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Start making plans now to celebrate reading, creativity and imagination on March 2, Dr. Seuss' birthday. Lots of resources for young readers are available.
Get acquainted with the author through Janet B. Pascal's "Who Was Dr. Seuss?"
Play a game from Cheryl Potts' "Poetry Time with Dr. Seuss Rhyme." In the car or during dinner, take turns giving clues about one of his characters and see who can identify the character. For example, "Who was nice to his guests?" (For the answer, check the end of this column.)
Enjoy "The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories," a reprinting of seven stories Seuss published in women's magazines. Bring them to life with the following related activities.
-- After reading "Gustav, the Goldfish," read Helen Palmer's "A Fish Out of Water." Notice the similarities? Dr. Seuss gave his wife, Helen, also a writer, permission to use the characters and plot of his goldfish story any way she wanted. Discuss the differences, too, and which version you prefer and why.
-- Line up different-sized containers, like those in the story. Pretend rolled-up socks are fish, and try to toss them into the containers.
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After reading "Fox in Socks," make up pretend rhyming titles, such as "Sheep That Creep," "Dog Chases a Frog," etc. Or create your own tongue twisters.
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In "Everyday Creative Play," Lisa R. Church suggests stashing books bought inexpensively at clearance sales, thrift stores, garage sales and library used book rooms. Give them to your children when they're sick, having a bad day or going through tough times or when they're stuck inside when the weather's bad.
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Première on 21st February 2005 at the Nationaltheater Munich
From Film to Opera. How Doris Dörrie Conquers New Territory.
Rigoletto is your third production for the operatic stage, which you, as you say yourself, still regard as new territory. What do you believe is the major difference between work on a motion picture and work on an opera?
It is clearly the music that determines the rhythm of the production. This is totally unfamiliar and beautiful for me. In my film work I invent all the rhythm of a story myself, because I also write the screenplay. That's the hardest part of making a movie, finding an interior and exterior rhythm, a rhythm of the plot, the action, and the interior rhythm of the characters. It's the greatest source of errors: you think once the exterior rhythm makes sense, then you automatically have the rhythm for the characters. But that is often not the case. That's what I find the special, fascinating quality of opera. The musical rhythm of the work takes hold of me, carries me along, I can move within it, breathe with it, and this is way I tell the story.
In opera you have a prescribed story you cannot invent yourself as a screenplay. Do you feel restricted by this?
No, but I am highly dependent on a good story. In my previous opera jobs I had and have three good stories and fantastic music to go with them: Mozart's Così fan tutte, Puccini's Turandot and now Verdi's Rigoletto.
When you began working on Rigoletto, was there something like a priming spark that brought you closer to the piece?
As a film maker, I'm used to first looking at a story from the inside even though you have to tell it from the outside. With Rigoletto it was spontaneously the relationship between father and daughter that ignited the strongest feeling in me. If there is an emotional moment like this, one that scores a direct hit on me, then I can build the play concentrically around it. In this case it was, as I said, Gilda and her father.
A father-daughter relationship with lethal ending. Can this be generalized?
The tragedy of the relationship between parents and children that is so exemplarily revealed and elevated to extremes here can be found in the mixed messages, as psychology calls them, with which people can murder children. In the opera the music tells us so fantastically that the tenderness, the protector instinct of the parents is the one side, but that Rigoletto in his loneliness and deformity - which I see more on the inside than the outside - expects his daughter to assume responsibility for his happiness, and that is probably the worst thing you can inflict on your children. From the moment when Gilda starts seeking her own happiness, Rigoletto sees his own existence, his happiness imperiled. From that moment on he becomes a cruel father, who severely punishes his daughter, who refuses to forgive her, who will not allow her to disengage herself from him - ultimately this is what kills her. Anyone who is a father or mother has to fight against the fact that the time will come when you have to let go of your children. This experience is painful for everyone. And the opera brings this out so clearly. After all, in normal life we don't sing when we have problems. Here, however, the singing starts at the point where words fail. And I can relate very strongly to that. Singing is the desperate expression that remains when every attempt to behave in a civilized manner, to treat things rationally, to talk and discuss, collapses in failure.
Rigoletto thus behaves egotistically toward his daughter. This reflects a very powerfully patriarchal way of thinking. How much sympathy do you feel for this character?
