Saturday Forecast: 55° F / Breezy
March 14, 2020 by 17 Comments
The New Yorker Cover: “Blown Away,” by Tomer Hanuka.
“The cover for this year’s Spring Style Issue is the fourth by Tomer Hanuka, an Israeli artist known for his striking use of color.
Q: We like the gestural quality of the woman’s pose. How does body language factor into making an image like this?
“I start with a gesture, just a line, and build a story around it. There are so many rules about drawing anatomy, and sometimes you need to break all of them to make a pose work. An image like this begins with a realistic sketch of a body, but in the end I want the physicality to disappear. I want the reader to be left only with an idea or a feeling.”
Saturday Morning
January 25, 2020 by 29 Comments
Jozi: City of Gold? Aura of Its People.
January 14, 2020 by 30 Comments
Notes:
- Photos by Eric Kanigan on Saturday, January 11, 2019 in Soweto, a township of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Eric’s sites can be found on Instagram and on the web @ kaniganphotography.com.
- Post title inspired by 15 Facts You Didn’t Know About Johannesburg
Saturday Morning
January 11, 2020 by 29 Comments
One’s very own room, ventilated to please one’s self, furnished just as one wishes, with one’s pet belongings arranged to suit one’s own tastes; an entire bed in which one may pitch and toss, stretch and yawn, without the consciousness that another would-be sleeper is being annoyed – all of these are aids to happiness.
– Virginia Terhune Van de Water, “From Kitchen to Garret,” (Published in 1910)
Notes: Quote via Schonwieder. Photo via Sabon Home
Saturday Morning: O snail / but slowly, slowly
December 28, 2019 by 36 Comments
Notes:
- Photos of Mt Fuji by Eric Kanigan (Son) in Fujiyoshida, Japan yesterday. Eric’s sites can be found on Instagram and on the web @ kaniganphotography.com. (And I wish I were running right there this morning.)
- Saturday Morning Post inspired by Eric’s Photos and Japanese Poet and Buddhist Priest Kobayashi Issa who penned: “Climb Mount Fuji / O snail / but slowly, slowly”
Saturday Morning
December 21, 2019 by 23 Comments
(She) enjoyed the privilege of stillness, most days did absolutely nothing but breathe and look and hear and smell the world turning.
A self-appointed Judge of Existence.
~ Niall Williams, “This Is Happiness” (Bloomsbury Publishing; December 3, 2019)
Photo: Carlos Gotay (via Mennyfox55)
Saturday Morning
December 7, 2019 by 13 Comments
And for moments, nothing more.
Some people understand the privilege of stillness and can sit and breathe and look and hear and smell the world turning and let what’s next wait the while.
~ Niall Williams, “This Is Happiness” (Bloomsbury Publishing; December 3, 2019)
Photo: Levas Žiriakovas with Spring Sun
Sunday Morning
December 1, 2019 by 39 Comments
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle…
After days of labor,
mute in my consternations,
I hear my song at last,
and I sing it. As we sing,
the day turns, the trees move.
~ Wendell Berry, from “I Go Among Trees and Sit Still” in Sabbaths
Notes:
Poem: Thank you The Hammock Papers. Photo: “Sit a While” by Erik Witsoe (Poznan, Poland, Park Solacki)
