tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71967728885163090572012-01-25T05:05:45.428-08:00Unfinished Works of Geniusadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comBlogger11131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-18962289129272376992011-10-13T14:14:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.745-07:00A Not-So-Boring SweaterAfter I made a sweater for my grandson, I made a little book to go with it. The pages are here, followed by some pictures of the sweater. http://www.joyfultoys.bravepages.com/prabbit.html(Daddy said the boys had vests they wear to church with skulls on them!)That's the end of the booklet. Here are a few shots of the finished sweater...(keep in mind that I'm still pretty much a beginner...so adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-16429661471652208382011-10-12T09:12:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.435-07:00Congratulations, You've Been Selected To Pay Us A Large Amount Of MoneyThe e-mail subject line first got my attention – “New York Gallery Representation.” I scanned the letter with rising expectations, past the parts about ‘your wonderful art,’ ‘fantastic opportunity to exhibit in New York,’ and ‘chance for a solo exhibition,’ to the sender’s identity, a well known pay-to-play Midtown gallery.Knowing well that traditional galleries don’t use such teaser tactics, I adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-68784437792462171352011-10-12T04:10:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.790-07:00Best ofI finally bothered to put together a "Best of Works Cited" page. "Best" might be a misnomer, but there it is.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-61410788475994485852011-10-11T03:05:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.791-07:00Kind of blueI'm not at all a food blogger, for a number of reasons. Primarily, I cannot follow a recipe to save my life. Halfway through I always decide a recipe is really more like a guideline or a suggestion. As I've mentioned before, if I ever had a food blog it would have to be called "Whatever; It's Probably Fine."But mostly, I'm just not very interested in writing about food. I prefer to eat it. That adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-24875818459394113422011-10-10T06:18:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.746-07:00Knitting Project Two--WashclothI finished this a while ago, and just now got around to taking pictures.This was another good practice piece as it combines a variety of stitches. I don't remember the link, but if you just search for "knitted washcloth pattern" it will come up with lots of options.The eyelets were done with a combination of yarn-overs and then decreases done by knitting two together. The middle parts are done adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-9877529931400857012011-10-10T03:54:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.791-07:00MSA 13It seems that the era of liveblogging is over, at least for me. In fact I barely tweeted, thanks to my janky phone. But I had a blast at MSA, as usual; I particularly enjoyed a talk by Karen Leick on Gertrude Stein's reception in the 1960s (the whole panel was great, in fact) and Benjy Kahan's provocative talk on climate and temporary homosexuality. I felt that my own panel, "Against Innovation,"adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-19656971628858476342011-10-06T08:10:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.791-07:00Channing Daughters grape blendOne of our favorite things to do at the end of summer is to head out to Montauk and camp on the beach, hitting up the wineries and beaches after the summer Hampton's crowds have all gone home. We were lucky enough to bump into Channing Daughters Winemaker Christopher Tracy at the tasting room when we were there, and he very generously gave us a crate of beautiful grapes from their vineyard - adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-15839711864052600482011-10-05T03:42:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.792-07:00You may laugh at an animal, but only because you have detected in it some human attitude or expression. —Henri Bergson, On Laughteradminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-31255431303532248352011-10-04T14:28:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.792-07:00My missing books!: a crucial updateSo... it turns out that someone in New York (a poet, in fact) received twenty-two of my precious missing books in the mail, all jumbled up with books of hers. It wasn't all of my books (Arcades Project? still missing), and in addition she wound up with three books belonging to an unknown third party. But my copy of This Sex Which Is Not One was in there, along with my complete Plato, my Myra adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-78802411984839128012011-10-04T09:39:00.001-07:002011-10-04T09:39:21.574-07:00WelcomeWelcome to Unfinished Works of Genius adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-40259444017730122242011-10-04T07:25:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.435-07:00Luddites UniteExcellent animated video by Gerald Scarfe for Pink Floyd's World Tour 1977. I love grainy old style drawn animation, which has now been surplanted by slick pixilated versions.