For this week’s poem we have selected Andrews’s poem Approaching a Cemetery. It fits our mood this week.
Poem of the Week: 4/22/07-4/28/07
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Category Archives: Art
A Story with a Moral
What’s this a picture of? My feet. In my socks.
I knit those socks out of yarn my great-grandmother gave me, and it’s 100% wool. It’s also an almost pepto-bismol pink, but it was free, and I didn’t want to use something expensive for my first pair of socks. And my first knitting project, unless Click Here to continue reading.
Discussing the Washington Post Experiment with Joshua Bell
This post is a response to a comment on the Ethereal Voice. But since some of you do not follow The Ethereal Voice, I am going to have to give some background.
As one of its weired quirks, The Ethereal Voice selects an essay that can be found on the web to highlight each week. This Click Here to continue reading.
What do you get when the Chicken Man flies for the first time?
For some reason, his first flight brought forth a sermon from the Chicken Man. We were hoping for a tale of disaster and woe. But we will excuse him for we know that he was disappointed when he did not get to see any real mountains.
Essay of the Week: 4/15/07-4/21/07
The Washington Post did an experiment. If they got the man who is thought by some to be the world’s best violinist to play as street musician for an hour, how many people would stop and listen?
For this week’s essay we have selected the article that detailed the results of that experiment.
It made me think of how many interesting, talented, and knowledgeable people are ignored in this world because they are not labeled by the authorities as being worthy of note.
What should you wear?
Are you a people-watcher? You know, go sit in a public place and just watch people go by, and maybe make up stories of who they are and where they’re going? Or if you sew or are interested in fashion and the like, you look at what they’re wearing, and wonder where they got it, Click Here to continue reading.
My Favorite Modern Art
I think of atomic explosions as art. Few things capture the sprit of the modern age as well as setting off the bomb.
In the resulting explosions I see all the power and knowledge and beauty of the modern age combined with all horror and nihilistic furry that have accompanied it. An exploding atomic bomb Click Here to continue reading.
A portrait of Insanity..
The Tatterdemalion is crazy. It is prerequisite in order to be a contributor to the Ethereal Voice. But on her sewing site, Tatterdemalion mostly reviews books and writes “how to” articles so her basic insanity does not come out as clearly as it might. Her most recent post goes a long way towards rectifying that….
Even those who care nothing for sewing might find it interesting to find out more about one of the editors of the Ethereal Voice.
Scrapbook content
This skirt by the duo 6267 caught my eye. Clipped from The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2007, in the Marketplace section. (The article was called A Duo called 6267 Adds a Spark in Milan.) I like the contrast between the fitted overskirt and pleated texture of the underskirt.
I clipped this from The Wall Street Journal, the February 23, 2007 Review: Theater. The picture is credited to Paul Kolnik, but this is only a small piece of that photo. (The play being reviewed was ‘Salvage’.) I like what they did with the shoulders.
(The title is reference to the book I learned how to read on, so you probably won’t “get” it.)
The picture has been clipped from The Economist, the article Medical statistics: Signs of the times.
Thanks to the comments on the original post, I discovered this is a painting by John Waterhouse, and that there are two different versions of it, as you can see here and here.
Isaac's Stylebook
When I first read about Isaac Mizrahi’s Style Book magazine, I was doubtful that I would find it the slightest bit interesting. I’m not exactly a “style” kind of person–I don’t follow fads or fashion, don’t have money, and don’t care. I figured it would be another magazine telling you how to spend a lot Click Here to continue reading.