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A few more sketchbook pages..
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Wow! Your sketches are amazing!2012-04-24 08:41:12
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Beautiful!!! Lovely memories on paper ... thank you so much for sharing these with us!!!2012-04-17 10:31:41
Remember the Olafur Eliasson waterfalls-killing-the-trees-in-Brooklyn thread? Well, Bloomberg has just presented an award to the artist. An environmental award:
http://gothamist.com/2008/09/27/waterfalls_celebrated_for_being_gre.php
Two quick questions that hopefully I can link together when there’s more time tomorrow:
1) Does anyone have a good source for buying obscure, out-of-print music that Amazon and eBay seem to know nothing about?
2) Does anyone know anything (or know someone or some book who knows anything) about music from the greatest decade in American history, the 1920′s? Ragtime, blues, Dixieland jazz, whatever. I know next to nothing and want to know more.
Thanks to anybody who can help!
Hi Cathy,
This particular drawing I’m most fond of. I enjoy the tension that your drawing appears ‘seemingly’ serene but it really isn’t.
A.
Catherine:
1. Sympathies on the allergies. I am having a BAD time too, which for me includes hyperkalemic attacks.
2. Jesse: I am trying to dig out a great jazz history book I interveiwed about many years back which included lots on 20s but also what happened to those musicians later (like Satchmo)
3. Intervied TIM REID today, better known as VENUS FLYTRAP on WKRP IN CINNCINNATTI. Very cool.
4. Beginning of a “theoretical set” for an ALT OLDIES show. Fill in the rest:
Financial set:
1. “Wall Street Shuffle” 10CC
2. “Black Friday” Steely Dan
3. “Millionaire” ABC
4. “Penthouse and Pavement/”I’m Your Money” Heaven 17
5.?????
Keep those histamines in check!!!
Mark
Thanks, Mark!
I’m drawing a blank on additions to the list, but maybe “Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car” by U2? Thanks for the jazz help. I may be begging everybody for info again soon — I stumbled onto Arnold Bocklin this weekend, was fascinated, and the literature on him seems really scanty. Seeing these things just on the screen and not in a museum is killing me.
Hiya – I’ve been a little busy, but it’s Monday, I’m up early, and after my morning internet troll I bring you, via Gawker, an SNL skit: “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals:”
http://gawker.com/5059223/mark-wahlberg-talks-to-animals
Catherine:
Mucho gracias for Wahlberg and the animals (Hey! Say “Hi!” to yur mutha.” Synchronistically I had just seen PERFECT STORM and I (HEART) HUCKABEES this weekend through not fault of my own. He’s a bit funnier in HUCKABEES.
I had a great weekend leading MAS trips to IBAs both days: Quabbin Saturday and Quabog Valley (Brookfields) Sunday. One Saturday’s trip a question came up about someone who posted down Massbird about a YELLOW WAGTAIL in NJ and the poor pictures that were accompanied the posting looked like a PALM WARBLER. But they were poor, so I couldn’t be sure. What was the final verdict on thst sighting?
Our trip Sunday was peppered with bizarre sightings. Here is the tail end of my posting of the trip to Massbird:
“This was also a trip that had some rather odd extras, like:
1. A passel of extremely noisy, free range Guinea Fowl
2. an entire farm of Miniature Horses (NB: NOT Shetland Ponies, but really,
really teeny tiny horses)
3. an absolutely HUGE fully albino peacock, just sitting there.
4. a perfect, detailed (down to the last feather) life sized model of a
European White Stork at the edge of a lake. We actually took out scopes to
make sure it wasn’t
real, that’s how good it looked, and in the scopes, it still looked great.
5. A life-sized (sic) model of a prehistoric “Lake Monster” hauled out on
shore, apparently built
so that it could be dragged behind a boat. Don’t ask. People really have
some strange hobbies. Well, not that birders should be talking.”
Mark, Midnight in Honolulu
For an artist’s take on small horses (well, ponies, really) have a look at today’s entry on http://cuteoverload.com
my favorite: “My Little Cthulhu”
I missed any verdicts on a Yellow Wagtail in NJ, but there was a Wheatear in NJ this past week – also interesting because one had been in RI for quite a while. Don’t know when/if it had moved on.
OK, THAT was disturbing. The Chipmunk vs the Ewok was also deeply, deeply disturbing. As are the Miniature Horses. Everyone always “oohs” and “ahhs” when we pass them and we have to stop, but I have deep and dark thoughts about DNA run amok whenever I hear their falsetto neighs. They are so small children cannot ride on them, though I guess miniature children could. They compete in some kind of cart pulling and amazingly, are used in lieu of seeing eye dogs. I didn’t believe it either. I have actually visited their inner sanctum, and conversed with one of their handlers/raiser of teeny livestock. I have been in their stables and seen their teeny stalls and actually got my large foot trod upon by their tiny hooves. It was like being stepped on by some hellish imp. But it’s their unrelenting cuteness that I find appalling. They are, after all, bred for it.
RE: Wheatears: almost annually in MA, mostly on the coast, but I have seen my fair share in Central MA too. When they do appear, they stay for several days.
Mark
Catherine:
Bird question I have been meaning to ask: In the book CENTRAL PARK AFTER DARK, Marie Winn talks about the SKIMMERS that come in to Central Park in summer at dusk at the lake/pond where they feed. They are not there every day, but have been showing up every year and stay well into dark, at which point people still hear their distinctive calls. Have you seen this? It really amazed me as I have never heard of skimmers going any distance away from the coast where they breed.
Mark
No – I haven’t seen that – YET. Definitely will check for that next summer; I had no idea.
Jesse:
FINALLY dug out the book: VISIONS OF JAZZ by Gittens,
see:
http://tinyurl.com/4ro3vc
Great essays that connect the whole century of jazz. The original hardbound came with a very useful CD.
Mark, Science and Honor
Wouldn’t it be great if these were the views you would get just as you died?
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html
Unfortunately, it will likely be the underside of hospital linen or a up close view of a sidewalk.
Hey, I posted before to JESSE; the book is VISIONS OF JAZZ by Gittens
Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Visions-Jazz-Century-Gary-Giddins/dp/0195132416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223407125&sr=1-1
When I was sent the review copy, the hardbound came with a great CD.
Mark
note – slow on comments today – was out birding…
List from birding? I have been slaving over putting all my slide lectures into Powerpoint, and cannot get out for a few days and would love to bird vicariously.
My only high point is that my fall-spring COOP has been visiting daily taking Rock Pigeons in my tiny backyard, always a thrill. Yesterday I looked out and she (it’s huge, so has to be a she)was sitting in my small birdbath looking positively silly. I also had a Sharpie today. But the stupid pigeons just keep comin’.
Mark
just posted it… see next entry.