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-75569420505467307872011-10-02T12:50:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.792-07:00Look, I just have to put this out there after hearing this song piped into a few too many establishments this weekend. Adele's single "Someone Like You" is the worst. torch. song. ever.Oh, it's pretty well constructed as a song. But the total abjection expressed in the pleading, self-abasing lyrics is just embarrassing. Come on, lyric I, have a little self-respect! Be less passive-aggressive! Andadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-63446883962744866152011-10-02T06:46:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:16:39.708-07:00THE MERRI CREEK : POEMS & PIECES, # 25;October, 2011KRIS HEMENSLEY Launch speech for Pete Spence's PERRIER FEVER (Grand Parade, '11)Here is a poem of mine, written by Pete Spence; it is also a poem in the Ashbery / O'Hara / Schuyler mode written by a generation of English poets & their American cousins... It is a Pete Spence poem & an Australian poem, and I think it is a beautiful poem : "there is a mountain of solitude on the hill / occasionally adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-9565706327807334332011-09-29T09:14:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.792-07:00"Popcock!" said Gertrude Stein. With this unusually lucid and brief remark the writer who has grown famous for her "a rose is a rose is a rose" style dismissed recent efforts of scientists to explain her work. "Popcock is popcock is science is popcock," Miss Stein might have been expected to say. But she did not, according to her report. For once, she failed to repeat herself or to bewilder her adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-49056848013892684922011-09-27T19:58:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.746-07:00Especially for YouThis is not my artwork.Our school/employer did a fundraiser event for Especially for You, which provides free mammograms and medical care for women in need in the community.My husband volunteered for the airbrushed "tattoo," but he was wearing a long-sleeve shirt with a tie, so the only place he could think of was the top of his head.He let the artist have free rein, and spent the rest of the dayadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-44001540340280906552011-09-27T10:54:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.793-07:00Literary history is not really about priority, but about agency; not who did it first, but who coordinated doing with knowing, poetry with poetics. (210) —Jed Rasula, Syncopationsadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-5294363566068689082011-09-27T08:34:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.746-07:00Measuring a ChildI am near the completion phase of a project, but I wanted to double-check the measurements, so I sent the following to my daughter-in-law so she could measure my grandson for me. If printed on an 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper, with no margins, the ruler should be accurate.As it turned out, two things happened before she got this printed:She went to a fabric store and got a measuring tape.I went to adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-4635965151154289762011-09-26T16:01:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.793-07:00It is understood by this time that everything is the same except composition and time, composition and the time of the composition and the time in the composition. (526) —Gertrude Stein, "Composition as Explanation"adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-19796757840414249852011-09-25T08:37:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.793-07:00It's not "the job market"; it's the profession (and it's your problem too)I enjoyed Kathleen Fitzpatrick's recent piece in the Chronicle* on risk-taking and the responsibility of mentors to back up those junior scholars who are doing nontraditional work. The piece's key insight is that it's one thing to urge people to "innovate" and quite another to create the institutional frameworks that make innovation not only possible but consequential.**Kathleen's observation adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-19808722683140422692011-09-23T07:56:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.793-07:00Saying heyVia Ben Friedlander on Twitter, I was recently treated to Anne Boyer's "Damnatio Memoriae." Please read it--it's short and brilliant. As Miriam Posner points out, it's oddly moving, not in spite of its repetition of the hilariously banal phrase "saying hey," but because of it. It serves as a subversively anti-dramatic counterpoint to the question, "Can the subaltern speak?" After all, here they adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-80007569164902694982011-09-23T07:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.793-07:00Beddini (reading a telegram): 'Come ahead stop stop being a sap stop you can even bring Alberto stop my husband is stopping at your hotel stop when do you start stop.' I cannot understand who wrote this.Dale: Sounds like Gertrude Stein. —Top Hat (1935)adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-34884740029389879922011-09-22T08:05:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.794-07:00Etta Cone offered to typewrite Three Lives and she began. Baltimore is famous for the delicate sensibilities and conscientiousness of its inhabitants. It suddenly occurred to Gertrude Stein that she had not told Etta Cone to read the manuscript before beginning to typewrite it. She went to see her and there indeed was Etta Cone faithfully copying the manuscript letter by letter so that she might adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-4038158575236900862011-09-19T09:06:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.794-07:00Books that I appear to have lost in the move:The Arcades ProjectJen Fleissner's Women, Compulsion, ModernityUgly FeelingsThe Wings of the Doveall of my Fredric Jameson (??--this was several volumes!)So much bitterness.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-17874938416468459142011-09-16T12:28:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.794-07:00Consensus and knowledge according to ColbertI wonder what folks would think of teaching this Stephen Colbert clip (September 14, 2011) alongside Leviathan and the Air-Pump or Laboratory Life.This clip brings the issues at stake in the notion of scientific consensus into rather stark relief, reflecting as it does on current public health policy. It also puts a brake on any too-quick readings of science studies that might construe the adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-57488077921438925782011-09-08T17:15:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.436-07:00SOFBIt was just one of those simple Facebook tasks, something I had done hundreds of times before. But this time, when adding my comment to a lengthy and serious discussion about who died