2014.01.05 07:00 - A Rainbow Edge

The Guardian for this meeting was Bleu Oleander. The comments are by Bleu Oleander.

Catrinamonblue Resident: 's current display-name is "Catrinamonblue".
Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Bleu Oleander: hiya Cat :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: morning Bleu :) just getting some breakfast together :)
Bleu Oleander: nice ... going for more coffee :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: happy new year btw :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: Ty and HNY to you too :)
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: ty ... have you any new year resolutions to share?
Catrinamonblue Resident: generally I don't do resolutions :) I'm more of an in the moment kinda girl :)
Bleu Oleander: that nice ... me too in a way
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: usually forget any resolutions I make lol
Catrinamonblue Resident: smiles
Bleu Oleander: its fun to have the snow falling here ... sunny in the 70's in rl for me :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: snow falling here and finally warming up from -38C wind chills :)
Bleu Oleander: brrrrrr !!!!!
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes it was :) my car wouldn't start on the coldest day!!
Bleu Oleander: I probably wouldn't start either lol
Catrinamonblue Resident: :) I was happy to stay home that day for sure
Eliza Madrigal: 's current display-name is "Eliza".
Bleu Oleander: I was just in NYC and hit an unusually warm weekend
Bleu Oleander: hiya Eliza
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: Hiya :)
Bleu Oleander: just talking about snow
Bleu Oleander: how are u?
Eliza Madrigal: just fine thanks :) recovering from a wedding and bit of flu
Eliza Madrigal: Happy New Year :))
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: oh my ... both can be traumatic!
Bleu Oleander: yes, HNY
Eliza Madrigal: lots of adventure
Bleu Oleander: what's been happening here this week?
Eliza Madrigal: I'm not sure at all...
Catrinamonblue Resident: I have been away from SL for 2 weeks!! busy RL :)
Bleu Oleander: the weather has been so beautiful here ... we're spending lots of time outdoors
Eliza Madrigal: cool and blue?
Bleu Oleander smiles
Bleu Oleander: sunny and in the 70's
Eliza Madrigal: perfect
Bleu Oleander: indeed
Bleu Oleander: even our trip back to NYC was unusually warm
Eliza Madrigal: I think that's not the case there now :)
Bleu Oleander: had lunch outside at a wonderful rooftop restaurant
Bleu Oleander: yes, just missed the snow ... got out in the nic of time
Eliza Madrigal: I'd love to go to NY soon.... did you manage any exhibits?
Catrinamonblue Resident: brb :) food calling
Bleu Oleander: we went to the Frick and MoMA
Bleu Oleander: the Frick had a wonderful 17th C Dutch masters show
Bleu Oleander: "The Goldfinch" was part of the show
Eliza Madrigal: ah!
Bleu Oleander: having read the book felt compelled to see it
Eliza Madrigal: so glad...what was that like?
Bleu Oleander: MoMA had Magritte ... one of my all time favs
Bleu Oleander: the Goldfinch painting was indeed lovely
Bleu Oleander: a light in a room of darkness
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: was fun to connect with something from the 17th C
Bleu Oleander: "the nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag"
Bleu Oleander: interesting quote from the book
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm.... about 'time'?
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Bleu Oleander: funny, a 17th C clock at the Frick had the right time
Bleu Oleander: we noticed, 12:40pm
Bleu Oleander: when we got to MoMA
Bleu Oleander: noticed a painting by Magritte had a clock with the same time!
Eliza Madrigal: oh, goodness... details....and hm, Uncanny!
Bleu Oleander: yes, the painting "time transfixed"
Eliza Madrigal: seems a wonderful holiday
Bleu Oleander: it was!
Bleu Oleander: family behaved too haha
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Bleu Oleander: 40 of us in one room
Eliza Madrigal: that's the hardest part...largest variable - @@ oops... set of variables!
Catrinamonblue Resident: oh wow a lot of people :)
Eliza Madrigal: big family
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Catrinamonblue Resident: going to go :) have company today so will be missing the guardian session :)
Eliza Madrigal: okay Cat, ntsy
Bleu Oleander: ntsy Cat
Catrinamonblue Resident: bye guys :) have a great day
Bleu Oleander: take care
Eliza Madrigal: Wol isn't well, so I think the main topic I'd had in mind for guardians session will be tabled anyway...retreats
Bleu Oleander: ah ok
Bleu Oleander: hopefully not serious
Eliza Madrigal: Wol would like to plan one...but that may mean European
Bleu Oleander: oh rl?
Eliza Madrigal: yes
Eliza Madrigal: there is something about keeping going through weeks of hoopla, that one needs to recover afterward a bit...and if one doesn't set aside the time then body may do so anyway :)
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Bleu Oleander: we've been spending lots of time outdoors
Bleu Oleander: seems to help
Bleu Oleander: feels like spring here
Eliza Madrigal: healing of nature
Eliza Madrigal: it has been mostly just 'hot' here....although the last few days were cool and breezy
Eliza Madrigal: evenings are nicest
Bleu Oleander: can imagine
Eliza Madrigal: :)
--BELL--
Eliza Madrigal: am thinking about that feeling (easy to get into in museums).... wandering and immersing... in one's "own world" - then someone suddenly says "Hello" and there is a delay ... like the world shakes a little
Bleu Oleander: can happen anywhere actually
Eliza Madrigal: like one has to remember where they are, that there are others, hah
Bleu Oleander: guilty
Bleu Oleander: suppose we all are at times
Bleu Oleander: living in our own edited worlds
Eliza Madrigal: dreamlands
Eliza Madrigal: aimless wandering
Bleu Oleander: good books do that to me
Bleu Oleander: pull me out of one world into another
Eliza Madrigal: very much so.. or 'flavor' the present world with a past or fictional one.... like an overlay
Eliza Madrigal: do they change your language/speech as well?
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: yes sometimes
Eliza Madrigal: love that feeling
Bleu Oleander: me too!
Bleu Oleander: keeps me coming back :)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Bleu Oleander: another quote I liked from the Goldfinch:

