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Date: January 2004
Hello Everyone!
Happy New Year! Live With Intention!
"Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Choose with no regret.
Continue to learn.
Appreciate your friends.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is."
(Mary Anne Radmacher)
As we start the New Year we are sending our love to you across the miles and we wish you all a Happy and Healthy 2004!
It is a time of changes, of new beginnings. If we don't like something, it is time to change it! Self responsibility is what it's all about. We are used to turning our power over to others. We give the responsibility for our spiritual life over to priests, ministers, or gurus. We give the responsibility for our safety and daily lives over to our government. We give the responsibility for our health over to our doctors to heal us or fix us. Since it's desirable to be an active participant in our own lives, I thought of the above quote. It is a poignant reminder of what life could be like. This quote also sums up what our trip is all about. Each day is like a clean slate and we never know what will happen. As slowly we detach from all the details and routines of our life in a large home in Hawaii, we are left with our simple life in the Kombi. We definitely spend a good portion of each day just being in the present moment and being open to what comes along. We give thanks daily for our health, each other, family and friends, and our wonderful life on the road. I'm sure your list is a long one too!!
We drove on to the large Star of Tasmania ferry the eve of Dec 4th and have been discovering this amazing jewel ever since. We stayed with warm and welcoming Servas hosts in the north. Joseph was invited to talk to a group of approx. 40 people about his background, health, and world affairs. It was a lively and interesting talk and well received by everyone. He has a lot of information to share and it was reassuring from the comments to realize that people are questioning what the media is feeding them. Thinking IS good!
We have worked our way around the rugged and windy west coast. Around every bend there is another beautiful beach, untouched coastline, flower filled pasture or shady forest. It's like living in a travel brochure, only these glossy pictures are even better! The people are down to earth and easy going. When someone in Australia says, "No Worries" they mean it. Joseph has a knack of finding the best secluded spots to pull off and we become a 'view with a van'. Sometimes we stay for a couple days and just read, relax and hike around. Otherwise we batten down the hatches and go out to see what we can see!!!
We've climbed "the Nut", near Stanley, a 1000 ft. rock with 360 degree views of the north coast. We drove to "The Edge of the World" near Arthur River (next stop South America), then down through the mountains to Strahan. There we met a couple who has been traveling around Australia in a van for 7 years. They went off after he took early retirement and haven't gone home yet. They love it! Together we went to the local BBQ and Christmas Carol sing in the park. Onward into the gold, tin and silver mining ranges we stopped by a great mining museum in Zeehan, then drove through the eerie moonscape which is a by-product of mining in Queenstown. There we parked in a new friend's private quarry, turned park, for the night. In the water were enormous 2 ft. rainbow trout that he fed every morning. Good thing we were vegans or there would have been some fishing lines thrown in that night! We found a small peninsula only the size of the van, near Toolah, with water on three sides and not another soul for miles. It was our private resort and swimming hole for two nights and three days. It really is a camper's paradise in Tasmania.
We met my daughter Mariah and her boyfriend Shane, in New Norfolk on Dec 23rd. On her 26th birthday I took her out for lunch and a good long visit. For Christmas we treated to a tasty Chinese dinner then we all went back into the hills near Ellendale to camp. On the way there we asked for instructions and 2 guys dressed as elves took us home to a party. The waitress at the restaurant wanted to know where we were going for Christmas and invited us to camp free on her families' remote, picturesque land. There were platypus, wallabies, Tasmanian devils, kookaburras, opossums, quoles (wild cats) and always a hope to see a Tasmanian tiger (only legends now). We took a long walk through a mystical rain forest and communed with enormous old growth gum trees, with bases that took 6 to 8 people to go around. After the hike Mariah and Shane cooked up mashed potatoes and cranberries, while I whipped up gravy, mushrooms and tofu, and stuffing on our 2 burner stove. We had our small decorated tree, lit up our string of lights, and the computer played classic carols. We finished with apple and walnut Christmas bread, compliments of a local bakery. We sat by a big roaring fire that evening. What a Christmas!! Home is where the heart is!
And so it goes..........................................................We have another month to explore Tasmania. The weather got really cold in the mountains but now it is warm again. It's that Antarctic wind! Until then we hope that we all have a year of "Living with Intention!" Take care and Keep Smiling! Thanks for keeping in touch!
Love, xoxoxoxxo Nancy & Joseph
Santa corroborating with his reindeer in the mountains of Tasmania.
View while hiking near Wineglass Bay.
Friendly wild parrot looking for a treat.
Part of a 400 ft. high waterfalls in Field National Park.
Path through the forest, around Dove Lake, in Cradle National Park.
My daughter Mariah and
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Queen bee for a day!


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Storytelling. Often used as a term for good writing, but the key to success with blogging is mastering the art of storytelling in your content marketing campaigns. Storytelling matters because it is unique to communicate to your audience. A captivating story encourages sharing and often goes viral on the internet.
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The answer to the questions your visitor is asking is why you matter to them. Why your product or service matters to them. Create persuasive, engaging content that you readers can relate to. Be consistent with your storytelling and make sure you've defined exactly who your target avatar is.
