I drive by this house and I am drawn to take its picture. You will have come to this blog and you will be compelled to “Like” this post. And I do not mean to say that as a sort Jedi mind trick, as in “You will like this post.” But sometimes I am perplexed [...]
Archive for February, 2012
In Ruins II – The West End – St. Louis – The Artistic Appeal of Ruin – Lomography
Posted in Art Thief, tagged abraham maslow, beauty. bokenness, lomo, lomography, photography, photos, ruined houses, ruins, St. Louis, west end on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Burning Rods – Anselm Kiefer – St. Louis Art Museum – Forest Park
Posted in Art Thief, tagged anselm kiefer, breaking of the vessels, burning rods, chernobyl, forest park, Fukushima Daiichi, japan earthquake, Kristallnacht, St. Louis, st. louis art museum on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite pieces in the St. Louis Art Museum collection is Anselm Kiefer’s Burning Rods which Kiefer created after the Chernobyl disaster, and which is perhaps an equally apt reminder of the greater disaster that nearly was as a result of the earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan this past year [...]
The Docent and the Dancer – Edgar Degas – Little Dancer of Fourteen Years – St. Louis Art Museum
Posted in Art Thief, tagged art museum, dancer, degas, docents, edgar degas, forest park, little dancer, littler dancer of fourteen years, photography, photos, slam, st. louis art museum on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Cottage on the Bluffs – Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Novitiate – Godfrey, Illinois – Mississippi River
Posted in Art Thief, tagged bluffs, cottage, godfrey, illionis, lomo, lomography, matt's lomo effect, matt's lomo preset, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, mississippi, novitiate on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Wood and Steel – The View From Nate’s Balcony
Posted in Art Thief, tagged balcony, dusk, photography, photos, steel, wood on Monday, February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Nec tamen consumebatur – Burning but not Consumed – Stained Glass and Sunset – das Haus
Posted in Art Thief, das haus, tagged burning bush, das haus, Nec tamen consumebatur, photography, photos, stained glass, sunset on Monday, February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Magnolia at Sunset – Late Winter – Two Angles
Posted in Art Thief, das haus, tagged das haus, magnolia, magnolia blossoms, magnolias, photography, photos, sunset, tamron 28-75mm on Monday, February 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Put a Bird on It – Stained Glass Birds Edition – And Introducing the Tamron 28-75mm 2.8 Lens
Posted in Art Thief, das haus, tagged canon 50mm, das haus, photography, photos, stained glass, tamron, tamron 28-75mm on Sunday, February 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Having just bought a house, I really do not have much disposable income for camera equipment, but I really needed to replace my Canon 50mm 1.8, aka the nifty fifty, as this is the lens that remains almost exclusively on my camera and I had broken mine, but when I went to buy it the [...]
moon like a baby’s – Haiku for the New Moon
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, tagged Haiku, moon, new moon, poems, Poetry on Saturday, February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
moon like a baby’s fingernail, gently clipped and flung into the sky
in small packages – Haiku – A Reflection on Hospitals and a Thank You to Nurses and Doctors
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Haiku, Poetry, Senryu, tagged Haiku, hospitals, poems, Senryu, St. Louis, st. louis children's hospitals, suffering on Friday, February 24, 2012 | 4 Comments »
in small packages, big things-hopes, fears, suffering. children’s hospital __________ I have spent part of the last two evenings visiting in the hospital as my nephew was treated for a broken arm which required surgery. Thankfully, he is doing very well, despite a fair amount of suffering over the last 24 hours. He should be [...]
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