Bleu Oleander: between “reality” on the one hand and the point where the mind strides reality there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life doesn’t: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic, and all love

Bleu Oleander: might have mentioned it before
Eliza Madrigal: oooooh, that is stunning
Bleu Oleander: can't stop thinking about it
Eliza Madrigal: :::stops to wonder:::::
Eliza Madrigal: seems exactly right
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Eliza Madrigal: just added the book back onto resolutions
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Bleu Oleander smiles
Bleu Oleander: now reading the FlameThrowers ... also about art
Bleu Oleander: very different though
Eliza Madrigal: I think, that quote captures 'sweet spot'
Eliza Madrigal: oh?
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Bleu Oleander: 70's NYC art world
Bleu Oleander: Italians and motorcycles
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: I'm trying to think of what was 'happening' in Art in the 70s, NY.... hm
Eliza Madrigal: Warhol still...
Bleu Oleander: land art was popular
Bleu Oleander: Smithson, de Maria
Bleu Oleander: Warhol still
Eliza Madrigal: (had to goggle de Maria)
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Bleu Oleander: saw his dirt room
Bleu Oleander: was amazingly interesting
Eliza Madrigal: haha...looking at photos.... wow
--BELL--
Eliza Madrigal: Ai Wei Wei must have been very influenced by him
Bleu Oleander: have know some who visited the Lightning Fields
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: Serra was one of my favorites
Eliza Madrigal: lightning fields...what an idea to pull off @@
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Bleu Oleander: can be quite an experience
Bleu Oleander: although I would want to know the other 5 people there haha
Eliza Madrigal: Serra's very interesting, but I don't think is captured well outside of direct encounter
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Bleu Oleander: yes, have walked through many Serras
Eliza Madrigal: I've not had a chance to see his work, but a long interview I saw with him gave just one good camera shot that captured something of his vision
Bleu Oleander: he was just on Charlie Rose
Bleu Oleander: has a show up in NYC
Eliza Madrigal: we have a new museum here, and I hope that we'll begin to draw these artists
Bleu Oleander: nice!
Eliza Madrigal: it is a full cultural center being built...with new science museum as well
Bleu Oleander: convince an artist to visit a warm sunny climate ... seems very possible!
Eliza Madrigal: Art Basel has finally taken off here hugely
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Eliza Madrigal: I'm not sure Miami on the whole felt has felt like an art center since Cristo and the islands :)
Eliza Madrigal: and the deco areas of course
Bleu Oleander: forget about Christo being there ... saw the Gates in NYC
Bleu Oleander: took our group there for that
Eliza Madrigal: would have enjoyed that too
Eliza Madrigal: maybe can convince Wol that NYC is the best place to retreat ^.^
Eliza Madrigal: lol
Bleu Oleander: YES!
Bleu Oleander: biased of course
Eliza Madrigal: :) me too
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: would be nice to go when there was an interesting art show
Eliza Madrigal: agreed
Bleu Oleander: of course NYC is always an interesting show in itself
Eliza Madrigal: was fortunate to see the last Warhol at Moma, and a year or so before, the Matisse exhibit
Bleu Oleander: yes me too
Eliza Madrigal: true... quite hard to arrive to NY and there be nothing happening
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: have always been able to envision SL/PaB crossover ideas when in museums... likely thanks to you
Bleu Oleander: nice ... don't think I can take credit for that though :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: sure ya can
Bleu Oleander: lol
Eliza Madrigal: OK...time for coffee and guardians session...
Eliza Madrigal: thanks for this time Bleu
Bleu Oleander: ok nice to see you
Bleu Oleander: will join the guardian meeting for a few minutes
Eliza Madrigal: you too.. great
Bleu Oleander: then I'm off for a hike