Stacy's new activity -- see it to believe it!
Carloz was a witness to to the Harvest Brawl.Monday, November 10, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Fall Offerings
`The advent of fall weather has suddenly sparked my interest in all things woolen. So I've cut and sewed numeros pieces of recycled wool sweaters. I made a pair of slippers, from the top half of sweater sleeves. Anastacia deems them "janky." Well, guess what, they are soooooo waaaarrrrmmmmm, that I shall be making and wearing these slippers! they're soooo easy to make, they don't take beaucoup $$$$$ and more time to make like the beautiful felted clogs. check out some of the cool felted purses on etsy.com here: http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title&search_query=recycled+sweater
will attached pictures soon! until then, here's a litt
le something...
will attached pictures soon! until then, here's a litt
le something...Sunday, October 19, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Reading and Knitting
Those are the current pasttimes. Books: Murder mysteries are de riguer - although I picked up Runaway Jury again and cannot put it down. I'm also reading up on disabilities - anthologies, memoirs, etc. Very excellent, moving books - Moving Violations by John Hockenberry and Tumbling After by Susan Park; the anthology "With Wings - an anthology of women's stories on disabiities"- something like that.
I've picked up numerous books on knitting at the library - Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Workshop, etc.
I've picked up numerous books on knitting at the library - Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Workshop, etc.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
a touch of culture
In May, Julia and I went to the Annie exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. #1 - I can't believe I never had been to the Legion of Honor memorial. What a gorgeous spot to spend some time!
The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
History: Built to commemorate Californian soldiers who died in World War I, the Legion of Honor is a beautiful Beaux-arts building located in San Francisco's Lincoln Park. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate Bridge and all of San Francisco, the Legion is most noted for its breathtaking setting. Its collections include Rodin's Thinker, which sits in the museum's Court of Honor, European decorative arts and paintings, Ancient art, and one of the largest collections of prints and drawings in the country.
. . . and all about Annie:
For decades, Annie Leibovitz has artistically captured the icons of popular culture with her award-winning photography. Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 looks at 200 of these photos as well as those she has taken of her family and close friends, and thus views a full “photographer’s life.” As Leibovitz says: “I don’t have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”Included in this exhibition are portraits of a pregnant Demi Moore, Nelson Mandela in Soweto, and George W. Bush in the White House; searing photojournalism from the siege of Sarajevo; haunting landscapes from the American West and Jordan; and personal photos documenting the birth of her three daughters and other scenes of private family life.
The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
History: Built to commemorate Californian soldiers who died in World War I, the Legion of Honor is a beautiful Beaux-arts building located in San Francisco's Lincoln Park. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate Bridge and all of San Francisco, the Legion is most noted for its breathtaking setting. Its collections include Rodin's Thinker, which sits in the museum's Court of Honor, European decorative arts and paintings, Ancient art, and one of the largest collections of prints and drawings in the country.
. . . and all about Annie:
For decades, Annie Leibovitz has artistically captured the icons of popular culture with her award-winning photography. Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 looks at 200 of these photos as well as those she has taken of her family and close friends, and thus views a full “photographer’s life.” As Leibovitz says: “I don’t have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”Included in this exhibition are portraits of a pregnant Demi Moore, Nelson Mandela in Soweto, and George W. Bush in the White House; searing photojournalism from the siege of Sarajevo; haunting landscapes from the American West and Jordan; and personal photos documenting the birth of her three daughters and other scenes of private family life.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Free Ticket to a Roller Coaster Ride
it's the ride you never want to take. Mom's diagnosis of dementia. We're all working our way through this diagnosis - and are calling upon all the resources we can find.
A great reference book: The 36 Hour Day.
Great dementia/alzheimer's support group - Hart Senior Center in Sacramento.
Website: http://www.alz.org/index.asp
A great reference book: The 36 Hour Day.
Great dementia/alzheimer's support group - Hart Senior Center in Sacramento.
Website: http://www.alz.org/index.asp
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Disfarmer - Photography Exhibit
Aunt Julia gave a talk February 28th at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies.
