BS: Your 6 items for a still-life

Subject: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 07:28 AM

I half-heard a bloke speaking on the radio this morning about a photographer who gets her(??) subjects to bring in 6 items that represent their life.

So I thought about it today & decided the following are my life.

A teddy bear (I make them & collect them)
A book (I've been a reader all my life)
A poster for my folk club (always have a few in my bag)
A song printed out from Mudcat or another source (& always printed in 12 or 14 font Arial so I can read it!!)
Sushi (I take it to clubs & sessions & often have it for dinner)
A waistcoat (I'm never seen without one, ditto a hat but that would make 7 items)

what's your list?

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:41 AM

Banjo, mandolin and six bottles of Glenmorangie.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:43 AM

..good one sandra..


my coloured pencils & song/sketchbook

a patchwork bedspread, made by me

a program for gleebooks or politics in the pub

a shawl of some sort, embroidered & long

a packet of crystallised ginger

a bottle of sandalwood oil or ylang ylang oil from Newton's Herbal Pharmacy

my signed copy of Hathaways's the Law of Refugee Status



freda

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:58 AM

To truly represent my life I'd need to bring in six other people. It is the people I've met that have made all the difference in my life. However, I'll try to play by the rules and list some things instead. In no particular order…

The Mudcat Adventure Guitar (a memento of one of the best times I've ever had and symbolic of the many people here whom I have grown to love so much)
A painting that Alice (in Montana) made of the family farm in West Virginia
A ceramic hand my mother made (It has a green thumb. She was quite a gardener.)
A set of woodcarving chisels my father used and then gave to me to use
I wish I had some objects other than photos to represent my two daughters; but I don't and so photos will have to suffice.
Two coins I still have from a trip to Ireland (mementos of the very best time I ever had)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Mooh
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 09:15 AM

Fishing rod/reel.
Guitar.
Knife.
Canoe paddle.
Hymn book.
Wedding ring.

Alternatively: family photo, pocket knife, mandolin...

I think I'll try the still-life photo. Cool idea.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 09:32 AM

Well, I'd have a hand (1) comin' in from the left side with pen (2) writing in a "I love you_________... See you tonight..." on a scrap of paper (3). Above the scrap of paper would be a rose (4) lying at a bottom right to upper left for composition with the hand's direction intersecting. Under the rose a cloth napkin (5) that extends off the top right portions of the scetch. with some contrasting folds with just a portion of one of it's corners overlapping the scrap of paper. The finish off the still life a crumpled scrap of paper (6) somewhere in the upper left area for balance and symbolism.

Now you know why I drove my professors nuts when I was in art school...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 10:08 AM

A copy of Lord of the Rings
My banjo (or my guitar, or my cittern)
A particular oil painting I painted while at the University of Minnesota, fifty-two years ago
My stenotype machine (Stenotype is machine shorthand, and I am a court reporter.)
My rock-climbing boots (from the days when I was an active climber)
A copy of my CD, Uncle Dave O Sings: The Real Story!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:02 AM

Leatherman Multi-tool... It's been on me since I got it...
My fedora...
A Herco Thumbpick... probably the ugly yellow one...
My bodhran tipper...
My boots...
A copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson

Hey folks... why don't we post pics of our 6 items?

Dang... I gotta find a way to get my darts, my zippo, and my bag of Hnefatafl into the pic... along with a pint o Guin, and some maille... And a mini-disk...

I might need to bring way more than 6 items!

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:10 AM

This is tough -

but I'd probably start using a panorama of the painted desert as the basic tableau - and there should be a roast turkey in there somewhere (a well roasted turkey is a thing of beauty)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:11 AM

A pot from my pottery.
A vegetable from my garden.
A guitar.
A banjo.
A cat.
A book.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: mack/misophist
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:32 AM

A sieve, to try to identify what those six things may be.
On second thought, perhaps a handful of dust.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: maire-aine
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 12:32 PM

1. my laptop, with Mudcat page displayed
2. a bottle of diet Pepsi (I'm never without it)
3. picture of my kitties
4. crystal decanter of single malt Scotch (no particular brand)
5. my autographed Si Kahn songbook
6. a picture of John Kerry being inaugurated President of the US in January, 2005

