Distance: 1.5 miles, small yoga stretches
All good on first half of Ciwt's two day modern art tour!
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Paws Up --- Day 5/201
Walk: SFMOMA (surprise)
Distance: 1.5 miles, small yoga stretches
All good on first half of Ciwt's two day modern art tour!
Distance: 1.5 miles, small yoga stretches
All good on first half of Ciwt's two day modern art tour!
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Can You Type? --- Day 5/200
Walk: Four Seasons Hotel (drop off itinerary - that was eaten by Ciwt's computer) for tomorrow's art tour clients
Distance: 1 mile, small yoga
And so we begin....Maybe Ciwt shouldn't have used Callie for clerical help...
Distance: 1 mile, small yoga
And so we begin....Maybe Ciwt shouldn't have used Callie for clerical help...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Ground B&B --- Day 5/199
Walk: SFMOMA (of course. Tours in a couple of days)
Distance: 3.5 miles and home yoga
Ciwt's building neighbors who come and go by night.
Distance: 3.5 miles and home yoga
Ciwt's building neighbors who come and go by night.
Monday, September 5, 2016
Day Labor Memories --- Day 5/198
Walk: Vogue Theater
Distance: 1 mile, Home Yoga
No Labor for Ciwt on this day.*
*She actually had jobs like this....
Distance: 1 mile, Home Yoga
No Labor for Ciwt on this day.*
*She actually had jobs like this....
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Take Your Pick --- Day 5/197
Walk: Trader Joe's, Legion of Honor
Distance: 3 miles
Vintage orange crate labels from the current (blah) Legion of Honor Show The Wild West: Plains to the Pacific
Beginning in the late 1880's the U.S. was evolving from a local market economy to mass merchandising, rail systems were being built and color lithography was becoming more affordable. The first rail cars full of orange crates were being shipped from Southern California to the East - often arriving in winter when the sunny images on the labels were like looking through a window to the West and Sunny California.
Growers and canneries' sales and reputations depended in no small part on their labels. Labels needed to identify the product and attract the buyers' eye in the first place and then, if the buyer was satisfied with the quality of the product, to assure the buyer he was getting the same good brand in the future.
The importance of citrus labels - hence the amount of artistry that went into them - continued strong until the late 1950's when corrugated cardboard boxes were introduced. Since all the needed information could be printed directly onto the cardboard, labels began being phased out. Today only grapes still ship in wooden crates and account for the very few fruit labels used today, but the label design is greatly simplified, usually into block letters on a colored background.
Those old labels sure are purty though, and some packing warehouses never threw them out, so now there are a goodly number of dedicated fruit crate label collectors.
Distance: 3 miles
Vintage orange crate labels from the current (blah) Legion of Honor Show The Wild West: Plains to the Pacific
Beginning in the late 1880's the U.S. was evolving from a local market economy to mass merchandising, rail systems were being built and color lithography was becoming more affordable. The first rail cars full of orange crates were being shipped from Southern California to the East - often arriving in winter when the sunny images on the labels were like looking through a window to the West and Sunny California.
Growers and canneries' sales and reputations depended in no small part on their labels. Labels needed to identify the product and attract the buyers' eye in the first place and then, if the buyer was satisfied with the quality of the product, to assure the buyer he was getting the same good brand in the future.
The importance of citrus labels - hence the amount of artistry that went into them - continued strong until the late 1950's when corrugated cardboard boxes were introduced. Since all the needed information could be printed directly onto the cardboard, labels began being phased out. Today only grapes still ship in wooden crates and account for the very few fruit labels used today, but the label design is greatly simplified, usually into block letters on a colored background.
Those old labels sure are purty though, and some packing warehouses never threw them out, so now there are a goodly number of dedicated fruit crate label collectors.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Serendipity in Stainless --- Day 5/196
Walk: No, Home Research, compiling all those tour notes
People enjoying Barnett Newman sculpture, Zim Zum 1,on SFMOMA's Living Wall Terrace. (Sept. 2016)
Ciwt likes this image of she seems to have taken when she was collecting thoughts on one of her recent research visits to SFMOMA.
People enjoying Barnett Newman sculpture, Zim Zum 1,on SFMOMA's Living Wall Terrace. (Sept. 2016)
Ciwt likes this image of she seems to have taken when she was collecting thoughts on one of her recent research visits to SFMOMA.
Friday, September 2, 2016
In Which Ciwt becomes your Flu Watchbird....--- Day 5/195
Walk: Union Square, Walgreen's Laurel Village
Distance: 3 miles
Ciwt gets a flu shot early every year. So far, so good. If you're a flu shot person, or want to start, this is a good time to just walk into a Walgreen's or other local dispensary and get one for the 2016-17 season. 15 minutes, no side effects, no flu (hopefully).
Distance: 3 miles
Ciwt gets a flu shot early every year. So far, so good. If you're a flu shot person, or want to start, this is a good time to just walk into a Walgreen's or other local dispensary and get one for the 2016-17 season. 15 minutes, no side effects, no flu (hopefully).
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Inside/Outside --- Day 5/194
Walk: Skin Doc (all good!!), Marin Driving Day
Distance: 1.5 miles, Home Yoga (after Callie had 2nd home acupuncture - Yay Eastern modalities)
A lot of what Ciwt likes and admires about the Snohetta-designed expansion of SFMOMA isn't visible. The lively quietness, not the brittle, echoey kind. And the way the galleries are grand and spacious but at the same time soothing. She's never trapped here; there is a marvelous flow that accommodates crowds without her being aware of more than a few nearby people and never causes her to bump into them. The light is amazing. Wherever she is there is a continuous illumination that somehow duplicates gently filtered daylight. And the real thing - the outside - is always right there through wall size, uncovered windows in the exterior hallways and the galleries themselves. Through them the city with all its circles, angles, surfaces, architectural styles (along with the machinery that is changing it drastically) becomes part of her art viewing experience and enlarges her sensibilities.
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