Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Easy Rider
One of Ali's assignments was to interpret a movie influential to him via the medium of photos. At least I think that's what it was. Ali's take on it was a mash up between Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's look.
Check out the epic handlebar mustache!!
photo credits: David Roth
The trending questions on Facebook were "what are you riding?!" "i didn't know you rode a motorbike!" David Roth shot the photos and made an earlier appearance here in one of my favorite post titles: "If you haven't cried or gotten naked during a critique..."
Here's the photo shoot styling info:
Ali is wearing someone else's leather jacket.
Ditto the helmet.
The bandana is one of mine from college (!)
Oh, and he's riding a bicycle.
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Whenever I hear "Easy Rider" I always think back to Christmas Eve, 1969. I took my 81 year old grandmother, Nana, to see an evening showing of Easy Rider. Despite being a very intellectually adventurous and open woman, Nana was very upset by the movie. She was mad at me for days for taking her to such a violent movie on Christmas Eve.
Neuroplasticity
Great word, eh? The Wiki defines Neuroplasticity thusly. This Sunday there was a riveting program on NPR's "On Being" that explored the topic with Rex Jung, called "Creativity and the Everyday Brain."
"...How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. He unsettles some old assumptions — and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, and creativity and purpose."
Here's the podcast: http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/being/unheard_cuts/2012_creativity_uc...
And here's the TED talk done by Rex Jung:
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Pantry at Delancy
Lovely photo by Chantal Andrea shot for seattleweekly.com.
Chantal has beautiful photos on her website. Go peep.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
On the road to Puyallup
Pronounced Pew-y'all-up. Took me forever to pronounce it correctly.
Lenticular clouds on Mt. Rainier. Epic.
Storm front.
A VW bus and a stuffed moose. An inexplicable juxtaposition.
Cookie Monster cloud.
Brown's Point. I always pretend I'm on the French Riviera when I catch this view.
Beautiful bus shelter in Tacoma.
Spring in Tacoma.
Runner on the Ruston waterfront in Tacoma.
Birthday weekend
The boys stopped by on their drive up from San Francisco. Ali wassup with your hair?
Isaac, Ali's roommate, relaxing.
Ali bought me a beautiful cupcake with lavender icing from Cupcake Royale.
DeMarcus joined us for one night and day. He caught a ride to Vancouver with Ali and Isaac and stayed a week. Off to Paris at the end of the month!
We had lunch at Pho (pronounced Fah) King. I don't know if it's a deliberate play on words or not. Ali and I assume it's deliberate. More fun that way.
Some old guy took our photo and even gave back the camera!
After lunch the boys took off to skate Seattle and onwards north to Van. I went around the corner to donate more fabric to the Tacoma Art Place. I was so touched to see that my last donation had been made into clothing that they put up for sale. Everything on the wall except for the silver/denim configuration was fabric I had given to the center.
Vashon Island was especially beautiful on Sunday.
Cloudiness, then clear sunshine..
Blackberry brambles in the foreground...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
What if There Were 83 Women Senators?
Sometimes I despair. A lot, lately.
But then there's that stalwart level-headed fellow out of Vermont - Bernie Sanders.
Viagra gets covered. Contraceptives don't. That pesky Plan B might prevent a precious sperm from reaching it's destiny.
To quote Ali: "My opinion on abortion? As soon as I have a uterus, I'll let you know."
Bernie Sanders statement on women’s health care
Mar. 1, 2012
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today as the Senate debated a Republican measure to let employers and insurers opt out of provisions in the health care law:
“In Vermont and around the country, there is growing anger that members of Congress, mostly men I should add, are trying to roll back the clock on women’s rights, in this case the right of women to receive contraceptive services through their insurance plans.
“This attack is grossly unfair, and I hope that men will stand with women in the fight to protect this very basic right.
“Let me add my strong belief that if the United States Senate had 83 women and 17 men rather than 83 men and 17 women, my strong guess is that a bill like this would never even make it to the floor.”
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