tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49325768665989092792024-03-14T00:18:38.948-04:00musing is freeOccasional Musings of a visual artist who sometimes finds writing the necessary medium to refine or communicate an idea.Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-12528177324419609792018-01-12T15:03:00.000-05:002018-01-12T15:03:51.303-05:00Aggro Zen<h4>
A short story of pre-visualization.</h4>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">Aggro-</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">According to the Urban Dictionary this is </span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">a <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=term">term</a> that has been used for decades by surfers and other water-headed types to describe someone who is overly and unnecessarily aggressive, competitive, or asinine whilst in the water. prolonged exposure <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=to%20the">to the</a> aggro can ruin even the best session, so "deal" with them immediately (read: choke with your leash then return to your state of zen-like calm once they are <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead">dead</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">I like the image of chilled out surfers </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">choking </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">aggressive surfers with their leash</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> and then </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">calmly going back to a zen state with the waves…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">the breath of the planet… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">I recall a childhood memory of Mr. Dooley, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">our family protector, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">a spirit animal of German Shepherd - Collie decent</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">always with us, watchful, in the yard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">It is summer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Mr. Dooley, ever vigilant, resting in the shade,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">brother in the sandbox, nation building.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Upside down, I rest in the tree above them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">enter:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">a particular neighborhood cat</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">this cat </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">taunted us daily, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">pacing and calling out from the fence top.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">nameless, testing, marking, rattling its tail</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">several days passed in this way…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">It was hot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Texas Hot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">The particular cat sauntering along the fence line </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">measuring; </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">marking the boundary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Mounting the fence, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">walking the usual path</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">calling out..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">On the eighth day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Mr. Dooley rose stretching his body… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">he walked to the fence </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">In a singular, elegant gesture cleared the top</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">grabbing the cat by the head as he passed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">one smooth motion of his head upon landing, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">cat neck breaking, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">head releasing;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">cat body suspended weightless in backward rotation</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">and Mr. Dooley…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">bouncing back up</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">over the fence </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">to lay down in the shade of his favorite tree </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">ever watchful</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">as if </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">nothing </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">happened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">and that</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">is how I remember the zen duet with a particular cat.</span></div>
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Shut up and Paint.<br />
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If you find yourself unable to paint. Read the Manifesto below and take your dogma for a walk.<br />
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POST-DOGMATIST MANIFESTO<br />
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WE BELIEVE IN THE TRUE DOGMA,<br />
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AN UNLEASHED DOGMA,<br />
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ONE THAT WE ARE FREE OF CARING FOR.<br />
