)<br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author/4261.Allen_Ginsberg" rel="nofollow" title="Allen Ginsberg"><img alt="Allen Ginsberg" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1206649831p5/4261.jpg" /></a><br />
photo credit: GoodReads.com Author Profile<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4261.Allen_Ginsberg">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4261.Allen_Ginsberg</a><br />
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"Howl" Allen Ginsberg...27:00...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/2p_kKhRmRkM">http://youtu.be/2p_kKhRmRkM</a><br />
(he reads his poem, but you don't see him while he's reading...still...I have read this very long poem, but I had never heard him/the author reading it himself...)<br />
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"...forget your underwear we are free..."<br />
Holy--hipsters?? did he say hipsters? curious--we still have them, but are they the same...hmmm...<br />
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link to the Wiki for the movie - Howl - Allen Ginsberg played by James Franco...2010...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl_(film">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl_(film</a>)<br />
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...1957 obscenity trial of San Francisco poet and City Lights Bookstore co-founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti who was the first person to publish "Howl" in <i>Howl and Other Poems</i>.<br />
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Andrew Rodgers played Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the movie<br />
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link to "Howl" the movie trailer - James Franco playing Allen Ginsberg...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Ba9yazkl0UE">http://youtu.be/Ba9yazkl0UE</a><br />
love the last line of the trailer...<br />
"there is no beat generation, just a bunch of guys trying to get published" (hah)<br />
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Trish Ransom - Artist<br />
Recycle Art<br />
Fish<br />
Auction Fundraiser for Festival of Words<br />
before the Beat Poetry Readings<br />
before the documentary film screening<br />
of Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder<br />
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link to her Artist's webpage & more of her fish...<br />
<a href="http://www.debrisart.com/fish.html">http://www.debrisart.com/fish.html</a><br />
(note: I did bid on this fish, but someone else came behind me & bid $5.00 more & got it...this too after I was teasing a writer friend who was suppose to come but didn't that I would then be the one to win this fish--even went so far as posting this photo, adding--this is my fish & a mwah hah hah I believe on top of that?! I shouldna known better...so in the end I did not bid $5.00 more dollars than that & did not win the bid, did not get to bring this fun recycle art/debris art home...which I have to add that since I'm a Pisces I like creative fish art in all forms especially...sigh...my only saving grace is that she does make more fish & she will be at local festivals again where I can find her/her fish again too...all for a good cause though will not be involved like this time for the Festival of Words Fundraiser--but it will still help the Local Arts/the Local Artist so that's gonna be OK too...)<br />
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Trish Ransom's Debris Art - Fish<br />
Reading her Schedule I see she'll be at Festival International--so I'm set, less than 2 weeks away?!<br />
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link to Festival International - Marche des Arts/Vendors...<br />
<a href="http://www.festivalinternational.com/site454.php">http://www.festivalinternational.com/site454.php</a><br />
she's on the list...from Grand Coteau, LA--Debris Art<br />
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the 100th post<br />
big round numbers get to me<br />
they are markers<br />
for what in this case--perhaps to say it's a Blog, a real Blog<br />
or as writerly as I am able to get<br />
until I move again to start another<br />
Rain in Doha<br />
Rain in Houston<br />
Rain in Stavanger<br />
Rain in Lafayette<br />
Rain in ?? <br />
I just don't know nor will guess<br />
curiously this 4th city/blog has 3 followers & 3 comments<br />
which earlier ones had Zero to None, or maybe One?!<br />
(3's tho have always been a lucky/fav number of mine)<br />
but I am 'not' playing a numbers game here<br />
just taking note it's One Hundred Posts on a Blog Today<br />
and not taking note what that all might work out into pages for say, a book<br />
if I were to be writing one & not posts in a blog on Blogger...<br />
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Like Water for Chocolate<br />
a book in 1989 by Laura Esquivel<br />
became a movie in 1992 by Alfonso Arau<br />
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link to the movie...<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103994/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103994/</a><br />
Original Title: "Como Agua para Chocolate"<br />
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<em>"title refers to a colloquial phrase used by the Spanish that means an extremity of feeling. </em><br />
<em>It refers to a boiling point in terms of anger, passion and sexuality."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cooking_2-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Esquivel#cite_note-Cooking-2"></a></sup></em><br />
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link to the book...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Like-Water-Chocolate-Installments-Romances/dp/038542017X">http://www.amazon.com/Like-Water-Chocolate-Installments-Romances/dp/038542017X</a><br />
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book cover in the USA<br />
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link to her other books...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Laura-Esquivel/e/B000AQ0UHC/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1">http://www.amazon.com/Laura-Esquivel/e/B000AQ0UHC/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1</a><br />
(I think I'd like to read "Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Live, Love, Food & Flavor" a book of hers from 2001)<br />
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link to a book of essays about her fictions...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Laura-Esquivels-Mexican-Fictions-Chocolate/dp/1845194101">http://www.amazon.com/Laura-Esquivels-Mexican-Fictions-Chocolate/dp/1845194101</a><br />
(edited by Elizabeth Moore Willingham...if you really/Really want to know more...as I've seen the price of this book from $44 up to $69?!)<br />
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link about the author...<br />
<a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/8751-like-water-for-chocolate-esquivel?start=1">http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/8751-like-water-for-chocolate-esquivel?start=1</a><br />
(from Lit Lovers...adapted from Wikipedia - am not sure why it dates the movie at 1994 when have read 1992, but then in other references in 1993...maybe something to do with in Spanish then in translated/subtitled...)<br />
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link to a bio about the author...<br />
<a href="http://www.biography.com/people/laura-esquivel-185854">http://www.biography.com/people/laura-esquivel-185854</a><br />
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link to Wiki...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Water_for_Chocolate">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Water_for_Chocolate</a><br />
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link to SparkNotes...<br />
<a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/">http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/likewater/</a><br />
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link to Sunday Observer about Como Agua para Chocolate...<br />
<a href="http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2010/05/23/mon20.asp">http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2010/05/23/mon20.asp</a><br />
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author photo from articlea:<br />
Boom & Beyond by Claudia Anderson<br />
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one more link to what Encyclopedia has to say about the novelist...<br />
<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3433700032.html">http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3433700032.html</a><br />
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Note: there is a younger TV girl named the same as the author only a different middle name so ignore all mentions of her if you can...<br />
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lastly the link to the recipes - because every chapter in Like Water for Chocolate begins with a recipe <br />
<a href="http://www.kitchenlink.com/mf/15/1226">http://www.kitchenlink.com/mf/15/1226</a><br />
(taking note that even tho all the chapters are named after the months of the calendar, I'm told they don't necessarily follow the months of the year in the events in the chapters)<br />
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Christmas Rolls<br />
Quail in RosePetal Sauce *a famous scene in the movie<br />
Turkey Mole with Almonds & Sesame Seeds<br />
Northern Style Chorizo<br />
Champandongo<br />
Chocolate & Three Kings Day Bread<br />
Three Kings Day Bread<br />
Cream Fritters<br />
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and here in 2013 on April 7, a Sunday<br />
a lecture by the CG Jung Society of Lafayette<br />
the speaker: Charlene Henry<br />
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a Jungian Psychotherapist<br />
with a MSW, LCSW & currently a Diploma Candidate<br />
at the Centre for Research & Study in Depth Psychology<br />
according to CG Jung & Marie Louise Von Franz<br />
in Zurich, Switzerland<br />
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link to the Research & Training Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung & Marie-Louise Von Franz...<br />
<a href="http://www.centre-dp.org/index.php?id=2&L=2">http://www.centre-dp.org/index.php?id=2&L=2</a><br />
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link to C.G. (Carl Gustav) Jung Wikipedia...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung</a><br />
(I think I may want to know more about Emma Jung, his wife, as she was a psychoanalyst & author...link to her Wiki: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Jung">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Jung</a> )<br />
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link to the CG Jung Society of Lafayette...<br />
<a href="http://cgjunglafayettela.org/?page_id=2">http://cgjunglafayettela.org/?page_id=2</a><br />
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link to another Jung talk by Charlene Henry on this same subject at Chapman Univ last year...<br />
<a href="http://www.junginoc.org/2012-12-02.htm">http://www.junginoc.org/2012-12-02.htm</a><br />
(note: consider the drawing of the book cover Like Water for Chocolate on this webpage, different than any other I've seen so far)<br />
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link to a different talk at the CG Jung Society of Baton Rouge - on Synchronicity the CG Jung Society of New Orleans...<br />
<a href="http://www.jungneworleans.org/images/BRFall08.pdf">http://www.jungneworleans.org/images/BRFall08.pdf</a><br />
(her talk entitled: "The Spindle, The Shuttle and The Needle: An Interpretation of the Tale by the Brothers Grimm")<br />
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regarding the Alchemy View<br />
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image from carl-jung.net webpage under Jung & Alchemy...<br />
<a href="http://www.carl-jung.net/alchemy.html">http://www.carl-jung.net/alchemy.html</a><br />
(note: Charlene Henry in her lecture also used this same image among her many during her multi-media presentation of Like Water for Chocolate: An Alchemy View)<br />
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link to an Alchemy Website...<br />
<a href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/index.html">http://www.alchemywebsite.com/index.html</a><br />
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link to Wiki - Alchemy...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy</a><br />
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link to a blog & more about Alchemy but especially the imagery used...<br />
<a href="http://taicarmen.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/alchemy-an-allegorical-map-to-consciousness-transmutation/">http://taicarmen.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/alchemy-an-allegorical-map-to-consciousness-transmutation/</a><br />
(or as well Google Image Alchemy & see what all comes up... the 2nd image in this blog used was also one in Charlene Henry's lecture/multi-media presentation of Like Water for Chocolate: An Alchemy View)<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="300" src="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/images/kafanov_flask.jpg" width="300" /><br />
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Contemporary Artists influenced by Alchemy...<br />
<a href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/contemp_artists.html">http://www.alchemywebsite.com/contemp_artists.html</a><br />
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Handout from the speaker - Charlene Henry - An Alchemy View - Like Water for Chocolate...<br />
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<em><strong>Alchemical Terms</strong></em><br />
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<em><strong>Chaos</strong> - the state of confusion & disorder</em><br />
<em><strong>Prima materia</strong> - is the basic material that arises out of the chaos & upon which the work is done</em><br />
<em><strong>Opus</strong> - the work & the processes of alchemy</em><br />
<em><strong>Laboratory</strong> - the place or setting where the work is done</em><br />
<em><strong>Vas or Vessel</strong> - container which holds the prima material & in which the work is done</em><br />
<em><strong>Elements</strong> - basics of all mater (system used from Green times thru the Renaissance)</em><br />
<em>All matter is a combination of these: Earth, Air, Fire, Water</em><br />
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<em><strong>Properties of Elements</strong> - </em><em>cold, hot, wet, dry</em><br />
