Good Grief, can it finally be the Spring Flickr?

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Today was a little brisk with a few scattered showers, not the warm day I anticipated. Last night we were inundated with rain, lots of flooding not to mention tremendous thunder and lightning. The lightning struck One World Trade Center as you can see in these remarkable clips. http://gothamist.com/2014/05/24/photo_videos_lightning_strikes_worl.php#.
But the balance of our Memorial Day weekend is forecast to be splendid and give me the warmth I so desire.

It was a quiet day for me; I went into the City early and walked down to Astor Place to get my hair cut. Bought almonds at Trader Joes and was surprised they had gone up from $4.99 a pound to $5.99 a pound. A 20% increase in what I think is less than six months. Good thing there’s no inflation. Also went to Kmart to see if I could find a pair of comfortable shoes and was disappointed that I couldn’t. None of my shoes fit well, quite often chafing the back of my foot. And I don’t have a specific size. Depending on the shoe it can be anywhere from 8 to 9, narrow or wide.

Last week I took a friend to the Newark Museum for a Norman Rockwell exhibit. I’ve always liked his work, I’ve seen several of his exhibitions now and each one has been different in one way or another. I would greatly enjoy going to the museum in Stockbridge but it’s difficult to get to without driving and I’m not up to the drive. But this was really a great show. It opens in a separate room with all 323 of his Saturday Evening Post covers in chronological order. Then in the next room are a number of the original oil paintings on which the covers were based. They are of course much larger and the colors are much brighter and the images come off the canvas as opposed to the magazine covers which lay flat. There was a very interesting section on his creation of a Look Magazine illustration on the murder of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, the three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. It included his photos, sketches, letters to and from the editor and the final piece which was not done in his usual style. Very moving. It was really a magnificent show.

They have a wonderful permanent collection as well, very strong on American art and for this visit, for the first time, I went up to the third floor and saw the Asian collection. It had many beautiful pieces in it from all of the Asian cultures. We stayed at the museum for four hours.

I pretty much always get lost leaving the museum.  This time was no different but at least I realized my mistake. When we left the museum we were looking for a bus stop and it was in the opposite direction from the bus terminal. We got to where it should have been and couldn’t find it. Instead of giving up and walking back to the terminal we kept walking as I assumed I would find the next bus stop. An incorrect assumption as it turned out. We finally asked some cops if they knew where a bus stop was or the bus terminal. They didn’t know where the stop was but reminded me the terminal was a 15 minute walk back the way we came.

We had arrived at the Broad Street train station and they pointed out we could take the train back to our town or we could take the light rail back to the bus terminal. We went into the train station and found it completely unmanned with no open ticket booth or information desk. I wasn’t confident I knew which train to take so we left and I guessed we would walk. Just then the light rail pulled in and I walked over to see if we could buy tickets on board. The driver said no, we needed to get the tickets from a machine. He pointed to where it was located but also looked at his watch and said we probably wouldn’t have time to go there and back. Then he waved his hand and told us to just get on board. A very nice gesture. Once on board I also remembered that the light rail is run on an honor system. You buy tickets but no one collects them. Occasionally they’ll have an agent on the train and if you’re caught you have to buy a ticket and I think pay a fine. So he took us to the bus terminal and I thanked him again for his largesse.

We got off the light rail and walked into the bus terminal and I had no idea where to go to find the gate. I was again looking for an information booth when I saw a police store which I headed to wondering if it was manned. But on the way I saw a young woman in a NJ transit outfit walking by eating a pizza. So I stopped her and when I told her I was looking for the bus, she asked me where I was going and what bus number I wanted. When I explained she said we should follow her. As we were walking I asked what gate it was and she said, you can follow me, I’m the driver. What are the odds of running into the driver of the bus you’re looking for? I laughed and said, I guess the appropriate response from me is, imagine running into you here. So that was a bonus and we ultimately made our way home. Any trip that I can find my way home from has to be considered a success.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest our weekend.