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 12:32 PM

my dog

my poetry book

my lap dulcimer

my signed copy of the eric bogle songbook (a birthday present from a very very special woman)

that very special woman

the first ultrasound of my unborn child (if not the child itself)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 12:59 PM

GOOD THREAD!! Just the kind of thing I hope people will post on...
1) A Book (Collected Works of Shakespeare)
2) A Cat (or pic of a cat..or maybe just some cat hair?)
3) A Friend/or a Flower to represent my abiding love for both
4) A Kayak Paddle
5) A Hammock
6) Chocolate!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Shlio
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 01:24 PM

What a great thread!

1. A fantasy book
2. Some of my poetry
3. A horseshoe
4. A candle
5. A piece of quartz
6. A spider plant

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 01:31 PM

A map of Nova Scotia, A purple cone flower(I love Them) a book by Virginia Woolf, A picture of Fountains Abby,A packet of Drum Tobacco and a portrait of my cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 01:55 PM

My fiddle
A Corgi
A wooden spoon (to represent cooking)
A photo of my family
A miniature tent (camping)
A book

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 02:20 PM

1. A plastic yellow duck
2. A concertina
3. A tankard
4. slab of Cadburys chocolate
5. A computer screen with mudcat on
6. My very expensive wedding hat (as in this photo )

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: open mike
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 05:56 PM

my guitar--with the silver case protector...
a radio-to represent my radio show...
(preferably an old-fashioned or antique one)
a trowel--a symbol of my beloved garden...
some rubber gloves--from my fire fighter/E.M.T.
(or my fire helmet)
Jewelry made from Amber, my older daughter's name
a quartz Crystal, my younger daughter's name

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Mudlark
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 10:21 PM

My corgis
My guitar
A stack of my writing
A shell, representing the ocean
An elm branch, representing my home
One of John's abstract paintings, "Centaurs in the Garden"

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Mooh
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 11:34 PM

Thought I'd arrange the shot on a wee table on my favourite beach in the Bruce with the escarpment in the background. Hmmm...Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:48 AM

Only six??!!?? Ya gotta be kiddin'!

a likeness of my dearly departed Kitty (of 20 years),

a pic of me with my fav guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel,

Perhaps, a likeness of myself (but much thinner with less chins, & really dark wavy hair [not on my chin]) as the Indian goddess with a hundred arms which are all holding (&/or playing? hard to hold a piano in a hand) all--or most of--my various Musical Instruments & maybe a couple of works of printed Music & a record or CD or 2 or 12,

pic of the old blonde wood console Hi-Fi on which I played records whilst growing up,

pic of my Irish Granny dancing a jig in her 60's!

   & a bottle of groovy booze!

OK, Dr. Freud, analyze that.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:26 AM

Guitar
Ludwig drum kit
Bottle of Pussers rum
Book (Sherlock Holmes
My cat Deacon
Boxing gloves

These may change !!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 05:02 AM

D28
Fishing boat
Fishing rods
Clynelish Malt
Leatherman Wave
GPS

John

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:45 AM

what a great lot of lives!

and thanks to Mrs Duck for the pics. As a hat wearer I can certainly admire that wonderful hat. My favourite hat is a boater I've had for about 25 years. It's getting very decrepit, but is irreplacable cos no-one seems to wear boaters today. It didn't cost a fortune (I've never had one to spend!) but it of better quality straw than any other hats around.

Allan C: forget the rules - people can be significant items in life - who are they?

