Day 4661: The Dalai Lama & Low maintenance plants and people.

"Memory Flash": digital cpllage.

    

  

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Click: Jackson 5, Show You The Way To Go.

 

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Just an ordinary beautiful Thursday. 

I am washing dishes and checking the neighborhood.

I find out a lot from that vantage point. 

A Honda I didn't recognize pulled into a parking space in front.

As is my duty, I looked to see who was inside.

He took his time and I assumed it might be a lady. 
Then, the Dalai Lama got out of the grey Honda.

He was dressed in his disguise attire.

A faded flowered shirt and baggy pants.

The kicker was he wore both a belt and suspenders.

He opened the car back door and got a file.

He clicked the remote and locked his car,

as he walked off to a nearby residence.

I just checked he's still there.

I'll respect his privacy.

I like low maintenance plants and people.

I have no roses, even though they are beautiful.

I do have a lot of successful succulents.

By this age, you have figured out what works for you.

What clothes work and which would be a disaster.

What foods to crave and what to avoid.

Which people bring joy and others, not so much.

One benefit to age.

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Horsefly, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

Junglefowl 

 

Saturday's Smiles ... 

   

  

  

     

Day 4660: Ballet and the Bauhaus Movement & A Good Idea.

    

"Order":photograph & digital.

  

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Click: Aretha Franklin, Daydreaming

 

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Ballet that Brought Dance to the Bauhaus Movement

From a performance by the Bavarian Junior Ballet

Given the emphasis on functionality and design for industrial production, the Bauhaus movement is rarely associated with disciplines like dance. But for Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), translating its principles into movement and performance was as compelling as a well-conceived chair or building.

In the last century, the Bauhaus has indelibly shaped our modern built environments and the ways we think of the relationship between form and function (it even inspired conceptual cookbooks). German architect Walter Gropius founded the school in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, with the intention of uniting architecture, fine arts, and crafts. The school focused on minimalism and creating for the social good and involved artists and designers like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Anni and Josef Albers.

From a performance by the Bavarian Junior Ballet

As seen in a fully colorized film of the dance from the 1970s, the dancers are incredibly deliberate as they navigate sparse sets with clean lines. Open Culture notes that they appear almost like pantomimes or puppets “with figures in awkward costumes tracing various shapes around the stage and each other.”

Some of the original costumes

Triadic Ballet is rarely reproduced, but Bavarian Junior Ballet will bring the work back to the stage this June to celebrate its 15th anniversary. And if you’re in New York, you can see one of Schlemmer’s studies in Living in the Age of the Machine at MoMA. It’s also worth exploring The Oskar Schlemmer Theatre Estate and Archives, which boasts a trove of archival imagery and drawings on its website.

Bauhaus Ballet: A Dance of Geometry 2 min. video here.

Reconstrucción del Ballet Triadico de Oskar Schlemmer para la Bauhaus. Video here

good idea!

Before Christmas 2022, the three Grandhunks asked WonderWoman what she wanted for Christmas. She answered "something that would take some thought on their part." They thought and decided to recreate some of her favorite photos from when they were small.

2005

2022

It just took planning and time, and she loved it. Win-Win.

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Dragonfly bullies, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

Boat-billed Heron

 

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Day 4659: Rippling London Townhouse Facade & A Single Indian Great Banyan & TBT..

"Heartbeat": watercolor & digital.

   

  

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Click: Teddy Pendergrass, Come Go With Me.

 

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A Rippling London Townhouse Facade

by Alex Chinneck

Photos by Charles Emerson

“A week at the knees” playfully anthropomorphizes a classic Georgian facade, with its lower two levels rippling over a pathway as if seated in the park with its knees up. London is famous for its green squares and gardens, and Chinneck’s work invites visitors to pass through a unique portal that calls upon the history of its surroundings, complete with downspout and lamps flanking the arched front door.

Chinneck fabricated the sculpture in collaboration with numerous British companies to source and create bespoke steel beams, curving windows, and bricks. At five meters tall and weighing 12 tons, the piece mimics a life-size building while sporting a thickness of only 15 centimeters.

 The effect lends itself to the experience of a hefty, architectonic structure with a graceful, lightweight personality. -1 minute video here.

              

  Explore more on Chinneck’s website and Instagram.

This is a single tree, known as the Great Banyan tree. It has a canopy diameter of over 400 feet making it one of the widest trees in the world. The tree’s crown covers an area over 4 acres (1.65 hectares) and is made up of hundreds of trunks. Although its exact age is unknown, references date back more than 250 years. In the 1900s, massive storms hit the tree, which led to a decline of its main trunk, which once measured over 50 feet wide. Yet, as the sign at the tree states: “Interestingly enough, the tree now lives in perfect vigor without its main trunk.”

Thanks fellow "tree hugger", Rad Nana!

Demura Sensei's 1986 Kangieko

Huntington Beach, CA

We survived. Kevin Suzuki & me.

  

 

A 4+  minute video, Good education , here

 

  

  

 

Just because ...

Blond-crested Woodpecker 

 

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