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`Eating Raoul` A Quirky Cult Favorite

November 26, 1986|By CANDICE RUSSELL, Film Writer

OK, so you`ve had it with presidential gobbledygook, dwindling wages and family obligations. Chances are you`re in the mood to cut loose, to see a movie that affirms the anarchic spirit. Eating Raoul is such a film. It doesn`t break traditions and taboos so much as it gleefully steamrolls them and in often amusing fashion.

While not intending to offend people in the manner of John Waters, whose scratch `n` sniff cards for his film Polyester contained the smell of excrement, Eating Raoul should at least jolt viewers into a new alertness about their neighbors. Looking normal is no excuse for being normal, as Mary and Paul Bland (Mary Woronov and writer-director Paul Bartel) prove.

All they want, like any other upstanding Los Angeles couple, is a way out of the workaday grind. When the perfect site for a restaurant becomes available, they literally stop at nothing to get the money for the down payment. That`s where the fun comes in, as these married mercenaries give fresh meaning to the phrase ``having friends for dinner.``

Their plotting is set in motion by frustration with the system that leaves decent, working, taxpaying citizens broke and wanting. The difficulty with Eating Raoul is that it can`t sustain itself. Murder for profit is darkly humorous but only up to a point. Bartel, plump and prissy with his bald head and bow tie, takes the gag too far. Repetition is the death of comedy.

A couple of nice touches are the surreal music score that sounds like the theme of an old TV sitcom of ultimate triviality, and the ``fabulous `50s furniture`` in the Blands` apartment, an abomination of style.

Reservations aside, there`s enough wickedness and unconventionality to warrant the cult comedy status of Eating Raoul.

In their quest to open a restaurant, a married couple stops at nothing to get the money.

Credits: With Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov. Directed by Paul Bartel. Written by Richard Blackburn and Paul Bartel.

Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Manor Art Cinema, 1444 NE 26th St.

Sex, profanity, violence.

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U.s. Explores Ways To Improve Relations With The Eastern Bloc

December 14, 1986|United Press International

WASHINGTON -- The United States has begun a series of ``quiet explorations`` with Eastern European governments, including a ``dialogue`` with Poland, to improve relations with the Eastern-bloc nations, State Department officials say.

The explorations, as described by officials, are intended to feel out the possibility of accelerating any easing of the Soviet economic or political grip on Eastern Europe.

The policy was disclosed Friday in a routine press release issued by the White House on the fifth anniversary of the declaration of martial law in Poland in which President Reagan said, ``We decided to enter into dialogue with the Polish government.``

State Department officials said Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead was designated to head the U.S. effort and is expected to visit Poland and other Eastern European countries in January. In November, he visited Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia.

The Whitehead trips are part of a process that includes what a State Department official described as ``a quiet exploration to see if the Polish government and others are serious about making improvements or if they`re just playing us along to see what they can get.``

The Eastern European nations have been seeking trade concessions and Poland in particular has been pressing for an end to the economic sanctions that have aggravated the country`s severe economic problems.

U.S. officials said Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne Ridgeway met Polish Deputy Foreign Minister T.W. Kinast in November in Vienna. The meeting had not been publicized earlier. Following that, Tom Simons, Ridgway`s deputy for Eastern Europe, made an unannounced trip to Poland Dec. 1-5.

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December 19, 1986|By Denise Salvaggio

Red and green have long been the colors most closely associated with Christmas. Perhaps because of many examples from nature, such as the green leaves and red flowers or berries of poinsettia and holly plants, this combination is a symbolic shorthand for the holiday.

Although one doesn`t typically think of insects getting into the Christmas spirit, there is an arthropod whose coloration is perfect for the season: the redbanded leafhopper (family Homoptera).

Leafhopper Looking like a specially wrapped holiday package, the 3- to 15- millimeter redbanded leafhopper is distinguished by a green body with bright red markings arranged in alternate bands. Its legs and underside are yellow, as are some markings on the head. Unlike the froghopper, which it resembles, the redbanded leafhopper has one or more rows of spines on the hind tibiae.

Apparently, all this gaudily decorated wedge-shaped insect would need to make it a perfect stocking stuffer is a bow. If such were the case, few people would be left wanting, for there are more than 2,500 leafhopper species throughout North America, making this the largest family of the Homoptera.

While the redbanded leafhopper sports these traditional Christmas colors, however, it isn`t exactly this (or any other) year`s most-wanted present. As a matter of fact, anyone -- including Santa -- would have trouble giving it away. Reason: the leafhopper`s predilection for destroying nearly every plant but the holly you`ve decked the halls with.

Sucking the sap and juice from such hosts as blackberries, roses, asters, marigolds, zinnias and various other ornamentals, the redbanded leafhopper has several sinister means of felling plants: by removing sap, destroying chlorophyll, transmitting diseases or curling leaves. The unfortunate foliage is even punctured during egg laying. The leafhopper produces another unwanted gift: honeydew, which is a sweet byproduct of digestion excreted by the insect that attracts ants.

The redbanded leafhopper isn`t a total Grinch in the garden, as a single insect will do no damage. Yet, just as a single snowflake can be the harbinger of a blizzard, the situation bears close surveillance if a lone leafhopper does show up. Application of an appropriate contact pesticide should keep the creature from celebrating the season in its dubious manner.

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Oak Ridge C.c.: A Hidden Golf Treasure

March 6, 1987|By DON ZERN, Staff Writer

It may be the best-kept secret this side of a sunken treasure. And almost as difficult to find.

Unless one knows where to look for the Oak Ridge Country Club, you might get lost.

To the north, Oak Ridge is hidden behind tall shrubs, trees, wide canals and road construction off Griffin Road near State Road 7 in unincorporated Broward. To the south, it is hidden by a housing development and more trees and shrubs.

The clubhouse/pro shop is atop a hill about a half mile south of Griffin Road. It cannot be seen from the highway. Adjacent to it is a driving range that can accompany up to 45 golfers.

Keen eyes can occasionally see golf carts cruising down the No. 3 hole, but that is the only clue that a golf course is in the vicinity.

The course is 6,517 yards from the blue tees and 6,253 from the white. It is not small, but it is hidden, nonetheless.

``It may be hard to find, but it`s one of the better courses around,`` said weekend golfer Roy Forrest. ``I like the fairways the best because you can pretty much always get under the ball, where that`s hard to do at some of the other courses down here.``

Oak Ridge is built upon soft, mucky turf. It is at sea level which keeps the it moist even in the driest conditions.

``You can go out there on the hottest day where it hasn`t rained for weeks and still get a soft landing,`` club professional Charlie Rule said. ``The course may look easy, but it`s not because there are a lot of factors that come into play, like wind and undulation.``

Oak Ridge has two of the toughest holes in South Florida. They are a 439-yard par 4 third into a prevailing wind and a 193-yard par 3 10th to an elevated green. The par 5 11th has a tremendous dogleg left and 14th has a small creek 390 yards from the tee, which usually always comes into play for anyone attempting to reach the green in two.

``You`re always hitting into that wind on No. 3 and it takes a pretty good golfer to reach the green in two,`` Rule said. ``The 10th hole is tough for most golfers because you pretty much have to use a wood or long iron, and stopping it upon the elevated green isn`t easy.``

Rule sees Oak Ridge as a challenge for even the best competitor. He has been playing the course for eight years and his best is a 69. He has been club pro for three years.

