Showing posts with label Gramercy Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gramercy Park. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

SCENES and ART PROJECTS

SATURDAY
Irony on 14th Street
Very likely a most useful placement.
East Village balcony Party
You climb out your window and call it a patio.

SUNDAY
('Physician heal Thyself')

Sunday Brunch
Persian Cucumbers
Easy to make and delicious to Eat
Marinated in Rice Vinegar with Stevia

 Cucumbers and cream cheese on Toast
a favorite of mine.
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MONDAY
English Plane Tree Bark
East 21st Street
Manhattan NY

Such beautiful patterns

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"Rose Petals and Yogi Wisdom"
Returned from Australia

Temporary Placement at the end of Entrance Hall

Gifts from Mo

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TUESDAY
Came and Went while I wrapped packages and wrote cards ready for posting this week. I'm still finishing photo card projects, some promises way overdue. Center column top-Dad as a Telephone lineman in the late Thirties, Middle-Jude Hills jelly bean cloth framed without glass, Bottom At the Zendo (ten due). Left Column top-My shadow on two iron Rabbits in Massachusetts, Bottom-"Bruno" (friends dog). Right Column Top Edward Gorey image, Bottom-The printing on the back of a Zendo friends 'Rakasu.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

SPRINGING AHEAD

SATURDAY
Beauty at the Natural Green Market
At Home
Supper and another episode
Season 9
"DOC MARTIN"
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-03-08/doc-martin-will-end-after-two-more-series-martin-clunes-reveals/

~*~ SUNDAY
At 28 minutes after Midnight
I reset the Clock

"My answers are inadequate
To those demanding day and date
And ever set a tiny shock
Through strangers asking what's o'clock;
Whose days are spent in whittling rhyme-
What's time to her, or she to Time?"

-Dorothy Parker-


Making Plans for a Museum Visit

GRANT WOOD
(screen shot self portrait)


(from 'Bob and Sophies French Adventure')
"American Gothic, the picture of a stern old farming couple standing in front of their barn, has been seen by everyone.The painter exhibited the canvas in Chicago at the age of 39. At the age of 50 he was dead from pancreatic cancer. In his brief career he produced some memorable works and a few masterpieces. This 1935 canvas is called Death on the Ridge Road. The composition a sure sign that some human genius burns so brightly it simply can't last long. In this picture the encroaching darkness, the almost toy town joyfulness of the truck and the interplay of rain with the cross like telegraph poles are gloriously sombre. True American Gothic."

(screen shot)
  "He is thought by some to be America's greatest Arts and Crafts school painter. There is an exhibition at the Whitney in NY that runs 'til June. Here's the website with more of the works in the exhibition."
https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/GrantWood
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wood
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Whitney Museum of American Art 
FREE 
Fridays 7-9:30 pm

Constitutional Before Sleep
Around Gramercy Park
Many famous folks lived here and more recently, Jimmy Fallon who first bought two apartments for his Mother and himself. His mother died last November. He has since purchased three more units.
34 Gramercy Park
(look inside)
https://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/5/10050662/jimmy-fallon-now-owns-five-units-in-his-gramercy-building
side
 Entrance
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then
LOUD CLANGING
Con Edison Sets Up For?
Third Avenue between 20/21st Streets
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MONDAY
Short trip to the post office and a view of the Chrysler Building.

Nothing serious, simply ordinary chronic conditions acting up, so I am 'under the weather' before our third storm lands tonight and taking a day of rest and recuperation missing my weekly writing group.
In the mail today
 A Package I sent to Grace Forest was returned
Unclaimed!
for Grace update see
http://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2018/03/grace-and-mail-difficulty.html 
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TUESDAY
Still laying low at home. The snow has not made much impact on my neighborhood but some icy conditions and wind are present with more snow possible. The news is depressing at best. New England is snowed in and I'm returning to the memory of a  storm years ago and the dear friends of my heart there.
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

WEEKENDS BEGIN FRIDAY and END SUNDAY

FRIDAY
My 'Front Yard'
Walk to Union Square
(color altered)
At night it lights up like a Ruby
Magnificent Maple
Listened to this wonderful musician
Union Square

Walking up Fifth Avenue, I stumbled upon this Google Pop-up store
displaying apps to explore and more
You can plug in to their Virtual Reality screens and ride for free
The front window decorated with an Eighties theme

Further on up Fifth Avenue
Victorias Secret
 displaying gifts for the Holiday
(seems the corset is back in a modern incarnation)

The light of sunset illuminates parts...
...against a storm threatening sky

Turning toward home, observed this
Shameless Hubris
 Long shot on East 21st Street
Home, with my street rescued discarded bouquet
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SATURDAY
This tree well feeder accommodates hungry doves

 Onward past an Irving Place small Hotel
 Buildings Shrouded in construction nets
  to the farmers market
Recycling food scraps...
...and wearable goods at Union Square
 What was once a famous Bank is now a Performance Space
Dappled clouds sweep across the sky
Vintage ford with Bicycle
I had a long conversation with a very nice man who survived two heart attacks. He was part of the crews setting up for a model shoot at the "Irving Plaza" - The Theater located at the southwest corner of Irving Place and East 15th Street in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan was built in 1888 and it served as a German language theater, a Yiddish theater, a burlesque house, a union meeting hall, a legitimate theater and a movie theater. Now, besides rentals, it's a live Music venue for rock and pop shows.

Cornerstone of the Welfare building
(someone left an unreadable message)
The Shrouded building again, against sky
One residential apartments building still has rose blooms
lovely
Across the street from my apartment
the School of Visual Arts new windowed atrium
One of the farmers I've known for years gave me an edible pumpkin I plan to halve Monday, clean seeds for drying, place halves face down in a pan of water to bake and then fill with seasoned rice and berries (yum)--Meanwhile it was movie night - "Ruby in Paradise" is the video we watched...see link.
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with Ron Sherbet my neighbor of forty years.
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SUNDAY
Rainy day at home resting, playing with images on the leaf letters project with the TV on to marathon images without sound.
FULL MOON--DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS--GUY FAWKES DAY IS CELEBRATED- NEW YORK CITY MARATHON
The starting line for the race began at the Western end of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island. The finish line was in Central Park, just outside of Tavern on the Green. Later, the terrible news from Texas reached me. This light will burn all night in my front window for every grieving being.
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LINKS

Google Pop-up Store

"Ruby In Paradise"