tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64316918413826866562024-03-18T21:42:22.783-07:00Curating CazaleaCAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-3982515818582820772012-03-30T10:39:00.003-07:002012-03-31T11:32:19.425-07:00Buying Books, BadlyWithin my great collector universe, I have a niche where I express myself as a somewhat-compulsive book buyer.<br />
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Is it because I have been a voracious reader since early childhood? Or because my mother and sister taught reading? Or because I was in the publishing business all my life? Or what? I don't know exactly why I buy books.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Books of the Western World <br />
(gift from mom circa 1965)</td></tr>
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But I do know this:<br />
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<ul>
<li>I prefer buying used books over new</li>
<li>I prefer to find books by serendipity, not by recommendation</li>
<li>If I find an author or character I like, I want one of each of all their books, every one</li>
<li>I don't like frequenting libraries</li>
<li>I'll never belong to a book reading club</li>
<li>I've never read best-sellers (OK, I did just race through Steve Jobs' biography in one night)</li>
<li>I loathe book clubs and other enforced buying schemes</li>
<li>I've learned that publishers rarely produce consistent spine art and titles </li>
<li>I read most of every book I buy (but not every page)</li>
<li>I tend to read 3-5 books at a time</li>
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Let's have a look around the shelves ... these first two sets are old books that I have had for many years - the Nordhoff and Hall <i>Mutiny on the Bounty</i> and related titles, and George Herter's <i>Professional Guides Manuals</i>. [click any image to enlarge]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nordhoff and Hall <b><i>Pacific Islands</i></b> books </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herter's <b><i>Professional Guide Manuals</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the 82 Earl Stanley Gardner's <i style="font-weight: bold;">Perry Mason </i>novels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonathan Gash's <i><b>Lovejoy</b></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George MacDonald Fraser's <b><i>Flashman</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rex Stout's <b><i>Nero Wolfe</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellery Queen's <b><i>Masterpieces of Mystery</i></b></td></tr>
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As you can see I have mis-matched accumulations of each author, but in most cases I have every book that author has written, or every book in a particular series. These are just a small sample - my guess is there are at least 20 more sets like this around my house.<br />
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The Ellery Queen set is an exception, in that they have similar bindings and I bought them only from two different used booksellers. The Flashman series is primarily matching paperbacks which I bought one-at-a-time in various stores in Canada, as they were not sold in this form in the USA. I think it took me about 5 years to get all those books, as they were not released all at once.<br />
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I have discovered that I have 10 years of IWC watch catalogs, one for each year. And a hundred watch repair manuals. And a few dozen car repair manuals (though I have tossed most of those), and the first 5 versions of the Bosch Automotive Handbook (why? I wanted them!). Today I have just learned that the 8th edition is out. I must contact my friend Mike Bentley, the US distributor, and get one.<br />
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Some of these sets are due to my occupation of writing car manuals, but most groupings have been assembled due to my undying quest to understand and experience things. And the collector obsession to have them all.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Esemblo-Graph Watch Repair Manuals<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Haynes Car Repair Manuals</i></b> (just a few)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First 5 editions of the <b><i>Bosch Automotive Handbook</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><b><i>Classic and SportsCar Magazine</i></b> (about half of the total)</td></tr>
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Oh my. I almost forgot my complete set of <b><i>Automotive Quarterly</i></b>, a hard-bound automotive journal of history and art. This goes from Vol. 1 Number 1 to today - more than 50 years without a gap. I bought another (deceased) auto book collector's set of the first 30 years, back in Detroit in 1990. So I've been adding to it for 22 years. But I'm about ready to give this quest up. Anybody want a complete <b style="font-style: italic;">Automotive Quarterly</b> set?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Automotive Quarterly</i></b></td></tr>
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<br /></div>CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-59363198472528360002012-03-19T22:33:00.003-07:002012-03-20T19:15:17.374-07:00Singing the BluesWelcome to Curating Cazalea, where I try to understand the mystery and magic of the collections I've assembled.<br />
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My sister Kathy liked my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>RED</b></span> blog, but suggested I do a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>BLUE</b></span> Blog sometime.<br />
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Today I feel <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">blue</span>, so <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">blue</span> it is. I was stunned to learn my good friend Blanche died yesterday - so this post is dedicated to her. We begin with a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">blue</span> collage of my icons, watches, cars, stained glass and Blanche. [click any image to enlarge]<br />
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Blanche wasn't a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">blue</span> person - far from it. She was full of life - "full of vim and vigor" and the last one you'd think would leave us so soon. I think you can tell for yourself. Look at the joy (and mischief) in her face:<br />