``Once people find where we`re at, they seem to like it a lot,`` Rule said. ``Sometimes people come here and think it`s an easy course, but it`s very challenging especially when you consider that water comes into play on 16 of the 18 holes. There aren`t a lot of trees in the way out there, but the water more than makes up for it.``

A group of between 60 and 80 men, who compete every Wednesday afternoon in a nine-hole dogfight tournament that is similar to a stableford format, know that all too well.

``We switch front and back nine every week to keep it interesting,`` Rule said.

Threesomes score one point for a bogey, two for a par, three for a birdie and four for an eagle. Golfers have point quotas with handicap and score only over their individual quota.

``It`s a fun tournament that seems to draw a lot of interest,`` Rule said.

The Oak Ridge men`s association also host twosome team matches on Saturdays and a four-man bestball tournament each Sunday. Several members of the men`s association will travel to Lucyan Country Club in Freeport, Bahamas, this spring for a three-day cruise/golf tournament.

Oak Ridge also hosts a guys and dolls tournament three times a year, where the men play from tee to green and the women putt.

``We don`t have many women members here, but a lot of the wives get involved in those tournaments,`` Rule said. ``A lot of the women may not want to play the entire course, but a lot of them really look forward to this tournament because most can putt pretty well.``

The men`s association holds its club championship every July. Oak Ridge is owned by Fort Lauderdale businessman Dale Noland. There are 150 men in the association, but only a dozen full members ($750 a year). Golfers with full memberships do not pay green fees. Members of the association ($20 annually) get reduced rates every round.

Bob Brownell is the teaching professional and runs the driving range.

PGA senior tour professional Ed Furgol owns the course record of 63. It was set in 1962.

The closest to that was Rick Himeleski`s 64 recorded two weeks ago.

``I`ve been here for quite some time and haven`t seen many golfers do that well,`` Rule said. ``It was one tremendous round of golf.``

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Palm Beach Plans Spring Film Festival

March 27, 1987|BY CANDICE RUSSELL, Film Columnist

The idea of a film festival started in Miami, successfully spread north to Fort Lauderdale, and now is catching hold in Palm Beach. Three men, county residents with a common passion for film, are hoping to launch the Palm Beach International Film Festival for 10 days in April 1988.

Friendship between the men spawned the notion of a festival around three months ago. The three men are Mike Mulleavey, a 30-year-old media specialist for Pratt & Whitney, photographer and longtime county resident; Frank Eberling, an award-winning screenwriter and independent producer represented on television in West Palm Beach and Miami by a show called Palm Beach Excitement; and Pat D`Amico, a senior associate for Dick Gruenwald Associates, a public relations and advertising firm in Palm Beach Gardens.

``The three of us as individuals had considered the idea of a film festival, but we knew it would be too big an endeavor for one person to handle,`` Mulleavey says.

They are dividing the necessary tasks. Eberling, as director of cinema and acquisitions, will deal with the film community. Mulleavey will work on operations and logistics. D`Amico`s job will be communications and marketing.

With a planned agenda of 10 films, mainly independent American and foreign fare, the Palm Beach festival won`t repeat films shown in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. ``I feel each festival has to have its own character,`` D`Amico says. ``Ours will appeal to an academic niche and foster the study of the art of filmmaking.``

Yet he says, ``We want to position ourselves so we`re not as esoteric as Miami and not as slick as Fort Lauderdale.``

Festival organizers are negotiating for places to show movies. Under consideration are Palm Beach Junior College`s Duncan Theatre, Florida Atlantic University and the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre.

But isn`t South Florida likely to suffer a bad case of film festival burnout? Mulleavey doesn`t think so. He believes that geography -- the distances between the three counties -- is on their side.

The announcement of the festival idea has prompted ``lots of phone calls, with people offering to do whatever they could to help.`` What`s needed now is money. To that end, Mulleavey says, he and his colleagues are looking to private individuals and corporations. They probably will apply for a grant through the county`s Tourist Development Council.

He and his fellow organizers plan to attend film festivals in other cities and to contact the organizers of Miami`s and Fort Lauderdale`s film festivals for creative input. ``It`s a first-time venture so there will be lessons learned,`` Mulleavey says.

``There are a lot of obstacles in this race. Being that there are two other festivals in the area, we`re just another competitor on the block.``

Even so, the Palm Beach film festival is planning one event unique in South Florida film festivals -- a contest open to student and amateur filmmakers. ``It`s a chance for their films to gain exposure to a wide audience and to win money,`` Mulleavey says.

Spring is barely upon us and already filmmakers are touting summer movies. Some of this year`s crop harken back in theme and approach to past hits. Ghost Fever has, according to its poster, ``Sherman Hemsley hot on the trail of ghosts too hot to be busted.`` Ghostbusters, which obviously inspired it, wasn`t that long ago.

The Witches of Eastwick looks like a special-effects comedy-drama, with Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as conjurers in a New England town. Jack Nicholson is the devilish figure that their occult finagling produces. Move over, adults, it`s going to be kiddie time on the big screen again.

Speaking of things that defy logic, Susi Westfall, senior press liaison for the Miami Film Festival, had a weird experience in New York last weekend. Lunching with a friend, she recapped the high points and hassles of helping to manage the 10-day festival. Westfall told about the final weekend, how actor Raul (Kiss of the Spider Woman) Julia, who had a small role in the festival film Gran Fiesta, canceled out of a scheduled 90-minute press appearance -- he had gotten a role as substitute for Rita Moreno in a film shooting in Mexico.

At just that moment, Julia walked into the restaurant and sat down nearby with singer Darryl Hall. Westfall, who had occasion to wonder if the next stop was the Twilight Zone, overheard the actor describe his experiences in making a movie in Mexico as substitute for Rita Moreno!

She says she didn`t bother to introduce herself. ``It was my own little joke.``

Westfall says it was difficult to escape the festival in other ways. Argentinean writer-director Eliseo Subiela accompanied his festival film Man Facing Southeast to New York for its run there. And other festival films, My Life as a Dog from Sweden`s Lasse Halstrom, Law of Desire from Spain`s Pedro Almodovar, and Hey Babu Riba from Yugoslavia`s Jovan Acin, are being shown through Saturday as part of the New Directors, New Films series at Lincoln Center.

Which only goes to show that the festival organizers really know how to pick their fare.

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Just a lil something...

...before I head to class. I did this last night at Art 01.

It's in the similar style as my previous "The Magician". I like to do these random drawings once in a while (especially when I'm in a daydreaming mode).

Black and White rendering due in a week! Stay tuned for a possible final 113A rendering picture or Tut ideations!

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Monday, June 24, 2013

ABG Members Exhibit - "Sculpture! Where It's At"

"American Tower" by Alan Emerson Hicks

 Sculpture! - Where It's At

The Bloomingdale Park District Museum presents "Sculpture!  Where It's At", a big impact exhibition of innovative work relating to the design culture of three-dimensional art. By encompassing a wide range of materials, the exhibition successfully captures a sense
of individuality and of craftsmanship.

Works with a natural or industrial context happily co-mingle with reconfigured plastic and paper to express 21th-century's vibrant, eclectic spirit.

Featuring 3-D 12 Guest Artists:
Robert J. Krawczyk and Corinne D. Peterson

3-D 12 Sculptors:
Shelley Gilchrist, Peter N. Gray, Alan Emerson Hicks, Ruyell Ho, Beth Kamhi,
Mimi Peterson, Eric H. Steele, Michelle Stone
Curated by Mimi Peterson.

