…brought together various visiting Euro friends and new L.A. friends – the day before I depart for four months mostly away from home – finally making use of the long garden table under the California walnut tree with tree stump seating provided by last year’s dear departed carob tree – dining almost exclusively on today’s ..
Archives : July-2012
…at the Hammer Museum’s biennial show Made in L.A. is a dramatic L.A. spirited standout that responds nicely to the strange rainbow shaped window she found on the otherwise awkward 2nd floor Lindbrook terrace, now beckoning you over with her installati..
…packed the LACMA Art Catalogues space and lobby with crowds to hear an engaging interview event marking his new ar..
…(my favorite variety by far) seeds from last years squash were casually seeded all over the garden this winter, producing this summer’s crazy scrambling vines which are gratefully taking over large parts of the garden – especially the newly established area under what was the carob tree – now focused on Jed Ceasar’s sculpture (this ..
…are suddenly on my mind – perhaps inspired by the 95 year old Abruzzian basket-maker we met as part of Domestic Integrities research in Italy – and seeming like the answer to everything, slowly filling the house in all shapes and sizes, for a variety of purposes – from yarn collections to fresh produce in the ..
…is the new book about John Cage which I ordered while I was still reading about it in the New York Times a few days ago – and today it arrived, the first few pages making it clear that it will be hard to..
…is one reason I have been slow to post things here as they happen, having been taken over by knitting-mania which started with learning how to spin wool into yarn by Lisa Anne Auerbach in March at the Princeton Student Colony, then knitting lessons at my London Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Ec in June, followed by ..
…came this morning with the latest weekly photos by local photographer Andras Kare – from Blood Mountain Foundation – taken just yesterday during a mega-weeding session, showing some green progress including horizontally and vertically sprawling squash. (webpage ..
…sprouted up as wild volunteers in a bed of succulents I just established at my curb this winter, and as usual the tomatoes growing on my sanctioned plants (twelve) that have been lavished with attention, thick layers of compost to enrich the soil, and structures to grow up, have been completely outperformed by the scrappy one ..
…is something I rarely miss when at home – usually with eyes open just before the first glimmer of light rolls over the San Gabriel Mountains…this morning ..
…story is making it’s way through the media these days (Huffington, Boing Boing, CBC, Daily Mail UK, Montreal Gazette, and Treehugger to name a few) – this time it is in front of the Drummondville, Quebec home of Josée Landry and Michel Beauchamp featuring an elaborate and highly designed installation of raised beds and trellises covered with food producing plants that ..
…’strings of paper flags with kaleidoscope cut-outs used as festive decorations throughout Mexico…traced back to the Aztecs’ hand made by Taller Arte Papel Oaxaca with local stalks of flax was the ceiling-hanging/covering highlight of Dosa’s installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art opening l..
…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring ..
…photos just received from the Liverpool Biennial team show that the meadow is growing in, through which the spiraling paths and central gathering circle are being mown, and the wild foragables are gradually filling in after lots and lots of rain…
…back after a few months away, happy to home in California which always put those Joni Mitchell words through my mind…Oh California I’m coming home, Oh make me feel good rock ‘n’ roll band, I’m your biggest fan, California I’m coming h..
…from Rome to L.A. was only part of a much longer day, starting with getting in a car at the Pollinaria farm in Abruzzo at 1am to a Fiumicino bound bus in Pescara and ending with a long meeting and dinner at the Hammer Museum in Westwood right off the plane, followed by immediate collapse ..
…named Fernando Marcantonio, aged 95, residing in a remote small Abruzzian village learned how to make baskets from his father and grandfather when he was young – something that they did by necessity, to contain everything that needed containing at home (ricotta, figs, olives, grain…) – but then he entered into the family’s farming life – went to ..
…is the annual traditional meal here at Pollinaria farm when all of the grain harvest workers involved in the two-day operation on these hundred acres gather with their family for a celebration feast that overwhelmed us with course after course after course after course after course, including unmentionable meats unappealing to this vegan – but luckily just ripe ..
…consumed most of this very hot day in this cool moist rocky valley stream (found after a three hour drive the other day in search of the perfect place to bring our 80 sheeps-worth of filthy but gorgeous just shorn raw wool for washing al fresco, which proved difficult during these semi-drought conditions of no rainfall ..
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