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A DOGMA THAT BARKS FEROCIOUSLY AT INTRUDING DOGMAS AND "ISMS" BUT IS ALSO TAME ENOUGH TO BE RIDDEN BY A CHILD.<br />
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A HOUSE BROKEN DOGMA.<br />
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WE BELIEVE IN A GUARD DOGMA THAT WILL RIP TO THE BONE ALL HISTORIANS AND CRITICS THAT WOULD TRY TO HARM ITS FREEORS.<br />
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IT KNOWS ITS PLACE.<br />
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IT WILL NOT ENTER IN THE CHURCH OR SCHOOL.<br />
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IF OUR FREE OF DOGMA/DOGMA FALLS INTO THE WRONG HANDS AND IS CORRUPTED OR IF SOMEONE TRIES TO DOGMATIZE OUR DOGMA OR IT OTHERWISE BECOMES A THREAT TO THE ARTISTS COMMUNITY, IT SHOULD BE GATHERED UP BY THE DOGMA CATCHERS AND PUT TO SLEEP.( 1987 )<br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Over the past few years, I have created a series of assemblage sculptures that share certain aesthetic qualities based on my desire to engage the viewer, encouraging them to look for meaning in the various attachments or the "other" story of the objects. The potential for these deeper-seated interpretations points not only to my interest in tribal art but also references the assemblage of Dada and Surrealism, and the derivative nature of contemporary pop culture.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> "</span><br /><br />
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Words are bound by culture. <br />
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Numbers and art transcend cultural form. <br />
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Sound and light can be described using numbers and when tallied and translated, the result can register as cold, void. <br />
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Expressing experience through waveform manipulation is still the simplest and most direct for me.<br />
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Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-760727030600885072014-10-24T17:51:00.001-04:002014-10-24T17:51:44.852-04:00Enter through the side doorThis episode of the Anomalous Travels series on view now <br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=14/10/24/633.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/14/10/24/s_633.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='280' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />20x16 inches <br />acrylic on canvas <br /><br />at Delurk Gallery, 207 West 6th Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101<br />Delurkgallery.com<br /><br />- jennimusing - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Delurk%20Gallery%20&z=10'>Delurk Gallery </a></p>Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-6237041742177342972014-10-05T14:38:00.001-04:002014-10-05T14:38:49.065-04:00Contrite <br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=14/10/05/652.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/14/10/05/s_652.jpg' border='0' width='143' height='280' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />- jennimusing - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-53535422334977360092014-10-03T15:38:00.001-04:002014-10-03T15:38:19.988-04:00ApologyIt felt so good to yell about the injustice-<br /><br /> I didn't think for a moment about you sitting beside me feeling like it was directed at you until you rose rapidly from your comfortable pose.<br /><br />I had relinquished control of the angry mare and she was crashing around the paddock.<br /><br />One hoof jammed into the water trough.<br />The fresh, sullied by the muck festering behind the shoe.<br />An avalanche of anatomy thrashing to the sawdust and powdered earth.<br /><br />Too late, she struck her cheek on the gate. <br />Wild eyes calmed by blood and bone,<br />Marrow loosed into muscle.<br /><br />Nauseous Realization...<br />That trusted soul was come to clear the spent flesh and dung.<br /><br />Leg lame, she struggles to stand.<br /><br />Walking? Where? And why. <br /><br />The furrier is gone.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=14/10/03/389.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/14/10/03/s_389.jpg' border='0' width='228' height='280' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />- jennimusing - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=The%20Den&z=10'>The Den</a></p>Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-3572079338385393482014-06-23T13:59:00.001-04:002014-06-23T13:59:45.377-04:00Shuffleton's Barbershop, "A Way Back Home"A Way Back Home - About the Movie | Hallmark Movie Channel<br /><br />http://www.hallmarkmoviechannel.com/hmc/awaybackhome/video/Preview/AWayBackHome<br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=14/06/23/507.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/14/06/23/s_507.jpg' border='0' width='245' height='280' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Filmed under the working title "Shuffleton's Barbershop" after the Norman Rockwell painting that inspired it... I had a great time on this project, and hope you all enjoy watching the story unfold. If you have been around the independent film scene or professional theatre in NC, you will certainly recognize some of the names, faces, and locales in this family friendly slice of the American storybook that has become part of the Hallmark tradition.<br /><br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br />Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-30932467145263526632014-06-04T12:09:00.001-04:002014-06-04T12:09:06.068-04:00Early Morning SpringBeads adorning grass<br />Water collected prisms<br />Liquid glass morning<br /> <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/85415694@N07/14345808595/'><img src='http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3845/14345808595_44ccf5b755_b.