first, Richard Nixon or his dog Checkers,* this time, as I typed in the friend's name, a drop-down box opened and Facebook tried to enter another slightly different name. Each time I deleted that name, Facebook adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-51243567586029993282011-09-07T20:06:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.794-07:00View "I love it when this happens." on Storifyadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-54665185000723560392011-09-04T13:36:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.795-07:00Modern Female AutomatismsI'm not teaching this semester, but my book list for next semester is due exceedingly soon. I think it'll have to be one of those late-nite activities, since looking up ISBNs doesn't take a lot of brain. ("Night," when preceded by "late-," is properly spelled "nite." True facts.) I've done a poor job of articulating the course's interest and importance of late, mostly because I haven't been in adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-67777278946843021272011-08-29T06:42:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.795-07:00Hong Kong 'silk-stocking' milk tea - Part 1I'm in Hong Kong for the next week and am embarking on some research for the soon to be launched winter project of Brooklyn Soda Works. Hint - it will involve a giant tea bag that resembles an overstretched silk stocking.'Silk stocking' style milk tea is a uniquely Hong Kong phenomenon; influenced by British colonial tea habits - it is a black tea sweetened with sugar and served with evaporated adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-90403754335502590892011-08-25T06:49:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.746-07:00Make a Note of ThisOur stake president, Paul Johnson, recently said in a talk that we should always have a little notebook or paper with us. If we feel inspired or have thoughts come to us about something, we should write them down before they go away.In keeping with this theme, Donetta decided to give each of our young women a little notebook for going back to school. She chose the word "Believe" from our 13th adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-53249050209511241702011-08-25T06:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.747-07:00A New Time in My LifeMy life and my mindset is changing. Today is truly a new day, every hour different and new from what it has been before. In celebration, I recreated an old clock for my living room.I had this old clock, which was cute in the 80's but is faded and dated, though the clockwork still works. It's been in a box, with no battery, for a year.My living room is a mix of old and new, with an antique adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-53222185830102216262011-08-25T06:15:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.747-07:00An Inspired FriendDonetta and her daughter made some darling aprons recently. She is so talented! I told her about the two I had done at Christmas, and she says I inspired her to whip some up for her grandchildren.This little number is made from pieces of denim jeans and scraps she had around. It is so adorable! The picture is from a cell phone; I need to go to her house and get real pictures of the others.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-70076299801106897732011-08-25T04:28:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.795-07:00Not blogging as a way of bloggingHere is my advice to anyone who is thinking of firing off a peeved response to something someone else wrote about them on the internet:Refrain and maintain.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-34972075609313434712011-08-20T05:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.796-07:00Why, hello. Guess it's time for a new semester.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-45697223709137379972011-08-13T16:26:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.436-07:00Preparing For Take-OffFor a long while I have been thinking, planning and procrastinating about putting a group of drawings into a book form available for purchase. For every drawing created for this purpose, I've also had five excuses not to do it. The project has inched forward by fits and starts until, at this point, there do not appear to be any excuses left. A tentative title has been selected - Fear of Flying, adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-63603441394834114592011-08-10T09:25:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.436-07:00The Whole World Is WatchingWe here at Denis Gaston Art have reason to celebrate. Recently, in the last day or two, someone, somewhere out there, has become the twelve-thousandth person to visit this blog. That's twelve-thousand visits from 120 different countries. Oops, make that 121 countries.Compared to mrwinkle.com, that may not seem like many visits, but we think it shows a respectable world-wide interest for our adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-430179864640724752011-08-08T19:25:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.436-07:00Moving In And Drawing OutIn this the hottest day of the hottest month, workers have decided to show up to continue some much delayed home renovation. This Old House this is not and the sound of hammers and saws is often followed by long stretches of silence. Peeking out the window, I discover they've left without a word. Will they be back today, tomorrow?This sort of home invasion has continued for over a week and my adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-29009556391064070302011-08-05T05:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.796-07:00Via Rebekah Higgitt, a Tumblr on "The Art of Google Books." They're images that break the illusion that the books have been spiritually whooshed whole and entire into the ether.