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Allan C.
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 09:39 AM

In her post Sandra encouraged me to set the rules aside and to list the people I would put in the picture. Now that I have completed the list, I am wondering if this might deserve its own thread. It was much more difficult to do than the list of things. I didn't include members of my family in the list because it is obvious that they would be a part of such a representation. Such a picture would include:

- a former teacher who recognized and encouraged my originality of thought.
- a woman from whom I learned the importance of having true friendship as the basis for a romantic relationship.
- a former patient of about my same age who awoke from a nap to discover she was paralyzed from the waist down and in a matter of hours, from the neck down as a result of Guillain-Barré Syndrome. From her I learned how quickly so much that we take for granted could be taken away from us.
- a former boss from whom I learned it was far more productive to discover the solution to a problem than to dwell upon who caused it.
- a farmer from whom I learned the true definition of selfless generosity.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:16 PM

Violin
Mandolin
Guitar
Hi-fi
CD collection
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Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: hobbitwoman
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:25 PM

A picture of my son
my cat (if I can get him to sit still long enough)
my laptop
a pile of CDs
a pile of books
a paintbrush - as in the kind you use to paint walls with

Annie

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:29 PM

What an interesting idea! And also, what great minds frequant MUDCAT. I'll get back to ya' later. CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Scoville
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 09:46 PM

1) Appalachian dulcimer
2) my decorated guitar case
3) fiddle
4) a picture of my late cat
5) a white spitz (representing my dogs past and present)
6) a quilt (Mom and I both make them)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:13 PM

Here's my items:
A photo of my late Father ... he made me what I am today;
A photo of "Bride Judy" ... I love this lady;
My cat "Kissa Poika" sitting on my lap;
My hammer ... this hammer earned my living;
My 1928 Martin guitar ... it taught me respect;
A hoot photo where I am surrounded by friends!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:45 PM

My upcoming book.

One of my cats.

My largish chunk of amethyst points.

One of my flowers, either from an indoor plant or outside, with leaves.

A personal symbol which is tatooed on the inside of my wrist.

A family photo.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 07:10 AM

thanks to everyone & especially thanks to Allan C for his inspiring list.

Looking thru the lists it seems there are more cat Mudcatters (at least on on this thread!) than dog Mudcatters. I have dozens of cat pics, but haven't shared my home with a live one since I had a backyard (25 years ago!)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:39 PM

Good question!!!!

1. My wedding ring
2. My opal/diamond ring (a gift to me from my mom on my 21st birthday)
3. A malachite rock that I always have in my pocket (fits my thumb perfectly!)
4. A letter from my husband before he was my husband
5. A bottle of Red Zepplin (shared with only the best of friends!)
6. Jasper Radio (from someone who I will never, ever forget)

I like this post....it made me think about what is important to me...not only what is on the list...and also about what and who have made me who I am today.....there's SO much more.....yep...I like this! Thanks for asking!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 07:22 PM

A picture of my son
A torn sail with sail needle and thread
A picture of Lady Hillary and me
My concertina
A pile of rejection slips and a draft of one of my current books
A fountain pen

I believe that's enough for anyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 08:25 PM

Only six? Hmmmm.....
1. Clancy the Wonderdog
2. Henry, the stuffed pooch I've had since I was born
3. The leather journal cover with the celtic knot design that Jason gave me the first Christmas we were together
4. The gold locket my maternal grandma gave me when I graduated high school that her parents gave her when she graduated high school that hangs on a chain that was a christening gift from her great uncle
5. The recording of my paternal grampa being interviewed by a folklore professor, kindly put on CD by my friend Fred
6. A large bookcase full of books
Oops! couldn't stop at six.
7. My seven year old nephew, Austin. The apple of his auntie's eye.

I would have my picture taken on my very first big trail building project in my ranger uniform. Might be kind of hard to lug the bookcase and all the books a mile into the woods, but hey, why not. Clancy could carry some and Austin could carry some... When you dream, dream big I say.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Micca
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 06:43 AM

1 a Hip Flask Full of STROH 120%proof or William Hicks 127%proof Rum 9 because it is a "defining" thing and something I am "known for" in certain quarters )
2 a Bottle of Good red burgundy and a Silver Tastevin (cos I LOVE wine, drinking it tasteing it, reading about it ,leading tastings)
3 the small leather bag that I carry my diabetes pills around in(because they control and shape my life now and will forever)
4 Both my decree absolutes (important changes and turning points, that have moved me and prpared me to be where I now am )
5 the Red A5 book I carry the words of songs around in, (Those I have written and those I just like to sing) because song writing is an indespensible part of what I am,
6 My Crystal of quartz ( it reflects both the mystical and Scientific areas of my life, both contained in the same symbol as they both are in me)

and in the general area the intangible sound of singing,which is so important to me Now and will be always.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 02:02 AM

