Samhain Waning Thanksgiving Moon Two days of interviews plus a tour day and all the attendant driving, 3 trips in and back, has left me with a good tired feeling. Participating on a hiring committee puts me in the guts of an organization again. I like that, even if it is only a volunteers part. […]
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Fall Waning Back to School Moon David Little has blown into town with contemporary photography and new media at his back. His energy gives a new breadth and depth to the photography collection. Embarrassment of Riches demonstrates both. He recalls seeing an Annie Leibovitz photograph, an advertisement. Mikhail Gorbachev sits in the back of an […]
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Fall Waning Back to School Moon Rituals and Style In a clever twist on two Alex Prager images, the first an upper class family in their opulent home, posed as if to reveal joints in a (dysfunctional?) family system and the second a wood-paneled room stuffed with paintings and sculpture and orchids which has an […]
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Fall Waning Back to School Moon David Little has Embarrassment of Riches divided into three sections: Currency, Space, Rituals and Style. Currency Abe Morrel makes pictures of currency. In Embarrassment of Riches he has two photographs, one of gold bars and the other of Swiss Francs. The photograph at the right has this title: 39 […]
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Fall (Mabon) Full Back to School Moon Into the Sierra Club to orient a new member of the Legislative Committee. After that, a couple of hours in the new photo exhibit, Embarrassment of Riches. The new photography curator, David Little, has pushed forward a contemporary approach to the photography and new media department. He’s showing […]
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Lughnasa New (Artemis) Moon Sometimes thing go as planned. Sometimes not. The session with David Little (curator of photography) this morning did not go as planned. For whatever reason we had an hour to spare, wandering the wonderful Bergman exhibition as Bill Bomash teased out clues to the stories behind the photographs. A young girl, […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Another dull gray day as my Aunt Roberta used to say. The morning so far has been doing work for the Sierra Club, organizing issue briefs and selection criteria, moving our process along. That’s done now. Today I’m going in to the MIA for some interesting education about photographs. I’ll also […]
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83 bar steady 29.68 1mph SE dew-point 67 Summer, hot and clear Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon “What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate […]
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