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So on Sunday afternoon I went to the CoLaboratory in Atlanta for "Bizarre Bazaar".
This is a place for music, art, and events run by some of the same people who are the driving force behind Alchemy: The Georgia Burn.
I saw this neon sign at Alchemy and enjoyed it immensely. Here it is at its semi-permanent home.
311/365: 7 November 2010
Salore was helping Brucie write a letter to Santa as Brucie was still not very good at writing and grammar. The elves had shortly gone to bed dreaming of sugarplum fairies.
Manuscript title: Rheinau Psalter
Manuscript summary: The Rheinau Psalter, Ms. Rh. 167, is among the preeminent treasures of the Zurich Central Library. Its miniatures are a product of the highest level of artistry of the High Gothic painting of this period around 1260, which is also true for the sophisticated color and painting techniques that were used. In contrast, the script, while of quite good quality, cannot be counted among the highest examples of the art of writing. The commissioner of the manuscript must be sought in the area of Lake Constance, probably in the city of Constance, which was very important in the politics and church politics at the time of the interregnum. In 1817, Father Blasius Hauntinger purchased the manuscript from Melchior Kirchhofer in Schaffhausen for the Benedictine Rheinau Abbey; in 1863, the manuscript, along with the Rheinau Abbey Library, became part of the Cantonal Library (today Central Library) in Zurich.
Origin: Constance (Switzerland)
Period: 13th century
Image source: Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. 167: Rheinau Psalter
First lesson in the Eleanor Winters' book "Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy": 8 basic strokes for lowercase letters, and simplest lowercase letters.
Here Designer Tinker Bell is boxed, with the slip cover and acrylic cover off. She is now in the clear. She is secured to the factory packaging by wires and rubber bands. Photographed in daylight.
First look at my Tinker Bell Limited Edition Designer Doll. My Tinker Bell is number 2710 of 4000. There were no designer bags, as there were in the previous Designer doll
collections.
My visit to my local Disney Store on Februay 18, 2014. I was there for the release of the Disney Fairies Designer Collection dolls. I also noticed that they had several items in the Frozen section that had been missing for several weeks, especially the mugs and Classic Anna dolls, but no Elsas.
They had eight of each Designer Fairy doll, Tinker Bell and Zarina. There were about that many people waiting in line before the store opened, waiting to buy them. I didn't do an actual count, but no one left the line when it was announced how many dolls there were, so there were probably seven or eight of them in the line. They had no designer bags, so they just put them in regular Disney Store bags.
I inspected my dolls, and they looked in perfect condition. I was surprised by their shiny pearly skin (similar in texture to LE Ursula and Harrods Elsa), but they looked very beautiful. The artwork on the boxes were also very beautiful, but the backgrounds behind the dolls were plain looking. The CM had to help me take off the slip cover of the Zarina doll, as it was very tight. She said all the Zarinas seemed to be that way.
Below is information from the UK Disney Store website, as the dolls are not yet available online in the US site.
Tinker Bell Limited Edition Designer Doll
UK Disney Store
Released Online and In Stores: 2014-02-18
£50.00
Item No. 411048313135P
Let the feisty star of Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy touch down in your home as this limited edition Tinker Bell doll, beautifully realised with embroidered fabrics and meticulous detailing.
Magic in the details...
•Limited edition doll
•Tinker Bell from Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy
•Part of the Disney Fairies Designer Collection
•Worldwide limited edition of 4000
•Includes a certificate of authenticity
•Exquisite attention to detail
•Realistic hair with leaf hairpin
•Full eyelashes
•Shimmering, iridescent wings
•Sheer organza bodice with metallic embroidery and gems
•Layered leaf skirt embellsihed with gems
•Comes in a tough plastic display case with a stand
•Doll measures H30cm approx
•Display case measures H38 x W17.5 x D18.5cm approx
•Suitable for children aged 6 years+
•Created for Disney Store
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I was recently contacted by Chris Pullen, the editor of this book:
www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415998673/
He is writing a new book about the "It Gets Better" project. He ran across my Flickr photo collage linked below, and asked if he could use it in his book.
I told him that I couldn't give him permission to use that particular collage because I don't own the rights to any of the original images. But, I offered to create a new collage in which I would get advanced permission to use the images from the photographers/subjects. For this new collage, I decided to focus specifically on friends that I have made here on Flickr.
I'm excited about being asked to participate in this project. And, at the risk of sounding mushy, I'm charmed that all of the individuals in this collage agreed to participate. I have made so many wonderful friends on Flickr who have inspired me and supported me, both creatively and personally. These are but a few who I am closest to. Unfortunately, I was not able to include every great contact I have made on Flickr. So, I hope that no one feels left out.
This is the final collage that I have submitted for publication. I also wrote the caption below, understanding that the author may or may not be able to include it and/or may need to edit or rewrite it.
"After joining Flickr.com, I quickly discovered that it's much more than a photo sharing site, it's also a social network. I have met dozens of wonderfully creative, and friendly people on Flickr, from all around the world. When I started seeing several of my Flickr friends post photos with the "it gets better" theme, I realized that it really does get better… not in spite of being gay, but because of being gay. Being gay doesn't prevent friendships, it creates friendships.
