Friday, January 31, 2020

Day 2744: Playtime with junk mail.

The neighborhood:: old photos & digital collage.

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Playtime with junk mail ...

4 pieces of a mobile phone ad ...

4 more strips of black junk mail.

4 more red pieces and a hand drawn face.

3 pieces of black and white for hair.

15 scraps of junk mail that won't make it to the landfill.

I like the torn edges and exaggeration. Quirky?

What's your favorite book? This is one of mine.

"You become. It takes a long time.

That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily

or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your

hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and

you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real

you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."
Margery Williams -The Velveteen Rabbit

What's yours?

A smile for Friday ...

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Day 2743: I couldn't resist taking this photo.

athlete: junk mail collage

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75 degrees, Sunny, Santa Ana, CA.

After class three of us joined Demura Sensei at Uoko for lunch.

Sensei returned last from a week of teaching in Qatar

with Ken Nishiki, and Byrad Yyelland.

I couldn't resist taking this photo.

For FB Throwback Thursday ...

2004 Orange County Fair, Demura Sensei's Costa Mesa Dojo Demo Team. Roy Center, Jared Stanton, Kelly Harada, Cheyenne Lopez, Preston Schow, Shayla Van Wormer, Luis Perez, Tess Bernstein, Alyssa Hatton Devyn Jackson, Cody Jackson, Danielle Vartanian, Lulu Meeks, Emily Bernstein, Jaimie Harada, Kristie Harada, Andy Anjosian, Alex Anjosian & more.

Recipe: Matador Guacamole

Serves 4

Ingredients

2 jalapeño chiles
4 scallions
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
3 ripe avocados, halved, meat scooped out and diced
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves

To Prepare

Char the jalapeños and scallions on a preheated comal or skillet over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes, flipping often, until completely charred, wrinkled and softened. You can also do this under the broiler.
Once nicely softened and charred, slice the jalapeños and scallions and place them in a medium bowl with the soy sauce and lime juice. Stir and let marinate for at least 10 minutes, this makes for matador chiles or chiles tornados.
In a medium bowl mash the avocados. Mix in the matador chiles, scallions, 1/4 cup of the soy and lime mixture (reserve the remaining 1/4 cup for the milanesa torta if making), and the cilantro.

A smile for Thursday ...

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Day 2742: It does have subtitles, but they just confirm the good acting.

sub-title2: graphite drawing, watercolor, collage & digital.

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I went to see Parasite today.

A Koran film nominated for Picture of the Year.

It does have subtitles, but they just confirm the good acting.

The top winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Palm d’Or.

Parasite received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for Bong's direction and screenplay, cinematography, editing, and production values. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film was nominated for three categories including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won Best Foreign Language Film, making it the first ever Korean film to achieve that feat.^[10] It was also nominated for four awards at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Not in the English Language. It is the first Korean film to receive nominations at the British Academy Film Awards (except for Best Film Not in the English Language). It garnered numerous accolades at the annual awards of film critics societies including Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture, and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the top ten films of 2019

“Parasite” follows a clear and resourceful Ki-Woo (Choi Woo-sik) young man living in a cellar that is easily accessible to local night screamers, with his several years younger street smart sister Ki-jung (Park So-dam), a farouche but friendly mother Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin) and the lucidly optimistic father Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho). The family is trying to survive with the minimum wage,

stacking pizza boxes, stealing the wi-fi signal from their neighbors and leaving open windows during street disinfection to avoid paying for disinfection of their own home.