1. My son's first soft toy (a rather beaten up cat)bought an hour after he was born.
2. A copy of my first passport.
3. My discharge papers from the Navy
4. A picture of Jade my wife
5. A picture of the one and only album I have appeared on
6. Our cat Lucky (one of 4)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,EBarnacle
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 09:16 AM

re: my earlier post

Drop the fountain pen and add a tumbler of Gosling's.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 09:31 AM

seems like a few Mudcatters value quality alcoholic beverages, more than value cats?

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 09:56 AM

The cat fur tickles on the way down, sometimes triggering the gag reflex.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Micca
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 09:56 AM

Sandra, Merlyn the Mogificent doesn't qualify, as STILL is not a word that applies to her in any meaningful way!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 10:10 AM

Micca - perhaps you can add a pic of Merlyn (or maybe a video).

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 01:52 PM

I don't have a still life, therefore I'm having trouble coming up with 6 things that might be considered constant.

Apart from music, which I can't figure out how to symbolize, I can come up with only four other things, in order of appearance.

A dog, a pair of boots, a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Junkies are always junkies and I started carrying my monkeys early.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 02:53 PM

Sitting on a stack of books (1) at the computer with Mudcat on the screen (2), my cat Sabine (3) in my lap (trying to put her tush on the keyboard), rubber squid (4) on top of the computer, gravestone rubbing tackle (5) at my feet or close at hand, and my darlin' (6) Curmudgeon looking over my shoulder.

Linn

(Oh, and what about the Little Brown Bats?!?)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Micca
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 05:03 AM

Sandra there is a pic of Merlyn Here

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Phot
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 05:08 AM

1, My Landrover. The old girl takes me anywhere and everywhere, and she was our wedding car.
2, Passport. Bit of an essential if I want to travel.
3, My camera kit, and enough film and flash cards for a year or two.
4, Gizmo, the ultimate in cat therapy after a stressful day.
5, My Leatherman Wave, I never go anywhere without it, and its rather handy for fixing Landrovers.
6, My walking boots.

Wassail!

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:37 AM

Micca - she's beautiful (naturally). When I still lived with my parents I had a cat named Moggy, but she was grey.

I'm sending the pic to work to add to my screen savers & have also sent it to my friend & colleague who is always sending me pics of her beautiful cats.

Metchosin - instruments? records/CDs?, songbooks?, pic of favourite club/venue??

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 09:58 AM

Then you're not looking for things that represent your whole life in retrospect Sandra, just things representative of ones immediate life?

Easier but harder to edit! sink full of dirty dishes and coffee cups, ashtray full of cigarette butts, reems of paper, little bits of hay, set of car keys and a pair of boots.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 01:27 PM

Guest 9:58 AM was me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: el ted
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 07:34 AM

a flamenco guitar
a flamenco guitar
a flamenco guitar
a flamenco guitar
8 gallons of Asda's spanish muscatel
a rubber dress

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:21 PM

Mao's little red book
A blue dollie
Bottle of Bass Ale
The Sargeant Pepper album
1950's footie boots
A rose

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Peace
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:37 PM

Picture of my kids
Fire helmet
Map of Spain
D-28
Deck of cards missing the Jack of Clubs
Maple leaf

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: freda underhill
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:52 PM

what is a D-28?

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 06:12 PM

It's a style of Martin guitar, freda.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: freda underhill
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 10:21 PM

thank, allan!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 07:38 AM

I had such a great time re-reading this thread I wondered if any other Mudcatters would like to add their lists - or alter their original list!

