New Creative Outlets
by Hanna
(From Sleeping Mountains, Photos.)
Since occasionally, I don’t have quite enough patience to update this blog in the form I intended, bringing information from various sources together to create a unique comparison of news, art high and low, culture, history, literature, and more, I haven’t been posting much of anything this last week.
To combat the problem, I’ve started two Tumblr sites to complement this one. One is Sleeping Mountains, No. 2, where I collect links, quotes, videos, music, and photographs I collect on my almost daily saunter through the internets. This will hopefully help me keep track of those things that catch my attention.
The other brand new Tumblr is Sleeping Moutains, Photos, where I want to put up more of my photos, since the design of Sleeping Mountains doesn’t seem to do them real justice. It’s not that I want to take myself and my photos too seriously. I just like making pretty things. :-)
I hope you like them. I’ve also put links to both in my “About” section on the left.
Dear Hanna, thanks so much for the Patti Smith video !! So good.
Just finished her biography “Just kids” – she and Robert Mapplethorpe
were quiet a pair of artists – and made it happen!
The music filled my kitchen (I am in the US now) have to figure out the time difference
from here. Your photos are great – so much beauty in the world, one just has to see it.
YOU do …. thanks for sharing.
Love, ch
Dear Christiane,
You are an inspiration! Thank you! It wouldn’t be much fun to do all this and have no one look at it.
I just recently rented a CD of Patti Smith music from the CD/Video rental store Tsutaya and feel as if I should have known her better by now. If I had time to read more (currently reading Sein und Zeit and Salome’s book on Rilke, not to mention what I have to read for my MA thesis), I would love to read Just Kids!
Have fun in the US! What part are you at? It’s a big country. Too big for its own good. I hope you can ignore all the flag waving patriotism after Bin Laden’s killing. . .
Love,
Hanna
Hi Hanna, no flag waving here .. I am in Massachusetts, in Sandwich, know where that is ? Very quiet this time of year. Ein guter Platz fuer Heidegger !! Lou Salome I have read, she was a great woman!
Hope you will have many, many readers or viewers of your now different blogs – because your stuff is
more interesting and intelligent than most of what one can find on the internet. I love your selection -
exactly what I care for.
Keep up the good work – and try to get “Just kids” – so you don’t forget about it – when you have more time, one fine day- it’s an important book. The cover for HORSES is one of the best portraits Mapplethorpe ever did, They were just kids …. and such great artists, and they knew it!
Love,
CH
Dear Christiane,
Yes, the home of the Sandwich Police, if I’m not mistaken. . . ;-) But I’ve never been on Cape Cod, so I don’t know exactly. My little sister lives in Boston, though.
You’ve convinced me. I’ll get “Just Kids.”
Do you have some website of your own I haven’t discovered yet?
Hugs,
Hanna
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, pictures,life with us. It is all appreciated even if not always commented on.
gene
Thank you, Gene.
Sunday
Hanna, Hi, please read in the NY Sunday Times the Maureen Dowd OP Ed piece.
I know this is on your mind, and she explains it beautifully. Maybe you read her
sometimes. I do not always agree with her – but today she is right on.
Have a good sunday.
CH
Almost another sunday
Just found a wonderful artist in the MFA, Boston, you might like too.
Kyoko Kumai, Japanese, born 1943
She works with stainless steel, just amazing.
Look at her work on the internet.
I like the photos on your new Photo webside.
Lieben Gruss,
CH
Dear Christiane,
Kyoko Kumai’s work looks amazing. Did you get to see an exhibit? I’m sure it’s even more impressive in person than through photographs.
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I’ve been really busy attending conferences and an intensive seminar in addition to the normal return to classes. Hopefully I can get a regular habit going again.
Hugs,
Hanna
There was just one piece – in preparation of a larger exhibition in September.
It was a waterfall of silvery steel spun very thinly and being woven into many
strings of imaginary water coming from above. So beautiful !!
Loved you pics from Kyoto and Nara, I was in Nara last year for the 1300th
birthday of this amazing city. Thank you again for Sleeping Mountains Photo!
Such a treat to be able “to travel” with you.
Big hug,
CH