2. Great storytelling is original
Let's assume that your product or service is similar to what your competition offers. In this case, discovering what differentiates your offering from your competition is so important. Many plot lines for the most famous and classical stories from around the world are similar. What separates them is the hero of the story! Your differentiators are the hero's of your story. They solve problems for your customers so make sure they are unique and powerful.
3. Great storytelling is empathetic
If you want to speak to your visitor and relate to them in a deep way, you need to feel their pain. Empathy encourges your visitor to take action. This is why it is so important to know who your target avatar is, what problems are they facing and how can your offering help them solve that?
Research your competitors, you need to know the offerings in our niche, inside out. Only then can you deliver the best content that's personal, relatable and original.

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A guy that's constantly dating different women or is involved with more than one woman at the same time tends to be utterly selfish. A guy that does such a thing must be a lustful, greedy loser without consideration for the feelings of their female counterparts.
A guy that runs after different girls and gets bored easily isn't a real man. He should grow up and comprehend that a relationship needs work and isn't always fun. When he loses the spark, he should work on it, instead of giving up and finding a new one.
A guy, who dates multiple women, plays the numbers game, and doesn't want to settle down with you, isn't a serious candidate for a long-term relationship.
A Real Man Knows That One Woman Is Enough:
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A real man knows that love is one of the most amazing feelings in the world. He knows that in order to find true love, he must have a partner with whom he can act like best friends and lovers at the same time. It is actually the best type of love.
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He might fear commitment, but he does not run from it; he chooses to face his fear like a real man.
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Born in 1997, Michael graduated from Central High School in 2015, and is now enrolled at Fresno City College. He's an enthusiastic fisherman, and caught the biggest trout on a trip to Lake Almanor in the summer of 2010, as well as another five big ones in 2013 and more in 2017. He's a huge baseball fan, and follows the Fresno Grizzlies and the San Francisco Giants, cheering them to two World Series championships in three years, after a 56 year dry spell. He played on the Fresno Junior Monsters travel hockey team, which won the Bantam A level NORCAL Championship in the spring of 2012, and finished first in the league in 2013. He continues to play in the Fresno Adult Hockey League, where his older brother Johnny is a teammate. He attends Fresno City College, with an interest in criminology.
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|For his 4th birthday, Mikie road the train to Sacramento and visited the California State Railroad Museum
|Mikie and mom on the train
|Tim, Teri & Mikie Liddle in the museum
|6th Birthday Swim Party
|In lava hills near Mono Lake
|Four wheel drivin'
|Mikie, December 2003
|At Dinosaur Park. Arizona, 2004
|With cousins Jacob & Helena Snyder in Ohio, 2004
|Soccer, fall 2005
|Ready for hockey
|With great grandma Helen, June 2003
|Birthday cakes reflect Mikie's changing interests
|Mikie with Librado & Pablo, 10th birthday, July 23, 2007
|Mikie & dad Tim at a Fresno Grizzlies baseball game
|Makin' S'mores
|At the Mariposa County Fair with friend Pablo
|Mikie, Pablo & Librado
|On the ice (Mike looking straight toward camera)
|On the climbing rock at Mammoth Lakes
|Defending the net in a birthday water polo game
|Mikie & best buddy Griffin Flores at the Sharks game, January 2008
|Mikie & Griffin on a salamander hunt
|Mikie tests his pitching speed at a Fresno Grizzlies game
|Holding your mouth right is half the battle!
|Mikie warms up the catcher
|Driving in a run
|Hallway hockey in Vegas
|A mighty swing!
|Mikie, just before his 12th birthday
|Fishing in a Mississippi Bayou, June 2009
|Catfish caught in Jupiter Florida
|Mikie with life-long buddy Zack Millis in Missouri
|Rockin' out
|Mikie on his 12th birthday, with Grandpa Dick
|Making the play at first
|A mighty swing
|Mikie makes the put out
|Can he beat out the blooper?
|Mikie on the mound
|In uniform for the junior high El Capitan Eagles, 2011
|Junior High football - a new experience for Mikie
|Mikie's "big one" from summer 2010 at Lake Almanor
|Fishing in Black Rock Reservoir, June 2011
|Practicing guitar in 2012 at age 15
|Street hockey with high school classmate Aaron R
|Armed and always dangerous
|We are the champions!
