The Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen is selling reproductions of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" (below) and "Venus with Apple" (not shown)
It looks like a Jenny Craig "Before" and "After" shot.and it pisses me off.
Saturday
Tuesday
January 27th, 2009
These days I am:1. Loving lose Genmaicha, brown rice green tea
2. Ready for- *THIS* Sunday February 1st 10:00am to 4:30pm At The Electric Factory (7th and Willow Sts - Just Below 7th and Spring Garden Sts)All Ages / 21+ To Drink / $3 entry donation
THE PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET - WINTER EDITION ! (130+ tables of vendors selling old records, clothes, art, music, food, junk, bicycles, stereo equipment, instruments, automobiles, tools, posters, furniture, computers, skateboards and lots of other stuff ! All proceeds goto making sure that all ages shows remain a reality at the first unitarian church !)
(YOU-GO!)
3. Glad this semester is over. The realization that I only have a semester left of high school is seeping in, and I am loving it. Plus, Photo III, Astronomy, and Art, Literature, and Ideas should be good.
4. Listening to Tindersticks (I'm kinda really falling in love with Stuart A. Staples voice and tone), and I am excited to see them in March.
5. Fasting on Friday January 30th in honor of Mahatma Gandhi મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, who was shot January 30th, 1948, and killed while having his nightly public walk by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu radical who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.
So read up on the Bhagavad Gita and join me.
"Hate the sin,
love the sinner"
-Bapu બાપુ
-Bapu બાપુ
Sunday
January 25th, 2009
Привет.This Saturday and Sunday:
1. Saw Hasidic Jews, Muslim mothers, Chinese lovers, and Mexican brothers along one street on the way to drink tea in a Brooklyn apartment
2. Met a lot of sweethearts at the engagement party
2. Met a lot of sweethearts at the engagement party
3. Ate real Italian food (and chocolate Soufflé for dessert)
4. Back at the apartment (drank more tea) and slept on a sofa
5. Woke up, more tea, looked at photos from Moscow, Russia and Swung (dance)
6. Ate Dim Sum with Shanghai steamed buns and too many dumplings
7. Prayed in a Buddhist Temple (that was right next to a bicycle shop)
8. Walked to Sunset Park for a magnificent view of Downtown Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island and New Jersey beyond
9. Watched Dog the Bounty Hunter next to the man who ran after the convict in the episode, while filming him
4. Back at the apartment (drank more tea) and slept on a sofa
5. Woke up, more tea, looked at photos from Moscow, Russia and Swung (dance)
6. Ate Dim Sum with Shanghai steamed buns and too many dumplings
7. Prayed in a Buddhist Temple (that was right next to a bicycle shop)
8. Walked to Sunset Park for a magnificent view of Downtown Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island and New Jersey beyond
9. Watched Dog the Bounty Hunter next to the man who ran after the convict in the episode, while filming him
and a Happy Chinese New Year!
and, and tomorrow, is one of the most powerful days in the astrological calendar. It’s the day of the new moon with super "vibrations" from Jupiter, the planet of good luck & fortune, and Venus, the planet of love & creativity, and we’re also experiencing a partial solar eclipse!
Thursday
Franz Kafka's Daily Schedule
"At the Assicurazioni Generali, Kafka despaired of his twelve-hour shifts that left no time for writing; two years later, promoted to the position of chief clerk at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, he was now on the one-shift system, 8:30 AM until 2:30 PM. And then what? Lunch until 3:30, then sleep until 7:30, then exercises, then a family dinner. After which he started work around 11 PM (as Begley points out, the letter- and diary-writing took up at least an hour a day, and more usually two), and then "depending on my strength, inclination, and luck, until one, two, or three o'clock, once even till six in the morning." Then "every imaginable effort to go to sleep," as he fitfully rested before leaving to go to the office once more. This routine left him permanently on the verge of collapse. Yet when Felice wrote to him...arguing that a more rational organization of his day might be possible, he bristled.... "The present way is the only possible one; if I can't bear it, so much the worse; but I will bear it somehow."
Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, July 17, 2008 (reviewing The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley)
Tuesday
Andrew Wyeth July 12th, 1917- January 16th, 2009
Andrew Wyeth, 1948Tempera on gessoedd panel
81.9 × 121.3 cm, 32¼ × 47¾ in
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Andrew Wyeth, one of this country's best known artists, died in his sleep in Chadd's Ford, Pa. on Jan. 16th. He was 91.
My first visit to the MOMA I saw "Christina's World" and I will say it was one of the first pieces I had seen in a museum that moved me; I felt I could relate to the girl unsettled far from the home in the distance.
"The woman crawling through the tawny grass was the artist's neighbor in Maine, who, crippled by polio, "was limited physically but by no means spiritually." Wyeth further explained, "The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless." He recorded the arid landscape, rural house, and shacks with great detail, painting minute blades of grass, individual strands of hair, and nuances of light and shadow. In this style of painting, known as magic realism, everyday scenes are imbued with poetic mystery."
