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OY/YO

PUBLIC ART: Deborah Kass’s “OY/YO” (2015) was placed on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront by the North Williamsburg ferry terminal.

Shiny Toy Guns - You Are The One

AMHERST, MA

You know how you can get lucky? I bought a used CD "SHINY TOY GUNS" and never expected what I heard would be my best go-to road-trip music...
They may not be famous (not yet) but you may agree with BOOM

Sinkhole swallows 2 homes, continues to grow in Land O' Lakes

trust me: peace is cheaper

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identity crab

You don't have to be on Shark Tank to make your design stand out. | art by Xabier Zirikiain

Places I have Lived: timing and synchronicity

OREGON

Many years ago, 1984 actually, I read an interesting article in Cosmopolitan magazine about healers. I was living in Oregon and engaged to be married. Dave proposed to me on Friday the 13, that July. We decided to get married on Crystal Lake at my parents retirement home in Wascott, WI, and the Larrabee siblings were set to meet there for a family reunion, too. When I got to Wisconsin, my adoptive dad was sick. Throwing up sick. Taking him to doctors was my new job, like an ambulance driver. It was during surgery on August 3, the doctors said cancer and gave him 6 months. On August 4th, the wedding happened, many people flew in, lots of lovely gifts, a big meal, but it's still a blur to me. We drove north to Duluth in our wedding clothes to see my dad in the hospital, since he was unable to walk me down the sidewalk/aisle.
When I got back to Oregon, I wrote letters to the healers in that Cosmo article. One of them was Patricia Sun, in California. She mailed me a cassette tape. Patricia was known for making a sound, a mysterious sound.
Since dad wasn't interested in healers or thinking outside the western medicine paradigm, healing spirit wasn't in the realm of possibility for him, sadly.
I had my own ideas then about healing and they have matured as I have.
Take a listen to Patricia Sun's work. (There are more videos of her on youtube, of course.)

2014: Patricia Sun Media announces the release of a free audio recording titled Relationships and Matching Energy: The Good, the Bad and the Wonderful. The audio recording is available at http://goo.gl/1fZiyA. Ms. Sun introduces her insights on wonderful win-win relationships, expanding on empowering both men and women. She also draws on concepts from her new blog, Domestic Abuse..."it's complicated".

Wednesday Words: Message on the Golden Record

Adrienne LaFrance on the Golden Record, a “cosmic postcard” sent out with the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977 to represent humanity to intelligent life:

The record, curated by a team led by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan, featured the music of Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar, and Blind Willie Johnson, and various folk music from around the world. Images, placed electronically on the phonograph, included photographs of a mother nursing her baby; a woman with a microscope; an astronaut in space, highway traffic in Ithaca, New York; the pages of an open book; a violin with sheet music; men laying bricks to build a house in Africa; a woman eating grapes at a supermarket; and a number of diagrams and illustrations of concepts like continental drift and vertebrate evolution. There were also audio clips depicting scenes of life on Earth—the sounds of rushing wind and the roar of ocean tides, whale songs, elephants trumpeting, human footsteps and human laughter.
It occurred to me last fall that I’d never actually heard the laughter track—and that I wanted to.

Keep reading here, as Adrienne sets out to solve the mystery of whose laughter is on the Golden Record. (And you can hear the golden record!) BOOM

Eddie Vedder, 'Ukulele Songs'

Made calm and open by the ukulele's intimacy, Vedder sounds like someone getting out of his own way and discovering what really matters within his art.

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Vedder said he hopes that Ukulele Songs would encourage listeners to step away from their computers and televisions and make some music of their own, preferably with friends.

take a bow? social rules?

Strangers being introduced shake hands, as in Western societies, but
- Bow toward each other, in Korea, Japan and China
- Do not bow at each other, in the Jewish tradition
- In the United States, eye contact, a nod of the head toward each other, and a smile, with no bowing; the palm of the hand faces sideways, neither upward nor downward, in a business handshake.
- Present business cards to each other, in business meetings
Click heels together, in past eras of Western history^{[citation needed]}
A woman's curtsey, in some societies
In the Middle East, never displaying the sole of the foot toward another, as this would be seen as a grave insult.
In many schools, though seats for students are not assigned they are still "claimed" by certain students, and sitting in someone else's seat is considered an insult

WIKI

OK, for me, some rules are make to be broken! BOOM! (and to all of you who follow this blog experiment - we at Boom here BOW to you!)

cabin fever exhibit: letterpress art

Lisa Hersey, Cabin Fever

At first blush, Lisa Hersey’s exhibit Cabin Fever is familiar — the pieces consist of wood block printed capital letters layered in various patterns and colors on white canvas. The viewer may attempt to literally read what Hersey is trying to say, but the artist challenges this reflex. It isn’t until you step back and let the letters settle into shapes that the message becomes clear. In “I Run for Miles Just to Get a Taste” Hersey flips the letters “F,” “P,” “L,” “U,” and “I” every which way across half the canvas. The letters seem to jam up in the final quarter of the inked print with just the light edges of some red letters breaking past the dark noise into nothing, everything, freedom — it’s what you make it.

In each of her pieces, Hersey communicates humor and punctuates it with a snappy title.

For example, “Prove to Me You Got Some Coordination” is a geometrical pattern of red “H”s and blue “T”s. After the 2016 election, it can’t be viewed as anything but political. The two contrast and intersect to create a tight, locking pattern that forms a circle in the center. After Trump’s first few months in office and the Syria attack, we have all the “proof” we need.

(VIA Valley Advocate, Springfield MA art review) BOOM!

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