Self loves signage, she does not know why.
An Ed Ruscha, Seen at the de Young in Golden Gate Park
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
American Quests
September 30, 2016 at 4:17 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday, The Economist)
Tags: art, causes, exhibits, Fridays, museums, politics, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Other Quests
September 24, 2016 at 2:52 pm (destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, praise, Saturdays, travel, websites, Wordpress
Liking these WordPress bloggers’ takes on this week’s Photo Challenge: QUEST
- Mythrider, for showing two photographers and a painter at work
- The Incredible Lightness of Seeing, for the shot of kayakers in Alaska’s Resurrection Bay
- Badfish Out of Water, for beguiling pictures of strolling through Prague
- GB – Photographie, for an intriguing shot of underground in the Louvre
- A Young Retirement, for three quests: one on the Seine, one in Ecuador, and one from a rodeo in Costa Rica
Check them out!
Stay tuned.
Quest: Daily Post Photo Challenge, 23 September 2016
September 23, 2016 at 4:39 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: art, Bellingham Review, dystopia, exhibits, Fridays, Literary Magazines, museums, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, short story, Wordpress, writing process
We have a new Daily Post Photo Challenge, dropped today by Cheri Lucas Rowlands, QUEST:
- What are you in search for? Capture your quest with your camera.
Here are some photos from self’s (huge) stash of photos that she thinks emblemize QUEST:
An Ed Ruscha: Currently on Exhibit at the De Young Museum
And here’s from a handmade book self saw at the Legion of Honor:
Illustrated Book at the Legion of Honor, Text is by San Francisco Poet Wallace Ting
Every new story is a quest. Here are two pages of her draft for “Ice” (forthcoming from Bellingham Review):
Two Pages of Self’s Manuscript for “Ice,” One of Her Dystopian Fantasies
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Edgy de Young Museum
September 21, 2016 at 6:16 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, exhibits, Golden Gate Park, museums, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Several weeks ago, self spent a day at the de Young, to see an Ed Ruscha exhibit.
My goodness, it was amazing.
She took a break for coffee in the sculpture garden. Here’s the pedestrian walkway over the café’s outdoor seating. VERY edgy:
Pedestrian Walkway, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
Entrance lobby of the de Young: Everything is edgy.
Looking down at the Main Lobby from the second floor: You really see edges!
Finally, an “End” is an EDGE. Of sorts:
Ed Ruscha’s “The End,” Viewed in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, August 2016
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Currently Reading
September 18, 2016 at 5:57 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Personal Bookshelf, Publishers, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: art, discoveries, nonfiction, reading lists
Sweet like Sunday morning.
Beginning Ben Ehrenreich’s The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine. The book next to it is self’s newest sketchbook, cover illustration by Irina Troitskaya, whose work you can find in The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game (Chronicle Books, 2010)
Sunday, 18 September 2016: Sketchbook and Ehrenreich
Every new book is an adventure.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Poetry in the Galleries/ Legion of Honor
September 7, 2016 at 8:17 pm (Artists and Writers, Recommended)
Tags: art, discoveries, museums, poetry, praise, San Francisco
Participants in the Poetry in the Galleries project were 4th through 8th graders from the San Francisco Bay Area.
The students were invited to write a poem in response to an object in the Legion of Honor’s ancient art galleries.
Some of the results were published in a small pamphlet and distributed by the Fine Arts Museums.
Here’s one of self’s favorites:
Black-Glaze Mug, South Italian, mid-4th century BC
Small, insignificantly small.
Ancient people used me for reasons unknown.
I am a black mystery to the future of people.
— Matthew Gallelo, 8th Grade, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont
Stay tuned, dear blog readers Stay tuned.
Quote of the Day: BRAZILLIONAIRES
September 7, 2016 at 5:17 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, fast food, Florence, nonfiction
Anyone with a little bit of money can buy a Louis Vuitton handbag, of which thousands are manufactured each year. Very few people can buy the new Jeff Koons, even if they do have the tens of millions of dollars required.
— Brazillionaires, p. 29
Self’s question is: Why would anyone want to buy a Jeff Koons? A Koons was in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence when self was there with her niece, Irene, last November. It was placed right next to a Michelangelo and it was ugly. Hope it was only a temporary installation.
(Side note: In Florence, on the road to the Santa Maria del Fiori, you will pass a McDonald’s. Which was always packed. Self just could not understand it. When all around were great, really great local restaurants. It must be the convenience.)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Mirror 2
September 3, 2016 at 5:38 pm (Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, art, artists residency, England, Ireland, London, memories, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
- This week, show us a mirror. — Jen H., The Daily Post
Dining Table, Park Avenue, New York City, May 2016
Puddle, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Spring 2016
The Iron Lady Herself, British National Portrait Gallery, April 2016: The bottom half of the painting is actually a mirror, reflecting the legs of the viewers. But they look like they’re the legs of the subjects in the Portrait!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Mirror: The Daily Post Photo Challenge, 2 September 2016
September 2, 2016 at 8:39 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Places, postaday, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: art, destinations, Events, exhibits, Fridays, Golden Gate Park, museums, postaday, postaweek, Readings, San Francisco, Wordpress
- This week’s challenge is all about reflections.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
Here is self’s first take:
Noelle Q. de Jesus reading from her first short story collection, Blood, at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, 23 August 2016:
(The table is a reflective surface)
Noelle Q. de Jesus (in red and black top) and Edwin Lozada, who organized the reading: August 23, 2016, San Francisco Main Library
A man is reflected in an Ed Ruscha work at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, about a month ago:
An Ed Ruscha at the de Young Museum, August 2016
Final photo: the sculpture garden at the de Young Museum, August 2016. That refective ball is pretty fabulous!
Sculpture Garden, outside the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, August 2016
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
More Fun!
August 13, 2016 at 10:35 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, humor, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, Siquijor, The Philippines, Wordpress
Taking inspiration from this:
“. . . the bright colors, the message, the unexpectedness . . . “
— Michelle W., The Daily Post
Examples of FUN:
Self has quite the button collection. She pins them on her blazers and sweaters. Here’s one of her favorites:
Button from the Whitney Museum Gift Shop: A Keith Haring? Not Sure.
Self read with her writers group at Lit Crawl 2015. The reading was held in Chrome, a bicycle store. It was packed:
Memento: San Francisco Lit Crawl 2015
FINALLY:
Too Funny: An Ed Ruscha
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