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<em>Earth (cold, dry)</em><br />
<em>Air (hot, moist)</em><br />
<em>Fire (hot, dry)</em><br />
<em>Water (cold, moist)</em><br />
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<em>*Hellenic Physics - there is a drawing of this, a square within a diamond shape & each triangle of each corner is the element & between them the properties...(see below)</em><br />
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<em><strong>States of Alchemy</strong> -</em><br />
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<em>Nigredo (black) - the darkest phase</em><br />
<em>Albedo (white) - the purified stage</em><br />
<em>Rubedo (red) - the stage of adding blood & feeling</em><br />
<em>[my note: she excluded (yellow) Citrinitus...perhaps because it didn't pertain to this story]</em><br />
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<em><strong>Alchemical Operations</strong> - are the processes that prima materia goes thru</em><br />
<em>each operation had a specific function that can be looked at both materially </em><em>& psychologically</em><br />
<em>they do not appear or occur in any particular order</em><br />
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<em>1) Calcination - </em><em>assoc w/fire</em><br />
<em> M (material aspect) drying or burning things to ash</em><br />
<em> P (psychological aspect) taking all emotions out of complexes</em><br />
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<em>2) Solutio - assoc w/water</em><br />
<em> M dissolving material to its undifferentiated form</em><br />
<em> P a softening or dissolving of rigid patterns & ideas</em><br />
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<em>3) Coagulatio - assoc w/earth</em><br />
<em> M taking a fixed form or shape - ex: water becomes ice</em><br />
<em> P something becomes concretized & attached to our egos </em><em>(we get it & it becomes a part of us)</em><br />
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<em>4) Sublimatio - assoc w/air</em><br />
<em> M material turns into gaseous form</em><br />
<em> P to move from concrete to symbolic way of seeing</em><br />
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<em>5) Mortificatio - assoc w/rotting & death</em><br />
<em> M decomposition of matter</em><br />
<em> P dealing w/the shadow & evil, the death of the egocentric ego, </em><em>precedes new life</em><br />
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<em>6) Separatio - to divide or pull apart</em><br />
<em> M dividing material into its component parts (H2O - oxygen, hydrogen)</em><br />
<em> P discrimination, awareness of opposites - I - Other</em><br />
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<em>7) Coniunctio - wholly new 3rd substance</em><br />
<em> P a creative resolution of conflict thru the transcendent function</em><br />
<em> a untion of the conscious & the unconscious</em><br />
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<em> Lesser Coniunctio - joining of 2 things that are not ready to be united</em><br />
<em> this leads to mortificatio "back to the drawing board"</em><br />
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<em> Greater Coniunctio - the goal of the work</em><br />
<em> out of the 2 comes something new which is the 3rd</em><br />
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<em>Fire - 4 degrees of fire used: </em><br />
<em>1) Intense, powerful - Calcinatio (Aries)</em><br />
<em>2) Gentle - Solutio (Cancer)</em><br />
<em>3) Medium - Sublimatio (Libra)</em><br />
<em>4) Constant & Lukewarm - Putrefaction/aspects of Mortificatio </em><em>(Capricorn) </em><br />
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<em>Basic Principles...at play - paradoxical & multi-faceted, they cross over</em><br />
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<em>1) Salt - related to the body because it is a solid (Paracelsus)</em><br />
<em> as soul it prevades all things (Jung)</em><br />
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<em>2) Sulphur - "with its property of greasy, oily combustibility it mediates in the position of the soul"</em><br />
<em> (Paracelsus/The Hermetic Museum p 28) </em><br />
<em> as spirit it ignites (Jung)</em><br />
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<em>3) Mercury - the fluid principle w/a tendency towards spirit </em><em>the volatile intellect (Paracelsus)</em><br />
<em> as body it is the prima material & "the stone" (Jung)</em><br />
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link to the full wiki where I found the drawing for the Hellenic Physics...<br />
<a href="http://www.thefullwiki.org/Classical_element">http://www.thefullwiki.org/Classical_element</a><br />
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(my note: find it interesting that there is mention this was made with the qualities of the Mediterranean climate by the Greeks, so perhaps in other areas there may not be these qualities to the elements)<br />
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a total aside re: women on fire...<br />
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Girl on Fire - Alicia Keys<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/J91ti_MpdHA">http://youtu.be/J91ti_MpdHA</a><br />
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Fire Woman - The Cult<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/qavSfl1jATU">http://youtu.be/qavSfl1jATU</a><br />
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Women on Fire book<br />
Women on Fire retreat<br />
Women on Fire organization<br />
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The Girl on Fire<br />
Hunger Games - Katniss Everdeen - that red dress aflame at her hem, after the chariot entrance w/flames behind her head...<br />
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YouTube by Hunger Gamz of the scene in the red dress...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/S2sXXG3tTaI">http://youtu.be/S2sXXG3tTaI</a><br />
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woman holding fire sculpture from Burning Man 2009 - photograph - DeClan McCullagh...<br />
<a href="http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/1ds3-3/woman-holding-fire-sculpture">http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/1ds3-3/woman-holding-fire-sculpture</a><br />
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link to someone else who went to Burning Man 2009 & took a photo of the Woman Holding Fire, but again no credit to the artist/s who made her...<br />
<a href="http://ablogawayfromhome.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html">http://ablogawayfromhome.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html</a><br />
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<br />Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-78915899442396970872013-04-01T00:53:00.001-05:002013-04-01T16:55:53.801-05:00Brief Encounters of the Photography KindBrief encounters of a photographer/film makers mind<br />
in small towns of Massachusetts/America that were made into a documentary<br />
which just this past January showed in Houston, TX<br />
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at the MFA H<br />
<a href="http://www.mfah.org/films/gregory-crewdson-brief-encounters/">http://www.mfah.org/films/gregory-crewdson-brief-encounters/</a><br />
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and I missed it<br />
I read this after the fact in March<br />
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in Culture Map Houston...<br />
<a href="http://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/houston-premieres-screening-gregory-crewdson-brief/">http://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/houston-premieres-screening-gregory-crewdson-brief/</a><br />
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when I found the webpage I then found out that it will not be showing in LA<br />
(as in Louisiana) at all this year looks like - unless something changes<br />
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<a href="http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/">http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/</a><br />
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this makes me sad, I have missed it in TX & now no chance most likely in LA<br />
I want this movie to come to LA, if not Lafayette then New Orleans (aka NOLA--no matter how that abbreviation drives locals mad I like it...)<br />
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photo credit from mfah.org webpage...courtesy of Zeitgeist Films<br />
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I haven't yet decided if it makes me feel like a David Lynch film does<br />
or a "Norman Rockwell meets Norman Bates" image <br />
(as his work has for real been described with this fitting phrase--think Psycho, the movie...)<br />
or if I possibly question is it art? is it photography? is it surreal?<br />
(when I read he doesn't actually use a camera, other folks now push that button)<br />
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<a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg"><img alt="Gregory Crewdson 2.jpg" height="147" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg/220px-Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg/330px-Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg/440px-Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg 2x" width="220" /></a><br />
photo credit: wikipedia 2007 on location in Pittsfield, MA<br />
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but I have questions--so I watched the YouTubes, I am still fascinated...<br />
And I may one day flip thru the one Art book of his or I may one day see a gallery showing of a set of his photographs (he is afterall only 50 yrs old)<br />
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I am still perplexed how I can know about Diane Arbus & Norman Rockwell & David Lynch & yet...I don't think I've ever known about Gregory Crewdson & his photography--is it because I'm a Southerner that I missed out? I just don't know but it's curious when someone this (so said) big slips by you (even 'with' the internet...or that is until now?!)<br />
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Houston Premiers - Gregory Credson: Brief Encounters...<br />
<a href="http://www.mfah.org/films/gregory-crewdson-brief-encounters/">http://www.mfah.org/films/gregory-crewdson-brief-encounters/</a><br />
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"<em>The meticulously composed, large-scale images of photographer Gregory Crewdson are stunning, psychological narratives of small-town American life. Shot over a decade, this documentary follows the artist during the elaborate process of staging his shoots using set-ups as complicated as moviemaking. Crewdson discusses his family background and his influences, who include Diane Arbus, Edward Hopper, and David Lynch. Speaking about his creative process, Crewdson observes, 'the whole act of making art is an act of faith.' "</em><br />
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<em>“A brilliant new documentary about the work of one of America’s greatest living photographers.” —Flash Magazine (UK)</em></div>
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<br />
Gregory Crewdson Movie - Brief Encounters - Documentary by Ben Shapiro...<br />
<a href="http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/">http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/</a><br />
(a 10 year quest...time is in the eyes of the beholder...it says it's showing Nationwide & then going Global--Well, somebody doesn't think Louisiana is in the Nation then...nor Global, because nowhere on the Screenings list do I see it coming here--to Lafayette or New Orleans or where ever else nearby...)<br />
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Gregory Crewdson Wikipedia...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson</a><br />
(one can only imagine what it must feel like to have a whole Wiki entry written about you)<br />
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YouTube - Gregory Crewdson Brief Encounters Trailer 2012 Photographer Documentary Movie...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/FlU9yvu3u7A">http://youtu.be/FlU9yvu3u7A</a><br />
Director - Ben Shapiro<br />
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29:48 radio interview of Ben Shapiro & Gregory Crewdson on BBox Radio - Nov 3, 2012...<br />
<a href="http://www.bboxradio.com/filmwax-radio/1255-filmmaker-ben-shapiro-and-photographer-gregory-crewdson.html">http://www.bboxradio.com/filmwax-radio/1255-filmmaker-ben-shapiro-and-photographer-gregory-crewdson.html</a> (that's Brooklyn Community Radio - Filmwax Radio #1255...the interviewer & Gregory went to summer camp together--jumping off Tushy Rock, skinny dipping...ah memories from like 40 yrs ago...)<br />
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<img alt="shapiro crewdson schartoff2" src="http://www.bboxradio.com/images/resized/images/shapiro_crewdson_schartoff2_300_300.jpg" /><br />
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YouTube - Gregory Crewdson by Close Up...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Z5hpPYabi94">http://youtu.be/Z5hpPYabi94</a><br />
(Keep watching after the beginning in a foreign language, think it's Dutch - also you can ignore the subtitles along the way too, as it's 53:02 min's long - have to wonder if this might be the whole documentary right here on YouTube?! no, looked that up--it's 79 min's the whole thing) #avrocloseup<br />
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what I gathered from watching the video...<br />
<br />
some prints go for $125,000 a print - mentions that could be the cost of an Indie Movie for just one print<br />
<br />
and he tries to long distance swim, curious, but then could it be just another form of meditation--instead of a walking meditation (which I've done at a Zen Center before) it's a swimming meditation...he mentions getting lost in a rhythm - which in regards to water I'll find at times in faucet water running as I wash a lot of dishes, you can get lost in the rhythm & it sends your mind off elsewhere (to your imagination, to images...) then it's good for ideas or when you're working something out (like it bubbles up to the surface, if you're distracted physically/bodily with some kind of activity...)<br />
<br />
for him it sounds like it's definitely the devil's in the details, all the details, someone mentions could be a 1,000 details in one print/one shot, all of which he's made some decision about... (aka "marvilously obsessive" she says...) another would like to time how long folks will stand in front of one of his prints... (as I'm mesmerized by a tiny online photo of Beneath the Roses I can imagine I could also stand a long while in front of it for real..)<br />
