hard sweet hard

c-r-u-n-c-h

things sure are busy here with just a few days before departure.

posted by anne @ 4:59 PM 0 Comments

that's suitcase not baggage

01:20 AM 01 Jan 09

2009

Happy New Year Mom

I wheeled my suitcase full of art goodies out the door at 11:59 PM so we were walking with suitcase from 2008-into-2009 this year; emphasis on art + communication, with walking as a given now.

See you in New Orleans!!
Happy New Year to US

Love
Anne

Labels: connecting, letter, night, seed, seeding behavior, spell, spontaneous, transformation, walk

posted by anne @ 1:20 AM 0 Comments

fly me to the moon

Please consult your welcome packet in regards to Community Involvement and Meeting Artists and let us know if there are any New Orleans artists or other community members that you would like to meet during your residency, and if so, who?

01. Henri Schindler, Creative Director, Rex ; co-founder: Society de Ste Anne (walking club)
02. Ersy (Schwartz), bronze sculptor: “Hommage to Society Of Ste. Anne”. Arthur Roger Gallery, Ogden, NOCCA
03. members of the US Coast Guard, New Orleans esp if I can walk on neighboring USCG property
04. neighbors: Audubon Nature Institute, Endangered Species Research Center, Dr Betsy Dresser
05. people who are building designing re-designing, planning visioning changes in New Orleans area … ? possible interest: John Hoal, architect - H3 Studio, Unified New Orleans Plan or maybe not as literal as that --- could be natural or man-made, grand scale or small scale
06. anyone who wants to talk about MRGO !! (individuals, US Army Corps of Engineers, conservationists, pilots, researchers, ANY TULANE people, etc)
07. anyone with a boat who wants to go on Mississippi River or MRGO or in a swamp/bayou
08. people who want to walk
09. residents of Hopedale, LA
10. absolutely open to suggestions, surprises, serendipity !

is this you ??
do you know ?

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Labels: connecting, locus of control, luck, MRGO, networks, proximity, seed, seeding behavior, spontaneous, woods

posted by anne @ 2:57 AM 0 Comments

the postman always rings twice

In the preface to Double Indemnity, author James M. Cain recounts how he showed the manuscript of The Postman Always Rings Twice to screenwriter Vincent Lawrence, and continues:

Lawrence liked it, and even gave me a title for it. We were talking one day, about the time he had mailed a play, his first, to a producer. Then, he said, "I almost went nuts. I'd sit and watch for the postman, and then I'd think, 'You got to cut this out,' and then when I left the window I'd be listening for his ring. How I'd know it was the postman was that he'd always ring twice."

He went on with more of the harrowing tale, but I cut in on him suddenly. I said: "Vincent, I think you've given me a title for that book."
"What's that?"
"The Postman Always Rings Twice."
"Say, he rang twice for Chambers, didn't he?"
"That's the idea."
"And on that second ring, Chambers had to answer, didn't he? Couldn't hide out in the backyard any more."
"His number was up, I'd say."
"I like it."
"Then, that's it."
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posted by anne @ 1:53 PM 0 Comments

by the light of day

The following information is provided for
Hopedale, St Bernard Parish, Louisiana
(longitude W 89.1°, latitude N 29.1°):

 Saturday 14 February 2009
  Central Standard Time
 SUN 
Begin civil twilight       6:12 a.m.                  
Sunrise                    6:36 a.m.
Sun transit               12:11 p.m.
Sunset                     5:46 p.m.                  
End civil twilight         6:10 p.m.
 MOON 
Moonrise on preceding day 10:14 p.m.
Moon transit               3:52 a.m.
Moonset                    9:24 a.m.
Moonrise                  11:14 p.m.
Moonset on following day  10:00 a.m.

Phase of the Moon on 14 February:
waning gibbous with 71% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
Last quarter Moon on 16 February 2009 at 3:38 p.m. Central Standard Time.

source: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_pap.pl
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Labels: moon, schedule

posted by anne @ 11:30 PM 0 Comments

the gift keeps moving

Gift economies, as Mauss defines them, are marked by circulation andconnectivity: goods have value only insofar as they are treated asgifts, and gifts can remain gifts only if they are continually givenaway. This results in a kind of engine of community cohesion, in whichobjects create social, psychological, emotional and spiritual bonds asthey pass from hand to hand.

posted by anne @ 9:51 PM 0 Comments

map of walk : New Orleans to Hopedale

here is the interactive map of the walk:
From New Orleans to Hopedale








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posted by anne @ 12:50 PM 0 Comments