|With mom Teri in Las Vegas, February 2012
|Mikie doesn't take many faceoffs, but he's won 2/3 of them in 2012-13, including this one vs. Santa Clara
|Mikie moves the puck at the Las Vegas CAN AM Challenge, October 2012
|Logan Errotabere, Brennan Achee, Andrew Pellegrino, Mike Perez, Mikie Liddle being kids in Las Vegas
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in front of the Hockey Hall of Fame, in Toronto
|Mikie and the Monsters vs. Oakville Rangers, Silver Stick final in Canada
|Mikie celebrates the winning goal vs. Denver Pioneers at Colorado Springs (from game video by Goalmaster 28 Productions)
|Team dinner at Colorado Springs tournament: Mikie Liddle, Ryan Foster, Wolfie Boehringer, Max Turk
|Mikie scores against Santa Clara at the 2014 NORCAL finals, March 2014
|Autumn, Russell, Max, Wolfie and Mikie, graduation party, June 2015
|Teri and Mikie hiking in the eastern Sierra, summer 2015
|Mikie and Frank after adult hockey August 2016
|Mikie helps nephew Jack celebrate his second birthday
|Hiking at Courtright Reservoir with Grandpa Dick, Aunt Jennifer, Wes Thiessen and mom Teri
|Mikie and Lizzie, July 2016
|Hiking at San Joaquin Gorge with Lizzie and Teri
|Mikie fishing in the Feather River, June 2017
|Teri, Mikie and Lizzie at Lassen National Park
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then i used it to make this chocolate banana tofu pie with pecan crust. the girls and i had the amazing wooden monkey tofu pie on the weekend, and i was craving more. i based it on this recipe.
crust: 1 cup pecans + 1 cup dates, in food processor, pressed into dish
filling: 1 package silken tofu + 1 banana + 1 dark chocolate bar + 1 tablespoon cocoa, all in food processor, poured on top. then in the fridge


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Contemporary Examples of megan
Paramedics were also on the scene, and Megan survived, though with a significant brain injury.
"I asked Megan what had happened," Johnson wrote in the report.
Going played Arlene, the star of the soap opera that Mel writes for, who mentors Megan.
Who he played on Mad Men: McGinley played a writer on the soap opera that Megan acted on for a spell.
When Don bails the next day, and Amy awkwardly bounces, Megan is once again left all alone, and frustrated.Mad Men's 'The Runaways': Three-Way Sex and Self-Mutilation in the Craziest Episode Yet
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Historical Examples of megan
Megan'll get his mates to belt him—bein' foreign like he is.The Pigeon (Third Series Plays)
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So, having fooled the devil, Megan was able to recover her lost cow.Legend Land, Vol. 1
Perhaps Megan was at her window, looking out at the blossom, thinking of him!
From the corner he could only just see Megan, a long way ahead now.
Spring, with its rush of passion, its flowers and song-the spring in his heart and Megan's!


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Smith Travel Research Renews Partnership with Cornell Center for Hospitality Research
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Smith Travel Research Renews Partnership with Cornell Center for Hospitality Research
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Srinagar, December 21
A day-long training programme on Online Registration of Service Voters, Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System, Electoral Roll Management, National Electoral Roll & Purification Programme, and ERO Net was held here today.
The session was held under the supervision of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Shantmanu. Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Deputy District Election Officers, Electoral Registration Officers, Assistance Electoral Registration Officers and other concerned were also attended the programme.
While highlighting the evolution of electoral processes, the CEO said that the aim of these electoral systems designed by the Election Commission of India is to ensure that no voter is left behind in exercising his franchise.
On the occasion, the participants were told that through the newly developed Online Registration of Service Voters and Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System, the Service voters, including armed forces personal (serving outside their constituency), can cast their votes in elections through e-postal ballot, which would reduce the delay experienced in the present system in two-way transmission of ballot paper by the postal services.
= Later, the CEO, urged the officers to ensure successful implementation of new electoral programmes in the state.


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Visiting the Kensington Gardens: A Rewarding Experience in London
Kensington Gardens In London London is one such place where you can still find traces of royalty in its architecture, arts, and culture. In fact, the city has numerous buildings and places that testify to its still existing noble heritage such as the Buckingham Palace. [Read More]


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Late for Family Friday...again!
This is our niece, who is a big helper where babies are concerned, it was almost like having a babysitter around, but FREE!! And yes, most of the baby food did go into Ella's mouth!
This is Uncle Richard taking a picture of me, taking a picture of him!
These two gals represent first and fourth generations, it is Michael's grandma with Ella.
I have pictures of all the kids each fall in front of this sign, it is in Greenbluff WA, a family favorite around Spokane, and one of my favorite fall traditions,
This is quite possibly my new favorite photo.
We had to leave the pumpkin patch before choosing any pumpkins because of some disobedience and whining issues. I think I was more bummed about it than they were. Lest you think we are cruel and unusual, we are going to the pumpkin patch at least two more times before the season ends!
Don't forget to enter the giveaway, and I hope your week was as wonderful as ours!
4 comments:
- Vintage Mommy said...
These are GREAT pictures! What a super family tradition. I bet the kids love to see how much they've grown from year to year.
You're not as mean as you think. We've left establishments without food, pumpkin patches without pumpkins, etc. many times.
- October 20, 2008 at 8:30 AM
- Ruby (Mouth) said...
We do the pumpkin patch every year as well. My son and daughter love the ponies and of course, the mazes. You have some cuties as well.
BTW, I have been writing poetry for about fifteen years. Started in high school.
- October 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Brandy's Adventure said...
Looks like a lot of fun! It's great that we make memories for our families, no matter where we are right?
I just read your post about going to Houston and I think that's great! I think you will like Texas. It's not as bad as everyone thinks, of course I haven't lived there. I will be praying for your move cause I know what you are going through. It's a tough thing, especially right before Christmas.