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Beneath the Roses<br />
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dynamic between beauty and sadness<br />
<br />
his photographs are grounded in a psychology...oddly enough, or not, his father was a psychoanalyst<br />
so he understood the psychological power & urgency that a photograph could have...that sense of awe & terror...at 10 yrs old being taken to a gallery showing of Diane Arbus black & white photographs at MOMA by this father...<br />
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Diane Arbus Wikipedia...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus</a><br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Eddie_Carmel_and_parents%2C_1970.jpg"><img alt="File:Eddie Carmel and parents, 1970.jpg" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Eddie_Carmel_and_parents%2C_1970.jpg" width="192" /></a><br />
photo credit: Wikipedia - Diane Arbus - Eddie Carmel & Parents<br />
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Diane Arbus Photography...webpage...where you can flip thru her black & white photographs...<br />
<a href="http://diane-arbus-photography.com/">http://diane-arbus-photography.com/</a><br />
(pg 83 backyard family, maybe, man, woman, sunbathing, child, wading pool...would love to take that on as a writing exercise...tho Gregory Crewdson in his documentary mentions the Giant in the living room--pg 87...am guessing I can't copy/paste these other black & white photos that aren't over on Wikipedia...)<br />
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usually it takes 2 days to make his photos - at twilight - where they can use the lights - for his search for a 'perfect moment' in a way... that perfect 'still' moment...& in that instance he thinks his life makes sense...<br />
<br />
The Speedies...Let me take your photo, photograph song...his HS/teen band...for a yr of NY success...then 25 yrs later HP uses it for a commercial (I've watched those on TV & never knew...)<br />
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Here you can watch the so called 'punk rock' band sing the song for yourself...from 1979--talk about a blast from the past...Let me take your photo...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/x8XluynKckE">http://youtu.be/x8XluynKckE</a><br />
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And someone guessing who the band/song was for the HP commerical...<br />
<a href="http://www.palebear.com/let-me-take-your-photo-the-speedies-hp-commercial/2005/">http://www.palebear.com/let-me-take-your-photo-the-speedies-hp-commercial/2005/</a><br />
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(so then Gregory Crewdson was most likely Greg Zap...funny he didn't mention that tiny detail in current documentary/videos/interviews or that I've found, yet--we loved Frank Zappa at our house too, so can well relate to a shorter version of Zap...or was he after something totally different & more 'electric' or 'shocking' maybe...hmm...one will never know unless some crazed interviewer decides to go off the charts & 'not' talk about his current art/photographs/process & goes dig way/Way back when to ask him about his HS band stage/fake name while he was living in Brooklyn as a teen...)<br />
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About those HP Commericals...Pictures of You by the Kinks to start...or the You + hp campaign...included: Road Trip, while a women is dressed, which features The Speedies--Let me take your photo song...<br />
<a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2006/hp-pictures-of-you/">http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2006/hp-pictures-of-you/</a><br />
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And the YouTube of the HP Commercial--Road Trip...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/5M4EoHdPCXI">http://youtu.be/5M4EoHdPCXI</a><br />
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never under estimate the power/pull of a girl...so the boy takes a photography class because she's into photography...<br />
<br />
at Yale program of doc photogrpahy tradition while in NY galleries he was seeing Cindy Sherman/Laurie Simmons & others in galleries...using fictions & constructs...<br />
<br />
then he watched the movie Blue Velvet by David Lynch (I've seen that movie & we're not talking that National Velvet/goodie two shoes kind of movie mind you either...)<br />
<br />
to refresh yourself of David Lynch...the Blue Velvet trailer...teaser...1986...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/fQA0OWJiios">http://youtu.be/fQA0OWJiios</a><br />
(adore Isabella Rossellini...)<br />
<br />
like Hopper returns to the same places over & over...look for the setting to tell one of his stories... location scouting--without a camera, keeps in his head...a vantage point...<br />
<br />
my fav of Edward Hopper - Nighthawks...I know it's popular, but still am drawn in by it...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks</a><br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Nighthawks.jpg"><img alt="File:Nighthawks.jpg" height="109" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Nighthawks.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
photo credit: Wikipedia<br />
Nighthawks - Edward Hopper - 1942<br />
<br />
a haunted quality...to these small abandoned towns (like Lee, Pittsfield--MA...) that are captured in these photographs...<br />
<br />
in a cabin around where he came as a kid during summers he's dreaming of floating--so he takes his perspective up, looking down from what I call a cherry picker (tho he didn't call it that) for a series of roads with what he calls intersections (but we're not talking crossroads here...)<br />
<br />
cinematic quality to his photographs...starts messing with lighting...<br />
<br />
33:15...a stop you in your tracks kind of photo...lady in her living room is floating...Ophelia...on a soundstage--for the first time...connecting photography & film...Hitchcock...an intersection of everyday life & some sense of theatricality...<br />
<br />
writers like works that are narrative--Gregs work is narrative...<br />
<br />
focus on that moment & make it as beautiful & mysterious as possible...<br />
<br />
Brief Encounters...were not brief in the making of them by any calculation...<br />
<br />
feels that every artist has one central story to tell...struggle...tell & retell that story...challenge...at the core that story remains the same...it's like the defining story of who you are...<br />
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YouTube 27:35 (they abound & not in any short versions it seems of this man's art work...) Gregory Crewdson's Photography Capturing a Movie Frame/Art in Progress/Reserve Channel...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/S7CvoTtus34">http://youtu.be/S7CvoTtus34</a><br />
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YouTube 8:49 (finally a short one) Gregory Crewdson Speaks with Artist Profile...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/uQy4uiS6iKw">http://youtu.be/uQy4uiS6iKw</a><br />
Q&A:<br />
What are you trying to convey thru your photographs?<br />
What role does narrative play in your work?<br />
Which artists, writers & filmmakers have most influenced you?<br />
Can you take us through the process of creating your pictures?<br />
Tell us about the relationship between the figure & the landscape setting?<br />
What led you to make your most recent series: 'Sanctuary?'<br />
What's next for you on the creative front?<br />
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YouTube 2:12 Gregory Crewdson Norman Rockwell Moment...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/KaW9Cs6jn48">http://youtu.be/KaW9Cs6jn48</a><br />
(at Norman Rockwell's museum showing comparing his paintings to his photographic sources...since Gregory Crewdson's work has been described as Norman Rockwell meets Norman Bates...)<br />
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I esp adore Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post Cover/painting/to be poster/so often used & reused..."Rosie the Riveter"...(tho mostly I remember "Rosie the Riveter" from the Westinghouse poster by J. Howard Miller famously entitled: "We Can Do It")<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter</a><br />
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YouTube 6:00...Twilight (Photographs by Gregory Crewdson)...<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXkgpr6y5_I&feature=share&list=PLEFF7BB4AF3F18334">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXkgpr6y5_I&feature=share&list=PLEFF7BB4AF3F18334</a><br />
(one of the rare videos where it's just his photos set to music...his one art book has the same title--not ever to be confused with the sparklely vampire teen books/movies...sadly what that has done to the word: twilight...can I live long enough for it never to be remembered as only that first book of the vampire series?!)<br />
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YouTube 5:34 ...by DevelopPhoto...Ovation TV Closeup...<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywAfP4KFcY&feature=share&list=PLEFF7BB4AF3F18334">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywAfP4KFcY&feature=share&list=PLEFF7BB4AF3F18334</a><br />
(comments...include: ...artsy fartsy...circus act...)<br />
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Amazon.com - Book - Twilight - Photographer: Gregory Crewdson - Author: Rick Moody...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Photographs-Crewdson-Rick-Moody/dp/0810910039">http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Photographs-Crewdson-Rick-Moody/dp/0810910039</a><br />
(only $29.42...which for an Art/Coffeetable size book I'm guessing that this is it's then rather a surprise price...)<br />
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Publication Date May 1, 2002<br />
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<em>"Crewdson's most recent series of photographs, Twilight, are created as
elaborately constructed film stills, catching the mysterious <strong>moment of time
between before and after</strong>, revealing unknowable or unimaginable aspects of
domestic reality. A cow lies on its back on the lawn between two houses while
firemen secure the area and a man searches the sky. Could the cow have rained
down from above? In another image stacks and stacks of inedible slices of bread
- bearing an odd resemblance to the mysterious monoliths at Stonehenge - are
watched over by a gathering of birds. Both entirely foreign and oddly familiar,
these images are carefully orchestrated events that challenge our very notions
of familiarity, undermining our sense of certainty. These eerie and evocative
photographs pair beauty with horror, obsession with disgust, and the real with
the surreal, suggesting narratives open to endless interpretations. The book
includes an essay written by fiction writer Rick Moody. The book and exhibitions
are comprised of the forty images from his Twilight series which was begun in
1998 - these exhibitions and this book chronicle the completion of the series
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Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-13446423602941523922013-03-20T22:26:00.000-05:002013-03-21T09:32:24.508-05:00@434 - Private Practice, CacNo - Beyond Beasts, Stella!, Herbsaint, Royal Sonesta, Yarn Bombing, NOLA@434 - Private Practice, CacNo - Beyond Beasts, Stella!, Herbsaint, Royal Sonesta, NOLA<br />
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March 19 - 20, 2013 NOLA/French Quarter<br />
<br />
Ah...just missed Tennessee Williams Festival/TWFest...<br />
<br />
Link about this Literary Festival in New Orleans...<br />
<a href="http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/">http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/</a><br />
<br />
(note: there is a Yelling Contest on Sunday at Jackson Square...for both Stella & Stanley...can't wait for this years YouTube videos to show up...S-T-E-L-L-A! if you recall nothing else from this movie, this will probably be what you do remember...Stanley yelling Stella's name...)<br />
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<em><span id="scrtit_ran_514881458b512"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">"<strong>Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest</strong></span></span></em><br />
<em></em><em>Contestants vie to rival Stanley Kowalski’s shout for ”STELLAAAAA!!!” in the unforgettable scene from A Streetcar Named Desire. Women contestants are welcome to try a little role reversal and yell for Stanley. Free and open to the public. Prizes will be awarded."</em><br />
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<em>Sunday March 24, 2013 at Jackson Square, French Quarter, New Orleans 4:15pm - 6:00pm</em><br />
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Link to last year's contest from NPR/Nat'l Public Radio...<br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/03/26/149411816/stella-and-stanley-shouting-contest">http://www.npr.org/2012/03/26/149411816/stella-and-stanley-shouting-contest</a><br />
(note: that year a Stanley Yell won?!)<br />
<br />
2:03 For Marlon Brando...the orig Stella Yell...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/ZUVeoNCQ26s">http://youtu.be/ZUVeoNCQ26s</a><br />
<br />
2011 Stanley Yell winner...yes she's a girl--UGG!!<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/r-b6BZwfahw">http://youtu.be/r-b6BZwfahw</a><br />
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<strong><img class="uw xO" height="213" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LytTrEdFoVU/T5Eg0Xi35hI/AAAAAAAYoL0/qSRRCTsCy38/s320/Stella%21+Restaurant" width="320" /></strong><br />
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<em>Google photos - I did not take this photo</em><br />
(nor did I take any photos inside, tho I wanted to very badly...of every dish/spoon that came to the table...oh yeah of all the foods on the dishes too by the way?!)<br />
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Stella! restaurant (yes, you have to yell it--as in the movie...)<br />
<a href="http://restaurantstella.com/">http://restaurantstella.com/</a><br />
(note: there is of course, on the flip side - of the business card as well - a Stanley...Stella! tho should have not just an exclamation mark after the name but 4 or 5 dollar signs too...Stella!$$$$)<br />
<br />
How I happened to walk in the door...<br />
my friend tells me Oh I've heard of 2 Italian restaurants to try<br />
first we go to Irene's - there's is an hour wait<br />
