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Capsule (Full commentary found below Lead Picture)
Taking the opportunity to thank people for their help is basic to our lives.
Thank you, Microsoft.
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This picture, showing I. Rice Pereira with one of her paintings, was taken in 1938.
The photograph is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
Photo Credit: Cyril Mipaas
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News re: existentialautotrip
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Justin of the Prudential Microsoft store and a photographer is preparing a set of pix of the Microsoft event. We’ll be sure to forward them on this site.
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Weather
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Today in Boston will be 82* and a feels-like of 84* under a mix of sun and clouds.
Our perfect summer stretch continues for another six days at least, although some rain is expected later.
Yayy!
This has been a great weather summer so far.
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Sunday’s Dinner posted on
Tuesday, August 5, 2019
We had our party of twenty on Sunday night.
The menu:
An assortment of spreads and vinegary appetizers.
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Penne with Pesto and chicken
Lasagna
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Porterhouse Steaks with rosemary/garlic flavored butter and our wonderful beef gravy.
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Chocolate Mousse Cake from Modern Pastry
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Our 487th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 487 posts we’re at the 9.74 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Note how quickly we are approaching the 10% mark.
Feels like we’re just getting started, but we are close to 10% done.
10 xs 10 and then what?
Wow!
By the way, our posts are always done by 6.00am the day of, but are usually available by 6.00pm of the night before.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Saw a store sign announce "Wood Fired Pizza."
“With references?” I wondered.
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We love getting mail.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
From Kali L:
Thank you for encouraging me to write and allowing me to be present in your community
Web Meister responds: We continue to be amazed at your ability and openness, Kali. We pray that you grasp the uniqueness of your talents and permit them to guide you through the dark places.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Irene Rice Pereira (August 5, 1902 – January 11, 1971) was an American abstract artist, poet and philosopher who played a major role in the development of modernism in the United States.
She is known for her work in the genres of geometric abstraction, abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction, as well as her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. Her paintings and writings were significantly influenced by the complex intellectual currents of the 20th century.
Modernism is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions of horror to World War I.
Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.
Henri Matisse, The Dance, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
His second version of The Dance signifies a key point in his career and in the development of modern painting.
At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.
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Acknowledgements
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Always thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Thanks to Kali L who so frequently enriches our posts.
And to 61+ jokes for providing the material for today’s chuckle.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
Any woman who rises to the top of the heap is deserving of a place in one of my albums.
Unfortunately, I’ve never been to an Irene Pereira exhibit.
Frankly, I’ve never seen one advertised.
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Good Morning on this Tuesday, the sixth day of August, 2019
Our lead picture is of Irene Pereira.
Our commentary is on the dinner for twenty we held last night to thank Microsoft for their continuing efforts to improve our lives while they make money.
We posted a Boston weather report and the ‘ticking calendar’ as illustrated by the growing number of posts as calendar markers.
Our Thumbnail spoke a sentence on Modernism.
We posted a chuckle and mail from Kali L.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.