January 20th, 2009
"We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all."Monday
Disney Rejection Letter, 1938
Miss Mary T. Ford
Searcy,
Arkansas
Dear Miss Ford,
Your letter of recent date has been received in the Inking and Painting Department for reply.
Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is performed entirely by young men. For this reason girls are not considered for the training school.
The only work open to women consists of tracing the characters on clear celluloid sheets with India ink and filling in the tracings on the reverse side with paint according to the directions.
In order to apply for a position as “Inker” or “Painter” it is necessary that one appear at the Studio, bringing samples of pen and ink and water color work. It would not be advisable to come to Hollywood with the above specifically in view, as there are really very few openings in comparison with the number of girls who apply.
Yours very truly,
WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, LTD.
Saturday
January 17th, 2009
I've been hula hooping again.
& I'm in the process of building a website:
http://www.wix.com/salsapark/sasha-parker
...
I'm going to England April 2nd to the 12th! I'm so excited! :D
Friday
January 16th, 2009
I want to read the graphic novel adaptation of The Metamorphosis by artist Peter Kuper.
and R. Crumb's Kafka.Tuesday
January 13th, 2009
Dream on the night of 1/12/09
I was riding beside a male stranger in a Jeep until we hit a pathway in a forest. The man got out of the Jeep, so I did as well, not having a real understanding of what we were doing. I followed the man as he quickly paced down a path to a gray mansion. The door was pushed open by his horse-riding boots and once his toe touched the marble floor, he became a bit frantic. I walked slowly through empty clean halls as I saw the strange man run back and forth around me. I slowly realized we were searching the mansion for baby white seals.
I continued to just walk throughout the building calmly looking under tables and behind doors for some seals. After a while, not sure if it was long or short, I saw under a sofa a small, white, egg-shaped body. I pulled the seal out from under the sofa feeling warm, and happy. I sat on the floor huggy the soft baby seal when I look up and saw the man staring. "You have to kill it" he said in a stern tone. I reacted quickly in a yell against the slaughter and asked why we couldn't just take them to another building. "Because we need their silk skin".
I don't know if it was murdered, I woke up :(
I was riding beside a male stranger in a Jeep until we hit a pathway in a forest. The man got out of the Jeep, so I did as well, not having a real understanding of what we were doing. I followed the man as he quickly paced down a path to a gray mansion. The door was pushed open by his horse-riding boots and once his toe touched the marble floor, he became a bit frantic. I walked slowly through empty clean halls as I saw the strange man run back and forth around me. I slowly realized we were searching the mansion for baby white seals.
I continued to just walk throughout the building calmly looking under tables and behind doors for some seals. After a while, not sure if it was long or short, I saw under a sofa a small, white, egg-shaped body. I pulled the seal out from under the sofa feeling warm, and happy. I sat on the floor huggy the soft baby seal when I look up and saw the man staring. "You have to kill it" he said in a stern tone. I reacted quickly in a yell against the slaughter and asked why we couldn't just take them to another building. "Because we need their silk skin".
I don't know if it was murdered, I woke up :(
Saturday
Epileptic by David B.
‘Epileptic’ does not only refer to the disease of David B.’s brother in this mesmerizing monochramatic memoir.I read all 361 pages in a day.
Friday
January 9th, 2009
THE PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET - HOLIDAY Sunday February 1st 2009 10:00am to 4:30pm At The Electric Factory (7th and Willow Sts - Center City - Philly)All Ages / 21+ To Drink / $3 Entry Donation
"So here are the details....Please note that there is a "rain date", not if it rains (as the flea market is inside - duh) but if for some reason God decides the bless our city with a Philadelphia Eagles Superbowl appearance. If the Eagles make the Superbowl we will postpone the fleamarket to the following weekend. Note the flea market will be ending at 4:30 - leaving you plenty of time to make the 7:00pm kickoff for the Superbowl (ps who cares if the eagles aren't in it)"
I'm selling photos and bonnets.
Thursday
Charles Darwin's Daily Routine
[The following is from Francis Darwin's reminiscences of his father. It summarizes a typical day in Darwin's middle and later years, when he had developed a rigid routine that seldom changed, even when there were visitors in the house.]
7 a.m.
Rose and took a short walk.
7:45 a.m.
Breakfast alone
8–9:30 a.m.
Worked in his study; he considered this his best working time.
9:30–10:30 a.m.
Went to drawing-room and read his letters, followed by reading aloud of family letters.
10:30 a.m.–12 or 12:15 p.m.
Returned to study, which period he considered the end of his working day.
12 noon
Walk, starting with visit to greenhouse, then round the sandwalk, the number of times depending on his health, usually alone or with a dog.
12:45 p.m.
Lunch with whole family, which was his main meal of the day. After lunch read The Times and answered his letters.
3 p.m.
Rested in his bedroom on the sofa and smoked a cigarette, listened to a novel or other light literature read by ED [Emma Darwin, his wife].
