Author Topic: The Mid-Winter Flickr (Read 48543 times)

LoriSue · « **Reply #40 on:** March 03, 2013, 08:41:49 AM »

Yes Babylock, That really is me.

That picture was taken during our Easter visit to Charleston, SC last year. It is a yearly event when Mommy, me, and any friends who are visiting spend the weekend in the lovely city. We crown our visit with a carriage ride through the city on Easter Sunday with our regular Guide, "Uncle Mark"

You can see a couple of our adventures on youtube if you search for: "Mark and the Easter Bunnies"

It's Great Fun!!!

BabyLock · « **Reply #41 on:** March 03, 2013, 10:54:02 PM »

LoriSue:

Thank You very much for the reply and YouTube reference !
Nicely done look to see more !

BabyLock

andyg0404 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 09, 2013, 04:50:23 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Well, the lion I referred to last week stopped by for a visit this week but he must have been a little tired as his roaring was kept to a reasonable level, at least in these parts. The snow storm was a non-event in New York City while we received about 4 or 5 inches in my community. I was cheered to see my man clearing my driveway when I got home on Friday. I’m hoping that the lion doesn’t take offense at my comments and that this is our last storm for the season. Spring is definitely coming, we spring ahead tonight and while I hate to lose the hour of sleep I look forward to seeing sunlight earlier in the day as well as later in the afternoon. And it’s in the 50’s today and dry which I hope is a good sign.

I mentioned turning the clocks ahead this weekend to my young co-worker and she told me that she doesn’t have any clocks that don’t automatically change. Clearly a generational thing. I also told her that this is the first house I’ve ever lived in that doesn’t have a clock hanging on the wall in the kitchen. I brought it with me from my previous abode but there didn’t seem to be a place for it and with the cable box, the microwave, the oven and the alarm clock it didn’t seem urgent to mount. I can remember sitting in my living room in the comfy chair in the old house and in the quiet hearing the clock tick. That would be when I wasn’t hearing the guys with the boomboxes in their cars sitting outside my front door. My big brother brought me home a cuckoo clock when he was in the Navy and I was a child and I loved it. When my Dad passed away and we emptied the apartment I must have decided it should go along with the rest of the things I didn’t think I still wanted. Not keeping things was very alien to my nature but disposing of this stuff was due mostly to the fact that I was living with roommates and my space was about 8ft x 8ft and I already had three filing cabinets and close to 20 years of TV Guides, not to mention boxes of books and newspapers. While it would be nice to have the cuckoo clock I confess I probably wouldn’t have it running as I’m sure the cuckooing would have driven me cuckoo now. What I do regret not bringing along are three things, my baseball cards, my Yankee yearbooks from 1960-1964 and my Baseball Digests. Not sure why I didn’t take the cards, but I guess I wasn’t that into baseball. The Mets were ascendant so I did keep my Met’s yearbooks, the first two, 1962 and 1963. Managed to pick up a bunch of the Digests on EBAY but the Yankee yearbooks are too dear and I didn’t really feel compelled to spend the money.

Anyway, a quiet day as is so often the case. Visited my ancient Aunt and spoke with an old friend on the phone. And once I send this off I will think about dinner.

Andy G.

prettyness

http://www.flickr.com/photos/so_legit/8529423471/

Osaka Halloween 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_walker/8537021100/

msj_1984

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wertzateria/8438113345/

Crossplay cosplay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92897372@N05/8447039753/

Ladyboy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77136043@N02/8446725858/

At Home With Mommy Part 7

http://www.flickr.com/photos/priscillapinkpussy/8464939192/

When it rains...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/8468271592/

004

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55409764@N06/8459311810/

Untitled-3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78632037@N08/8474999351/

dressy valentine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheryl416/8471529300/

andyg0404 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 16, 2013, 03:58:51 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

I was surprised in looking at my calendar to realize that Spring is actually just a few days away, March 20th. On the calendar at least, outside my window it is currently snowing. But my weatherman this morning promised me that it wasn’t go to be a big snowstorm and he wouldn’t mislead me would he? I think we’ll move on at this point.

