It’s the Summer is here Flickr, or boy that was a short Spring.

[Betty]

I never seen apartment washers for under $300 until internet stores turned up. They were really popular in Asia. After my Mom & Dad broke up, Dad got a sit in the bathtub type orange K-mart washer. It didn't do a good job, & broke down a lot, so he did his laundry at my Mom's house instead.

Out on my own it was always either the laundromat, or like many of us did, hand wash & wring in the bathtub between trips to the boring coin laundry. All Buffalo coin laundries were the most depressing & boring places in the world. There was usually 1 color TV with poor reception high in the corner that only got a green or blue picture, with low or poor sound, that you couldn't change the channel on. 90% of everybody in there looked like they just got out of jail or were homeless. So you had to constantly watch your stuff & yourself. Check the machines often too, because if they broke down, they could destroy your clothes. The change/coin machine never works so you have to bring tons of coins with you.

The driers were so weak, you'd have to spend a half a day there pumping coins in the machine to get a single load dry. Or you'd have to wait for a machine to be available, because half the machines are done but the clothing owners aren't anywhere around to get their stuff out of them.

It got to be that once they were dry enough to not drip, I'd take them home & hang them all over the place to dry the rest of the way.

[alison]

At some colleges today, they have dryers that will send you an email or a SMS text message when your load is done.  Perhaps as these things become cheaper, and the next generation's impatience and need for instant information becomes more commonplace, these things might start to end up in apartment buildings as well.  It doesn't mean that people will come and get their stuff from the dryer, but they won't have the excuse that they lost track of time or didn't know the dryer had finished.

[Betty]

We all have clocks. Even if we never timed those particular machines, we all know approximately how long a load takes. If a load is setting in there, done a half an hour or more, they know it's done.

They're off somewhere doing something else, in the corner pub, or watching TV, & just don't care if there's a line of other people waiting for a machine. If you've seen these people, you wouldn't dare pull their finished items out of the machine either or they'd shoot you. It's because of these people, that you can't wander off & do something else rather than sit there watching your stuff because they'll steal it.

Some of them may be sitting in a car in the lot waiting for somebody to leave so they can go through your stuff.

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Two men from Home Depot came a little while ago and installed my new dryer and took away the old one. They were pleasant, competent and efficient and the whole thing didn’t take long at all. They had to remove the door to the house and they did it without complaining unlike the deliverymen from Lowes who brought my washing machine some years ago. They were so unpleasant that I didn’t tip them, unlike these two men who I did. Now let’s hope it’s a good machine and doesn’t cause me any aggravation, at least for some years.

Today was a chilly, windy, wet day but I was stalwart and went into New York City for an auction preview. I walked up to 72nd Street and York Avenue and once again visited Sotheby’s. I saw a lot of really wonderful art. It was a number of auctions on different floors, there are ten. I’ll list them and provide links to Sotheby’s site where you can view the paintings up for auction. What’s really enjoyable about viewing the catalog is that you can enlarge the paintings and also see their provenance which can be fascinating.

Impressionist and Modern Art - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09219.html  The absolute star of this show is number 17, Poppies by Vincent Van Gogh. It was exhibited at the Albright-Knox museum in Buffalo for 30 years before the owner, heir to the Goodyear fortune, asked the museum to sell it as he needed the money. The museum, he and two other museums shared in the profits. And now it is expected to bring between $30 and $50 million dollars. And will probably wind up in some private collection in Japan so I’m grateful I got to see it. All of the usual artists were included, Pierre Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Camille Pisarro, Alfred Sisley and Gustave Caillebotte to name a few. Lots to discover on this page.

19th Century European Art - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/19th-century-european-art-n09218.html This consisted of many artists I’m unfamiliar with and a number from the second tier but there were still a bunch of recognizable names and quality works from Gustave Courbet, William Bouguereau, Jean-Leon Gerome,  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, a Spanish artist who I believe is seldom seen up for auction. I had the pleasure of seeing his work at the Hispanic Society of America in the Bronx where they also have an outstanding painting by Goya, The Duchess of Alba which you can see  here http://newyorkcitymuseum-a-thon.blogspot.com/2011/06/hipanic-society-of-america.html

19th Century Russian art - Masterpieces of Russian Art: The Bekkerman Collection – http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/masterpieces-russian-art-bekkerman-collection-n09184.html These were artists I was completely unfamiliar with but still a number of very nice things. I was particularly taken by a landscape, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin - At the edge of a birch grove (bridge to a lumbering site) http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/masterpieces-russian-art-bekkerman-collection-n09184/lot.3.html and a portrait, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky - Portrait of Sergei Savvich Yakovlev which I found evocative of Ingres and Jacques Louis David. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/masterpieces-russian-art-bekkerman-collection-n09184/lot.1.html

