Cars Without Men – Jan 12, 2022
January 12th, 2022
(それ お 送る – Send it)
(Photo by Fung Lin Hall)
(Photo by Fung Lin Hall – Dec 31,2021)
Happy birthday Haruki Murakami (Jan 12, 1949)
My Poverty Shaped like a Cheescake (A short story by Murakami translated by PeterCat)
A Memoir, The History of Bones – by John Lurie
December 14th, 2021
(Happy birthday John Lurie – December 14)
John Lurie’s father used to take him to fishing. John Lurie is a hard working, self taught artist in music, acting and in painting. Basquiat painted and slept at his place. Basquiat was a close friend that Lurie wrote a lot about in this memoir.
John Lurie is a world traveller.
He wrote about Africa, one of many places Lurie visited. He wrote.
“I had been depressed for a long, long time. I could not get out of it. Africa saved me. You can feel life started there.
More paintings at his Gallery with great soundtrack from John Lurie’s Strange and Beautiful homepage
Strange and Beautiful John Lurie (previous post)
Listen to his playing here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_864xjMQY8)
John Lurie: ‘I wanted to break into Martha Stewart’s house and change the curtains. My lawyer said no’
(He’s hung out with Warhol and gone ice fishing with Willem Dafoe, but the Fishing With John man’s new series stars just him and his canvas)
(A man, a bull and of course, the Soldier Bunnies. – John Lurie)
Themes and Variations – Brick, Bottles and Chipmunk
May 16th, 2021George Carlin, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Florence Nightingale, were born on May 12
May 12th, 2021George Carlin (See three videos here)
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. George Carlin)
Dorothy Hodgkin (Previous post – Dorothy was born on May 12, 1910
Florence Nightingale click to see large
Florence Nightingale 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
Photos of Three Chairs Unfolding
April 20th, 2021Maria Callas and the red Chair
See Elegant chairs (scroll down)
Happy Chinese Lunar Year of the Ox 2021- Moo Moo
February 12th, 2021Celebrations around the world in pictures (The Guardian)
(via)
My Own Private “Traveling Bernie Sanders Selections”,
January 21st, 2021
Aloha Bernie Sanders. He was in Honolulu.
About the Mittens.
The mittens were created by Vermont teacher Jane Ellis. Ellis made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and lined them with fleece from recycled plastic bottles.
The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
(Bernie levitating at Guggenheim Museum in New York)
See more Bernie Sanders art history memes here
Bernie was in Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Ikiru
Thanks to Sachin Shrijith
Bernie Sanders in Burlington (see more photos and links from here)
Bernie and Allen
Happy Covid Christmas -2020
December 21st, 2020Soviet Santa (How Santa Survived the Soviet Era)
Edgard Varese, Frank Zappa Connection
Frank Zappa – Birth date, December 21
Edard Varese – Birth date, December 22
TP Meditation Taylor Mead Haiku Robert Hass Translation
September 17th, 2020Tyranny of Design? Or Chairs as Characters
August 26th, 2020Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible. By Sara Hendren
Tony Cragg <>
Tom Friedman
– his school chair, drilled into skeletal oblivion.
See a Dragon Chair sold for 28 Millions by Eileen Gray.
The unique and remarkable ‘Dragons’ armchair was acquired from Miss Gray by Suzanne Talbot, the first patron to provide her with an opportunity to create a complete environment. The exotic, symbolist character of the piece situates it conceptually within the first phase of Miss Gray’s creative cycle.
The Mad Tea Party (previous post)
Two chair design by Scott Burton
Lugar Column 2016
Artists from Brazil
My photos of New Mexico Las Vegas Hotel Lobby –
Panda with oversized bamboo.
Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Tuesday, November 5, 2013
(Ikea – photo by Fung Lin Hall)
Weather and Warehouse
Comic Cat, Lit Cat, Film Noir Cat – 2020
August 8th, 2020
Edward Gorey loved cat and Balanchine (previous post)
The Cop and Peter Cook the Comic Genius
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing archive here.
Herman
and the Cat.. another photo from writing & the feline muse.
Herman Hesse – The Glass Bead Game
Kay Ryan
A CAT/A FUTUREA cat can draw
the blinds
behind her eyes
whenever she
decides. Nothing
alters in the stare
itself but she’s
not there. Likewise
a future can occlude:
still sitting there,
doing nothing rude.