E.J. Lefavour
Category: Art
P&V’s LOL #5: Entertainment is more powerful than guilt
Ever wonder why Pope Julius II Commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
Well, the Catholic Church had been losing influence — and parishioners — partly due to tensions created by events leading up to the Protestant Reformation, which was sparked a few years after Julius II died.  So, thought Julius, what better way to bring people back to the fold than to make his churches the most beautiful buildings you’re ever likely to see.
And then, of course, there’s the music, which matured over the next 200 years to produce such great works that we still play them today. Â Think our popular music will be played 300 years from now? Â Here’s a piece you proabably know, written about 300 years ago:
Imagine life in the early 1700s (when Bach was a church organist — 200 years after Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel).  The only sounds you heard were those of nature–birds chirping, rustling leaves, whistling wind, the roar of the sea, the gentle wash of a babbling brook or running stream.  Think of this as the background music of the day upon which you hear the human voice: the sigh of a maiden in love; the jealous rage of a prince betrayed; the joyful song of family gathered around a crackling fire; a newborn’s cradle gently rocking on wide pine boards to his mother’s soft candlelight serenade.
People of the day spent their lives listening to the sounds of nature augmented only by music they made themselves, the notable exception being on Sunday.  Church music was an utterly exotic and extraordinary sound — and most likely the loudest sound anyone ever heard.
So, you fill the most impressive building in the city with the best art and music available anywhere on Earth and you’ve got a draw.  That’s what got people to church.  And it still does.  Just ask Greg Bover who buys most of the organs he builds at CB Fisk.
Regardless of their religious affiliations, more people go to church during big celebrations than at any other time — and a big reason is that’s when the music and pageantry (entertainment wrapped in ceremony) are at their best.  Check out this video of an Easter 2012 church service to see what I’m talking about:
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Community Stuff 12/18/12
Hello Joey,
Happy winter holidays!
I could not think of a better person to ask but you, you know everything and everyone in Gloucester!
I would like to come for painting snow in the town in the mid of february 2013. Do you know anybody who would offer a studio for me, perhaps with the space to live in?
If not, could we ask through the goodmorninggloucester?
Thank you very much for your help.
All the best to you and your family, and Marry XMas.
Katerina
www.katapostrophe.com
Happy holidays
And best wishes for a healthy and happy 2013.
Coming Productions
“The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”: February 27 – March 3 @ Gorton Theatre, Gloucester
William Shakespeare Birthday Celebration: April 23 @ Venue TBA
“Love’s Labour’s Lost”: May 10,11,12,17,18,19 @ Rockport Community House
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Chickity Check It! “The Photographers You Idolize Are No Better Than You” By Lee Morris on FStoppers
The Photographers You Idolize Are No Better Than You
an excerpt-
The Unnamed Trait
The most important trait is something that I don’t think I can fully explain with a couple of words. This trait has nothing to do with photography specifically, it has everything to do with success in general. Successful people are “Do’ers.” By that I mean successful people accomplish things. In many cases it doesn’t even matter what they do, they just have to do something, anything, over and over again. “Talented” people take initiative to do, create, or start something. The average person doesn’t actually do anything themselves; they go to work, they do what they are told, and then they come home and watch tv and get ready for the next day of work. Successful people see a problem and then fix it. They have an idea and they create something. Think about the people that you look up to in your life. You probably admire them because they have done something unique or different or they do something specific very well.The average person is a talker. They claim to be smart, they claim to be talented and they claim to have great ideas. But they also always have an excuse about why they aren’t doing anything. Don’t you know a person that is always planning something big but their big ideas never turn out?
For the entire article read here
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Origami from Friday night, on the tree
On Friday night I taught these four holiday decorations at The Hive. From top to bottom: a relatively simple Santa, a star-like ornament, a menorah, and a modular cube (made from six modules, each folded from a square of paper, and joined together without glue).
The origami class time for Tuesday at Art Haven is going to have to change from the 6:30 time slot I mentioned before, but I don’t have the details worked out yet. I will put up the info as soon as I have it.