As a writer and author and, of course, also as a director, it is always important to feel something for every character. I'd like to be able to sympathize with murderers, with villains and with patriarchal fathers. This is very easy here, because I can understand Rigoletto very well, as well as I understand Gilda or the Duca. The fact that their relationship winds up so catastrophically and costs a human life, that is the tragedy of this story.
Rigoletto is an opera with pronounced theatrical archetypes: the womanizer, the hunchback, the corpse in the sack. Are these obstacles for an interpretation?
No, I see them more as sources of enthusiasm. When you write a screenplay the first rule is to be very clear. These trappings that you mentioned allow me to take a direct approach to the characters, to look at them more precisely. In this sense, I am more convinced that the Duca is not just a womanizer but also has a tender side. I simply believe the music. I believe him when he sings in the first act duet with Gilda that he really loves this girl, that he is enchanted by her and through her has discovered something in himself that he never knew before. In that moment, it is true.
Gilda, whom the duke also sings of as a "donna celeste" appears very idealized in keeping with the idealized image Rigoletto has of his daughter or the duke has of his beloved. What do you see in this character?
I have no difficulty seeing her as a human being, a child of her father. The devastatingly moving quality children have is the way they want to protect their parents, regardless of how their parents treat them. Even a child who is subjected to physical or psychological violence will, up to a certain age, always defend its father when he is attacked. This enormous protective reflex children have and their readiness to protect parents, I find that very stirring. Everyone knows how bad it is for a child to experience weakness in a parent, when it sees its father cry. It's downright murderous for a child. This is why I keenly understand why Gilda is so torn, when Rigoletto forces her to comfort him, to protect him, to give him all her warmth. Demanding that sort of thing from children is something like a taboo injury, but I can also see why someone seeks this kind of unconditional tie with children, especially when that person is himself sad or embroiled in a crisis. The pedagogically "correct" way of going about things would be for Rigoletto to say: I am the father, you are the child. I nurture you, but you are free to find your own way. He can't bring himself to do that because he is so horribly lonely.
And that's why he reacts so extremely, confining her as he does?
But to a certain degree we all do that with our children: naturally we'd all rather lock up our children. We don't want them going out into a dangerous world, having our daughters in some disco surrounded by wild young men finding their great love, who then takes them away from up. The opera very clearly reveals that to us.
You very distinctly pinpoint where the danger is, namely in the cynical, cruel society to which Gilda and Rigoletto are subjected?
I spent a long time reflecting on how we might display a society like that today. Unfortunately the only equivalents we could find for that - whether our party society or the widespread TV decadence you'll find in a show like "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" - would not be recognizable as a completely vulgar, cynical, brutal, decadent society, just because it's the world we live in. That means you can't put this story in that normal environment, but you have to go to some extremes to display that dehumanization.
The famous movie classic The Planet of the Apes was obviously an inspiration here?
Yes, it was an inspiration, although the film told us that apes are ultimately more human than human beings. In the opera, this is only true under certain conditions, revealing this primarily in the character of the Duca, whose love of Gilda offers him an opportunity for greater humanity. All the others behave as crudely as animals, although animals are only following their instincts. I must confess that I have long had an interest in the behavior of animals, especially primates. My very first job, as a matter of fact, was in the Institute of Behavioral Studies in Seewiesen, which I started after completing my studies in film editing. Back then I was a great admirer of Jane Goodall, who had lived among the chimpanzees. I remember how horrified this zoologist was when she was forced to discover that her adored monkeys were capable of waging war, that they also battled without any reason, and massacred one another out of vengefulness. That was such a incredibly shattering experience for her because she actually believed monkeys were better humans. On the other hand, our attempts to project our human behavior on animals are centuries old, and there are countless examples of this in art history. The monkeys are usually used as a two-way mirror that continuously raises the question: which is more "human" - humans or animals? Today's genetic research has discovered that humans differ only slightly from primates in their genetic potential, which confirms how thin the layer of our civilization is. In view of this fragility of civilizational substance, every cultural effort is so endlessly important. This is why it is also so important not to lose music and the art form of opera as an option, an appeal to us to behave in a civilized fashion, because there is no point fooling ourselves: the majority of young people have already lost these cultural values, that is to say, they no longer have them on their radar screens. And herein lies the third consideration of the Rigoletto concept, that we are most likely to bring across this art to the 30 to 40 generation if we tell our story in the images of our modern media world, and thus keep them alive. After all, it is a total cultural horror scenario that all the opera houses might one day collapse and with them all the treasures of our operatic and musical culture. And here I speak from my own highly personal experience: only four years ago, when I started doing my own operatic productions, did I begin to realize what I had been missing by not knowing and enjoying this operatic treasure. That is why I now believe that we must do everything we can to make opera more easily accessible, to expand its area of influence. Otherwise things may start looking like our first scene, where the opera houses have almost all disappeared, because they're flat broke anyway, and because the cultureless have gained the upper hand.