1. A teddy bear (I make them & collect them)
2. book (I've been a reader all my life)
3. A poster for my folk club (always have a few in my bag)
4. A song printed out from Mudcat or another source (& always printed in 12 or 14 font Arial so I can read it!!)
5. Sushi (I take it to clubs & sessions & often have it for dinner)
6. A waistcoat (I'm never seen without one, ditto a hat but that would make 7 items)

1. the general word 'bear'would be replaced by a specific bear who now wears my old boater, it's a tad big for him, but I couldn't throw it away & the charity shops would certainly not want such a battered hat!

3. I no longer automatically carry posters around, so I'll replace it with the club banner

otherwise the list holds

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: number 6
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 10:06 AM

Interesting sandra ...

1. my wife (after 35 years, she is undeniably the major part of my life)
2. one of my cameras
3. one of my geetars
4. any Bert Jansch cd
5. my Sneeboer hand hoe
6. my hounds

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 10:16 AM

Not necessarily in order of importantce...

The dogs
Maggie the fiddle
Owen the grandson (this gets our kids in there)
A Quilt hubby and I made (this represents hubby too)
My 'England' photo album (cause I can include all the PEOPLE in it!)
The URL for the Mudcat cafe!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 10:18 AM

For some reason I misssed this thread the first time around.

1. One of my paintings.
2. A photo of my son playing his mandolin.
3. A songbook, probably Alan Lomax or Jean Ritchie.
4. One of my antique cameras that belonged to my mother.
5. the Martin classical guitar that belonged to my brother
6. A handmade red clay water jug I used in El Salvador
and brought back home to Montana.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 11:28 AM

1. guitar. The music that is so essential in life
2. heart.   Love, given and received, for people and animals
3. book.    Reading and experiencing things I don't have time for.
4. pencil. Representing both writing and sketching
5. leaf.    Nature
6. Aurora Borealis over all. To symbolize the mystery.

I figure that if I stick to symbolism my list will hold.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 12:04 PM

How about 6 foods....

A Macintosh apple
A Habenero pepper
A Cup Of Coffee
A Pint Of Guinness
A Slice of Pizza

That comes "CLOSE" to being inclusive, but it still misses important things like popcorn, and black licorice....

I suspect that 6 is just too small a number....

Heh

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 12:34 PM

For T-Shirt lovers, here's a Rosie Nieper one on this precise subject.

CHEERS
Nigel

ps. (and in no particular order)
1,Pint of beer
2,'old fashioned' Scout hat
3,First page of the vocal score of"The Heavens Are Telling" from "The Creation"
4,Welsh Flag,
5,Family photo,
6,A book (whatever I'm reading at the time of the still life)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 10:48 PM

1. My Appalachian dulcimer
2. A red editing pen and a stack of books
3. A bunch of Willie Nelson CDs
4. My Bernina
5. Picture of my mother with my brothers and my son (she was always the wind beneath all our wings)
6. Photo of my significant other with all our present "furry children" (4 cats), and including Woofie, the Best Little Poodle in the World (unfortunately, no longer with us)

The still life would have to be taken with me sitting at my roll-top desk (a gift from my husband that I had longed for for years).

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 09:49 AM

nteresting collections of items, folks, thanks for sharing them

Six - what's a Sneeboer hand hoe

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 09:56 AM

A Sneeboer hand hoe is a top quality stainless steel short handled garden hoe made by Sneeboer ... to me it is the most useful (and used) garden tool I have ... I use it for weeding, cultivating and in planting .... this item represents my passion in gardening.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:02 PM

i presume a bernina is a sewing machine?

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:14 PM

6 cadavers !

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM

Open mike:

Yes, a Bernina is a sewing machine--in this case, one that does nearly everything but make your coffee for you. My favorite toy!

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:51 AM

dunno whether I'd want to see you still life, Art! unless you arrange them artistically

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:23 PM

Drawing pencils
A drawing of my wife I did some years ago
A well-worn Olympus OM-4 camera
A table-saw blade
An ancient fishing reel my father refurbished and gave to me at least 55 years ago.
A CD of Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, and Priscilla Herdman.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:50 PM

Sandra,

6 different cadavers would make an actually dead, and, yes, still, a very still life.