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='202' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />- jennimusing - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-74984451213004434452014-03-31T14:52:00.001-04:002014-03-31T14:52:49.893-04:00North Carolina film incentives are in tact through 2014North Carolina film incentives are in tact through 2014, but the current NC Legislature is promising to allow the sun to set on incentives on January 1, 2015.<br /><br /><br /><br />Just what are these "Film Incentives?" <br />In "Producer talk" they are as follows courtesy of the NC film office:<br /><br /><br /><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=14/03/31/688.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/14/03/31/s_688.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='54' align='left' style='margin:5px'></a><br /><br />Refundable Tax Credit:<br />North Carolina offers a 25% refundable tax credit. The 25% refundable tax credit is in effect for a single production who report the qualified expenses on their tax return beginning with the taxable year 2011.<br /><br />SUMMARY OF NORTH CAROLINA REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT<br /><br />Incentive. - 25% refundable tax credit<br /><br />Per Project Cap. - $20 million (television series are not subject to per project cap)<br /><br />Minimum Spend. - $250,000 <br /><br />Annual Cap. - No cap.<br /><br />Qualified Labor. - First $1 million of each resident & nonresident qualify<br /><br />Loan Out Withholding. -Yes. 4%<br /><br />Audit. - North Carolina pays for the audit<br /><br />Screen Credit Required. - Yes<br /><br />Qualifying Expenses:<br />Goods / Services / Compensation & Wages / Production-Related Insurance / Fringes / Per Diems / Living Expenses & Stipends<br /><br />Qualifying Productions:<br />Feature Films / Direct-to-Video / Episodic Television Series / Movies of the Week / Television Mini-Series / Reality Television / Commercials / Documentaries / Animation Productions / Webisodes<br />Application<br /><br />File Intent to Film online form prior to start of production<br /><br />State-Owned Property. - Fee-free usage<br /><br />Sunset Date. - January 1, 2015<br /><br />Enacted Bill Numbers:<br />H 1973 (SL 2010-147); H 713 (SL 2010-89); S847 (SL 2012-194)<br /><br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Winston-Salem,%20NC&z=10'>Winston-Salem, NC</a></p>Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-45837812218517599802014-03-02T16:11:00.001-05:002014-06-23T12:17:51.614-04:00Rousseau, Henri « 20th Century Artists of NoteA worthwhile Link for anyone unfamiliar with the tax collector artist... A master of rhythms; under-appreciated in his time.<br /><br /><br /><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=14/06/23/469.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/14/06/23/s_469.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='223' align='right' style='margin:5px'></a><br /><a href="http://artmight.com/Artists/Rousseau-Henri/rousseau-265845p.html#.UxOQrM30vuU.blogger">rousseau « Rousseau Henri « Artists « Art might - just art</<br />Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-76617945175520497582014-01-27T07:56:00.001-05:002014-06-23T12:28:19.962-04:00A Freedom Place: The Road Home: Manhattan to Austin. 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The screening of this film was postponed till February due to inclement weather. I hope to see you there!Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-35099337157293755292013-01-08T11:36:00.002-05:002013-01-08T11:36:53.195-05:00New Year, New Format<a href="http://jennimusing.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">jennimusing is now on Tumblr</a><br />
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Why? I'm combining Musing is Free and Art About Town into a single feed and establishing an easier way to update folks on my visual artwork specifically. Over the years, I've started several blogs and need to bring my various feeds into focus.<br />
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<a href="http://delurkgallery.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Delurk Gallery</a> is now a full-time preoccupation that necessitates this change, so Musing is Free and Art About Town will become a single personal point of view blog (musing is free) covering all sorts of creative expression and the new Tumblr feed will be dedicated to studio art, specifically my own.<br />
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I'll be interlinking these blogs with each other and with other relevant websites and blogs so please continue to check in to see what's happening and please, don't hesitate to comment!<br />
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National Delurking week is January 14-21 so chime in!Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-24918044981003762422012-12-04T14:12:00.001-05:002012-12-04T14:12:43.277-05:00http://myemail.constantcontact.com/December-Gallery-Hop-News-from-the-Downtown-Art-District.html?soid=1101296635754&aid=2oUt4jeHmyM<a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/December-Gallery-Hop-News-from-the-Downtown-Art-District.html?soid=1101296635754&aid=2oUt4jeHmyM">http://myemail.constantcontact.com/December-Gallery-Hop-News-from-the-Downtown-Art-District.html?soid=1101296635754&aid=2oUt4jeHmyM</a>Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-360381203313053802012-10-30T21:21:00.001-04:002012-10-30T21:21:56.359-04:00A Freedom Place: Did You Get Your Fear Shot?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BvOtWAT6H2A/UI8_b1anxjI/AAAAAAAAAFU/ocRyAcThHXQ/s1600/evil+nurse.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BvOtWAT6H2A/UI8_b1anxjI/AAAAAAAAAFU/ocRyAcThHXQ/s1600/evil+nurse.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
