Dog Art Today

Dispatch from Dog Bar: Living in Circles

 

 

Shortly after I moved to Grass Valley, I heard two poets on our local radio station KVMR discussing the Rainer Maria Rilke poem I Live My Life in Widening Circles.  They talked as if everyone knew this poem.  I had never heard it, but it stayed with me.  I thought I would share it today with some images from 2010.

 

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I've been circling for thousands of years
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing my blog with other dog art lovers. Wishing you a happy new year as you circle into 2011.

Best,

Moira and Darby

P.S. Yes, I do make resolutions. This year I plan to:

make art
grow friends
SUP on a Boga

Vietnam Christmas Vigil 1966

 

The 1966 Defense Department annotation reads:

1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW).  Photographer: Sergeant (Sgt.) Hathaway.   CHRISTMAS VIGIL--A Marine sentry, Lance Corporal Glenn L. Mitchell of Washington, D. C., and his dog, "Chief," patrol a lonely perimeter near Marine Aircraft Group-36 (MAG-36) in Vietnam and pause before a cross near the group chapel.  The Marine's thoughts reflect the hopes of servicemen around the world the Christmas season, "...peace, on earth, good will to men."

Is it futile to wish for peace each year?   I hope not.

Via footnote.com.

Christmas Fox

 

 

Christmas Fox by Andy Carter via flickr

Walk the Dog by David Goldes

Walk the Dog by David Goldes

Via photographer Alec Soth's archived blog.  Alec, who is the author of Dog Days Bogotá, has a retrospective going on at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis until January 2, 2011. It's entitled From Here to There: Alec Soth's America and features his large format photos taken over 15 years of travels in America.

Alce Soth's new blog is the Little Brown Mushroom Blog.  Highly recommend.

More about David Goldes here.

 

Jeff Scher's New Christmas Film

After watching Jeff Scher's new film featuring Paul Simon's "Getting Ready for Christmas Day,"  I sent him this note...

"Dear Jeff,  You've outdone yourself.  This video is so, well, everything Christmas is -- wondrous, nostalgic, tragic, painful, hopeful, trippy, exhausting, indulgent, petty, and magical."

See what you think...

Try to enjoy this last weekend before Christmas.  But don't beat yourself up if you don't.

Visit Jeff's blog Reasons to Be Glad to see a behind-the-scenes shot of his animation process.  If you've never seen Jeff's summery and soulful short film "Dog Days" I featured it here.