Not Fun7/26/2012 I was at the dentist Tuesday. Sometimes there's a fine line between pain and pleasure. Tuesday wasn't one of them.
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The Creative Force7/14/2012 Linolium block prints reflect the ancient human urge to create images. The first time someone looked at a footprint in the mud and thought - "What if I . . .?" (Chris is taking a block printing class).
Public Art7/12/2012 The San Francisco Civic Center Plaza is a great place for public art. I drive by all the time. Currently an inflated sculpture of a lotus flower greats the many tour buses stopped at this post card site. The petals wave in the breeze.
Last week I walked by and the entire sculpture was deflated. I thought it was being removed. I was wrong, I think they were cleaning it and it was in its full glory when I walked by again. Yin and Yang7/2/2012 Dark and Light, full and empty . One cup is empty and its only purpose is to be filled. The other full, its only purpose is to be emptied. - oh if only life could be as simple
Going Goine , . . . Gone?6/27/2012 As I was mailing my Netflix DVD the other morning, I was wondering how long this model of delivery was going to last. Getting DVDs in the mail with no due date seemed so innnovative at the time. Now I find I'm watching on-line movies more and more. I think this model won't last long.
2,000 Years6/11/2012 The Buddhist Stupa was originally a burial mound for relics of the historical Buddha or other sacred objects. It was topped with a structure similar to the one on the right which is a 2,000 year old miniture stupa from Northwestern India or Pakistan now at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
As the stupa form moved to China and Japan, it evolved into pagodas. This pagoda in San Francisco's Japantown was built 2,000 years after the one on the right and as you can see the top of the pagoda is very similar to the top of the stupa. (I'm getting ready for a presentation this month!) Just Passing Through6/1/2012 This photo is truly an accidental photo as I didn't even realized I had taken it until I looked on my phone. Usually I erase them as they usually aren't very interesting. This one, however, seems to have an other worldly feeling commenting on the transitory aspect of life as we pass through one doorway to another -- or is it because I'm reading alot about Buddhism as part of my Asian Art Museum Docent Training?
Original Joe's is Back!5/17/2012 The "original" Original Joe's restaurant was located in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco and was a favorite old time restaurant of me when I first moved to San Francisco. After a fire a few years ago, the owners finally re-opened in North Beach on a corner facing Washington Square. Some of the artifacts of the old restaurant were saved and now grace the exterior and interior of the new restaurant. It seems the "same" only better!
Guqin5/14/2012 Since starting my training as an Asian Art Museum Docent, my journey has taken me to new places. Last weekend, I attended a performance of traditional Chinese music. One of the featured performers was Alan Yip, playing the guqin. The Guqin is a 7 string zither that dates back about 2,000 years or more. Music written over 1,000 years ago are still played! Haunting and thoughtful, this piece is played by American born Alan Yip, a young graduate student who has been playing the guqin for about 10 years.
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