Monthly Archives: September 2012
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New Project Leaving the Nest
Leave a commentSeptember 26, 2012 by borealpresence
A little “Light”? reading this morning in the studio and a sneak-peak of a new body of work in the …
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Its worth the trip!
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A recent trip to the peabody.yale.edu/ I discovered the most amazing collection of mounted Birds. The collection is so well presented and …
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The Peregrine – J.A. Baker
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From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine …
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Two Lifers from this Summer
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Into the Archive: Birding Photo’s
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Central Park 2011
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CREATIVETIME – Trevor Paglen “THE LAST PICTURES”
Leave a commentSeptember 24, 2012 by borealpresence
http://creativetime.org/blog/2012/08/28/trevor-paglens-the-last-pictures-in-bryant-park-september-19/ Attended a informative talk @ Bryant park with artist Trevor Paglen presenting his Project THE LAST PICTURES, the highlight …
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The Feverish Library
Leave a commentSeptember 24, 2012 by borealpresence
http://www.petzel.com/ Image: Mark Dion, Mobile Ranger Library-Komodo National Park 2008 Checked out a really great show in Chelsea this weekend, …
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An Amazing Artist,Writer, Friend and Mentor- “The Complete Angler”
Leave a commentSeptember 16, 2012 by borealpresence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r2nRfnpWxw&feature=related
Last year, James Helped me with my thesis paper at MFA Parsons. With his guidance I feel as though my art has been placed on a encouraging path of discovery.
Thank you James.
Here is a look into James’ world I hope People look him up.
More form James to fallow
http://www.troutsite.com/index.htmlThe Complete Angler is a film by James Prosek (artist/writer), Fritz Mitchell (producer/editor) and Peter Franchella (cinematographer). It documents Prosek’s travels as he walks in the footsteps of the 17th century English writer, Izaak Walton—”research” for his senior thesis at Yale. The film focuses on Walton’s book, The Compleat Angler, a book that many have heard of but few have actually read.
Chapter 1 – James leaves Connecticut for Ireland and England, catching a few trout in his home streams and musing about his youth, fishing, and some Waltonian ideals. He visits the library at Yale and examines a first edition of Walton’s Compleat Angler from 1653. Then he sits for a reading of Yeat’s poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus, by Harold Bloom.
Chapter 2 – James goes to Ireland to experience the earliest form of fly-fishing, dapping live mayflies impaled on fine-wire hooks for brown trout on the lakes of the Connemara region. He visits with a boy who collects and sells live mayflies to the fishermen, and salmon fishes along the Eriff River.
Chapter 3 – James fishes a tributary of the Thames in London that Walton fished three hundred and fifty years before, the River Lea. Walton was forced out of London during the English Civil War and returned to the pastoral beauty of his homeland in Derbyshire and the beautiful River Dove in the Peak District.
Chapter 4 – James visits the “fishing temple” on the River Dove, which Charles Cotton (considered the father of modern fly-fishing) built in honor of his friend Izaak Walton.
Chapter 5 – James fishes with Sir John Swire, an upper-class Englishman who talks about his love of fishing and of Izaak Walton’s ideals and life philosophy.
Chapter 6 – James visits Victoria Wakefield who helped him secure fishing on the renowned chalk streams, the Test and Itchen in Hampshire. She introduces him to Roger Harrison, who owns a beautiful stretch of water on the Itchen with lots of wild trout. There, James encounters a milkmaiden.
Final Chapter – James visits Izaak Walton’s grave in a chapel in Winchester Cathedral, and discusses the last years of his life. Then he sings a song in a meadow by the river and returns to the fishing at the pond near his home in Connecticut.
Click here to purchase the video – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007IKIAM/qid=1133361471/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_…
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Thoreau On Birds, published 1964, Helen Cruickshank, McGraw-Hill book Company
Leave a commentSeptember 16, 2012 by borealpresence
Amazing First edition I just acquired for the collection. Great organization and collecting of Thoreau’s writings on the subject of Birds.