Tonight's picture was taken the day after Thanksgiving in November of 2008. Mattie and Peter had a Black Friday tradition with one another. It did not involve shopping! Instead they took out all our outdoor Christmas lights and would work on creating a magnificent display in our commons area. Each year, Mattie and Peter would purchase a new light for the display, thereby expanding the display every year. In 2008, they bought this Scooby Doo outdoor light to add to their creation! Mattie loved Scooby Doo and while undergoing treatment we watched every episode and movie possible. So that new light addition that year seemed appropriate. When Mattie died, so did our lighting of our commons area. People used to LOVE IT! In fact I still have neighbors telling me how much joy our displays gave to their holidays!
Quote of the day: The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Outside the museum, Peter posed inside "Urban Light," a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden. The installation consists of 202 restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s.
Here is some information below about Frank Gehry. I have to admit I knew he was a famous architect, but am not familiar with most of his works! Being a traditionalist, I can now understand why!
Frank Gehry has revolutionized architecture’s aesthetics,
social and cultural role, and relationship to the city. His pioneering work in
digital technologies set in motion the practices adopted by the construction
industry today. The Canadian-born, Los Angeles–based architect’s work
interrogates a building’s means of expression, a process that has brought with
it new methods of design and technology as well as an innovative approach to
materials. Gehry's innovation and ability to push the boundaries of architecture
garnered him the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989.
Frank Gehry presents a comprehensive examination of his
extraordinary body of work from the early 1960s—he established his firm in Los
Angeles in 1962—to the present, featuring over 200 drawings, many of which have
never been seen publicly, and 65 models that illuminate the evolution of
Gehry’s thinking. Tracing the arc of his career, the exhibition focuses on two
main themes: urbanism and the development of new systems of digital design and
fabrication, including his use of CATIA, a software tool used in the
aeronautics and automobile industries, which allows the digital manipulation of
3-D representations. This retrospective offers an opportunity to reflect on the
development of Gehry’s work and to understand the processes of one of the great
architectural minds.
to me!
Headquarters in Paris. I tried to be open minded about what I was seeing, but Gehry's work doesn't do anything for my mind, heart, or spirit!
