"Occupied"
11/26/11 - Amy
"Wishbone"
What do you wish for when all of your wishes have come true? I guess in that case I can wish for an iPad. (Not that that's what I wished for...)
11/25/11 - Amy
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"Bite Me"
How I feel some days. I find it rather appropriate that this shop is one of the first things I see on my drive to work.
"Bite Me"
How I feel some days. I find it rather appropriate that this shop is one of the first things I see on my drive to work.
11/18/11 - Amy
"Happy Birthday, Latvia"
The 18th November is Latvian Independence Day - commemorating the first time they gained independence from Russia. Matt and I celebrated by creating this picture (it took several takes) and then toasting with the Riga Black Balsams that's inside the bottle. Prieka! (Cheers!)
11/14/11 - Amy
"10 Months"
This was waiting for me when I got home from Paris. November 3rd marked the 10-month anniversary since our first date. I told Matt that we weren't exchanging gifts, but he surprised me with this anyway! I guess I'm just a Black Magic woman :)
11/11/11 - Amy
"Wings"
In addition to Matt's many talents, one of his new ones is making his own Buffalo Wings (which you can't really get here), AND his own homemade Blue Cheese Dressing, all of which he learned to make himself. I've never been a fan of wings, but these were gooooooood! :)
11/09/11 - Amy
"RIP Norton Dodge"
I found out this week that Norton Dodge had passed away last weekend. If it weren't for Norton, there probably wouldn't be a Dr. Amy, nor would she be teaching Russian art in Aberdeen. Norton Dodge single-handedly saved contemporary Russian art from perishing at the hands of the Soviets. From 1956-1986, he smuggled out several thousands works of "unofficial" art - works of art that did not conform to the style of Socialist Realism, which the state decreed all arts should follow. In the 1990s, he donated his collection of 17,000 works of art - the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art - to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, and later established a fellowship programme enabling budding young scholars (like me!) to study the collection. It was this Dodge fellowship that paid for my PhD.
I only met Norton once, and the meeting was brief and uneventful. It's strange to think how much I owe this man who I hardly even knew. I will be forever grateful for his generosity.
This book, The Ransom of Russian Art, which is a very short, quick and interesting read, essentially tells the story of the building of his collection.
Washington Post Obituary
New York Times Obituary
11/08/11 - Amy
"Something Special"
A present to me from artist Miervaldis Polis...a notebook with which to write my book on him. Something special, indeed!
11/06/11 - Amy
"The Only Picture I took Today"
And what a good sport for letting me post it. For the record, this is not the moment I intended to capture, he just moved the fork to his mouth too quickly!
11/05/11 - Lori
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| Family Game Night |
11/04/11 - Lori
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| Sunset |
11/01/11 - Lori
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| My Favorite Co Pilot |
10/29/11 - Lori
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| History |
10/28/11 - Lori
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| "Are you proud, Mom?" |
10/25/11 - Lori
10/19/11 - Lori
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| Organization |
11/05/11 - Amy
"Fireworks"
The 5th of November is a day to remember in the UK...the day that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the parliament in a plot to bring back the Catholic monarchy. Nowadays, it is celebrated as Bonfire Night, and although Aberdeen didn't have a bonfire, it did have fireworks. It just so happens that they are the same fireworks I see every time Matt and I kiss. Well, the picture was better as a concept than in execution, but I still like it :)
11/04/11 - Amy
"Christmas in Edinburgh"
When we arrived in Edinburgh on our way back from Paris, we were surprised to find Christmas trees at the airport! Since the UK doesn't haven Thanksgiving, they go straight from Halloween to Christmas. The shops are all decorated, along with everything else. I returned home to take down the Halloween decorations and put up the Thanksgiving ones (which were difficult to find here, but I managed!). It's hard to be thinking of Thanksgiving when everything around me says Christmas! Oh well!
11/03/11 - Amy
"Let them Eat Cake"
Survival plan for spending the week in Paris with 20 university students! At the Cafe Deux Magots - meeting place of the likes of Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Hemingway, and Picasso in the early part of the 20th century.
11/02/11 - Amy
"Love Bridge"
This is my favourite bridge in Paris. I've always loved coming here, walking across it, taking in the view. I had been coming here long before I had even heard about Sex and the City. At the end of the series, Mr. Big and Carrie stand on this bridge, and Big finally tells her she's "the one." Now, people leave "love locks" fixed to this bridge, symbolising their enduring love.
Last year, when I came to Paris with the students, I walked across this bridge with Mary and said "someday, I will come to this bridge with someone I love." Her response: "of course you will." She was sure about it; I wasn't. Well, it's one year later and I have the one I love. We have been to Paris, but we have not been to this bridge....YET.
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