Here are some things I’ve recently shared on Instagram.
Susan Morrow’s crochet art (find more info on Crochet Concupiscence)
Memoirs – stocked up for some indulgent reading!
Instagram Images
WiFi Hero (or the router is the problem)
Adoring this video:
From from New York Magazine and McSweeney’s, spotted thanks to Apartment Therapy
Flashback: My 2009 Site
Last month I looked at My 2007 professional website using Wayback Machine. Today let’s look at what had transformed into by 2009.
Reading and To Read
These are just two stacks out of four big stacks of books that I’m working on reading right now.
And these aren’t even the required school books.
Mitchell Ginsberg Love Quote
A selection from the poem Love by psychotherapist-poet Mitchell Ginsberg:
Passing Under Golden Gate Bridge
During my mom’s visit last month we went on a boat ride in the San Francisco Bay. I thought I’d share my snap-by-snap photos of passing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Even though I live here I never get tired of it!
What Was Your First Love?
When my mom and I were at the Disney Museum I saw this quote I loved:
And I thought of it again when we came across this outdoor art display of “first loves” because my eye immediately landed on the Nancy Drew answer (which was one of my favorite childhood reads):
But of course there were plenty of other answers in this art project as well:
What was your first love?
Happy Birthday To Me
I wonder what age 34 is going to hold for this Aries girl.
I’ll say to myself what I say to others on their birthday. I hope that it is filled with magic and wonder, love and laughter and many wishes to come true.
Sussle Scholarship
Last September I was thrilled to win a $1000 college scholarship award from Sussle. Now I’m thrilled to say I’ve won a 2014 $500 Sussle award as well. Thanks Sussle! I enjoy sharing a variety of different contributions there, especially in crochet and craft but across all types of art and interesting topics.
Walt Disney’s Silent Film Alice
If you Google “Walt Disney” and “Alice” you’ll get a lot of results for Alice in Wonderland. However, I learned from my trip to the Disney Museum that there was an earlier Alice in Disney’s work.
Early in his career (in the 1920s) Disney did silent film work. There was a popular series with a star named Alice (called the Alice Comedies). There were actually four different girls who played the character of Alice over the years, the most well-known of which was Virginia Davis.
Disney made the first Alice film on his own. He’d been doing some other films for Laugh-O-Gram but the company went bankrupt and Disney was trying to make some money. The main thing I learned at Disney Museum was how he was constantly having to reinvent himself and persevere through tough times to become what he was.
As you can see from the above image, these silent film comedies included the real love girl Alice but also included animation. The main animated character was a cat that resembled Felix the Cat.
More than fifty Alice movies were made in the four yeras between 1923 and 1927.