Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
June 29, 2008
University Bridge, one of two remaining crossings of the Mississippi River in St. Cloud after the main bridge was condemned.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
June 28, 2008
For a free bicycle lock, tell me how many times Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer struck out as a high school player.
(Correct answer: One)
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
June 26, 2008
While leaning over to unlock my bicycle from a public rack, I noticed a couple photographing the low relief granite carving of a fierce Odin riding an equally emotional horse through an ambiguous space. The sculpture is mounted on the polished granite facade of Kiehle Visual Art Center where I've worked for 35 years. I interrupted them, asked her if she was the artist. My husband Roger Schwitalla made it in 1954 as part of his M.A. thesis, she said. She and Roger were art teachers in Flint MI before retiring. He died last year. She introduced her son J., an electrical engineer specializing in audio electronics in Phoenix. In 1973 when the art department moved into its current building, the cloud-shaped slab with the name Roger Schwitalla carved in the lower right corner was found in a storeroom. Notified of the find by a University administrator, Roger offered it as a donation on the condition that it be mounted on the art building. The official said the installation and maintenance would cost money and the University was on a tight budget. Roger agreed to donate $200 a year along with the sculpture, an agreeable solution to the official. Mrs. Schwitalla continues to send that amount each year.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008
When it comes to soccer/football, I don't know shit from shinola, something I've never been proud of it. You try to be continental all your life, you go to foreign movies, check out the museums of Europe, read Proust, but if you don't know soccer/football, good luck. I'm working on it though and this picture is testimony to that. All the international people in my town are glued to the Euros, I want to be like them. Here's today's score. Don't ask me anything else about the game though.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
June 10, 2008
Lucy Slivinski blew in from Chicago with a tractor and flatbed full of sculpture and began installing it on the southeast corrner of the new St. Cloud Library. Shortly after I took this picture, the local paper ran an online interview with the artist and a picture of the piece. And the local pundits had a field day. Here's a sampling (only negative ones because positive ones tend to be mushy):
What a dump, who in their right mind calls this art. Who are the idiots that ok'd this. Why didn't the money wasted on this go towards the tunnel from the library to lake george.
The City of St Cloud wastes $40k of the taxpayers dollars on a heap of junk that looks like a trash truck ran over a bicycle rack...
similar response to the "art" they put downtown about 35 years ago.... now it's a place for birds to relieve themselves. Anything can be considered art... to someone.... in this case... I'd have been just as happy to see them put up a hedge.
I don't really think it matters who likes it and who doesn't. I think they should have supported LOCAL artists! Why did we buy art from someone who doesn't even live in MN?
it turning into a junkyard…why do we try to please so few , most people think this kind of art is a joke! what a waste $40000 in books or computers would have been alot better
My favorite artist is Norman Rockwell...what the hell is this?..tail pipes?...Mr. Rockwell would have found this quite amusing...way too funny. You call this art?
What a bunch of junk. Way to augment what many people already are criticizing.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
June 6, 2008
Dear Jeff and Lisa and Mark,
The good news is no one has bought the trailer yet and we got 2.5 inches of rain last night. The bad news is the creeks are swollen.
--Ted
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
June 2, 2008
Dropped in at Bo Diddley's Pub this afternoon in honor of its namesake. Bo Diddley died today at 79. This place was named in his honor, wasn't owned by him. I hope Bo wouldn't have minded my choice of drink.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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Dec. 28, 2007
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.
Dec. 27, 2007
Hamburger at Petes Place