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No- Brainer! Go See EJ and My Two Buddies Show and Get Half Off At Alchemy With This Groupon (there’s only two days left to get this deal)
EJ and My Two Buddies Show is hanging at Alchemy through January 4th. Why not buy this groupon that has two days left to get before it disappears, head to Alchemy to see the show, get one of their INSANE KOBE BEEF Burgers and if you like one of our pieces buy one which 10% of the money goes to the Gloucester Education Fund.
Wins all the way around!!!
Click here for the Alchemy $30 for $15 deal
Alchemy Kobe Beef Burger- The Best Burger In Gloucester
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Mixing it Up
I find myself creatively torn between the beauty of the abstract and realism of Cape Ann these days.
E.J. Lefavour
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Fishmas tree progress report
Mary Ann and David are getting the fish onto the tree! Â Today I received a whole school of more than 200 wonderful origami fish folded by the students of St. Ann School (huge thanks to Gemma Amero Flavin, their art teacher!). I don’t have an exact total count yet, but with these new additions and those folded throughout the week, we probably have close to 700! Â Keep folding fish to help us reach our goal of 1000!
I’ll be folding a star for the top sometime in the next few days.
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THIS IS WHAT TO DO TONIGHT- THE ROCKY NECK WINTER SHOW!
Rocky Neck Art Colony
8th Annual Winter Show
December 1 – 23, 2012 at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
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How to Offend Flowers
Native Pink Flowering Dogwood ~ Cornus flordia rubra
While writing Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! I would often come across what seemed at the time random information, but would jot it down anyhow hoping that it would find its way into the pages of my book. The following excerpt was found within a display of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) porcelain at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore where I was researching Chinese flower and bird painting. I laughed out loud when reading and it makes me smile with every subsequent read but wonder if it is only funny to we flower- lovers.
Enjoying flowers with tea is the best, enjoying them with conversation the second and enjoying them with wine the least. Feasts and all sorts of vulgar language are most deeply detested and resented by the spirit of the flowers. It is better to keep the mouth shut and sit still than to offend the flowers.Â
—from a Ming Dynasty  (1368-1644)  treatise on flowers Walters Art Museum
The idea that flowers can be offended by bad manners reflects the belief that the world we inhabit is an organism in which all phenomena interrelate. By the same reasoning, someone who drinks tea from a peach- shaped pot will live longer (peaches symbolize longevity), and someone who dips his writing brush in a peony-shaped bowl will have good fortune, as the peony is a metaphor for success and wealth. The love of flowers was and continues to be a passion among the Chinese and trees and plants are genuinely loved as living creatures.
To win a free copy of Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities ! Notes from a Gloucester Garden leave a comment or see yesterday’s post about the Magnolia virginiana.
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Joey C and EJ’s Two Buddies Show At Alchemy Photos From Charlie Carroll
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More origami ornaments
I will teach one or two of these at during my class tonight at The Hive tonight. (Apparently the class fee is $10, not $15 as I previously mentioned – and folding will start at 6PM. Fish first, then other ornaments).
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Two Buddies Show Photos by Anthony Marks
Thank you so much to everyone that came out to support EJ and my show at Alchemy. Thank you Anna and James Eves from Cape Ann Giclee for their quick turnaround and super high quality work creating my photos into canvas wraps (you don’t have to be a professional photographer to visit James and Anna at 20 Maplewood Ave and have a canvas wrap of your work created)
I’m really proud of the work. Really proud of it.
Unfortunately we had a boat that stayed out lobstering past the time that the show ran so I could only manage to stop in to say hi in between offloading lobster boats and didn’t get out of work til after the show was over. For the brief time I could stop in it was great to see many of our FOB’s and people from the Gloucester Education Fund who 10% of the proceeds of the sale of our work at Alchemy will go to.
if anyone else has photos from our opening could you send them in to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com I know Charlie Carroll was snapping away and Jason Grow was taking photos as well. I’d love to see what I missed.
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Db submits- NPR on Edward Hopper
Just came across this piece on WBUR about a photographer who has produced a book of photographs of the houses that Edward Hopper painted in Gloucester.
“Photographer Gail Albert Halaban spent her childhood summers in Gloucester, Mass., a small seaside town where her father was born.
