Happy Leap Year and weekend
Happy Leap Year! Maybe not much of a celebration for most people but a wedding anniversary day for me to celebrate every 4 years! And what beautiful art to receive–a Frank Gehry, bone-china, sculptural vase from Tiffany’s! This is the year of the Frog (see previous post, with flying frogs on my mind).
TV surprise 2
I’ve been watching this silly TV series called Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and the humanoid, female machine that the main characters have befriended (actually she was sent from the future to help them), lacks emotion and other human-like qualities like a soul, but looks human and in fact, exemplifies human perfection on the outside. However, “Machines,” as the voice of Sara Connor says, “cannot possess faith or create art, for then they would be able to replace us.” The last scene is of the female machine practicing ballet and dancing so beautifully that she brings tears to the one of the humans, who suspects her of being a traitor to…
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TV surprise
I wasn’t going to even write this post because it didn’t seem significant–until I saw another interesting TV surprise. I was watching the last bit of the Academy Awards (it went on longer than I thought, as usual) and I was taken with the new American Express Ad featuring Diane Von Furstenberg. Although she’s not necessarily one of my favorite fashion designers, I was intrigued with the content of the 30 second spot. It was all about what I’m discussing here–the process of creating art. It showed her going in the woods, taking photos of trees and creating dress patterns based on those inspirations from Nature. Beauty was and is…
