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 Essay, Family, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Love, Maps, Photography, Place, Quotes, Relationships, Skies, Travel, Writers, Writing, tagged American history, birthdays, Chrysler Building, E. Elise, Ellis Island, Emma Lazarus, Empire State Building, Going To New York, historical places, New York City, NYC photoblog, original Liberty flame, red Ravine Guests, Statue of Liberty, The New Colossus, writing by young authors on December 26, 2007 | 27 Comments »
By E. Elise
Liberty’s Torch, visit to New York City, August 2007, photo © 2007 by R3. All rights reserved.
It’s my Granddaddy’s birthday. We were going to New York by train. In New York we’re going to see the Statue of Liberty, and the “Vampire State Building” as my cousin, Isaac, used to call it.
My family [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Dreams, Fiction, Fotoblog, Life, Love, Memoir, Photography, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Relationships, Structure, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Ann Patchett, Bel Canto, Fitzgerald Theater, interviews, Kerri Miller, Lucy Grealy, Memoir, Minnesota, St Paul, Talking Volumes, The Second Coming, Truth & Beauty, W. B. Yeats, Writers, writers on tour, Writing, writing relationships on November 6, 2007 | 31 Comments »
Writer’s Hands IV, hands of Bel Canto author, Ann Patchett, signing a copy of her latest book, Run, Fitzgerald Theater, downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Part I.
On a rainy October night, inside the haunted Fitzgerald Theater, Ann Patchett held the audience rapt. She has created a huge life [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Body, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Life, Life In Letters, Personal, Photography, Practice, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Vision, Wake Up, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged Agnes Martin, artists, good-bye letter to Agnes Martin, Harwood Museum of Art, Joanne Hunt, New Mexico, red Ravine Guests, Taos, the mountain will find you, the practice of writing, Zen on August 27, 2007 | 21 Comments »
By Joanne Hunt
Agnes Martin Room, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, August 2007, photo © 2007 by Kevin Moul. All rights reserved.
Dear Agnes,
I’m back in Taos. It’s February and as I slow-walked from Mabel Dodge this afternoon, I scuffed through snow still lying on the ground. I’ve paid my seven dollars to gain entry to the [...]
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Posted in Bones, Culture, Death, Food, Fotoblog, Home, Life, Love, Personal, Photography, Place, Structure, Wake Up, Writing, tagged Bridge To Nowhere, bridges, Ceresota building, community, connection, Gold Medal Park, Harry's, letting go, Minneapolis bridge collapse, Minnesota history, Mississippi River, mourning, Old Mill Ruins on August 5, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Gold Medal Park, August 3rd, 2007, blue light from the Guthrie, and the old Gold Medal sign, a few blocks from the I-35 bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I ended up in downtown Minneapolis Friday night, by the I-35 bridge. I didn’t plan to walk down by the river. But [...]
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Posted in Death, Family, Fotoblog, Holding My Breath, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Structure, Taos, tagged fear of bridges, fear of heights, Minneapolis bridge collapse, New Mexico, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge on August 2, 2007 | 38 Comments »
Approaching the Rio Grande Gorge, photo © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
I’ve always been afraid of bridges. I remember last year Natalie Goldberg took us slow-walking the length of the Rio Grande Gorge bridge outside Taos. I had to walk as close to the road and as far from the railing as possible. Each [...]
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Posted in Art, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Fotoblog, Jugular, Life, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Spirituality, Travel, Vision, Wake Up, tagged Art, Casa Azul, Culture, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo Centennial Celebration, Laura Stokes, Mexico, Mexico City, painting, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Photography, pilgrimage, red Ravine Guests, social justice on July 30, 2007 | 14 Comments »
By Laura Stokes
Casa Azul, the home where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, and died; July 2007, photo © 2007 by Laura Stokes, all rights reserved.
Acting on dream and impulse, we found ourselves in Mexico City last weekend at the Frida Kahlo Centennial Celebration at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. I had read [...]
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Posted in Bones, Family, Fotoblog, Gratitude, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Taos, Travel, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged community, conversation, friendships, New Mexico, Writers, Writing on July 18, 2007 | 13 Comments »
-Sunflowers, July 2007, growers market, Albuquerque, NM, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
ybonesy: What is it about being able to hang out in person with someone who you normally do so much with — write, start a blog, plan and produce — via telephone and email?
QuoinMonkey: Oh, it was such a relief to [...]
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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, 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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