Summertime/entertainment. It's officially Summer Vacation for ART YARD. Even though this year was tough with Coronavirus and the quarantine, but things are changing a little bit know. What are the best parts of the summer vacation for you? How are things different this year? What are you most looking forward to? What's everyone doing to entertain? Are you watching movies, series, reading books, or playing games? Art Yard Bklyn summertime 2020, let us share our summertime best times. P.S. This week, the thread will be active for TWO weeks.
Probably going to keep up my insane online work life and watch
the the animals watch me,.
When my summer vacation rolls around there are several things I enjoy. On the top of my list is long stretches in my studio. But something I’ve done for many many years is make plans to meet up with Marie out in Coney Island. I always stop in for a studio visit. I love to catch up with friends at the Freak Bar, shop in the Museum gift shop, take a long stroll on the board walk and get a meal with Marie.
I miss Coney Island
This summer has not quite started for me. I have some More ART YARD work ahead, so I am glad this is a two week topic! I will check in again.
Thanks Sarah for another great topic!
You are welcome,
Good luck with your work 💥
I usually bring a Hoop or two!
This is a photo i found of me in Florida at the pool when I was a baby one summer.
OMG Tj!! SO CUTE !
By the way, I thought at first this was Austin!
TJ!!!! Austin looks just like you!
Here's a video from last year when I went to a ranch upstate that I usually go to every year. This year is my first year not going since like 2011.
Hopefully, next year
Wow that must be hard not to go! What an experience!!!
One of my favorite games to play during the summer in the park is the Snakes and Ladders.
I love that game! The version I used to play at school was chutes and ladders where it was slides, but its basically the same. lol
I never heard of that game - and I like the jigsaw puzzle-ish board.
Yes, I know what you are talking about; this is a new small version for a picnic.
I don’t know this game! Cool looking board.
How to play:
The youngest player rolls the die and moves forward according to the number shown on the die. If a player lands on a ladder, he/she can make a shortcut and climb the ladder. If the player lands on a snakehead, he/she has to go back to the place where the snack tail ends. If you land on a number square occupied by another player, you must move back one number square. If you meet a ladder or a sneak head here, the same rules apply as before.
When a player is approaching the last square, he/she has to roll the exact number on the die, which is required to land on the previous square. If the player rolls a higher number, he/she has to remain in the current square, and the next player continues. The winner is the player who first lands on the last square.
The end ;)
Concentrated and focused Studio Time is my raison d'etre during Summer Vacation!
This is my studio wall of Magical Things from Quarantine paintings:
I have a new piece started. Here is is in progress I will follow up when I have completed the painting!
Painting update -- probably done!
Very nice, I love it.
@Meridith McNeal Amazing Meridth!
All these months, I have missed the subway - because that's where I always did my best reading. But I found an alternative during quarantine times and especially now that it's summer - I take my little chair and some water and my dogs and go to the park and read. I never thought the day would come that I'd partake in an activity that I thought only "certain" people did - but now that I fit that bill, I'm happy! Sometimes, however, I need to get into my chair quickly or someone else beats me to it.
What I miss most, tho, is attending live theatre. Somehow, the new streaming versions don't work for me. I feel sad when I walk near the theatre district and see the unlit marquees and the empty streets - and also knowing that many of the shows will not survive the pandemic and just disappear. I guess I'm going off on a tangent here .... but here's a photo I took a few months back at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre; a portrait of (who else?) Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
I was also very lucky to visit Lunt and Fontanne's home in Wisconsin called Ten Chimmnies while visiting Milwaukee last year. There are several houses on their property including a pool house and this guest cottage.
So - THIS summer, while there's no theatre and no travel (for me), and very little subway riding, I enjoy reading in the park and oft times daydreaming about when things go back to the way they were.
Me too, I started to go to Hoboken Park instead of visiting NYC at the weekend; It overlooks the city. I bring my games, books, food, and spending the day over there surrounded by people. I did also wetness some engagement proposals. I am going to go again this Friday because it is going to be "Eid Adha/Eid Hajj" it is a holiday for Muslims; anyone can join if you do not have other plans.
@sarah.a.gSarah, what does your Eid Adha/Eid Hajj celebration entail? How lovely to be in the park as you celebrate!
"There are two key Eid’s (Celebration Festivals) in Islam: Eid-ul-Fitr, which signifies the completion of the Holy Month of Ramadan; and Eid-ul-Adha, the Greater Eid, which follows the completion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, at the time of Qurbani (sacrifice).
Although Eid-ul-Adha has no direct relation to the Hajj Pilgrimage, it is but a day after the completion of Hajj and therefore has significance in time".
It also "honors the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God's command."
It is going to rain tomorrow so I think no park for me. Maybe Saturday.
I miss the subway too. Not
only for reading and thinking but to cool off. How i
miss being able to hop on a train or into a shop just to cool off. It is hot at home.
Nice travel chair Dennis. What are you reading? And wait, that’s the GUEST HOUSE?!?
I'm reading AND I'D DO IT AGAIN by Aimee Crocker - a crazy romp around the globe by an heiress in the '30's.
Ohh that sounds good!
I’m reading a history of Greenwich Village. I have two books on Audible. Hamnet (there was a good review in the New Yorker) and a biography of Amy Lowell. She turned up in the Greenwich Village book and it made me curious to know more about her.
Sounds good,
I am reading "All the Light We Cannot See."
Still in the begging, but I feel I am going to like it.
Sarah - I have that book and never read it. I'll need to make it my next.
and YES that is the guest cottage which housed the likes of Laurence Olivier, Helen Hayes and Noel Coward. Photos were not permitted inside the houses during the tour, so I have none but here are shots of the main house and the pool house. It's a National Historic Landmark and it's more like a museum tour than a house tour. I'll attach the link to their site below.
http://www.tenchimneys.org
@Dennis Buonagura That house is spectacular, and HUGE. I like that the space is not symmetrical in form. It makes me think the rooms are very interesting and it is a labyrinth to navigate!
I enjoyed the historical photos of Lunt and Fontanne. She had great style in those hats. And he must have been quite a chef. Funny to see what must have been a "state of the art" kitchen when it was built look so dated.
I’ve heard good things about that but I’ve not read it. I do like the title quite a bit!