4 p.m.
Walked, usually round sandwalk, sometimes farther afield and sometimes in company.
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Worked in study, clearing up matters of the day.
6 p.m.
Rested again in bedroom with ED reading aloud.
7.30 p.m.
Light high tea while the family dined. In late years never stayed in the dining room with the men, but retired to the drawing-room with the ladies. If no guests were present, he played two games of backgammon with ED, usually followed by reading to himself, then ED played the piano, followed by reading aloud.
10 p.m.
Left the drawing-room and usually in bed by 10:30, but slept badly.
7 a.m.
Rose and took a short walk.
7:45 a.m.
Breakfast alone
8–9:30 a.m.
Worked in his study; he considered this his best working time.
9:30–10:30 a.m.
Went to drawing-room and read his letters, followed by reading aloud of family letters.
10:30 a.m.–12 or 12:15 p.m.
Returned to study, which period he considered the end of his working day.
12 noon
Walk, starting with visit to greenhouse, then round the sandwalk, the number of times depending on his health, usually alone or with a dog.
12:45 p.m.
Lunch with whole family, which was his main meal of the day. After lunch read The Times and answered his letters.
3 p.m.
Rested in his bedroom on the sofa and smoked a cigarette, listened to a novel or other light literature read by ED [Emma Darwin, his wife].
4 p.m.
Walked, usually round sandwalk, sometimes farther afield and sometimes in company.
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Worked in study, clearing up matters of the day.
6 p.m.
Rested again in bedroom with ED reading aloud.
7.30 p.m.
Light high tea while the family dined. In late years never stayed in the dining room with the men, but retired to the drawing-room with the ladies. If no guests were present, he played two games of backgammon with ED, usually followed by reading to himself, then ED played the piano, followed by reading aloud.
10 p.m.
Left the drawing-room and usually in bed by 10:30, but slept badly.
Tuesday
Monday
January 5th, 2009
There is one drawer for two torsos,
and motherhood can't sleep
An one eyed boy in a blind man's mind
waits with the elbows in the alley
He wants cake, so you want cake
Oh, that protection is so sweet
We can't give you peace
with a hit like this
No we can't give you tranquilty
while nerve agents walk the streets
Hold the soil in your hand
for this isn't a rocket to the moon
This dirt wringing-wet with blood
will not give capable roots
and motherhood can't sleep
An one eyed boy in a blind man's mind
waits with the elbows in the alley
He wants cake, so you want cake
Oh, that protection is so sweet
We can't give you peace
with a hit like this
No we can't give you tranquilty
while nerve agents walk the streets
Hold the soil in your hand
for this isn't a rocket to the moon
This dirt wringing-wet with blood
will not give capable roots
Sunday
Green Porno by Isabella Rossellini
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/
"these films are both comical and insightful studies of the curious ways a variety of earth's tiny critters "make love"."
"these films are both comical and insightful studies of the curious ways a variety of earth's tiny critters "make love"."
It is really funny
January 4th, 2009
Turn me on thirty three years older
Color me in with a bit of poise
Right now everything is foreign
and the chair in the corner is far too big
A stranger to me, but a mighty gent
I would kneel down beside you
so we can listen to your disquisition
so we can hear your pitch
Now there is a fogged up mirror
resting between my brows
Dry air cracks the plaster
while a poor man bites my ankles
So I soak book pages
to place upon my head
and keep spy glasses against my lashes
so I can grow up for the sea
(and I hope you will join me)
Color me in with a bit of poise
Right now everything is foreign
and the chair in the corner is far too big
A stranger to me, but a mighty gent
I would kneel down beside you
so we can listen to your disquisition
so we can hear your pitch
Now there is a fogged up mirror
resting between my brows
Dry air cracks the plaster
while a poor man bites my ankles
So I soak book pages
to place upon my head
and keep spy glasses against my lashes
so I can grow up for the sea
(and I hope you will join me)
Saturday
January 3rd, 2009
Images from Wings of Desire1. Do stretches every morning out of bed
2. Keep eating an apple most days, everyday
3. Keep up with creating/get into more galleries/I like productivity
4. More money in the bank
5. Stop motion movie
6. Knit scarves for the homeless with peeps and peepettes
7. Dance when the moment is right
8. Go to Israel this summer with Birthright
9. Bring back stability, while still being on my toes
10. Wrap up High School nicely/make the absolute best of this summer and college
11. I want to get down with my spiritual side
12. Take my experiences for the better and encourage my growth
13. Love my friends, my family, and the boy with the funny hair
5. Stop motion movie
6. Knit scarves for the homeless with peeps and peepettes
7. Dance when the moment is right
8. Go to Israel this summer with Birthright
9. Bring back stability, while still being on my toes
10. Wrap up High School nicely/make the absolute best of this summer and college
11. I want to get down with my spiritual side
12. Take my experiences for the better and encourage my growth
13. Love my friends, my family, and the boy with the funny hair
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