San Antonio Botanical Garden
The San Antonio City Council recently approved the San Antonio Botanical Garden 2010 Master Site Plan. This video provides an overview of the Garden and the improvements visitors will see in the future.
High on a hilltop overlooking downtown San Antonio, you'll find a 33-acre oasis of colorful plants, fragrant flowers, trees, butterflies and birds. The San Antonio Botanical Garden invites you to enjoy the awe-inspiring world of nature.
Each year more than 100,000 people from all over the world visit the garden. School aged children, on educational field trips, discover the importance of nature and plants, and learn to become stewards of our environment.
They're also treated to special exhibits such as Dave Rogers' Big Bugs, Art in the Garden and Playhouses and Forts. Special events include Bootanica, Chocolate Day, Dog Days of Summer, Family Days and Viva Botanica.
Visitors will be even more inspired as the Botanical Garden continues to evolve as one of the nation's finest regional gardens. The acquisition of additional property along Funston Place has created the opportunity to expand.
The 2010 Master Site Plan increases the role of the garden as a dynamic community resource and tourist destination. The plan currently calls for a new Entry Sequence and Parking, a Welcome Center, a Family Adventure Garden, a new Children's Vegetable Garden, a flowing paseo connecting the Core Garden areas and dramatic new Conservatory gardens on the Funston property. An Indoor Education and Event Center and a New Event Lawn will complete the improvements. The garden will continue to host major outdoor performances and festivities such as community favorites Shakespeare in the Park and Gardens by Moonlight.
The focal point of the Garden is the iconic glass conservatory featuring plants from desert regions to equatorial rainforests. The glass houses surround a courtyard and tropical lagoon filled with aquatic plants. Each group is housed in its own climate-controlled environment ranging from the 65-foot tall forest of palms to the glass display filled with orchids.
The Texas Native Trail remains an 11-acre walk across Texas, where guests discover the diverse ecosystems of our state. This area consists of plant communities' characteristic of the Hill Country; the East Texas Piney Woods, featuring a one-acre lake and the South Texas region, featuring a bird watch. The setting is enhanced by early Texas cabins that demonstrate the use of native materials. The master plan calls for the additions of a West Texas region.
Families explore and experience the Garden at their own pace. A natural home for birds and butterflies, the WaterSaver Garden offers San Antonio friendly plant selections that are drought hardy and colorful. The Sensory Garden heightens awareness of all our senses, with plants such as hoja santa demonstrating texture and aroma.
The Kumamoto En Japanese Garden, a gift from our Sister City, Kumamoto, Japan features finely crafted structures and symbolic features that will continue to bring peace and tranquility to all who visit.
The Garden is and will remain a beautiful living reference book of plants with a mission of connecting people to nature.
The San Antonio Botanical Garden, building a love of gardens and nature through the generations.
Camping at Anza Borrego Desert State Park
We recently spent 3 nights in our Pleasure Way Ascent at Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
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Mirror Fence Reflecting
Commissioned and challenged to design a space divider in Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, USA), artist Alyson Shotz came up with a creative mirror fence. The installation is barely noticeable during summer and winter and sparkles some great visual effects in autumn and spring, when the color diversity is at its peak. The unconventional project measures 138 feet x 36 x 4 inches (42.06 m x 91.44 x 10.16 cm) and evokes the reflection of space in its continuous conversion.
BLANE DE ST CROIX Panel 2010: 8 of 8
Panel discussion: April 17, 4 p.m.
Relations Between Art and Activism
--Blane De St. Croix, artist
--Martha Schwendener, New York-based writer and critic
--Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art
--Kate Bonansinga, director, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Introduction by Bruce W. Ferguson, director F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU
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BROKEN LANDSCAPE II
This project is presented by F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU, and is generously supported by Bentley Projects, Bentley Gallery, and the ASU Herberger Institute School of Art.
Exhibition Dates April 1 - April 23, 2010
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BROKEN LANDSCAPE II
excerpt from INTRODUCTION by Bruce W. Ferguson, Director of F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU
Good works of art promote and encourage discourse or discursivity. Blane De St.Croix's monumentally miniature sculpture, appropriately entitled Broken Landscape II, does just that.Without commenting directly on historical boundary architecture such as the Berlin Wall, the Israeli Wall or the Great Wall of China, to name a few well-known ones, Broken Landscape II carefully reconstructs at a highly reduced scale the geology and social material surround of a selected slice of the uncompleted USA wall on the border with Mexico at Eagle Pass, Texas. This new wall and its virtual surveillance substitutes, in reality, are at the many crosses of discussions of controversial immigration policies; human, animal and environmental rights; a highly active class of smugglers moving in both directions (drugs, armaments, humans, cash etc.) and even the notion of nationhood itself. By situating itself in the space of the viewer and the mirror image of the viewer, the sculpture manages both to be suggestively benign as a representation and highly provocative by virtue of its implied content. And the conversations it spurs make of it a persuasive object.
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The Broken Landscape project is based on recent travels along the entire Mexico/United States border. Research for the project involved traveling over 3,000 miles and exploring both the old and new federal fence still under construction. I visited 15 border crossings and spoke with people on both sides of the border communities (both in geography and ideology), including civilian residents, the fence contractors, US border patrol and journalists.
The Broken Landscape project reconstructs a selected section of this border as a monumental miniaturized section of the new fence and surrounding landscape. This sculpture for the gallery runs over one hundred feet in length through the entire space climbing varying heights and slicing between the architectural space. The sculpture itself divides the space acting as a border or barrier for the viewer to be controlled by. Referencing the historical genre of landscape painting, Broken Landscape is a painstaking rendering of the lands topography and its established border.
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EXHIBITION LOCATION:
Night Gallery, Tempe Marketplace
2000 E. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 6-9 p.m.
Closed: Monday
F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU
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Our Miss Brooks: Magazine Articles / Cow in the Closet / Takes Over Spring Garden / Orphan Twins
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
NYSTV - Nephilim Bones and Excavating the Truth w Joe Taylor - Multi - Language
Joe Taylor is an artist, musician, sculptor, paleontologist and founder creator of Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, the largest working non-evolutionist fossil museum the world.
The talk delves into forbidden archeology, the manipulation and control of the educational system, especially when it comes to paleontology, elongated skulls, giant skeletons, the knowledge of which is being suppressed.
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