Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Skies, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged cities, Fifth Street Towers, libraries, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis Skyline, the practice of haiku on May 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Refraction, downtown Minnesota Central Library, March 2008, during Talk of the Stacks. Ali Selim and Will Weaver discussed the making of Sweet Land. The moment this photograph was taken, they were sitting to the left, signing books. The curved blue lines are the Fifth Street Towers. Photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
blue light [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Family, Fotoblog, Laughing, Nature, Personal, Photography, Place, Seasons, Skies, Structure, Vision, Weather, tagged Art Shanty Projects, David Pittman, Medicine Lake, Peter Haakon Thompson, The Art Of Ice, winter in Minnesota on April 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The Face Of Winter, Medicine Lake, Minnesota, February 2008, photo
© 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
When photographer Peter Haakon Thompson came up with the Art Shanty Projects in 2003, he never meant for it to become a huge event. The original plan was to take a break from work, build his own ice shack, and [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Film / TV / Video, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Life, Photography, Place, Relationships, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Bill Irvine, history of the Parkway Theater, Independent theaters, Joe Senkyr, Minneapolis, Minnesota, movie theaters, movies, Parkway Theater, profile writing, red Ravine Guests, Teri Blair, the theater business, vintage on March 28, 2008 | 43 Comments »
By Teri Blair
Parkway Marquee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
In 1989 the Academy-Award winning Cinema Paradiso was released. The Italian film takes place in a post-World War II Sicilian village, and chronicles the friendship of a young boy, Toto, and the town’s gruff but lovable movie projectionist, Alfredo. Toto [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Structure, tagged Midtown Exchange, Midtown Global Market, Minneapolis, Nightshots, Sears tower, the practice of haiku on March 8, 2008 | 35 Comments »
Midtown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 8, 2008, photo
© 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
brisk walk through the cold
passing poets on the way
dinner at Midtown
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 8th, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day)
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Our house is just about as old as me. The blueprints are dated 1958 and ‘59; the house was completed in 1961.
It harkens back to the advent of the great room, The Brady Bunch, green (or orange) shag carpeting, sunken dens, and bean bag chairs.
No wonder I feel so comfortable here.
Until I moved into this house [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Photography, Place, Skies, Structure, Wake Up, tagged First Bank building, Minneapolis at night, Minneapolis Skyline on August 4, 2007 | 5 Comments »
-Minneapolis At Night, shot Friday night, August 3rd, 2007, before a walk to Gold Medal Park to see the I-35 Bridge, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-Minneapolis At Night, posted on red Ravine, Saturday, August 4th, 2007
UPDATE, 8/11/7: Here’s a link to all the buildings on the Minneapolis Skyline: Buildings of Minneapolis. If [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Art of Rebellion, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Fotoblog, Photography, Place, Practice, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged artists, Casket Arts Building, history of St. Mary's, iconography, making space to create, Northeast Minneapolis, Northwestern Casket Company, Rev. Alexis Toth, St. Mary's Russian Greek Orthodox Catholic Church on May 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
-Icon Painting, May 19th, 2007, all photos © 2007 by QuoinMonkey, all rights reserved
A week ago, I was at Art-A-Whirl in Northeast Minneapolis, where I spent most of the time in the Casket Arts Building (see Casket Arts Photoblog). ybonesy asked in a comment if the building had a funeral home during the time it was [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Death, Dreams, Fotoblog, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Vision, Work, Writing, tagged Architecture, Art, Art-A-Whirl, artists, Casket Arts Building, caskets, Emily's Lebanese Deli, making space to create, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Northeast, Northrup King, Northwestern Casket Company, painters, painting, photoblog, Robert Berny, The Rain Collective, vintage on May 19, 2007 | 12 Comments »
-The Northwestern Casket Company, May 17th 2007, all photos © 2007 by QuoinMonkey, all rights reserved
I went over to the Casket Arts Building on Thursday to help my friend, Gail, hang her show. She recently joined the rain collective, a confluence of artists who moved into the building this week.
I took my camera along and [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Photography, Place, Practice, Random, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged architecture and light, Frank Gehry, inspiration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum on April 14, 2007 | 6 Comments »
-Nightshot, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, designed by Frank Gehry, photo by QuoinMonkey, April 7th, 2007, all rights reserved
-Inspiration, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, designed by Frank Gehry, photo by QuoinMonkey, April 7th, 2007, all rights reserved
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Posted in 25 Things, Architecture, Doodling, Great Places To Write, Maps, On the Road, Place, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Taos, Topic Writing, tagged Artisan's, Bent Street, Dwellings Revisited, Harwood Museum of Art, Ledoux Street, Paseo de Pueblo Norte, Taos Gems & Minerals, Taos New Mexico, The Parks Gallery on December 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Silent in Taos, map of Taos, NM, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy. All
rights reserved.
Bent Street: The quaintest street of Tourist Taos.
Dwellings Revisited: A couple talking. One the proprietor, the other an old friend. I can tell this is their daily custom–sitting, talking, gesticulating as if building a castle in the air. I am grateful for [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Fotoblog, Home, Maps, Personal, Photography, Place, Structure, Topic Writing, Vision, Writing, tagged A Place To Stand, Bohemian Flats, finished pieces from writing practice, Gold Medal Flour, history of Minneapolis, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis landmarks, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Natural Wonders, Spirit Island, St. Anthony Falls, the Stone Arch Bridge, West River Road, writing about place on November 28, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Gold Medal Flour, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Winter 2003, C41 negative print film, the building is now the Mill City Museum, photo © 2003-2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I’m pulled to write about the ordinary, the two mile chunk of land surrounding the Mill City Museum in a place once deemed “The Flour Milling Capital of the [...]
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