Chris Pullen asked me if he could use a collage that I had created of photos of family, friends and loved ones in this book. Instead, I offered to create this new collage specifically featuring Flickr friends from across the US, including Puerto Rico and as far-reaching as the Canada, The United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Brazil."
The Birds (1963) is a modern Hitchcock thriller/masterpiece and rightly regarded as a classic of the genre. It was based on a 1952 short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier - Hitchcock loved (well, ok, more like Hitch's wife, Alma, who was the inspiration to many of his movie ideas) her writing, and this was his third major film based on the author's works (after Jamaica Inn (1939) and Rebecca (1940)).
I always felt The Birds to be a truly original story/movie, and certainly one that was atmospheric and eerie, yet at the same time somehow ahead of its time by giving us a warning from nature.
Anyways....I had my "The Birds" moment recently in Lower Queen Anne when I came across this murdering lot menacingly just sitting on the lines with not one moving as I was waiting for the bus, and started feverishly looking around for either Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren or even a cameo from the maestro himself.
Hasselblad XPan f4/90mm
Kodak TMax 400
My first real published work was a monthly column of happenings at my elementary school published in the Amherstburg Echo during the 1988-89 school year. See if you can tell where a 13-year-old scribe was trying to show off.
This version comes from an aging notebook I compiled my rough drafts in - the final version would have been published in early May 1989.
All Saints, Hilgay, Norfolk
Ludovicus Eduardus Iosephus Maude inter gallos pro occubuit kal: Iul:MCMXCI ann: nat: XXV Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine
('Louis Edward Joseph Maude, who died in the war for freedom, first day of July 1916 aged 25. Grant him eternal rest Lord.')
Hilgay is one of those large, independent south-west Norfolk fen villages that feel as if they really ought to be in Cambridgeshire. The church is set away from the village centre, and you'd be unlikely to find it without a map if it wasn't for the handily named Church Street. All Saints is set about a hundred metres back from the road, and the avenue of limes that lead up to it are undoubtedly the longest in East Anglia. A local once told me it was the longest lime avenue in the world, which may also be true, although I don't suppose there are hundreds of lime avenues in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia queuing up to compete with it.
The church appears long and apparently low, although this is in fact an illusion caused by the squatness of the tower. It appears very un-East Anglian, the nave and chancel in layered carstone and the tower in white brick. The carstone of the south aisle is not layered but ragged, and this creates a very primitive, rugged effect, like a marbled gingerbread cake. The ramshackle appearance of the tower contributes a bit as well
The large gravestone with an anchor, cross and heart on this side of the graveyard is striking, and you might think at first it is the memorial to Hilgay's most famous son, Captain Thomas Manby. Manby was the inventor of the Manby cradle, a device for rescuing sailors from stranded ships at sea (I hope you're taking notes, there will be a test at the end) but in fact it isn't. His memorial is inside the church. When I came here in 2005, this large memorial, which actually depicts the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, still had a heart-shaped lead-plate with the name and details of the grave's inhabitant, but it won't surprise you to learn that this has long since been stripped away. The best memorial on this side of the church is a deeply cut relief of a windmill, the workers busy unloading sacks of grain.
George Street undertook the considerable restoration of All Saints in the 1860s, although the tower predates this by about seventy years, replacing one which collapsed in the 1790s. The interior is wide and open, and at first appears almost entirely 19th century. The aisle is as wide as the nave, and the aisle chapel altar is as grand and dressed as the main altar. It feels a little like two churches side by side. Just inside the door is a very rare beast, a glass-walled funeral bier. The font is a grand Victorian marble job, and matches the not quite so successful pulpit. They do seem a little out of place here, a reminder that Street's urban, sophisiticated style is sometimes a little uncomfortable in East Anglia.
There is a good set of 15th century benches with animals on some of the ends, including a rather disturbing anthropomorphic creature that I suppose must be something from a bestiary. From a century or so later comes the memorial to Henry and Ursula Hawe in the south aisle chapel.
All Saints is at first sight not the most exciting of churches, but it is full of little details and has a lovely harmonious feel, from the stations of the cross to the good late 19th century glass by Ward and Hughes, from the screen brought from the redundant St Mary Beswick in Manchester to the jaunty little gallery shoehorned under the tower which Pevsner, unaccountably, thought dull.
Captain Danby's memorial is in the south aisle chapel, and records that his is a name to be remembered as long as there is a stranded ship. Poignantly, the memorial also remembers four of his eight brothers and sisters who died in infancy. It is a fairly typical sentimental memorial of the mid-19th century, but has a striking addition that you only notice after a moment. In another hand along the bottom, someone has inscribed carefully The public should have paid this tribute. How curious! There must be a story there somewhere.
This church has a long-standing Anglo-catholic tradition, and as part of that it used to be open every day. I am afraid that this is no longer the case, and there is not even a keyholder notice now.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries offering them: vintage postcards , a collage or $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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