Blomingdale Park District Museum
108 S. Bloomingdale Road
Bloomingdale, IL   60108
Phone: 630.539.3090

Opening: Sat., July 20, 2013
Reception: Sun., July 28,  2 - 4 pm
Closing: Sat., Aug. 24

Wed: 4 - 8 pm
Thur/Fri: 10 - 4 pm
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The Essentials to Celebrate Independence Day Destinations in Santa Ana

Independence Day is a wonderful opportunity to spend some time with the family and enjoy the festivities. Do you have any plans yet for this Fourth of July? If not, consider throwing a fun picnic with your family’s closest friends. It’s an activity that the kids are bound to remember and one that will allow all the adults to catch up. Here are some crucial things to pack for your picnic on Independence Day this year:

1. Blankets: you can’t have a picnic comfortably without some blankets to throw on the grass or a park table. Make sure you pack enough blankets for everyone!

2. Hot dogs, burgers, or sandwiches: Whichever foods you decide to serve totally depends on whether or not the park you plan on going to has a BBQ pit.

3. Potato or macaroni salad: These refreshing salads are a great side dish that add extra flavor to any meal.

4. Utensils and napkins: Make sure you bring your fair share of napkins, utensils, cups, and plates.

5. Water: July is usually steaming hot! Bring lots of liquids to make sure no one gets dehydrated!

Great Gift Suggestion For Father’s Day In Fullerton!

With Father’s Day just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking of some gift ideas for your pops. If you need a little inspiration on what to get your father, this list is a great place to start:

• A new wallet
• A tie
• A mug
• Headphones
• A favorite book or movie
Starbucks gift card

If you live in Santa Ana, here are the best places to shop for Father’s Day gifts in your area:

MainPlace Mall
MainPlace Mall, formerly known as MainPlace Santa Ana and Westfield MainPlace, is shopping center located on the far north side of Santa Ana, California and is anchored by J.C. Penney, Macy’s, and Nordstrom—closed March 17, 2017.
Address: 2800 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Hours: Open today · 10AM–9PM
Phone: (714) 547-7800

Best Buy
Electronics store in Costa Mesa, California
Chain retailer with a large array of brand-name electronics, computers, appliances & more.
Located in: Metro Pointe at South Coast
Address: 901 S Coast Dr. F, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Hours: Open today · 10AM–9PM
Phone: (714) 434-0132

Best Memorial Day Activities In Santa Ana

Memorial Day is a holiday that serves to remember those who have served in the armed forces. As Americans, we have so many freedoms that we often take for granted, so it’s important to remember we have all the luxuries we do because of the sacrifices others have taken.

Have you made plans this May 29th to celebrate Memorial Day? Here’s an activity to consider in your area for 2017:

The Orange County Cemetery District will host Memorial Day Services honoring veterans at all three of the District’s cemeteries; Anaheim Cemetery, El Toro Memorial Park, and Santa Ana Cemetery.
All services are open to the public and attendance is free. Services will be held rain or shine. Seating may be limited, however, you are able to bring a blanket or chair too.

Santa Ana Cemetery
1919 E Santa Clara Ave
Santa Ana, CA

If you want further information about the services, please call the District office at (949) 951-9102, extension 10.

Family-Friendly Activities To Enjoy This Spring In Santa Ana

Looking for some family-friendly activities to enjoy this spring? Here is a short list of the best spots to check out in Santa Ana with your kids. No matter where you go, you’re bound to have a great time.

Kid-centric extension of the Bowers Museum offers art & cultural programs for children & families.
Address: 1802 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92706
Hours: 10AM–4PM
Phone: (714) 480-1520

Discovery Cube Orange County
The Discovery Cube Orange County, formerly known as the Discovery Science Center and the Taco Bell Discovery Science Center, is a science museum in Santa Ana, California, with more than 100 hands-on … Wikipedia
Address: 2500 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Hours: 10AM–5PM
Phone: (714) 542-2823

Santa Ana Zoo
The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park in Santa Ana, California is a 20-acre zoo focusing on the animals and plants of Central and South America. The Santa Ana Zoo hosts more than 270,000 people annually. Wikipedia
Address: 1801 E Chestnut Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Area: 20 acres
Hours: 10AM–4PM

Which family-friendly activity will you try first?

Best BBQ Restaurants in Santa Ana

Enjoying delicious barbecue food can be a delightful experience for the whole family. If you’re looking for something different to try this weekend, consider trying out one of the following BBQ spots in Santa Ana. Indulge in some rich, hearty food as you forget the stresses of the previous work week.

Burrell’s BBQ
Unfussy backyard BBQ joint serving sausage, ribs, BBQ chicken and classic sides such as mac & cheese.
Address: 305 N Hesperian St, Santa Ana, CA 92703
Phone: (714) 547-7441
Hours: Open today · 11AM–7PM

Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que
Outlet of a barbecue chain serving wood-smoked meats & sides in an American West-themed space.
Address: 3608 S Bristol St, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Hours: Open today · 11AM–10PM
Phone: (714) 957-1857

Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Regional chain serving slow-cooked meats & other Southern-style eats plus cocktails.
Located in: MainPlace Mall
Address: MainPlace Mall, 2800 N Main St #2160, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Hours: Open today · 11AM–10PM
Phone: (714) 542-7427

Where will you go to try some amazing barbecue this weekend?

Best Family-Friendly Activities in Santa Ana

You work hard all week to support your family, and although you may just feel like putting your feet up all weekend, you know there’s nothing quite like spending some quality time with your kids. So this weekend, treat your family to some of the following family-friendly activities in your area. Your kids are bound to have a great time as you introduce them to these family-friendly places that are sure to meet their need for entertainment and fun.

Discovery Cube Orange County
Museum in Santa Ana, California
The Discovery Cube Orange County, formerly known as the Discovery Science Center and the Taco Bell Discovery Science Center, is a science museum in Santa Ana, California, with more than 100 hands-on … Wikipedia
Address: 2500 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Phone: (714) 542-2823

Art museum in Santa Ana, California
Kid-centric extension of the Bowers Museum offers art & cultural programs for children & families.
Address: 1802 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92706
Phone: (714) 480-1520

Heritage Museum of Orange County
Museum in Santa Ana, California
Attraction featuring restored homes & buildings from the 1890s set amid extensive floral gardens.
Address: 3101 W Harvard St, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Phone: (714) 540-0404

Where To Have St. Patrick’s Day Fun in Santa Ana

Making a memorable St. Patrick’s Day requires three things: a good bar, good food, and a great atmosphere. Luckily, Chapter One: The Modern Local in Santa Ana may be the perfect bar to celebrate the holiday. St. Paddy’s day has turned into one of the most fun U.S holidays even though it didn’t originate with us. We get to wear green, drink beer, and enjoy life with our Irish brethren–what’s not to love?

Chapter One has been called “wonderful” by reviewers and one person on Yelp says the bar has “Not only the chill but high end vibe, the drinks and food is just awesome. This is my favorite bar in Santa Ana” which is high praise for a place that is known for its nightlife like Santa Ana.  The bar opens at 11am everyday, so head over and celebrate St. Paddy’s when you are ready.

Chapter One: the modern local

227 N Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone number (714) 352-2225

Enjoy Some Tasty Food At The OC Restaurant Week

Celebrate your love of food next week with the most delicious seven days on the calendar at this year’s OC Restaurant week from March 5 – 11, 2017. Starting last Sunday some of the tastiest restaurants in Orange County will be coming together for a huge food festival. Food week is a little different than most festivals because the fun won’t be isolated to one area. The fun takes places at each participating location (there are over 30) with each offering patrons special menu options, huge discounts, and other fun deals.

