Welcome to Saturday ...
Unreal City – a mile of digital artworks by Olafur Eliasson, Cao Fei, Tomás Saraceno, Bjarne Melgaard, KAWS, and more.
To view the exhibition guests were invited to download the free Acute Art app on their iPhone, iPad or Android through which they can view the works. The AR sculptures are located above each of the red lifebuoys situated on the riverside railings between the National Theatre at Waterloo Bridge and the last lifebuoy under Millennium Bridge along the South Bank in London, UK. https://acuteart.com/artist/unreal-city/
Now autumn nibbles its leaf from my hand: we are friends.
We take time out of a nutshell and teach it how to go:
time turns and goes back into its shell.
Now in the mirror it is Sunday,
in the dream there is a place for the calm of sleep,
in the mouth, the taste of truth.
My eye moves down the belly of my love:
we see one another,
we speak the darkness to ourselves,
we love one another like poppy and remembrance,
we sleep like the liquor in seashells,
like the ocean in the bloodbeams of the moon.
We stand at the window embracing, they see us from the street,
it is time they knew!
It is time that the stone let itself break into flower,
that the unresting heart beat.
It is time there was time.
It is time.
Love Crown ~ Paul Celan, translated from the German by Robert Pinsky
Imaginary Friend tells us of a story in which a character, reminiscent of a religious figure like a sage, tries to give a blessing to a friend, but he refuses it as he doesn’t believe anything good will happen to him. The character leaves us with the phrase ‘sometimes we believe nothing good can ever happen to us, so it don’t’. Abney was inspired by fairy godmothers from cartoons that come into play to offer guidance. This story can be interpreted in multiple ways given our circumstances in the current world and Abney hopes it raises questions.
Nina Chanel Abney says: “As a visual artist, augmented reality not only offers me the opportunity to attune myself to these new configurations of space and public life; it also makes possible for the first time an interactive register of communication in my public artwork. Inspired by the mythological characters and disincarnate guides whom people turn to in times of trouble, and in collaboration with artists who understand the value of humor in processing grief, trauma, and distress, I created “Imaginary Friend” to offer participants an always-ready companion to mitigate the uncertainty and precarity of today. This work brings to life childhood strategies of fantasy and play as a proxy for the loss of social comforts and physical contact we experience as adults. “Imaginary Friend” asks us to keep at the heart, the value of collective life and public interaction at a moment that threatens to push us further toward alienated being.” https://acuteart.com/artist/nina-chanel-abney/
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Good morning,
Light blue sky under white ruffle clouds makes an easy feeling; storms are far away. No news but procrastination to report.
Hope all is well in your corner, have a wonderful day.
Howdy s7 and all
I have long loved that Henry David quote:
Reminds me of the lyric "got two good eyes, and still can't see" but can't remember where that one is from... Perception is everything. A lot of people look but don't see.
As far as this:
I myself have decided to join the procrastination club, but haven't yet got around to it.
I've no excuse as I do have an original round tuit, from Zig Ziglar.
Have a good one all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Howdy dystopian :)
No Ziglar's: 1) empty a cigarette of tobacco and repack 2) use a dollar bill 3) make a beer can pipe ...
or have a snack.
Good to see you and please forgive my procrastination in responding.
Top of the day mate
Absolutely love your Imaginary Friend. It is good to finally see the being I have been mumbling to after all these years
cheers!
He's all ears, QMS, like all good friends.
Fun in the morning, cheers.
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver 1935 - 2019
Lovely poem, thanks for sharing.
Good morning
A chilly 33F here. I skipped trade day this AM...don't really need anything. A gray day with rain due tonight. It will be good for the garden and trees.
Flats of young veggies looking great. Another couple of weeks before they go out into the big world. Hope my tree order arrives in the next week or so. Got holes prepped and awaiting them.
Life in general is all about how we see it, so I'm in agreement with Thoreau. The world is difficult to change, but our attitude about it all is within our ability to adjust.
The wheel of time continues turning and the first month of 2021 is about done. Make your ride a good one cause it passes quickly.
A Poem About Time
Anxhelo Llangozi
Time is slow, time is fast.
It never stops, but it always lasts.
It's time for bed, it's time for school.
To waste your time is to be a fool.
If the time is right, the timing will be perfect.
Having the time of your life will always be worth it.
Some spend their time mad,
Some spend their time sad.
For some people time is all they ever had.
Some spend their time and some people save it.
Some love wasting time and some people hate it.
People waste time being in jail
People waste time being mad when they fail.
Some people have lots of time to spare.
Others spend their time not having a care.
It's time to stop, it's time to go.
Time can move fast or it can move slow.