[Related.]adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-6715993629105076092011-08-04T15:22:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:16:39.709-07:00THE BIG READ : August 19th,'11Dear Friends, A year ago Collected Works Bookshop was faced with an uncertain future as we digested implication of the large rent rise (unforeseen as we sought new 4 year lease). The support we received from our poetry community (writers & readers) was fantastic! The Christmas Benefit (December, '10), organized by Friends of Collected Works, was a huge & positive interjection (dollars & cents, adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-5540704967295912482011-08-04T10:23:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.796-07:00New stuffI sure have been neglecting this blog lately, and all I have of late is a little linkspam.First of all, Ryan Cordell writes on the overly-Facebooky-but-okay-I-guess Google+ about a cool project for people who want to get started in digital humanities but aren't sure where to begin: Know someone who wants to get started in the digital humanities but doesn't know how to do so? They should apply foradminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-25929160663133825912011-08-03T09:18:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.437-07:00Craft Is Art"Persian Jar," wheel thrown. altered Raku fired vessel, Michael SimonCraft art has always seemed like a second sister in the contemporary art world. It never strove for the cool or cerebral status of Pop or Post-Modern Art, the two movements that, after the excesses of Abstract Expressionism, came to dominate the mainstream art scene. And, horrors, craft art delighted in showing the hand marks ofadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-4164632195658920522011-08-01T07:54:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.437-07:0010 Most Famous Unfinished Art WorksSome artists are so gifted that even their unfinished works are considered strokes of genius. As with any project that requires intense focus and a large sacrifice of time, achieving art perfection can become an arduous task, making it seemingly impossible to follow through on an ambitious plan. The following pieces are more remembered for their beauty and meaning than their unfinished states — adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-62321768122553198512011-07-28T12:58:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.437-07:00Art For Our Sakec. Jonathan Hillyer Photography Inc.courtesy High Museum of Art, Atlanta Deep into the dog days of Florida's summer, afternoon finds me momentarily at odds with my calling. I should be painting but the drip-dry heat chases me from the studio. My inner editor advises catching up on art books but workers arrive to install a back door. My last refuge for today becomes the computer screen.One of theadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-79836161525674754352011-07-26T13:21:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.747-07:00Bunny Baby ShowerWhen Holly received a sample baby shower invitation in the mail, her three-year-old decided he should have a baby shower for Notches, his eyeless stuffed rabbit.This sounds like lots of fun, and led to a fun beginner knitting project. I made three baby bunnies for him. Each is a little different, and I put three birth certificates in the package, so he can name the bunnies.Perfect, they are not, adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-14295443867216347382011-07-25T17:15:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.796-07:00Coffee in Atlanta[A report, after four days of intensive investigation, punctuated here and there by "apartment-hunting."]1. You can buy Blue Bottle beans at Star Provisions on Howell Mill Road. When I saw the Bella Donovan I nearly wept with relief.2. Steady Hand on North Decatur (right by the Fox Center!) brews Intelligentia, which is respectable. I don't know what their funky apparatus is, but it produces a adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-78190610975699358392011-07-24T20:34:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.797-07:00So, like, I'm in Atlanta?adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-59444286274791613732011-07-22T06:50:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.437-07:00Whose Art Is It?"untitled", George Sugarman, 1992Hard times and economic woes continue to decimate art funding at national as well as local levels. The Pinellas County Arts Council, oldest in the state (1976), officially ceased to function this year.Scratching for ways to make further cuts, some county governments have decided to suspend requirements that new government buildings spend 1% on public art. adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-78823261586197627562011-07-21T14:07:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.438-07:00Planet Art In Gainesville Gainesville Solar Walk, Elizabeth Indianos, 2002 Last Monday I made a zippy trip up to Gainesville with my road buddy Casandra. One hundred and forty-four miles fell away in a blur as Casi juiced her Mazda to the limit.Arriving in town with time to spare, we went all Jamaican, man, and dined at the Reggae Shack Cafe on West University Avenue. Best curried tempeh I ever ate.On the way adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-17985437405586803882011-07-20T23:47:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.797-07:00Another question about G+ integration with other Google products: when will I be able to share a GDoc with a circle? And: when that happens, will Google's total infiltration of the universe be scary/ier?And: have cats weighed in on the issue? (Duh.)adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-47999208047806008632011-07-20T07:03:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.747-07:00Save on Stuffing (The craft kind, not the food)When I need to make a stuffed animal or other item, I go to Wal-Mart and grab their cheapest pillow, which currently is $2.50. That is about $1 less than a bag of polyester fiberfill for stuffed animals. It is the same weight...I took it to the produce department and stuck it on the scale. Cut open the pillow and it is the very same stuff inside. When you are done, you have a nice piece of adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-86967136323706827612011-07-15T08:38:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.797-07:00A day in the life of a