Geoff's day of Art

So its about time that I posted on here. Kate gets all the fun. I just had to share about a cool day I had yesterday when I joined up with my friends Robert Norman and Rich Esposito along with their friend Tony Fiorini to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What a place.



This painting has a hauntingly lifelike look to it. Its of Joan of Arc and the spirits that surrounded her before her destiny was made known. Just captivatingly beautiful.



This museum has literally acres of exhibits of works of art like this. Just gorgeous.



What I love about this museum is the architecture of the building itself. I mean how often can you see beautiful arches like this? These are inspiring in and of themselves.



Robert depicting his "post wedding season" expression.



the modern art wing



One of the most inspiring of the day. An acrylic painting roughly 8'x10'.



A self portrait in pointilism. like a sophisticated dot matrix color printer. incredible.



This is the new exhibit on the roof of the Met. Its GIGANTIC. Its their most ambitious piece of art to date. Stainless steel welded together to resemble the organic root structure of a tree. Polished to a glimmering shine. We couldn't stop staring at it and walking around it. Bravo to the artist just for pulling this off. I mean how the heck did they get that one up there?



Bafflingly impressive.



What was interesting was some of the forms the "root" system took on. Organic looking but yet in a very Matrix alien brain cell neuron kind of way. Whatever this artist was on was pretty potent. Definitely impressive.



Oh yeah, and there was a spring time roof top view of Central Park.



And of course there were the classics. These marble statues are just mindblowing in their beauty. I happen to love this atrium area of the museum. I could sit there for hours.



This woman agrees with me. I wish I could have her job. You know, just sitting around sketching gorgeous and impressive works of art in a grand cathedral art museum. Not too shabby. Seriously, where do I sign up for that?



Look at this one for instance. Just look at the flowing drapery of the robe as it hangs loosely over the woman's knees and body. How this artist was able to capture that through carved marble just blows the fuse in my brain. I don't get it but I sure can appreciate it. We all could actually.



And yet another amazing work of sculpture. Such intricacy. And on a small scale too. I just wander around places like this with a stunned awe sometimes. What a great privilege to have this kind of art just a few minutes from our house. So great.

Lately - in Brief

We are still both really swamped with work, so there's NO time for blogging, which makes me sad. There's also no time for laundry, eye appointments or grocery shopping. We have been living on tomato basil mozzeralla salads, protein shakes, taco salads from wendys and amys organic frozen burritos. Yes, i am quite the homemaker these days.

Other things that have happened:
-we bought bikes. Geoff's had to be ordered cause he's so dang tall and he's picking it up today. As it is planning to be in the 80s on Sat, we are counting on a fun day of adventure on our bikes.
- i got caught in a torrential downpour on Monday on the way home from work when the train when out of service 5 stops from my house. I was left to walk & find a cab or bus, was completely soaked and halfway in between being angry enough to kick something, but somehow having the urge to laugh at it all. i finally got home and we drank wine and had a frozen pizza and talked for HOURS on the couch. Which was lovely.
-we saw THE NORMAN CONQUESTS last Saturday. A british comedy & a trilogy. Three plays in one day all about the same thing but from different perspectives. VERY funny. Am hoping to post about that separately. Cause there were some fun pictures.
-I'm in the middle of casting the Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie and my desk is constantly covered in teenagers headshots. We've found some really talented kids. So even though its hectic, the auditions are fun.
-all of my socks seem to have dissappeared. Perhaps this is linked to the laundry issue.
-I've officially gained back the 20 pounds I lost for the wedding. Which is just awesome. While on the bright side, this supports the idea that we are, in fact, living in marital bliss, the not so bright side is that none of my spring clothes fit. Hoping the bike purchase will assist in this new issue.
-I am obsessed with The Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo. Patti drops truth bombs all day long and does not play around. I love her.
-I've switched back to my yellow bag that i carried all around Italy, as it is spring now. Even though i have been slightly too optimistic in my clothing choices this week. Sandals, i have learned, are not quite appropriate for the upper 50s, even if its sunny.

That's about all for now. More tidbits as we are able. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Rainy Saturday = Joy

Its Saturday. I finally have a full 2 days off with Geoff, and I'm loving it. Here's how its been amazing so far:
1) It's been raining since we woke up. I cannot begin to tell you how happy that makes me. I am a lover of a rainy Saturday morning. Breakfast, coffee and being in my bathrobe with the whole weekend before us. It gives me so much joy.
2) Photo shoots. Of our newly revived basil plants. It had gotten sick a few months back, had bugs and the weekend mom was here in February, we gave it some pruning, some medicine and some TLC and now it is SO green and lush and healthier than it has ever been. So I had to have a photo shoot.


They reach towards the sun so much that I have to turn the pot every morning to make them grow straight.



A little mushroom who has grown with the basil. Not sure if that's a good thing or not, but he's cute, so we'll keep him.


3) Learning a new trick or two. Geoff taught me a new element of photo editing and I got so excited about it I had to hold myself back from standing up. This is me, shyly hiding my over-excitement (pardon the pre-shower hair).


These next two are the same picture....just with some different editing effects. Which make me happy




and
4) Finally having a moment to blog, be it ever so briefly. YAY for that.

Future Ways this weekend will give me joy:
1) We are investigating buying bikes this weekend.
2) We will have Panera for lunch
3) I will go to the little corner market and buy tomatoes and fresh mozzarella to make a caprese salad with our newly amazing basil
4) I will buy fresh tulips because they look so amazing in the white pitcher.

Off we go for bikes and Panera. But not in that order. Leaving our rainy fire escape behind us....

Geoff is toying with doing a video for his business!

So what do you guys think? Geoff is thinking of making a video promoting his business. Something like this. Thoughts?

M.I.A.

Just wanted everyone to know we're still alive. Work has been crazy for both of us. No weekend for me this past weekend, and only half of one the weekend before, which totally resulted in a meltdown on Sunday night. Definately still haven't done my taxes yet either,(awesome), but am finding a spare moment to breathe here and there and wanted everyone to know we were still in the land of the living. And will post when we can.

In the meantime, this is what I did on Saturday. Over 1300 kids wrapped around a city block as of 830am. Whew!