Happy New Moon

 Clever Cartography

Maps! We all love maps. They are objects d'art that help us orient to where we are, and where we could go.... 
mysterious and practical....

 The collage is painted with fragments of vintage atlases and school geography

books from the golden era of cartography, 1872-1945.
Matthew Cusick   

Well, Here are 7 books that focus us in this direction.

 

Lita Albuquerque: Emergence

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My friend Ginny sent me this link and I almost passed out from how beautiful it is, both in concept and execution.
(The Beekeeper?? Fuggedaboudit!)
 "My initial impetus for Beekeeper was to present the visual similarity between a beekeeper and an astronaut. I created a narrative around which the beekeeper’s aim is to help maintain biological life on the planet and the astronaut became the starkeeper maintaining life in the cosmos. In collaboration with Jon Beasley, and later on Chandler McWilliams who created the computer program, we decided that the idea was really about transmutation, and that the particles that are seen in the animation could be interpreted in numerous ways leaving it more open-ended, that the astronaut was implied in the ambiguity of the representation of the particles being bees or stars or simply particles of energy. And that the particles of energy that are invisible to our gross sensory perceptions are in a continual loop of becoming and unbecoming, that each particle in this informational universe under which we exist is alive and in a continuous state of transformation ad infinitum."
 

And the exhibit is at the Laguna Art Museum. 
That's my So Cal hood! Through October 2, 2011 only. 




 

  

 

 

Time for 'Dia de Los Muertos' Art
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Usually when it rains in Los Angeles, activities stop dead in their tracks.  Simple decisions become complicated.  People hibernate in their homes, and do not dare come out until every puddle in the street is evaporated.
Not so with the participants and audience for the 11th Annual Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration, October 30th at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.......(more)

Tom Waits 'Clap Hands'

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Tom Waits is a Sag Cancer, just like Jimi Hendrix.



And Last but not Least.....

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 This is not a translation but what it sounds like in English.