This is a copy of my post on my other Blog: Falling in Love with Arts https://wordpress.com/post/speakingabouttravel.wordpress.com/1221 This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge. The Collage I want to highlight here is the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris. The architect was Charles Garnier whose bold and decorative style had made…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare –Architecture Without Architects: Telč, a City in Czech Republic
This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare I just bought a book named ” Architecture Without Architects.” By Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965. It is a very good book, providing a backdrop in understanding about Vernacular Architecture. It is easy-to-read with lots of B&W pictures. This book…
Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas , a Masterpiece of Beauty and Puzzle–My Spain Trip #6
Originally posted on falling in love….with arts:
My dream to see this painting had finally come true! This is one of my few “most desired to see” paintings. My trip to Spain last year was one of my most satisfying one. I did have the opportunity to visit three of the most famous…
I just published my second book: Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Angkor Wat, Cambodia by Denise | Make Your Own Book Dear friends: Please join me to appreciate the architectural wonder of Angkor Wat, and the beautiful art and culture of the Cambodian people. Sincerely, Denise
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern – Dali Catholic Church, a Beautiful Combination of Western and Eastern Architecture – My Yunnan Trip # 11
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern This post was already posted yesterday on my other Blog named Falling in Love with Arts. I am re-posting it here in order to categorize all my Yunnan posts in one place. I tried to re-blog yesterday and again WordPress messed up my photos. They…
Weekly Photo Challenge: #2 Geometry
This is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry, my second entry.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry #1 – Colorado Convention Center, Denver
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry. This photo was taken in July this year at the Colorado Convention Center, where I attended a conference. In my earlier post on this blog, I presented the Big Blue Bear, an iconic art work of this Center. Attention was not paid to the geometric design…
” Taking Imagination Seriously” – Janet Echelman
Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously Published on Jun 8, 2011 by TEDtalks Director http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.htmlTED “Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10…
The Capulets and the Montagues – SF Opera’s New Production – I like it. Do you?
Slideshow of Photos from the San Francisco Opera website by Cory Weaver. Romeo and Juliet – It is a story that everybody knows, loves and feels sad about it. I had seen the movie a few times ( of course), and the ballet ( twice in SF and once in Vienna). What about the opera? San Francisco…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign — McDonald’s in Salzburg, Austria
McDonald’s has flowers arrangement on its tables! It is in Salzburg, not any place in the United States! This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Foreign The picture was taken in the “Old Town” of Salzburg, Austria. Salzburg is the birthplace of Mozart and also part of the setting of the musical…
I have seen them all! But when will they meet again?
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Louvre, Paris The Porch of the Caryatids, Athens Some years ago, at the Asian Art Museum (AAM) in San Francisco, I saw this Cheekpiece of a horse bridle in the form of a fantastic creature, 1000 to 650 BCE, Iran, bronze . I was fascinated after reading…
Weekly Travel Theme – Foliage
This picture was taken in September, 2012, when we took in an Alaska Cruise. It was an excursion on a forty-mile roundtrip train ride that climbed from tidewater at Skagway, Alaska, to the Summit of the White Pass, a 2,865 foot rise in elevation. We experienced a breathtaking panorama of mountains, glaciers, gorges, waterfalls, tunnels, trestles, beautiful foliage and…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Solitary – A Solitary Singer
This is my second post on Solitary. The title of this picture is: The Solitary Singer The photo was taken in September 2012 on a cruise ship. The singer had a wonderful voice, and the music she chose was beautiful. The background was a big screen showing a video of beautiful places. Her singing attracted…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
Title of this picture: ” the backpack – the solitary traveler” Picture taken at Washington D.C. Why is this backpack here? Where is the owner of the backpack? Is he a traveler who travels by himself? Is he taking a photo of the Washington Monument and just putting down the backpack because it is heavy? But…
The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism – Exhibition at de Young Museum in San Francisco, September 15, 2012 to December 30, 2012
I went to this exhibition today with my brother who is visiting the Bay Area from Australia. As he is a fan of Impressionism, of course we cannot miss this exhibition. On this post, I am quoting the introduction about this exhibition from the site of de Young Museum, and also two reviews from…
One Lovely Blog Award
One Lovely Blog Award I would like to thank Patricia of Art Does Matter, for nominating My Notebook for the “One Lovely Blog Award”. I am so honored and feel that my three months of blogging are really fruitful – three months of fruitful blogging. Also, I just got my first award Super Sweet Blogger Award a week ago. I feel…
Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories – Exhibition at SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art In my last post, I mentioned that I took my brother and sister-in-law to lunch and attend a historic tour at the San Francisco Palace Hotel – SF Palace Hotel Historic Tour and Lunch. After lunch, I took them to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. My brother was an…
San Francisco Palace Hotel – Historic Tour and Lunch – my favorite program for out-of-town guests
The Iconic San Francisco Palace Hotel http://www.sfpalace.com/ The Palace Hotel located at 2, New Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco, has been my favorite place to entertain friends and family who come to visit San Francisco. The Garden Court with its stained glass dome, is spectacular. The guests that I treated here were all very impressed,…
My Cambodia Trip, Part II–Angkor Thom and the Bayon, the only Angkorian State Temple dedicated to the Buddha
Day #2 evening, we flew from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. This is our hotel room in Siem Reap. Note the mosquito nets over the beds. Luckily we didn’t have to use them! Day #3, we are approaching the gate of Angkor Thom (Great Angkor or Great City). These elephants can carry visitors into Angkor…
The Window at Belvedere Palace in Vienna and the Window at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Today when I was browsing posts from other fellow bloggers, I found a post of a picture of the window at the Freer Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. very much similar to the one at Belvedere Palace in Vienna where the famous painting of Klimt— “the Kiss” is housed. Here’s the picture that I took a few…
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