Reading List -- So Much Reading

Boy oh boy, reading all of these books 3 times each with Desmond made me realize how much I love reading, and how it can also be a great way to relax yourself right into a nap.

Reading List -- Let's Discover Dogs

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Reading List -- Back to Basics

Lately, I've only been able to read art books, short poems, the Economist, and record liners. I'm hoping somehow January will bring with it the ability to start reading again? This poster mostly just makes me want to go sledding more than anything...wish me luck.

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Reading List -- Magic

I could use a vacation...

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Reading List - Tove Jansson

Oh I just adore her work!

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Reading List -- Tao of Pooh

I haven't read this one in years, but it was like revisiting an old friend...and I could use some advice these days, so how about it -- any other goof book recs my friends?!

"Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong." -Benjamin Hoff

Remembering Roy DeCarava

"Couples," 1960

"Sun and Shade," 1952

Find out more about this American legend through his book, The Sound I Saw, that features images inspired by his love for jazz and his time spent in Harlem.

A moving tribute to this amazing photographer's life here

Some NYTimes Gems

The wildly talented photographer Gisel Florez captures the beauty of this silk scarf in the NYTimes fall fashion magazine.

A great article on what Rev. Griffin Thomas has done with a local church in Greenpoint-- including embracing the amazing efforts of FEAST!!

Reading List -- For the Covers

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Reading List -- Dubuffet

Aren't these museum catalogues fantastic?!

Reading List -- A Book of Ages

Here are some of the author's picks for some of the most interesting ages in his map of cultural history:

AGE 3

Sigmund Freud sees his mother naked, 1859.

AGE 4

Mick Jagger meets Keith Richards, 1947.

AGE 9

Hank Williams learns to drink liquor while living for a year with his cousins’ family in Fountain, Alabama, 1933.

AGE 11

In 1934 Charles Schulz’s family gets a new black and white dog. His name isn’t Snoopy.

AGE 16

John Lennon meets Paul McCartney for the first time at a church fete in Liverpool, 1957.

AGE 22

Salvador Dali meets Picasso, 1926. Picasso tells him he was wise to visit him instead of the Louvre.

AGE 30

Elvis Presley receives a visit from the Beatles at Graceland, August, 1965. Because he can’t tell them apart and doesn’t know their names he addresses each of them individually as “Beatle.”

AGE 46

Ernest Hemingway divorces third wife Martha Gellhorn for laughing at him, 1945.

AGE 58

In 1958, Alfred Hitchcock directs the film Vertigo which is about an older man who persuades a younger woman to change the way she wears her hair.

**check out the book's website here for more...

Image Inspiration -- Niki and Jean

Niki de Saint-Phalle and husband/collaborator Jean Tinguely. Her hats are sensational and the expressions? Timeless.

Read some of her fascinating bio here

...and get their book here

Image Inspiration -- Bowling Balls

"Bowling Ball Curtain," 2003

I love Eung Ho Park's Public art commission at PS 270 in Queens, NY. See more of his creative installations here and get Michele Cohen's rad book, "Public Art for Public Schools," here

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I have tried for years to read this book and it finally happened. My hopes were too high and I got the plot confused with "The World According to Garp" -- I was way off. But as much as I didn't LOVE this book, I soon realized that the parts that I underlined were deeply moving and well written, revealing how well the novel oscillates between extreme tragedy and unwavering hope:

"The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment."

"A single metaphor can give birth to love."

"The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body."

"It was as though she had found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world."

"There was not a scrap of tangible evidence to show that he had spent the most wonderful years of his life with her."

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Gearing me up for Creative Time's "Democracy in America" at the Armory! Cheers, Nato!

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Getting inspired for his Radio City show tonight!!

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I wonder -- How come royalty has such a flimsy spaceship?! I can just hear Babar say, "Come on, babe. Hop in my big pink sandal and we will travel to galaxies afar..."

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A Summer Classic.

Poem from Amber

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