This conversation was conducted by Hella Bartnig.
English translation by Donald Arthur
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Etho January - Malayalam Cover
Lyrics & Chords
Hi All, I am sure you will be smiling when you see the "Malayalam Cover" in my page. I am trying to get over my problems with Malaylam singing. My sister had gave me ultimatum , "Never sing Malayalam", So my dear Situ… .This song is for you. I have tried!!
@Harry, @Harshan, please let me know if you still find the pitching issues.
Re-uploaded after some corrections!!!
Please comment on my effort!!!
Etho January – Orkkuka Vallapozhum
Film : Orkuka Vallappozhum
Music : M Jayachandran
Lyrics : Girish Puthenchery
Year : 2009
Originally Sung By : Karthik
Cover Singing By : KB
Mix By : KB
etho januvary maasam
manassiloreeran niramizhi pole
oru kaikumbilil naru venpoovumaay
ithal nerthorormayaay vannu nee
veruthe etho januvary maasam
manassiloreeran niramizhi pole
annunin nizhalpolumen
mazha chaRunna chiRakinmel chanju ninnu
pinne nin kanavaleyen
viralthedunna swaramellam kettu ninnu
oru manisalabham swayamurukumoruyiril
parayaatha nombarangal pankidaam
ini etho januvary maasam
manassiloreeran niramizhi pole
annunin chiripolumen
nurayolunna kadalinmel peythirangee
pinne njan sruthiyayi nin
mozhimoolunna paattellaam ettupaadi
iniyoru nimisham
pularkaala sooryanay virinjidaam (etho januvary…)
Harshan Nambiar said
Unni …very familiar with this beautiful compositon.
Beautiful rendition as always…loved your voice projection.
Pitching on Manassiloreeran ….could be better.
diction on January …tamizh accent:-)
Overall an excellent attempt !!
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Bhool gaya sab kuch
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Dekha na hai re socha na-
Pukarta chala hoon mai
Harry Narain said
Soulful rendition Unni!!!! Liked it!!!
Agree with Harshan… Very good pitching at most places. It will be excellent if u maintain throughout the song… Sangathies can be bittttt clearer/better defined…….
How do u get such wonderful ktracks? Superb ktrack…. Is it a minus track?
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Adithi said
Fed up of writing the same comment for your songs. So….keeping quiet and adding to favs! :D
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate – Martin Luther
Adithi akka me too…….
But never fed up of listening to your songs KB.
Simply awesome buddy !
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Vishnu Mohan ( busy mode) said
Unni nalla oru song selection, super singing :D
pinne filminte peru soojippikkunna pole idakku malayalam songs orkkunnathu valare nallathanu :D ennale okke sari aayikittu :D
kooduthal malayalam song pratheekshikkunnu unnikku pattiya songs njan thappi tharam ;)
Kumaran.k.k. ( i am back ) said
hi kb… nice co-ordination with words and raagam… u never miss :)
beautiful melody you hv chosan… lovely….
i enjoyed a lot !!!
cheers !!
Swati Prasad said
very nice singing Unni
my latest upload
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Ashwini said
lovely :) very soothing!
one of the best renditions on this song ever!
Kala Vijay said
super singing as usual unni.thanks for bringing out such nice numbers.liked it.
Saroj Nair said
there is no problem with you singing malayalam songs Unni.
you sound really good as usual.
Suresh r (slowly slowly slowly....on the track) said
Oh……dear Unnikrishnan…….what to say…….superrrrrrrrrrbbbbbbbbbbbb !!!!
Just like Hariharan sir is singing the song………for commenting , i have heard the original once more along with urs…….Nothing to point out…….yaar…….no problem at all for your malayalam diction….actually this is what we want in this song…Eventhough Karthik is from Kollam (kerala) , he also having some problems over malayalam diction….so beautiful to hear ur version……very nice….
keep it up….
"Santham Gambheeram….Loka Samstha Sukhino Bavanthu"
Srini S said
Nice one unni.Soothing rendition.Keep it up…
My latest uploads,
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Rahul Soman said
Dear Unni,
I am speechless da. Its been just an hour since we had our phone chat and you have re-uploaded the song. The rendition is superb and you have conquered my mind by the sweet flowing rendition. Will always pray for you my dear friend.
