Refreshed
Technical Difficulties, late post….the media I was trying to embed into this post was not cooperating
Laziness
Getting away, even it was for just an overnight was just what we needed….
Once we checked into Porches it was painful to leave, even for food…
This was my tub in the room! I am a sucker for a claw-foot.
The whole property was pristine, with manicured gardens too. I have got to get me a few of these massive globe onions for our gardens!
On Friday (my birthday) we went to the largest museum in the world (Yes-in little ole North Adams Massachusetts) Mass MoCA. I love this place! If you are into contemporary art visiting North Adams is a must! The installations and exhibits change pretty regularly (annually?), so it is never the same place twice!
The majority of the downstairs of the museum was an exhibition entitled “Badlands”.
Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, opening Sunday, May 25, 2008, at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams, opens the next chapter in the landscape tradition, addressing contemporary ideas of exploration, population of the wilderness, land usage, environmental politics and the relativity of aesthetic beauty. Badlands comes at this critical time, an era when the world is more ecologically aware yet more desperately in need of solutions than ever before. The artists in this exhibition share this collective anxiety some turn to the past to see how their predecessors negotiated the terrain of the landscape while some propose entirely new ideas. While deeply aware of the legacy of the landscape, each of these artist reinvents the genre to produce works that look beyond vast beauty to address current environmental issues.
One artist had these awesome biospheres….
Vaughn Bell’s Personal Biospheres which give gallery visitors their own miniature landscapes to experience by popping their head into Plexiglas domes filled with small working ecosystems. Bell’s new custom biospheres forBadlands will be based on the landscape of North Adams.
It was really cool inside the biosphere. The air is so fresh and clean inside.
Another part of the badlands exhibit was photographs from the Center of Land use Interpretation. Check out their website it is really cool and interesting.
There was also this amazing installation in the large, very large (nearly football field sized) room upstairs. The best way to describe it is to show you…. Imagine sitting in a 12 foot in diameter bean bag chair watching this….. go here (sorry for whatever reason I was unable to embed the video, I think it might be the free blog thing) The Jenny Holzer installation was really awesome (if you get into that sort of thing)
After the MoCA we shopped til we dropped and meandered home via Route 2, which follows a portion of the Mohawk Trail. And at last… I did get to dip my tootsies in the Deerfield River!
Happy Birthday to me!
Berkshire Bound
I wanted to wake up someplace other than home on my 39th birthday…
So we are going out to one of my favorite parts of the state. Heading out to cool off in the Berkshire Mountains, North Adams, for two days. Staying at the “Ultra Savvy” Porches Inn. Hope to visit Mass MOCA, cool our tootsies off in the Deerfield River and just be in the moment.
(of course we will be taking lots of pictures too)
See you all when we get back and I am a year older.
Three Eyed Three Horned Flying Hot Pink Hot Tamale Eater
AKA – TETHFHPHTE
It is complete and ready to fly over to a special young lady for her June Birthday!
I started a lime green creature on my trip to Atlanta. Yes, I did manage to get my knitting needles through TSA Security. My advice to traveling knitters is to carry bamboo needles with point stoppers on them (see the TSA website). As well it is best to also have a self addressed stamped manilla envelope ready just in case they don’t let you carry them onboard the plane (also on the TSA website), I weighed all my yarn an needles at home to be sure it would make a safe return to me, this way you won’t lose your work, you can just mail your work back to yourself. I didn’t even think about attempting to get scissors on the plane, just borrowed some from the hotel when I got to Atlanta.
So, the new lime green guy’s body is nearly at the stuffing stage. I am sure having a lot of fun whipping out these creative little creatures!
40 things every woman should know by 40
August 12, 2008 at 6:45 pm (Extraordinary Things in an Ordinary Life) (40, 40th year, birthday, comment, contribute, friend, friends, help, list, post a comment, self improvement, share, things women should know, wisdom, woman, women)
I have been thinking a lot about this year…. A friend of mine, (considerably older than me), upon wishing me a Happy Birthday said (paraphrased), —The year after my 39th birthday was very significant. I got a lot of loose ends tied up – moved forward into a more secure, self assured, relaxed life. I really learned a lot, it was one of my most memorable years.—
I so started making a list of sorts of things that I feel every woman (you & me) should know/do by the time they reach their 40th year. Not necessarily in order of importance, just in the order that my brain spit them out…..
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