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Part 299: →Husband Journey: Ici Bas. The Marvel of Electronics: Life’s Virtual Reality

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  A blog in two sections. First the weirdness of electronic misadventures in my house. Let’s blame it on sunstorm activity. Then a strange but exhilarating travel via V-R, virtual reality.     Not to sound like Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown, but hello again, dear reader, it has been a while and taken me a long time to cook another blog. I have to rewind to a strange series of electrical-type events and misplacements of objects which began happening in my house in May and eventually led me to an adventure: I misplaced two books of checks and drove myself nuts … Continue reading →

Steller Story Series: A Charmed Life: Book 14: Firenze in Silver

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I have been photographing—and re-photographing my collection and designs; so this is a multi-faceted project: one project, the collecting, then the designing, begat another; the photography and presentation. Here is a link to the on-line presentation on Steller. If you are so inclined, download the Steller app. It is lovely the way the pages “turn.” The view is especially impressive on a large screen, as on a tablet. Feel free to comment!   Steller Link: Book 14    

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Steller Story Series: A Charmed Life: Book 13: ROMA in Silver

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  I have been photographing—and re-photographing my collection and designs; so this is a multi-faceted project: one project, the collecting, then the designing, begat another; the photography and presentation. Here is a link to the on-line presentation on Steller. If you are so inclined, download the Steller app. It is lovely the way the pages “turn.” The view is especially impressive on a large screen, as on a tablet. Feel free to comment!   Steller Link: Book 13  

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Steller Story Series: A Charmed Life: Book 12: Italy in Silver

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  I have been photographing—and re-photographing my collection and designs; so this is a multi-faceted project: one project, the collecting, then the designing, begat another; the photography and presentation. Here is a link to the on-line presentation on Steller. If you are so inclined, download the Steller app. It is lovely the way the pages “turn.” The view is especially impressive on a large screen, as on a tablet. Feel free to comment!   Steller Link: Book 12  

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Steller Story Series: A Charmed Life: Book 11: My Italy: Enamel Shields

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  I have been photographing—and re-photographing my collection and designs; so this is a multi-faceted project: one project, the collecting, then the designing, begat another; the photography and presentation. Here is a link to the on-line presentation on Steller. If you are so inclined, download the Steller app. It is lovely the way the pages “turn.” The view is especially impressive on a large screen, as on a tablet. Feel free to comment!   Steller Link: Book 11    

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Vacation is Here: Gone Fishin’

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Wishing everyone a happy few weeks. It’s time to take a break. Heading up to some old familiar places which contribute to comfort and the feeling of a home-away-from-home. Seeing some migraine changes for the better on some new meds. Report to follow. Hoping to get some nice photos and share them with you. For now, everyone be happy and healthy. I’ll write when I can.

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Travel Photo Journal 9: Smith College Museum of Art and Gardens

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  One of my favorite museums in the area: the Smith College Museum of Art; it was almost closing time and two of the floors were being renovated, so there was just a little time for a run-through to revisit some pieces. I am partial to Hassam’s painting of Union Square; I grew up half a century later and several blocks to the east on East 14th Street and Avenue B.   Smith College has a lovely greenhouse and various gardens throughout the campus. Lots of yellow.     Great dinner with dear friends at Viva Fresh Pasta, in Northampton. … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 8: Amherst: The Yiddish Book Center: Molly Picon to Kutshers

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          The Yiddish Book Center is on the Hampshire College Campus. This is another place I have written about over the years; Aaron Lansky, its founder, made it his personal mission to save every Yiddish book he could, and he has, over decades, done so. The books have been rescued from all over the world and are in the process of being translated and uploaded to the internet. There is always an interesting exhibit, and the collections on Jewish culture and Yiddish authors are fascinating.     The Current major exhibit: Photography by Marisa Scheinfeld: Echoes … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 7: Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art

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Williams College  is a joy to visit; pleasant beyond words, manageable in size and it provides the area with theater and art. The Williams College Museum of Art is a delightful, compact venue to view incredible collections. While there, I saw an exhibit of Whistler’s early sketches and small paintings which were almost a prequel to the Clark’s current exhibit. There was a comprehensive exhibit on Andy Warhol that focused on his beginnings as a graphic artist, book illustrator, designer, book cover designer, children’s book author: all the things I never knew he was before he became a pop art … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 6: North Adams to Williamstown, The Clark