It's funny that you say you didn't even have any deire to move to Spokane because that's how I felt/feel about California. I have always said though, that my heart goes wherever my husband and kids are!
- October 20, 2008 at 8:35 PM
- Jodie Allen said...
OHHH! That makes me miss Spokane SO badly! Chris and I were just talking about Greenbluffs the other day! We picked out first family pumpkins there and cut down our first christmas tree! we LOVED that place! SO incredibly beautiful!
- October 21, 2008 at 2:34 PM


text: For my nieces this Christmas, I decided to make them each an apron. My niece Ellie inspired me as she has been taking a cooking class at school, as well as they all love to cook with Grandma Pat! So I went to work, finding a cute cupcake fabric. As a guide, I used the Martha Stewart Pattern from her Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts. Each apron has 3 large pockets and their names embroidered. They turned out so cute! I hope they enjoy them for years to come!


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Latest Fashion Jewelry Trends 2018-2019
Fashion Jewelry Trends 2017-18: Fashion is the key which depicts your lifestyle. It's difficult to keep yourself aware of the instantly changing fashion trends specifically when you are searching for jewelry trends. You can modify your fashion jewelry trends by putting a glance on the updated fashion trends each year.
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Fashion Jewelry Trends 2017-18
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There are varied ways in which to form your hand jewelry say one thing attractive and multiple rings are the best one. The final rule recommends avoiding sporting two massive rings when you have short or thick fingers. Stack smaller rings on high of every different ring to provide them larger impact.
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The trend has been the most favorite fashion trend among models, pop stars, and celebrities, showing around the necks of Edward Kendall Jenner, Rihanna, and Gigi Hadid. Therefore, you'll be able to tie it sort of a bow or secure a decorative clasp for a bolo necklace-like impact. From high-end styles on the runways to thrifty versions found in the best online stores, chokers create obtainable to the plenty.
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Take a detailed medical history and review any images, xrays or scans you may have.
Then conduct a thorough examination of your body in order to determine both the source and site of your symptoms (we refer for imaging only when required).
After that your Osteopath will discuss your diagnosis and treatment options to determine the best management plan for you (referral if required).
Followed by your Osteopathic treatment and the provision of specific educational material to help manage or prevent your symptoms from recurring.
Each consultation is approximately 40 minutes in duration and we ask that you arrive 10 minutes prior to your initial consultation to complete the required forms.
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We apply a variety of Osteopathic treatment techniques including:
Is utilised to mechanically stretch the skin, fascia and muscle tissue to enhance their range of motion, improve fluid flow and modulate neural activity to relieve pain and restore function
Is the precise application of very small movements to joints with minimal force which will often produce a "clicking†sound. This modality is used to provide pain relief and optimise motion to stiff and painful joints.
Involves applying a gentle stretch by the osteopath, with the patient then gently contracting the muscle against resistance. These techniques are great for lengthening shortened tissue and removing fluid congestion to relieve painful conditions.
Which involves gentle rhythmic movements of limbs whilst the body is positioned in a way that puts tension along specific nerves to improve their mobility and remove any points of adhesion to decrease pain and tingling along the nerves path.
Used in the management of internal organs and the affects they have on the musculoskeletal system through their common interfaces. It involves gentle stretching and mobilisation of the visceral organs.
Are extremely gentle release techniques where the osteopath holds the body in a position of ease to decrease nerve stimulation and allow structures and fluid to move without interference of the surrounding structures. These techniques are highly suitable for infants, the physically frail and those in extremely acute pain states.
Is an important part of the rehabilitation process, to enhance the manual therapy given and to help prevent reoccurrence of the pain/injury.
Is designed to improve circulation, decrease pain and ease muscle tension
Is the use of tiny hair thin acupuncture needles by qualified practitioners to deactivate trigger points, loosen shortened muscles/connective tissue and improve neurological systems. People experience this treatment modality differently, though most feel no pain at all as the needles are inserted.
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David Cushway: Casting a MountainPosted: March 24, 2015 Filed under: SUBJECT, Subject - Contextualisation | Tags: art, art research, artist, context, cushway, david cushway, fine art, mountain, snowdon, student Leave a comment
David Cushway is an example of an artist connecting nature and art, bring parts of nature into the gallery space by creating casts of it. Cushway created a cast of part of the summit of Snowdon.
"I was commissioned to cast the summit of the mountain, an icon of Wales' national identity. I went to the summit and cast a small section of it; from the cast I made a model in unfired clay. Housed in a glass vitrine, it creates its own microclimate, representing the climatic experiences of the mountain. The piece refers to the mountains origins, as it began as clay on the seabed, and through igneous and metamorphic activity over millions of years it became the mountain we see today" – David Cushway
This artist also references the fact that the art material he uses originated from nature something that I have been thinking about through my artistic practice. This artist's work showcases an example of how you can create a connection between art and nature and is relevant to my work.
