Map

I bought this large map of the World at an estate sale for one dollar. It is in bad shape but I love the colors and we haven't been able to find or afford a large piece of art for the dining room - so the map is here for now. I may add some collage to it as time goes by.                                          

Arms by Christina Perry

I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart
But you came around and you knocked me off the ground from the start

You put your arms around me
And I believe that it's easier for you to let me go
You put your arms around me and I'm home

How many times will you let me change my mind and turn around
I can't decide if I'll let you save my life or if I'll drown

I hope that you see right through my walls
I hope that you catch me, 'cause I'm already falling
I'll never let a love get so close
You put your arms around me and I'm home

The world is coming down on me and I can't find a reason to be loved
I never wanna leave you but I can't make you bleed if I'm alone

You put your arms around me
And I believe that it's easier for you to let me go

I hope that you see right through my walls
I hope that you catch me, 'cause I'm already falling
I'll never let a love get so close
You put your arms around me and I'm home

I tried my best to never let you in to see the truth
And I've never opened up
I've never truly loved 'Till you put your arms around me
And I believe that it's easier for you to let me go


I hope that you see right through my walls
I hope that you catch me, 'cause I'm already falling
I'll never let a love get so close
You put your arms around me and I'm home

You put your arms around me and I'm home 

Paolo Pellegrin took my picture today at the Rochester Public Market! He is visiting
with 9 other photographers who are all members of the Magnum Group. My picture will be on display during a "pop up" exhibit of the photographer's Rochester work next Saturday.




"I'm more interested in a photography that is 'unfinished' - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in." 

Etsy Vintage Finds

Check these item out at my Etsy shop

new foundlings

I'll have them for sale on Etsy by tommorow.

Painted Ladies

I was photographing foundlings outside today and these butterflies were playing all around me!

Mad Men is getting good

Paralleling the slick deception of advertising, Mad Men has always been astute about the

difference between appearance and reality – between what people seem to be and what they really are.

Sadly this last episode (5/5) shows that Pete is really nothing, a robot of

sorts, but even Pete can't do anything as dramatic as removing a bolt from a bridge.

Pete finally gets Don up to a dinner party at his house in the suburbs-- always needing to

impress, he shows off his big new (7 ft long, mine is bigger than yours) console stereo by playing Beethoven. Living in Cos Cob in a house instead of a NYC apartment he can play it as loud as he wants (except

that his wife/mother tells him to

turn it down).

Beethoven had disdain for authority and social rank which mirrors the obvious trend of the

1960's, but more so it highlights Pete's inability to be ground breaking in any way.

Given all the talk of guns at the dinner party, the summer's murders, Don’s drawing of a noose, the driver's ed film (signal 30), Vietnam and the foreshadowing of racial riots in Ohio, violence plays more than a leading role this season, she's the star.

But episode 5 specifically stars Peter. At the beginning of the show Pete says that he has everything. At the end of the episode, Pete says to Don in the elevator, “I have nothing.” He seems too sad for words, but it turns out that Ken finds just the right words.

The last scene shows Ken imagining a fictional Pete hearing Beethoven on the “miniature orchestra” of his stereo cabinet and he writes a poetic description of who Pete is. While we hear the writer at work, we see Pete at the Driver's ed. class, in as much distress as we imagine Beethoven, listening to the whir of the film projector and watching his high school crush get "fondled" by the track star.

The Man with the Miniature Orchestra

By Dave Algonquin

There were phrases of Beethoven’s 9^th symphony that still made Coe cry. He always thought it had to do with the circumstances of the composition itself. He imagined Beethoven deaf and soul sick, his heart broken, scribbling furiously, while Death stood in the doorway, clipping his nails. Still, Coe thought, it might have been living in the country that was making him cry. It was killing him with its silence and loneliness, making everything ordinary to beautiful to bear.

The show closes with the sound of the dripping faucet and a somber rendition of Ode to Joy. Music, silence, water dripping in a sink ...

Ask not for whom the faucet drips, Pete Campbell – it drips for thee.

Lark

I love this woman's work! I have sen these wonderful birds on Etsy and at Art Star

Abby Glassenberg "Lark"

ART SALE Saturday at Thread

Felted Flowers

Felted Flowers

It is embarrassing to say I made these...

I just stuck a felted ball on the end of floral wire.

Pretty though.

broken and okay vintage jewelry pieces

All available at my Esty Shop Secondseed

Stuffed Magazine

I sent in my owls to submit for publication in Stuffed Magazine and they are going to be in the July '12 edition.

They seem to like the "girl" owls.

Tomorrow will be Kinder

This gorgeous song is by the Secret Sisters

Black clouds are behind me
I now can see ahead
Often I wonder why I try
Hoping for an end

Sorrow weighs my shoulders down
And trouble haunts my mind
But I know the present will not last
And tomorrow will be kinder

Tomorrow will be kinder
It’s true, I’ve seen it before
A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder

Today I’ve cried a many tear
And pain is in my heart
Around me lies a somber scene
I don’t know where to start

But I feel warmth on my skin
The stars have aligned
The wind has blown but now I know
That tomorrow will be kinder

Tomorrow will be kinder
I know I’ve seen it before
A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder

A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder

The Hunger Games Concerns

It is ironic that the movie explores current parental concerns about reality television and screen violence as entertainment. Don't take any one under 14 to see this movie.

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The Hunger Games

(PG-13, 2012)

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common sense media says

Intense adaptation is violent

parents & educators say

• 67% say violence is an issue

from - http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/hunger-games

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What parents need to know

Parents need to know that although the bestselling Hunger Games books are enormously popular with tweens, there's a clear distinction between reading about violence and seeing it portrayed on screen. Developmentally, the 10- to 12-year-olds who've read the book may find the movie's visceral, sometimes bloody teen-on-teen violence upsetting -- especially the brutal scene that opens the Games, in which several teens are slaughtered by their fellow contestants. Even young teens need to be mature enough to deal with the 20+ deaths in The Hunger Games; characters are viciously dispatched with various weapons -- including spears, arrows, and swords -- as well as by having their necks broken, their skulls cracked, and their bodies ravaged by carnivorous and poisonous creatures.

The Hunger Games

It is just like a good bad dream, I spent the night and all morning trying to recall the events of the film. The images and anxiety are burned into my brain.

Extreme inequity of wealth and resources.

Separation of economic and social classes.

Control of resources by the government.

Reality television survivor set up.

Hard to imagine, huh?

The Hunger Games story is set in a future where the wealthy, all controlling Capitol Government selects a boy and girl from each of the twelve districts. 24 "children" then fight to the death on live television in a government controlled environment (in this case the actors are in gorgeous South Carolina). Katniss Everdeen is the main character, she volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the 74th Hunger Games and plays the game with grace and wit. She is a strong heroine who's resourceful and selfless.

The film is not at all scary...
But it is horrifying and offers Katniss' perspective so effectively, so the viewer feels the pain she feels, her anxiety, her sadness, her hope and her desire. Everyone of your senses is heightened and the adrenaline made me shake the entire time.It is one of the best films I have seen in a long time, I didn't think any one could make anything that hasn't been done, but they did.

Posting vintage finds to Etsy today

You can purchase any of these items at my shop.

Movie Night at the Dryden Theater

We
We went W

Mad Men again

Mad Men will be back on AMC starting March 25th!

I'm going to cut it out and then restart

Sabra and I worked on our collage collaboration for over 6 hours yesterday,

collaboration is such an interesting process, it creates work that otherwise would not exist, and it only gets better with time.