we decide 'not' to wait, we walk down the street<br />
she says a lady told her about Stella!<br />
so we see the sign, we walk in the door - we do 'not' look at the menu<br />
I have now, since then, learned a valuable lesson--you should 'always' at least look at the menu by the door before entering<br />
So she tells the maitre'd - we don't have a reservation but can we still have a table for 2 for dinner<br />
there is hardly anyone in the restaurant, we are early, there are more waiters than diners<br />
it is all white linen, we have linen napkins put in our lap, they change my white linen one to a black linen one to match my darker clothes (that should of been a warning light)<br />
we are given the menu's - there are only 2 choices...<br />
there is the 4 course fixed/prix fixe or the 7 course fixed - plus a separate Vodka/Caviar menu (more warning lights should of blinked on/off in our heads)<br />
Wow, all the choices for the 4 courses - we start going over all them, I wonder what that is--what do you think that is...at the bottom there is the fixed price...each of our meals will be $85 plus tax/plus tip/plus if there's coffee...it's a wonder we didn't pass out--tho I have actually had less for a higher price whilst living in Norway (so I keep cool...my friend whispers: should we just walk out...no, we're here let's experience it...I have plastic/you have cash--we can do this?!)<br />
On with the 4 courses...and an extra from the kitchen/chef 'amuse' to start off with & later there will be an after dessert dessert (is there a name for that, I don't know...over the top, as in full to the brim, comes to mind...we know before starting we will 'need' a walk after all this & thankfully we have to hike a lot of blocks back to the hotel, which we do in a meandering sort of way as we are in the French Quarter after all...I mean how can you pass up a wander thru the Voodoo Shop, etc...)<br />
<br />
This is what I attempted to eat, in one long delicious sitting with separate waitstaff for each item I swear too (even my precious little spoons, that I want to find to buy one day--have never seen anything like them, even they were lovely...)<br />
<br />
an 'amuse'<br />
<br />
<strong>1st Course</strong>Deviled Egg, North Star Caviar & Champagne Gelée *<br />
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<strong>2nd Course</strong><br />
not on the webpage menu<br />
<br />
<strong>3rd Course</strong><br />
Prime Beef Tenderloin, Bone Marrow, Glazed Short Rib, Cabbage Embeurrée, <br />
Brussels Sprouts, King Oyster Mushrooms & Pomme Dauphine *<br />
<br />
<strong>4th Course</strong><br />
Winter Citrus Verrine, Honey Custard, <br />
Chamomile Meringue & Pistachio Ice Cream <br />
<br />
after dessert 'dessert' sampling<br />
<br />
an espresso - in an attempt to digest<br />
<br />
*altho everything was more than the word 'delicious' can describe...these 2 items stood out:<br />
<br />
1) I have never had such a deviled egg & I've had a few picnic types in my lifetime--the champagne gelee was really a foam on the side, have not a clue how they could whip it up like that...also am not a huge fond of fishy tasting anything so was not so sure of any type of caviar, but this one with the combination of other tastes...Oh my my--my poor unaware tastebuds, were in for a lovely too short a tasty surprise...<br />
<br />
2) Both of us ordered this course--it came out on a warm tile for a dish...to the side of the beef we found a small white to clear ball of veggie that was so tasty the both of said at the same time, that's so good what is it? my friend thought it was a turnip--we did not remember all the descriptions from the menu...now with the luxury of looking back & reading the menu description from the webpage I still can't say which it was...the cabbage embeurree or a brussel sprout center or a king oyster mushroom or a pomme dauphine...it was just such a power packed tiny taste that you wanted more...then I hate to describe meat as being 'melt in your mouth' but this is as close as I can come to describing my prime beef tenderloin--tender even when I went with medium well done...<br />
<br />
Foodie Heaven on Earth...<br />
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<img src="http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/sf/12-09-08%20brussels.jpg" /><br />
<br />
a different way to look at brussel sprouts<br />
I like it when someone uses something in a new way<br />
there must be an abundance of brussel sprouts for someone to make a wreath of them<br />
is it a waste of food, perhaps not if there's an over abundance & it's gonna go bad<br />
was our mystery veggie at dinner a de-leafed center/heart of a brussel sprout? hmm...<br />
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Link to the original photo - this makes me want to try 'n make one for the holidays...<br />
<a href="http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/sf/12-09-08%20brussels.jpg">http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/sf/12-09-08%20brussels.jpg</a><br />
~~~~~<br />
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@434 Arthur Roger Gallery<br />
Stephanie Patton - Private Practice Exhibit<br />
Tony Dugas - The Shape of Relics<br />
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<img height="267" src="http://www.stephaniepatton.com/images/other/Navigationm.jpg" width="400" /><br />
photo credit: from Stephanie Patton's webpage, it may be my fav portrait of her<br />
Oh she's the one on the right, do not know the girl on the left<br />
<br />
Link to Stephanie Patton - visual artist - webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.stephaniepatton.com/">http://www.stephaniepatton.com/</a><br />
<br />
Link to Blogspot Art e Walk...Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - Pain, Healing, Relics...<br />
<a href="http://arte-walk.blogspot.com/">http://arte-walk.blogspot.com/</a><br />
(note: Pain, Healing...Stephanie Patton - Private Practice...Pain - Conquer video...<br />
Relics...Tony Dugas - The Shape of Relics...they are indeed mindful of madalas...<br />
Blogger: NEMO...in NOLA...fav movie: Fifth Element--already I like 'em?!)<br />
<br />
Link to NOLA Art Gallery - Arthur Rogery Gallery webpage...<br />
<a href="http://arthurrogergallery.com/">http://arthurrogergallery.com/</a><br />
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Yarn Art Yarn Grafitti or String Art String Grafitti<br />
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then I wondered what it was...makes me think of a kite...<br />
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or that is per Wiki...<br />
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Bittersweet<br />
(the name of the coffee shop/confectioners)<br />
Machiato<br />
Barista girl made it<br />
menu<br />
inside table<br />
I am in love with this espresso cup/saucer<br />
closing time, no time to chat<br />
use local NOLA Roaster<br />
handmade confections<br />
yes, I did get choc dots with pistachios on top<br />
(when there's no coffee energy at hand, there is choco energy?!)<br />
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Link to Bittersweet Confections webpage...<br />
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Royal Sonesta hotel<br />
French Quarter<br />
(note to self...remember to always/Always forever more ask to "not" have a room on Bourbon Street side of the building...hard lesson learned, past midnight, past 2 am, heard it was 3 am when the street shuts down...ugh...shoulda known better...)<br />
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thumbs up - cushy bed/pillows/robe 'n slippers in the closet<br />
thumbs down - window view over Bourbon Street<br />
(bad sign when the radio is left on for you when you enter the room)<br />
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thumbs up - real roses in the bathroom with lovely bath lotions/potions<br />
thumbs down - bottle water is $6.50 each (I'll dehydrate & go elsewhere, thank you but no...)<br />
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note: I have never understood this--why oh why does hotel room water need to cost this much...<br />
hotel room mini bar/snacks also, but especially water & especially when you're traveling (& say elsewhere in the world, if not here, you don't really have a lot of trust in the tap water...)<br />
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there's a automobile wreak of a beast in the museum window...<br />
then I find out it's the Beast directors sister that made this creation (Eliza Zeitlin)<br />
had read that she was behind the houses that Hushpuppy & her Daddy live in in The BathTub in the movie--Beasts of the Southern Wild...<br />
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Link to Beyond Beasts: The Art of Court 13<br />
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<em>"<strong>On view in Press Play gallery</strong></em><br />
<em>The Supreme Fisherman <br />The Supreme Fisherman is an original art installation by Court 13 that incorporates sculptural works created for use in their short films, alongside printed materials that have provided inspiration for Court 13’s art. More on the installation, from the artists:</em><br />
<em>Suspended from the ceiling, a boat made of reeds and fishing nets floats high above our heads. Peering down from it are five sloth-like giants, dangling bamboo fishing poles over the side. The strings dangle into the center of the room, and at the ends of each are balls of light. They fish for all the lost kingdoms: Atlantis, El Dorado, juke joints, arctic plains, Amazonian canopies, and innumerable populations of deviant wild men crushed by the urge for exploration. They reach down for something that emerges from the audience itself; a part of them is drawn to an irresistible bait and reeled in by the giants who harvest only what is worthy. They pile it in their boat, moving on to create a new world. </em><br />
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<em>Before “Beasts”: The Short Films of Court 13<br />This exhibition includes a continuous showing of the six major short films by Zeitlin and fellow Court 13 director Ray Tintori over the last several years, plus previously unseen film material and behind-the-scenes footage in themed presentations on four screens.</em><br />
<em><br /><strong>On view in The Corner gallery</strong></em><br />
<em>For Slightly<br />For Slightly is an original art installation made from found materials by Eliza Zeitlin, whose work is heavily featured in Beasts of the Southern Wild. More on the installation, from the artist:</em><br />
<em>In the glass room of the museum lurks an enormous mechanical beast. It crouches behind the glass, watching the cars pass by with patience and cunning, poised to burst through the glass and crush them in its jaws like mice and moles. It is a predator of the highest order, a car-killing war machine, a Trojan lioness filled with the ghosts of so many destroyed on the road. An intestinal staircase winds through its insides, and we look out through portholes in its skin, eyes, and ears, sensing its impending vengeance from the inside. It is in honor of a great friend, a beloved beast killed by a car. </em><br />
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<em><strong>In Soundscape gallery</strong><br />An original sound installation by Court 13.</em><br />
<a href="http://www.court13.com/"><em>www.court13.com</em></a><br />
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<em><strong>Exhibition Sponsors:</strong><br /> <br />Press Play gallery is dedicated to works in new media, film, & video.</em><br />
<em><br />Soundscape gallery is dedicated to the ongoing exploration of audio as a medium.</em><br />
<em><br />The Corner is a gallery dedicated to sculpture...</em><br />
<em> <br />CAC CONTACT | Visual Arts Dept | 504.528.3805 | </em><a href="mailto:visualarts@cacno.org"><em>visualarts@cacno.org</em></a> "<br />
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<strong>Artists in Cellophane, 5000 Rushland Drive, Winston-Salem NC 27104</strong></div>
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I applaude/bow to Contemporary Art Center New Orleans for having one of these in their cafe/coffee shop...thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!! (there is only 1 machine...ONE Art of mat...in the whole state & it's in NOLA?!)</div>
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90 Machines worldwide - we have 1 in Louisiana, in NOLA</div>
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one of the many flower wonders in the courtyard...</div>
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it's a red/white Bird of Paradise--I have never seen this color before...</div>
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Link to the 88th Harlequin Ball...which would be 1925...Wow, am I good guesser or what?!</div>
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earth to ethereal<br />
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Jelutong is a wood<br />
of a certain tree only in specific areas<br />
of very limited quantity<br />
when it runs out it runs out<br />
there is no more<br />
this is the wood that John Buck<br />
has chose - or - has it chosen him<br />
to make his wooden sculptures/panels/prints from<br />
and when it's gone he (says) he's done...<br />
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link to what Wiki has to say about it--Jelutong Wood...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyera_costulata">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyera_costulata</a><br />
note: they consider it threatened but not of extinction<br />
while this may be true, am not sure if it's because of this that it's difficult to get this wood for such model making as what John Buck is creating - which is why he's limited to what he's gotten to date to work with<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Dyera_costulata.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail for version as of 21:49, 30 November 2008" height="120" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Dyera_costulata.jpg/90px-Dyera_costulata.jpg" width="90" /></a><br />
Photo Credit: Wiki Commons<br />
photo taken in KL, Malaysia<br />
2008 Buckit Nana Nat'l Park<br />
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Price of Jelutong...<br />
found one woodworking webpage with this wood for sale in small amounts like 2 inches by 6 inches for $1.00...which may work out to something like the size of your hand - now after seeing these enormous sculptures/panels/prints of John Bucks can't imagine how many hands would cover just one piece of a piece of his work?!<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Jelutong (Malaysia)</span></h3>