ROMANTIC LANDSCAPES: A lecture by Jon ClarksonPosted: November 13, 2014 Filed under: SUBJECT, Subject - Contextualisation | Tags: anselm kiefer, art, art lecture, art research, art student, artists, artists research, caspar david friedrich, francis darby, jan van goyen, landscape art, Landscape painting, lecture, maria neudecker, mark rothko, Richard Wilson, romantic landscape, romantic landscape painting Leave a comment
What is my place in the world?
Do I belong there?
Caspar David Friedrich – Monk by the Sea
Comparing it to a classical Landscape – Richard Wilson, The White Monk 1760-65
Caspar David Friedrich – Morning in the Sudeten Mountains 1810-11
How does Friedrich's painting differ from wilsons? Colour palette, mood.
How do the painters think about religion?
Wilson seems more distant from religion than Friedrich. Friedrich is thinking of religion organising our relationship with the natural world.
In Caspar David Friedrich – Monk by the Sea – What time of day is it?
Written about as a lightless dawn. For the monk, the dawn isn't important as it is for the pair on the mountain in the other piece.
Do you think that this place is real or imaginary?
It is a culmination of experience . Long flat horizon. Empty paintings.
Jan Van Goyen – View of Harlem 1646
Alternating pattern of light and dark, Colours lighter in the distance, more full of colour in the foreground. There is more cloud perspective than in friedrichs work. Friedrich's is much flatter. Distance becomes flatter and more immense because there are no markers in it.
Mark Rothko 1969 – Is there still distance in this picture? Does it look like a place to you? There are similarities to Friedrich's work. It is stark and there is a fluctuation between flatness and deep space.
There is a lot of fine detail in Friedrich's Monk by the sea. It makes it look more like a portrait of the place. When you notice a painting has fine detail, you walk in closer to it. Having an intimate relationship with the work. The artist must be thinking about where he wants the spectator to be. The monk isn't entirely resolved in himself.
What is the relationship between these figures and their surroundings?
Caspar David Friedrich – The wanderer above the sea of mist
The figure is taking possession of a view, dominating the landscape. He wants to be there and he is in control.
The Chasseur in the Forest 1814
The landscape is dominating the figure here, he has no horse, he is lost and not in control. He's french, the forest is german. Friedrich is a nationalist. German land rising up against the french invaders. Vulnerable.
Francis Danby – Romantic Woodland landscape 1824-5
Will nature accept us? Romantics think of nature in a more psychological way than an ecological way.
Anselm Kiefer, Varus 1976 – For Kiefer, Germany begins with Slaughter in the forest.
Marina Neudecker – Things can change in a day 2009
Models in vitrines suspended in liquid. Does the vitrine intensify the situation or distance you from it? Like a cinema screen, they encourage you to project yourself into the scene.
How does a group rather than a solitary figure alter the confrontation with nature?
Caspar David Friedrich – Chalk Cliffs at Rugen 1818 – less vulnerable, more people – However, not a strong sense of communication.
Anya Gallacio: The Use of Organic MatterPosted: November 13, 2014 Filed under: SUBJECT, Subject - Contextualisation | Tags: anya gallacio, art, art research, art student, artist, artists research, contextualisation, fine art, fineart, influential, installation, nature, nature art, organic matter, sculpture Leave a comment
As I am using organic matter within my work, I feel it is appropriate to research artist's that do the same. Anya Gallacio is a British Artist. Much of her work uses organic materials, with fruit, vegetables, flowers, leaves, branches and trees all featuring in her work. Sometimes these materials undergo a change during the course their being exhibited.
Even though she is a sculpture and installation artist, her work is still relevant to mine as it has made me more aware of the fact that some forms of nature that I may use within my work may die and change the appearance of the work.
In some of Anya Gallacio's works the natural course of transformation is stopped. Sprouting potatoes and broad bean pods, branches and whole tree trunks are reproduced in bronze, their lives prolonged indefinitely. This makes me think about how the sticks and leaves that I have found on the ground have been given a new lease of life and purpose being part of my artwork.
Referring to her work as inspiration for my own, I will continue to incorporate natural matter into my artwork. Her work is so confident and colossal that it makes me worry less about the outcome and think more about process and the organic matter than I am sticking onto the surface or mixing into my paint.
Terry Setch: Mixed Media Works: Estuary PaintingsPosted: November 8, 2014 Filed under: SUBJECT, Subject - Contextualisation | Tags: abstract elements, abstraction, art, art research, art student, artist, artists research, beach debris, contextualisation, fine art, fineart, found objects, influence, landscape, Landscape painting, mixed media, nature, nature art, penarth coast, subject, terry setch, texture, welsh art Leave a comment
Many of Terry Setch's works are themed around the coast near Penarth in Wales, where Setch is based. These works act as a witness to his surroundings, in the literal sense via the materials he uses and the layers he creates within them, but also in the wider issues his art works often raise.
"Setch is well-known for utilizing varying materials in his analysis and interpretation of the conflict between nature and society. His huge painted canvases are often augmented with materials and debris found on the beach, a combination of both man-made and natural matter. This contrast in itself creates a tension, raising questions on pollution, mankind's apathy, the forces of nature in the weathered objects, inadvertently representative of demise. This juxtaposes the notion that there is new life in the objects used to create such histrionic representations of the world around us."
