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Monday, 31 December 2012
Well, it's that end of the year thing come around once again. On the whole, it's better to still be here, than not. So, HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all and guess what I'll be doing?I found out yesterday that Neflix is streaming THE WEST WING - All Seven Seasons!!! This is WEST WING heaven to me. Began watching last night and stayed up until 1:30 a.m.I meant to begin the New Year with Jenn's New Year's Readaton over at her Picky Girl blog, but bowed...
Sunday, 30 December 2012
The Harvest by Swiss painter Rober Zund (1826 - 1909)Field in Asturia 1903 by Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla (1863 - 1923)Early Evening Winter 1912 by English painter J.E.H. MacDonald (1873 - 1932)Ruined Moorish Arch in Ronda, Spain 1866 by English painter Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896)October Gold 1922 by Canadian painter Franklin Carmichael (1890 - 1945)Farmhouse with Birch Trees 1900 by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)Along the Marne...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Jessie Wilcox SmithI only listed two books that were published in 2012. The rest are from assorted years. This list is comprised of books I loved best, read by me for the first time this year whether new or old. Somehow I only managed to read 50 books - the lowest amount ever. I blame life, re-reading, the blog and Pinterest. I did a lot of dithering this year. Ha. I hope to do better in 2013 - really.And now in no particular order, The...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
William SteigI hope you all had as wonderful a Christmas as we did with family or friends that are like family - and pets too. We had two dogs (Rocky boy and my daughter's Pepper girl) in attendance gobbling any bits and pieces that might, just might, accidentally on purpose fall to the floor. Pepper especially had to be watched with an eagle eye as she's prone to jumping up on the table and grabbing anything in sight. Ha! The center of attention...
Sunday, 23 December 2012
A moment in time to thank all my friends - blogging and blogg-less - who stop by to leave a comment now and then, for having helped fashion another pleasurable year for me.I'm not a mushy-gushy sort of person, but I hope you'll consider this the mushiest and gushiest THANK YOU ever.Christmas is what we make it, so let's try to 'muddle through somehow and have ourselves a Merry little Christmas now...'Today is the last post from yours truly...
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Okay, so nostalgia ain't what it used to be, but I still find it very soothing. This is a book cover, but I couldn't find the actual art online. This is THE Christmas book for those of us of a certain age and our children if we were lucky enough to have a copy to share with them.Just looking at the wonderful cover art makes me nostalgic and all over misty for Christmases of the past when I was a kid growing up in the city. The cover instantly brings...
Friday, 21 December 2012
Remember these wonderful very vintage cartoons from Walt Disney? Well, even if you don't, they're 'oh so much fun' to watch (even for the first time) and can't help but bring a smile to your face. I love these clunky old animation techniques, seen in retrospect, they seem especially naive and full of joy.I taught my daughter very early on the difference between good animation and not so good. (The difference, say, between the great old Tom and...
Today's artwork is by the brilliant Swedish contemporary artist, Lennert Helje....Hmmm, do I sense a Swedish theme going on here? It's just that the Swedes seem to do Christmas very, very well and very cheerfully too. We need a little cheer these days.While Helje's painting is not specifically Christmasy, it still says 'Christmas' in its own way. There is always magic in the sweet (never cloying) gentleness of his imag...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Today's daily (until Christmas day) painting is an especially touching one and a favorite of mine. A smiling child dressed in Christmas red, the daughter - I believe - of Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919), she personifies the joy of the season. Her name is Brita and she's happily holding some candles and a basket of those little apples whose name I forget.For more on Carl Larsson and his work, please check this li...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
'Yuleltide Revels' by American realist painter William Glackens (1870 - 1938) is today's Christmas entry. I love the holiday hubbub, the exuberance in this work, one of several done in this particular busy illustrative style.Glackens was a 'member' of the Ashcan School art movement and an illustrator. To read more about Glackens and his world, please use this li...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
My yearly ritual: posting a Christmas themed illustration or painting daily until Christmas day.Today's painting is a wonderful evocation of Christmas in the city by illustrator John Gannam, 1948. This is the way I always remember Christmas, growing up in New York. Those big clunky taxi cabs really make me misty. New York crowds always seemed so cheerful - at least in memory.&nb...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers Try to find the black and white version if you can. The later colorization is blech!1) MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (1934) is watched religiously by me every year either at Thanksgiving or Christmas. It is ritual. I know the songs by heart and can often be heard tunelessly humming along with the music and if I'm really in the mood, I'll sing the words too. When it comes to this movie I am...
As I've done every Christmas since I began my blog, I will post a Christmas themed painting or illustration each morning as we approach The Big Day. This year it's an especially sad season, but we seem to be indefatigable when it comes to Christmas - and maybe that's not a bad thing.Today's choice is Roger Duvoisin's New Yorker cover for December 16th, 19...
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Thursday, 13 December 2012
This is the ninth Peculiar Crimes Unit thriller by Christopher Fowler. The books' stars are, of course, Bryant and May, two old cop-codgers (way past retirement age) who run (metaphorically speaking) rings around the regular London constabulary - they are the chief investigators of the peculiarly named Peculiar Crimes Unit. Arthur Bryant is the older of the two and the scruffier - his clothing (most of it tweedy and of WWII era) is rarely without...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
I know, I know, this is not a film and it's not really forgotten, but hey, Christmas is less than three weeks away and I am overcome with the spirit of good cheer and cute stuff.Don't forget to check in at Todd Mason's blog, Sweet Freedom, to see what really forgotten films and other audio/visual whatnots other bloggers are talking about today. It's always a fun, eclectic mix.Jim Henson's exceedingly charming production of EMMET OTTER'S JUG-BAND...
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