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Thanks for pointing this nice informational site out, Librarian’s Internet Index (http://lii.org/)!
i recently viewed the art exhibit at the lacma, “magritte and contemporary art.” it is a wonderfully constructed show. john baldessari designed the exhibit area with wall-to-wall carpeting that mimics a theme in magritte paintings, sky blue background with white puffy clouds. the entrances to the exhibit areas have shapes cut out of the doorways that mimic a shape from a magritte painting. the docents wear derby hats.
the content of the show is nicely organized. in addition to the magritte paintings are the works that were inspired by them. on the wall next to the magritee painting, “personal values,” (a roomscape with objects all out of proportion: a giant comb laying on a bed, a person-sized glass standing in the middle of the room, etc.) is vija celmins’s untitled piece, a giant comb made out of wood and painted in enamel to reference the comb in magritte’s painting. for me, seeing these two pieces next to each other made the individual pieces more meaningful. there were nice surprises like this throughout the exhibit. all in all a lovely show, well worth a visit.
for more about the exhibit: http://www.lacma.org/art/MagritteIndex.aspx
it seems that some people write well on their own and others feel as if things work better when they write with collaborators. i’ve always felt that my writing style was clear enough to work on my own. the topics i choose to write about are narrowly focused, so it’s not as if there’s a lot of room to write in a tangent or get out of hand. but then recently i’ve been working on a big chapter for a handbook that after a while just seemed unwieldy. that is, until i asked a colleague to read it and respond.
she gave such fabulous responses that i made the changes she suggested and then asked another colleague to read it and suggest changes. that worked out beautifully too, and i ended up with a chapter that was really my own, but with tweaks and improvements that made it so much clearer and better organized. i’ve learned a great lesson with this process. when i think about my next article i’m going to include others earlier on in the process, just to see how things go!
i’ve seen the cartoons of people slipping on banana peels left on the sidewalk, but i don’t think i’ve ever seen an actual banana peel on a sidewalk in real life before. either someone carelessly discarded his trash or he is hoping to get some laughs as an innocent walker goes by…
we recently visited with my dad, and noticed that after breakfast one day he took some ziploc bags out of the freezer and put them into the fridge to thaw. one of the bags contained 4 slices of bread, the others had an amount of deli meat and cheese appropriate for one sandwich each. he said he got tired of throwing out unused portions of sandwich fixins and so started putting the ingredients into ziploc bags and freezing them. then later, on the day he’ll be eating a sandwich for lunch, he takes what he needs out of the freezer and puts it into the fridge to thaw. by lunch things have thawed well enough, and then he zaps the bread in the microwave for a fresh-bread experience. what a cool idea! no wasted bread, no lingering piece of ham or cheese in the fridge.
