MOVING ON

One of my favorite nooks (which is not a nook actually, but a premier spot inside) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , this Egyptian Temple right inside the huge Met never fails to attract my attention every time I find myself in the museum. Just outside the enclosed, security-tight large glass windows is the Central Park . Can you imagine having these edifices in Egypt over 3 thousand years ago, and zooming in now to present time, where they're relocated inside the Met? It's a concrete architectural testament to the God-given greatness of the human spirit to overcome time passage, and get itself continue to attract research, curiosity, and thinking about the concept of "culture" as it was and how it is currently. These structures inside give me ideas of how great and amazing the structures would have looked like when they were still out there in Egypt. That gives me reason to explore opportunities to travel to Egypt , and see the pyramids there. You'd e...

These two shots were made over a year using my sony ericcson celfone. If I remember it correctly, these falls are located somewhere in the upper north-western side of Central Park, & which some notice posted in the park says it's not actually man-made, or something like it's "natural" [this could be the "natural" waterfalls, or the other photo....can't recall now! :D ]. I remembered one site had cute turtles lying, swimming in the small space. I would have wanted to take shots at them, but my celfone camera didn't have the capacity for close-up shots. I thought these falls look pretty and fanciful to merit some interest to anyone interested in waterfalls. Close your eyes, and imagine the best waterfalls experience you've had ever in your life!

I was walking with my friend who lives in ABC city in the East Village one weekend. We decided to explore our options on which bus should we take in going to his place; he decided that we walk somewhere in Bleecker Street and in Noho. Without telling me about the idea, he thought I should see a real Pablo Picasso sculpture, and a huge piece at that, which is placed in one of the properties of the NYU, with its dormitory buildings standing close by (if I recall it right) the concrete art piece. As expected, it's really more of an abstract, than anything else. I thought its greyish-colored figure looks cool, where it's located. I'm not sure where exactly is the location of this sculpture now in Manhattan. I read from the metal inscription that it's been donated by some philanthropic individuals, whose names I fail to recall now. I heard from my friend that it's the only sculpture by Picasso that can be seen free in public. He's proud of sharing this fact...

Known as the " Obelisk ," which some call as Cleopatra's Needle [pls click on the highlighted word], happens to, apparently, got its pair in somewhere in London. [this was taken from my old celfone]. More pictures I had of this interesting object that you could see and is located in Central Park, just at the back of the sprawling Metropolitan Museum of Art buildings, follow showing more close-up details.

Watching John Walter's "Theater of War" see parts of it on YouTube! at this year's Tribeca Film Festival brought me a different level of appreciation and understanding on how to better handle the requirements of one of my patients. more about them here! I do part-time caregiving assignments, among other part time jobs as a Freelancer. As such, I'd be doing this mostly on weekends for one of the children of the playwright, Bertolt Brecht, about him here! the monumental theatre figure who was the topic of Walter's documentary mentioned earlier. The movie also brought out much needed perspective on the 2007 staging of Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" in Central Park, NYT's review here! where people lined up to watch Meryll Streep playing the lead role. I accompanied my patient, with his loving wife (herself, an accomplished clothes designer and retailer), son and his family (including 3 small children) to a well attended screen...

A self portrait by Gustave Courbet Something about Courbet reminds me strongly of my own struggles to pursue creative works. I've not known much about him before my visit to the Met Museum. And I'm writing down these thoughts months after I dashed one weekend to make it to the last day of this Courbet exhibit at the Met, even just by myself (and I never felt so gratified, after I read about him on a catalogue from an art magazine). He certainly has been a trailblazer during his time, but you'd see his works pale in comparison with what we see and take for granted these days!! He was not among those artists based in the main city, which was Paris then (even perhaps up to now). He was proud of his social background which I understand was "middle class" during that period, his local culture which looked like very rural compared to the very urban Paris at that time, and his art of which he has proven he's got the abilities and strength to see thru the completi...

I took advantage of opportunities to take pictures of paintings from both the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and Museum of Modern Art showing the nude form. Nothing much to say, except that the human body remains a delightful creation to see, even when drawn in modern, and traditional approaches in paintings. The painters with the corresponding title of their paintings are listed by order of appearance in this posting. Pablo Picasso's Woman Plaiting Her Hair Pablo Picasso's Two Nudes Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon Pablo Picasso's Bather Paul Gauguin's The Moon and the Earth Henry Matisse ' Male Model Henry Matisse' The Serf Henry Matisse' Goldfish and Sculpture Pierre Bonnard's The Bathroom Henry Matisse' Bather Richard Hamilton's Pin-up Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ' Cider Jean-Leon Gerome 's Pygmalion and Galatea Pierre Puvis de Chavannes' The River Gustave Courbet's Nude with Flowering Branch Gustave Courb...

I watched this choir one very rainy & windy May 9th (2008) evening at the Church of St. Emeric in the ABC City of East Side, NYC. Mostly the audience were made up by Filipinos, from all ranks, as expected. I noticed a number of people who were not typically Philippine-looking. Of course, the organizers had to make sure all the important Philippine officials had to speak, even for a few minutes, just to make their presence felt. I was glad the Philippine Ambassador & Permanent Representative (Justice Hilario Davide, Jr) to the UN didn't talk that long, as he recognized the audience was actually there to watch this internationally awarded choir. There were a lot of interruptions from the emcee who tried to recognize the presence of anyone, just about anyone, who are among the "who's who" here in the Philippine community in the East Coast, who bravely ventured out to watch this choir that night. Despite the irritating insistence to come up with a show by ...