Property from the Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon: Masterworks - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/masterworks-mellon-n09245.html - Bunny Mellon was the widow of Paul Mellon and daughter in law of Andrew Mellon who as Wikipedia notes was a banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury. Paul endowed and created the National Gallery in Washington, DC and he and Bunny filled it with treasures from their collection. They had a very good eye for fine art and the money with which to acquire it and they did so their entire lives. Paul passed away some time ago and Bunny died in March of this year at the age of 104. They gave away much of their collections during their lifetimes but Bunny still left an enormous amount of art in her estate which Sotheby’s is auctioning. You should read this article from the New York Times which talks about her and has a slide show of her home which is not to be missed. The first slide is of her living room in which she has a Winslow Homer, Camille Pisarro, Paul Klee and a Diego Giacometti sculpture among other items. When I asked my brother if he had seen it he wrote back to say he wanted to live there, something I can readily agree with. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/arts/design/bunny-mellon-good-taste-is-a-boon-to-sothebys.html

There will be more than one auction for Mrs. Mellon’s collection and In this part they had  up for bid some modern art,  2 works by Marc Rothko and a number of Richard Diebenkorn’s, artists I’m not overly fond of. Abstract art leaves me cold. But they also showed a John Peto, Gwen John, a number of Georgie O’Keeffe’s, the Pisarro and the Winslow Homer that are in the slide, Theodore Robinson and Eugene Boudin.  I really like Boudin a lot, his seascapes are charming and I thought this was a particularly nice one. This is arguably one of the last great collections of Impressionist art that will go up for auction.

Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l14036.html - This was a smattering of art from the auction that will take place in London but it was stunning. JMW Turner, two Canalettos, another favorite of mine and Peter Brueghel the younger among others. The full catalog isn’t shown unfortunately but these are wonderful items.

I had a most enjoyable visit, as I’ve said numerous times, seeing these auctions is a treat because for the most part this art will disappear into private collections and you never know if it will be let out on loan for exhibits. And as I also mentioned, some of the big items like the Van Gogh and the Rothko’s will more than likely wind up overseas.

And now back to the reason that you all actually came to this site, the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Princess Boy & Video - Hi Britney!      

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britney_smith/15624315955 

Boys who want to be girls

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127876512@N03/15667325705

Pretty Sissy Dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125780076@N05/15356860656

Here I Am

https://www.flickr.com/photos/57172609@N04/15392346031

White Lace Dress with Black Tights

https://www.flickr.com/photos/melissacd/15195638097

From nerd to bird...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/shinypenny77/15156652768

Tracey is a flouncy, frilly, pink sissy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/frillyknicks/15359052471

Ladyboy Dance

https://www.flickr.com/photos/svadee/15157730077

Sweetheart

https://www.flickr.com/photos/57172609@N04/15136284460 

P1010712

https://www.flickr.com/photos/89611075@N02/15451683246

White sleeveless shirt and Floral tight miniskirt_4_End

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/15283234339

Kathy Leigh:I love this satin blouse with this skirt. What do you think?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/26985513@N03/15241332078

[samantha1]

Hopefully this one will last longer

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It was a brisk but beautiful morning, not windy and with no rain. The next best thing to warm weather for me. I took a shorter walk than usual today as I visited the Museum of Biblical Art on Broadway at 61st Street.  If you’re wondering at the chosen  venue let me say that I have not seen the light or been born again, gosh once was enough. No, I went, as I always do, for the art. The museum opens at 10 AM and I arrived early and was sitting in the lobby reading my magazine a few minutes before the museum opened when a man came into the lobby and identified himself to the guard who queried him as to whether he was from the group. He said yes and went back outside. Then people starting coming through the door. Actually flowing through the door would better express it. Lots of people and while I’m not an official estimator I wouldn’t be surprised if there were forty people once all of them were inside. As I sat there engulfed in this throng I was already contemplating if I was going to go to the Metropolitan Museum or just go home if all of these people were heading upstairs to the exhibit. Finally they all left the lobby to go to a conference room. I stood up and asked the guard if they were going to the exhibit and he said yes but first they were having a lecture. I asked how long a lecture and he said until 1PM. I breathed a sigh of relief and was ready to go up when the guard told me the museum was going to open up a little late, they had misplaced the key. Don’t you just hate when that happens? I wondered how long that would take but it was just a few minutes and I finally was allowed upstairs. I mentioned the large group of people to the person at the desk and he told me they were part of the family that organized the exhibition and when they were done, another 60 people would be showing up at 3PM. I’m pleased to say I was there a little over an hour and there were very few visitors aside from myself.

The exhibition was Works from the Grand Rapids Art Museum’s Jansma Print Collection, Five Centures Of Printmaking From Dürer To Pechstein.

The exhibit consisted of sixteen engravings comprising The Passion of Christ by Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), Christ Preaching (La Petit Tombe), The Three Crosses and several others by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669, 24 engravings representing The Flight into Egypt by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804), the rare Dead Christ with Angels by Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883), 21 Illustrations of the Book of Job by William Blake (1757-1827), and the exquisitely preserved The Lord’s Prayer by Max Pechstein (German, 1881–1955), 12 prints.

