{"id":387,"date":"2019-04-05T07:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:22:37","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"389\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/watercolor\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"watercolor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor.jpg 800w, http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/watercolor-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, not completely:  music and art make their way into my blogging on the regular, and there are plenty of interesting things to post about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple months ago I bought a 24-pan set of watercolors, because I wanted to reproduce my cover-art concept for Beth Leggett. This is the best view of the result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"388\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/kittyryswyck\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kittyryswyck.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,4000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kittyryswyck\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kittyryswyck-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kittyryswyck-768x1024.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kittyryswyck-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kittyryswyck-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kittyryswyck-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But the upshot is, I have new watercolors. Yay! So every now and then I pull them out and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately I&#8217;d like to produce an image strong enough to cover &#8220;Household Lights,&#8221; but that stage is a ways off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I have discovered some new music! First, a piece by an Icelandic artist that crossed my path in a Lenten devotion, which informed me that &#8220;brot&#8221; means &#8220;bread&#8221; in German and something like &#8220;torn&#8221; in Icelandic, making a cross-lingual Eucharistic pun of sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignleft wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sx_Wz0DSKE4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And last weekend I was at the symphony (no, I didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/gusto\/\">light my cell phone<\/a> and call for the Widor Toccata &#8212; Carmina Burana was the featured piece and that was quite enough to be going on with), and the opening piece was a new one by Sarah Kirkland Snider called <em>Something for the Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignright wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9W1IS_CQ-YU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>None of my companions liked this piece, but I found it moving and interesting. The reflective motif introduced by the flute in the middle has a strong delicacy that is attractive in itself; and since my head&#8217;s been full of <em>Ryswyck<\/em> since ordering the proof, it made me think of Speir and her perspective, how it gets fraught by events; how it perseveres. If I were making a Ryswyck playlist, I would be tempted to put this piece on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up next on my art-and-music docket: fun with photography. We&#8217;ll see if I can get a good walk in between thunderstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not completely: music and art make their way into my blogging on the regular, and there are plenty of interesting things to post about. A couple months ago I bought a 24-pan set of watercolors, because I wanted to reproduce my cover-art concept for Beth Leggett. 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