Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
Picture below is from my friend Addy. (In addition to being a landscape architecture student and the one who keeps Minns Garden (and others) looking good all summer, she’s also a member of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers, skating for the BlueStockings.)
It’s their float for the Ithaca Festival parade — a work in progress here, but Addy promised to hook me up with more pix later.
Photo gallery of construction from the Ithaca Journal.
That was the theme of last weekend’s Memorial Day potluck. Ticket to get in: a dish and a song about it. My favorite dish (and not a bad song):
Here’s the playlist with most of the songs.
And some pix shot by Marc and Carol. (More in Carol’s Facebook Photos.)
Elly with the menu.
(Most) everyone around the fire pit.
Elly, Corey and Elaine.
Me and Nate.
Corey and Noah once again take home one of the prizes — a vinyl record melted into a bowl.
Saying goodbye to Corey.
Well, I started out shooting pix for the original theme (backlit). And of those shots, this one is closest to the ‘Spring Fling’ theme. Frankly, it needs more whimsy. Thanks to GGW folks for forging ahead under not the best of circumstances.
If you’re on campus, check out Kent Loeffler’s infrared photos of sites in and around the Cornell campus in the gallery on the second floor of Mann Library.
Kent used a specially modified digital camera that only records infrared. It does very interesting things with trees and clouds. You can view more at his smugmug site. You can also buy the book online.
Seems like every couple of years, Kent comes up with a new and interesting technique to help us see things a little differently. A couple of years ago, I posted about his miniature landscapes shot with a borescope.
That’s the name of the villa in the south of France where the Rolling Stones recorded Exile on Main Street, re-released this last week.
As David Itszkoff wrote in the New York Times ArtBeat blog:
If, after listening to all 18 tracks and 67 minutes of the Rolling Stones‘ “Exile on Main Street” you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I could really do with a few more scuzzy, skeevy, down-and-dirty Stones tracks from those same recording sessions,” your ship has just come in. (And we think that’s Keith Richards dangling perilously from the crow’s nest.)