Rahul Soman
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Kumaran said
Awesome bro. Very soothing rendition!!!
Rajeev Onv(away on a long break) said
Unni, beautiful singing! very minor diction problems-as you sing more you can erase them. Sing a good malayalam number once in a while to boost your confidence. Liked your expressions and voice control. Keep it up!
Max Vala said
malyalam to samaz may nahi aati par AAPNAY YEH DIL SAY GAYA!!!Max vala
Srividya Kasturi said
Soothing rendition, Unni….Loved the tune and u sounded great as usual:)
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Harshan Nambiar said
Unni ….this is perfecto ….congrats for going the extra mile and working on it further ….goes to my favourites now :-)
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Bhool gaya sab kuch
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Thinkal govind kumar said
My Dear Unnikutta,
Perfect & Beautiful rendition in style with lots of feel in your great voice !
LOVED it & added to my favourites !
Hats off !
Your sister must be really proud of you !
Cheers !
GOD Bless !
Loving Best Wishes,
Thinkal Govind Kumar.
Krishnamurthi Balaji said
beautiful voice and wonderful control on voice! happy to hear this! God bless you!
Rinu Srinivasan said
Only one word
Rekha swaminathan (on and off...) said
Unni, beautiful singing…. :)
Thankfully I don't know anything to comment on diction… :D
And agree with….who was it….Harry… how do you always manage to get such awesome tracks? Wonderful clarity in singing and sangathis. Don't know enough to compare with original, but it sounded good enough to me… :) agree on the small pitching and a couple of places where your sangathis felt a little not-perfectly-placed….
What high expectations people have from you…. :) great going….
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Satish Vammi said
very well done unni….great feel and expressions in your voice….loved it very much
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Zeenat – Kuhoo Gupta, Vishwa Deepak
Vijetha – Vamsi Nadella, Laxman
Shaniruh said
Unni! Awesome singing in your lovely voice… Loved it :)
Cheers :-)
Rekha swaminathan (on and off...) said
Ah, sorry I posted my comments today morning and listened to it yesterday itself… :) checked out the re-upload now again… :) now all issues are fine…. :))
Unni, Very Expressive and soulful…Great Work as always!!!
—Harry Jas
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Sukesh S moorthy said
hi unni….this 1 is really nice….somewher something is missing sorry i dont know its technicality…he he he….but i thing is ther ur sis took the statement back……
Kumar Srinivasan said
Beautifully sung Unni- very soothing. Modulations are impressive. Enjoyed it.
Sushanth Shankar said
Da Unni!!!
Awesome singing man! Hearing this song for the 1st time to be honest! Loved it in ur voice!! Oru prashnavum enikku thonneella… :) Adipoli aayirunnu!
Also really happy in knowing tht ur sis took back her comment!! :D
All the very best bro! Please keep singing more mallu songs (ente request marakkenda)… :-)
- Sushanth
Smitha Passanha said
Beautifully sung Unni! Very soothing to the ears. Thought the diction could be better at some places….just curious….are you not a malayalee? :-)
Singing adipoli thanne….samshayamilla :-)
- Smitha
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Swamy Kitcha said
Me too second Adithi's and Roshine's comment :). Unni, e-prapanjathil nindae kural kaettu naan poorippu adainzju. Valliya kural, Valliya sangathigal. eey, Unnikku ennoda best wishes endrumae undallO. cOngratulations unni :).
Superb singing. Cheers to your voice :).
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Deepesh A k(indefinitely on and off) said
Kalakki unni da !!! sho……njan wrds nu thappuva da…… Valare valare nannayi….
Jaishree said
Unni! …What a voice u have man!…great singing…Liked it!
Babu Nm said
unni really great …nice song….and you have done great job here loved this unni
Tumhi meri mandir tumhi meri pooja …sung by my daughter noureen
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may god bless you and be with you. ALWAYS……
Vishak Subramoney said
nice soothing rendition. what a voice u have bro….i keep saying this over and over again.
Ramya Harish said
Superb pick, and beautiful singing Unni. Liked it a lot:) why dont u sing picha vecha naal? have u done it already?
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Fransan Joseph said
hai unni………nalloru feel……sarikkum layichu poyii ketto……i heard this song lots of time,super singing……
Ajay m nair said
just superb…. loved it completely….