<em>"A favorite of wood pattern makers, Jelutong is very even-tempered and carves beautifully with hand or power tools. It sands very easily, too. It is slightly more open-grained than Bass or Tupelo, making it ideal for natural finish carvings as well as birds, animals, and habitat. A member of the rubber tree family, Jelutong will occasionally have small latex "canals" inside the wood which can result in a small void (generally around 1/16"x1/4") that can easily be filled with a small wedge or chip of jelutong. All of our Jelutong is premium grade, between 2x6" and 4x12" in any length you want up to 10 feet. Available on our online store."</em><br />
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link to their webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.razertip.com/carvingwood.htm">http://www.razertip.com/carvingwood.htm</a><br />
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Exhibition at Paul & Lulu Hilliard Museum - UL Campus - Lafayette, LA...<br />
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<span style="color: #83353e;"><span style="color: black;">JOHN BUCK: C'EST
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<span style="color: #83353e;"><span style="color: #83353e;"></span></span><span style="color: #333333;">January 19 - May 11 2013</span><br />
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This exhibition will showcase the unique work and skill of internationally
renowned sculptor, woodcarver, and printmaker, John Buck. The artist creates
intricately carved woodblocks, which he uses to make prints by hand rubbing
rather than through mechanical processing. This labor-intensive technique
produces prints that are high in quality and limited in edition. Additionally,
Buck carves and assembles elaborate sculptures consisting of unexpected
combinations of objects. These sculptures vary in size; many are two and three
times Buck’s height. With several, Buck includes a kinetic component. Visitors
to the exhibit will have the opportunity to activate these wonders into motion,
bringing them to life. Art enthusiasts as well as anyone who appreciates the
skill and time involved in woodworking will enjoy this exhibition.</div>
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Link to museum webpage for John Buck's C'est Magnifique Exhibit...<br />
<a href="http://museum.louisiana.edu/exhibitions">http://museum.louisiana.edu/exhibitions</a><br />
Jan 19 - May 11, 2013<br />
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John Buck the Artist<br />
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his webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.johnbuckart.com/">http://www.johnbuckart.com/</a><br />
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<img height="722" src="http://www.johnbuckart.com/images/Woman%20of%20the%20House%20w-JB%201999.jpg" width="437" /><br />
John Buck with his 1999 Woman of the House...and his hatchet...<br />
this is one of the wooden sculptures at Paul & Lulu Hilliard/UL Museum exhibit<br />
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<img height="318" src="http://www.johnbuckart.com/images/Index%202003.jpg" width="320" /><br />
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John Buck's Wood Panel 2003 Index<br />
Jelutong wood & Acrylic<br />
this is also part of Paul & Lulu Hilliard/UL Museum exhibit<br />
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<img height="320" src="http://www.johnbuckart.com/images/Singer%20Tract%20(The)%202005.jpg" width="176" /><br />
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John Buck's Print 2005 The Singer Tract<br />
last of the 3 representations of his wooden art<br />
at Paul & Lulu Hilliard/UL Museum exhibit<br />
(note: you have to see this to catch all the fascinating details...<br />
I can't tell you how much I wanted to touch them all--of course they don't want you to touch them...I think he needs to have some touchable sample pieces--am very curious what this wood feels like?!)<br />
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<img height="320" src="http://www.johnbuckart.com/images/Remember%20the%20Maine,%202007.jpg" width="253" /><br />
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John Buck's Glass 2007 Remember the Maine<br />
blown glass & wood<br />
note: these pieces & his bronze or commission work is not at the exhibit<br />
although this image looks familiar tho I don't see it on the Exhibition Checklist<br />
for Paul & Lulu Hilliard/UL Museum Exhibit...<br />
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Exhibition Checklist:<br />
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Wood Panels<br />
The Diary, Downtown Square, Longview, Projections & Predictions, Moment to Moment, Reining, Index<br />
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Prints<br />
East West, The Lamp, Fact & Fiction, Skyline, The Singer Tract, War (crossed out) Eagle, Submuloc, The Choir Boy, Macy's on the Kaw, Tulip<br />
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Sculpture<br />
The Universe, School of Paris, Against the Grain, Omnibus, The Ascent, The Magnificent Gadget, Gadget, Woman of the House, Yankee, Cat's Cradle, The Muse<br />
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Introduction (to John Buck's C'est Magnifique Exhibit)<br />
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<em>"Many people use adjectives to explain the riddle that confronts us all when we encounter John Buck's sculptures or prints. The works are dreamy & spiritual, fough & rigid, simple & complex. Take the word magnificent, for example. Spelled in Frnech, it was deliberately chosen for the title of this exhibition because it is synonymous with words like superb, wonderful, glorious, brilliant, outstanding & marvelous.</em><br />
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<em>In John Buck: C'est Magnifique, we see the artist's sculptural wood carvings, some he infuses with electricity to make kinetic, wood block prints which are rubbed by hand to absorb the ink & his shadow-box-like panel works, bridging his exploration of ideas into the combination of 2 & 3-dimensional forms.</em><br />
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<em>The Hilliard University Art Museum is privileged to highlight kinetic pieces in this exhibition, some of which have never before been shown, making this a truly one-of-kind experience for the viewer. Buck's work is not easily digested into a single experience, however. While the sheer size of Buck's work will awe many people, it is the attention to detail, the mindfulness, and the complexity of ideas that will make this experience & this exhibition special.</em><br />
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<em>We hope, too, that the ingenuity of Buck's ability to merge history with popular culture, ethnic influences with modernist sensibilities, aesthetics with mechanics, and his skill at creating a discourse of politics & popularity will inspire & challenge all who come into contact with the work of John Buck." - Lee Gray</em><br />
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(note: Mr Lee Gray was kind enough to answer my inquiry if it was OK to use these 2 paragraphs from the exhibit brochure & the exhibition check list--he said it was OK as long as I gave credit, which I've included his name & the link to UL's Museum...Paul & LuLu Hilliard Museum, so thanks again?! And I do plan on a return visit to stand in front of everything again--just watching the You Tube video, see link below, & hearing the wood/leather/motors sounds of them all moving together makes me want to do that...scheduled until May so am hoping I make it back in?!)<br />
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Artist's Statement (to John Buck's C'est Magnifique Exhibit)<br />
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<em>"My recent work is an extension of previous figurative work that had included implied movement through the dynamics of form. This particular group of pieces explores mechanical movement through the use of motors, pulleys & belts. My interests in primitive, ethnic, & historical wood carvings are combined with my explorations of modernism & contemporary art to form the basics of my compositions. </em><br />
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<em>The figures themselves have evolved from genderless, primitive, non-gestural forms to more naturalistic carvings in the round. I combine the figures with various compositions on their shoulders wich are now complex mechanisms for animating diverse images. The addition of movement gives the viewer the opportunity to make various associations based on the changing relationships of the kinetic elements within the sculptures."</em> - John Buck<br />
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Wiki for John E. Buck...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Buck">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Buck</a><br />
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(note: they divide their time between studios in Bozeman, Montana & Hawaii...)<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/%27Father_and_Son%27%2C_color_--woodcut--_on_paper_by_--John_E._Buck--%2C_1981%2C_--Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum--.jpg"><img alt="File:'Father and Son', color --woodcut-- on paper by --John E. Buck--, 1981, --Smithsonian American Art Museum--.jpg" height="300" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/%27Father_and_Son%27%2C_color_--woodcut--_on_paper_by_--John_E._Buck--%2C_1981%2C_--Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum--.jpg" width="136" /></a><br />
Photo Credit: Wiki Commons<br />
'Father and Son', color woodblock print on paper by John E. Buck, 1981, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC)<br />
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John Buck: Kinetic Sculpture<br />
You Tube link...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/QY35ReZ5k7E">http://youtu.be/QY35ReZ5k7E</a><br />
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(note: turn the volume up so you can hear the wood, leather, motors of these kinetic wooden sculptures...C'est Magnifique?!)<br />
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Link to The Advertiser article by Kris Wartelle - Feb 8, 2013...<br />
<a href="http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130208/LIFESTYLE/302080305/-C-est-Magnifique">http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130208/LIFESTYLE/302080305/-C-est-Magnifique</a>-<br />
(taking note: the image of the Omnibus by John Buck is for purchase...hmmm...well you can just go there & look at it, have no plans to purchase it...actually it's in the lobby, it's not even in the gallery so am wondering if you couldn't just walk in there & take your own photo?!)<br />
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(add'l note: who did that caption for the photo...am wondering how happy Paul Hilliard would be to be called Pat?? Opps--a typo error, now who would I tell...it is a newspaper afterall & a caption for a photo image that they want you to purchase...and good grief--what else?? they've called the artist by the wrong name in the caption as well, it's not Joe Buck it's John Buck?!)<br />
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Link to an earlier article by Kris Wartelle - Jan 30, 2013...<br />
<a href="http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013301300330">http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013301300330</a><br />
(note: pretty much worded the same as the Feb 8, 2013 article--only there is a different photo, so there is that...at least nobody captioned it with incorrectly spelled artist/museum names?!)<br />
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(add'l note: it's also unfortunate when you search that it gets confusing if you're searching for a restaurant tasting event/fundraiser of the same name at UL's Alumni Center it looks like or UL's Museum exhibit...)<br />
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Link to Eventful Listing...<br />
<a href="http://eventful.com/lafayette/events/john-buck-cest-magnifique-/E0-001-054106073-5">http://eventful.com/lafayette/events/john-buck-cest-magnifique-/E0-001-054106073-5</a><br />
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Link to The Vermilion article...<br />
<a href="http://www.thevermilion.com/exhibits-reconcile-classically-trained-self-trained-artists-1.2972412?pagereq=1">http://www.thevermilion.com/exhibits-reconcile-classically-trained-self-trained-artists-1.2972412?pagereq=1</a><br />
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"Exhibits reconcile classically trained, self-trained artists" by Emily Lalande<br />
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note: looking at this photo made me realize they had to uncrate all these pieces & then assemble them...what a puzzle, it must of taken a long while...I would of loved to have watched that, wish someone would of not only taken photos but a video...sigh...there is at least a YouTube of a few of them in motion, which is something...I am just curious & always want for more...anyway, thanks Vermilion for a sneak peek behind the scenes?!<br />
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Sharon In A Volvohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935215327552201826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730325081864480376.post-20752411235232744152013-02-18T23:58:00.002-06:002013-02-23T12:02:55.837-06:00Mardi Gras Theme 2013 - Will it or Won't it Rain<br />
<strong>Mardi Gras</strong> Theme 2012<br />
Will it or Won't it Rain<br />
Odds many days were way over 50/50<br />
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So...Throw me something mister--before it rains down something other than beads?!<br />
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Due to Vintage Mardi Gras Costume Sale at Cite des Arts volunteering or Capuchon/ Mask making for a week out from Mardi Gras aka Fat Tuesday I didn't make but the tail end of the dog parade the Saturday a week out from Mardi Gras w/e parades (Oh yeah--snicker snicker...yes, I did say 'tail' end...)<br />
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And then just made Mardi Gras Day for the King's Parade & what we often all the middle parade that never remember the name of we'll call it the Lafayette Parade during which it poured down rain for at least 5 min's while we popped up the umbrellas or ran under the Camper cover behind us & finally to end it all the Independent Parade...<br />