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We met 25 years ago through our respective jobs. Later my wife and I ended up moving to England to work at Glass's Guides, where Blanche worked for 40 years. She and I became fast friends and workmates - taking the UK by storm with our used car price guides. Over the years, we met up on holidays in England, Canada, the USA and Mexico:<br />
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In her "spare time" Blanche was a tireless worker for Macmillan Cancer Support, personally raising more than £1 million while volunteering since 1959! Last year she was recognized by the Queen and received an MBE.</div>
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I am very happy to have been her friend, to have shared hundreds of meals as part of her family, to have given the eulogy at her husband's funeral, to have witnessed her grandson's marriage, and to have happily called her "mom".<br />
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To finish this up, I watched <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PY36hcMt4I">Indigo Angel - an episode of the <b style="font-style: italic;">Touched By An Angel </b>TV series</a>. It<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>features Hal Linden, Al Jarreau, BB King, Dr. John, Al Hirt, Della Ressa and Monica and the <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">blues</span></i></b>. If you have time, click the link and watch the show - and think of the people who have brightened up the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">blue times</span></b> in your life.<br />
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<br />CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-39371816641236899342012-03-12T16:56:00.000-07:002012-03-12T17:32:41.044-07:00Seeing Red!Today I have been cleaning up my collections of files on the computer. Specifically, on the small iMac ... yes, indeed whereas most people have lots of socks, or scarves or worst, dust bunnies under their bed, I have a collection of files dispersed and duplicated on a collection of computers!<br />
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<i>NOTE: Don't scoff. I am dealing with my addiction...</i><br />
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These are my current computers:<br />
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<li><i>iPod1 Classic</i> has all my music files and virtually all images</li>
<li><i>iPod2 Classic</i> has all my music files</li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Iphone3</i> has Laurie email and related stuff</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Iphone4s</i> has Mike email, contacts, images and apps</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>iPad2</i> has Mike email, contacts, images, movies and apps</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mini320</i> has movies and music in iTunes (with very little else)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>MacBook</i> <i>aluminum</i> has almost everything</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>MacBook</i> <i>titanium</i> has Photoshop and selected emails back to 2003</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>PowerPC tower</i> has 2 enormous screens, high-fidelity speakers, movies and music</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Apple TV2</i> plays through Sony Bravia TV</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>iMac Small</i> has Adobe CS2 and Ansmar files</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Dell Inspiron</i> has watch diagnosis, timing and adjusting software</span></li>
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It turns out this is not going to be a post about all my computers - but a post about a collection I discovered on one of them. Apparently at some point I became enamored with the color red. I filled a folder full of photos of red cars, for example. [please click to enlarge - I did all the collecting for this collage ...]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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If I look closely at the pictures, I see myself (camera in hand) taking photos in Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, England, Scotland, California, New Mexico, Washington, etc. The first pictures were taken about 1985, and the latest in 2011. All seasons and weather are represented here. One photo was even taken from my kayak.<br />
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<br /></div>CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-6500808162324855392012-02-11T18:16:00.000-08:002012-02-11T21:05:52.318-08:00Accumulation or Collection, Part IVThis blog has been prompted by my retirement from "work" and my retreat home into the midst of all the things I've been collecting for 40+ years. This series on <i><b>accumulation</b></i> vs <i><b>collection</b></i> has been driven by the unconventional nature of some of my collections. I want to state in advance of today's post that I don't consider myself a <i><b>hoarder</b></i>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding">Read the definition on Wikipedia</a>.<br />
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I'm prepared to admit this is an unconventional collection. But any tool lover will know what I am talking about here. In fact <i><b>wires</b></i> are <i><b>tools</b></i> that carry electrical signals. <i><b>Wires</b></i> are what you need to be a miracle-worker - to hook up DVD, TV, computer, home automation, etc. You can't do it with string, rope, or duct tape.<br />
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<b>Power wires</b> (also called extension cords) extend electrical current from the wall socket to the electrical device. Many of mine are already in use because we don't have many outlets in the walls of each room. We recently re-wired the feed from the power company and the circuit breaker panels, but not to all our rooms. The photo shows the special cords, with 90-degree turned ends, or flat ends to fit behind a bookcase, etc. I love it when people see these and say "<i>I wish I had one of those!</i>"<br />
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<b>Foreign power wires</b> and adaptors for England, France, Germany, etc. fill up one segment of my wires collection. I don't travel as often as I used to, but it's still necessary to have some of these special wires, otherwise your regular wires can't do their duty.</div>
