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Bayou Fever

Romare Bearden’s collages, made as blueprints for a ballet, tell the story of a mysterious war in the bayou.

“Bayou Fever and Related Works,” an exhibition of twenty-one vibrant collages by the late artist Romare Bearden, is on view at DC Moore Gallery through April 29. Made in 1979, the works were originally conceived of as blueprints for a ballet, the titular Bayou Fever—a performance Bearden hoped would be choreographed by Alvin Ailey but was never produced. The ballet’s storyline involves a confrontation between the “Conjur Woman” and the “Swamp Witch,” who twist in a dramatic struggle for the soul of a sick child deep in the bayou. The collages are exhibited alongside artworks from other years, an effect that accents Bearden’s motifs: powerful women, elders, musicians, rural landscapes, domestic interiors, and religion.

Mail Art

I have an idea - make mail art then mail me something you made:
LT Hentz, PO Box 1061, Greenfield, MA 01302
I will mail you something handmade in the mail back.
The post office will love us.

and the blog dog won't slobber on the envelope

you might be able to frame me, I mean it

“lovebombing”

What's inside your wallet? (I can't stop hearing that on damn TV!)

love bombs

I meant to say... What's inside your head!
We don't need any lovebombing* when we love someone.
Gaslighting? Oh yeah, that is serious stuff, too.

READ THIS NOW

*Be wary of: constant texting, shallow flattery and wanting to be around you at all times. This is a technique known as “lovebombing” and it is how most victims get sucked in: they are tired of the “games” people play with each other in communication and are flattered by the constant attention they get from the narcissist.

ice sound

Iceberg Sounds

Scientists are learning to distinguish the eerie, haunting sounds of iceberg life and measure how those sounds contribute to the noise of the ocean.

Calving: Spectrogram of an iceberg calving (large section of iceberg breaking off) while adrift. The calving signal is short duration, broad band from 1-440 Hz generated by ice cracking and crack propagation. Audio sped up 3X normal.

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Iceberg Harmonic Tremor: Generated by iceberg in contact with the seafloor or other iceberg. This spectrogram has a fundamental frequency of 40 Hz, with a 40 Hz overtone spacing. Multiple overtones are visible in the spectrogram. Audio sped up 3X normal.	271K wav file

throw theory out the window again

Ancient village discovered in Canada is 10,000 years older than the pyramids https://t.co/VqmWg6CkBv

— A Chaos Fairy (@AChaosFairy) April 21, 2017

So the history books are wrong again...REALLY! (this keeps happening) -- we think those "plant the flag" conqueror people should have done more research before stating/writing/declaring their early discoveries were fact  -- then giving them a date as fact that they are the oldest of anything ... please stop, OK?!  Those Egyptian pyramids are just a drop in the ol' bucket. Wait until they dig up the Amazon. We just have a tiny bit of the truth--- teeny tiny.

Related: World’s oldest fossils discovered in Canada – and they’re 4 billion years old

Popping Leaves and Sparkely Lyrids

It happened yesterday - the leaves finally popped open  - it's really really spring!

and a LYRIDS meteor shower tonite!

who is this organized?

Spring Clean is upon me... and time to dump loads of stuff I don't use (or organize what I do USE)
...photos are my inspiration (reduce-reuse-recycle-repair-donate)

Saturday Slow

and it's EARTH DAY

Every day is Earth Day

this blog dog can tell you many things... so stop and pay attention... BOOM!

Years of Living Dangerously

Former “Daily Show” correspondent Aasif Mandvi sets off on a quest to understand just how much of a threat climate change poses to endangered species.

Why I'm Involved

Caring about animals and their survival ensures our survival, if we want to not go extinct ourselves.

Aasif Mandvi

WATCH: The Sixth Extinction - Years Of Living Dangerously

Use the search bar but we have another story on this blog about this series...

Rock Balls

Can you tell I was watching Ancient Aliens again? Sure I was... check this out
Stone Spheres sounded too serious - rock balls sounds a little more fun! BOOM!
Ancient Aliens

do do

LINDA ARREOLA : ARCHITECT OF THE ABSTRACT

LOVE LOVE LOVE

These Nigerian women are upcycling plastic trash into colorfully-crocheted mats, bags and accessories. pic.twitter.com/xvrzBVsx9u

— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 20, 2017

Dick Clark Interviews Scandal - American Bandstand 1982 and 1984

I don't know about you but I never missed Dick Clark's BANDSTAND. In the 80s, I was kinda busy so I missed these shows about SCANDAL and PATTY SMYTHE, who I thought was the best rock singer female in that era... BOOOM