Smorgasburg-erOur talented Smorgasburg market lady, Nikki Brovold, is the contributor to today's blog post. Go say hi to her and Mary-Hannah this Saturday! And check out our new flavors, red currant & shiso, plus the crowd favorite grapefruit, honey & jalapeno, or the refreshing cucumber, lime + sea salt. Life at Smorgusburg is good. We’ve been slinging Brooklyn Soda Works there for a few months now and adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-48220173696301845672011-07-14T16:28:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.438-07:00ART-O-RAMAA ONE ACT PLAY Scene One(Inside the Bungalow home of Todd and Cindi Bowers in an old retro-chic neighborhood.)Todd: "I’m going to Bartlett & Adams for potting soil and picking up Jason at Quidditch. Have you seen the Prius keys?"Cindi: "They’re by the zither where adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-90355216218542805552011-07-14T12:58:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.438-07:00How Cool Is ThisIn a previous post, I wrote of the art mecca that St. Petersburg has become. Along with the Dali Museum, the Chihuly Collection & Morean Art Center, and the Museum of Fine Art, add numerous galleries and art studios. The Downtown 'Burg is a one-stop shop for viewing and purchasing art in all media.This weekend add one more stop on your cultural itinerary - The Cool Art Show. Now in its 23rd year,adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-3053328084869090962011-07-13T19:16:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.438-07:00Artist FinderA new web site has been launched that promotes Florida artists and their studios. It is called Artist Finder and will use a combination of web site, YouTube and Facebook to promote artists and their work.One of the most important aspects of the site is to encourage studio visits and purchases from patrons. As outdoor shows have proven, patrons love to talk directly to artists and gain first hand adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-38943177500108479212011-07-12T09:39:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.439-07:00Jerry Uelsmann At Harn Museum of ArtJerry Uelsmann (born 1934) Untitled , 2003Gelatin silver print19 3/8 x 15 in (49.1 x 38 cm)Collection of the artist© Jerry UelsmannIn 1965 I arrived at the University of Florida ready to shock and awe the masses with my art making ability.It did not take long, roughly one semester, to realize I had seriously overestimated my talents. Mostly, it was a couple of hippie graduate students who adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-63202082291816743932011-07-11T14:26:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.439-07:00Hidden Lake By Marjorie GreeneHere is an excellent example of the printmaking technique of artist Marjorie Greene. Marjorie is also a gifted painter and teaches at St. Petersburg College Clearwater campus. These prints, titled Hidden Lake, are reduction wood block prints, which means that after each color is printed, that part of the wood block is cut away. At the end, very little of the block is left. Thereafter, no adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-20163869316374279322011-07-11T09:17:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.748-07:00Learning to KnitA lady from my church came and taught our 14-15 year-old girls the basics of knitting. I had fun practicing my skills on this sampler made from a small ball of yarn she gave us.At the beginning, we were all just straight knitting. I finally learned how to cast on correctly. It's easy; I had just forgotten how. The second part is stockinette stitch, (k 1 row, p 1 row) but she said I purl wrong,adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-86768812592331741512011-07-10T12:44:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.797-07:00G+, brieflyI'm trying out Google Plus, because I'm a sucker like that, and also because Google already owns most of my life, so what's the loss? (Copies of my diss on GDocs, etc.)Apart from a brief exploration of Facebook (which is ridiculous), I have hitherto confined my internet activities to the public: a blog with my name on it, a Twitter account with my name on it. This seems to me to be right and justadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-26767541115131851092011-07-07T13:33:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.439-07:00Re-Birthing By The BayLast Saturday, in one fell swoop, a friend and I completed the trifecta of downtown St. Petersburg art museums. First we viewed the shimmering glass creations of The Chihuly Collection, took a gelato break and later joined tourist throngs at the new house of Surrealism, the Dali Museum.Those ultra-chic edifices have joined with the Palladian style Museum of Fine Art to make St. Pete a first classadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-55226620405466325772011-07-06T17:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.439-07:00Thoughts On ArrivingWaiting for the paint to dry. Waiting for the light. Waiting for excuses.Waiting for insight. Waiting for a sale.Waiting for nothing else to do.Waiting. adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-18280293225430713702011-07-06T08:32:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.440-07:00Cy Twombly At The Tate Modern, 2008adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-3289893376312562662011-07-05T19:32:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.748-07:00Open Studio at the LibraryAt our public library they have an event they called "Open Studio." They do a different craft or art experience each month. For July they had leftovers of many previous months. They were pretty simple. I did a pincushion. Mine is a lot bigger than the instructions; I used a spray-paint can lid.I'm not too impressed with it but I kind of had to hurry on the stitching. It was just fun to go outadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-82168370312763912012011-07-05T17:52:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.797-07:00Sweet FSM. I packed one (1) box of books. It barely made a dent in my shelves, and I nearly died schlepping it down to the Elmwood post office.This is going to be a trial.