Setch's work is highly relevant to the ideas that I am looking at within my own work at the moment. His concepts include an approach to nature and he uses found objects within his work like Debris from the beach and natural matter. I have experimented with including natural matter within paint and I am going to embark on producing an abstracted Landscape painting containing natural elements within the paint and on the surface. Terry Setch's work will be an interesting reference to refer to when producing work within the areas I am currently interested in.
Setch's subject matter enables the onlooker to fully experience the world created within it, via the use of textured materials; such as encaustic wax, melted plastic and polypropylene, however it is not through realism, as his works require the viewer to suspend disbelief in order to fully experience what each piece evokes for them.
Similar to the work of John Piper, Setch's Landscapes capture a sense of the place. They are highly interesting in texture and evoke the mood and atmosphere of the surroundings, to the point where you could imagine yourself being there. It is interesting to come across an artist where their abstract and less abstract works are relevant to the ideas I am working with and I am sure his work will influence my project highly.
Katharina Grosse – Painted Soil InstallationPosted: November 5, 2014 Filed under: SUBJECT, Subject - Contextualisation | Tags: art, art research, art student, artists research, contextualisation, earth, fine art, fineart, installation, katharina grosse, mixed media, nature art, painting soil, soil, spray paint Leave a comment
Searching for artists that paint nature itself or mix it into paint as I have recently been experimenting with, I came across the work of Katharina Grosse.
"Grosse typically designs intricate but ramshackle constructions using mounds of dirt, found objects and fabricated abstract shapes in wood, Styrofoam or plastic. Once the tableau is in place, she dons protective gear that resembles a hazmat suit and wields an industrial spray gun. She moves through the environment—usually on foot, but sometimes on scaffolding or suspended from a crane—covering almost everything in her path with brilliant, saturated color. Occasionally, she coats the gallery's furniture, walls, windows and ceiling, incorporating the architecture into the art."
I am intrigued by the fact that the texture of the soil is highlighted because it is painted. This is also evident in my experimentation work. Visually I think this work is very fun and appealing, I feel it relevant to my work in terms of material and the concept of combining paint with natural objects. It inspires me to be confident in what I am doing and keep experimenting.
CONSTELLATION: New Forms: Video and TimePosted: November 2, 2014 Filed under: CONSTELLATION | Tags: 4d art, art, art research, art student, bill viola, camille henrot, christian marclay, constellation, context, duchamp, giacomo balla, jackson pollock, mona hatoum, performance, sam taylor wood, time, time art, tony oursler, video and time, video art, yves klein Leave a comment
Within this Lecture, Jon Clarkson talked about the relationship that time can have with video art.
Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue 2013
On a computer Desktop. History of the universe, Within the piece, many different computer windows are opened showing different moving images. What shape is time in this video? Screens being independent pockets of time. Coherent within the window but unrelated to one another. Pockets of order within a greater complexity. The relationship between images becomes more difficult to determine.
Our everyday Model of time is Linear – Past, Present, Future. We also think of time as being circular but there is no reason why we shouldn't use other shapes to describe the passage of time. In fact some shapes may be closer to our experience of time. We like to think of ourselves as moving through time while the world stands still.
Art is an area where alternative ideas about time can be explored. In video art, time is a necessary part of its content.
Laocoon 200 BCE – 70CE Drawn from a narrative. The sculpture represents one moment in time from that story. The moment where the past and the future can be inferred. The moment of maximum intensity. Making us read the story forwards and backwards.
Painters have an art of space and not necessarily of time.
CLEMENT GREENBURG – The notion that visual art is simultaneous. he has the idea that understanding modern art is instantaneous and you either get it or you don't. Narrative art refers to time and requires time to be understood.
Giacomo Balla – Dynamism of a dog on a leash 1912. Not a single state, depicting a short moment in time. There is more truth in this image than if it was capturing a still moment of a dog walking.
Umberto Boccioni – Unique forms of continuity – idea of the body moving forward
Marcel Duchamp: Nude descending a staircase. Seeing the whole process and finding a way to capture the motion of the happening.
Jackson Pollock 32 – 1950
How much is it to do with the final picture? and how much is it to do with the process of making a painting? Jackson Pollocks paintings are direct. He usually paints on the floor on a large scale. So he can walk around the piece and work from each side and be in the painting himself. He uses mixed media as well. "a painting has a life of its own and I try to let it live". The process of him creating is very rhythmical so is the picture the outcome or are the movements he makes a performance piece and the final picture a residue of the performance?
Robert Rauschenberg's Pelican 1963 is an example of video being used as a documentary tool. We get iconic images from photography but we do not actually know what is happening and so video opens our eyes to it.
Joseph Beuys – I like America and America likes me… 1974
For a while not much happens, the artist is in a cage with a coyote. It is an incredibly long videoed performance piece but a very powerful photograph of it represents it. The image looks aggressive but the video shows it to be far more playful. At this time, performance was most known from still photography.
Yves Klein – A leap into the void 1960
Promoted a mythology about this performance but of course it is a trick photograph. Dishonest.