<a href="http://afreedomplace.blogspot.com/2012/10/did-you-get-your-fear-shot.html?spref=bl">A Freedom Place: Did You Get Your Fear Shot?</a>: Oh the Betrayal. “Go take this piece of paper through those double doors,” my mother quietly ordered in a tone of grave responsibility...Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-17061148596666446932012-10-16T14:37:00.001-04:002012-10-16T14:37:53.652-04:00Les III is at Delurk this month!W1004 REL HOTPICKSMusingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-66349858598864245292012-10-04T08:28:00.000-04:002012-10-04T09:28:17.233-04:00Strings detached<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J2PIxM-Fw64/T6LLdPRzeoI/AAAAAAAAAHA/AgJsIIx1JTo/s1600/IMG_7446.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J2PIxM-Fw64/T6LLdPRzeoI/AAAAAAAAAHA/AgJsIIx1JTo/s320/IMG_7446.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />Spring brought a rich uninterrupted carpet of garden thyme to my doorstep, but what caused the vaguely rectangular hole? Well, I know, but I'd rather muse about some mysterious occurrence an unexplained core sampling of the herb bed by unseen mischievous "doers."<br />I pondered this off and on over the summer and now it's October. All that pondering is beginning to produce results.<br />Here is the first.<br /><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/101829247002207308086/MusingIsFree?authkey=Gv1sRgCISj2NPA8_WpRQ#5795445328280832786'><img src='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1hBUClvfeR4/UG2O0gtgSxI/AAAAAAAAAyM/H7AHesvbj0k/s288/0.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a><br /><br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Muse%20Scenic%20Studio&z=10'>Muse Scenic Studio</a></p>Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-31491731205442201542012-10-04T08:00:00.001-04:002012-10-04T08:00:59.588-04:00A Freedom Place: "The Perilousness of Positive Thinking"Another worthy post from a high school friend...<br />
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<a href="http://afreedomplace.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-perilousness-of-positive-thinking.html?spref=bl">A Freedom Place: "The Perilousness of Positive Thinking"</a>: Is optimism a new form of social control? Barbara Ehrenreich thinks so. This isn't a new video but its still pertinent and worth a view. ...<br />
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Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-11417815393082653762012-08-19T00:03:00.000-04:002012-08-19T00:03:07.094-04:00"Coming Soon" is now showing at Delurk Gallery<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jRQegZX2JYQ/UDBfxMkEAII/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ZMD4G-b8I7A/s1600/IMG_8790.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jRQegZX2JYQ/UDBfxMkEAII/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ZMD4G-b8I7A/s320/IMG_8790.JPG" /></a><br />
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The Entire Install is titled: "Coming Soon" and foreshadows a larger more elaborate installation set for the month of February 2013.</div>
<br />Live performers to include the film troupe from the first cut and special guests.<br /><br />Film Credits:<br />Conspiring Carnies Productions presents:<br />"Traveling Attraction"<br />Film Concept: Dane Walters<br />Production Design: Jennifer Wynn O'Kelly<br />Director of Photography: Jerry Cooper <br />Set Dressing: Jennifer O'Kelly, Dane Walters, Patrick O'Kelly<br />Gadget Development: Patrick O'Kelly<br />Improv Troupe: Molly Grace Simpson, Jennifer O'Kelly, Dane Walters, Keava O'Kelly<br /><br />Fun had by: All<br /><br />I'll post my musings about this later this week. I'm still thinking about it... :-)<br /><br /><br />To see more of what is happening check out: </span></div>
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Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-72334679236569391132012-08-13T06:01:00.001-04:002012-08-13T06:01:58.002-04:00A Freedom Place: Take That Ass of Yours and Butt In<a href="http://afreedomplace.blogspot.com/2012/06/take-that-ass-of-yours-and-butt-in.html?spref=bl">A Freedom Place: Take That Ass of Yours and Butt In</a>: "You're standing on the yellow liiiiiine. .." sweetly sang the 30-something mother to her son as if he'd forgotten to say thank you to the i...Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-86635564805449440732012-05-04T08:54:00.001-04:002012-05-04T08:54:15.909-04:00A Freedom Place: Stop Yankin' My Chain!I know, This is someone else's blog, but I'm glad she'd blogging and it's worth a read... :-)<br />
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<a href="http://afreedomplace.blogspot.com/2012/05/stop-yankin-my-chain.html?spref=bl">A Freedom Place: Stop Yankin' My Chain!</a>: Letting go. Doesn't anyone have trouble with this? I'm sure my readers have no issue with attachment. In fact you're probably sitting on the...Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4932576866598909279.post-4011883578652414532012-01-15T12:45:00.001-05:002012-01-15T12:45:06.951-05:00Rest and reflectionI hope to begin regular entries in the weeks ahead. <br /><br />This is to be the first post connecting this blog to my Instagram feed. If you are interested in the instamatic effect of smart phones on our visual dialogue, perhaps you will download Instagram and add to the visual stream. <br /><br />http://instagr.am/p/hbyuF/<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Musingisfreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778544236622828731noreply@blogger.com0