Birdhouse in your Soul

Hi All!

I'm still here. Sorry for the absence.
As you can imagine, Mr. Baby is taking up all of my free time. It has been exhausting but wonderful. He a a great baby. Snuggly, fun and playful and he just started sleeping through the night! Victory. We couldn't ask for a better little man.

For you today I have these birdhouses (Bird homes?) from my friend Kris Lyons. I don't think Kris has a website but if you are interested in them or putting them in a gallery, contact me and I will put you in touch with Kris.

Kris is one of my favorite makers and her art has brought discord to my family. You see, when I went to Grad School my art collection went into storage at my parents house. The one piece of art that my parents asked if they could keep on display was a piece by Kris of a girl riding an clothes iron.They loved it as much as I did and they kept it on display in the best spot in their house.

After school, I asked my parents if they could keep my collection until we bought a house. Down the road, Mrs Rose and I acquired our dream abode and so I informed my parents that I would be reclaiming the collection. My Father informed me that I owed him money, and that he was going to be keeping Iron Girl to settle our debt. Bastard!

To this day, there she sits in their house ironing away,

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Redesign

As you may have noticed. the blog is looking a little different.
The theme I have been using has gotten a little squirelly. I am trying to add a new template, but it is going to take me a while to a) get one that I really like b) get the layout just right. So, please excuse the mess and all should be back to normalcy soon.

Vote Early, Vote Often

Hey All,
Your votes are needed. The Gardner Museum is is having a young artists competition with a $10,000 Prize. I know a few of these folks and they are great and all deserve your praise. but only one can win the prize. So please stop by and give them your vote. 




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Meet Mister Baby

Hey All,
I'm returning to the land of the living.
Of course my absence can me explained by the emergence of our new son. Mr. Baby

He is pretty cute if I do say so myself.
Born 8.26.2011 @ 12:44am, 7lb 9oz, 20" long
Labor was (relatively) easy and Mama and Mr. Baby are doing well.
Hopefully I should be returning to the world of regular blogging soon.

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I've been there...

A precious piece of Song Dynasty porcelain was damaged during "nondestructive" testing by a research staff member, the Forbidden City authorities confirmed on Sunday, a day after a Web user had already leaked the information online.

Weibo microblog user Long Can alleged on Saturday that a Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) porcelain plate had been smashed about 20 days ago. The thread was reposted more than 15,000 times as of on Sunday evening.

The museum confirmed the claim on Sunday, announcing a Ge kiln blue glaze plate had been damaged. The 4.1 centimeter-high, 20.2 centimeter-diameter plate is one of 1,797 relics listed as national grade-one quality on the official museum website.

"The plate was crushed in nondestructive testing," Chang Lingxing, a publicity office employee of the museum, told the Global Times on Sunday.

Chang refused to reveal exactly how the expensive plate was damaged or how bad that damage was. Nor would he speculate about why the Palace Museum had waited 26 days to announce the accident.

The museum does not price its collection, Chang said, leaving the question of financial losses also unanswered.

"There's no way to estimate the value of national grade-one cultural relics," private collector Ma Weidu told the Global Times on Sunday in Beijing, "but as far as I know in auctions held in New York and London last year, the strike prices for two Ge Kiln porcelain pieces were more than 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) each."

Ma was quoted by China National Radio on Sunday as calling the accident the result of an irresponsible attitude on the part of the museum.

"It's all about being responsible," he said.

A museum-appointed investigation team had established the cause of the accident on Tuesday, according to a press release issued on Sunday by the museum.

The investigation team had also decided to punish the culprit, Chang said, but would not say how. He refused to identify the researcher either.

The testing was part of a Song Dynasty ceramics study project, suspended since the accident. A "nondestructive machine" had analyzed more than 50 ceramic pieces before the project was halted, according to the press release.

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