Question

[rogruth]

Why would actual school buildings even be needed?
Probably so the great training schools for professional athletics could continue.
Naw. They can find other ways. Look how much money could be saved on
physical plant, buses, all of the various salaries involved, etc.
A little tongue-in-cheek here. I think.

[HONDO74]

Why would actual school buildings even be needed?
Probably so the great training schools for professional athletics could continue.
Naw. They can find other ways. Look how much money could be saved on
physical plant, buses, all of the various salaries involved, etc.
A little tongue-in-cheek here. I think.

Might be the reality for the future

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Why would actual school buildings even be needed?

Look at the plethora of On-line colleges and universities that already exist......just about every ivy covered hall large U has an active on-line component to its business.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

No surprise here I'm sure, but I'm a group "A" guy. Most of the group "B" paintings look like the painter needs psychiatric help to me. My one exception is Salidore Dali, who's in a group by himself. Not saying he wasn't a couple bubbles off plumb, but I can see the genius in his paintings. Most in group "B" just strike me as taking advantage of the Greenwich Village, phoo-phoo crap like Warhol. I like substance, not fluff.
BH

Hi BH, I don't know where you would place Marc Chagall in the listing, but I suspect you would have him in Group A. His "Jacob's Blessing," a color lithograph (Paris 1979), sure is Surrealistic enough for me (it seems a bit Impressionistic, too, to me, but that may be a stretch, and it has plenty of "substance," too, as you put it, plenty to see and plenty to think about. What's your opinion in this regard,? Anybody else?

P.S. I love your expression (never heard it previously): "...a couple bubbles off plumb" !!! It certainly could apply to a few heads I've met in-person as well as on-line.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Surrealistic enough

And there you have it.......while I look at it and see very little surrealism, while for example in The Bride and The Groom of the Eiffel Tower might be considered to be more than enough for other folks

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Surrealistic enough

And there you have it.......while I look at it and see very little surrealism, while for example in The Bride and The Groom of the Eiffel Tower might be considered to be more than enough for other folks

Yes, I'm not sure I actually "get" the Surrealism of the work (maybe I need a refresher-course,) and I can easily "accept" his fondness for floating figures up in the sky and all in other works by him, but I do receive the narrative element in the piece, which is what touched me in the first place and had us want it around us in our home from that point forward.

Regarding The Couple of the Eiffel Tower/Bride and Groom of..., you mention what seems to me, too, to be a very good example of Surrealism, with its little narrative elements, like the wedding canopy in the distance, and the lovebird/chicken (???) figure in the foreground, seemingly leading the couple off to the right. Plus, almost every figure is floating. I used to know what that meant, as well as the frequent presence of violins, for Chagall, but I can't recall just now. He was such an intriguing mind.

Back when I was younger and far friskier, I made pilgrimages to visit various artworks in-person, such as Chagall's murals at Lincoln Center, as well as Le Corbusier's architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts ( actually making that trip from NYC self-strapped to a miniscule Honda 50 (yes, a 50, no less, errr, no more I was lighter, then, and far more adventuresome and cavalier. )

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.....and the lovebird/chicken....

Rooster maybe - quite a few of his works feature a rooster in some form...

I was fortunate to encounter an installation and exhibit of Calder's works last time I was in Denver.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

.....and the lovebird/chicken....

Rooster maybe - quite a few of his works feature a rooster in some form...

I was fortunate to encounter an installation and exhibit of Calder's works last time I was in Denver.

Thank you for the clarification regarding the bird. Rooster it is, then. I'll be looking for those roosters (and consequently not make a fool of myself calling them by the wrong names.) Thanks again, most sincerely, Rufus.
Regarding your encounter with the exhibit of Calder's works, I am assuming you did not have a camera or i-phone thingy with you at the time to memorialize the adventure of such a grand moment (?)

When I was a boy, making my usual weekend pilgrimages to the Carnegie Museum, of Oakland, in Pittsburgh, I saw my very first Calder. It was suspended in the museum stairwell, floating freely, as was originally intended by Calder. That was the first time I ever saw such art and was determined to understand. I liked it a whole lot, though I could never explain why to my friends. Looking back, I think it was the freedom of it all which was attractive and convincing as art.