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  Carpeaux saw a woman weeping in the street; she had just lost her child. She became the perfect model for “A Mother’s Pain.” One could spend a day at “The Clark” especially since its make-over. It’s a joy to take a drive through the countryside and park, a big difference from the city, though it isn’t all that easy in the summer. The permanent collections are glorious and the exhibits are unique; the museum does get crowded. The exhibits include Whistler’s Mother. An Arrangement in Gray, Black and White. The famous painting was usually displayed in Paris at the … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 5: North Adams: Mass MoCA

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Walk to the Boiler Room and you will pass Totally Totem, look up to see All Utopias Fell. There is so much more …     The work of Anselm Kiefer is housed in a new pavilion. They reflect his German identity, (b.1945), how he confronts it and addresses it. His pieces are massive and material. He weaves poetry redolent of war; decay, shipwrecks     The Women of the Revolution is comprised of twenty lead beds, each represents a specific French woman who was part of the revolution. The artist fills the beds with water and dead flowers. These … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 4: North Adams: Mass MoCA: The Old Boiler to the Misbegotten

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I’ve created several posts about North Adams and here they continue. On another day there was a visit to the Eclipse Mill. Old mills on canals are often being converted to artists’ living quarters/work space/shop space. I’ve made a couple of friends over the years. It’s important to support the people who create art. The thought of a reasonable loft space is very tempting!   Back to Mass MoCA. In the old boiler building from the Sprague  Electric Company there is an audio installation by Stephen Vitiello, All Those Vanished Engines. There are haunting voices of those from the time … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 3: North Adams: Mass MoCA

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It rained on and off; that was fine, the exhibits were endless. More fascinating works were found in a small gallery with a library/book theme, called Bibliothecaphilia. Here, there is the work of six artists who explore the meaning of a library. Jena Priebe’s work, The Secret Lives of Books imagines interconnected pages and exploding knowledge. Meg Hitchcock ingeniously cuts up sacred texts from a myriad of sources and she recreates them, letter by letter to form other sacred passages connecting religions and time. Jonathan Gitelson’s work, Marginalia, explores the marginal notations on pages that people leave behind, as well … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 2: North Adams: Mass MoCA

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Approaching the entrance to Mass MoCA in the building with the clock tower; the buildings through the front gate also house business, shops and a restaurant.  It took two days to plow through the galleries. I’ll just touch on some of the work. Art in the lot: SuttonBeresCuller: Big Top Grand Stand   The building is a conglomerate of huge spaces that have been divided into smaller units. Above, looking through the main level, with back to gallery entrance (that expands to three floors) toward the shop and café beyond. To the left is the entrance, to the right are … Continue reading →

Travel Photo Journal 1: North Adams, MA: The Porches Inn

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    Intro: I’ve spent a good fourteen summers in the northwest corner of Massachusetts and that’s OK; it’s like coming home. Despite the places being the same, the museums and galleries are always changing. The trip begins in North Adams, a town that was not too long ago, shabby and run-down, filled with the struggling, the jobless.  Since the creation of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass MoCA, in the former factory of the Sprague Elecric Company, and the rehabilitation of former company housing into a cool hotel across the street (The Porches), the place has turned around. … Continue reading →

Tripping 2014: Travel Journal: 8. Rail Trail, Toys and Ice Cream

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    A walk on the rail trail over the Connecticut River. What I saw along the way.     The A to Z Science and Toy Store in Northampton. The way every toy store should be.     Dinner in Northampton at Viva Fresh Pasta.  A candy shop in Thorne’s Marketplace; a mall with great stores in an old building, a walk along the main street, ice cream at Herrell’s, the super moon.         .

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Tripping 2014: Photo Journal: 7. Friends and Writers

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  One of my friends from high school lives in the Northampton, MA area and I try to see her when possible. She has the most beautiful little garden on a stone porch outside her kitchen. I didn’t want to leave. She cut me a pristine gardenia and it lasted a week. I guarded it with my life!   On to a visit to Emily Dickinson’s House         Emily was considered an odd ball, and her work was not published until after her death when her sister, Lavinia, promoted it to publishers. She dressed strangely for her … Continue reading →

Tripping 2014: Photo Journal 5: Child Labor In The Mills to Williams College Art, Dinner Of Course

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    An exhibit in the town of Adams, Massachusetts, of child mill workers was moving; I have been to several mills that now have exhibits. I have seen photos of the children, babies, who toiled from dawn to night, feeding thread to machines, handling cotton and slipping on oil in their bare fee even in the freezing Winter. They were used because their hands were small and dexterous. Many lost digits and limbs to machines. Finally the child labor laws came into effect. Lewis Hine’s photographic documentation of child labor–child slavery are a testament to our country’s history. Here are photographs of … Continue reading →