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But sadly I took note there was no Krewe of CousheCoushe this year (or maybe they only stay downtown & not march the whole way from before downtown, down Johnston St to the Cajun Dome Blvd & thru the Festival aka Rides at the Cajun Dome parking lot...that's a long way to march when you're 'not' a Marching Band & often 'not' as young as maybe you use to be when you stumble into Krewe of CousheCoushe...) <br />
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They're what I think of as the Anything Goes Marching Krewe - was told they have a community trunk of costumes you can use & pretty much anybody that shows up can march with the Krewe...as for their Ball--it's whatever bar establishment will let them in for free or cheap & put up with their type of crowd...maybe they just had a Ball this year & said forget the rain threat so didn't march in the parade - or at least didn't see them down past UL Campus along the parade route...<br />
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Bead Booty beginning...did find a fav, the gold beads made of Jazz instruments - which proceeded to next parade give away to my friend's son who's moving to Belgium with the Navy & so this was not only his first Mardi Gras in 8 yrs he says but will be his last now for prob at least 3 more (so who can refuse that--I live here, he can have 'all' the silly plastic shiny beads he wants far as I'm concerned?!)</div>
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another Fav during Mardi Gras...the Mardi Gras Tree--in all the Mardi Gras colors...purple, gold, green & then some...there will also be utility lines decorated or fences along the parade routes as well...some folks will even on purpose toss them into their trees & hang them on their gates/fences...</div>
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good day for an umbrella hat...and also an upturned umbrella, after the downpour, to try 'n catch more beads (some of that make it game for the Krewe & you get more bead booty...) then there's the guy with the fishing net, but such a long pole to hold onto not sure how well he did all day...</div>
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but I like their hats - check out the Viking gold horns on one of them...</div>
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and all that colorful hair (I think I have a wig of pink or red hair somewheres in my Mardi Gras box I did not dig outta the garage this year--as I was digging thru way too many Mardi Gras Costumes instead for one thing...)</div>
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that guy at the top in the middle without a shirt on -</div>
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more hats, more Viking hats--but enjoying the way they wear their horns?!</div>
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I think it may be the only one I saw - he's got his costume/capuchon/mask all on like he's a scarecrow out in the fields (also like the stripey shirt thing going on in the crowd too...)</div>
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Krewe of Let's throw my beads backwards over my back...</div>
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colorful Mardi Gras colors...then I see it, not a Port-a-potty on the back of the float--</div>
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(could use one right about now, even more than the stupid Jello Shots that were being thrown off some float earlier--would guess a bar or college student float had something to do with that crazy idea, but I could be wrong...guy in front of us caught one, looked like mouth wash 'n water in a tiny plastic cup w/a sealed plastic sheet overtop--we all agreed he should 'throw it away mista'?!)</div>
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Krewe of City Bar</div>
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the bead booty/haul in the bag at home on the kitchen table</div>
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even a green dubloon (that I didn't catch but picked up, they are rarer & rarer to come by...this one plastic--do they even make metal ones anylonger?)</div>
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Checking out on the Mardi Gras Cup throw when Mardi Gras is next year & a few more years to come...</div>
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on the other side of the Mardi Gras cup<br />
from the dates - cute joker/jester throwing/catching beads<br />
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best filling yet this year</div>
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It's called the Elvis</div>
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(which I narrowly warned an unawares Vegetarian getting ready to take a bite of this King Cake at the Vintage Mardi Gras Costume Sale...Opps...Bacon is 'not' on most Veggies diet right?!)</div>
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It was a Favorite King Cake this year--it's from Twins, which is a Burger joint now after the real Twins of a baker Dad took his Southside Bakery & left the boys to it (I think he's opened elsewhere now...but is he making the Elvis? hmm...maybe not?!) PS King Cakes are not cheap, especially this one--it's a good thing they are only once a year from 12th Night until Mardi Gras?!</div>
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Bathing Beauty...Miss Bayou ??</div>
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(we can't read the stuck on gold lettering on the sash, but we think it's the name of a--what else? Bayou!-somewheres in Louisiana...also for some reason both these photos looks like they've been taken underwater, humidity...possibly...it is Louisiana afterall..)</div>
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(spoiler: pink straw rice paddy hat--sold & so's the gold metallic hat with beads/mask)<br />
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with the same material glued to it too...</div>
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Neon is the color this year, or metallic from the past...</div>
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just see the black/white diamond one behind, with what else for it's chicken looking feathers but cut up cotton black gloves--LoL...not sure which is more fun, making them or wearing them?!)</div>
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a special, this year only, addition to the Mardi Gras Hats/Masks...</div>
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a Mardi Gras Boot Beverage Coozie - Mai ya cher...</div>
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(note: that's a Louisiana Brewery Beer in that Coozie too by the way, just so ya' know...)</div>
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supplies: cut down oatmeal can, paper cone, old fabric, fuzzy balls, shiny star garland, foam shapes, feathers... later there will be cupcake picks of Mardi Gras Masks added to the plastic lid (you just punch a hole in the plastic with the end of the pick & you're good to go...LoL...Lots of Fun...again to make/to wear...if you dare...)</div>
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My attempt a mesh wire mask making</div>
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see earlier post on Capuchons Chasing Chickens for those pics)</div>
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photo credit: backyardchickens.com<br />
(note: this chicken/rooster looks like a really good runner...watch out, if he's on a chicken run--but am guessing it might be they go for the hens for a gumbo on a Courir de Mardi Gras...)<br />
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<strong>Country Mardi Gras</strong><br />
<strong>would be Capuchons Chasing Chickens</strong><br />
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If you can't make it out to the small towns outside of Lafayette, LA<br />
then you can go to Vermilionville in Lafayette to see a mini-chicken run<br />
or a Courir de Mardi Gras<br />
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Thanks to the Basile Krewe on Sunday for putting on the run<br />
complete with the 2 fake chickens & the 1 real chicken<br />
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Then there was Gumbo, while there was music<br />
you besides the sound of bells all over (as it's traditional to be covered in bells)<br />
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I say all this but I missed the main event & came at the tail end<br />
I got gumbo, I heard the band, I heard the bells<br />
I had a chicken run prank pulled on me<br />
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Was going up the steps to exit thru the giftshop<br />
When I saw the last straggler group going up the stairs too<br />
Asked them in general--Do you make your costumes?<br />
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There was a girl in big baggy cotton Saints (as in none other than the New Orleans Saints) pants with black fringe up & down the sides of the legs & a black either motorcycle bandana or welding bandana on her head & there were 2 men, 1 in a colorful matching top/bottom with cotton fringe & decorations on both--no one still had their mesh wire masks on or pointy hats called Capuchons & the other one was in white with reflective white strips all across it, he had the biggest loudest bells strapped on his wrists with leather straps...<br />
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One or both or all of them answer me--Scrubs<br />
I said Yea Yea & they answered me in unison--Yea Yea (being funny)<br />
They all looked tired & were moving slowly after running all morning<br />
And yes they make their own, the 1 colorful top/bottom guy tells me it takes about a day & he lays it all out & sews it on--which I didn't expect, I would of thought a wife sewed it (but like Cajun Men who can Cook with the Best of Them I'm guessing they can Sew a Country Mardi Gras Costumes--because for one thing it is 'not' a Ball Gown?!) Still he did good...<br />
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Well while I was listening, I feel a tug on my arm, my hand, 1 of my 2 brown bags full of gumbo/ potato salad/ french bread roll/ rice from Mamman's Restaurant inside Vermilionville (if I'd missed the chicken run I wasn't going to miss out on the gumbo & was taking 2 orders home...)<br />
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I look at my bags & see a big leathery glove pulling on them & I hear on the other side a chicken noise, behind me, when I see the doggie/kitty kat carrier in front of me with the real chicken in it by one of the guys in costumes I was just talking to--so I know it's not the real chicken<br />
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Then I turn to my other side & see part way down the steps a full out costume for a chicken run--he has his capuchon on, his wire mask (that's painted kinda like a face) & there are bells somewhere...it's all blue & white...and he's made that very realistic chicken sound, he's begging like they do on the runs for food/money--I've read this before...too funny, I smile--then I tell him "What didn't they feed you some gumbo?" and then something like "You can't have my husband's gumbo, sorry--he would be mad I come home empty handed?!"<br />
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They all laughed & started moving on to the door, one of them held the door open for me--I saw his giant bells strapped on his wrist & he said something about the weather this January...it's been exceptionally warm, so in all these costumes & accessories I'm guessing all worn over their clothes too that they're really hot under all that, which wears you out more than running--but they were still smiling & joking around, they'd done a good deed for the day to come bring their chicken run to Vermilionville for all the town folk or tourists & not the usual country folk/farms/houses they go to on Mardi Gras<br />
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There were a lot of kids too in costumes I saw leaving, they had the whole get up on--capuchons on their heads, masks on their faces or were carring them or pulled up onto their capuchons (just like the grownups do) & their matching tops/bottoms with bells on somewheres...I especially liked the girl in her all red crawfish print & another girl sitting on the bench with her fake chicken--asked her "Did you catch that?" She said she had & she'd won--it looked like styrofoam with brown feathers glued all over stuck on a wood block...<br />
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Later I would see a Vermilionville staff person taking another such fake chicken off to a side building & asked her about them--she said there were 2, this 1 she was going to repair the tail feathers with some more glued on ones...but that there was another real chicken the Krewe from Basile had brought over by the building where there was dancing & music playing--I didn't see it then though until the stragglers at the end of the run were leaving, going up the stairs & for all I know they were probably the leaders of the pack/the Krewe<br />
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I can see why this would be fun--I've heard a lot of stories now about the real out in the Country Country Mardi Gras Runs or Courir, but have never gone...one of these years I will, maybe on a horse or a flatbed truck?!<br />
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Did hear there's an all girl Krewe, but that they're tough--someone said they'd never be able to keep up with them & for sure not with their beer drinking...as they'd seen a whole freezer full on the back of a flatbed truck that was going to follow something like 30/35 girls (you know I say girls but I mean women--there are 'not' beer drinking girls on Courir de Mardi Gras runs that I know of, even in Louisiana, in the country...)<br />
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Well I was there for research--we are going to try & make us some Capuchons for the Country Mardi Gras Costume Sale at Cite des Arts...there will be photos coming & of the sale too, so many old costumes from last year that the Krewe de Andalusia had stores & were going to toss--the theater got wind of this, came to the rescue with a trailer & loaded all the boxes up to bring to Cite des Arts & the unpacking began, then the hanging up, then the sale (then a spray or two of Frebreeze--stinky, after who knows how long stuffed in boxes in a room over a restaurant I think it was...) But a year later they are all aired out & not all sold & ready for some colorful combinations/creations for this year's Mardi Gras on Feb 12th aka Fat Tuesday :oD<br />
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link to what Wiki has to say about Capuchon's...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchon">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchon</a><br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Courir_run_2010_01.jpg"><img alt="File:Courir run 2010 01.jpg" height="451" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Courir_run_2010_01.jpg" width="600" /></a><br />