Sadly, it's already been done though. Twas on the front page of the Chicago Tribune a few days ago--a street scene from Baghdad.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: JennieG
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:59 AM

I'm with Lin on this one - I would have:
1. My Lovely New Bernina (7 years old, but until the day I die it will be My Lovely New Bernina)
2. Fabric to sew on it
3. A cat - tough decision - which one of the 3?
4. Photos of my husband and sons
5. A book
6. Chocolate - dark chocolate, 72% - yummo!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 09:06 PM

Lobster shells, backlit by sunlight
Sitting on the corner of a table
In a large porcelain bowl
On a white damask tablecloth
With a chair partially withdrawn from the table.

The shells really glow!

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:40 PM

"They're from Sellafield then?"


"said a voice, from a long way away"

CHEERS
(spot that quote)
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:00 PM

1. sewing machine
2. Appalachian dulcimer (not my only but my "best" instrument)
3. one of my animal skulls (various reasons: we collect them, we often find them when we're out hiking, I've always liked bones, etc.)
4. my dog, or something representing her
5. paintbrushes
6. a map (I love to travel)




JennieG--Seven years old IS new. My mother has her "lovely new Singer" that she got as a high-school graduation gift in 1966.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:17 PM

Neatly laid out corpses -- some useless president and his entourage -- say, 5 to start -- with a blooming apple tree nearby.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 08:58 AM

here in Oz we could have a useless Prime Minister & his yes-men, under the shade of a coolabah tree

Nigel - the Sellafield quote is beyond me (apart from the famous reactor)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 12:14 PM

cello & bow,
canvass, paint, brush
glue, aspirin.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 09:26 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 09:10 PM

Aghhhhh, Jennie G.--

HOW COULD I FORGET THE CHOCOLATE??????????

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 11:22 AM

1 My old Spanish guitar (boy scout time)
2 One of my ceremonial steins with my fraternity's arms on the lid (student time)
3 My combat knife (serving time in a Jaeger batallion)
4 My wife's favourite bra
5 My elder daughter's first shoes
6 My Mudcat name button (prepared by the unforgotten Dave Bryant, R.I.P.)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Wilfried Schaum in the Internet Café
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 11:24 AM

Guest's post from me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 02:14 PM

I just remembered - years ago I went to a 'retreat' in the course of which we were instructed to draw on a large sheet of paper different images of ourselves in the course of our lives.

I found it a pleasing exercise. It became an almost mindless thing. In the middle of the things I drew, I sketched a child, maybe one year old, sitting with a ball on its lap.

But when the others saw it, they loved it and kept telling me that I had captured it all- a human being with the world on its lap.

I demurred, saying I had only drawn a ball.

But on inspection I had to agree- I had clearly drawn a couple of continents on my 'ball'.

?

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: dianavan
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:13 PM

a piece of driftwood

my favorite rock

a very large lilly

a paintbrush

a salmon

my sandals

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Peace
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:20 PM

What, no pic of Nasrallah?

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: dianavan
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 01:54 PM

You are either stalking me or harassing me and its making you look like a fool.

I haven't asked Joe to intervene because I figured that if I give you enough rope, you would hang yourself.

This thread has nothing to do with the Middle East.

Go find another obsession.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:54 PM

My laughing Bhudda
my family album
my red silk scarf
my original John Widdup watercolour
my dressing gown
the pottery house my daughter made

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:58 PM

first aid kit
lifejacket
marlin spike
knife
gun
duck decoy

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 05:11 AM

A dragon (preferably the blue glass one given to me by my bestest girl friend)
A green man (preferably the rectangular one given to me by my bestest boy friend)
My box of photos of the family in Abbotsbury, stretching back over 4 generations (not including me).
A huge bundle of multicoloured fabrics.
A huge bundle of multicoloured threads
My song book

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 05:49 AM

I'm amazed that my old thread continues, & I love reading the lists as they are all so different (pottery, decoy ducks, multicoloured threads)

please keep contributing

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 07:57 PM

refresh - another list thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:23 PM

My Martin D-28H
A vinyl album copy of Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home"
A picture of Buffy Sainte-Marie
The fancy hat that I used to wear when playing onstage
A museum quality built model airplane
A really well done statue of a lizard