This morning I took the bus into New York City and after walking downtown to Trader Joe’s to buy almonds, I took the subway back uptown to the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. When I embarked I wasn’t thinking of the St. Patrick’s Day parade being held today but on the walk downtown it did occur to me to check as to when it started and where it ran. I was cheered to see that it started at 11AM and began on 44th Street, several blocks past the Library. As the library opens at 10AM I felt I could get in and out without having to deal with the parade or its viewers.

This turned out to be true although there certainly were a lot of people in the City for the parade. The front of the Library, where Patience and Fortitude, the two lions who guard it sit, was closed and the police had the steps blocked off which made me wonder about whether it was open. But I saw a sign sending me to the 42nd Street side entrance which was my preferred entrance many years ago when I used to frequent the library on a more regular basis. This was before I had a computer and I would go to the library on Saturday’s to do some early surfing of the web. They also had art exhibits outside the main reading room, one of which was a recurring showing of Charles Addams famous cartoons of his Addams Family. These were and are wonderful.

Today I was drawn there by an exhibition of Mary Cassatt prints. I read about it in the Jersey newspaper but don’t think I’ve seen anything in the Times yet. There are 88 prints in the show with a number of colored ones that are quite beautiful. The exhibit is on the third floor in the hallways on either side of the main reading room. I was very surprised to see that they had a very nicely made 20 page catalog of the exhibit at no charge. Didn’t think they could afford it. The Library has a vast collection of art beyond the vast collection of books, periodicals and other printed matter. These prints have never been shown together in an exhibit. They were part of a donation made in 1900 by a man named Samuel Putnam Avery, an art dealer of the 19th Century. He gave the library 17,000 prints. It was a splendid exhibit, I’m glad I got to see it and managed to escape without being molested by paradegoers.

If you go to the link below there is a further link to the actual 20 page brochure which has illustrations of the items on exhibit.

http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/daring-methods-prints-mary-cassatt

And this is a link to an Associated Press article about the show.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nyc-exhibit-showcases-mary-cassatt-printmaker

Thinking about the library and their collections and my love of books and newspapers and paper collectibles leads me to post the following 33 second video. I’m a very tactile person, I like the feel of paper and don’t enjoy reading things on the web, although for my work I have no choice. But this video, the title of which is, “the end of paper” gave me a good giggle the other morning when I received it. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.

http://vimeo.com/61275290

Andy G.

Paul Delvoux with his mother, grandnother, maid and younger brother (1907)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/8548739595/

The Bride La Novia Mexico

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilhuicamina/8558876723/in/photostream/

My Photo Stream-537

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeljpalmisanophotography/8550598998/

Ugly Sisters

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46768729@N03/8462424063/

French maid 06

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdhousewife/8457444229/

IMG_3181

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicialee287/8447390604/in/photostream

Rocky Horror show

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43744846@N00/8470844976/

Billy Thomas Bungard standing in the grass

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meyersdalepubliclibrary/8551576685/

Carole

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54308594@N05/8461327163/

130220001

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sissy_chastity/8492972387/

02-DSC06435

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90446567@N08/8491611846/

andyg0404 · « **Reply #44 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:18:31 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

I will open by saying that I unequivocally agree with the Ohio prosecutor who has indicted Punxsutawney Phil for lying about our enjoying an early spring. I always knew he was lying, rotten little rodent and I’m glad he will get his comeuppance.

http://www.ktnv.com/news/watercooler/199532811.html

Bearing the hog in mind let just say that it’s another pretty cold and windy day here in the Northeast with a storm of some type set for Monday. And, to my consternation, I read an article in the NJ paper saying that this Winter had above average temperatures by more than 2 degrees making this the 13th warmest Winter since 1895. And no, Andy G is a geezer but he doesn’t remember that one. I’m beginning to think there may be no Spring Flickr, just an endless Winter.

