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| Actually got my blogger site back, I think. But here are a couple links for art inspiration, for those of you who desire it:
Monica Canilao
Kelly Ording
I always fall for Californian artists, most often Bay area. {Canilao is from Oakland, Ording from SF.} There's something of a surrender to beauty in awkward spaces... pattern and color and an intersection between abstraction and illustration. And an Asian sensibility, I think. Hmmm.
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| the red raincloud
This is the published painting... redcloud
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| punked and defunctAfter waiting and waiting for the situation to change (funny when you begin to think that computers might have some organic kind of healing capacity), I am accepting that my blogspot blog is outta commission. It simply doesn't load new stuff any more. What a drag! So I'm writing here for the handful of people I know on Xanga to say... stay tuned! I'm trying to launch anothern (Southern Indiana slang for "another one"). Bitty bits of news:
*A painting of mine appeared in Rivet... a Seattle based once-zine-now-full-color magazine that takes a theme and asks artists and writers to respond. This one was "power." The link is to my favorite component of the Power issue (and because the main link has an article name at top that makes me blush a little).
*My parents are moving to Seattle! We just found a rental for them overlooking Lake Washington, with views of the Cascades and Rainier. Yeah, that's what I said.
*Summer has been a full and open collaborative project time for Z and me. The boys really really like having both of us around, and I sure like the switch from the school-year grrrrrind. I'm teaching a digital illustration class in the fall. Any good illustrators? Send 'em my way.
K. My blogging chops are all out of shape. Whew.
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| I'm still at the beginning of this one, and will update my review when I finish it, but it's so connected to things my husband and I have been discussing that I ordered it from Amazon after checking it out from the library. It's so far a beautiful and clear-headed account of the multi-layered experience of being human and navigating a multi-layered world. It's pretty awesome, and I mean that in the original interpretation of the word. Makes me look up from the book with new eyes... I love that!
**update**
Continues to be an amazing book. Put into words something I've been trying to conceive of for months-- I've been thinking about our awkward recording devices (audio, video, x-ray, etc) that show us amazing things, and thinking of the way that a human life could be "recorded," for lack of a better word, and "replayed" in a new form (resurrection). Seemed a little batty, but this physicist explains a similar possibility.
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
By Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe, K�ji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Kaori Momoi, Tsai Chin, Zoe Weizenbaum, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kenneth Tsang, Randall Duk Kim, Ted Levine, Paul Adelstein, Samantha Futerman, Thomas Ikeda, Michelle Yeoh, Eugenia Yuan, Y�ko Narahashi, Karl Yune
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After the legacy of films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers, this one fell a little flat. My husband says you have to have the war to counterbalance the love. I think it has to do with hearing accented English instead of subtitled Chinese (or what would be Japanese, in this case); it's harder to buy. The costuming was my favorite part-- I simply am fascinated by kimonos and their accoutrements.
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