So far three topics have been discussed, The split between space and time, The notion of overcoming that and performance art and the residence left.
The history of video as an artform itself begins with Wolf Vostell's German View created in 1958 as he was the 1st person to include a tv screen and video within his work.
Nam June Paik – Zen for TV 1963 – video is being used here to record an event. His first video recorded the pope. A great break through.
A movement happened to making videos that were themselves a piece of art.
Gerry Schum – Television gallery 1968.
David Hall TV interruptions – video as intervention, played between TV programmes with no explanation. Unaccepted and unexplained.
Tony Oursler: Guilty 1995
Dolls with Pillows for heads with projected faces on them, creepy element.
Coo 2003 – a piece where the human face has been distorted by only taking certain parts of it and then putting them together.
The lecture continued to talk about ways that video artists have used time as their subject matter.
Sam Taylor Wood – Still Life 2001 – stop motion – traditional subject matter – time lapse.
Tehching Hsieh – one year performance 1980-1
Marking the passage of time – photo taken once every hour. Is this film really adequate to represent what the artist has done.
Douglas Gordon, 24 hour psycho 1993 – a mismatch between your knowledge and the visual
Bill Viola – Ocean without a shore, 2007
Video screen on 3 alters. A sense of the people as aspirations. Alter being a portal to another dimension.
Pipilotti Rist – Ever is over all 1997
Mark Wallinger – Angel 1997
Footage played backwards – speaking backwards intentionally
Bill Viola – 5 angels for the millennium – figures leaving water.
Pipilotti Rist – Be nice to me 2008
Produces a trace of the body
Yinka Shonibare – Un ballo in Maschere. – repeated, The whole thing is circular without time being reversed.
Bill Viola – Nantes Triptych – Wife gave birth in the same hospital that his mother died in. Birth and death – in between is a self portrait – figure in water, what passes in between is kind of a dream.
Gillian Wearing – 60 mins silence 1996 – as the viewer, you are watching nothing happen and you are doing the same as they are doing.
Mariele Neudecker – Another Day 2000 – Real time used peculiarly. The same sun rising in one part of the world and setting in another. Planetary perspective. A view only technology could give you. Interferes with conventional time.
Christian Marclay – The clock 24 hours 2010
You can tell the time from the installation but it is fictional. It is measuring real time but made up of extracts from fictitious films. A sense of time being abstract..
Ragnar Kjatansion, The end 2009
Mona Hatoum – Pull 1995
Kutlug Ataman – Twelve 2003
Each screen is an interview with someone who has experienced reincarnation. A past that continues as a new form in the present.
Susan Norrie – havoc 2007
A culture being submerged by mud, videos of different angles and viewpoints and all displayed together.
This lecture has encouraged me to think about the concepts at work within a video piece and to not only judge it visually. When I go into a gallery and see a piece of video art, I tend not to try and work it out and if it does not appeal to me visually then I tend to disregard it. Now, I will be looking for some of the key theories that Jon Clarkson has talked about in this lecture and I am sure that it will help me understand new video and performance works that I come across a lot easier. Thinking about the concept of time and how it can be played with in video is a difficult thing to get your head around. Having it explained and thinking about whether time has been manipulated or changed in anyway has definitely furthered my understanding of video art. However, these notions of time do not only have to be applied to video art, and within my work I will now be thinking about whether there is any relevance to time in my work. I will also be thinking a lot more about how my items are created rather than just the creations themselves. I was really captured by the question of whether the artist making a painting could be a performance and the actual painting just residue of it and I am sure I will be revisiting this topic.
Trip to London: Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Tracey Emin, Tate Britain and The Turner PrizePosted: October 23, 2014 Filed under: SUBJECT, Subject - Contextualisation | Tags: anselm kiefer, art, art research, art student, art trip, artist, artists, artists research, contextualisation, fine art, fineart, gerhard richter, influence, london, London Galleries, royal academy, tate Britain, The marian goodman gallery, The turner prize, tracey emin, White cube gallery Leave a comment
Whilst in London, I went to quite a few art venues and saw really great art and some not so great.
Anselm Kiefer – The Royal Academy
Anselm Kiefer's exhibition at the Royal Academy was definitely the highlight of my visit. Not only was it visually incredible but it was relevant to the work that I have been producing too. The sheer scale of the pieces that I viewed in this exhibition was highly impressive. I have always been a fan of Kiefers work and I have never managed to see an exhibition of his until now. What I find most interesting about his w0rk is the wide range of media he uses and the unconventional mixed media that he mixed into the paint or adds to the surface of the work.
There are so many different textures and surfaces within his work and seeing it in person has really inspired me to be more experimental with mixed media and to maybe play with mixing unconventional materials into my work. I am highly inspired by the confidence of his work and I am hopeful that one day people could view my work and think it was bold and confident. Also, I am looking at nature and a connection to place and landscape surroundings and nature is a recurring theme in Kiefer's work. I will definitely be revisiting Kiefer's work in relation to my own.