Neha ........ said
dint understand a word, but loved your voice and the melody :)
Please listen to my latest cover of You're Still the One when time permits
Meera Manohar said
Your voice is what I take away from this KB… just a beautiful pick—well done! Feel was just great :)
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Harry Narain said
Unni… Just happened to visit this song again and saw that you had mentioned to check the reupload…… I listened careeeeefully…….I felt like being in a hill station or something, standing on top of a mountain and touching the clouds… What a feel!!!
You know what,, to get the same feel, I'll listen in my car with AC turned fully on!!!
What a selection…. Your delivery is mind blowing Boss………
Now, under a microscope, just 2 nitpicks…….
1:05 – pitching
2:00 – tempo
No issues though!!!!
Loved it……
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Saqib Javed said
sounds great unni and great singing love that……liked it
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Seetha Lakshmi said
dear brother……
now m really proud of being ur sis…….
very gud feel…….hatz off……….
best wishes
Ranjitha Deepesh said
Wonderful…. Good rendition…. The Diction is pretty good :)
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Sowmya Srini (getting back slowly....) said
Very good singing Unni. I enyoed listening to it.
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Biju Ramachandran said
sorry for being late.
SUPERB…lovely rendition…great feel …
yur malayalam is perfect unni.yu r the most versatile singer here.kudos to yu.
goes to fav
(tell yur sis ,this comment comes from a hard core mal music lover…she mite keep quiet…LOL)
biju ramachandran
Avanthi Manohara said
now this sister of urs will never give u an ultimatum I will say sing more of malayalam
Rashmi Madhu said
It's just wonderful. u have sung the song with such feel that i don't know what to say.small problems in diction. but i think u can correct them. such a lovely voiceu have. No words to describe. May God bless u!
Dr.Rashmi Madhu
Shelly Kurian said
Hi Unnikrishan
Excellent!! really a treat to ear ji…
modulations …expressions …awesome!!
only few places diction probem…which is ignorable ,…actually for me it sounds very cute…but u can easily correct it…so expecting more malayalam songs from you…
"Music is the shorthand of emotion"
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Krishnan N v ( nvk ) said
Unni……Brilliant work….Will never get tired listening to your singing…Great
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Sojan Chacko said
Unni superb singing and rendition. Liked your voice very much.
Anju Bennie said
Hi Unni krishanan,
I cannot stop listening to it. Really soothing to ears. I don't find any diction problem.
Badre Dariz said
Unni Krishnan……
Amazing Rendtion with Great feel…! Awesome Unni….Hats off…!!
Badre Dariz
Ranjith k r said
hey …wat a melodious song….this s one of my fav;
u sung nice…….fine yaar…….
if u possible pls send this songs music track to me
email – email@example.com……
May God Bless You…………
Dinil S said
Hi Unni,
If you are not malayali then hats off to you for trying and making it as perfect as possible. The feel and expressions were awesome. Keep up the good work.
Sudha Kumar (back to listen to all of you..) said
Now I'm mesmerised by this song… beautiful rendition, Unni. What a blessed voice you have! Oru manisalabham was dripping with honey! :-) Partellam diction could be better… ;-)
Loved it,
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Cnu said
well sung Unni…….nicely done….
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Gopi Shanmugam said
Nice and melo… controlled voice… beautiful… loved it.
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Jovin said
wow i think this is one of the best malayalam songs u sang. u have a great voice.loved it so much.very nice to listen.keep posting more malayalam songs cause i am a malayalee and i dnt know hindi or tamil only malayalam and english hahaha.keep singin god blesss you
Sumesh Narmath said
Superb voice…… and good feel….
Usha1213 said
beautiful rendition… loved that. (Y)
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The Muir Wood's Bohemian Grove was formerly known as the Bohemian Club Summer Encampment. In September 3, 1892, a 70 foot tall Daibutsu Buddha was erected. It was modeled after the Daibutsu of Kamkura and was made of lath and plaster. Since the materials of which this Buddha was made of deteriorates over time, by the late 1920's there was very little left of this statue.
The place where this statue was erected on was later and better known today as the Bohemian Grove. It was at this very spot that the Bohemian Club – a men's art club originated. Before the club transferred its gathering venue from Muir Woods to a privately-owned land, members usually held a two-week, three weekend camp for some of the world's most powerful and richest men.
