17 posts from March 2007

Vox Hunt: An Interesting Life

Mar 31, 2007
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Book: Show us a great biography or memoir.

Marguerite Duras

I'm not sure if this book qualifies as biography or memoir. I'm also not sure what to say about it. I based my novel off of it. It was dark and steamy like some of the Japanese scenes in Babel. It left me with a sense of longing and separation anxiety. I'm glad that time of my life is passed, but when I think about it I wonder if I will always think about it, if it was the best time of my life. The time when I read this book.

SPIDER MUMS!

Mar 30, 2007
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Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh
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Twelfth Night: Vivien Leigh as Viola

Mar 29, 2007
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Act I, Scene II - Viola is shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria and believes that her brother has been drowned.

Vivien Leigh as Viola, Mervyn Blake as the Sea Captain, Dir: John Gielgud, SMT, 1955

Enter Viola, a Captain, and sailors

VIOLA

What country, friends, is this?

CAPTAIN

This is Illyria, lady.

VIOLA

And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother, he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned. What think you, sailors?

CAPTAIN

It is perchance that you yourself were saved.

VIOLA

O, my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.

I. ii. 1-8

Act III, Scene I - Olivia declares her love for Viola-Cesario

Geraldine McEwan as Olivia, Dorothy Tutin as Viola, Dir: Peter Hall, SMT, 1958

OLIVIA

Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,
I love thee so that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause.
But rather reason thus with reason fetter:
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

III.i.147-154

Twelfth Night: 1969: The Twins, Viola & Sebastian (Judi Dench & Gordon Reid)

Mar 29, 2007
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Anemone or Ana-moans, depending on your pronunciation...

Mar 29, 2007
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Ann Mikolowski at Center Galleries in Detroit

Mar 28, 2007
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"Ann," self portrait, 1974, 2 inches by 1-1/2 inches

"Rushing to yoga class for a deep dose of serenity, which usually wears off on the drive home, is what many women do to center their hectic lives. Would you like to meet, in a way, a woman preternaturally centered, effortlessly grounded? You can at CCS' Center Galleries, in the exhibit Ann Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror. A Detroit painter, wife, mother and working woman, Mikolowski's sense of comfort in her own skin permeates this gorgeous, calming installation..." from The Metro Times http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=10324

Balloon Flowers

Mar 28, 2007
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English Garden

Uploaded on January 28, 2005
by Rin_Ney

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Yesterday I ended up making origami balloon (flowers) with the second graders. They loved it. I thought it was cute when they actually put pieces of tape over the blow-holes so that the air wouldn't get out... The Jeff Koons sculpture I (almost) threw in is an odd and unusual object d'art. I was in Berlin once with my friend Jason, but we did not see this little ditty. Too bad, we could have posed around it.