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Go, Chickens!

You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club” 

– Jack London

With the New Year bearing down on us and people making their resolutions, there are a few things I need to also declare and or deal with to make my life a bit more fulfilling:

  

#1. I will studiously ignore all things Kardashian. Not even a peek. Comcast keeps telling me I'll be 'stunned' by one of them in lingerie or a bikini. I'm not.

#2. No More Honey BooBoo, Toddlers and Tiaras, that Fat Lady's Dance Troop, or Bridezillas.  Kinder an Gentler tv here.

#3. I will transfer my books to my iPad because I can enlarge the words when I use that and it will get me back into reading more.

#4.  I will weed out my Google Reader so it won't take me so long to catch up.

#5.  I will clean up and consolidate the studio to make life easier being able to find stuff.  And toss things unmercifully.

#6.  I will enter 5 shows this year.  And follow through.  And maybe go to the openings, if I am accepted.

#7.  I will visit New Orleans this spring.  And later I will visit Colorado to see my aunt.

#8.  I will find a good pattern and make a more advanced and involved knitted piece rather than more bits and pieces made-up as I go.

#9.  I will make shorter and more meaningful posts on the blog, less time on the internets, more time in life.

#10.  I will take another studio art class to learn something I haven't done yet.

It is written, now I have to comply.

Louise Bourgeois would be 101 today.  

Since 2004 England-based Simon Beck has strapped on a pair of snowshoes and lumbered out into the the freshly fallen snow at the Les Arcs ski resort in France to trample out his distinctly geometric patterns, footprint by footprint. Each work takes the 54-year-old artist anywhere between 6 hours and two days to complete, an impressive physical feat aided from years of competitive orienteering. The orienteering also helps him in the precise mapping process which often begins on a computer before he’s able to mark landmarks in the snow that guide his precise walking patterns.

 Meticulously crafted to have all the charm of the real thing, "Gingerbread Brooklyn" is an entire block of edible brownstone and other kinds of homes baked up by chef Renee Baumann and friends to be auctioned off to benefit City Harvest.

Nicely placed public art by Pavel Puhov-  look closely-  the upright ear piece of the glasses is a light pole!

And these two photos were taken from Joanne Mattera's blog about Art Basel Miami.  The three blue and white suits are actually Delft fabrics-  because they are Dutch!  The other guy, who knows-  maybe he saw a white tiger once.  But I love 'creative' dress.  More than that, I want to direct you to her blog because of her excellent coverage over many posts of all that was going on in Miami.  It's something I've always wanted to do but when I read about it I get overwhelmed and realize I have a limit of about 2 hours of looking at things before I short circuit.  One of these days I'll hike on down there, hopefully with somebody who knows the ropes!  



A nice calm meditative bit of 'water art', which I've always called marbleizing.  This is very delicate and ethereal though, not at all what my marbelizing looks like-  guess I am pretty heavy handed.  


Just to prove there have always been assholes around us...  But before you get to the asshole, please check those crazy bangs on the woman!  How does she do that???  

Ummm, how do you all feel about Ravens to replace the squirrels?  Trouble is that you can't costume them easily.  I'll see what I can find.