The club is an exclusive all male club that was formed in 1872. In 1878, one of its founding members, Henry "Harry" Edwards announced that he was moving to New York for career advancement. A hundred club members held a going-away party in his honor at the Redwoods in Marin County. The success of the party for Edwards gave rise to the annual gathering of its members at various places but mostly in Marin and Sonoma County.
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Design and craftmanship the key to framing
For Leah Burton, framing is just as much about design as it is about craftsmanship.
"Framing a piece of art is like buying a piece of fine furniture," she said. "It definitely adds something to the design of your home."
Burton, a long-time construction worker and frame maker, said understanding design elements in helping a customer choose a frame for their artwork is often overlooked in the business.
"It's just like in house building, there are builders and there are builders, there are framers and there are framers," she said. "A lot of it is being able to visualize and some people can't do that. So assisting customers in design is a huge part of it."
Burton moved into her new space at 225 Marine Drive earlier this month from her former location on H Street. The new space has offered her more room to display her nearly 700 framing samples in seemingly endless varieties such as opulent 18 karat gold-brushed wood, beautiful stained burl wood, 17th century hand-carved Italian and Spanish antique designs from Larson-Juhl, Asian-inspired bamboo designs, cherry wood and avant garde styles of textured aluminum. Burton said she specializes in carrying Roma Moulding and Designer Moulding as well as Jayeness designs.
When customers arrive at her door looking to frame a piece of artwork, Burton typically suggests at least four options before letting customers decide.
"Some people come in and know exactly what they want, but that's rare," she said. "It's just easier because I know exactly what I have."
When this reporter caught up with Burton, she was framing a 32- by 16-inch original 1838 engraving of a curling scene by Scottish artist George Harvey. Burton used a with an interior black satin finish matboard to bring out the darkest tones of the piece and a 3-inch exterior gray matboard to balance out the engraving's gray tones.
"The gray on its own is too plain," she said. "The black mat keeps the black alive."
Burton replaced the engraving's original thin metal frame with a one and a half-inch embossed and sculpted black wood frame, but pointed out she was careful not to use too thick of a frame.
"Sometimes a heavy frame is too overpowering," she said. "But really thin, little frames kind of get lost, too."
Burton started her framing career at the age of 15, working in an art gallery and frame business for a family friend in Juneau, Alaska. After that, she took additional classes on framing and design. She didn't open a framing shop until she moved to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in 1978, where she worked for 10 years until skyrocketing property taxes forced her off the island.
In 1988, she returned to Alaska and became a citizen lobbyist for child welfare protections, eventually becoming a full-time professional lobbyist for several national groups. Burton also worked on the Alaska pipeline and built her own house, to sell as an investment. Working on the pipeline gave her the money to enable her to move to Lummi Island in 2000 to build another house which she recently sold.
She moved from Lummi Island in 2005 to Blaine in search of a waterfront community with an island feel – but without the constraints of a ferry schedule.
"Blaine is one of the last little waterfront communities that is still affordable," she said. "It's growing in a fun direction and it's a nice place to do business. I really like it here. It's perfect.
"I thought about doing this here because it reminds me so much of where Friday Harbor was in '78 when I lived there. It looks almost exactly the same here as it did on Spring Street where you had all these buildings – some of them were remodeled and there were vacant signs everywhere. Now you can't touch a place on Spring Street. Blaine's right on that verge of meeting of the old and the new."
Leah's Custom Framing and Design is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and is located at 225 Marine Drive. Leah can be reached 332-7010.


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Heres some of my for fun stuff from the past month. I'll try to keep this thread updated with my digital sketches, maybe some stuff that doesn't make it to my website. I'll also scan some drawings when I have a chance.
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You're my hero Jamie.
You ROCK !!!
amazing lighting in each and every one of these
i love the epic cityscape/robot pics
Sometimes digital sketches look like "digital sketches", but your stuff transcends the media, its just really fresh. As usual I'm jealous.
these digi sketches are awesome!
Cicinimo! Cicinimo! Cicinimo! Cicinimo! Cicinimo! Cicinimo! Cicinimo! Cicinimo!
I like your stuffs man glad you started this book,sir!!!
New Sketchbook
Old Sketchbook
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -Leonardo Da Vinci
Epic :o
Jaime, these are truly outstanding. You've always been a big inspiration, thrilled that you started a sb!
Mitchell Mohrhauser
Glad you started a sketchbook. Great work man!
