Art

I am reading The Art of abstract painting. In that book, in the section 'from absttaction to reality', the author says that if we choose reality as the source of inspiration for abstract or abstracted work, there are two differnt ways of starting.
1. Starting from visual information.
2. Starting from mental information.

Land

In Your life as story, Rainer asks to create columns for personal history and political and cultural events of contemporary history. Reading the article, I recall that my grandfather lost part of his land to the government for an exchange of job to his son.

Donations

Give a little
Soul of a citizen

Fruit spirit

This morning, my shampoo with passion flower sunrise smelt of mango. May be the Pineapple spirit was passing by. Not only did I fantasise mango but the mango lassi too.

Self portrait

My sketch never looks like me
They all look alike

Feline

A cat scared like an owl.

In the Ratville, Greyhound was the mice with most friends as he had a blind cat as his charioteer.

Fishy smile

A river ran over me - Lin Sutherland. When she says," the list of my sins is excruciatingly extensive:" at the end of a page, I missed the colon. And the next page is a big list. Eight or more embarassing situations this essay could save you from. Into this humor are mixed in the terms, tools and practices in fly fishing.

June 22,2010

In the end

Usually the best of the books is in the front but I found these in the end.

Two must read poems:
Apple - Susan Stewart
I stopped writing poetry - Bernard Welt.

July 31, 2010

Correcting observation

Today I drew a golf cart and goose without looking. My memory of the wheels of a golf cart in relation to the chassis is all wrong. I had the chassis elevated above the tires which is not the case. The steering wheel reaches out like a funnel. the goose it need a longer neck and tapering thighs?
I have noticed that a sketch of a ballet dancer in motion with her right knee in the front and her left knee with her leg pointing up and her hands high in air is liberating each time I see it.
Ballet sketches with their anatomical incongruencies bring a sense of lightness to the viewer. Case in point, the ballet still for a Rudolf Friml Waltz in youtube. a dancer in short round skirt with her right toe on the floor and her left leg right above her head.

Color books

Blue book for AA
Red book for pianists

Taphonomy

The first time I came acorss transubstantiation was when I read Elizabeth Dodd's In the Minds eye.
Interestingly enough Patricia Hampl credits her knowledge of the word to catholicism. I was curious to know if Dodd came to the word in the same way. Cant answer for sure. But she is a converted catholic.

Dodds poetry introduced me to another word, the title of this entry.

Rubbing alcohol

The only alcohol in reach for AA
How intoxicating is rubbing alcohol?

Story cloth

I came across story cloth in Encyclopaedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife

Story cloths that depict war experiences
That depict Ramayana
That are passed down from grandmothers to their grandchildren.

My grandmother gave me a handkerchief sewed with small flowers and leaves.

Dog breeds

when I came across Springer Spaniel in The Florists daughter, I was curious to know if they were related to Cocker Spaniel

Some packing space

On wednesdays we wore white canvas shoes with green soles

Olivine

Olivine is soothing to look at.

I love books with maps

When I started reading the book, at the line 'The Grand Bazaar itself begins on the other side of the Egyptian bazaar,..' .. I had to stop reading. I couldnt resume without fixing this place on map. Had I flipped through the next few pages, I would see this nice blown up map of the bazaar showing details of the kind of merchandise sold in the streets.

Descriptions of travelling merchants using the bazaar for safekeeping sent me imagining to the extent of seal done in lacquer.

Imagine a real procession.

Some pictures are like that of a minaret lying on a table, view of a local bazaar through a hatch grilled window(so much easier to draw) will make you want to know more about them.

Jul 25,2010.

Advantages of Google books

1. You can use them as inspiration for your own writing
2. You can make up stories for kids using it as a starting board.

Fact and fiction

Sometimes when I come across fiction and have read of a similar situation as a fact, I just think that let the fiction writers imagine, then they will show you the best and the worst possible of the world.

In 2009, we have heard of the sole survivor of a plane crash. I was reminded of this reading of Hatchet.

Reading a fictional story The Age of Analysis, I was reminded of Growing up Jung.

Apprehensions of a new sibling in Julius, the Baby of the world are not very different from that in "the wing Rocker and the Baby" in Discovery

How long is the spelling of your city?

Yesterday I was looking at a map and found a place called Truth or Consequences. Its long name kind of got me interested in it. Theres a story there. If you lie, you die?
Does anyone remember the town that changed its name to Google for a while.
But there are places with even longer names.

Sorry for the interruption

I find it funny imagining the 'desrt rose' song being played when a radio has technical issues.