Day 3871: Legos and WW.

 

"Constant wrong": junk mail collage, photo

 

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What do you see?

They had a 3D-printed recreation of Claude Monet's famous water lilies made entirely of Legos!  

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei reimagined the French impressionists' iconic motif using 650,000 little Lego bricks in 22 different colors. The work stretches nearly 50 feet and is the artist's largest work to date. "Toy bricks as the material, with their qualities of solidity and potential for deconstruction, reflect the attributes of language in our rapidly developing era where human consciousness is constantly dividing," Ai said of the work. The chief curator of London's Design Museum, where the work is displayed, says he was struck by how the impersonal blocks come together to create a deeply personal final product, which also contains references to Ai's childhood. 

 

Here's a close-up:

  

WonderWoman left Friday ...

  to meet Superman in Redlands, CA, so ...

 

Zoey and I are "holding down the fort" as my Dad would have said. Zoey has been very patient with me. SM & WW take her for a 3 mile walk each morning, and she didn't get it today, 'cauz Grandma's not a super-hero. Superman is performing a wedding for  friends on Saturday, and I don't think he plans to wear his SM uniform. They will be home Sunday and I will leave for the OC Monday morning early. The days have flown by. It's cold here, to me, I have 3 layers on and I am inside. The sun is out and the sky is so blue.

 

I have just watched Sumo which will end tomorrow. I have a new book, Lincoln Highway, recommended by Rad Nana. I am only 100 pages in and I love it! Amor Towles is a wonderful writer. I loved his A Gentleman in Moscow, given to me by good friend Denise Slocombe. It's wonderful to have a book so good you can't wait to  get back to it.

 

 

 

 

A  3-minute video, 3 Frogs, here.

 

Just because ...

 

Glossy Ibis

 

Smiles for Sunday ...

 

   

        

     

  

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Day 3773: Graduate and Tacos.

 

"Terror": digital collage.

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Graduate Joyce DeFauw

Great-grandma and graduate Joyce DeFauw, who just earned a bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University more than 70 years after she first enrolled! DeFauw was months away from earning a degree in home economics when she fell in love with a man from her church. She decided to pause her studies to start a family with him. After her first husband passed away, she remarried and grew her family — today, she's got dozens of grandkids and great-grandkids. In 2019, she mentioned to them that she came close to completing her degree, and her ever-supportive family encouraged her to follow through. And so she did! This time, though, she opted to study from her retirement home. She took one online class per semester — her first time using a computer! — which kept her busy during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the virus kept her family from visiting. And now, three years after she picked her studies back up, she received her degree in general studies. Why'd she go through all the studying and cramming of college again? Well, why not? “It’s nice to finish something you started,” DeFauw says — whether it's a lengthy book, an art project or even a long-paused college education. 

Taco shop flooded with orders after daughter’s Christmas wish to get her mother customers goes viral

"What a Christmas miracle!" write Taco-Bout-Joy's on Facebook.

“It breaks my heart to see my mom watching the door every day, waiting for a customer to walk in,” wrote Isabel Milan. Santa came a few weeks early for a daughter who shared her Christmas wish for her mother on social media.

On Dec. 8, TikTok account @tacoboutjoys shared a short video shot inside of their restaurant Taco-Bout-Joy's located in Glenview, Illinois, owned by sisters Joy Milan and Kack Keomanivong. Filmed by Joy's daughter Isabel, the video, which shows the empty shop and Milan watching the door for entering customers, struck a chord for so many on the app. First of all, I want to thank everybody for the love and support the past few days, it’s been incredible,” Isabel says in another TikTok update on Dec. 10. “We’re all  super tired, but it’s been very worth it.”

 

A 4-minute video, Joy Story, here.

Just because ...

 

Bleeding Heart Pigeons

  

Smiles for Sunday ...

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

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