Here's the detail:
DisfarmerPhotographs from the Studio of Mike Disfarmer, Heber Springs, Arkansas 1939–1946January 17–April 6, 2008 Lyndhurst GalleryPublic Reception and Talk: Thursday, February 28, 7 p.m.Scholar/Collector Julia ScullyThere is much that we don’t know about Mike Disfarmer, but what we do know makes for a great story.He was born Mike Meyer in Indiana in 1884. When he was eight, his family moved to Arkansas—-though later in life he claimed to have been blown there by a tornado and dropped in the Meyers’ yard. At the age of fifty, not long after his mother’s death, he made the local paper when he legally changed his last name from Meyer to Disfarmer. The reporter explained the change this way: “Since ‘meyer’ means ‘farmer’ in German, and since the petitioner was not a farmer, he chanced upon the name ‘Disfarmer.’ ‘Dis’ is said to mean ‘not’ in German.”). In adopting this new identity, Disfarmer distanced himself from his family and seemed to imply his superiority to other locals. A confirmed bachelor who made a point of telling people that he didn’t believe in the Bible, he succeeded in creating a persona that was both insider and outsider in the small mountain town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, where he’d lived since 1914.This eccentric, reportedly friendless man chose to operate a portrait studio for forty years. He documented significant and random moments in the lives of rural Arkansas families through the end of the Depression and World War II. No warm conversation, no props, no frills; an irregular tack for the traditionally gregarious profession of portrait photographer. His neighbors, all white, predominantly working class, came as they were, and as they wanted to be remembered: in work clothes, in uniform, in their Sunday best. They are hearty individuals living through challenging times, sliced from a virtually homogenous life. The frank, arresting portraits Disfarmer made stand as a compelling record of the home front. The community he held at a distance; his camera, he caressed.This exhibition presents classic Disfarmer images—posthumous prints from glass-plate negatives made between 1939 and 1946—that were discovered two years after the photographer’s death by former Heber Springs mayor Joe Albright when he purchased the contents of the studio for five dollars. A selection of these images was first published in the Arkansas Sun (Peter Miller, editor) and Modern Photography (Julia Scully, editor) in 1975.The Disfarmer Project, a reclamation effort launched in 2004 by Michael Mattis, has brought vintage prints spanning Disfarmer’s full forty-year career in Heber Springs to the public’s attention. A special thanks to the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City for the loan of these prints.This exhibition is presented in conversation with the Bill Frisell Trio's The Disfarmer Project: Musical Portraits from Heber Springs, March 1, 8 p.m., Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University—part of Statements of Fact: Documentary in Performance, a series offered by Duke Performances.
Here's the detail:
DisfarmerPhotographs from the Studio of Mike Disfarmer, Heber Springs, Arkansas 1939–1946January 17–April 6, 2008 Lyndhurst GalleryPublic Reception and Talk: Thursday, February 28, 7 p.m.Scholar/Collector Julia ScullyThere is much that we don’t know about Mike Disfarmer, but what we do know makes for a great story.He was born Mike Meyer in Indiana in 1884. When he was eight, his family moved to Arkansas—-though later in life he claimed to have been blown there by a tornado and dropped in the Meyers’ yard. At the age of fifty, not long after his mother’s death, he made the local paper when he legally changed his last name from Meyer to Disfarmer. The reporter explained the change this way: “Since ‘meyer’ means ‘farmer’ in German, and since the petitioner was not a farmer, he chanced upon the name ‘Disfarmer.’ ‘Dis’ is said to mean ‘not’ in German.”). In adopting this new identity, Disfarmer distanced himself from his family and seemed to imply his superiority to other locals. A confirmed bachelor who made a point of telling people that he didn’t believe in the Bible, he succeeded in creating a persona that was both insider and outsider in the small mountain town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, where he’d lived since 1914.This eccentric, reportedly friendless man chose to operate a portrait studio for forty years. He documented significant and random moments in the lives of rural Arkansas families through the end of the Depression and World War II. No warm conversation, no props, no frills; an irregular tack for the traditionally gregarious profession of portrait photographer. His neighbors, all white, predominantly working class, came as they were, and as they wanted to be remembered: in work clothes, in uniform, in their Sunday best. They are hearty individuals living through challenging times, sliced from a virtually homogenous life. The frank, arresting portraits Disfarmer made stand as a compelling record of the home front. The community he held at a distance; his camera, he caressed.This exhibition presents classic Disfarmer images—posthumous prints from glass-plate negatives made between 1939 and 1946—that were discovered two years after the photographer’s death by former Heber Springs mayor Joe Albright when he purchased the contents of the studio for five dollars. A selection of these images was first published in the Arkansas Sun (Peter Miller, editor) and Modern Photography (Julia Scully, editor) in 1975.The Disfarmer Project, a reclamation effort launched in 2004 by Michael Mattis, has brought vintage prints spanning Disfarmer’s full forty-year career in Heber Springs to the public’s attention. A special thanks to the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City for the loan of these prints.This exhibition is presented in conversation with the Bill Frisell Trio's The Disfarmer Project: Musical Portraits from Heber Springs, March 1, 8 p.m., Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus, Duke University—part of Statements of Fact: Documentary in Performance, a series offered by Duke Performances.
Heeeerre, kitty kitty!
Today's project: take 3 feral cats from around our condo to the East Bay spay and neuter clinic. Now we have only 6 cats to catch! First we called Fix Our Ferals group, which make a phone interview. Once they approve, they provide a free referral, which includes a rabies and kitty vaccinations! Looking forward to limiting our local cat population!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Do Si Do
After a long day of meetings, participated in the evening's 'mystery activity', which turned out to be square dancing! Grreat - didn't have to take an extra trip to the gym! Instead, had a fun reminisence of a time, in William Land Park, about 45 years ago!
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