walking the city: Videos at stormking

walking the city: Videos at stormking

Videos at stormking

That noise you hear in the background are the cicadas.  They were everywhere.

Highfalls and Stormking

Went to Don's for the weekend and we did some traveling around.  Some photos will show the spectacular weekend we had.

High Falls, where they filmed "Splendor in the Grass".

The standing Owl

The sleeping boy

The above are part of the resident artist's exhibition.  He is Houseago.

Henry Moore

The wall

The Three legged Buddha

The nickel Chair

Lichtenstein's  "The Mermaid"

500 acres and over 100 works of art.

Idling at the Brooklyn Museum with Angela

Took 102 photos and that's because we only visited a portion of the 5th and 6th floors.  Maybe I should change the name of this blog to "Photographing New York City".

The Museum was designed by McKin, Meade, and White and built in 1895.  It is the second largest museum in New York City at 560,000nsquare feet and 1.5 million works of art.

Dolce Far Niente

John Singer Sargent, 1/12/1856 - 4/14/1925 has created 900 oil paintings and 2,000 watercolors, and now on display at the Museum are some of those watercolors.  Many are of Venice which was one of his favorite places.  He visited there 7 times and particularly loved the Tintorettos.  I've been able to post one of the more beautiful pieces in this exhibition: "Gondolier's Siesta".  There are also portraits of Bedouin tribesmen,  which are remarkable for the detail he was able to achieve in a very unforgiving medium.  My personal favorite is Dolce Far Niente, because of the sentiment it evokes, which is similar to my current reading:  Daniel Klein's "Travels with Epicurus".  He writes "many early thinkers tied the idle life to the production of superior ideas and a deeper understanding of life."  From Lucan he writes this: "Leisure creates varied thought", and from Plato he has this: with "a sense of calm and freedom ... the passions relax their hold and we are freed from the grasp of not one mad master but of many."

"Mr. and Mrs."

The Mrs.

El Anatsui, born in 1944, is a Ghanian artist who has traveled widely.  His installation is called "Gravity and Grace" and his pieces are created from wood and metal.  The metal wall hangings, created with bottle caps from a distillery in Africa are joined together to form textured coverings.  He chose his source materiel, a distillery, because liquor has played a large role in the relationship between Africa and Europe.

Judy Chicago has set the table for a "Dinner Party".  All the guests are women and all the place settings are uniquely specific to each guest

So much of my blog had contained interesting photos but as I work on publishing the blog I've had to delete many of them.  Since I'm only publishing the first year, I can go crazy again with my camera.

I need some good chairs but these 19thCentury chairs are too low to the ground.  They were tiny folks.

That was like that when we got there.

I like taking photos on the move and sometimes with people moving in or out of them so they may appear blurry.

"Waterfall" is the perfect place to sit and contemplate.

"The Sculptor" by John Koch, 1964 [Life-size]

"Duane Street" NYC, 1887 by Louis Comfort Tiffany

Lots of Art Deco in their Decorative Arts section

Noguchi table

A lot of the pieces are behind glass

Two more by Sargent

The best part of this visit was the fact that there were only a handful of people in the museum.