Posted in the arts on Jan 16th, 2010 No Comments »
In this weekend’s SMH there was a lovely piece about “the peculiar audience interactions that seem to happen only at matinees.” I’ve attended many matinee performances over the years - not that I’m anywhere near the matinee demographic - and while I’ve never seen or experienced the types of audience interactions this article speaks of, […]
Posted in books, the arts on Jan 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Being the first day of the New Year, I joined Tom, Anmol, John and Cathy to usher in the new decade with some movie watching. We saw The Lovely Bones. I enjoyed the book and was looking forward to seeing the film adaptation. The movie was good. Not great, but good. A lot of the book’s subplots […]
Posted in quirky bizarre, the arts on Oct 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Brilliant examples of altered books from Brian Dettmer. Some bibliophiles see this as an act of violence and an abominable desecration, but I think they are fabulous works of art. What do you think?
Posted in the arts on Sep 27th, 2009 No Comments »
I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. In this case, it’s Paul Klee. The shapes, the colours, the use of space. There’s something about the abstracts that I find very appealing. Now to get some posters to hang on the empty white wall crying out for some colour and interest.
Fire […]
Posted in home life, the arts on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
The other day I finally took the nun poster to the framers. (Sisters of Charity, Washington D.C., by David Moore, 1956) The poor nuns have been sitting in a temporary frame for I don’t how many years. But that’s not the problem. The problem is another poster - Metropolis, 1999 by Rosalie Gascoigne. I’m not […]
Posted in the arts on Jul 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Poetry Daily, a new poem every day. Serious contemporary poetry. Each day’s poem comes with a profile of the poet and a featured book. Plus you can subscribe and have a new poem arrive in your InBox each day. Not a bad way to start the morning. Go to: http://www.poems.com
Posted in the arts on Apr 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Is it just me, or do the opening bars of the 4th movement from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “From the New World” (Op. 95) sound suspiciously similar to the theme from Jaws (imagine it slowed down) and then the Imperial Theme (a.k.a Darth Vader’s theme) from Star Wars? Go to Wikipedia to […]