…Halaban’s photos of Gloucester are now on display at New York City’s Edwynn Houk Gallery. She also has a new book out, called Out My Window.”
Find more at: http://www.wbur.org/npr/166876847/if-edward-hopper-had-been-a-photographer
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This is Amazing – Our Story in One Minute
A friend sent a link to this incredible little one minute video. Get a Kleenex. As one male viewer commented: “Dammit, there’s some ninja cutting onions behind me.”
E.J. Lefavour
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Public Art Call
Step One: Go to www.ghwalk.org and click on “A Public Call for Art” to see PDF link for the complete and full Call.
Step Two: Artists who want to apply, keep the complete CALL on hand.Head over to www.callforentry.org to fill in the application
Announcing opening CALL for 2013 Gloucester MA HarborWalk Public Art Challenge budgets $47,000
Joey, artists, big news! Gloucester Committee for the Arts is pleased to be announcing the opening CALL for the 2013 Gloucester MA HarborWalk Public Art Challenge
City of Gloucester, Massachusetts , USA,
2013 Gloucester MA HarborWalk – Public Art Challenge
$47,000
Open to artist/s and/or artist team(s) nationally.
Deadline: February 8, 2013
Open to all media; artists working in all creative art forms
Budget: $47,000
The Gloucester Committee for the Arts, on behalf of the City of Gloucester, MA, is seeking professional artist/s and/or artist team(s) for 3 new public art commissions. Artists are asked to submit proposals to design, create and complete new public art work in downtown Gloucester for our 2012 designed HarborWalk. The total project budget is $47,000 which will be distributed as follows: $20,000 for one (1) permanent project; two (2) additional prizes will be awarded totaling $27,000, at least one of which must be temporary. The minimum project budget is $7500. Note: this is a two-stage process requesting concepts and full proposal to select a short list of semi-finalists. We are delighted to announce that the panel for selection of the 3 finalists will include, among others, these distinguished jurors:
Andrée Bober, Landmarks Director, The University of Texas , Austin , TX
Trevor Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum , Salem , MA http://www.pem.org/
Peter Sollogub/Chris Muskopf, Architects, Cambridge Seven Associates, MA. http://www.c7a.com/
Visit http://ghwalk.org to view/download the complete Call.
From there, artists wanting to apply will submit their entry in digital format through CaFE™ at www.callforentry.org Artists will create a profile page on the CaFE site and upload artwork images and input artwork details. There is no fee to apply, nor to create a profile on CaFE. Following successful set up, all interested applicants will be granted full access to our detailed application; simply click on “Apply to Calls” and click on “Gloucester HarborWalk Public Art Challenge”. Your account information and images will be saved for your convenience and easy access when applying to future calls using CaFE.
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The Work Is Hung! Hope To See You Tonight At Alchemy 5:30-7:30PM For Our Two Buddies Show
Thanks Cape Ann Giclee, Thanks EJ. Thanks Matty Rose and Staff At Alchemy, Thanks ED, Thanks Gloucester Education Fund, Thanks Gail McCarthy and The Gloucester Daily Times, Thanks Judy Robinson Cox and our buddies in Rocky Neck!
Couldn’t be happier with the work. So very pleased!
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The lion does NOT sleep
“I said, no photos!!”, this lion seems to say.
I “shot” him in front of the church of St. Sulpice in Paris.
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Why Having Your Digital Images Reproduced At Cape Ann Giclee Is A No-Brainer
I have been so excited the past few days. The reason is when as an artist you feel proud of the work you are producing it’s just a great feeling. I knew the images I selected for our show at Alchemy Thursday night were some of my favorites but when James printed them and I saw the colors he was able to reproduce with his 11 color machine it took my excitement t a whole new level.
I’m thrilled, just thrilled to be working with James and Anna Eves at Cape Ann Giclee.
hope to see all our friends at the opening Thursday night from 5:30-7:30 at Alchemy for EJ and My “Two Buddies” Show.
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Arts and Crafts For Little Ones With Colleen Apostolos-Marsh At Island Art and Hobby
Good Morning Gloucester 