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<b>Audio wires</b> carry the sound signals from a source to an amplifier. The pictured wires all have RCA plugs, in single, paired, or multiple channel configurations. I've owned the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">green</span> wires on the right since 1969, when I left home to go to college. The rest I have accumulated very carefully. They are part of the collection.<br />
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The green wires carried the signal to my first set of speakers. (<i>Why yes, I do still have those speakers - when you buy the wood and cloth, then design, build, finish and wire them - you keep them!</i>).<br />
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<b>Apple Wires</b> are not always specific to Apple computer equipment, but Apple has wisely stuck with this white-wire branding, and it's easy to tell your Apple cables and adaptors from the rest of the <strike>pile</strike> collection. These are the items I have <i>left over</i> after hooking up <b>7 Apple computers and phones</b> at my house.<br />
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<b>Network or CAT 5 Cables</b> are almost passe nowadays, what with wireless routers. But I'm willing to bet that most of us are not on the cloud yet, and we all have a few of these around the house or office. I've got several dozen snaking around my basement, even though I use a wireless router, because cables are faster and more reliable when streaming large audio and video files.<br />
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<b>USB cables </b>are ubiquitous nowadays. I have all sorts - short ones, long ones, cables for cameras, phones, hard drives, extensions, voltage tappers, PC keyboard to USB, etc. Maybe there are 20 spares, not counting the ones in use.<br />
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<b>Firewire cables</b> were used to carry signals to printers and big drives, and are now at the end of their lifecycle. I probably ought to toss them out but some are so beautifully braided and feel so nice - they almost make me want to buy some old drives so I can use them again.<br />
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<b>Telephone wires </b>are also approaching the end of their lifecycle in my house, but I have these cables and adaptors from 20 years ago when I first set up my home office with 3 telephone lines. Notice the white Apple phone cords in the center? On the left is a credit-card-sized rewinding phone cable for travelers needing to hook their laptops to a telephone modem. <br />
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<b>Test Leads</b> are the good wires. The tool wires. The <b><i>jumper wires</i></b> with alligator clips. I've owned and used these particular wires for 40 years. (Yes, my middle names used to be <i>Radio</i> and <i>Shack</i>.) They carry any kind of electrical current or signal from points A to B when you don't have the proper adaptor or you just want a temporary connection. Yes, it is possible to melt them, cut them up in the fan blades of the car, or get shocked using them. I've done all that, and more. I bought the same kind again. So they are my partners and friends. The wires on the left are alternate leads for my Fluke voltmeter and other testers. The main leads are connected to the testers, of course.<br />
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I have lots more wires. I've spared you the boredom of all the voltage adaptors, converters, phone chargers, etc. etc. They accumulate - I don't collect them. And I don't mind throwing out one or two. <br />
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I'm excluding TV wiring, coaxial, HDMI, optical, etc. Not that I don't have some of those cables, but I don't care about TV very much, and as a result I really don't care much about those signal carriers. Besides, they're all used up on the <i><b>entertainment center</b></i>, which has a door behind it so I needn't get on my knees and climb around while messing around with my <i><b>wires</b></i>.<br />
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PS - I've got to put all my wires away now - but <a href="http://excelmathmike.blogspot.com/2011/02/math-music-and-wires.html">you can go here and read more.</a>CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-39262460392483454872012-02-09T09:24:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:35:57.215-08:00Accumulation or Collection? Part IIIMy last few posts have asked if a consumable item (tea) could be the focus of a collection. I have concluded that consumables could be the focus of a collection, but not necessarily so. Plenty of consumable items are <b>stockpiled</b> / <b>hoarded</b> by some people, while <b>collected</b> by others. Full definitions of what I mean by each of these words will have to come later.<br />
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Today I want to address the concept that a collection can consist of <b><i>usable</i></b>, not just <b><i>observable</i></b>, items. By observable I mean <b><i>enjoyed using all the senses</i></b>, not just viewing or listening.</div>
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What has led me to this? My oriental rugs. We have about 25 woven, knotted and tied fabric items. I say "<i>about 25</i>" because what constitutes a "rug" depends on your definition. For more details, check this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_carpet">Wikipedia article on Persian carpets</a>.</div>
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How is our collection <b><i>usable</i></b>? They are on the floor, or walls. We walk on them, sit on them, store things within them, and look at them. We curl our toes in them, we stroke them, we brush cat hair off of them. Periodically we take them out on the driveway and vacuum them on both sides. Occasionally we send them off for cleaning. [click any image to enlarge]</div>
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It's difficult to convey the totality of the impressions that a house full of rugs can give you - an exotic feel, a sense of luxury, comfort underfoot, a faint smell, a kaleidoscope feeling of color and pattern and shiny / matte reflection and texture ...</div>