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-71394056313001470572011-07-02T23:32:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:16:39.709-07:00THE MERRI CREEK : POEMS & PIECES, # 24, July 2011GREGORY DAYThe Uncool Eloquence Of Mark Tredinnick(Address given at the Melbourne Launch of Fire Diaryat Collected Works Bookshop on May 27, 2011.)I always think that a good book is not one which you necessarily enjoy but one that you remember. Likewise, the test of a poem for me is often something similar – not necessarily a matter of subject or style, nor metrical pyrotechnics or even the adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-8186673399075559072011-07-02T18:12:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.440-07:00Australian Alien Art?adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-72581399150392355692011-06-30T15:45:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.798-07:00Today is officially the last day of my appointment at Cal, although I'm around for a few more weeks. I'm still somewhat in denial of my impending move to Atlanta, where I'll be a fellow at the Fox Center at Emory for the next year. Part of that is my reluctance to leave the Bay Area (and my fantastic 1908 Leola Hall-designed Elmwood apartment); most of it is the enormous pain in the ass of a adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-51398993263617007472011-06-29T14:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.798-07:00Drinks for your July 4th bbq!If we were particularly market-savvy we would probably have figured out that we could have done a red/ white/ blue combo for this weekend. But instead, we went with what would be the most thirst quenching and what we would want to drink if we were going to a bbq (instead of working...)So, while not red, it is sort of orangey: Grapefruit, jalapeno & honey. Bring a growler and we'll fill it up! It adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-55185708207082717402011-06-28T12:15:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.440-07:00Artist Profile: Denis Gaston - Pinellas County Cultural Affairs InterviewHere is a studio interview from a few years ago. I just now learned how to convert it to YouTube.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-80618121802249333972011-06-27T06:47:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.440-07:00Is Art Art? The question of what is art and what is not art remains a hot button issue and has resulted in much debate and even name calling in internet chat sites. Volumes could be written about the differences, but the single most important factor in determining art has always been the maker's intent. In the three examples above, only one was intended to be an art work when it was created. Over time, all adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-49396829003528398322011-06-27T06:46:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.748-07:00My Secret Sister!The week before camp, Hope got her Secret Sister paper. She was looking at it, and I walked into Young Women's Group to sit behind her, and I saw the paper. I didn't mean to snoop, but you tend to notice when you see your name in your own handwriting. So I new she was my Secret Sister.I told Deanne, one of our leaders, about it, but I was going to act all surprised when I found out it wasadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-73048677398978704532011-06-26T07:23:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.798-07:00Such a dollEveryone knows that Teen Talk Barbie never said, "Math is hard; let's go shopping!" It caught on nonetheless; there was something about the phrase that made people think that, yes, this is just what a talking Barbie would say. Speech is one of those things that is supposed to set "the human" apart from "the inhuman," as what Anca Parvulescu describes as "one in a series of properties invoked as [adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-45703396302352818132011-06-25T13:24:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.440-07:00Florida Artist Group ExhibitionCity Soaring by Patton HunterLast evening I attended an invigorating exhibition reception of the Florida Artist Group. Held at the Beach Art Center on Indian Rocks Beach, the show highlights the diverse work of Area 4 FLAG members. FLAG is a statewide organization and the oldest artist run group in Florida. Cheryl Anne Day-SwallowArea 4 Presidenttalks with visitorsThese are not simply adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-36224729510893829182011-06-25T11:30:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.798-07:00This cartoon from Abstruse Goose needs to be in every freshman handbook.Via Lisa Wade at Sociological Images.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-50032297201271030732011-06-23T17:35:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.441-07:00Art And ChangeIn late summer 2007 Jenny Carey of Flair Magazine interviewed me for the Magazine's October issue. She and staff photographer Will Staples spent nearly two hours at my Dunedin studio talking about and taking photos of many different art pieces. The pictured works were two new pieces that made the final cut for publication.Two adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-35794896654983881672011-06-23T13:30:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.799-07:00So... who exactly are all these people who worship social media uncritically? Thank goodness Bill Keller is here to save us from them.