Oct 30 2008
Well - I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office.
So here’s what I made - three tree-themed smalti [...]
Oct 09 2008
The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town. While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass [...]
Sep 17 2008
I decided to figure out what mosaic I was going to do once I got to my 2nd class and saw the colored tiles that I had ordered up close and personal, and once I saw them I know what I wanted to do. (It was a little disconcerting to see that most everyone else [...]
Sep 13 2008
My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class - as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art:
I chose lots of blues and greens - at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but then [...]
Sep 09 2008
My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class - I’m so excited! We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it! The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it [...]
10 Wolf Parade + You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son
09 Wolf Parade + Grounds for Divorce
08 Sunset Rubdown + Us Ones in Between
.:*Spencer Krug gently singing in the lamplight*:.
07 Sunset Rubdown + For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
A great glimpse into Spencer Krug’s show intensity!
06 Wolf Parade + This Heart’s on [...]
I couldn’t sleep this morning - I was wide awake at 4:00 and couldn’t get back. I tried the usual plane crash daydreams but to no avail… so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to start my new regime.
I’d been planning to make some changes this week anyway and was falling behind, so really, [...]
if you’ll believe in anything.
I took a rare week night out with my sis and her husband to go see Wolf Parade at The Marquee in Tulsa tonight - it was the best show I’ve seen in years.
First we stumbled out of the T-storms & tornadoes into “Lola’s,” a dia de los muertos themed tapas bar [...]
It felt like my family and I spent the whole of October celebrating Halloween; or at least celebrating the cool weather and the orange backdrop of fall, as well as out-of-town family & friends coming and going.
Our family loves fall anyway and we always get an early start on the festivities… this year it started [...]
Well - I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office.
So here’s what I made - three tree-themed smalti [...]