"Exercise", by Lucia Nimcova

Oh, oh, oh---this is the sort of documentary I want to make--catching the weird captivation of everyday life, seen just a little askew!

Exercise (Slovakia, 2007), by Lucia Nimcova

Lucia Nimcova - Exercise from sittcomm.sk on Vimeo.

Nimcova asked people to perform exercises that they used to do at home every morning--following commands on the radio--during the Soviet era.

I love that you can hear her a couple times trying not to laugh (lovingly, it sounds like), from behind the camera.

Nimcova was born in Slovakia, in a small town near the Polish and Ukrainian borders. Since 2000 she has been documenting women in Central and Eastern Europe.

Still Healing

How to learn patience?

Just wait.

I could hardly believe the O.T. that my tendons would take so long to heal, but they are not a whole lot better and it's been almost 4 months.  Plus I strained the left wrist tendons too (overcompensating for the wounded right hand doing "light duty" at the nursing home before I quit---light on the back, but not on the hands).

I am now wearing lighter fabric splints on both wrists.

WHAT I LIKE in Town

"to find the good where I live and praise it"

ABOVE: 

Independent Filmmakers Project;

Cupcake Bakery and Coffee Shop; 

me in a mirror;

 and Claire Steyaert's Antiques, all on University Ave.

(The coming light rail is now under construction.)

ABOVE: My neighborhood!

Election Day 2012 

ABOVE: The Bookstore at the Central Library (downtown)
Withdrawn library books and donated used books sell for a buck or two.

ABOVE: More Public Art
Aztec warrior mural, by stencil artist Taylor Lindgren

ABOVE:
Steeple People Thrift Store
 When I feel bad and sad, like I did yesterday,
sweet, sweet Steeple People lifts my mood, starting with their Free Box, right inside the door. (I'd like to make a sci-fi movie using only its mostly unidentifiable contents.)

At the cash register, gentle lady volunteers commiserate with the damaged and the desperate (I felt a little of both) and pack your bags so that the heavy, clever door-stopper won't break your frilly porcelain fish.

ABOVE: Sunset, seen from inside the titanium-covered museum
east bank of the River

ABOVE:  Rainy day at the River, 

photographed from inside the Guthrie Theater

ABOVE: The Marathon

People along the route help out the runners with everything 

from orange slices to live music.

ABOVE: The Thursday Farmers Market 

 

ABOVE: Bike Boulevard 

A 4.5 miles long, north-south route

ABOVE: The  Branch Library

in the restored historic Grain Belt campus 

ABOVE: Fish & Chips, "The Real Deal"  

 ABOVE: The Tin Fish restaurant

ABOVE: 

 I don't much like MTM's statue, but I like how people pose with it. I was snapping it when these passersby stepped in and posed for me.

"Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it,
With each glance and every little movement you show it..."

ABOVE :  Birchbark Books & Native Arts

 

ABOVE: LotI

On Rosh Hashanah; fallen apples for a sweet year...

 ABOVE :  YWCA (diptych)

ABOVE:  Cemetery Triptych

Stainless steel memorial by Gloria Tew; 

"square bar" circle in wrought iron fence; entrance gate

ABOVE: TOP: Puppy Dog Tail, 

BOTTOM: Coffee Bean Roaster, Dunn Bros.

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all photos by me: share if you want

USA Presidential Election, 2012

Faces on Election Day 2012

 

Marriage Equality

Minnesotans vote in one week on a State amendment seeking to limit marriage to one man and one woman. Lots of creative "Vote No" art out there---I put this one together.

Later: Awesome! Minnesotans voted down the amendment.