Maureen E. Doallas's Blog – May 2012 Archive (31)

Color: Make It Relative

For those who want to learn the "grammar" of color to avoid visual mistakes, Richard (Dick) Nelson, creator of the color matrix, has created a wonderful video that I've included in today's post.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/color-make-it-relative.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 31, 2012 at 6:21am — No Comments

Wednesday Wonder: Sound, Visualized

Today's post features a video of sound's geometric vibration patterns, called Chladni patterns (after Ernst Chladni, "Father of Acoustics"):

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/wednesday-wonder-sound-visualized.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 30, 2012 at 6:31am — No Comments

Color Theory (Poem)

A new poem is posted: "Color Theory".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/color-theory-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 29, 2012 at 5:31am — No Comments

Memorial Day: 'Arlington'

To mark Memorial Day, I've posted the award-winning music video "Arlington", which is inspired by a true story.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/memorial-day-arlington.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 28, 2012 at 7:35am — No Comments

Thought for the Day

Poet Eavan Boland provides the Thought for the Day.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/thought-for-day_27.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 27, 2012 at 7:22am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Today's edition of Saturday Sharing includes links to the original memoirs of Casanova, jazz album covers in the Smithsonian's Folklife archives, a new site that promises all things Gandhi, a place for every final sentence, a discussion list for those reference questions you haven't been able to answer, and The Reading Glove, which may or may not be self-explanatory.…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 26, 2012 at 8:36am — No Comments

All Art Friday

The spotlights in today's All Art Friday cover Tracing Bosch & Bruegel: Four Paintings Magnified; the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative; Craig Allen's artworks; artist residency, grant, and fellowship lists; and photographer Ian Ruhter's "Silver & Light Project (video).

The round-up highlights exhibitions of the work of Kathleen Schneider (sculptures at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn), Tara Donovan (sculptural mixed media at Milwaukee Art Museum), and Andre Masson…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 25, 2012 at 7:54am — No Comments

Art21's 'Change'

I'm featuring Art21's Change, the opening-season episode with Los Angeles-based documentary photographer Catherine Opie, Ghanaian-born "found-object" sculptor El Anatsui, and China's Ai Weiwei.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/art21s-change.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 24, 2012 at 6:03am — No Comments

Wednesday Wonder: Aurora Borealis

Today's Wednesday Wonder is a stop-motion film, "Celestial Lights Viewed from Earth" by Ole C. Salomonsen. Salomonsen spent a number of months on his project to film the aurora borealis, shooting 150,000 exposures from which he selected approximately 6,000 frames for use in his film. Truly a wonder.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/wednesday-wonder-aurora-borealis.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 23, 2012 at 8:14am — No Comments

Words Wouldn't Come (Poem)

I've posted a new "found" poem, "Words Wouldn't Come":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/words-wouldnt-come-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 22, 2012 at 6:30am — No Comments

Monday Muse: Minnesota's Poet Laureate

Monday Muse profiles Joyce Sutphen, who has succeeded Robert Bly as Minnesota Poet Laureate.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/monday-muse-minnesotas-poet-laureate.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 21, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments

Thought for the Day

Today's quote about poetry is from Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. Smith of Life on Mars.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/thought-for-day_20.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 20, 2012 at 9:03am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Words, music, photographs, film, science, and recycling are the subjects of today's Saturday Sharing. You'll find links to Recyclebank, Live Music Archive, The Mind Is a Metaphor, Visuwords online graphical dictionary, Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project, and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 19, 2012 at 9:18am — No Comments

All Art Friday

Friday's come around again, and so has a new edition of All Art Friday. Today's spotlights: Google Art Project, paper engineer Matthew Shlian, the Museum of British Surfing, Doug Aitken's "Song 1" at the Hirshhorn Museum, and a motionpoem that makes Andrew Wyeth its subject.

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Denver Art Museum (Yves St. Laurent; video included), Vassar College's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Julie Mehretu), Washington, D.C.'s Smith Healing Center for Healing and…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 18, 2012 at 7:21am — No Comments

Stradivari and Guarneri, Violin Masters

Today's post highlights a new film that recently debuted on PBS: "Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona", which looks at the grandmasters of violin-making, Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. I've included the film's trailer.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/stradivari-and-guarneri-violin-masters.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 17, 2012 at 6:40am — No Comments

Interview with Poet Kelly Cherry

Recently, I conducted via e-mail an interview with Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry. One part of the interview appears today at the T.S. Poetry Press blog TweetSpeakPoetry; the remainder of the interview appears at Writing Without Paper.

http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/blog/2012/05/16/a-simple-rhyme-‘changed-my-life’-interview-with-virginia-poet-laureate-kelly-cherry/…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 16, 2012 at 5:12am — No Comments

Let Rain (Poem)

Today's poem is "Let Rain". I've included an audio recording of it.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/let-rain-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 15, 2012 at 6:32am — No Comments

Monday Muse: Kentucky's Poet Laureate

Monday Muse profiles Kentucky's Poet Laureate, Maureen Morehead, who succeeded Gurney Norman in the post.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/monday-muse-kentuckys-poet-laureate.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 14, 2012 at 6:46am — No Comments

Thought for the Day

A Meister Eckhart quote is today's Thought for the Day.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/05/thought-for-day_13.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 13, 2012 at 9:04am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Today's new edition of Saturday Sharing reflects just how eclectic the Web's offerings are. Take a moment and browse the maps at Flowing Data, a site dedicated to computer scientist Alan Turing, the interactive Body & Soul, ballet in ultra slow-motion, and a digital archive of World War I poetry. Also enjoy listening to today's video recording of Marian McPartland's musical tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson.…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on May 12, 2012 at 7:02am — No Comments

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