Our local, largest independent bookstore in Southern California is Vromans and up in the Northwest, it is Powells. Vroman's is next to the local independent film movie house, the Laemmle with a coffee house and indoor/outdoor seating. It sits on the Rose Parade route that fills the area every New Year's.
Vromans sells a tee-shirt that reads
Don't Judge a Book by its Movie
I like stories in song, book, movie
and perfume in a bottle.
I like stories told, woven, cooked, eaten,
painted and sculpted.
I like choreography and technology
and bleeps of family story expressing genetically.
Illustration: Art From Above Lura Astor
Unsung,
behind the scenes,
people create entertainment magic.
The group includes choreographers.
Having been one, I know the majesty of working with excellent instruments, those who make the moves their own, over and over again.
A Tip 'o the Hat to Michael Peters 1948-1994 during this week of iconography retrospective.
Michael Peters' choreographic work includes Thriller, Beat It, Hello, Love is a Battlefield, Love to Love You Baby, DreamGirls.
He danced and worked with some greats in the dance/performance world and received a personal award from Fred Astaire.
As we Moon Dance during 3 summer eclipses, rest in peace dancers, and all of us keep dancin' while alive.
Keep on pollinating
Illustration: Pollen Lura Astor
Personal space varies within cultures and environments.
On numerous occasions, I have almost been run over with shopping carts or walked into, though I am visible and spatially aware.
One car's tempo changes the whole drive pattern on a freeway.
Here, a presentation on unplanned synchronicity by mathematician Steven Strogatz on the TED talks series It shows how flocks, including birds, fireflies, humans and fish, synchronize, acting as a unit with no one giving orders.
Strogatz shows this tendency in the realm of objects, " ...spontaneous order and unexpected consequences ..."
I call it the dance of order within chaos.
One designer calls it don't bump into anything, stay away from the predators.
Here, an article Playing the Synchronicity Game by author and workshop leader Robert Moss.
Watercolor: Lura Astor
Our local, largest independent bookstore in Southern California is Vromans and up in the Northwest, it is Powells. Vroman's is next to the local independent film movie house, the Laemmle with a coffee house and indoor/outdoor seating. It sits on the Rose Parade route that fills the area every New Year's.