Unfortunately, years later, some Allegheny officials moved it elsewhere and decided it need fixed into place, added weights (!!!!) and attached it to a motor so it could rotate (!!!!!!) AND they painted it. Yeeeegods. It has since been restored to the artist's original concept as a mobile., I believe.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Regarding your encounter with the exhibit of Calder's works, I am assuming you did not have a camera or i-phone thingy with you at the time to memorialize the adventure of such a grand moment (?)

You assume..............WRONG! We spent a few hours wandering about the Denver Botanic Gardens enjoying a nice sunny day, the gardens, and the 12 (?) Calder works.

Unfortunately, years later, some Allegheny officials moved it elsewhere and decided it need fixed into place, added weights (!!!!) and attached it to a motor so it could rotate (!!!!!!) AND they painted it. Yeeeegods. It has since been restored to the artist's original concept as a mobile., I believe.

Barbarians and Philistines.......

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Regarding your encounter with the exhibit of Calder's works, I am assuming you did not have a camera or i-phone thingy with you at the time to memorialize the adventure of such a grand moment (?)

You assume..............WRONG! We spent a few hours wandering about the Denver Botanic Gardens enjoying a nice sunny day, the gardens, and the 12 (?) Calder works....

Cool!!! In fact, cooley-dooley !!!!!!!!!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Regarding your encounter with the exhibit of Calder's works, I am assuming you did not have a camera or i-phone thingy with you at the time to memorialize the adventure of such a grand moment (?)

You assume..............WRONG! We spent a few hours wandering about the Denver Botanic Gardens enjoying a nice sunny day, the gardens, and the 12 (?) Calder works....

Cool!!! In fact, cooley-dooley !!!!!!!!!!

We stopped there on our way to Colorado Springs solely for the Calders......I took close to 500 photos that week.

[HONDO74]

:?: Does anyone think such an installation as these will ever be seen in the USA? I don't.
Can you imagine the reactions and results?!


da Murph

San Diego begins 'sanitary street washing' of downtown after pooping homeless people cause deadly hepatitis outbreak
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/09/1 ... break.html

San Diego has begun sanitary street washing efforts after county officials demanded the city act on a plan to address the “fecally contaminated environment” downtown. The city and county have been wrestling with a way to address an ongoing hepatitis A outbreak that has been linked to at least 15 deaths and 400 hospitalizations.

On Monday, crews began the effort by spraying down East Village sidewalks with a bleach solution. San Diego mayoral spokeswoman Craig Gustafson said the cleanings are scheduled to occur three times a week, every other week, according to CBS8.
“By disinfecting our sidewalks and making additional public restrooms available 24/7, we’re following the direction of County health officials to address the unsanitary conditions that have helped fuel this outbreak,” Gustafason said, according to the San Diego Tribune. “We’re taking swift action to eradicate this virus from our streets and keep our most vulnerable residents safe.”

The liver disease outbreak started last November, with the homeless population most affected. Earlier this month, city officials declared a public health emergency to ease access to state funds and provide legal protection for the new sanitary measures.

Under the new measures, areas with high concentrations of homeless people are set to receive roughly 40 portable hand-washing stations to help combat the disease, which can spread through fecal matter when people fail to thoroughly clean their hands after using the restroom.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I believe exposure to fecal matter was one of the ways polio was spread in the 1950's.

[robert.]

No mention of dirty needles and hepatitis.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Question regarding electric vehicles (I am alarmed to have heard, just recently, that Mercedes has a plan to move substantially toward electric cars in the near future ):

The recent hurricanes. Folks are told to get out of their homes and move away from the storms. Everyone takes to the highways and promptly get bogged-down in inch-along traffic. Gasoline-propelled cars run out of gas, eventually. However, they sure can go farther than electric-powered cars. In an even shorter time, the electrics are stranded. AND THEN the whole area loses electricity! The electric-powered vehicles can't even go/get towed anywhere to benefit by getting recharged. Those drivers are stranded any way you look at it. And even the recharging would take hours.

And some of us want this technology? WHY?