You can also enter to win a free meal at the OC food week webpage, which is listed below. So make plans to not cook for the rest of the week and dine out instead. A portion of the food week proceeds also go to various charitable organizations. So have some fun dining out this week!

Enjoy a Breakfast at Cream Pan Or Mead’s in Santa Ana

Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day. In our minds it’s also the most fun meal– you can eat pancakes, waffles, french toast, or eggs prepared in a million different ways. You can’t forget about brunch either! For those people in Santa Ana looking for great breakfast spots, let’s take a quick look at two tasty locations.

Cream Pan

602 El Camino Real, Tustin, CA 92780
Phone number (714) 665-8239

Cream Pan currently has a 4.5 Star rating on Yelp and continues to be a great “hole in the wall” option for locals wanting great services and even better breakfast. The location serves traditional American food, so get your appetite ready for classic pancakes and more!

Mead’s Green Door Cafe

642 W Chapman Ave, Orange, CA 92868
Phone number (714) 771-8556

This cafe has a tasty assortment of breakfast treats that will leave your mouth watering. The best part, however, is they are all vegan and healthy options (and you would never even notice by looking at them).

Best Hiking Locations and Exercise Spots in Santa Ana

Wow the year goes by fast doesn’t it? The days are already getting longer, the sun brighter, and once the rain stops, it might as well be summer already. With those changes to the weather come a few changes to our exercise routines. We can finally get out of the stuffy and overcrowded gyms and enjoy exercising in nature.

Going on a after work or early morning hike is a great way to stay active, fit, and de-stress from a long day at the office. The Santiago Creek on Memory Ln in Santa Ana is perfect for just about any nature filled activity you are trying to accomplish. There are long and windy running trails, walking trails, an area for your dogs, and a massive slide for kids and adults looking for some fun. Here is a quick look a the Santiago Creek.

Santiago Creek Wildlife & Watershed Center, Santiago Park Nature

510 E Memory Ln, Santa Ana, CA 92705
Phone number (714) 647-6904


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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Save the FBI Building

Save the Brutalist FBI building in DC! Perfect for its time and site; still an effective image for FBI. Push the FBI into the suburbs and into invisibility? For architectural madness, see Wikepedia entry below....But where is the Times architecture critic?

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"Will work for Mel McCuddin Paintings"

If I stood on a street corner in Coeur d'Alene with this sign, I doubt anyone would get it. Unless they'd seen his paintings, of course, then they might realize that something about them invokes covetous behavior. Here is the one I wish for, called Reveries.

The exhibit, at The Art Spirit Galleryhttp://www.theartspiritgallery.com/html/home.asp, goes through August 7.


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At Artsy, we try hard to test our iOS applications to ensure that we avoid regressions and have a clearly defined spec of how our apps should look and behave. One of the core pieces of our testing setup is FBSnapshotTestCase, a library written by Facebook to compare views at runtime with images of those views that are known to be correct. If the images differ, the test fails. We also use Travis for continuous integration.

Lately, we've been noticing a friction between the developers on the iOS team and the tools we're using to test our apps: while Travis allows us to easily access the logs of test runs, it can only indicate that a snapshot test failed, not why it failed. That's because the images that are compared are locked on Travis' machine – we cannot access those images, so we can't see the differences. This is really promblematic when the tests pass locally but fail only on Travis.

A few weeks ago, Orta and I were discussing this problem and we came up with a potential solution. Since the images were stored on disk on Travis' machine, why not just upload them somewhere we can see them? Like an S3 bucket. We could even generate a basic HTML page showing you the different test failures.

Time passed and, later on, I had tests passing locally but failing on Travis. I saw an opportunity to build something new. I'm not a proficient Ruby developer, but I enjoy learning new things, so I decided to create a Ruby gem that could fit within our existing testing pipeline. A lot of the structure for the code came from an existing gem we already use with Travis, xcpretty. With an example of how gems that support iOS testing are written, I was on my way to creating my own.

At first, things were very difficult. While I had contributed small patches to existing Ruby projects before, I had never created a brand new one from scratch. The existing guides were very helpful, and I found help from the CocoaPods developers when I had questions about things like the arcane semantics of Ruby's require syntax.

Eventually, I had a working proof-of-concept. Everything seemed ready to go, and I prepared to incorporate my new tool, which I called Second Curtain, into my pull request on the Artsy repo. But there was a problem.

Second Curtain relies on environment variables to get access to the S3 bucket where it stores the images. I planned on using Travis' system to encrypt those credentials. It turns out, for very good reasons, encrypted environment variables are not available on pull requests created on forks of repositories. This is a problem because of the way that Artsy uses GitHub. While it's not a problem for a closed-source repository to have (restrictive) access to an S3 bucket, it would be irresponsible to expose S3 credentials for an open-source project. I'm working on a solution.

Orta helped with the design aspect of the tool; while uploading the images was sufficient, we could make the process of seeing the differences between the two images even easier. He created a HTML page that would allow developers to see the before-and-after versions by moving their mouse cursor over the different images.

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In the end, I got Second Curtain to work with Artsy's iOS repository and I discovered the discrepency between the two images: due to a timezone difference between my computer and Travis', a date was being formatted differently. Not a difficult thing to fix, but not something I would have ever been able to discover had I not been able to see the images side-by-side.

So after all that, one line of Objective-C was changed and the tests passed – my pull request was merged. I learnt a lot about how Ruby developers structure their code and what tools they use to write software. While I'm happy to return to iOS apps for a while, it was a great experience and I'm hoping to bring some of the ideas I discovered writing Ruby back to Objective-C.

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Altar Servers

Being an altar server at All Saints Parish is a wonderful way to introduce young men and women into the liturgical spirit and life of the Church.   Serving our Lord in the Sanctuary and being part of a “ministry team” with the Priests, Deacons, and lay ministers,  allows children to grow and learn in an environment of both religious tradition and ongoing change.

Servers must have the Sacraments of Baptism, Communion and Confirmation to be considered for a server position.  Most importantly, they must have the desire, character, and work ethic to serve the parish , the Church and Christ.  It is definitely a faith-building experience and exposes our children to the Sacramental life of the Church at an age in which they may be just beginning to discern their life’s “call”.

Servers are introduced to not only the Sacraments of the Church, but also to the concept of “service”, a concept which will carry them well in their life.  Servers are formed into “teams”, each person with specific  duties and responsibilities.

Servers are expected to serve at least twice per month; will be assigned to a specific Mass; and also called upon to fill in for vacationing or absent servers and serve at Special Masses, especially during the Easter, Christmas and other periods.

All Saints is truly a “House of Mercy”, and your children will be safe here.  All ministers and clergy have completed the Diocese’s safe environment training, and the parish takes its responsibility for the safety of its young people seriously.

If you and your child are interested in being trained and serving in this important ministry, then please contact Deacon John Scott at or (850) 516-5053.

Accessible through this website is our All Saints guidelines for servers and the automated scheduling tool used to assign servers to specific Masses.  This will provide you and your prospective server additional guidance and instructions.

May this be the start of a great experience for you and your young man or woman.