Aside from this meteorological frippery I don’t have much to report. I was gratified during the week to read that the mystery of who stole the 13 paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 1990 may be close to being solved. If the paintings were returned it would be a wonderful thing. This article below explains the whole story and the link below it displays some of the paintings. These are magnificent paintings and we have to hope that they haven’t been damaged or destroyed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/isabella-gardner-museum-theft-fbi-suspects-23-years-later_n_2901957.html

http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2013/03/18/photos-the-stolen-paintings-of-the-1990-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-heist/

Andy G.

My Little French Maid Fun Afternoon!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50676414@N05/8480170262/

Leopard tube top minidress_2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/8495378246/

My pink maid outfit ( with cute white dots on the skirt )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/93362301@N06/8487887258/

Princess Belle

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/8483701924/

A Midsummer Night's Dream - 23/365

http://www.flickr.com/photos/animcolate/8576320746/

Friends!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/8497301882/

Drag: The Red Dress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mundanelifeoftruong/8498683800/

Boys Will Be...Girls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/93146214@N06/8573380208/

2013-02-14 12-35-17.608

http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudiafenchel/8476801098/

red mini dress a

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32701000@N03/8494961622/

130228s00002

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sissy_chastity/8517494292/

andyg0404 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 30, 2013, 08:49:12 AM »

andyg0404 · « **Reply #46 on:** April 06, 2013, 03:37:31 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It’s a beautiful day, which I’m hoping is a harbinger of Spring actually finally being here. Looking forward to turning off my boiler. I received what I also hope will be the last rather large heating bill of the season the other day and it had an interesting factoid. The bill compares the temperature for the prior three months to the same period last year. I may have mentioned that the newspaper claims that we had an above average Winter temperature wise. My bill showed me that the average temperature for March of this year was 40 degrees, 12 degrees lower than March of 2012. I can only say, brrr!

Had a lovely time with my friends last week. We celebrated four birthdays, three in April and one in March and those of you who notice things like this will be aware that my birthday is April 4th. My andyg0404 didn’t stop a long-time friend from calling me on the 3rd and being surprised when I informed him he was a day early. And, as I’ve been fond of saying to all my friends, despite playing a senior citizen at the museums for the last few years I am now officially a senior citizen. That is, I turned 62 and I am now eligible for social security. Not that I can afford to retire just yet but it’s nice to know that it’s available if things become dire. It certainly is true that birthdays come with much more rapidity as we age. Every year I find myself wondering how I could have possibly reached the current number so quickly. But I won’t start worrying until I stop having birthdays and then I guess it won’t matter.

No other news of note but I’ll leave you all with a giggle. Hope this makes you laugh.

http://www.gulfcoastfishingconnection.com/forums/forum42/thread18359.html

Andy G

Pink Man Dress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68454247@N08/8602421322/

Burn baby burn 3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72397590@N08/8500016007/

role reversal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sagov/8502732504/

Old wig, New dress!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_summer/8527176133/

Sissy Dress Saturday

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24078110@N08/8535291112/

Sky Blue

http://www.flickr.com/photos/briannagrant/8532647228/

Redvers_Stokes_drag_queen_08

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79328958@N08/8614203575/

P1110136

http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystal_ringring/8517648428/

Coy Shoulder

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiesizzle/8528792915/

"Mad Men" look

http://www.flickr.com/photos/starrynowhere/8528084688/

LBD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joberry/8526859685/

Rick as a ballerina

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sierrabella/8598523371/

My maids dress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82566644@N06/8529551647/

andyg0404 · « **Reply #47 on:** April 13, 2013, 03:45:07 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

We had a nice little stretch of beautiful weather and then Winter returned on Friday but I think we may have seen the last of it, at least I hope so. It was chilly this morning but warmed up in the afternoon and should get warmer as the week progresses.

