"At the Lapin Agile" With Elephant By You know Who
The title of this post is a joke; it really is–i.e. it’s been a long week and it’s only Wednesday.
Archive for the ‘elephants’ category
Peek-a-(boo)-so! (You Can Find Them Anywhere.)
February 2, 2011You Can Find Them Anywhere (Even on the High Seas?!)
February 1, 2011
Ahoy!
Have sail, will elephant.
Thank you, J.M.W. Turner.
You Can Find Them Anywhere (Even in the South of France?)
January 31, 2011
Elephant courtesy of ManicDDaily, iPhone and New York City Subway system; genius courtesy of Paul Cezanne (on exhibit at the Met).
Way Too Early On A Saturday Morning Train – A Pattern?
January 30, 2011
Pearl Doesn't Mind Dishevelment (Or You Know What)
Saturday: I am on an early morning train way too early in the morning to be on a Saturday train.
A woman, clearly an experienced traveler on this train, slips in at the last minute, not breathing heavily. She takes the seat across the aisle and immediately takes off coat, sweater, stows bags, attaches iPod to her head, and from the top of one of her stowed bags–little totes–retrieves an inner plastic bag with knitting project and needles. She sets to work over some pieces of paper, shielded in plastic, to which she occasionally refers.
I, in contrast, who made the train with some time to spare, am still rustling around my stuff, the dog jammed beside me (inside her bag and a couple of old parkas, one of which doesn’t quite fit into the bag) an overly-heavy suitcase, my hat, my own parka, tea, purse–
The woman across wears reading glasses as she knits and has, precise, slightly pointed features (lips, chin, nose, eyebrows plucked in vaulted arches). Despite, or as part of her precision, she seems to love patterns. Her outer sweater (taken off immediately upon sieeing down) displays a snow scene with fir trees, deer, mountains, all woven into the pattern: her inner sweater (which she does not take off) is grey with pastel stripes in multiple colors; her bags are floral, one a brocaded pattern of (seemingly) rhododendra, the other water lillies in a backdrop busy with current.
She makes notes about her knitting on a piece of graph paper.
My black and grey across the aisle feels more crowded and disheveled than ever. Does the conductor give me a snide look as he takes my ticket?
Pearl, at least, doesn’t seem to mind.
Even in Central Park (You Can Find Them Anywhere)
January 28, 2011
You Can Find Them Anywhere (Pt. 3) (On Pearl)
January 27, 2011
You can find them anywhere.
This was actually taken in between snow storms yesterday, before the big one last night.
You Can Find Them Anywhere (If You Really Look) Part 2
January 25, 2011
Even At The Fulton Street Subway Stop
You Can Find Them Anywhere (With a Careful Eye)
January 22, 2011
You Can Find Them Anywhere (With a Good Look)
In my beautiful home city of Washington, D.C. today, walking by the Potomac–amazing what you can see down here.
PS – ManicDDaily elephants make no particular reference to Republican party symbol. (I just happen to like elephants.)
PPS – remember to check out “Going on Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, cover by Jason Martin at Amazon.com.
Working With Layers (Brushes App)
January 20, 2011
Working With Layers
Working with “layers” not very successfully on the iPhone App Brushes. The app allows you four different levels of content! (Almost as many as a distracted mind.)
“Improvements” On the MTA (From Lonely Elephant’s View)
January 14, 2011
I happened to be on a nearly deserted subway car the other day. This is an increasingly unusual circumstance on the New York City subway system; even on weekends, trains are jammed, and weekday evenings–forget about it. (Yes, I did try to write that with slang spelling, but it looked weird coming from my computer.)
One problem with a deserted car is that the debris really shows up.
Without other passengers, however, there is plenty space to look at the signs. A new series posted by the MTA itself gave me a clue as to why the system is so decrepit.
There is, for example, the sign detailing a seemingly new repair policy: “If it’s broke, fix it!”
The sign explains: “instead of waiting to fix everything in a station at once, we’re fixing critical parts as soon as they need fixing.”
Wow! What a great idea. Fixing critical parts! Instead of waiting for complete break-down!
“Can our buses go faster? You bet!”
(Then, um, why don’t they?)
Another: “Improvements don’t just happen.”
I’m concerned that they reversed some words on that one. How about “just” and “don’t”?
PS – the above illustration is more iPhone art, which allows for endless iterations. There, the elephant’s in a hoodie. Here’s two earlier versions – it’s a bit like playing with paper dolls.
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