Andy G.

Rimbaud Shirt +

https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverhalogenide/4746116144/in/set-72157604578069070

Jacob after being dressed-up by his sister.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/n74jrw/13949740824

Really Pinkie

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22092915@N05/14057407543

#Thailand #Phuket #SimonCabaret #ladyboy #fun

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/117493545@N06/14004578143

PIC - 040903 K Sleep - Me in a dress...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/simpsdj/14046877114

9 Room for two

https://www.flickr.com/photos/janegeetgirl/14129115955

Jade

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgvintagepix/14139924253

Chanelle (113)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/115936139@N08/14116141251

SchoolGirl21

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tawnibonds/13928763177

transvestite

https://www.flickr.com/photos/111227158@N03/13936502119

Yellow dress means summer time!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/13219604@N03/14114419023

[Sisiam]

Andy...an interesting thing about Rockwell's original Saturday Evening Post covers. 
Several years ago I worked with the the Post people on a display of life size 3-D replications of some of Rockwell's covers.
Prior to that experience I had seen a showing in Atlanta of all of his works, minus many of the originals.
I asked the Post people why all of the originals were not shown.
The answer was that Rockwell would bring his finished oil into the office, often not even dry.  A photo would be taken for printing the cover and then the original would be left leaning against a wall in some hallway.  Many of the originals just disappeared, probably taken home by office workers.
Just imagine the value of many Rockwell originals now in private homes or worse stored in someone's attic.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

One thing that has always bugged me about Rockwell's art is that for years it was denigrated as being the work of an illustrator not an artist. This is true of many wonderful artists such as NC Wyeth, father of Andrew Wyeth, who illustrated children's books and magazines aside from his paintings. This has only changed in recent years with Rockwell now receiving some of the acclimation he so richly deserves. This may also be attributed to the fact that he is being collected by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The prices for his paintings have sky rocketed although there is still the prejudice against him in some quarters. This is an article from the NY Times which discusses it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/business/norman-rockwell-captures-the-art-markets-eye.html?emc=eta1

I'm sure that many of Rockwell's works were taken home by employees or anyone who had access and he gave away many of them. This work was considered disposable like the original artwork for comic books and the old pulps. I've mentioned seeing several exhibits of paintings that were designs for the front covers of Pulp magazines and they were brilliant. Only a small amount of them remain intact because the publishers would just throw them away. Art is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes that eye is blind to the beauty of what it's looking at.

Andy G.

[barbrainwny]

Andy - Here is something I ran across a few years ago. Description to follow. TTFN, Barb

[Robyn Jodie]

Take a look at http://www.oocities.org/toontime1492/toon5.html.

The header reads:

Satire

A Norman Rockwell Revelation
(It's a gag okay?!?)

P.S. When I brought up the image via Google, I got the following warning:

This Page is an outdated, user-generated website brought to you by an archive.It was mirrored from Geocities at the end of October, 2009.

For any questions concerning this page try to contact the respective author. (To report any malicious content send the URL to oocities(at gmail dot com). For question about the archive visit: OoCities.org.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

I've always liked this one myself.

Andy G.

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It was a beautiful day today but I erred in thinking it was going to be rather warm when the forecast said the temperature was in the 60’s. It was but there was a stiff wind blowing and I regretted not wearing my flannel shirt almost from the moment I got to the bus stop. Don’t know what I was thinking as I wear it almost all the time. And I wound up leaving my pair of roll up sunglasses on the bus, something that wouldn’t have happened if I was wearing the flannel shirt as they would have been in the pocket. I like them because I can wear them under my regular glasses and they fold up and go in my pocket when the sun goes down. I went to Amazon and found them, they were 3 pair for $9.99 with a shipping charge of $5.18. I was at the checkout when I decided to see if I had other options. I read the reviews and someone pointed out that they had purchased a pack of 100 for .35 cents each. So I Googled it and found someone on EBAY selling them for .99 cents each with $3.17 shipping. I bought 3 pair and saved myself some money.

