change

 two things i have done that were on my checklist, both related to rebellion (not me being rebellious but the creators): read Dharma Punx by Noah Levine, a fast read for anyone, particularly those of us who found acceptance and family in the punk rock sub-culture and politics as young person who didn't fit anywhere else, check...

"The Buddha said his path to awakening was one of rebellion – a subversive path that is against greed, against hatred, and against delusion. It is a path of radical, engaged transformation, a path of finding freedom and spending the rest of our lives giving it away. It is a path that goes Against the Stream."

and visit the Kinetic Sculpture Museum, newly relocated to Eureka, check... 

apparently my aesthetic has mellowed since i was a frustrated punk kid, and i am now more interested in the natureish paintings on the walls than the kinetic devices, but i like the idea of more people using elaborate kinetic mobiles to get around every day, if not only to irritate people in gas guzzlers driving from one parking lot to the next...

i could try moving to Amsterdam, but then i would just be normal instead of an irritating provoker of change.

 

minimal hobbies

i like to fancy myself a minimalist, a fancy that i find Humboldt County encourages with a very...unique?...style (i am not calling myself fashionable, i like to think of myself as fashion neutral--i follow it and generally pick a few things up every once in a while, but i could care less about owning some couture shoes)....

Piggy Paint

but lately i have been a sucker for some shiny red nails, and when i found this Piggy Paint i was so excited...i know its geared for kids, but why shouldn't we all use non-toxic nail polish made in Arkansas?...

Suzanne Tidwell (my photo of her work)

 and these giant yarnbombed trees made me want to hug them...

all my husband wants to do is chop and shift wood around, but all i want today is to go knit something flashy around the tree he is about to chop down, but maybe knit a little less Missoni and a little more Ann Demeulemeester...

Jose Pulido

or maybe we both need new hobbies...tired from a long week...que lastima.

NPR stole my thunder!

i enjoyed the NPR story on the Providence Athenaeum, but i feel lame for not mentioning the link to the goddess Athena, and, more importantly, for not using the cool abbreviation "Ath"...

my cover is blown, i am not a frequenter of Aths! maybe the auster facade kept me from lounging around the Ath when i lived in Pvd (i can abbreviate things, too), but i think an Ath is a great thing to have around...

""Fundamentally, the Athenaeum is about community, and creating this discussion and this interaction that you can't have listening to a podcast and you can't have blogging and Twittering and Facebooking online," he says. "It's not your grandfather's library."

reading and...fashion?

i am supposed to be doing research on Krishna...if only i had an athanaeum...such a distinguished sounding word for a place to sit and read...

this is the Providence Athanaeum where dark poets once 

mused death

 or just looked at the newspaper

 

remote Northern California is not a wise local for the library lover, but on our recent trip to Seattle, we stayed mere feet away from this giant public library:

hipstamatic with my i-device

the library "sports a contemporary look" like wearing all black with sleek hair in Humboldt County...

hipstamatic with my i-device

 because lounging and reading and looking contemporary is deep...

Band of Outsiders

as is any company that solicits Harry Potter actors as models...
(note the path of my distraction)

Band of Outsiders

and has a blog about cookies (the good kind, not internet spies)...

The Lord Krishna in the Golden City from the Harivamsha (Geneology of Vishnu) ca. 1600

i am sure Krishna was the most contemporary man in this elegant edifice (upper right corner) getting into some deep thoughts and playing his flute. 

so, yea, it is time to make some cookies.

whats been going on

custom belt, just shipped

i have been less-than inspired lately. its hard to blame the weather--it has been better than last year/our first year on the North Coast. maybe its that i am hoping for changes that are taking too long to arrive?  at least i have been a little productive...

photographing the moon through the trees the other night

and the following images/projects have struck me lately:

Lisa Milsson-anatomical cross sections in rolled up paper

Every Page of Moby Dick by Matt Kish

oddly, i love anatomical artwork, but i am terrified of medical procedures...i am not really fond of the ocean, but I am fascinated by large sea creatures...so here's to unexplainable fascination...

Walker Evans, "Window with Crystal Ball, West Cedar Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts"

and to constant delight in things i don't often see but know are there, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, the world around

Last week in Seattle

Stimulating my visual and indulging in general...

respecting the intricate details embellishing every establishment (note the little wooden flags above!)...

And, YES, being a total sucker for this photo app.

Pant leg yoga bag