God Bless, Deacon John, 2 June 2014


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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Review: Shade

Book: Shade
Author: Jeri Smith-Ready
Pages: 309
Published: May 4th, 2010 by Simon Pulse
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Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a crucial gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be trhe most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last.
Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone.
Well, sort of.
Like everyone who was born after the Shift, Aura can see and talk to ghosts. This mysterious ability had always been annoying, and Aura had wanted nothing more than to figure out why the Shift happened so she can undo it. But not with Logan's violet-hued ghost hanging around. Because Dead Logan is almost as real as ever. Almost.
It doesn't help how Aura's new friend Zachary is so understanding -- and so very alive. His support means more to Aura than she cares to admit.
As Aura's relationship with the dead and the living grows ever complicated, so do her feelings for Logan and Zachary. Each holds a piece of Aura's heart...and clues to the secret of the Shift.
Um. Um. Um. Um. I'm having trouble forming coherent sentences. Cos I just loved Shade that much. I literally just finished it and now it's just a string of OMG's running through my mind…

I absolutely, completely freaking loved this book! Words do not even go far enough to describe how immensely I loved it! I want to marry this book! I want to have its awesome ghost-seeing babies! (Okay, so maybe not that last one…but I think you get my point, hmm?) Shade was such an amazing and unbelievable start to what I can already tell will be a fantastic series. I am completely in shock and awe of Shade.

I admire Aura. I really do. She has to deal with some crazy stuff, being the First and having to choose between two amazing guys…and to top it all off, she was empathetic and totally brave. What she did, in the end, I know I would never have the guts to do in a million years. I wish I could be that confident and have that amount of courage. I felt like she was such a genuine character, and she felt so incredibly real and that was really impressive and made me like the book a hell of a lot more (not that I didn't already love it beyond belief). Plus, I'm always a fan of love triangles and in Shade, it's addicting.

I really didn't see a lot of stuff coming. I was OMG-ing more times than I could count. The author built up the suspense in a number of ways and had me peering closer at the words until my nose nearly touched them. I swear, Shade was such a captivating read, it's one of those books that you can't flip the pages fast enough!

Shade was a brilliant start to a new series and I am so mad that I have to wait for a year until its sequel, Shift, comes out in 2011! I want it now! In my hands! Open! I want to read it! Right now! At this very moment!

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars (NO FREAKING DUH!!!!!!)

Cover: I love this cover (like everything else about it) I thought the ribbon was a nice touch, and I love the colors used. Violet is such a prominent and significant color in the book, I'm really pleased they used it as the main color on the cover.

Adriana said...

Wow! I'm so happy to hear you loved it so much. I have it on my TBR pile and I'll definitely be looking forward to reading it even more now.

Alice said...

Thanks for commenting, Adriana! You should definitely be looking forward to this! I was totally psyched when I started (:

ReggieWrites said...

Loooved Shade! Such a great book! I can't wait for the next, Shift! Great review Alice! I agreed with everything you said here!

Alice said...

Thanks Reggie! (:

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

A good reminder...

This was too good not to share. I read it on the GirlTalk blog, but it's from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening {an excellent daily devotional, should you need one}.

Are you struggling? Are you in a trial? Have you forgotten that God is good - all the time, whatever your circumstances? Rejoice and remember that God can be trusted until the very end!

My grace is sufficient for thee." 2 Corinthians 12:9

"God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring--that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily or most assuredly support them in the trouble, as long as He is pleased to keep them in it....He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord unless his conflicts be many. If then, yours be a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for His failing you, never dream of it--hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end." Charles Spurgeon, Morning & Evening, March 4, morning.

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Friday, 19 April 2013

New Project: Vietnam's Pajama Ladies

I started this project a few years ago when I first started coming to Vietnam. It was obvious quite early on that Vietnam loves its bright colours and bold prints, often several worn at the same time. I started taking photos in Chinatown one day outside a market.

What I found is these pajamas move with the women who quite often are working class women running a street cafe or carrying bundles to and fro. They haven't got time to fuss about with zips, flaps or drawstrings. And as most of these pajamas are made from synthetic fabric, they dry quickly under the hot Saigon sun after a long day's work. There are ones with a scoop neck, a bib collar or a tank with frills added on. While these outfits can be bought at markets, some women make their own adding special touches.

Here is one lady I first noticed from the window of my taxi selling coconuts at a roundabout. After seeing her cherry blossom shirt jacket, I got inspired to walk around the streets the next day for more portraits of pajama ladies. As luck would have it, I spotted her in the same jacket after walking a few blocks, this time sitting on the curb of Vincom Center I, Saigon's first shopping mall.

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Sunday, 7 April 2013

Travel+Leisure SEA Taipei Street Style

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Kangaroos technically are unclean animals according to Leviticus as they have paws and not cloven hooves, don’t chew cud, etc. Therefore, only one pair would have gone onto the Ark.

Answer by John Mackay

This statement about the Australian Kangaroo is interesting, so let’s analyse it from the very beginning. Genesis declares that all animals and man were created as vegetarian and all were declared good by God (Gen 1:26-31). It means the basic possession of hoof or claw type was not a defining issue at that stage – vegetarianism was. Good is a positive term and so is clean. Even our saying ‘cleanliness is next to Godliness’ reflects this.

By Noah’s flood (Gen 6-7), some creatures that entered the ark were declared to be clean by God – a positive term which means they meet with God’s approval, so they must have still been in form and behaviour similar to the way He made them. Clean creatures were sent by sevens. But God told Noah that He would send some creatures that were labelled unclean – a term undefined in the text at that point. Only one pair of each unclean animals boarded the ark. Unclean is a negative term and does not qualify as ‘very good’. So something has happened between creation and the flood.

Genesis 6 tells us some creatures, man included, had become corrupt and violent, and that is unacceptable to a God who made a good world. Hooves, however, are still not listed as the criteria for distinguishing clean from unclean. In today’s world, the observed progression of food choices is from vegetarian to scavenger to carnivore, (e.g. the NZ Kea Parrot), so most likely by Noah’s day the unclean ones had started to eat dead things. They had become scavengers. Sin had brought death and it had passed onto the whole of creation, so there would have been plenty of easy dead food sources around by pre-flood time. There is, however, no hint in the text that any creature had yet become a ‘dependant carnivore’ which could no longer exist on plant food alone. Likewise, no examples of carnivores were listed by the start of Noah’s flood. Hence Noah, who had to collect food for the animals on the ark, could stock it with plant food rather than barrels full of dried meat.

After the flood God instructed Noah that man was henceforth permitted to eat meat. He told Noah and his family “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.” (Genesis 9:3) No restriction on clean or unclean meat was made for Noah, and no reference to hooves as a criterion was implemented. Noah was free to eat pig as well as camel, etc. but he and his family and descendants were not free to eat humans or blood. God was very specific on this matter. (Gen 9:1-7)

The next serious classification of clean vs unclean is the one in Leviticus specifically revealed for the people of Israel. This is indicated in Leviticus 11, where clean and unclean foods are listed and the unclean ones are declared “unclean for you”. The defining and repeated “for you” is missed by many people who want to make these definitions universal. The definition of unclean as an eater of dead things, and unclean as the possessor of certain hoof types first appears here, so a practising Israelite was forbidden to eat such creatures. Since there were no kangaroos in Israel that we know of, they would never have been given the label unclean in Jewish law, unless Solomon imported some along with his apes and peacocks, etc.

