A Fantabulously Happy Bicycler. ;}
A Morning Person ...as long as I get enough sleep ;}
I love this weather!!
riding down the lakeshore on the bike
soaking up the rays
Cycling, bending steel, pushing clay, pouring bronze, making any type of sculpture, glass casting, painting... Anything to do with Art, History, Architecture, Spatial Relationships, Philosophical Discussions, understanding the world, Travel-Sans-Work, kindness, compassion, wanderlust, discovering cultures, cities, excellent food, kayaking, hockey, & someday maybe:, adventure races,
Mystify Me
Tour Guides
Louise Bourgeois
Fabulously interesting, kind, & fun people, who can get lost in conversation,
and are actually capable of...
blah-blah-blah
WANTED: One Adventure Guide
Male, 27-39yrs old, well read, travels world, athletically active,
emotionally intelligent, & HAPPY (inside & out)
Otherwise, I'd love to be in a ..functionalI relationship, with an adult male for... ..who doesn't shag anything that moves ..
Okay, I got those lines from Bridget Jones ;}
 
Where's the Love Coming From?
Started April 22, 2007, at like over 11,000 views which kinda floors me for 1 year
 
Be Smart & Aware:
Taken June 16, 2006
I love this photo of my mum and me!
Did you see that she starts out as a Surveyor! How perfect!
The awe inspiring architecture of Abencerrajes; I hope to see it someday. Geometry.
Ingenuity of Form & Function in creating space. Psychology.
“Pantheon†taken in Rome July 2003.
I am a huge fan of Eva Hesse. Intriguing play with light, line, weight & form.
Play with illusion, beauty, ugliness, surprise.
Legends of my name, go back to the Greeks.
To be able to sculpt as gracefully. Rodin’s breathtaking Danaid.
Alexander Calder, of course. Everyone says that my early abstract work is reminiscent of his play with ..happiness.
"Avalanche" 1998 Maya Lin. Glass, 10 x 19 x 21 feet.
"House" 1993 Rachel Whiteread.
Whiteread's work is based on casts taken from commonplace objects, but they have a sense of mystery because she usually casts not the objects themselves, but the spaces above, below, or inside them, giving form to the apparently empty spaces we have inhabited. Soon after she had been shortlisted, Whiteread made House, a cast of the interior of the last remaining house of a late-nineteenth century terrace in the East End of London. ~ I watched the video of the making and tearing down of this structure. After a discussion and seeing her exhibit at the Tate, and other works (like her mattress), I grew to realize how important of a post-post-modern artist she is of this day.
â€Holocaust Monument†a.k.a. “Nameless Library†(2000) Rachel Whiteread.
One of my favs.
Whiteread's casts often seem to emphasize the fact that the objects they represent are not themselves there. The work turned out to be Holocaust Monument is located in the centre of the Judenplatz in Vienna. It is a work in cast concrete, with the walls made up of rows of books, with the pages, rather than the spines, turned outward; this can be regarded as a comment on Jews as a "people of the book" and the Nazi book burnings. On one of the walls is the negative cast of double-doors.
Eclipsed Time (1989-95) Pennsylvania Station, New York, New York. Maya Lin
"People of culture and faith have the duty . . . not to abandon historical studies, nor to serve what is cruel and inhuman in them. They must maintain themselves and help people against what oppresses them, to support them against the fates that surround us." Albert Camus
Her impact on style, movements, reality, tongue & cheekiness, illusion, ..and music.
I have to admit, I’ve taken a break from
The New Yorker & New York Times
on a regular basis.
In the last year and a half:
SOOO many publications on:
Greek Architectural Sculpture
Sculptural Practices of the 20th Century
a handful of books on
English History (ancient to 1688sh)
Art & Architecture of Islam
..and the occasional candy publication to catch my whimsy
Merely began reading (but got distracted):
‘Stupidity’ (which was very difficult to read!)LOL!
‘On Bullshit’ ‘If P, Then Q’ ‘On Beauty’
‘Simulacra and Simulation’ Baudrillard
...misc bizarre dictionaries
Favorite Book Store
Shaman Drum Bookshop
(It is not flakey like it sounds – rather an intellectual one)
. . .
Techniques of the Observer
The Art of Imperfection
Art and It’s Significance
The Iron Wall
Formation of Islam
Art in Theory
Artistic Anatomy
Looking sweet for 1/2 way done. ..2nd bust ever attempted
Florence sunset I think from the Ponte Vecchio
My first time abroad, I traveled Italy alone for 10 days of this trip
(& 7 with a friend)
Fantastic BMW ride along The Pacific Coast Highway
from San Jose to Big Sur & back
with my friend Fabian (he’s from South Africa, Australia, London, San Francisco)
Great person!
Fabian Venter
I think all of these photos in this image were taken in 2003
a great year for adventures!Biking with Fabian in California on his BMW in October (one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life). 500 miles in a little over 24 hours.
A view of a canal in Venice, Italy in June.
Biking with my girlfriend (& her hubby) who owns a boutique, on her Harley (so uncomfortable, my back was sore for 3 months from this 8 hour ride) in May
We stopped and shot pistols. My first time ~ I was a great shot!
I grew up shooting muzzleloaders & rifles on our farm.
Flights with a widowed friend (air force), this time to a horse ranch.
We completed Stall & Dives and a few slip-in landings. Summer
Goofy pic is catching up with friends. Fall
a Québec City park, February 2006
Camera Crew Filming us from behind the bar at the Ice Hotel Feb. 2006
That’s not me btw, she’s the bartender
Mark’s mum & me ~ Chin Chin!
It was so cold!
One of the rooms at the Ice Hotel – we slept on solid blocks of ice!
toboggan race tryouts during Carnival de Québec
snowmobiling view – I had to stop to take this pic (trying to capture something like my BMW PCH shot, but my fingers froze up there in Québec!)
dogs & film crew
Huskies, while we are waiting for the crew. I used to have a Samoan myself
First time I drove a dog sled
~ What a blast!
dog sledding with Adventure Inukshuk – catching up .. to ride together for the film crew around the corner waiting for us
The George Inn, England (Shakespeare's watering hole)