I visited the Metropolitan Museum and saw the current Goya exhibit. It’s a small grouping of five paintings, two from the Met’s permanent collection and one each from Cleveland, Spain and a private collection.  It’s remarkable to find a painting like the one in the exhibition in private hands. I know the Met would love to get it in a bequest. The theme of the exhibit is that all five paintings are of members of the Altamira family of Spain. This is the first time the paintings have been reunited for viewing. The husband and wife in separate portraits and three portraits of their children, all boys. The Boy in Red is from the Met’s permanent collection and is arguably one of its most famous paintings. The other painting from the collection is of the mother, La Condesa, holding her infant daughter. You can view all five paintings at this link to the Met’s website. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/goya If you click on each thumbnail it opens up to full screen and has details about each painting. This is a link to an article in the NY Times that discusses the exhibition and also illustrates the five paintings. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/arts/design/metropolitan-show-reunites-goya-portraits-of-the-altamiras.html It was a very nice little show.

Afterwards I walked over and visited the Japanese pavilion. I’ve been there enough times now that I recognized a few of the items as being on display on earlier visits. Disappointed that there were no color wood block prints but the screens and scrolls were very beautiful. One of the best things I’ve done is become a member of the Met, I certainly get my money’s worth.

Now let’s look at the fruits of my weekly search.

Andy G.

Superbe brolita

https://www.flickr.com/photos/93909046@N07/14120655962

sweetness and innocence itself..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31608963@N06/14130177071

Carla's Halloween Party - Saturday Night San Jose

https://www.flickr.com/photos/68027761@N00/2996429525

DSCI0550

https://www.flickr.com/photos/44425851@N05/13961116900

Punishment might be tutu much!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/13988135757

Showing his Feminine Side         

https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalfeminist/14125853685

Lingerie (High And Magic)_14

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/14015494313

transvestite

https://www.flickr.com/photos/111227158@N03/14173797653

short pink

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cheryl416/13953926707

transvestite

https://www.flickr.com/photos/111227158@N03/13946212928

Harajuku Cosplayers in Drag

https://www.flickr.com/photos/_scifience/460662833

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It’s a beautiful day today, no complaints. I will save those for Monday when rain is forecast.

I went into New York City today and walked up to the Frick Museum and saw a very small installation, two paintings by the 16th Century Italian artist, Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino after his native city of Parma. This is a rare treat as “Schiava Turca” rarely leaves its home in Parma and this its first trip to the United States. The woman in the painting is unknown but is clearly a woman with a lot of confidence, painted with a half-smile, almost a smirk, and gowned beautifully in blue with a turban on her head,  and holding an ostrich feather fan. The other painting is “Portrait of a Man”, showing a well-dressed man seemingly interrupted in his reading as he is holding his place in his book with this fingers. The exhibit is in the Frick’s oval room and is rounded out with three magnificent paintings from their permanent collection, two by Titian and one by Bronzino. Below are two links, one to the Frick website where you can see illustrations of all the paintings discussed if you click on each of the individual links. And a second link to the NY Times article about the exhibit.

http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/parmigianino

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/arts/design/parmigianinos-schiava-turca-comes-to-the-frick.html?_r=0

Visiting the Frick is always a treat and I wandered through the rest of the permanent collection visiting with the paintings like seeing old friends. I was disappointed that the two of the Vermeers which had been moved into the West Gallery to hang on either side of the third Vermeer, “Woman with a Maid,” have been returned to their original spots in a hallway. I think “Woman with a Maid” is arguably one of the most beautiful paintings ever and the three together made a wonderful viewing experience. There are very few Vermeers in existence so it’s a wonder to me why they keep two of them in a hallway but I guess Mr. Frick had his reasons.  There was also an exhibit of bronze sculpture which was entertaining. As with Japanese art I am slowly starting to appreciate sculpture as well.

Class over, you may return to your Flickrs now.