It was a wonderful show. The Durer’s were very small and hung, as the entire exhibition was, in two parallel rows. With my poor eyesight it was difficult to really see the details, especially the ones in the higher row but what saved me was they had a viewer with a slide show that offered enlargements. That helped immensely although I confess to having some trouble navigating it. I used it when I arrived and then I went back and did it again after having walked around the room. It was all Biblical, not surprisingly, except for one wonderful self portrait of Rembrandt at 23 years of age. They had one of Durer’s actual wood blocks which has miraculously survived all these years.  The Manet depicts the same image as his large painting which is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There were Bibles in between each of the exhibits that also displayed a page from each topic. I’m familiar with all of these artists aside from Max Pechstein who I’ve never encountered before. It was a revelation to me some time ago that Blake was an artist in addition to being a poet, his book of Job was splendid. I’ve seen a number of exhibits by Tiepolo as well as those of his father Giovanni Battista Tiepolo who was also a great artist. And Rembrandt, what can one say aside from the fact that he was brilliant at everything he did aside from his personal life which he didn’t manage so well, finding himself in bankruptcy at the end of it. As I have mentioned numerous times I am not overly fond of religious art but this was most enjoyable.

This is a link to the MOBIA press release announcing the exhibit. http://mobia.org/assets/FINAL_Durer_Release_8_7_14.pdf This is a link to the MOBIA website description of the show with illustrations. Pay particular attention to Rembrandt’s engraving of Abraham and Isaac, very beautiful. http://mobia.org/exhibitions/durer-rembrandt-tiepolo#slideshow7 This is a link to the Jansma website where you can view the same slide show that I did at the museum. It’s not an easy site to navigate, at least it wasn’t for me. Click on Explore the Collection and look to the right side of the screen for a series of white dots running down the page, each one represents a different period and a different artist. Lots to see here. http://thejansmacollection.artmuseumgr.org/#!/landing

On a separate note I could just kick myself for an error in judgment on EBAY. I’m a collector of bound volumes of old New York newspapers and last night I saw a bound volume of the New York Times for the first two weeks of October 1927. It looked to be in good condition and it had the World Series, not to mention Babe Ruth’s 60th home run within. And it was a buy it now for $99 which is very inexpensive. I’m always concerned that the Sunday papers are complete so I wrote to the seller. He wrote back to say he’d to check on Monday as the book was at his place of business. I wrote back to express my interest and tell him I would exercise the buy it now if he would be willing to cancel the transaction if the papers were incomplete. I didn’t hear back and went to bed. When I awoke and went online he had replied positively but the book was already gone by that point. I should have known it would not last at that price and I realized I should have positively told him I was buying it and asked for the cancel option gambling that it was complete. As I said in my response to him this morning, I didn’t follow the old adage, you snooze, you lose.

And now, on to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

10312014-16

https://www.flickr.com/photos/machu_picchu/15498408967   

Brolita at the beach

https://www.flickr.com/photos/emilysakura/15082522674   

Trek friends off to the con.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/beckys_box/15470850772   

London Comic Con sun 26 oct 14

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kriskproductions/15514940429/

Funky Skunk

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14858522@N00/15667623431

10700

https://www.flickr.com/photos/104258138@N03/15266472049

Mambo (1)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jinky_dabon/15535981675

Oktoberfest.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sabine57/15226974338

steve... strangely has a girlish figure

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127731499@N06/15450010046

remeber the first time you got dressed by your own self        

https://www.flickr.com/photos/46789241@N00/15289808119

All white! I

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59132217@N03/15354820357

sofa time....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/susansmith/15509947461

[samantha1]

You should strike whilst the iron is hot

[andyg0404]

Hi Samantha,

I agree, hindsight is always the clearest. But I'll let this be a learning lesson for the future.

Thanks

Andy G.

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

For those who did not see my previous email “Problem”, please note you will have to copy and paste into a browser the links with the “at” as part of the link. Just do paste and not paste and search. When it's in the browser take out the "(at)" section and replace with the symbol.

This will be quick. I’m heading to Jersey shore to celebrate the 16th birthday of my friend’s son. Armed with the birthday cake and cookies, not to mention my full winter regalia as it’s pretty cold here in Northern New Jersey, I expect to have a splendid day. Hope all have the same.

Andy G.

Our first guest at the Flickrs is, I believe, our own Sissy Samantha. Hello Samantha.

unikaren swan dress at the fashion show

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissysamantharebecca/15761017795 

This takes some balls.     

https://www.flickr.com/photos/deepstoat/15769474161

Transvestite      

http://flic.kr/p/pZ73LQ 

Super Girl

https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/15560478797 

1114A344A

https://www.flickr.com/photos/charlene32/15750008421 

Halloween 2014

http://flic.kr/p/pWPYGb 

sweet dress

http://flic.kr/p/pDUCtT

I think most Swiss girls wear longer dresses!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cd_erica_f/15321995190

Kent's crush

http://flic.kr/p/pDs3W9

DSC_0145.JPG

http://flic.kr/p/po4SkV

Shopping Sissies

https://www.flickr.com/photos/msemilytv/5021285888

Babydoll Girl (49)

http://flic.kr/p/ptbYxw

R-2344

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgirlrachel/15548018386

[sissysamantharebecca]

hi Andy

i had to add this new user name to the group.

yes the first one is of me.

thank you for using my pictures here. I just love been shown off.