Get Cool, Boy

In homage to that time of year in Oklahoma when hot and cool are in constant conflict. Click on any image to view its source.

Boy, boy, crazy boy, Get cool, boy!*

That's When I Knew. Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.

Got a rocket in your pocket, Keep coolly cool, boy!

complements by Flickr user Susan Sermoneta.

Don't get hot, 'Cause man, you got Some high times ahead.

Untitled by Flickr user Bill Rogers.

Take it slow and Daddy-O, You can live it up and die in bed!

A Dream of the Sea. Oil on canvas, 120cm diameter by Andrew Salgado.

Boy, boy, crazy boy! Stay loose, boy!

Glass Study. Oil on canvas, 6 x 6 inches, 2013 by Jelaine Faunce.

Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.

ice on a rope by Flickr user Leo Reynolds.

Turn off the juice, boy!

volunteer park conservatory: succulents! by Flickr user Letha Colleen Myers.

A Huge and Fabulous Ralli from this post on theSri Threads blog.

Go man, go, But not like a yo-yo

Impression, Sunrise. 1873 by Claude Monet.

schoolboy. Just play it cool, boy,

Starlight. Agnes Martin.

Real cool.

* Cool from West Side Story. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Wearing, Mending, Mapping

Southern Chase, NC Foreclosure Quilt detail, 2012. 23" x 30" Tea stained voile, cotton, linen, yarn and embroidery thread. From the Foreclosure Quilts series by Kathryn Clark.

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Detail of A Large, Complex, Beautifully Stitched Boro Futon Cover from the Sri Threads blog.

Cleveland Foreclosure Quilt detail, 2011. 25" x 60" Cotton, linen, recycled denim and embroidery thread. From the Foreclosure Quilts series by Kathryn Clark.

Elodea canadensis, Gaspary, from the Dodel-Port Atlas, via Bibliodyssey.

Postcards from New York #11, 6 x 4 inches, on stretched canvas, ©2012 from the textile paintings of Lisa Call.

Detail of A Very Abraded and Beautiful Pakistani Ralli, from the Sri Threads blog.

Stigma and Pollen Tubes of Lilium martagon, from the Dodel-Port Atlas, via Bibliodyssey.

Found on Flickr: Visual Diary, September 2009

Flickr has a new feature for its users: Galleries. The gallery feature turns any Flickr member into a mini-curator. Give it a whirl! Some of my favorites so far are Minimalism Squared, 2x a Frame, and Kid+Cat Scream.

Stella Im Hultberg painting in progress from Thinkspace Gallery (website here). Click image to view source.

I've been using Found on Flickr as an ongoing visual diary, so I'll make monthly galleries for awhile and see how it goes.

Here is my Visual Diary for September 2009.

I can't include the following in my Flickr gallery, but they are also what I'm looking at these days:

Esra Roise, My hands are cold but my heart is on fire. Click image to view source.
Cat Panel Diptych by Dara Engler.

I’m exploring the possibility that a lot of Americans “relax” by entering a zombie-like state of hibernation. We choose diversions that allow us to zone out and ignore things in the world that are difficult. I paint secluded, vacant, zombie-like figures who have relaxed in their habits until they have lost time. ... They are sluggish, jaundiced, and so lacking muscle tone that they hang over their chairs and defy anatomy. -- Dara Engler, from her Artist Statement

Beverly McIver, Dear God 3. Click image to view source.

Hiroshi Watanabe, Baba, Ena Bunraku. Click image to view source. (What are bunraku?)