Slow Art at the MFA

Saturday, October 17, 2009
Slow Art at The Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston
10:30AM - 12:30PM - art viewing,
1:00PM -2:30PM Lunch in The Galleria
Boston organizer: Payal Kripalani
Hosted by Reading Odyssey


From Slow Art, eventbrite:

Fee: You pay the museum admission yourself day of the event and also pay for your own lunch.
This live event is designed to help participants see art in a new way - to exercise their seeing, thinking and listening muscles.
We ask participants in slow art to look at pieces of art for between 10 minutes and 60 minutes each (viewer's choice). Note: the average museum visitors looks at a piece of art for no more than 8 seconds (many for less!).

Stay tuned for artwork suggestions e-mailed to your inbox.
Hosted by the nonprofit Reading Odyssey, slow art is the art world's equivalent of "slow food."
How does it work?
1. You register at the link above (so we can send you further instructions and confirm the size of our lunch)
2. You arrive at 10:30 on October 17, pay your admission and then go look at two or more art pieces for 10+ minutes each. Note: we'll send you some suggestions ahead of time for pieces to look at - and recommend that first-time attendees spend 10-15 minutes with each work of art.
3. That's it - you arrive, pay your museum admission price, look at art slowly and then join us for lunch.
4. Oh, and come dressed distinctively.
5. Spread the word.

For more info on the:
-Slow Art event/founder Phil Terry or Reading Odyssey, visit here,
-the MFA
- slow art on FB

CONTACT PTERRY AT READING ODYSSEY DOT COM
with suggested date and museum TO HOST in your city!
(easy peasy)

Life is Good

{of course these images are from the LIG website}

You know who he is, and you know just seeing him makes you smile big!

Jake is in action once again spreading good vibes and helping children with his optimism and spirit. Every time I see a LIG shirt I smile, you see I know that the boys that started this company are two of THE biggest hearted and kind spirited guys you could meet. They were spreading sunshine long before the creation of their company. When they started the festivals and every time I hear about what the accomplishments are for the Life is Good Kids Foundation, I am blown away. With most overwhelming admiration, well, I give those Jacobs boys standing O's... They are truly ambassadors of optimism.

If there is one company that stands out among the many, in any industry, LIFE IS GOOD is clearly the most creatively dedicated to making our world a better place to live in, one smile at a time.

Join Life is Good in Boston on June 20th for the concert or for a walk to raise money for children. Click the link to find out all the fun you can have, doing good, spending time with your family and spreading sunshine. You can't beat a great spring day in Boston and helping children. Good stuff.

From the Life is Good site:
Life is good is on a mission to spread much-needed good vibes nationwide in 2009. We're calling all optimists to join us on our favorite playground, Boston Common, on June 20, 2009 from 11am to 5pm, for a free, day-long family-friendly festival.

Our outdoor bash features fantastic live music from Grammy winners The Blind Boys of Alabama, rising national recording artist Brett Dennen, and family-favorite SteveSongs. As always, there will be heaps of classic backyard food and a colorful mix of good-time games and activities for all ages. From seed spitting and Double Dutch to soccer kicks, tug-o'-wars and football flings, we promise a day of big smiles and healthy play.

All funds raised through donations onsite and all profits from the sale of Life is good merchandise at the event will be directed via the Life is good Kids Foundation to Project Joy, a grassroots nonprofit that uses the power of play to heal and strengthen children whose lives have been deeply impacted by fear and trauma. Their mission: to ensure that nothing (not poverty, not violence, not natural disasters) destroys the playfulness of children. Nothing.

Sugar Magnolia, Blossoms Blooming

guess where?

guess when?

soon, very soon

{pics from Marathon Monday, hmm, Boston, circa 2006'ish}

tell me, tell me...
what do you think of the new feature below?
Leave me a comment and let me know!

U2 to play Boston March 11

If anyone can get me 2 tix...i will do most anything! They will not be on sale...you must win them, or know someone. Jack Lapp where are you?

Baila me...

Baila baila baila me
Esta rumba a ta gitana
Que yo siempre cantare
Pero yo siempre cantare...

It's no blues act to be sure, but the Gipsy Kings are playing the new HOB tomorrow and I just can't wait. We have been missing the old House of Blues in Cambridge and this is an exciting addition to the Boston music scene. Finally a venue big enough for national acts and small enough for a more intimate show than the "Garden". Safe enough, that you don't have to worry about the balcony coming down like the Orpheum. Sadly, I read that alot of the decor from the old place at Harvard Square was stored down in New Orleans and much of it got damaged by Katrina. I can't wait to see what made it back to Boston. It's been a long time.

Can you see me dancing while I am typing? Pero yo siempre cantare...

Scott Smith is the art director and curator of the House of Blues who features a folk art expression to compliment the music of the south that the place is known for. The HOB officially opens Saturday with a performance by original Blues Brothers front man, Dan Ackroyd and stand in Jim Belushi.

This image via the Herald.