Day 4994: 5 Curated Quotes & New LACMA Museum.

"CourAGE": junk collage., ink.

                                                                       

  

Want music?

    Click: Lionel Richie, Just to be Close to You, Girl.

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 Curated (short) Quotes:

Pliny the Younger , Roman senator, lawyer, and author:

"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."

Simone Weil on offering someone your complete focus:

"Attention is the rarest & purest form of generosity."

To quote Waylon Jennings:

“If it ain’t one thing, it’s another one on the way.”

Nora Langdon, 80+ weight lifter:

“Keep that body moving until the Lord call you home.” 

 Albert Einstein:  

"Creativity is Intelligence having fun."

  

Can an art museum tell a non-linear version of art history and still be legible to its visitors? That’s the question guiding the David Geffen Galleries, the new Peter Zumthor-designed building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opens to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4.⁠

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This one-level museum eschews traditional museological hierarchies. European paintings are not given priority, Greco-Roman sculptures are not awarded long marble hallways, and art of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania is not tucked away in dusty corners. Instead, art from LACMA’s 15 curatorial departments can go anywhere in the building—no department has an earmarked space, and some departments, like the one for costumes and textiles, even have more on view than ever before.⁠

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“If this is what the future of museological display is, count me in,” @maxduron writes.⁠

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Read about the 25-year process of rethinking LACMA—and its triumphant new galleries: https://www.artnews.com/.../lacma-david-geffen-galleries.../

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A 6+ minute video, Moonlight Sonata for Mongkol,  here.

 

 

Just because ...

  

Grey Crowned Crane.

The grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) is a bird in the crane family, Gruidae. It is found in nearly all of Africa, especially in eastern and southern Africa, and it is the national bird of Uganda.

The grey crowned crane is approximately 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall, weighs 3.5 kg (7.7 lb), and has a wingspan of 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its body plumage is mainly grey. The wings are predominantly white but contain feathers with a range of colours, with a distinctive black patch at the very top. The head has a crown of stiff golden feathers. The sides of the face are white, and there is a bright red inflatable throat pouch. The bill is relatively short and grey, and the legs are black. They have long legs for wading through the grasses. The feet are large, yet slender, adapted for balance rather than defence or grasping. The sexes are similar, although males tend to be slightly larger. Younger cranes are greyer than adults, with a feathered buff face.

This species and the black crowned crane are the only cranes that can roost in trees, because of a long hind toe that can grasp branches.

Monday's Smiles ... 

 

   

Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.

  

 

 

Day 4993: I Love Trees & Bryce Canyon National Park.

    

"Shadows": old photo, collage, digital.

  

Want music?

    Click: Tammi Terrell & Marvin, Your Precious Love.

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I love trees, and this one especially.

When I was at the kitchen sink this morning, I noticed little white specks floating left to right in my view. I was puzzled, but then I thought, it must be the fruitless apple tree by my front door. I opened my front door and saw

(looking straight up)

By summer it will be full and green, providing welcome shade. By fall it will be full of yellow leaves that drop all over. By winter it's bare branches like above before the flowers bloomed. I love this tree.

Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah is one of the most unusual landscapes on Earth, shaped over millions of years by freezing temperatures, rain, and erosion.

Even though it is called a canyon, it is actually a series of giant natural amphitheaters carved into the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Over time, water seeped into cracks in the rock, froze, expanded, and slowly broke the stone apart, creating thousands of tall, thin rock pillars known as hoodoos.

This slow process took around 60 million years to create the dramatic formations we see today. Each hoodoo has a unique shape, almost like a natural sculpture carved by time itself.

Standing at the rim, the view feels endless. A vast sea of orange, red, and white rock stretching into the distance, changing color with every shift of sunlight. It is a place where geology feels alive, constantly reshaping itself over time.

 

'Murmuration'

These images shows a starling flock, a spectacular natural phenomenon in which thousands of starlings fly through the air in sync.

This behavior occurs primarily in autumn and winter, just before sunset, when the birds gather to go to sleep.

The complex shapes and rapid changes of direction are a survival mechanism to confuse predators, such as the peregrine falcon.

The enormous flock moves as a single unit thanks to the lightning-fast reactions of individual birds to their immediate neighbors.

The name 'murmuration' comes from the soft, persistent sound that thousands of wings make together.

  

 

A 3+ minute video,  Picasso live, here.

 

 

Just because ...

Pacific golden plover

Sunday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you see all the good things in your day.