A Better Way

Instead of putting a mop or broom in the hands of a child, how about giving them science and architecture and the stars and sky to study?

There is a great program called "Destination Imagination" that was popular at my children's school.
http://www.idodi.org/index.php/2011-12-season/2011-12-challenge-previews

This is what our children deserve.

Angelus Novus

A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we percieve a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward.

This storm is what we call progress.

Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History"  

Senryu

Im on somewhat of a senryu binge lately.
Senryus are different from haikus in that haikus focus on nature while senryus focus on human nature.
A senryu has 17 syllables
It is 3 lines long
It has a 5-7-5 syllable structure.

Great guy. Great guy. Great.
Talk. Eat. Travel. Talk. Eat. Fight.
Bad boy. Bad boy. Bad.

Sweet boy from the south
I shared my heart, my secrets
Boy had a big mouth.

So in love with you
I hope I will never write
Another senryu.

Rock N Roll Baby

Alexander McQueen Men's Spring 2012
Izia
The Hottest Thing Right Now
Izia~Back In Town

The 411 on the ATL

Im back.So much to do in this town.Love it.
Atlanta Jazz Festival starts Memorial Day Weekend at Piedmont Park.
atlantafestivals.com
The Atlanta Food & Wine Festival kicks off May 19-22
atlfoodandwinefestival.com
Stone Mountain Park has a fabulous new lazerlight show~3D without the glasses.
stonemountainpark.com
Ecco's free monthly Sunday school highlights specific spirits with lessons and tastings. Check the website for dates.
ecco-atlanta.com
The experience at do is a must.
Everything is ordered via ipad.
So tommorrowland~ish.
do at the  view
Streetfood Thursdays at 999 Peachtree 11-2 in the afternoon @Midtown Market.
woodruff.org
Basketball courts at Piedmont Park. Converse donated 2-Its about time!
(Located by the tennis courts)
DerBiergarten's dog patio is officially open.
Treats and waterbowls for the doggies!
derbiergarten.com
A must watch on TV is "Single Ladies"
on VH1 9pm on May 30
It was shot all in ATL and I hear it has phenomenal views of the city.

Bending Buildings

PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE from 1024 on Vimeo.

A Designers Dream

Design Inspirations Around The World

 Chinadoll
Beijing

  

Coquine
London

Kettners,
London

 Kettners,
London

Larq,
Paris

Larq,
Paris

Sounds
Phuket, Thailand

Sounds
Phuket Thailand

Influencers

INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo.

Ruth Hogben, film maker, a Nick Knight protege for Gareth Pugh

Gareth Pugh S/S 2011 Collection - Director: Ruth Hogben from SHOWstudio on Vimeo.

L-o-v-E

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
St Augustine

Town & Country

Art History Series VII

20th Century

I  The first period in 20th Century Art focuses on technology. The invention of photography freed the artist. Jazz became an important representation of improvisation. There was so much change that people had to redefine who and what they were.

Cubist artists were the first to represent volume by visual means. No more shadows to show depth.

The City Fernand Leger

Stables

The George Washington Bridge represents the symbol of our civilization.

The mechanised world is represented by the Futurist Movement.

The Bride Marcel Duchamp

Abstractism art draws away from or better yet separates from the peice as a whole. The artist analyzes and simplifies. It represents a break-up of the traditional view of the world.

Violins & Grapes Picasso

The theme in abstract art is to "reduce and simplify".

Red Yellow & Blue Mondrian

In architecture, Le Corbusier uses this method.

II  Expressionism and the modern self.

There was a prevalence of mechanisation influence. Our art of this period holds up a mirror to our values.

Wheelman Ernest Trova

Electronic music appeared on the music scene. It represents the manipulation of material. Assembly lines produced our goods. There was a reaction of disdainfulness of the human condition.

I and the village Marc Chagall

There appears a distortion and abstraction of the real. Interpretation of the physical world is retold without limitations in the art world.

One Number 31 Jackson Pollock

chance happenings captured in artwork

The King Playing With The Queen Max Ernst

Fur covered Cup and Saucer Oppenheim

Roy Lichtenstein

The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali

Christina's World Andrew Wyeth

Master's Bedroom Andrew Wyeth

Mama Yves Tanguy

The Kiss Klimnt

Marilyn Warhol

Art Series VI

I Realism

The Eiffel Tower is the symbol for the Realism period in the Pre-Modern Era. It represents realism and technology and the idea of men trying to control the world around them. The Eiffel Tower was designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

Architecture was sophisticated concentrating on engineering principles. Functionalism replaced historical styles.

Biblioteque Nationale

Ste. Genevieve Library

Crystal Palace @1st World Fair

Gage building

Flat Iron Building

Realist painters portrayed the practicalities of everyday life. The Academics opposed the Realists such as Van Gogh, Darwin and Marx.

Physical labor was the subject of art in this century.

Gustave Corbet

Gustave Corbet

II Impressionism

In this art period, colors were used to flatten forms into 2 dimensions. Backgrounds were sketchy and blurred.

Edouard Manet Salon de Refuses

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters

Renoir The Box at The Opera

Claude Monet Water Lilies

Claude Monet Irises

Artists study the effects of light on the atmosphere. Brilliant colors are created and used in separate flecks of color and blended together by the human eye. Impressionists set thier easels outdoors to catch the effects of sunlight.

Daguerre invents the camera.

III Post-Impressionism Era

Post-Impressionist artists were divided into two categories. Formalists such as Georges Seurat and Paul Cezanne believed that the value of the artistic piece is entirely determined by its form-the way it is made-it's purely visual aspects.  Expressionists believed that there were no limitations on how he expressed his interpretation of the subject in his work. Seurat used pointillism methods in creating his art, using dots and fleck strokes of his paintbrush.

 Cezanne used square colored planes which gave each object its own perspective within the same work.

 Picasso used cubism that lent a fragmented feel to his work.

Gauguin used long curved paintbrush strokes.

Some artists used a combination of artistic methods in their work.

Van Gogh's Starry Night

Art Nouveau became popular in advertising.

The denial of reality was becoming evident in art. Man no longer felt he controlled his environment. There were expressions of fear of the future.

Edvard Munch

Technology in the 20th Century to follow.......