My Own Thoughts

Category: Art

  • 2017 Poetry Awards

    The Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Awards were held in the Brown Library Atrium on October 12 at 7:30 pm. Print outs were made of the poems submitted to the contest between September 11 and October 2. These were laid out on three large tables so that everyone could read them. In addition, pens and post-it…

  • Gruene: Black and White

    The Digital Academy, through the Adams Center and the Learning Studio, took faculty and staff to Gruene, Texas and spent the weekend helping them get the most out of their digital cameras. Since I had only used the SLR three times, and my husband’s camera only to take photos of him that he had set…

  • Gruene: Best of the Clay Festival

    Images I took in 2011 at the Fall retreat. I am moving them from a different blog. While you might expect that these pictures will be of the pottery at the Clay Festival, they are not so much. These are primarily the people I saw at the pottery show. I only actually looked at the…

  • Gruene: Dora the Photographer

    Images from a soon-to-be-defunct website. From Fall Break 2011. Dora has since retired. Dora G– W– is the Learning Studio librarian and an old friend, from when her husband and I were in graduate school together. She is incredibly photogenic and I had fun shooting her (photographically only) this last weekend. She was a good…

  • Gruene: Made Art

    Images from the fall of 2011 and posts I made on a different website back then… One thing I did while I was playing with iPhoto and learning to use it was that I “fixed” pictures which were just too uninteresting or weird by making them look more like a piece of graphic design (which…

  • Gruene: Corrugated Metal

    From a soon-to-be-defunct blog. Images taken Fall Break 2011. One of the things I like to do, have thought about doing, think is cool (or some such), is to do a series of shots that are all about the texture. I like the idea, but I have so far found that my ability to produce…

  • Gruene: Antique Store as Photo Op

    I am moving things from a soon-to-be-defunct blog. These images were from Fall 2011. I love to look at antiques. And the antique store in Gruene, on the corner of Gruene and Hunter, has some amazing collections. They don’t have any blue glass I don’t already own, which is good, but they do have some…

  • Heavenly Photos

    from astronomers This from Boris Å tromar:

  • An Amazing Photographer

    Remo Savisaar is an amazing photographer. His landscapes are amazing and his birds are even more stunning. An example of landscapes:

  • Gruene: Photo Essay on Love

    My love, the illustrious Ron Davis, and I have been married for 23 years. We’ve never done an art weekend together, though both of us have done creative weekends separately. This was a fun weekend and, while many of the photographs are of Ron as a photographer, he is so much more than that in…

  • Cave Paintings: Children Did Them

    I’ve often argued that cave paintings were children’s work. While not all are (or maybe not all are), some are. Live Science has an article that says: n fact, finger-painting tots were quite prolific 13,000 years ago in the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths in France, according to Cambridge archaeologist Jess Cooney, who presented her…

  • Gruene: River Water

    I went on Sunday morning to the Guadalupe River to take some pictures. I didn’t walk far and it was incredibly gorgeous.  

  • Painting Links

    63,000 Paintings now online Julie Kenward, beautiful photography

  • Beautiful Art

    by Janet Fish found at lines and colors I know I like it because of the blue glass and the carnival glass pieces, but this is so gorgeous. Her website has a couple of beautiful depression glass pieces on the home page. I am going to have to get something of hers, if I can…

  • Things taken out

    Review the survey of African art. Hwk: 1. Go to the Art Institute of Chicago and peruse their African collection. There are more than 400 pieces. You do not have to look at all of them. Find one that you think is interesting. Then find a modern corollary to the piece. Link to both the…

  • If Crimes Were Elevation

    Doug McCune has mapped San Francisco’s crime and turned it into an elevation map. Very interesting. See all the pictures here, as he has arranged them by crime. Upon closer inspection the prostitution arrests are peaking on Shotwell St. at the intersections of 19th and 17th. I’m sure the number of colorful euphemisms you can…

  • Playing with the Moon

    from NPR comes the story of an astrophotographer whose book was published in France. Beautiful pictures. I would love to get the book. It seems very whimsical.

  • How Japan Saw the West

    Looking at Japanese art and seeing their representations of the West is particularly interesting to me. I haven’t done a wholesale study of it, but I think it would be fascinating. So I was caught by Happy Catholic’s visual and discussion of an article in the Wall Street Journal. So while artists in 1860s Paris…

  • A New Favorite Picture

    Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted this in the 1800s, after a true story from 1421 when a flood carried off a cat and a cradle. The cat jumped from side to side on the cradle to keep it upright. I found the picture on Happy Catholic, who references the next site, Victorian Paintings, which said: “Depecting an…

  • I enjoyed Wall-E.

    Now I like it even better. Go here to read a behind the scene’s story of the creation of this sweet and hopeful film.