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<span class="description">Wiki Commons Description for photo on Wikipedia...</span><br />
<span class="description">en: Courir de Mardi Gras in en:Savoy, Louisiana 2010</span><br />
17 February 2010<br />
<span class="description"><span class="int-own-work">Own work</span> Herb Roe www. chromesun. com </span><br />
<span class="description">author: Heironymous Rowe</span><br />
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<span class="description">Tee Courir de Mardi Gras...a painting by Herb Roe - who took this photo...from the Faquetigue Courir de Mardi Gras - near Eunice, LA in 2010 - he mentions Tee = Little in Cajun French...</span><br />
<span class="description"><a href="http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=1059365&IRV=1">http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=1059365&IRV=1</a></span><br />
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The Cajuns & Mardi Gras: Pulse of the Planet...<br />
<a href="http://www.pulseplanet.com/pulsepicks/mardigras/">http://www.pulseplanet.com/pulsepicks/mardigras/</a><br />
(note: there are more fun photos here...and the Blogger went to Basile too, so he may have been talking to one of the Krewe that I saw at Vermilionville on Sunday--it's a small world in Cajunland?! so Watch the Video for the Basile Mardi Gras Run & their own special Song...)<br />
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<b>The Costume</b><br />
<em>"Says Potic Rider, capitaine and president of the Mardi Gras Association in Basile, Louisiana: "The part of our costume that comes from the old country is our hat, the capuchin. It's based on the dunce's hat. In the old country, the Mardi Gras would make fun of the king and queen and high-society people. They would try to make them look like dunces.</em> </div>
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<em>'From what my parents used to tell me, they used to have different costumes when they came down from Nova Scotia. Once they got here, they incorporated an Indian design. The suits have tassels hanging down the legs. ...We start preparing our suits from the end of the last Mardi Gras. Sometimes it takes all year, and they're still not finished!' "</em></div>
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<strong>The Basile Mardi Gras Run</strong><em>"There are a few old-timers in Basile who have refined the tradition of ritual begging into an art form. The idea, say veterans Potic Rider and Vories Moreau, is to change your costume every year, and disguise your voice and your gestures so that even your neighbors won't know it's you. When I interviewed Vories a day before Mardi Gras, he assured me that I wouldn't recognize him when he "begged me" the next day – and he was right! </em><br />
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<em>I was told that a good Mardi Gras will always try to extort as much as he possibly can from a potential donor, but he always knows when to stop. Likewise, a Mardi Gras' antics walk a fine line between the hilarious, the unexpected, the embarrassing, and the naughty. If they go too far, the capitaines are there, whips in hand, to set them straight. In Basile and elsewhere, this give and take is part of the entertainment, as Mardi Gras climb roofs and trees and feign running off with barbecues, bicycles, and small children. </em></div>
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<em>Although the Mardi Gras are enjoined to keep their masks on throughout the entire day, in Basile at the end of a visit to a household, a few Mardi Gras runners will sometimes linger, take off their masks to reveal themselves to their neighbors, and sing a verse from their song.</em></div>
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<em>From dawn until midday, Basile's Mardi Gras run goes from the town to the outlying countryside, tarrying for a while for a big gumbo lunch at Mrs. Edna Redlich's house before forming a triumphal procession back to town for a street dance. Around 5 p.m., everyone goes home to rest and to change costumes. The celebration reconvenes around 7 p.m. at the town barn with a gumbo dinner, a grand march, a dance, and a competition. Prizes are given in several categories, including most innovative costume and most (intentionally) ugly!</em></div>
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<em>Potic Ryder says that "running Mardi Gras is like letting the air out of a balloon. We wait for this all year. When it' s over, it's a relief, 'cause you're really worn out."</em></div>
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<em>At the end of the day, there's an exhilaration mixed with the exhaustion, as if you and the whole town have made it through a rite of passage, the collective cathartic tickle known as Mardi Gras."</em></div>
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(note: I think I love this Country Krewe from Basile--they sound very kind hearted, like all the Cajuns I've ever met...and really don't have a clue if they care to be called Cajuns or not...now am feeling badly--I didn't have a coin to give the begging chicken runner at Vermilionville...it was kind of them to come out for an extra run there for the town folk/tourists/the kids...so next year I'll know better?!)<br />
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Link to a YouTube of the Basile Mardi Gras dancing on main street...<br />
I love all these costumes...check out the dancing, even with go cups...LoL...<br />
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Reference to a book I'd like to find now...<br />
Carolyn and Carl's book, <i>Cajun Mardi Gras Masks,</i> published in 1997 by University Press of Mississippi<br />
Link to Amazon.com where you can buy the book--for $30...sigh...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cajun-Mardi-Gras-Masks-Artists/dp/1617031348">http://www.amazon.com/Cajun-Mardi-Gras-Masks-Artists/dp/1617031348</a><br />
Link to the University Press of Mississippi & more summary about traditional maskmaking...<br />
<a href="http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/90">http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/90</a><br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Courir_de_Mardi_Gras_Horse_rider_with_capuchon_Savoy%2C_La_2011.jpg"><img alt="File:Courir de Mardi Gras Horse rider with capuchon Savoy, La 2011.jpg" height="486" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Courir_de_Mardi_Gras_Horse_rider_with_capuchon_Savoy%2C_La_2011.jpg" width="600" /></a><br />
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Participants of the 2011 <i>Faquetaigue</i> Courir de Mardi Gras in Savoy, La on horseback. The figure wears the traditional capuchon, a pointed hat meant to mock the nobility.<br />
9 March 2011<br />
<span class="description"><span class="int-own-work">Own work</span> Herb Roe www. chromesun. com </span><br />
<span class="description">author: Heironymous Rowe</span><br />
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Link to Wikipedia about the Courir de Mardi Gras--where this photo can be found & more about the "chicken run" as many will call it...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courir_de_Mardi_Gras">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courir_de_Mardi_Gras</a><br />
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<strong>Faquetaigue Courir de Mardi Gras</strong><br />
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<em>"The Faquetaigue run was started in 2006 by a group of local musicians in a small town outside of Eunice as an alternative to the main Eunice courir. The group, which included </em><em>Joel Savoy</em><em> (local music producer and former member of the </em><em>Red Stick Ramblers</em><em>) and his brother </em><em>Wilson Savoy</em><em> (of the </em><em>Pine Leaf Boys</em><em>), felt that the other local runs had gotten too rowdy and lost too much of the authentic traditions. No beads or bead throwing are allowed at the event nor are radios, as all music is played on instruments. Another requirement is that everyone must participate by wearing costumes and dancing, singing, begging and chasing chickens at each of the stops along the route. The majority of the participants are musicians or dancers and it has become one of the most musically based on the various runs. The Faquetigue Mardi Gras route takes it to the cemetery where Cajun fiddler </em><em>Dennis McGee</em><em> and his wife Gladys are buried. The group stops at the gravesite, where a local priest says a prayer and musicians play songs while grouped around the headstone. The characters played by </em><em>Steve Earle</em><em> and </em><em>Lucia Micarelli</em><em> in the </em><em>HBO</em><em> series </em><em>Treme</em><em> attend the Faquetaigue mardi gras during the seventh episode of season two.<sup>"</sup></em><br />
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(my note: I think I've met someone in this Krewe--they were at the Fabric Store buying items to put together or add to their Capuchon...he said the name of the town or the run & it sounded like this, something I couldn't pronouce or spell at the time--now I'm thinking this looks like it sounded?! <br />
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He was the most helpful/polite young man--he had started a basket & I was talking to another lady across the table who was looking for Mardi Gras print fabric...she was telling the salesgirl that this was her first country run & she was making her & her daughter a costume--I said we were trying to make Capuchons at the theater to go along with the Country Mardi Gras Costume sale...then the young man told us he was making one & he was going to run in this "F" named town/run & then he went thru what was in his basket...<br />
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Bells<br />
Safety Pins<br />
Fabric Glue<br />
Cord roll<br />
Grommets (he had a grommet gun)<br />
Push/Pull plastic piece for a neck strap<br />
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It seems he was going to safety pin the bells onto the fabric, rather than trying to glue them or sew them--clever & I said I was going to try that too...<br />
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Then he was going to put grommets on either side of his hat/his Capuchon to pull the cord thru & tie it on either end so it would go thru the push/pull plastic piece (I haven't a clue what to officially call it) which would make it like a cowboy hat or a garden hat & would be easy to put on/take off...rather than a fabric tie or using the cable to tie into a bow...the mask he said would have elastic on it & not the capuchon--which I thought at first it would & had picked up colorful elastic in purple/green (2 of the Mardi Gras Colors--of purple/gold or yellow/green...) Again I thought this was very clever, though I don't think we'll go to all that trouble/expense to make quick hats at the Mardi Gras Costume Sale...<br />
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And again, here's a guy, at the Fabric store, shopping for materials to make his Capuchon & more than willing to tell us all his secrets to make one & to invite us all out to his town/his run--which he says is small, only a six or eight houses I think he said...but if he's with this group of musicians & dancers it must be more than enough to have an excellent day of fun/laughter/community highjinks?!)<br />
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Light from the Bottom of the Boot - Blog<br />
Lucius A. Fontenot<br />
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Poster from 2009 Faquetigue...which looks like it was the 4th running of the Courir de Mardi Gras...<br />
<a href="http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=1059365&IRV=1">http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=1059365&IRV=1</a><br />
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note: more photos coming soon... ;o)<br />
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My First Capuchon...<br />
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(all I have to do is figure out how to add the elastic chin strap now & it's done/ready to be sold at the Vintage Mardi Gras Costume Sale at Cite des Arts...what kinda price do you put on your First?!)<br />
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...and there was a mask to match</div>
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My Third Capuchon...</div>
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first you have to make a cone with a pointy top & that at the bottom fits on your head</div>
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after fabric glue the material then you add fringe</div>
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in this case to match, but again with the new neon colors</div>
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it's funny how the Mask looks so much better up against your face</div>
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features by drawing/painting on the mesh wire but that you could also have air</div>
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as it's Southern Louisiana you need to be cool as often & in as many places as possible)</div>
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The Traditional Mask Making or at least my First Attempt to go with this Third Attempt Capuchon...</div>
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and still I loved it as a historical drama/foreign film, about a time/part of the world I knew very little about...all the court costume, daily life, intrigue - not to mention details in the streets, mud/rats on the curb as the royal carriage rides by kind of thing...you cannot imagine how you can have empathy for anyone behind castle walls, but you do/you will...<br />
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<span lang="da" xml:lang="da"><i><strong>En Kongelig Affære</strong></i></span><br />
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<span lang="da" xml:lang="da"><em><span lang="da" xml:lang="da"><i></i></span></em></span><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/A_Royal_Affair.jpg"><img alt="File:A Royal Affair.jpg" height="444" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/A_Royal_Affair.jpg" width="300" /></a><br />
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<span lang="da" xml:lang="da"><em>(poster) May be found at the following website:</em> </span><br />
