BS: Your 6 items for a still-life

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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 08:23 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 - 07:57 PM

refresh - another list thread.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 09:26 AM

refresh

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:14 PM

6 cadavers !

Art

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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