The next relevant reference to animal consumption is the letter from the Jewish Christian leaders to the newly converted Gentile believers in Acts, where the Apostles specifically pass on the food rule God gave Noah, and not the one given to the Jews. Acts records that under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Apostles and Elders directed that all Christians are permitted to eat any meat, but must not eat blood or strangled animals (as they still have blood in them). (Acts 15:29) This confirmed the original instructions given to Noah, which applied to the whole human race then, and still apply now. Kangaroos are not excluded from your diet by this list, but it does lead to one last question. Why a separate rule for the Israelites who were descendants of the man Israel?

The definitions of clean and unclean revealed though Moses had another purpose which shows every time you invite a Jewish family for a meal – is it Kosher? Their food laws are a wall that divides. The definitions relating to what was unclean given to the people of Israel certainly do isolate them from the pagans around them. That’s the significance of the “for you” in Leviticus. In a world where the Holy Spirit was not yet given to indwell God’s people, such a wall was necessary and it made for one reason the Israelites could not go into all the world and preach the gospel. Whatever God’s purposes in working through Israel were until Jesus the Messiah came, this protective barrier was necessary. But now Jesus has come and He has also sent His Holy Spirit to indwell Christians with the power of God and commanded His people to go into the world. Any dietary and divisive animal distinctions, walls, barriers that would hinder you from mingling with the very people you are sent to minister to are no longer relevant. They have therefore been removed.

In conclusion: there is no reason to put Kangaroos on God’s pre flood unclean list as they still are fully vegetarian, and show no signs of ever having been any different. After the flood roo burger was OK for Noah, as well as for us, but not black pudding or blood sausage.

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Sweetgrass Basket Making At The Preservation Society Of Charleston

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In an attempt to educate and […]

Dogs With A Cause Highlights The American College Of The Building Arts

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Taziki’s Café Opens On King Street

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Taziki’s Cafe recently opened a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in downtown Charleston located at 306 King Street. Locally owned by restaurateurs Joe Norton, Ernie Masters and Doug Van Scoy, the partners offer a new spin on fresh, healthy lunch and dinner fare for under ten dollars.

“With the fast-paced […]

Society 1858 of The Gibbes Museum of Art To Host Bitters & Twisted Soiree

Bitters & Twisted

On Friday, July 29th, Society 1858 is going to bring The Big Easy to Charleston. Revelers will be transported back to 19th-century New Orleans with nostalgic music, performances by Theatre Marvelosa, classic cocktails, regional delicacies, and for those so inclined, vintage attire. The party’s inspiration is the subject matter of the upcoming Gibbes Museum […]

Recap: Bridal House Of Charleston Hosts Brides Across America

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(Photo Credit: Brides Across America)

A young bride stood before me holding her face in her hands, crying tears of joy. Why? She had just found the wedding dress of her dreams…and it was free thanks to Brides Across America and Mt. Pleasant’s Bridal House of Charleston. On July 20, the Bridal […]

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

mini comics and arts show at heroic aleworks!

On Saturday, May 20, I'll be selling my Splotch Monster products, along with many other excellent local comics and cartoon artists at Heroic Aleworks in Woodbridge, Virginia. I've never been to this place yet, and I'm definitely looking forward to it. Hope you can join us!

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Videos & Press

Jacqueline presenting at the Collier County Foreclosure Task Force Public Policy Forum, June 2011 / Topic:  Foreclosure Process in Florida, Part I:

"A Story of Lawyers" A Fun Children's Book About the Profession, by Alison Lindy Blumenstein, Esq., Legal Ink Magazine, Nov. 1, 2014,

"Get Um While They're Young", by Leanne Mezrani, Lawyers Weekly, February 17, 2014,

"Meet Prince George In a New Children's Book, by Bob Minzesheimer and Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today, July 25, 2013,

"A Story of Lawyers™" - "Lawyer takes legal preconceptions to book", by Brigid O Gorman, Lawyers Weekly, Australia, June 11, 2013,

"A Story of Lawyers: What Are We Teaching Our Kids?", Future Lawyer, June 3, 2013,

"Putting Some Awe in the Law", by Kristie Aronow, Gulfshore Business, September 2012,

"Read Me a Story", by Jean Gruss, Business Observer, June 22, 2012,

"A Story of Lawyers", Local Attorney Becomes Children's Author, Feature Story in Collier Citizen, Friday, June 15, 2012

"Book Introduces Kids to Lawyers", The Florida Bar News, February 15, 2012,!OpenDocument

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  • Bevan v. Lee County SO, 213 Fed. Appx. 824 (11 th Cir. Fla. 2007)
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A birth chart, capsule or natal chart, hospital shows the exact placement of the planets in the zodiac during a person’s birth. Such charts are the grounds in synastry, story also known as horoscope compatibility and astrological compatibility, the branch of astrology that assesses the relationship between people by comparing their birth charts.

How To Study BirthChart?

The traditional horoscopes which are quite popular these days in print, online, and electronic media are just the written interpretations of the birth charts. They are just the end result of a series of mathematical computations. Looking at a birth chart is like looking at a cosmic mathematical equation. In astrology compatibility, such equations are vastly important, if anyone is to arrive at any conclusion after scrutinizing the angles of planets, the sun, and the moon.

When reading a birth chart, the first thing to look for is the Rising Sign, or the Ascendant, the astrological sign that rises in the east at the time of your birth. This is the sign that reflects your personality, including how you look, how you make people see you, and how they actually see you. Similar sun sign and rising sign indicate a simple personality, since your outer and inner natures are at peace with each other.

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Next are the planets in the signs. The North Node, oftentimes indicated by a horseshoe symbol, is a hint on an individual’s comfort zone. Take for an example a person born with the North Node on Gemini. Chances are this person will be excellent in situations like teaching, communications, and writing. The opposite of the North Node is of course the South Node which indicates the nature of the situations a person will likely be feel less comfortable. There are also the elements and modes. In astrology, especially in astrology compatibility, there are four elements, namely fire, air, water, and earth, and these are the categories that the zodiac signs fall into. Then there are three modes: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. The sigs of the zodiac are divided into these categories as well. Cardinal signs are characterized by forceful personalities, Fixed signs are reliable, and the Mutable ones are ever flexible.

When making important decisions, it is always important to look at the natal aspects. These aspects refer to the relation among the sun, the moon, and the planets. The natal aspects are not always included in simple birth chart reading, and are often found in advanced horoscope compatibility.

There are also the planets in the houses which are 12, each representing an area or aspect in life. The sun, moon, and planets coincide with the path of the houses, but since the houses are 12 and the planets (including the sun and moon) are only 11, one house or two may not have a planet within bounds. However, take note that not having a planet in your house is a negative sign. In astrology, the absence or presence of a planet in a house simply demands a different interpretation.

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Rule of thumb

Whenever one of our babes is sick, Tony and I have different responses. The fever has just started.  "Let's call the doctor."  "It hasn't even been 24 hours yet.  It's probably viral."  Fast forward 24 hours.  "Are you ready to call the doctor?"  "He's fine on ibprofen. Do you really need to pay a copay to hear come back in three days if the fever hasn't gone away?" 48 hours later.  "I really think we should at least call and check in."  "He has a fever and runny nose.  It's only been 2 days.  Remember what the doctor after 4 days of fever."  "Yes, but our children always manage to make the fourth day on the weekend."  72 hours later.  "He still has a fever. What if it isn't viral and he needs meds?"  "What color is his snot?"  "Clear"  "Wait one more day."  96 hours later. "Mom, what can I eat?  What's the plan for today? Are we going anywhere?" Fever free.

