Thursday, November 29, 2012
I am a 42 year old woman who has made it to level 37 in Smurfs Village on the IPad. Don’t smurf me. I started playing the game when my husband and I first bought our IPad as a shared anniversary gift two years ago. The Smurfs game was free, and a nostalgic reminder of the days when I would wake up early on Saturday mornings,...
Thursday, November 29, 2012 0
Friday, September 21, 2012
Since late June, something a little unusual has been up on the wall of a local bar called Alibi in San Diego.
Photo by Holly Yang, Sept. 21, 2012 ~7:45 am
It something called the Before I Die project, and it is the second time this dynamic public bucketlist it has come to San Diego. The installations last for varying periods of time,...
Friday, September 21, 2012 1
Monday, June 11, 2012
Textile art is not something I see a lot of, so had to share this.
Jacqui Parkinson, also known as Jacqui Frost, is a textile artist who lives in Devon, England. In 2007 she lost her first husband, Rev. Rob Frost to cancer. In the midst of her isolating grief, she felt the urge to do something both artistically and physically. She took...
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Monday, June 4, 2012
I was recently emailed a story. Friends and family know that I'm involved in hospice and palliative medicine and send things along at times. When I first read it, I thought it sounds like a hospice urban legend. What do you think? Fact or fiction? I'm not sure how widely circulated this is, so it may be something...
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Monday, May 21, 2012
This is a unique one, and something I stumbled upon listening to an old podcast from Radiolab produced by NPR.
There is a town in France, situated in the suburbs of Paris called Garches. The town has a large trauma hospital, Raymond Poincare, where most of the vehicle accidents come to be treated. Unlike other hospitals that have similar...
Monday, May 21, 2012 1
Monday, May 7, 2012
Annie Tempest is a British cartoonist by trade, the author of Tottering-by-Gently, a strip that runs in the UK magazine Country Life. Most recently, however, she's moved into sculpting and had an exhibition in London this past month called "Play as Cast"
Communication
Her sculpting, like so many other artists,...
Monday, May 7, 2012 0
Monday, April 30, 2012
I read a lot of obituaries. Some are long. Some are short. Some are flowery. Some are just the facts. When this obituary was published in the Denver Post it became known on the internet as the greatest...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Alzheimer's Project is an HBO documentary series that debuted in 2009. It consists of 4 documentaries that look at the science of the disease and those affected by the disease, the people with the disease, their caregivers and children. There is also a supplementary series of short videos.What really caught my attention in this three...
Thursday, April 12, 2012 1
Thursday, April 5, 2012
When composer Nigel Westlake's 21 year old son was suddenly and tragically killed in 2008, he didn't think he'd be able to write music again. An entire year went by before Westlake realized he couldn't spend the rest of his life stuck in grief.
Walking back into the studio again after so much time, he found a previously written piece...
Thursday, April 5, 2012 0
Monday, March 19, 2012
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is an art teacher and one of Thailand's' foremost female artists. She had her first solo show in New York last month with a video exhibition showing historic art history pieces from western culture to rural and religious people in Thailand in an exhibit titled "Two Planets/ Village and Elsewhere"
However,...
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Monday, March 12, 2012
In 2005, artist Christina Symanski fractured her neck diving into a swimming pool. She was pulled out by her boyfriend but has been a quadriplegic since that time.Symanski continued her art, using her mouth and an iPad. More of her art can be seen here. The effect her injury had on her art is obvious.She wrote about her experience in...
Monday, March 12, 2012 1
Monday, March 5, 2012
Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine since 2003, was recently interviewed by Bill Moyers about his journey with cancer, falling in love and finding faith in the midst of death. Wiman was diagnosed with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia 6 years ago. He's recently undergone a bone marrow transplant and tells Moyers he's...
Monday, March 5, 2012 0
Monday, February 20, 2012
I don't really mean to be on a skeleton kick... but was exploring this very old work done by Hans Holbein the Younger in the 1500's, and thought I'd share it.
Holbein, a German artist, was really known in the 16th century as one of the great portraitists of his time. Many of his portraits, such as of Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII are housed...
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Friday, February 3, 2012
by Elliot Bennett
A couple months back a friend of mine posted a link on her Facebook page while she was caring for an aging furry friend. The photos and the movie about the photographer, Isa Leshko, and her work is called "Elderly Animals." For me, the eyes of her subjects reflected the profound strength and frailty that paradoxically...
Friday, February 3, 2012 0
Monday, January 30, 2012
Art collector Richard Harris, while visiting an art fair in 2001 in the Netherlands about the inevitability of death, had an epiphany of sorts. Why not start collecting art that deals with death as its theme? More than a decade later Harris now owns over 1500 pieces of art and artifacts that deal with the subject of death. I think...
Monday, January 30, 2012 1
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thanks to Drew Rosielle who sent me a link to this video game. I am not big on playing video games. I figure one person in our household (my husband) being obsessed with them is enough. There's just too much action for me, and my lack of hand-eye coordination prevents me from ever being successful when I have tried. This game, To the...
Monday, January 23, 2012 0
Monday, January 9, 2012
I am often drawn to artists who have experienced death and then use their work to process the loss. Julie Williams is just such a person. She is an Australian photo-artist, who in 2004 lost her partner. In an effort to work through her grief, Williams began to visit familiar places in nature. One spot she...
Monday, January 9, 2012 0
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