Giant Seagull Steals the Show

As the newscaster read the news, a seemingly gigantic seagull strolled past.

The explanation?


The backdrop of the city for the show is not just a fixed shot. An outdoor camera mounted high up on a building streams the backdrop for the show. Apparently it is right next to the ledge that this seagull was strutting around on.

Furbags?

Since I live in an upstate town with limited shopping, I lead a very sheltered existence with respect to fashion. I was really not prepared for the wild and bizarre offerings in the purse department of the TJ Maxx in Boston.



New to me was the idea of a bag made from fur, a furbag if you will. The name alone should have tipped designers off that it was a bad idea. Fur hats, coats, and so on at least have the purpose of keeping someone warm. What do people want to keep warm in their purses? (The one below was also poorly constructed, and all bunched up.)


Even though they were at TJ Maxx, the furbags were expensive, like five or six hundred bucks-----down from initial prices like $900. Given that the purses were even at TJ Maxx, I suppose that people have cast their dollar votes, and the furbags lost.

Another Unfinished Project Looming?

I guess I am just too fond of certain shades of green. When looking for handbags just recently, I found one in a green that I just could not resist. But it had unappealing brown handles, and a positively eye-zorching shade of rust for the lining. Rust with that gorgeous fresh green????

I felt I had an obligation to rescue the green suede from it's ignominious coexistence with those poorly chosen materials. I bought it, and grabbed my seam ripper. Here in the pictures it is already partially dismantled. See what I mean about that lining?





I am debating between blue or black for the interior and handles. Navy blue would make it perfect to pair with any of my three favorite scarves, but the green positively sings when paired with black.

Now that I have blogged about it, I have to finish it, right?

Don't Get Me This For My Birthday!

Barbara W. certainly got an unusual gift: a portrait of herself made from fruit and other produce!
(I included the second shot because it shows off the little pooch she is holding better. After all that work, they should have taken a better picture!)
I suppose who ever gave her this should get some bonus points for thinking outside the bun, but are they out of their frickin' gourd?
I suppose that produce portraits have a long tradition, but this one seems to draw at least as much from De Kooning's portraits of women for inspiration. See for yourself.
(I mean, jicama boobs?------really!)











I'm just too easy gift-wise; take me out to dinner, or buy me a hat. In a pinch jewelry will do!








(These two portraits are by Arcimboldo who traveled around Europe painting during the late 1500's.)

Oops!

Last Summer I got a new digital camera with more capabilities than I will ever understand how to use. (Why do they make the print in the instruction manuals so tiny?) Anyway, once while I was out photographing flowers in my garden I inadvertently pushed a button or something that made it start making a video. I stopped it within about a second and half, just long enough to record myself saying,"Oops!"

I never looked at the video until today! It turns out the initial frame looks kind of interesting because of how fast I was moving the camera at the time. Of course the video itself is too short to be interesting itself, but I kind of like that first frame! I wish I could paint like that!

Spring Fashion Update

Even a super expensive handbag cannot save this look! YIKES! Her face makes clear how painful her shoes are. She's not the only one hurting------MY EYES, MY EYES!

(This picture was in the Dailymail.co.uk, but I can't track down the URL. The woman is the mother of a British football star who has launched his own fashion line------she is wearing a shirt from his line! What advertising! It reminds me somehow of a funny comment about ads that I read recently. "With a name like Smuckers, it's got to smuck.")

Stranger than Fiction

WHITEHOUSE, Ohio - An Ohio farmer would like to invite you to get lost inside the head of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

A 16-acre corn maze near the town of Whitehouse has been carved in Palin's likeness, complete with her familiar updo hairstyle and eyeglasses.

And to think, I was expecting a miraculous apparition like a Jebus cornflake.

My dress. What? Didn't you hear? Black is the new black.

Tracey's dress