Party food!

Уже сегодня, 12 декабря, в 19.00 в Светлановском зале Дома музыки состоится единственный концерт итальянского Оркестра Джузеппе Верди. А для тех, кто не сможет сегодня услышать эту божественную музыку вживую небольшая шуточная трактовка оперы Верди "Травиата".
Publicado por Музыкальный Дом em Quinta, 11 de dezembro de 2014

Уже сегодня, 12 декабря, в 19.00 в Светлановском зале Дома музыки состоится единственный концерт итальянского Оркестра Джузеппе Верди. А для тех, кто не сможет сегодня услышать эту божественную музыку вживую небольшая шуточная трактовка оперы Верди "Травиата".

Publicado por Музыкальный Дом em Quinta, 11 de dezembro de 2014

Google says:
"Today , December 12 , at 19.00 in the House of Music Svetlanov Hall of the unique concert of Italian orchestra Giuseppe Verdi . And for those who are not able today to hear this divine music live small comic interpretation of Verdi's opera " La Traviata " .
--- The Music House"

The Creative Process

More usual than not!

via 

Amazing Shay

Amazing... maybe, flabbergasted?
I'm running out of superlatives... of wow-type words!

There are so many wonderful pictures, that I don't know which ones to choose to show here...

One of my favorite foods...

Pizza! 

Can you believe how small and perfect this is?

Ohhhh... pancakes!

These I've shown are jewelry, but Shay Aaron also makes ones that are "just plain" miniature food, if this term can be used for anything so perfect.

(Uh... more pizza!)

Do go to his Flikr, Shay Aaron, to see more of his fantastic work.
He also has an etsy site, Shay Aaron Miniatures, for those who wish to indulge.

In the Arts

Very proud Grammie just has to show: Grandson premiering in the Arts — participating as a "colaborator" in a Yayoi Kusama exhibition!

The work is a revisit of her 2002 project, the obliteration room; now in Brasília.

The installation, from the Rio exhibit, via

Lovely

Lovely. Beatrix Potter and Miriam Stockley...

Pleiades dance

Performance and Choreography : Saya Watatani , Maki Yokoyama
Director: Nobuyuki Hanabusa
Animator: Seiya Ishii, Nobuyuki Hanabusa
Music : Nobuyuki Hanabusa
http://enra.jp

Ryan Larkin

Walking ~ Ryan Larkin 1968


Street Musique ~ Ryan Larkin 1972


Ryan ~ Chris Landreth 2003


Spare Change ~ Ryan Larkin 2008

Ryan Larkin

July 31, 1943, Montreal, Quebec – February 14, 2007, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec

e-Bermuda Triangle

Oh! So true!
She just forgot bloggerland! (it's right there in the middle, near the work sinkhole...)

by Fuchsia Macaree

Madona

Gustav Klimt
Mother and Child (detail from The Three Ages of Woman), c.1905

Girl with ...

... shiny digital camera!

A new take on Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (Het meisje met de parel).

Mitchell Grafton, Self Portrait, 2012[?]

Big Bang Big Boom

Fantastic!

Linked on my Fb page, from my cousin:

Images : Duy Huynh
Music: Keith Jarrett "Rio" - Part 2 Track 3

The Seasons

Via my Aunt Miroca:

Autumn Equinox

AUTUMN

Wheel of the Seasons ~ Antony Galbraith
via

Paper, Music, Magic

Lisa Hannigan: a new face for me. Loving her music and videos,
... and fun!
(for the title add: "... and Some Paint!")

I have to thank Content in a Cottage for sending me Lisa Hannigan's way, as well always being a sure source of many pleasures: delightful snippets — pictures, sayings, ideas... and Webster and Piggy.

Eclipse

First in a brand new saros cycle today, the eclipse was near Antarctica, and over the next 18 years-plus will wend it's way up to the Arctic.

 

Astronomers Studying an Eclipse painted by Antoine Caron in 1571

from

Compassion on Creativity

Rereading, again, and loving it even more every time, Eat, Pray, Love.
Elizabeth Gilbert writes directly to my heart and doubts, and in such a funny, warm, kind way.

Found this on Youtube, and being an artist, it is especially suitable.

Dreamily Debrina

From roses&cottages through crafts&vintage, music and onwards, my feet — my mouse, that is, — brought me down the Road to the dreamily beautiful art of Debbie Price-Ewen at Debrina's Diary.

I love the textured collage-craft feel of her work.

And... *si-i-i-igh*... envy her very neat studio! Suffering from a serious case of studio-envy!
Mine is always resorting to its Mr. Hyde persona, turning into a stuff-deposit room.
Let me be inspired by her example!

Debrina's very neat studio... and nice sunset view!

Hideaway

"Hideaway"

Illustration Credit & Copyright: Inga Nielsen
from APOD 20 June 2006 - "Hideaway"

Update: Inga Nielson's site Gate to Nowhere

Ate Eight

After all the trips in the recent months, including the one to the Tropic of Cancer with maletim, I gained eight kilos.
I write out eight, and in very small font, as more discreet than the numeral...

*sigh...*

A non-consolation: I'm in fashion in certain art circles — I'm a Botero!
      ( buaááááááá... )

© Fernando Botero