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Origami class tonight at The Hive
As previously announced, I will be teaching an origami class at the Hive tonight. I can tailor the content to the interests and needs of those present. We can do some nautically themed origami, including a variety of boats, and maybe … Continue reading
Origami: Not just flapping birds anymore!
I just found out about this TED talk video. Robert Lang, the speaker, is not just an origami genius: he’s also a really nice person, very approachable and unassuming despite his near-rock-star status in the origami world. At the past … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and literature, Origami, video
Tagged origami, Robert Lang, TED talk, video
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Bohemian Rhapsody acoustic guitar instrumental – really good! – and Ducks in the Wind
Here’s another funny one by him!
Posted in Arts and literature, video
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Hip, Hip, Hurray, for Hobbitus Ille!
Yes, that’s The Hobbit in Latin on my side table! (next to my plasma globe “palantir” and my plush Peter Pettigrew rat from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter…) It was a great surprise in my mail today. I can’t wait … Continue reading
Good Advent music on the way
If you love Advent and Christmas as much as I do, you may have experienced the same frustration I do every year when you try to find good Advent music to listen to. Christmas songs abound, but Advent tends to … Continue reading
Off to vacation in NY!
I am heading off for vacation in New York until Saturday. I will be passing through Newburgh, Nichols, and Canandaigua, and many places around and in between. This is a photo I took near Canandaigua a few years ago. … Continue reading
Just came across this photo again…
One of my favorite photos from my time in Switzerland two years ago – one of the lower rooms in the Chateau de Chillon. I was looking through my photos on Flickr and this one caught my eye… This was … Continue reading
Representational art is alive and well
My experience has been that museums of modern art are dominated by styles of art that are highly stylized or abstract, or just plain weird or ugly. I really like some of it (the stylized, abstract, and/or weird – not … Continue reading
“Greasy Pole, the Musical” photos
I finished adjusting and uploading my photos of “Greasy Pole, The Musical”, a show currently on it’s last weekend in “The Annie” theater this year. It’s a fiction, but inspired in facts and real stories about the annual Greasy Pole … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and literature
Tagged Gloucester, Greasy Pole, musical, The Annie, theater
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