Was a pleasure meeting you at the workshop.
wow crazy paintings
awesome atmosphere
oh no! I'll bleed my eyes out if you post more of your stunning artwok!
would be happy to see regular updates to this sb! you're my hero
My Sketchbook
ouushiiii t....
those mechs looks awesome!
are all they digital?,,, 'cause the second one looks like a traditional one
try to scan your drawings
cheers man!
Just love how simple the your renderings look. Amazing stuff, thanks for sharing!
Beautifull colors! The last one is my favourite.
I have a question for you, and I hope you can answer this.
I think all they are digital. What software do you use to paint? and What brush do you use?
What a good way to improve paintings ?
sorry for my poor English.
really i'd love to hear back from you
Thanks for the comments!
They're digital. I'm using adobe photoshop for all of them. I use a variety of custom brushes and I tweak them as I go along. Ways to improve painting? Paint from life, draw often, study masters, amputate your social life? As far as I can tell people improve in a lot of different ways, but the common thread is work ethic.
One for tonight
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Great work Jaime. Definitley bookmarked.
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Beautiful work Jaime!
I was the guy who emailed you a while ago, thanks for sharing sir!
A step by step or video tutorial would be insane
I love your art
man..i would kill just to be able to paint like you...
my sketchbook:http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=113840
Thanks for answering my question,Jaime!
It helped me a lot.
I'm looking forward to more art!
Those are amazing! Your colour and textures especially, I hope one day to use digital media like you do. Outstanding stuff, can't wait to see more
sketchbook / sketchblog / deviantart / facebook / twitter / e-mail
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I love your work, more
Forgive me my bad english
my sketchbook and my homepage
Oh man, I love your strokes.
I couldve sworn this was Painter, but Photoshop..., cool brushes.
so much goodness here. don't know where to start.
please keep posting.
Outstanding! I just love how simple it seems, you put light in the right places, and it all works so well, and its never overdone. Real good stuff sir!
Nice!! I especially love the depth in the first picture and the way you simplified the buildings. And how unique every single one of these is.... I'm a fan
love your stuff man, great texture,light color , will keep stalking your SB for inspirational stuff
Awesome trad. feel you get in these! I'll be checking back for sure! Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh yeah! delighted to see this, an inspiration to all. subscribes
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Jerry Elsner is executive director of the Illinois State Crime Commission. He says heroin is a "virus" that "has the potential to corrupt every facet of our society and must be stopped."
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Today, I take a look at two Cat Ave – A game that uses cats, mice, birds, and slingshots to the best of their ability. You are a cat lounging aroud, when some birds decide to.. er… attack you. You get upset, so you grab some mice and get ready for retrobution.
The game is very straightforward. You shoot the birds with you mouse sling shot. As you are doing that, watch out for stones and tree stumps – make sure you jump over them.
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The new game has a lot of issues, as I couldn't keep it running for more than 2 minutes. During the video, you will see – crash… crash… crash.
One game that wont crash is called Final Nestination. This is a game where you have to direct birds to their nests. Owls, hawks, blue birds – you draw a line to their nest. Of course, if two birds cross paths, they will crash, and you will loose.
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•insert sarcastic smiley here•
can't wait to be wrong
ahhh… one of life's greatest tragedies.
bliss. ツ
i'm not broke, i'm just a broken hearted man.
exactly what i told my friend who just reconciled with his former gf last night. wish every man will realize this!
my ideal couple… if only ellie lived longer. ='(
i make things easier. be thankful.
100% agree. once again, i've been very blessed that despite having my share of failed relationships, i still manage to maintain a close bond with their family members. it really is something that i deeply cherish. :)
moreover, i'm likewise delighted to say that i also keep a personal relationship with my siblings' former lovers. i still get in touch with them and we go out from time to time. some people may find it weird not to mention awkward, but i guess i really have a 'way' with people. for me it's very simple: i value genuine friendships. =)
haven't felt this moved in a long time. this video is such a genuine reflection of what couples go through almost all the time. i wasn't really psyched to see this, so when i was watching i literally dropped everything aside & focused on this film alone. i tell you, words can't even express the impact it has created on me. it made me look back on my past relationships which i haven't done for so long. i felt thankful that i still maintain a healthy relationship with most of my former flames, though sadly there are some that ended up defining the word 'strangers'. at the end of it all… we really have to cherish every moment we have with our partner, for we really won't know what we've got till it's gone.
good luck not being affected!
let's run away and don't ever look back, don't ever look back! =j