Saw this sculpture “Panda” by Takashi Murakami while visiting the MIA art museum. It makes me happy. It’s made of fiberglass with an antique Louis Vuitton trunk and wooden pedestal. It measures 100 1/2 by 65 by 43 inches. It’s tall! Was executed in 2003. It sold for $385,600
Opening the post office box and fishing out letters with stickers from places like “Luftpost” & “Deutsche Post” makes me want to tear into my mail while standing in front of the walls of locked PO Boxes. But I don’t. There’s something delectable about waiting until I am back home and sitting at my writing …
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I found two cats today at the bus shelter while waiting for my bus. They were mewing like mad and shivering as they obviously aren’t outdoor cats. So I put them in my pockets and carried them home. Thing is that I can’t keep ’em due to allergies. Does anyone know someone that would like …
For February’s “Books I’ve Read On Set” I picked Ten Poems To Change Your Life. I came across this book while meandering through the shelves of the library. The title lives up to it’s name. (I hate over hyped-titles) It’s from this book that I came across my all time favorite lines from a poem …
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Painting is cathartic for me. I get out some dark emotions. I am always surprised to step back and see beauty from emotions that aren’t pretty and are sometimes painful. There is beauty from ashes. “…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a …
The Saponification Process Sometimes I make home-made soaps. The process of saponification is really fascinating to me. That of the Lye in the soap changing the molecular structure of the fats into glycerine.
Do You Relate? Ever found yourself standing at the market looking at cool sounding produce like Leeks, Lemon Grass, or Ugly Fruit but have no idea really what to use them for? I Like How Lemon Grass Tastes & Smells Today I bought some lemon grass because it smelled so great. Brought it home, …
Are You Going To Finish Strong? Nick Vujicic VideoAwesome video! If you watch only one video today make sure it is this one! Nick Vujicic has no limbs but he leads an incredible life!
Paul Cram on the set of Killer With A Punctured Heart An actor’s job is unique in that we are payed to pretend to be other people, in an attempt to give the general population an escape from reality for awhile.It’s beautiful to me in many ways.
Last night, as I was sleeping,I dreamt — marvelous error!—that a spring was breakingout in my heart.I said: Along which secret aqueduct,Oh water, are you coming to me,water of a new lifethat I have never drunk? Last night, as I was sleeping,I dreamt — marvelous error!—that I had a beehivehere inside my heart.And the golden …
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