From the category archives:

Art and Craft

Saturday in the park with Alexander

January 23, 2007

… and twenty-five thousand or so fellow Seattleites. Read all about it. I’ll have more soon.

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Clementine

March 8, 2006

When I made my daily morning pilgrimage to Postcard from Provence, Julian Merrow-Smith’s painting website, I found this luscious little clementine. I could almost feel its pebbled peel and smell the oils that would be released if I dug a fingernail into the skin. Leaving work, I stopped by the grocery store at the bottom [...]

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Beauty in advertising

November 17, 2005

Last night, Paul showed me a video clip that he’d found through a link on another blog. I was mesmerized by the playful, trippy imagery – thousands of vibrant, multi-colored dots bouncing along a San Francisco street – enhanced by spare musical accompaniment. Great use of computer graphics, I thought… but I was wrong. It [...]

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Ce n’est pas une plume.

July 12, 2005

Every once in a while, one of the paintings on Duane Keiser‘s A Painting a Day blog makes me gasp. This was one such painting, and it was not yet marked SOLD. When I showed the painting to Paul, he thought at first glance that it was a real blue jay feather glued onto a [...]

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Les Triplettes

July 10, 2005

Last night, Paul and I finally saw Les Triplettes de Belleville. This quirky story – of Champion, an orphaned boy who becomes a competitive cyclist; his club-footed grandmother, Madame Souza; and the Triplets, three aging jazz singers who befriend her – is by turns sweetly charming, funny and dark. It may also be the most [...]

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Fresh each day

May 9, 2005

The past couple of weeks, I haven’t have much time to read blogs – or, obviously, to write much here. The rest of my life has been busy, and in good ways. Now I just have to figure our how to have a busy life, read the blogs I love, and write here regularly. On [...]

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Intolerable beauty

March 2, 2005

Today one of my coworkers in California sent me a link to the website of photographer Chris Jordan, whose work is currently on exhibit at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles. As I began to look through the images on these sites, I realized that I recognized many of the scenes that Jordan had [...]

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