[Background.][I mean, are you telling me that Twitter can't topple dictators? I am shocked.]adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-90431269456792458892011-06-23T07:00:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.748-07:00Ribboned Heart ClipI found the cute little clips, with holes in the center, a set of four, in the dollar bins at Target. I got the ribbon there too. I simply wrapped the ribbon around the front, up through the hole in the clip, and through the buttonholes. I tied a pretty bow and there it is. This project didn't even require glue.The other clips are different shapes and colors; this is the only one I decorated adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-77379543441408092652011-06-22T11:56:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.799-07:00I'm just going to throw this out there for no good reason. It bugs me that the whole entire internet seems not to have identified the brilliant quotation at the end of Janelle Monáe's track "Wondaland." One dude even thinks it's from the Randall Thompson "Alleluia." Absurd. It is obviously a variation on the refrain from "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones." Come on, internets; I expect better.This hasadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-12570222149213465552011-06-21T19:12:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.441-07:00Jean Dubuffet's Cowadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-46490610512210064022011-06-21T06:44:00.001-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.748-07:00Secret Sister Treasure BoxGirls pick up all sorts of interesting small things at camp, so my first gift to my secret sister will be a treasure box.I found the box and the foam letters in the dollar bins at Target. The gems and buttons are leftovers from other projects. The flower petals are the centers of all the O's in the letter kit.It's hard to see the F on the green, but it's in there! And below, one last button, adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-51330991492019645252011-06-21T06:44:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.749-07:00Secret Sister HeadbandsI'm off to girls' camp as a leader. One of our traditions is to do Secret Sister acts. Everyone draws a name and does one small gift a day for their secret friend. In the end, of course, identity is revealed.My secret sister is a 12-year-old girl who loves pink, brown, blue, and headbands, among other things. I decided to do a headband a day along with other small gifts. I picked up a set of adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-63608795876442694022011-06-20T09:58:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.799-07:00A few links on HPS, publicness, public knowledge, etc., etc.:A charming rant by Dominic Berry on "HPS on't telly": It looks as though TV is just catching up with what David Phillip Miller has called the ‘Sobel effect’, the seemingly endless growth in popular science and science history writing triggered by Dava Sobel in the 1990s. In the particular case of the programme which sparked this blog adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-69049987939763494232011-06-20T06:37:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.441-07:00En Plein Aire as AnywhereFirst of all, let us phase out another tired cliche, "local artist." The term, when used in the media, has come to infer that the artist is not quite ready for full artist status.In that way of thinking, artists live in cities like New York, Paris or London, while local artists toil away in Podunkville longing for the big leagues.Even cities that promote themselves as art meccas still freely use adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-24248087529837412772011-06-19T18:55:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.441-07:00Le Palais Ideal Du Facteur Chevaladminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-83371027929289654432011-06-14T18:34:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.442-07:00Drawing Without BordersIn 1964, as it became apparent American kids would be going to Viet Nam, I made the easy decision to go to college instead. In the following weeks I slogged through mind numbing courses on logic, calculus, and earth science, more than once wondering if I had made the right decision.My first art class, Basics of Drawing, promised to be a piece of cake by comparison. After all, I had been drawing adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-82876589603809200472011-06-13T08:46:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.442-07:00Letters From HomeSilent Sentinels, enamel on wood panel, 1969, Kandauer My father, Richard Gaston, a cartographer and publisher by trade, took up painting in the late 1940's. He especially loved the German abstract painters and invented his nom d'artist Kandauer, combining the names of German painters Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Bauer.After I moved away from home to make my own mark in the art world, Dad adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-91323666438719345312011-06-12T15:24:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.442-07:00Artist Lynn Whipple on CreativityArtists talking about the creative process often try to impress us with high-faluting art speak. Others babble on too long about how great their art is. Here at last is an instructive and funny look at art making and getting unstuck. adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-12020579316217050652011-06-11T18:17:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.799-07:00Poetry in the wild: Longfellow editionI love these instances of poetry in the wild—moments when you see poetry being deployed to unlikely ends, or when you see the general public being called upon to recognize something that you're usually called a hopeless nerd for studying. A few weeks ago I took note of a Businessweek article that was briefly viral, whose most quotable and quoted line was "The best minds of my generation are adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-15317738308855679222011-06-11T10:35:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.442-07:00Waiting For The Paint To Dry GlobeStalker, oil on canvas, Denis Gaston "Waiting for the paint to dry" could be a metaphor for the many times I am not painting, whether seeking out inspiration, thinking about what to paint or simply cleaning out the studio. These are all important and necessary precursors to the desired goal of putting paint on canvas. They may also exist as thorny obstacles to that becoming adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-18066500209169614942011-06-10T17:17:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.800-07:00I spent a week fiddling with the back end of Arcade, and all I have to show for it is a blog post.