Gerhard Richter Exhibition – The Marian Goodman Gallery
I went to view Richter's work because of how much I am interested in it, more than for my project work. However, upon visiting the gallery I came across some photographs that Richter had taken and had painted on top off. This strongly links to the pieces that I have made where I have added abstract shapes on top of my own photos. I had no Idea that Gerhard Richter was interested in Photo Manipulation and so this was a valuable reference to my work.
Richter's abstracts as always were visually interesting but I was very disappointed that there were no large works where he had dragged the paint across the canvas with a squeegee. I thought the glass effect with the paint behind definitely brought his work up to date and gave me a modernist feel.
Tracey Emin – The White Cube Gallery
I must admit that everytime I have been to see Tracey Emin's work in the past, I haven't been that impressed but this exhibition was completely different, I felt like she showed her true self, her experimentation and the things that she really enjoys doing and making. It was like looking into her artistic life and her drawings were incredibly gestural and influential.
What impressed me the most were her large scale nude embroideries. Mostly because I don't really enjoy textile work or sewing, nor do I consider myself to be very good at it. However, Tracey Emin had used the thread to make marks to make up the body like a fine art ink drawing.
The Turner Prize 2014
In my honest opinion, considering that the turner prize is one of the most prestigious art awards around at the moment, it didn't do the art world justice at all. If I was not a creative individual or studying art at all, I would have walked in there and thought the current art climate was very pretencious and have maybe considered the fact that art is no longer a skill that not everyone could do. I thought the variety of work was incredibly disappointing and definitely not explained well enough. After walking around the exhibit, I looked at the comments board regarding the turner prize and it was very difficult to find positive feedback which makes it clear to me that I am not the only one highly disappointed by the prize.
Visiting London was definitely incredibly worthwhile, I have never felt so inspired as I did walking out of Anselm Kiefer's exhibition in the Royal Academy and linking Richter's work to my ideas is incredibly encouraging. Undoubtedly, This trip will have an impact on my work.


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Community Development Director at Southeast Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission Scott Farmer told the mayor and council members that time is pressing for submission for Land and Water Conservation funding for a new concession stand, restrooms, and press box building. All will be part of the same two-story building.Farmer said all paperwork has to be submitted to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs by Jan. 6, 2017. The clincher is the estimated costs of the project are much higher than original estimates. Farmer said the project was first estimated at $250,000-275,000, but new figures from the project architect totals $429,283. He said the city can apply for the LWC matching grant of $150,000 and if that is awarded then the city's part would be in the neighborhood of $279,000 with the current estimates.Mayor Jayme Stayton, along with all council members, stated the cost is too much for the city and the project engineers need to go back to the architect and come back with small numbers and take into consideration what city employees could contribute to bring the costs down to something the city can manage.Allen Killen, project engineer with Civil Southeast Engineering Group in Andalusia, said a lot of work was completed before the burn ban and now frequent rains that are occurring. He said drainage— a major project in the field at Culpepper—has been taken care of by the construction of a retention pond. "The drainage is working as it should," he said explaining that there will still be wet areas just outside the new ball fields and water will slowly drain from the detention pond down through the woods."The good thing now is that everything is working as it should work. The contractor is aware that he has to come back and pretty it up again (lay sod)," Killen said.The engineer also gave a timetable of recent events for the project: *Project's original estimate $555,750 *Project began Sept. 6 with a bid of $468,788 *Groundbreaking was held Sept. 8 *Drainage portion was completed Oct. 21 *Concrete portion completed Oct. 28 *Finished re-spreading topsoil and grading Nov. 10However, Killen said, the project is at a standstill due to recent heavy rains and the soil being too wet. In recent days the Water Department determined the job of placing some 100 sprinkler heads and control systems was too big of a job for it, so the Water Board on Dec. 14 authorized a contract with Geneva Grass Company, Inc. to not only lay the sod for the project but also install the sprinkler head system at a cost of $11,500."I'm hoping that by the end of January (Jan. 20) we will have that irrigation system in," Killen said. "I'm hoping that by the second week of February (Feb 10) we will have all the fencing up…Once the fencing goes up, they'll be able to put all the sod on the fields. They'll seed all the outfield and they'll retouch all the topsoil…So hopefully, by March 1…this project will be substantially complete."The council decided they would remove the need for resolution to support the project at current estimated costs at the Dec. 20 council meeting until the engineers can bring back lower figures.Killen summarized the project costs thus far: *The city has paid $259,249 to date of the $468,788 or 55 percent*Additional costs added, thus far, total $11,500 for sprinkler head installation and paid for by the city Water and Sewer Board.*Proposing brick dust at a cost of $22,400 for all four fields*Sod for $1,700*In-field preparation and grading for $3,200*Killen said lighting costs is still an issue for the council to consider.In other discussion during the work session, the repair of the large gully near the city bus barn is also at a standstill due to weather, but should be completed within the next couple of weeks, depending on weather.Also, Mayor Stayton told the council that 12 applications for the position of Director of Public Safety have been received and that he, former Chief and City Council Member Jimmy Seaton and current Councilman Bobby Hardrick, will soon begin reviewing those and interviewing for the position. The mayor said he hopes to have an appointment recommendation by the Jan. 17 council meeting.
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