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Chernobyl, Verizon red alerts, and well-armed liberals

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Marcus goes to Chernobyl. Read about it here http://www.ranum.com/fun/projects/chernobyl/. I was reminded of the Polidori exhibit on Chernobyl (zones of exclusion) that I saw at the Tate a few years ago or maybe it was in Montreal. Human insignificance shines through Polidori’s work in the form of dissolving cities.

Meanwhile, the safety situation here in the United States could not be more different. Some hourly Verizon guys in trucks asked permission to park in our driveway to check a nearby pole. We thought it was great when they set out orange safety cones in case the traffic on our driveway became confused. As if the yellow flashing lights were not enough…

Safety cones in the driveway. I bet their supervisor makes her kids wear bike helmets.

We spent the afternoon blowing as many clay pigeons as we could out of mid air. Jack is a good shot. Fits right in with the rest of us well-armed liberals.

Movies coming to the Barns Arts Center in Berryville!

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The First screening – Beginners Jan 20, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

 

The bard

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A comedy of errors is a bit complicated for 8th graders, but our kid was the best Antipholus ever.

Syracuse or Ephesus, that is the question.

Wolf Talk ( at Glen Echo)

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The second performance of the dance Wolf Talk (captured Sunday 11/13/11 at Glen Echo Park). Jen Stone directed and performed.

Wolf Talk 2nd Performance from Jen Stone on Vimeo.

Improvising to modern dance was a challenge and was a great deal of fun too.

Cynthia says…

Who are these wolves?

Support Organic Locally Grown Art

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Support your local art scene with a share in the CSA. The music of Where’s Aubrey is featured in the bushel of art.

See this article in the local paper for more:
CSA article Winchester Star 11.08.11

Luminous will be released next month and featured in a concert January 28th at the Barns of Rose Hill.

Firewood and Pig Poop

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Life at Apothecary Shed is not always a bed of roses and formaldehyde. After staying up way too late with some visitors at Coal Stove Sink on Friday (4am?), it was up in the morning to split wood. Our fence recombobulation project this summer resulted in a huge pile of large cherry and locust logs too big to burn in the fireplace. So we rented a splitter from True Value (a whopper packing 2 tons of hydraulic pressure). Saturday was spent moving the same log multiple times. Must have split 5 cords (and moved 13).

Tote that barge, split that wood, stack it in the shed.

Sunday involved moving more wood, finishing up the solstice bonfire (save the date: December 17th), and attempting to clean out the pig pen. Our well meaning animal sitter threw about 4 bales of hay at our pigs (Berlusconi and Sarkozy) in June, resulting in a very wet, absolutely disgusting mix of wet hay, pig poop, and mud in just about equal parts. It’s so heavy that shoveling is not an option. We removed a panel from the pen and got the tractor in there this evening. Still pretty much a mess.

Five weeks and six days until the solstice fire is lit. Here it is in all of its idyllic Fall glory.

The weather was absolutely perfect.

Oysters and Wolves

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Pooh grows oysters and writes music for movies.

Counting Oysters from Y. David Chung on Vimeo.

Jen is a dancer currently choreographing a piece based on wolves. The lead in sounds are by a Colorado wolf pack, including a wolf who used to live with Jen and is now back in the wilds.
wolves-for-jen.

Gina and I are improvising music along with the dance. We will perform the resulting piece at Glen Echo park on November 13th.

Winslow McCagg in the Mill

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After a hectic week on the road in Europe it was nice to be back home in Virginia. While I was gone, I missed the friday night opening of Winslow McCagg’s solo art show at the Burwell-Morgan Mill. So I went by myself on Sunday to have a look.

The Mill is an interesting setting for abstract art. Winslow’s art is striking and very well executed. Beautiful work.

My favorite painting in the show was called River Goddess.

River Goddess by Winslow McCagg. The interplay between two levels of reading/seeing is particularly striking in this work. Clear and crisp meet cloudy and ethereal. All with gorgeous blues.

Rural Colonial meets abstract meets Rural Colonial.

Pollock in a sunflower.

Winslow himself came by while I was looking.

The artist.

One of these years I hope to acquire some of this work. Thanks for creating it Winslow, it is excellent.

We’ll close with a short film I found on vimeo.

The Art of Winslow McCagg from Erica Garber on Vimeo.

Snow during a Virginia October is a beautiful and destructive thing.

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Healthy silver maple branches, full of leaves, snap, crackle, pop. The woods all around are roaring with the loss..