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Is swimming allowed in the Bosphorus?

Swimming is allowed in the Bosphorus, but as a protip DO NOT SWIM IN IT. The water is highly traversed by massive ships each day and is extraordinarily polluted. Not only that, but the currents and riptides in the strait are quite dangerous and there are no life guards. If you have an unquenchable yen for swimming in the Bosphorus, I'd recommend the Annual Bosphorus Swim, a cross continental race held each year in July. The race has lifeguards and a reputation as super difficult, so start training now.

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Irresponsible anthropologist and fiction writer. Used to be an expat in Istanbul.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Happy New Year!

Claes Oldenburg carries Giant Toothpaste Tube, 1966
May your new year be filled with absurd, creative endeavors.

Friday, December 26, 2014

Holidays 2014

We went to the Lake Street Dive concert a couple weeks ago and since I've been listening to other songs of theirs recently.  I found this recording today and was thinking how appropriate it feels at this time of year.

I always envision the holidays as a time of quiet, at home with a fire and twinkly lights and hours that stretch.  In reality, there is a fire and twinkly lights but it is also the time of year I feel the most involved in other people's worlds.  It is a constant barrage of stories and discussion, and while that is nice, it is a different mental space than I usually occupy.  I feel like I can barely hear my own thoughts.  I am craving a day alone in my studio.  So yea, this song has that quiet, beautiful vibe of the holidays but also the sentiments of living among so many other people's lives.

Happy Holidays all.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Best of: Expressive Drawing

This class was my hardest to teach of the semester.  It was the first time I taught this exact curriculum although I have taught other advanced drawing classes.  It is the last 'core' class students need to jump into higher level studio classes and as the names suggests it is supposed to expose them to a variety of ways of drawing.  I organized the class units into formal sections like texture or light but then gave lectures on movements and contemporary artists that exemplify these.  I didn't do demos like I constantly do in Drawing I because I didn't want to suggest there was one way to do anything.  I also forced experimentation in process whether it be working from memory or making a collage etc.  Some students really took to the freedom and risk, others shrunk from it terrified.  I am still working out where the sweet spot between those is.  Below are some of the best examples to come out of it.

Inspired by Vija Celmins and other artists working in a slow and steady build, this is a 12+ hour drawing of a sponge.

Drawing about texture and pattern, Josephine Halvorson was an artist we looked at...

From the unit on value and shape, I set up a really weird still life on the floor with floodlights and students sat campfire style around it and draw.  Then the still life was taken away and they had to make 3 studies that dramatically increase shape and value elements and create a second large drawing.  This is the final drawing.

Another example of the final drawing from value/shape series.

An example of a homework assignment.  This one accompanied the value/shape series in class.  Students had to go out at night and make a drawing that captures value/shape to convey a mood. (this one is of a parking garage)
Another night drawing

This was the unit on space and depth.  We discussed artists like Giotto, Piero Della Francesca, Cezanne, Bonnard, and the cubists (they had come up in earlier discussion and I wanted to make a case against students' sentiments).  The project required students to get multiple images from their own life in photo form as a reference and build a collage that considers spatial depth, altered or realistic by physically having depth by nature of the medium
.  This student went to Magic Gardens in Philadelphia and tried to create a collage that was simultaneously a flat, frontal face and a warped sense of maze like space.

This project was about point of view and memory.  Students went outside and made sketches from odd points of view.  By doing that they were committing to memory the most important aspects.  Then they came into the studio and made ink drawings on body size pages with brushes attached to 3 foot rods, no sketchbooks allowed.  (some were very distraught.  but I loved the outcome of this project, it was a turning point for some)

This is a 'study' from the midterm project.  Students had to choose an ordinary object (this one chose a pie) and make 12 studies that address what we had discussed up to that point -- time, texture, pattern, material, value, shape and space -- to create different types of content,

Then after making the 12 studies they had to make a big final midterm drawing.  (this person's object was a fake tree like my family used to have in the breakfast room)
The last quarter of the class dealt with the figure and color.  A lot of bad drawings were made but a lot of progress too.  This was a first assignment to use pastel in rendering an expressive photo of yourself.  Choose color that adds to the content, not just accurate to the photo and also, no single local color areas.  Something that helped was they did a 'master copy' of a drawing first, I brought in about 20 different options including Munch, Freud, Kirchner,Schiele.  It helped them understand color's expressive ability.

Here's an example of part 1 of the final.  Students had to choose one reference and make two vastly different drawings that convey different things.  Using form to show content.  This student never believed that intentionality in formal choices could mean anything because he always drew from pictures he had taken without intention.  This project he told me changed his mind.  This one was about the moment you stop in the craziness of city life and pause.  The other, which I really wish I had a picture of, was a line drawing of  the intersection from a distance and the frenetic energy of everything being equal and in motion.

So all in all it was a pretty good semester, I definitely see things I need to change and clarify but it feels good to look back on what was produced in a couple of crazy months.  Sometimes in the middle I feel like everything sucks, but looking back I think it was okay.

Friday, December 19, 2014

Best of: Drawing I

I sort of see why a lot of teaching jobs want people with two years of experience.  This will be my fourth semester teaching this same class at the same school and I finally feel like I have the curriculum nearly just right.

The anxiety of doing it on the fly the first few times has rewards, a lot of surprising drawings come about, seems like both terrible and fantastic.  But many of these students have never drawn from life before and some have never drawn at all.  So I needed to find the speed and types of assignments that work for them as a group.  And I think it created a really solid bunch of drawings this time.  Which is really what a foundation course should do right?  I felt for the first time like every single student came away with an understanding of drawing principles, some stronger than others but still, I'm confident they are all ready to move forward, and that was good.

Now I think its time for me to up the crotchety, scary, tough thing.  When I started out I figured the best way to have understanding students was to be an understanding instructor and that worked.  But for 2015 I'm going for that equally liked but feared dynamic.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Best of: Figure Drawing

I have been a bit absent on here recently, it was final crits and so I couldn't do much else but deal with that for the past week plus.  Today is the end of the semester.  Phew.  Need to recharge.

I taught figure drawing again and it was a small, nice class.  A mix of 200 and 400 level students, we started with line moved through anatomy, proportions, value, light, space, and other formal matters but also got a chance to discuss and make drawings about what it means to draw a figure whether they become a sitter or a body or a part of a narrative.  This was new since last semester and I think it really added to the drawings.  Below is an example from each of the units we covered.

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Sunday Pick: Dustin Metz

Half Night Still Life oil on canvas, 30x28in. 2014

Fiji Light Bottle, oil on canvas, 14x11in. 2013

Double Bottle Still Life, oil on canvas, 14x11in. 2014
 Really enjoy these paintings by LA based painter Dustin Metz.  They are part of the 'studio still lives' series on his website, where there are so many good things to look at.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

First Friday and Weekend Festivities

Ben Jones, Still Life, Oil on Canvas, 8.5 x 12 inches
This post contains my personal list of must-hit shows this holiday.  Tried and true secrets in the sea of mediocre craft bazaars this time of year.

1.  The first show is not a holiday show per se, it has serious, career painters in it.  Lilies, Figs and Folly is a still life show curated by Bill Scott at Cerulean Gallery.  But it has a whimsical air to it that is nice this time of year and at least 35 pieces that could make a really beautiful gift.  Click that link  for prices and images, but even better come to the opening on Friday from 5-8pm! (Reading that back it sounds very commercial and lame, I think the language of black Friday has infiltrated my brain.  But really, why wait in an 8hr line to buy a tv when you can buy an original painting at a wine and cheese event?  Artists are so civilized.)  The painting above by Ben Jones, the one below by Claire Kincade and the one after by me, Giant Salad, are all going to be there.

