MOTION THURSDAY - EARLY SNOWY MORNING!

8 am:   New Year's Eve:      Today's forecast is that it will turn to rain this afternoon            

A view of Union Square, NY                            And a cab moving towards Union Square on 4th Avenue

A glimpse of the Mimosa Tree on 13th Street

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Let's keep this meme going in 2010!

RUBY TUESDAY- EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, NEW YORK, USA

View from my 10th floor studio window:  of course, I have zoomed in on this, one of a number of
illuminated buildings to be seen from this window.  It is rare for such a clear shot, weather permitting, as
well as clear windows following light rain that has cleaned them!   My location is two blocks south of Union Square, New York.    Hooray, too, for my enabling Canon G7!


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                   Wishing you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR and lots more of Ruby Tuesday events!

MONOCHROME MONDAY - CLOUD IMAGERY

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CHANGING PLACES by Choreographer Susan Vencl - FIRST PERFORMED IN 2009 at the late Choreographer Merc Cunningham's Dance Studio

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT - PINA BAUSCH, FAMOUS GERMAN CHOREOGRAPHER, WHO RECENTLY DIED

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - TWO SNOWMEN

                    Snow in the suburbs - Long Island - still to be enjoyed in backyards on December 25th 2009.  The two unusual looking snowmen, the work of humorous, eleven years old, Tina!                    

                The sun, blue skies and cold air keeping the snow just right for fun and games

                                                         and SHADOWS galore!

                         Wishing everyone a HAPPY AND PRODUCTIVE New Year



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RUBY TUESDAY - HOLIDAY GREETINGS

    WISHING FELLOW BLOGGERS  HAPPY HOLIDAYS and a PRODUCTIVE NEW YEAR!

 A collaborative photograph with printmaker Mary Westring, whose mini Christmas tree on the end of the kitchen table below is reflected in the nearby refrigerator.    

  
  

               Thank you Followers and Helpers for all your supportive comments in my first year of blogging!

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(on Tuesday)

SKYWATCH FRIDAY - DAWN BREAKS, SUN RISES

  

    New York about 7.15 am  Wednesday.

    This is the first time I have seen the clouds so touched by the sun not yet seen

     When the clouds unblock the sun I cannot look anymore it is so blinding!

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                                                    SquirrelQueen (Judy) is the host this week

MONOCHROME MONDAY - BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS

A VIEW - looking sideways and up

AND THE ONLY VIEW LEFT.   When the neighbors do the wash, then it changes!

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - MATISSE ON ART

"...the retina demands surprises..."

From a poster:  From the Blue Nude series of cutouts (1952)   Gouache on paper,  cut and pasted on paper.

Matisse in a wheelchair, working on a cutout, Hotel Regina, Nice, 1952.   From MATISSE ON ART (Revised Edition) by Jack Flam (1995) University of California Press Berkely and L.A. California.

In an interview with Andre Verdet  (p. 212 paper back) Matisse explained that scissors can acquire more feeling for line than pencil or charcoal.  To him sensitivity often lies in the instantaneousness of gesture;  a freshness always carefully protected from what might elegantly sink into routine.

Thus, the gesture of the sun's rays has instantly changed, temporarily, the carefully protected elegance of a Blue Nude from sinking into its routinely accepted familiar shape.  That is what SSS is all about!


  "MATISSE ON ART" is a fascinating discussion on the painter's thoughts about his creative process as Jack Flam documents the growth of early modernism of twentieth-century art. 




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               PS   MATISSE As Printmaker -  is currently on exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

SKYWATCH FRIDAY - PS

    Friday 7.15 AM  - This today!

     Thursday AM - from the kitchen window

  
    Very chilly today in NYC - like in the 40s!

                  
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MOTION THURSDAY - THE HIGH-WIRE ACT and a protest

  OOPSY DAISY!

        Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Nassau Veterans Memorial  Coliseum, Long Island, early 2009

    YIKES.....but, all is well.    Their antics were more scary and funny than the sad display of tyrannized lions!   

Surely it is time to retire these beautiful cats and employ people who can make us laugh? 

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RUBY TUESDAY - LIP SHAPED SOFA

Seen at the NEW MUSEUM in NEW YORK earlier this year on an open press day.

 Adriana Lara's Dali lip/sofa with Friedberg chair hand and cigarette

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MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY - A ROSE IS

A ROSE 

IS A ROSE.... 

IS AN O'KEEFFE!

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - TICTOC

 The French clock                        

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SKYWATCH FRIDAY - DAWN AND SUNRISE

I wake up to this unusual chilly looking dawn in NYC - clouds on the move

Then the horizon begins to warm up

Finally, the sun rises and I have to wear sunglasses to photograph

Then turn my back on it and look at it this way!  

And make some coffee!


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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - MOON WALK

THERE WILL BE A FULL MOON TONIGHT - Wednesday

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RUBY TUESDAY - THE HONEYCRISP APPLE

IN SEASON NOW!   One of the best.  It is really crisp, sweet and juicy!

Perfect for RUBY TUESDAY!