| AREA BRIEFS | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:06:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ray Roberts Lake State Park is having a nature photography contest. Photos must be taken within the boundaries of Ray Roberts Lake State Park public access areas. Submissions must be matted 8 by 10 color or black and white photos. Limit three entries per person. Participants must be 16 and older. The contest deadline is March 17. All photos must have photographer's name, mailing address, phone and/or e-mail address with description of where the photo was taken on the back of each entry. Deliver or mail entries to Park Interpreter, Isle du Bois Unit, 100 PW 4137, Pilot Point, Texas 76258. All entries become the property of Ray Roberts Lake State Park. E-mail don.whited@tpwd.state.tx.us or call 940-686-2080. .... | |
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| | | DeSoto News Briefs | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:11:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Arcadia and DeSoto County government offices will be closed today. The county's three post offices will be closed today and no mail will be delivered. DeSoto County schools remain closed. School district central offices will reopen Tuesday. Students will not start classes until Jan. 3. Law enforcement administrative offices will be closed, but there will officers on duty. The Sun business office will be closed today. Direct all circulation calls to 941-206-1000 between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. "The Business of Art" workshop available There is still time to register for "The Business of Art" workshop offered by the Arts and Humanities Council of Charlotte County on Jan. 20. The six-hour workshop will be led by career coach and artist's advocate Caroll Michels.... | |
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| | | Wooded area near SIUE becomes nature preserve | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:08:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Bohm Woods area near Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is now officially a nature preserve. The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission has announced eight new nature preserves and six land and water reserves, adding 865 acres of natural land to the state's protected territories. The Bohm Woods had been purchased by the state earlier this year with a Clean Air Act settlement. "We are very pleased to work with these landowners in making a commitment to preserving these special landscapes," INPC director Deborah Stone said. "Dedicating new nature preserves, adding to existing nature preserves and registering new land and water reserve areas help guarantee that important pieces of our state's natural heritage will be protected for future generations to enjoy." The Bohm Woods covers 92 acres near the campus.... | |
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| | | Swamp Thing | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:24:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | At his "painters shack" cottage in Bath County, Virginia, on the forested slopes of the Allegheny Mountains, the 36-year-old Norfolk-based artist has spent many hours communing and interacting with nature. Among his favorite pastimes: erecting and reshaping walls of stone akin to those that snake through the lush rural landscapes of Ireland and Scotland. He doesnt categorize these structures as art: "I just have to make something and theres all of this natural materialrocks are free." Yet, considering Garvins latest creative project, its not hard to draw parallels to the work of British environmental sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose sublime arrangements of natural objects like leaves, grass, stone, sand and snow were the subject of a 2001 documentary called Rivers and Tides.... | |
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| | | The new nature of tourism | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:23:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | MEDART - Jake Hines, 28, never thought he could make a career out of taking people camping and hiking until Tallahassee Community College recently began its "green guide" educational program. Hines, an electrician, now hopes to begin a career as a full-time guide next year. But he said he wouldn't have launched his new career had he not enrolled in the program and learned more about the geology, history and wildlife in the region - as well as marketing his service. .... | |
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| | | Quiet seduction | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:35:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | GAIL Jones was a relatively unknown Australian writer until she was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2004 for her novel, Sixty Lights. Her style of writing more akin to poetry than prose may not be everyones cup of tea, but her melodic, gentle unfolding is a delightful escape from narratives which are usually driven by the sheer force of plot and characters. Like her previous works (two collections of short stories and two other novels), Dreams of Speaking carries a certain sad suggestion of the passing of time, the enforced intimacies of lives (and the fragility of togetherness), and the melancholic nature of things which can only ever record transience (Joness interest in photography and light is unmistakable). The lilting quality of Joness prose is remarkably suited to her themes. In this novel, Alice Black, an Australian sojourning in Paris is writing a book on modernity and things modern.... | |
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| | | Bird-watcher's tent left ospreys too scared to feed chick | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:26:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | A BIRD-WATCHER who pitched his tent below an osprey's nest could have caused a conservation catastrophe, a court heard yesterday. Robert Ashcroft went to a remote spot in the Trossachs to photograph ducks and red kites. But he put up his tent 60ft from the base of a tree used by a pair of the protected species in the middle of a nature reserve. He was discovered standing only 20ft from the nest, apparently unaware the adult ospreys, one with a fish in its mouth, were circling above him, too frightened to land and feed their chick. .... | |
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| | | Finding their art in nature | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:14:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.VA. - Nick Ryan said he was duck hunting when a little bird landed nearby and started "chewing me out" for being in its territory. Ever the artist, Ryan turned the disgruntled bird into a small statue - one of many he had on display Saturday at the second annual Potomac Arts Festival. Held near Shepherdstown and continuing today, the juried festival, presented by the Potomac Valley Audubon Society, features more than 40 artisans. Items for sale include paintings, prints, photographs, jewelry, pottery, quilts, baskets, clothing and wood pieces. Ryan, of Saratoga Springs, Utah, is a sculptor who uses a "lost wax" method of casting, with the finished product made of bronze.... | |
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| | | The 'House of Fire' glows in Chinatown | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:33:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | The common thread among the artists in "House of Fire -- Four Directions from the Fire Island," showing at The Exhibit Space at 1132 Bishop St., is a deep connection to nature on the Big Island. The show opens for First Friday, and a reception will commence 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. (First Friday, the ever-popular downtown/Chinatown gallery walk, runs 5 to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. For a map of the First Friday area, visit any participating venue, listed on the facing page.) Ceramists Clayton Amemeia, Fumi Bonk, Setsuko Watanabe Morinoue and sculptor Randy Takaki live in the four directions on the island and all use heat to create their work. Gallery director David Behlke, who calls Bonk "the elder statesman of ceramics on the Big Isle," says the artist lost much of her work in the recent earthquake.... | |
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| | | Must-see photo shows close soon | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:37:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | The lectures, workshops and receptions are over, but it still isn't too late to participate in Photo Midwest, the month-long, citywide biennial festival of photography sponsored by the Center for Photography at Madison. The festival started with more than 80 venues, and many remain, some for days and others for weeks. Here are a few that I consider must-sees. The time to start is right away or at least this weekend, and the place to start is on the Library Mall, where you have easy access to both the Memorial Union and the UW's Chazen Museum of Art. - Tom McInvaille's "A Time Revisited," a photo-documentary of Madison during the anti-Vietnam War protest days and the early Mifflin Street block parties. Although McInvaille, a former teacher at UW-Extension, does mostly advertising work these days, his sharp and quick eye for the moment rivals Henri Cartier-Bresson's.... | |
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