Claire Kincade, If I Had a Stage, Oil on Panel, 24 x 20

Giant Salad, 2014, Oil on Panel, 16 x 20

2.  This I should really not tell anyone else about.  PAFA's website has hidden it deep in its vault.  I always chalked that up to negligent IT but I'm starting to think it is purposeful placement.  Literally took me 10 minutes to find the page.  The holiday print sale (click link for said page) is happening on Friday from 5:30 - 8:30pm and its one of the best things going.  Students sell gorgeous original prints in the printmaking studios for dirt cheap because they are students and you get to take advantage of them and buy the best of the best.

3.  The University City Arts League, where I worked for many years, is having its annual craft show.  A favorite of mine with many west philly artists participating, high-quality ceramics and jewelry are always a sure thing.  They even have a swanky postcard this year:

4. The Clay Studio, a personal philly favorite for gifts for others and myself  is having a holiday sale on Friday and Saturday.

5.  The Center for Creative Works in Ardmore, Pa is having a sale on Thursday from 4:30 - 7:30.  So yea, this is actually the first thing happening on my list...tomorrow!  In truth, I haven't been to the building before but I saw this show and loved a lot of what was being made there.


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Ever wondered what happens to the money you pay to the Police when you get a ticket?

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Wishing everyone a safe, prosperous and happy New Year!

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Our annual Boxing Week Sale is up and running. Be sure to drop by for some fantastic deals on some of finest names in audio and video.

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Merry Christmas to one and all! Just a quick reminder of upcoming hours:

Christmas Eve 10:00 am. – 3:00 pm.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Harper lately

We are working on our coloring skills. "The crayons are for coloring Elmo... not for eating".
Yes, she is still obsessed with wearing her hat all around the house... even if it's 75 degrees outside!
Mommy and Harper hanging out together after going for a run. Love my little girl... video
I looked away for a quick moment... when there was silence in the house, I knew Harper had gotten into something. She has a sweet tooth just like her mommy!

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Jussi Adler-Olsen: The Keeper of Lost Causes

Adler-Olsen joins a long line of wildly popular (and actually wildly different from each other) Scandanavian crime writers who started with Henning Mankell and were really ramped up by the popularity of Steig Larssen.  I haven’t been a huge fan of some of the other Scandinavians (including Jo Nesbo), but I love Karin Fossum’s lovely prose and her Ruth Rendell-ish manner of telling a searing and concise story.  Adler-Olsen may prove to be a favorite for me – I couldn’t put this book down.

These are belatedly being translated and published in English, with two available at the moment.  This first volume was actually written in 2007, though it was available here in 2011.  Hopefully this lag time will go away as I imagine I’m not the only one enjoying these books.

The main character is the irascible and cranky Carl Morck, injured in the line of duty, and temperamentally unable to work with anyone else.  A perfect solution seems to be presented to his boss when he’s given a huge amount of funding for a cold case division, called “Department Q”.  Morck is banished to the basement of headquarters, his superiors and co-workers can breathe more easily, and he literally puts his feet up and decides to coast through his work days, playing solitaire and napping.

That’s not a novel, of course, and Adler-Olsen isn’t one to let things lie.  He’s laced his narrative with the story of the disappearance and captivity of a beautiful young politician, Merete Lynggaarde.  It becomes clear (though it’s pretty obvious) that she’s the one being held captive in a concrete room for reasons unknown to her or to the reader.

Carl’s awakening takes a bit of unexpected expectations from the assistant he demands and receives.  It turns out his new helper, Assad, is more than willing to actually assist in solving cases, and reluctant to spend his entire workday rearranging and cleaning their basement office.  As Carl begins to listen to Assad – who tries to make their workplace pleasant by serving tea, playing music, and in general cleaning up and making their office space livable – he is also reluctantly drawn to one old case among the many files in his office.  Of course, it’s the disappearance and presumed death of Merete.

Adler-Olsen, who has been a musician, a writer of books about cartoons and Groucho Marx, and who has studied medicine, sociology and film-making, brings a wide array of skill sets to the table.  He’s an excellent thriller writer, but he’s also great with character, as the pairing of Carl and Assad is delightful and can obviously nourish many books to come.  Assad’s enthusiasm contrasted with Carl’s depression and lethargy is a perfect mix.  And while many of our bookstore clientele have indicated they are weary of the “troubled detective” method of storytelling, Adler-Olsen manages to bring some zest to the whole affair.

Carl’s whole backstory – his ex-wife who won’t leave the shambles of a cottage in his backyard; the cranky adolescent stepson he’s inherited and who lives with him; his peculiar lodger who turns out to have a love for Playmobil toys; and most of all his police backstory, involving the death and injury of two of his colleagues – makes him a rich and intriguing character. Adler-Olsen is excellent at teasing out these details throughout the story, just as he ramps up the suspense by making the end of the book a will-he-get-to-her-in-time affair.  The investigation details are excellent as well.

The translation seems serviceable, and while the action sequences in no way match a master like Robert Crais’, that may be the translation.  The action bits are a tad clunky, but by the time they arrive, you simply won’t care.  I’m truly looking forward to the further adventures of Carl Morck.


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December 7, 2016

Hello, and welcome to your December AUSPAN Inform.

This month’s update features the following topics:

  • End Of Year 2016 @ AUSPAN + Meet the faces of the team VIDEO!
  • Geraldton Boat Lifters Shed – AUSPAN Roof Lift VIDEO.
  • The NEW ‘SHEDSPAN’ brand of cold rolled sheds launches!

End of Year 2016 @ AUSPAN!

The team at AUSPAN wish you and your family a safe & happy holiday!!
FYI we have compiled this short clip with the faces found behind your trusted shed building partner “AUSPAN”…and the team here would like to take this opportunity to thank our valued team of suppliers, subcontractors and clients for their support throughout the past year – we certainly look forward to achieving together in 2017.
NOTE: Make sure you watch the VIDEO above to put a face to the names in the AUSPAN team 🙂

Geraldton Boat Lifters Shed – AUSPAN Roof Lift Video

The ‘AUSPAN Roof Lift’ of the Geraldton Boat Lifters Shed took place last month. This building boasts a custom designed sliding door system to achieve the massive clearance height of 13.5m.
AUSPAN’s design & construct capabilities ensured that our client could achieved a long term cost effective solution for their expanding business operations.

The NEW SHEDSPAN brand of cold rolled sheds launches.

Yes you’re right – to compliment AUSPAN’s range of structural steel sheds we have now developed our very own brand of cold rolled kit sheds.

The ‘SHEDSPAN’ brand of premium cold formed steel sheds has now launched with a tag line of ‘TOUGH SHEDS ASSEMBLED EASY’ which communicates the key focus that our supply system has been built to meet.

Through our 4 shed catagories; Homespan, Workspan, Farmspan & Equinespan we are sure to have the shed that you need so please check out the SHEDSPAN website here and feel free to call or email Jon to get the ball rolling with your shed quote.

PS: Do you want to add SHEDSPAN kit sheds to your current range of products? Or do you want to be included on SHEDSPAN’s list of recommended installers? Then please contact us to discuss some options.

PPS:Please keep your eye out for some communication direct from SHEDSPAN in the following weeks.

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