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-52682196936166627702011-06-08T19:19:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:16:39.709-07:00THE DORSET JOURNEY, 2011 : LAO LEG-----------------------------------------------------------------------[Top, K H at Wattay International Airport, Vientiane; April 8th, '11; second, KH perusing Rasi's photographs at French Centre, Vientiane; third, KH at the Living Museum, Vientiane. Snaps by Cathy O'Brien.]--------------------------------------------------------------------PROEMApril 7,'11Approaching departure. The aisle adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-12727273477609805902011-06-08T11:37:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.800-07:00Sentimental Spaces“And what a quantity of animal beings there are in the being of a man!” — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of SpaceMy essay "Sentimental Spaces: On Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Nest" is now up at at Jacket2.One of the many nice things about Jacket2 is that it's fully online and open access. There are some drawbacks to this, of course: in MS the article is about 27 pages, which makes the lack of adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-58553440070404422062011-06-08T05:56:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.749-07:00My Two-Hour One-Hour Skirt I had seen one-hour skirt tutorials on the internet, and I thought that would be a good project for this piece of fabric. I love the flowers, but it was the end of the bolt, and there wasn't enough for the straight or bias-cut skirt patterns I have.I simply took the fabric, which was about twice as long as my waist, folded it with the ends together, so the selvage was at the top and bottom, and adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-24937685434240212882011-06-05T11:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.800-07:00My "Facebook is ridiculous" post of yore can never match the gloriousness of this rant. Via Aaron.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-58382325423247463222011-06-05T06:53:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.800-07:00A link this morning: Alice Bell on why calling for "scientific literacy" doesn't make sense.This is apropos of her observation that what one of her FB friends called "the ultimate scab university," the New College of the Humanities, seems to place an awful lot of emphasis on "scientific literacy," by which they seem to mean "a list of Richard Dawkins-approved articles of faith supplemented of no adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-85014671167561128052011-06-03T12:13:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.801-07:00We should really declare a moratorium on calling things "labs" willy-nilly. Y'all know who you are.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-79704346956714325062011-06-02T21:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.801-07:00Apparently the semester is overI've started many a blog post in the last few weeks, only to discard it, dissatisfied. I'm in a bit of a strange lull lately, despite having the usual gigantic heap of work on my hands. I submitted an essay relatively recently, but not the essay, and I'm on the fence about how deeply to revise the essay right now (versus after I hand it to some readers). Common sense tells me to cobble together adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-59210210504402269372011-06-02T12:29:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.801-07:00Strawberry, hops & pink peppercorn! More rhubarb!It's that time of the year - the first strawberries are making their way up north from south jersey to New York greenmarkets. We did a strawberry, balsamic & black pepper last weekend that went over wonderfully well, so it's time for the more adventurous strawberry, hops & pink peppercorn!Our strawberries are from a stand over at Smorgasburg; Hector at New Jersey Farm Produce has come through adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-60254152403037916452011-06-02T11:45:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:26:30.442-07:00Seen And Not Seen"Winter Storm Approaching" oil on panel, 2011, Denis GastonLooking at art is different from seeing art. Looking at art can be a casual glance as when one scans the environment while walking, taking in the barking dog, the mailman and passing traffic.When a person enters an art gallery, they quickly look all around until a certain piece catches their eye. Standing before the work, the process adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-86997019939867933332011-05-26T17:31:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.801-07:00Back in Berkeley. The finger is healing, and I am behind on work, as usual. Looking forward to getting back to my regular research routine.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-10165052255890733602011-05-26T09:12:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:28:28.749-07:00TeaserWhen I started work, I had to update my wardrobe to professional in a hurry--and on a limited budget, but a trip to Goodwill and some careful choices at Kohl's took care of that.Suddenly it is spring, and I realized I have no professional summer clothes! What to do? I can't wear my capris to work, and I don't want to put a lot of money into clothes when I seriously need to lose weight, because adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196772888516309057.post-51692936790528566772011-05-22T11:59:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:23:21.802-07:00Upon consideration, while that Ruby on Rails workshop didn't equip me to actually develop my own web apps in five magical hours, it did remind me that I can fiddle around with the back ends of things and understand how they work. I predict that I will be giving the Arcade tech editor considerable heartburn in the coming months. ("Hey, what does this do?" *explosion*)adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117665165461534349noreply@blogger.com