(it would be nice to get a picture of the young Joan Baez in there too...but that would make seven things...so if Joan's in, I guess the lizard has to step out)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:25 PM

If you get a pic of Buffy & Joan together, you can keep the lizard!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:38 PM

Yes, actually there is such a picture in the Buffy Sainte-Marie songbook. And there's a number of great pictures of Joan and Bob, but I have not seen one with all three of them in it yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 11:15 AM

I'm taking this premise quite literally just now. In a couple of months our local art association will have a show titled "Imagine That", aimed at getting more imaginative/non-realistic art than we usually get submitted. There will be a "people's choice" award competition. To be eligible for the competition, an art work must include at least 5 items from a list of ten:
    footprint or handprint; timepiece; candle; words; egg; hat; flower; fiber; face; silverware.
   So far I've put together this photo for one of my entries. We're each allowed 3 eligible pieces.      
                         Dean

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: number 6
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 11:18 AM

"so if Joan's in, I guess the lizard has to step out"

that's a better choice ..... whew, you had me worried there LH ... a statue of a lizard ?!?!?!

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Amos
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 12:51 PM

This is a tough one.

A well-used thumbpick.
A ream of foolscap.
A SCUBA tank
A sextant
A kiss
A soul.

There are anumber of things this leraves out -- A miner's pick,
a half-smoked cigar, a condom, a sailboat, and a chestnut stallion come to mind, but I guess you have to draw the line somewhere. Don't ask me how I would represent the last two items. I am operating under my newly-renewed poetic license from the State of California.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:37 PM

Framed picture of my wife
    Copy of Huckleberry Finn
    New York Times Sunday Crossword partially worked with a blue Papermate stick pin
    Turntable with Sgt. Pepper on it
    A 15 inch beagle
    Fifth of Jamesons with a double shot poured

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:44 PM

I simply happen to like lizards, number 6. They are very neat looking animals, and I had some as pets when I was a child.

They have probably not been as big an influence on my life overall as Joan Baez, though... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 02:52 PM

My Thompson Submachine Gun.
My fedora.
My .38 Special.
My Gorilla Bank (the one I put the small change in on my desk).
The photo of me standin' beside Primo Carnera.
The photo of me, Cheetah, Johnny Weismuller, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall sittin' together at a nightclub in 1952.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 10:09 PM

So many things, so little time!

One of my 5-string Stewart banjos but which one.

One of my two cats but is it Tejitu or Tilahun but neither is very still unless they are sleeping?

One of my draft songbooks, either Pity the Downtrodden Landlord: The Housing and Neighborhood Organizing Songbook or the Ciceley Fox Smith Anthology?

A Shipyard amber ale or a Newcastle brown ale?

The F/C Anglo concertina or the G/D Anglo concertina?

Dried apricots or pistachio nuts?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 03:46 AM

maybe Landlady's Daughter can submit a list?

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Susan A-R
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 09:44 AM

All set out with the view from the family cabin in the background

1. A picture of my family

2. My Fiddle,

3. My big blue and white bread bowl, symbol of bread broken with friends, and the kindness of strangers (the hardware store I bought it from 25 years ago gave me a deal on it because I was poor and unemployed)

4. Hendrix the cat (oops, he probably just ran off to chase mice)

5. A hand knit shawl (I make them for a couple of local craft stores now)

6. A nice bottle of Cabernet.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Escapee
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 12:26 PM

1. Photo of family, including granddaughter to be born in June.
2. Hummingbird,(guitar) gift from my mother, St. Louise, Cook and Martyr.
3. Colt .45 automatic, because a .22 isn't loud enough.
4. Beat-up pennywhistle.
5. Micrometer, one inch or 25mm.
6. Program from " Land Of The Dragon", the first play I was in.
And I'd like Petunia The Wonder Dog in the family photo too.
I was going to include a Guinness, but I'll drink it instead.
Fair winds,
SKP

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 04:25 PM

My banjo, harmonica, my fire helmet, my park ranger hat, my favorite cowboy hat (I've got about 7 or 8), picture of my family.