Summering, as a state of mind, involves a benign relationship to the outdoor after a long cold winter. It is the time when we feel liberated in our movements and freed to experience the outdoors simply, whether as individuals or in company of others, whether in contemplation or in social activities and cultural events. The …
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The summer is a great time to explore, get outside, or enjoy time with your family. Since school is out, children get to spend more time with their parents and this can be the perfect opportunity to bond as a family. Summer also has longer daylight hours and is much warmer than winter. This makes …
By degrees To go from the patio of a great classic pile to the rushing St Lawrence river, a transition by degrees is necessary to “ritualize” the approach and allow the senses to gradually adapt, from architectural to natural scale and environment. As the above image shows these degrees do step down two grassy slopes that …
Summertime living These days of climatic disorder isn’t as easy as the Gershwin song goes. For one thing, rehydrating bottles of water and places to cool down the body are not always practically at hand. In the feature image, taken outside the Atwater public market,at the onset of a heat wave this summer, the multiplicity …
Summering Photographically speaking, it is an opportunity for playful experimentation with the digital parameters of viewing: monochromatically, by using the classic sepia toning and compositionally, by using the fish-eye effect. Sepia toning The classic sepia, or “sanguine” in French, brings up the warmth that black and white photography lacks somehow, while retaining the structuring modulation of light and …
On Wednesday, 7/5, we kicked off #90X90LA, our summer festival, our summer gathering, our summer commune at our home base, Cielo galleries/studios. It was a perfect, loving, mellow way to step into #90X90LA. We wanted to ease into the days and acclimate us all to the amazing space that is Cielo (operated by one of …
Contemporary dance opens for Shakespeare at Griffith Park, a visionary’s current vision in Beverly Hills, Beauty and the Beast redux in Pasadena, ballet stars at the Bowl, and more SoCal dance this week. 4. Dancers assembling furniture Returning as a dance prelude for this free Shakespeare festival, Invertigo Dance Theatre performs excerpts from Interior Design. Laura Karlin and her …
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The end of May marks the unofficial start of summer, and the unofficial start of summer marks the official start of the summer blockbusters movie season. Perhaps the most classic summer blockbuster ever was JAWS—the film which nearly single-handedly destroyed an entire group of important apex animals. Imagine how the last 42 years would have …
General considerations Summering is a very evocative term, of times and places and people: memories redolent of smells, tastes, sounds, of sun and shade, of sand and sea, of starry skies and beach bonfires, perhaps a time for our senses to reclaim some attention on our part …. Summering in the city, evokes situations of …
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“Many will look, but a few will see”. Professor Philip Thiel, in architecture school, would use that expression to differentiate the act of looking, as casting one’s eyes on something or someone, from the act of seeing, as understanding that thing’s or person’s essential traits, character or form. That level of understanding is what he …
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