I traveled into New York City early this morning to visit with Valentino, my barber. It’s almost 4 months since my last visit but I wasn’t especially hirsute. If it wasn’t for my beard I could probably have put it off for another month or two. Not like when I was younger and my hair was actually still growing on a regular basis. Valentino was profiled in the NY Times a few months ago and I asked if it had resulted in new business and he said he had 22 customers stop by as a result but apparently they haven’t turned into regular clients. I’ve been seeing him for probably 20 years. I always look very different after he does his wonders. As I was leaving an older woman commented, no one will recognize you!

From the barber shop I took the subway uptown to visit the Morgan Library. There were several small exhibits, one of which was what drew me there. It was Degas’ painting of Madame La La at Le Cirque Fernando. La La was an aerialist of the 19th Century. Her trick was being hoisted to great heights by a rope held in her mouth and that’s what Degas depicted in his painting. Her greatest trick though involved a 150 pound cannon which she also lifted in her teeth that was subsequently fired while she was holding it. It imagine it must have been quite a spectacle. The other items in the show were sketches by Degas, several posters of the circus and a few small paintings, one by Tolouse Lautrec. Not a major exhibition but a nice diversion for a Saturday morning.

This is a link to the Morgan Library press release describing the exhibit.

http://www.themorgan.org/about/press/MissLaLaPressRelease.pdf

Another exhibit offered surrealistic art which for me was a quick stroll. Surrealism is one step away from abstract art, a genre that totally eludes me. At least in Surrealism there is some form to the composition, most of the time anyway. Not to damn it with faint praise but it was “interesting.” Not something I would have made a special trip for though.

There are two other small exhibits I expect to visit in the next month or two, Impressionist drawings at the Frick and John Singer Sargent’s watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum. I expect to find more to appreciate in those shows.

Andy G.

2008-02-10_JanFeb08_Fasching 00024.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detzchr/8637675351/

Sissy Tyra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76993680@N08/8512663504/

Little Bo Peep - Godfrey Partridge photographs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34633418@N03/8498672638/

My sissy bo peep

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sissycindy/8553537930/

DSCF1074rs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54308594@N05/8548704888/

Jeffrey Whitlock channeling Shirley Temple

http://www.flickr.com/photos/halecentretheatre/8601020860/

citygallery-0002

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peoriaremembered/8631827779/

Cecilia's Outdoor Shoot 2 (Cecilia the Princess)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjrgmc28/8540801896/

tolutiloquence

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisa-johanna/8554610424/

A EPIC23P

http://www.flickr.com/photos/epitaperon/8550038362/

Lianne 56

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilovesett/7814317478/

add me to your woes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumber_than_thou/8535633629/

Bow's N Frill's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roberta_tv/8554478018/

andyg0404 · « **Reply #48 on:** April 20, 2013, 03:58:24 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr

In looking back through the weekly Flickr posts I see that the weather continues to confound. Twice I thought the nice weather had arrived only to bemoan another cold spell the following week and today it’s another rather cool day with Winter weather in store for this evening. We certainly seem to be in a period of extreme weather. Not often that games several weeks into the baseball season are snowed out as recently happened to the Mets. The way they played in the games that weren’t postponed that may have been a good thing. Been following the Mets since their inaugural season in 1962 and the highlights have been much rarer than the lowlights. But hope springs eternal. My following of the team, like the other sports that I have a passing interest in, consists of reading about them in the newspapers. Haven’t been to a game in years and can’t remember watching one on TV for quite some time either. For the most part it’s not easy to root for the players or management, all of whom seem to be making piles of money and have basically made the game unaffordable for families. As the kids who are now priced out of the games grow up I wonder who the baseball audience will consist of.

Well, enough musing. Like most weeks that I visit my ancient Aunt I don’t have a lot to say. So I guess I’ll just say, let’s go to the Flickrs.

