Vacation Mode
Maybe the first sign of vacation mode is when your mind goes
so completely blank that you can’t remember all the really cool things you
thought you wanted to write about. Well,
I can remember them; they just don’t seem worthy of a whole post so here is a
random smattering of thoughts written well on a plane from NYC to Seattle accompanied by photos from today's excursion to the Chihuly Museum.
Instagram:
Love it. I think it is the most
fun of all the social media platforms I’ve been playing with – or on – since
joining Facebook. So many great
photographers, so many beautiful images, and now video - what’s not to
like?
Getting out of Central Park: I’ve committed to getting out of Central Park
every once and a while for forays to other parts of New York City. It’s been fun and I’ve chronicled some of my
excursions in Expedition KeithHaring, Art. Sofa. Rope., and A Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge. In the process, I’ve seen some of the great
public art that graces New York City including the summer 2013 installation at
Rockefeller Center, Human Nature and the Noguchi cube in lower Manhattan.
Canon or Nikon:
I am an Olympus girl, have been since forever but it may be time for an
upgrade and I’m thinking of switching.
Maybe a better way of putting it is that I’m thinking of adding to my camera
collection since the “time for an upgrade” is a bit of a mind game I’ve been
playing with myself. The reality is
that the only thing the Olympus does not do well is low light. This makes it not the ideal camera to take
with you to photograph, let’s say, the Aurora Borealis. Not that I have a trip to photograph the
Aurora Borealis planned but one never knows.
The #Bergdorf Mannequins: I’m still waiting for some sign that David
Hoey over at Bergdorf’s actually read That Place between Youth and Scattered Ashes (on GeriPal) about how cool it would be if the mannequins in
the #Bergdorf windows showed some diversity in terms of age and functional
ability. So far, the only sign that he
might have heard about the post was a quote from him that was up on Facebook on
the same day that I went live on GeriPal:
“The Mannequins are Sacrosanct.”
That is unless they are headless as is often the case. The demographics are on my side on this one
and I’ll just keep patiently waiting – it’s not like I mind stalking the
#Bergdorf windows or anything.
#thebluebear: Alice, a friend and colleague brought
me a miniature of the Blue Bear sculpture that gazes down into the Denver
Convention Center. I have been having
fun photographing him and posting to Instagram (#iameasilyamused). So much fun in fact, that #thebluebear is
coming to Alaska with me to continue on his #thebluebearadventures. I can still see my brother Peter scratching
his head as he posed with a Barbie doll at the Grand Canyon and saying “and Mom
thinks I’m the crazy one.”
#CandyCrushSaga:
Stuck on level 159 for two weeks now.
Argh.
#Ispeakinhashtags:
I am surprised that none of my
friends have drawn an analogy between speaking in #hashtags and
#speakingintongues. After all, they are
both an involuntary manifestation of being taken over by spirits. In the case of #ispeakinhashtags, it is the
spirit of the medium. No, not the medium
of many a séance but rather the social media medium. #Twitter, #Instagram both demand some
versatility with hash tags and now Facebook does too. Soon we’ll all be speaking in run on
sentences with no punctuation!
And that, my friends, is that for this particular post which
is being written somewhere over the United States as my niece Kristen and I
hurtle towards our grand Alaskan adventure.
But, first a few days in Seattle as a warm up and to accommodate a visit
to…
The Boeing Plant:
Since I will probably never make it to the Paris air show, this is the
next best thing. It’s a tour of the
Boeing plant – so big that I’ve heard that the employees ride bikes from one
end to the other. Should be fun!
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