Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Yard Art on Thursdays
I'm sorry but because of the blizzard (Nor'Easter Dec 26-27) I couldn't find any yard art exposed above the snowline. So first here's a shot of a snow pile and then there's a yard art shot from back in October:
to all my loyal Yard Art bloggers!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Merry Christmas!
no flash
reflected in a mirror
with flash
The Christmas tree in La Piccolo Leguria in Port Washington, NY hangs from the ceiling.
My next post will be Ruby Tuesday on Monday the 27th
Merry Christmas to all my blogger friends!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Ruby Tuesday
RUBY TUESDAY
I drove around the neighborhood this week looking for Ruby Tuesday possibilities and found these two Christmas yard art items. Isn't the 2nd one unusual?
I'd like to wish all my Ruby Tuesday players a very Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Shadow Shot Sunday
I've posted this Buddha Gautama before but this time I caught it in the late morning sun with shadows.
Visit Tracy of Hey Harriet for other people who post to SSS.
Quote for Living
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Fascinating Book Covers
Maybe the most famous book cover of all time:
THE GREAT GATSBY by F Scott Fitzgerald
Some trivia about the cover:
The cover of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of jacket art in American literature.[7] A little-known artist named Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it. The cover was completed before the novel, with Fitzgerald so enamored of it that he told his publisher he had "written it into" the novel.[7]
After several initial sketches of various completeness, Cugat produced the Art Deco-style gouache of a pair of eyes hovering over the bright lights of an amusement park. The woman has lips and no nose. Descending from the right eye is a green tear. The irises depict a pair of reclining nudes.[7]
Fitzgerald's remarks about incorporating the painting into the novel led to the interpretation that the eyes are reminiscent of those of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg (the novel's erstwhile proprietor of a faded commercial billboard near George Wilson's auto-repair shop) which Fitzgerald described as "blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose." Although this passage has some resemblance to the painting, a closer explanation can be found in the description of Daisy Buchanan as the "girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs".[7]
On November 7, 1924, Fitzgerald wrote decisively to Perkins — "I have now decided to stick to the title I put on the book [...] Trimalchio in West Egg" — but was eventually persuaded that the reference was too obscure and that people would not be able to pronounce it. His wife and Perkins both expressed their preference for The Great Gatsby and, in December, Fitzgerald agreed.[9] A month before publication, after a final review of the proofs, he asked if it would be possible to re-title it Trimalchio or Gold-Hatted Gatsby, but Perkins advised against it. On March 19, Fitzgerald asked if the book could be renamed Under the Red, White and Blue, but it was at that stage too late to change. The Great Gatsby was published on April 10, 1925. Fitzgerald remarked that "the title is only fair, rather bad than good".[10]
After several initial sketches of various completeness, Cugat produced the Art Deco-style gouache of a pair of eyes hovering over the bright lights of an amusement park. The woman has lips and no nose. Descending from the right eye is a green tear. The irises depict a pair of reclining nudes.[7]
Fitzgerald's remarks about incorporating the painting into the novel led to the interpretation that the eyes are reminiscent of those of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg (the novel's erstwhile proprietor of a faded commercial billboard near George Wilson's auto-repair shop) which Fitzgerald described as "blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose." Although this passage has some resemblance to the painting, a closer explanation can be found in the description of Daisy Buchanan as the "girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs".[7]
Title
The last piece to fall into place was the title. Fitzgerald was always ambivalent about it, shifting between Gatsby; Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires; Trimalchio; Trimalchio in West Egg; On the Road to West Egg; Under the Red, White, and Blue; Gold-Hatted Gatsby; and The High-Bouncing Lover. Initially, he preferred Trimalchio, after the crude parvenu in Petronius's Satyricon. Unlike Fitzgerald's reticent protagonist, Trimalchio actively participated in the audacious and libidinous orgies that he hosted. That Fitzgerald refers to Gatsby by the proposed title just once in the entire novel reinforces the view that it would have been a misnomer. As Tony Tanner observes, however, there are subtle similarities between the two.[8]On November 7, 1924, Fitzgerald wrote decisively to Perkins — "I have now decided to stick to the title I put on the book [...] Trimalchio in West Egg" — but was eventually persuaded that the reference was too obscure and that people would not be able to pronounce it. His wife and Perkins both expressed their preference for The Great Gatsby and, in December, Fitzgerald agreed.[9] A month before publication, after a final review of the proofs, he asked if it would be possible to re-title it Trimalchio or Gold-Hatted Gatsby, but Perkins advised against it. On March 19, Fitzgerald asked if the book could be renamed Under the Red, White and Blue, but it was at that stage too late to change. The Great Gatsby was published on April 10, 1925. Fitzgerald remarked that "the title is only fair, rather bad than good".[10]
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Yard Art on Thursdays
Santa sits on the stoop of this house and makes a list of good little boys and girls...
What have you got for yard art this week?
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Ruby Tuesday
Here is my most favorite shot of Santa Claus. I took this shot at the Atlas Mall in Glendale, NY last year.
What have you got for Ruby Tuesday?
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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