You can lose yourself or lose your mind,
But as life goes on you will never lose time.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Keeping time, with teeny-tiny gears and springs and stuff
https://watchmandan.com/images/hamilton-1929-01.jpg
Nowadays we carry little computers around with us that, if we don’t “watch out” (cough), are likely to steal our time rather than helping us keep it.
It's about time, Lookout; :)
Great little poem. Three day storm headed to Mabel; staying put to avoid the cold, but traveling soon.
Good the plantings rise in hopes of transplanting soon; i too anticipate about two weeks from now when winter begins to move away into Spring. Fishing should improve as well.
Chicago and time beats in the head.
Have a good one.
Good morning smiley. Thanks for the column, the poetry, art and
tunes and for being here. Nice wake-up jazz. Will do virtual museams later, off and on throughout the day 'cause farmers' market looms on the temporal horizon. Cloudy day, but not raining. We got short intense rain for a few days, which is always a pita. We need the water, but those do a lot of damage too and then they're gone leaving us still short on water. This is, however, very much part of the definition of CA, so whatever.
Imaginary friend is cool and no doubt a great companion, but, of course, being crazy means one always has a few right inside of one's head to chat with. Unreal city pic looks awesome, will wait on the video until after market.
My wife and I finally managed to get appointments for the Covid vax, Feb 4 and follow-up on March 4. This means we'll have it before our desert trip. That's important because we got rid of the travel trailer and will by staying in B&Bs and motel/hotel facilities and eating out more often, with the greatly reduced control over our close surroundings inherent in that. We've got work-arounds, of course and will take the pick-up to ensure that we can bring everything we might need to stay safe and happy. We already tested this new travel mode with a quick trip to Cambria for a few days a while back.
Be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, el;
Congrats on the vac's. On one list, trying to get on another; the additional J&J vacine should help. Imagine going out places, again, twill be a wonderland.
Rain and damage, saw this and thought, 'dead man's curve' for sure.
Street scenes in London always take me back; the virtual tours draw one in and time slips away. Enjoy.
Not much to it; baking a cake and chicken this afternoon and procrastinating.
Have a great one.
heh, rerad about that, but headline only and not as precise
as to location. This information
is pretty far out for me personally. Every time I have driven through Big Sur I've tried to keep an eye out for Big Creek and that bridge, and never spotted it, now I have a mile marker to key off. Way back in the Way back, three of us plus a dog headed off for Big Sur, poached some artichokes somewhere along the route (probably near Moss Landing) and wound up at what I recall as being Big Creek. Parked near the bridge hiked in and camped in some caves formed from huge Serpentine boulders. There was a trail that led to a hollowed out cliff face behind a waterfall which we enjoyed plentifully excellently with the help of Agustus Stanley Owsley. We were accompanied by a dog, and when we got bak to the cave we found a young soldier in full fatigues eating the dog food. A deserter who had struck out across country from Fort Ord, as i recall, possibly Camp Roberts, whom we fed and took back to Berkeley with us and put up for a week or two until he decided to turn himself in. Now I have a mile marker
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Cool story,
ah, brings to life old files and sweet regards. Thank you for sharing.
we're all one
I am he as....
I well remember St. Owsley.
many of us do...
owe an eternal debt to Owsley... seems like there should be an Owsley asteriod or somesuch, eh? Orange sunshine.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
remember driving that stretch of road
mudda earth cares not a lot about blacktop
watch out where the coast goes, goes, goes
Hola, back from the market. Still haven't checked the
museum, but temembered that they did some you tubes of exhibits/installations at the Tate. You can get them on you tube by using the site's search bar and entering The Tate, but you also get some stuff on Manson, etc. Maybe The Tate museum would eliminate them and get all the museum stuff, I don't know. It appears that you can exclude stuff with a dash, so something like The Tate -Mansom -murders -LaBianca would get rid of most of it.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Cheers for the heads-up.
Just saw what i first thought to the the world's fastest, smallest dog darting on the beach at 300 yards or so away; Nikon's set that straight; a motorized toy it was. Ha ha
Great accessory for herding chickens. :-)
Gotta love good binos; don't leave home without them.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Twelve virtual
tours, twelve cheers for that. Thanks smiley and thanks for the art, music, story, poem, and unreal city (?). Not sure about the unreal city, will have to figure that out. I'm planning to check back in the evening to take some time here and wander about.
What's a museum good for?
Afternoon, randtntx,
getting lost in museums and their magical spaces brings pleasure and escape; enjoyed your quotes; thanks for sharing them.
Storm clouds rolling in, going to be a large east coast one lasting until Wednesday. All set to chill and endure.
Good to see you and hoping you've a wonderful week.