Andy G

Pretty Soldier

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zharth/8640946877/

Maid about town

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65666288@N07/8568041862/

"Afrodito"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/medusczka/8641478028/

Abracadabra!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87668730@N02/8544030548/

Walter Hart ~ WWII Time Female Impersonator

http://www.flickr.com/photos/delina/8556714376/

1917 Private Morgan of "The Timberland Follies"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23638019@N05/8545475572/

572

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53070601@N06/8575696571/

Sissy out for a walk 3 (2)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessica979/8569917641/

Img_5701

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56056353@N03/8570430564/

Cinderella

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/8564736567/

August 23rd 2012

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-ella-/8568439569/in/photostream

Vintage Drag Queens from WWII Era at Finocchio's Night Club

http://www.flickr.com/photos/delina/8559095954/

andyg0404 · « **Reply #49 on:** April 27, 2013, 04:26:46 PM »

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Spring continues to creep up on us, taking very small steps. This week the mornings were cold but the afternoons were pleasant. I’m waiting for the warmth to arrive and stay.

This morning followed the pattern so I wore my light jacket and my hat and walked up to the Metropolitan Museum. They currently have Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena” on display until July. That was my sole interest on this visit as I planned on heading down to the Frick Museum immediately after. The painting has been given a room of its own, something that frankly mystifies me. It sits in the middle of the room surrounded by nothing. But it is a masterpiece and very beautiful although to my weak eyes it did look like it could have used a good cleaning. It’s a study for a much larger painting that was never finished owing to the slowness of Velazquez’ production. Below is an article from the Times discussing the exhibit and asking the same questions I did about hanging it by itself. The Met is undergoing more construction and there were lots of closed galleries and I wondered where the Vermeers, Rembrandts and Canalettos were currently residing but that will have to wait for another visit as I wanted to get down to the Frick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/arts/design/velazquezs-portrait-of-duke-francesco-i-deste-at-the-met.html?_r=0

The exhibit at the Frick was “The Impressionist Line From Degas To Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings And Prints From The Clark” and it had many of my favorites. There was a Monet caricature, done when he was 18, which couldn’t have been less depictive of his style, I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s how he made his living at the start of his career. It was a classic caricature, a very large head on a much smaller body with very small legs and feet. It showed a man with an enormous nose who was holding a snuff box which, as the drawing represented, would have led to an enormous sneeze. Nor was I aware that he was known back then as Oscar. Below is a link which discusses this era in his life and also has illustrations, including the man with the big nose.

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/12/cluade-monet-caricatures.html

The Toulouse Lautrec’s were absolutely wonderful, colorful depictions of circus performers and denizens of the cabarets, including the lesbians and prostitutes. Etchings by Manet, Gaugin, Courbet, Degas and others, including two by Daumier, one of which was a send up of lawyers. There was a Degas engraving of an Etruscan tomb in the Louvre. The card next to it described his etching of Mary Cassatt and her sister in the Louvre which coincidentally I just saw at the Cassatt exhibit at the New York Public library. Another exhibit, just about to close was, “Piero della Francesca in America,” which “brings together seven works, including six panels from the Sant’Agostino altarpiece — the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled for display.” I am not a big fan of religious art and if I had not seen this I would not have felt deprived but I’m glad I was able to take it in before it closed. Below is a link to a Frick press release describing the drawing exhibit. And below that is a link to some of the images.

http://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/ClarkFrickshow_press_release_heading_1.pdf

http://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/ClarkImageList_3.pdf

A splendid way to spend a beautiful morning.

Andy G.

EWMS Womanless Beauty Pageant

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94986258@N04/sets/72157633294565488/with/8666991755/

with an old dress of his mother..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7953195@N08/8632064499/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Blondie

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_summer/8567611345/

Alter ego birth of date

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72397590@N08/8566355404/

Saturday night is Retro night

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenny47/8584138330/

Magda_2013_071

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22573324@N06/8560176255/

Autoretrato

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingrid_islas/8591548590/

Tracey is too cool for school

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frillyknicks/8591178260/

Alice in Wonderland dress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74475326@N08/sets/72157632080617699/

Magda_2013_106

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22573324@N06/8580769465/

SundaysADrag_cast.JPG

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edandeddie/8585913521/

Scarborough 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8619282@N06/6323316274/in/photostream

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