<span lang="da" xml:lang="da"><a class="external free" href="http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/5dab7a93" rel="nofollow">http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/5dab7a93</a></span><br />
<span lang="da" xml:lang="da">no surprise read under Wikipedia description that it's based on an erotic novel</span><br />
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Official Movie Webpage...<br />
<a href="http://www.magpictures.com/aroyalaffair/">http://www.magpictures.com/aroyalaffair/</a><br />
4 yrs in the making? who can afford to do that?!<br />
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<em>"ROYAL AFFAIR is an 18th century historical drama four years in the making, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Alicia Vikander. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, screenwriter of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the film is an epic romance about the love triangle between a German doctor, the queen of Denmark, and her deranged king. The film was produced by Louise Vesth, Meta Louise Foldager (Melancholia) and Sisse Graum Jørgensen (In a Better World) for Zentropa Entertainments."</em><br />
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<strong>Cast:</strong><br />
Mads Mikkelsen<br />
Alicia Vikander<br />
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard<br />
<strong>Directed by:</strong>Nikolaj Arcel<br />
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<strong>Produced by:</strong>Louise Vesth<br />
Meta Louise Foldager<br />
Sisse Graum Jørgensen<br />
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Wiki Link...<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Affair">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Affair</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/</a><br />
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YouTube Trailer Link...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/FGXNQu3fpP8">http://youtu.be/FGXNQu3fpP8</a><br />
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<img alt="Photo: IndieWire has predicted A Royal Affair as a 2013 Oscar frontrunner!!! http://bit.ly/UjzBNK
Like Magnolia Pictures for more great films in 2013!!! http://on.fb.me/SXPTqQ" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="403" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c83.0.403.403/p403x403/545014_393159944106668_1687297010_n.jpg" width="403" /><br />
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A Royal Affair - Facebook page...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/FGXNQu3fpP8">http://youtu.be/FGXNQu3fpP8</a><br />
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YouTube - DP/30 @ TIFF - Interview Director/Co-Writer...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/gJVjioCfiZw">http://youtu.be/gJVjioCfiZw</a><br />
Toronto Int'l Film Fest<br />
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"it was creepy back then"<br />
16 y/o queen/bride<br />
19 y/o king/groom<br />
38 y/o doctor/lover<br />
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Facebook - Cane Fire Film Series - A Royal Affair - Lafayette, LA...<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CaneFireFilmSeries">https://www.facebook.com/CaneFireFilmSeries</a><br />
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<em>The Cane Fire Film Series brings exclusive first-run independent film to Acadiana.</em><br />
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<img alt="Photo: Wow! Great turn out for A ROYAL AFFAIR - Thanks everyone for attending. Hope you enjoyed it. We'll see if it can bring home the Oscar in a few weeks! Next film to be announced soon!" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="403" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/19913_435967509808215_658463301_n.jpg" width="403" /><br />
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<span class="userContent">from Cane Fire Film Facebook page - link to a YouTube of CGI work in A Royal Affair...</span><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/yAFnsJUEPHo">http://youtu.be/yAFnsJUEPHo</a><br />
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<span class="userContent"><em>"Postscript for A ROYAL AFFAIR - Check out the CGI work, that I'm sure you didn't know you were seeing.....In Danish, but just watch the visuals!"</em></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Soundtrack from A Royal Affair...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://youtu.be/bI0_0OPiON8">http://youtu.be/bI0_0OPiON8</a></span><br />
<span class="userContent">37 min's - that's a lot of soundtrack</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Link to the dance scene between the Queen & her King's Doctor in A Royal Affair...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://youtu.be/8Cm1f5EAjl4">http://youtu.be/8Cm1f5EAjl4</a></span><br />
<span class="userContent">if I were British I suppose I might call this clip or this whole entire movie: Lush - to hear it's not a big budget film, it's lovely what they did with what they had...in this clip it also doesn't much matter it's not subtitled, or not to me after having watched the movie once on the big screen (or so far...)</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">so far it's been a Nominee for a Golden Globe & an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - Winner of a Satellite Award for Best Costume...</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Int'l Press Academy - Satellite Awards 2012...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.pressacademy.com/project/a-royal-affair/">http://www.pressacademy.com/project/a-royal-affair/</a></span><br />
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<em><img alt="Winner" class="award_tag" height="25" src="http://www.pressacademy.com/wp-content/themes/press_academy_2010/images/award_icon.png" width="7" /><span class="award_list_title"><a href="http://www.pressacademy.com/awards/17-costume-design-2/"></a>Manon Rasmussen — WINNER</span><br /><strong><a href="http://www.pressacademy.com/awards/17-costume-design-2/"></a>Costume Design </strong><br />Project: A Royal Affair <br />Distributor: Magnolia Films</em><br />
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<em>Project: A Royal Affair <br />Distributor: Magnolia Films </em><br />
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<span class="award_list_title"><a href="http://www.pressacademy.com/awards/17-art-direction-production-design-3/"></a><em>Niels Sejer</em></span><br />
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<em>Project: A Royal Affair <br />Distributor: Magnolia Films</em> </div>
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<span class="userContent">A review of A Royal Affair - by AO Scott - NYTimes...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/457047/A-Royal-Affair/overview">http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/457047/A-Royal-Affair/overview</a></span><br />
<span class="userContent">if one more person writes it's also a "bodice-ripper" I'm going to demand it be a phrase to go on the Word Ban List?!</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Rotten Tomatoes gave En Kongelig Affaere/A Royal Affair an 89% on the Tomatometer...</span><br />
<span class="userContent">(86% of Audience Liked It)</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/en_kongelig_affaere/">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/en_kongelig_affaere/</a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><em>A Royal Affair is a lavish and sumptuous costume drama with a juicy story to back it up.</em></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">And what Blu-Ray has to say about A Royal Affair in Blu-Ray...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/A-Royal-Affair-Blu-ray/52214/">http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/A-Royal-Affair-Blu-ray/52214/</a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Local newspaper article - The Ind - Cane Fire Flares with Danish Intrigue - Walter Pierce...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.theind.com/a-a-e/arts-a-entertainment-stories/12531-cane-fire-flares-with-danish-intrigue">http://www.theind.com/a-a-e/arts-a-entertainment-stories/12531-cane-fire-flares-with-danish-intrigue</a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Other Local newspaper - Times Pick - A Royal Affair: Saturday...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130110/ACADIANA01/301090337/Times-Picks">http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20130110/ACADIANA01/301090337/Times-Picks</a></span><br />
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<span class="userContent">LITE Center - Lafayette, LA - showing Cane Fire Film Series - A Royal Affair...</span><br />
<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.lite3d.com/News-events/Cane-Fire-Films-1?&Sort=&Archive">http://www.lite3d.com/News-events/Cane-Fire-Films-1?&Sort=&Archive</a>=</span><br />
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<em>On our small family farms, we treat the land and our ladies with the respect they deservie; this means we never use pesticides or herbicides and we provide our girls with more space per bird than any other egg farms in the country.</em><br />
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<em>Though not USDA Certified Organic, these eggs contain all the benefits of a pastrue-raised lifestyle; they are tastier and more nutritious, without the higher cost due to organic feed.</em><br />
<em>If eating organic is important to you, try Vital Farms pasture-raised organic eggs.</em><br />
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<em>Our farmers have set the standard for the type of humane, back-to-basics farming that we can all be proud of.</em><br />
<em>Thanks for supporting our efforts.</em><br />
<em>(Psst! Don't toss it, share the news with a friend!)</em><br />
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<em>Copyright Vital Farms, Inc.</em><br />
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<em>Tasty goodness, laid in the USA!</em><br />
<em>Alfresco Farms is part of the Vital Farms network of family farms.</em><br />
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<em>Certified Humane - Raised & Handled"</em><br />
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(note: so I'm doing just that--am sharing the news, only instead of passing on the wee green piece of paper with the mini newsletter on it I've copied this volume/issue onto my Blog...am hoping they won't mind, thank you Alfresco Farms/Vital Farms for being human/humane?!)<br />
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Link to Vital Farms - behind Alfresco Farms...<br />
<span id="goog_1087547173"></span><span id="goog_1087547174"><a href="http://www.vitalfarms.com/otherbrands.html">http://www.vitalfarms.com/otherbrands.html</a></span><br />
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Help Vital Farms Free the Birds...YouTube...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/TYJxuyjXJmI">http://youtu.be/TYJxuyjXJmI</a><br />
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Where to find their Eggs in Louisiana...<br />
<a href="http://www.vitalfarms.com/findoureggs.php?p=Louisiana">http://www.vitalfarms.com/findoureggs.php?p=Louisiana</a><br />
(note: Lafayette - The Fresh Market - where I got mine...<br />
<a href="http://www.thefreshmarket.com/">http://www.thefreshmarket.com/</a> )<br />
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Vital Farms (aka Alfresco Farms) has a Blog too...<br />
<a href="http://vitalfarms.com/blog/">http://vitalfarms.com/blog/</a><br />
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3 more Chicken Farm Videos on YouTube...<br />
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Vital Farms - Whole Foods...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/18mCJ0keOqA">http://youtu.be/18mCJ0keOqA</a><br />
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Link to Whole Foods Market...<br />
<a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/">http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/</a><br />
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(note: Louisiana has 1 in Baton Rouge, 1 in Metairie & I think a new 1 in New Orleans...<br />
but sadly, pout-pout, not in Lafayette...though there have been rumors, then there have been more rumors, but still we do not have a Whole Foods Market...we have a Fresh Market, so that is something...something, but not all...until another time...)<br />
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Vital Farms - Winter Pasture...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/ZR6VXwKQZkA">http://youtu.be/ZR6VXwKQZkA</a><br />
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Vital Farms - Austin, TX...<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/3_37IYIJG7A">http://youtu.be/3_37IYIJG7A</a><br />
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(note: just another reason to like that place--Austin, Texas...<br />
why we couldn't of moved there instead of Houston 3 times earlier...sigh...well, nevermind I can still drive on over & visit...not so sure off to the chicken farm, there's so much more there in Austin?!)<br />
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And if you want more than the eggs...<br />
Well, there's the broiler hens/chickens too under their Backyard Birds brand...<br />
<a href="http://vitalfarms.com/otherbrands.html">http://vitalfarms.com/otherbrands.html</a><br />
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FlyingPigFarms - At Our Farm...<br />
(note: I've never ever seen a pig in the snow,<br />
only in the mud--so this is a treat...<br />
so pigs here are pasture-raised come sun or snow?!)<br />
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The first I'd read about Humanely Raised Meat was about a Pig Farm called Flying Pigs Farm - so here's the link if you want to read more about sustainable agriculture in yet another pasture-raised animal or I'll call them Happy Hogs Going Hog Wild in the Woods...<br />
<a href="http://flyingpigsfarm.com/">http://flyingpigsfarm.com/</a><br />
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Note: if you really, Really want to get up close & personal--you can go stay down on the farm in their renovated barn...in the Battenkill River Valley...<br />
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<em>"Located just 45 minutes from Saratoga Springs, Albany, and Manchester, VT...</em><br />
<em>The apartment is part of a newly-restored 19th century barn here at the farm..."</em><br />
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<a href="http://flyingpigsfarm.com/the-farm/our-guest-house/">http://flyingpigsfarm.com/the-farm/our-guest-house/</a><br />
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