Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, Literature, tagged Chicago on December 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Chicago from a Chopper, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.
Chicago. At around draft 3, half of The Singing Fire took place there, during the world’s fair and then the Pullman strike. The research was fun and I visited Chicago, gawking at fin de siecle skyscrapers and Marshall Fields (department store), the tiffany ceiling in the [...]
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged stone and water on December 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
water-00, originally uploaded by game49.
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, Literature, tagged Lu Chi, The Art of Writing, Wen Fu on November 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Fly, originally uploaded by David Guidi.
And from Lu Chi’s Wen Fu (The Art of Writing), 300 CE:
Writing is in itself a joy,
Yet saints and sages have long since held it in awe.
For it is being, created from a void;
It is sound rung out of profound silence.
In a sheet of paper is contained the infinite,
And, evolved [...]
Posted in Art & Photography, My Life, tagged David Ruben Piqtoukun, J.E.H. MacDonald, William Kurelek on November 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The AGO, or the Art Gallery of Ontario, is in the vicinity of Chinatown, where my younger daughter and I had lunch after we visited the art gallery on a p.a. day, which stands for professional something, a day that the teachers have meetings and do important things and so did my children, the older [...]
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged smoking and driving on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
♥, originally uploaded by ƒαитαѕєα Ǥιяl ;; ÿααααω XD.
I like the composition of this photo, the close in detail. It’s such an old-fashioned image to western eyes, the cufflinks, the cigarette. But I know nothing about it, not even the title, because it’s written in, I believe, Arabic.
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, My Life, tagged autumn rose on November 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The only remarkable thing about this photo is that I took it on Friday while walking home from the art gallery. It was in the garden of a Ukrainian church, too far from the hedge protecting it for me to check if it was fragrant. But it was the gift of a sunny day, surprisingly [...]
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged north coast on November 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Running out of Time, originally uploaded by Dan Barron.
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged anniversary, reunion drive on October 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Got a quarter?, originally uploaded by Zeb Andrews.
This photo immediately struck me and I smiled. We were away this weekend (more about that tomorrow) and this reminded me of our drive. And today is my 12th wedding anniversary. This photo makes me think of our journey together.
So a special shout out to A: happy anniversary [...]
Posted in Art & Photography, tagged urban photography, Vivian Maier on October 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’m linking to a blog that displays the gripping work of Vivian Maier,
a street photographer from the 1950s – 1970s. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes over 40,000 mostly medium format negatives. Born February [...]
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged Canadian thanksgiving, library on October 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Mortlock Library, 3rd Level – HDR, originally uploaded by Dale Allman.
Today is Canadian thanksgiving. So I would like to bless the world of books, which is made with the hands, eyes, and hearts of writers, printers, publishers editors, cover designers, paper makers, along with the trees, soil, chemicals and sun which provide the materials, truck [...]
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged autumn photo on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Posted in A Monday Moment, Art & Photography, tagged macro photography on September 21, 2009 | 10 Comments »
in walk toward the austria******in cammino verso l’Austria 3, originally uploaded by maudanros.
I’m awed by the clarity. Did the photographer wait for the bee or did the bee present itself for this moment of appreciation?
