Rainbow "Graffitti Falls"

I had to go find this place for myself after one of you blogged about it. Im all about finding new places to visit. I love mini adventures. I truely cant believe there is talk about ripping this place apart. If they where so worried about perserving the beauty and/or the wildlife why is there a bridge right in the middle of it.

The Halem Homestead

There were two Halem brothers who homesteaded in Lander around 1900. One was married the other was not. The property we bought has the remains of the cabin of the single brother on it. My husband and I have tried to find out information about the brother but have not been able to find out much except for one story. The story goes that he liked to go into town and have a few drinks and then would fall asleep in the back of his wagon. His horse knew the way home and would pull the wagon all three miles back to the homestead without any guidance. Don’t know if the story is completely true or not but if so that was one smart horse.

Signs. . .What to say about signs? They are oh so helpful and hurtful. They share information and impose rules and regulations, they can make us laugh and cringe. I find them curious, how they so easily control the populous, they ideally stand/hang and yet are so remarkably powerful.

This sign, hangs on the wall of a diner on your way to the restroom.

I post it here for several reasons:

First being it's a cute and it's funny, it makes for great wall décor for the diner in which it hangs.

Second, when I saw this sign I was with a friend of mine. She became incredibly offended by what it says, she thinks it is completely rude to the pig. Now in all fairness, my friend is vegetarian, doesn't use products tested on animals, volunteers at animal shelters and is very passionate about the treatment of animals. Needless to say this sign made her seriously upset, she wanted to take it down. Even knowing all this about her I still thought how strange. . . why get so upset over some restaurants' wall décor? It's just a sign.

Finally, it made me think back to an excerpt from About Cooking by John Berger. In this excerpt, "Why Look at Animals?," Berger says, "They were with man at the centre of his world. Such centrality was of course economic and productive. Whatever the changes in productive means and social organisation, men depended upon animals for food, work, transport, clothing." I think that this sign, in a nut shell, speaks directly to these notions that Berger is talking about.

Little did this sign know what sort of thought would actually be put into it. What sort of larger notions it was tackling when it was hung on the wall. How perspective changes depending on who is viewing it. And what sort of power it has.

City Dionysia The Bacchae: Bacchus Crazed Beats

City Dionysia The Bacchae: Bacchus Crazed Beats

The music of the Bacchae is totally is completely original and impromptu. To keep up with the dark, ominous theme of the play, the music is slightly off-key, random and definitely far from ordinary. A gamelan is played next to an electric guitar, a violin near maracas and in a corner a giant shell f a piano, The Colossus stands, an instrument capable of making the whole theatre quake with a single plink. As the show progressed, the music evolved and as the actors became more centered and focused, the musicians grew wilder and more Bacchus-crazed. The sample below you hear is the starting steps; what the musicians have now is much more frightening and wild.

“This was an inclusive, comprehensive process of music making in many guises – composition, improvisation, performance – research and development, chance and consequence (striking how rare this collective art-creation process actually occurs is in our musical culture). When it works, there is a hyper-exchange, learning process, give and take – and results that have meaning, depth, and musical POWER even in the most nuanced of tiny scrapes. When it doesn’t work, it can be exactly the opposite experience – a quest already in atrophy.”
- Glen Whitehead, Musical Director

“Sing the praises to Dionysus to the beat of the booming drum, exalting in ecstasy the master of ecstasy!”

- Next Post: Final Touches: Costumes & Makeup

Danielle Doyle

WIP

Windows were so dirty @ 'Guru Guru'... kind made for an interesting effect...

Here is the accomping poetry...I am quite rusty...

City never quite slept

As an isominia keep her in a radial dynamic

Dimness and wholeness clothed in bright

High above the pavement and business

Always as outside looking inward

As stars and soul should await their dawn

A history remains within the shroud

Above untamed and the tainted

The moon the other night

It was amazing it had a red hue to anyone who didnt get to see it. i managed to go to palmer park and get a few pictures.

Nature Breaking Through

Okay, so I began this class talking about how I felt about the mixing of man and nature. Has anyone ever watched anything on the Discovery Channel about what happens when there are no longer people? Have you ever noticed the little sprouts of grass that come through concrete? I think it is interesting how powerful nature is. It does make me kind of sad to see how much free open land man is taking up. I'm only 21, but I have lived here my entire life and I do remember when there were large sections of open land in the city... well, in the city and in what used to be the outskirts of the city...and what is now becoming the expanded parts of the city. Things like the pictures that I uploaded are everywhere, and it makes me grateful that at least nature still shows itself in the midst of all the man made objects. Granted unfortunately the grass is dead, this would be much more effective if the grass was alive and green, but it still makes my point. It is so interesting to me to see a line of nature against a line of concrete. I cant help but wonder if what the shows talk about is true, when there are no more humans, whenever that may be, what is going to happen to all the concrete and man made objects when nature attempts to reclaim its territory? Its very complex, I dont necessarily enjoy thinking about the end, but I sometimes cant help it. Just food for thought I suppose =)