Andy G.

Weard boys         

https://www.flickr.com/photos/79764648@N02/7440162106

202911610403985

https://www.flickr.com/photos/genexion3/421137164

Asian sissy French maid

https://www.flickr.com/photos/louanncd/3168901568

Fasching 2014 120

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91868979@N08/14207140963

SISSY

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defekto/30901722

Dressed for the Ceremony

https://www.flickr.com/photos/silvergold/14292790816

Apr18CG1

https://www.flickr.com/photos/zara_pvcslut/13954114968

Lanesboro Museum, MN 7.2010

https://www.flickr.com/photos/redbat/4780073377

Several pictures

https://www.flickr.com/photos/104546207@N08/12572240614

P1020077

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mjjk28/8608190628

Mica - New Yorks Next Top Drag Queen - The Metropolitan Room - NYC - 2014 (This is a great slide show, be sure to keep clicking on the right.)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pdproductions/13950254927

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Another beautiful day today after a week with lots of rain. I guess if we have to have rain, and I guess that we have to, having it rain during the week is preferable to the weekend. This will not stop me from complaining about it during my commute. Oh to be finished with my commuting. Hopefully in another 18 months if things work the way I hope they do.

Not really a lot to say today. I went into New York and walked up to the Metropolitan Museum. I visited the Lehman wing for two small exhibitions. Actually three small exhibitions except when I got to the room for the third there was a wall where the door should be. That certainly stopped me but before I queried the guard I looked at the Met List of current exhibits and duly noted it wasn’t slated to open until June 30th. I will return after that date. On exhibit was Italian Renaissance drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection.  This consisted of 42 drawings from 15th and 16th Century Italian artists from the permanent collection which aren’t usually on display. A few names I was familiar with and a number of new ones; the theme was how the art of drawing progressed. This is a link to the Met website with a discussion of the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/italian-renaissance-drawings At the bottom of the screen you can click on “View all Objects” and a new page will open showing all the drawings. Two that particularly caught my eye were a drawing of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci and a delicately beautiful landscape by Fra Bartolomeo. It’s always interesting to look at the provenance of art, that is, how it moved from the artist to the person who last acquired it. In the case of the Leonardo, it says he drew it in the mid to late 1480’s but the first sale date is June 8, 1860 to a private collector. It subsequently passed through a few hands although there are no details, until Robert Lehman acquired it from Schaeffer Galleries in February 1945. It makes me wonder where it was for the almost 400 years between his creating it and its sale in 1860.

The second exhibit was The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy British Art and Design. Also consisting of works from the permanent collection. This consisted of drawings and paintings by artists and poets such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and several others. It’s hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm about these items and the only way for me to describe them is to they are different from other styles of art that I enjoy. This doesn’t really signify anything but I can’t find a better way to express myself. This is a link to the Met website with a discussion of the exhibit and once again you can click on “View all objects” to see the items in the collection. Please do so as I would be interested in what you think. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/preraphaelite-legacy

Well, I think I kept this to a not really much to say length, for me anyway. On to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

CV cast 2      

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10474062@N07/14376366515 

Sweet Lolita 7 (Brolita)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22979184@N05/5920970415

Sissy 49

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42427951@N05/14217537052

Me being me hugs

https://www.flickr.com/photos/44425851@N05/14205616762

Crossdresser Louann - Hobble skirt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/empresslouann/4057115132

"Young Ladies"         

https://www.flickr.com/photos/104546207@N08/13998231356

crossdresser

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lacrasque/8336525649

306

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91894461@N07/14221195195

016

https://www.flickr.com/photos/78115879@N07/14227279715

Trisha Leigh st.John

https://www.flickr.com/photos/29824863@N06/3837131671

Pageant Sissy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/9341142043

[kiltedLaddie]

Thank you Andy, I so much appreciate the work you do in finding these little trinkets. Trouble is, one thing leads to another and you end up visiting more sites than just Flickr.