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As I contemplate the rugs and other weavings, I lament my inability to remember all their names and origins. I can tell you where I bought the rugs, and from whom, and even how much I paid for some of them. But I can no longer articulate the village or style in which they were made, or the meaning of the patterns. I do have the resources - this shelf full of books plus another group of articles and receipts. But there are so many other things to collect, and so little time!</div>
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<li>May start by accident but must continue with deliberate intent and specific choice</li>
<li>Need not contain one of everything, especially at the beginning</li>
<li>By definition, does not include everything; collections have limits</li>
<li>Limits are imposed by economics, storage space, taste or other factors</li>
<li>Collected items may have utility but need not be used</li>
<li>Items in the collection must have a tolerably long life span</li>
<li>Changes may occur over time as tastes evolve or the collected items deteriorate or are used up</li>
<li>If someone else uses an item from the collection, the collector bristles</li>
<li>The collected items invite the collector to categorize or arrange / rearrange in different ways</li>
<li>A collection must please the collector and at least one other person</li>
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Today I want to consider a consumable collection. I propose that the previously-shown colorful peppers in a bowl ARE NOT a collection. Wines, single-malt whisky and high-class teas MAY BE a collection. Wines and whiskies do not appeal to me as something to collect. Just to drink. But tea is a bit different - long-lived, affordable, enjoyable, classifiable, etc.<br />
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Here are some of the teas in our kitchen. [click any image to enlarge] I am leaving out boxes of tea bags and the miscellaneous teas that accumulate as gifts or are brought home from a hotel room. I have not tasted all of these teas, as some are still in vacuum-sealed packages.<br />
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Teas invite categorization. There are white teas, green teas, oolong teas, black teas, infusions, etc. Within the categories there are grades of teas, teas from different producers, teas from different regions, teas picked at different times of the year, etc. In considering this I derived another collecting rule:<br />
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11. Esoteric language may be needed to describe a collection precisely (pleases other collectors) but common language is best with outsiders.<br />
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You can see that I have color-coded my tea containers. An <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">orange</span></b> band at the bottom enclosing the term <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #e69138;">2nd Flush</span> means the tea was picked in the second burst of growth or "flush" which occurs in summer. Generally speaking, <i>first flush teas</i> or springtime teas are greener and more astringent, and <i>third </i>or <i>autumn flush teas</i> are darker and richer and more mature. Tea containers labeled in<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">green text </span></b>contain green tea.<br />
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This simple, clear, color-coded labeling is helpful when answering the question often posed early in the morning by my loving but caffeine-deficient wife "<i>What sort of tea would you like</i>" to which I can reply "<i>anything 2nd flush</i>" or "<i>any green tea</i>" rather than saying "<i>Singbulli Muscatel Delight Second Flush please</i>" and expecting her to sort through these containers.<br />
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I'm often asked if I can tell one tea from another. Of course, what sort of collector would I be if I couldn't recognize my items? But that doesn't mean you could dump all the tea in a bowl and expect me to retrieve the leaves separately. Here's a comparison of 3 different teas. My wife's favorite is Tetley; the other two are both 3rd Flush Darjeeling [<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ea9999;">See <b>A</b> on the map below</span>] teas.<br />
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And here's a comparison of two 2nd Flush Darjeeling teas (again with Tetley in the middle). A tea connoisseur would appreciate the large, unbroken leaves, and might suspect the tea on the right to be a green, white or silver tip tea.</div>
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Here's a comparison of tea leaves after brewing. It's clear that the leaves differ, the colors vary, and the composition can appear as chunks, chips, stems, leaves or "grounds". </div>
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I've devoted a lot of thought to these teas, built a database to understand my inventory, and blogged about tea. <a href="http://excelmathmike.blogspot.com/2009/08/sold-by-weight-not-volume.html">Look here</a> and <a href="http://excelmathmike.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-cup-of.html">here</a> or <a href="http://excelmathmike.blogspot.com/2011/12/pour-boiling-water.html">here</a> if you want to read more.</div>
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In the past few days I've talked about collections of things that are brightly colored - paintings, glassware, etc. And I showed them against our bright white kitchen counter. Here's a bowl full of brightly-colored fruits reminiscent of the group of Nyiri paintings from last week. But is this bowl of edible items a collection? <br />
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Most of us probably wouldn't call this a collection, even though the bowl contains a carefully arranged assortment of yellow, orange and red peppers. <i>Where's the green? </i>you'd ask, wondering why I didn't put any green peppers in. Then <i>Why one tomato and one lemon?</i> Why are those in there?<br />
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<b>RULES FOR A COLLECTION</b><br />
Based on this bowl of peppers, I came up with my own set of 10 rules for collections:<br />
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<li>May start by accident but must continue with deliberate intent and specific choice (pre-meditated)</li>
<li>Need not contain one of everything, especially at the beginning (no green; they weren't on sale)</li>
<li>By definition, does not include everything; some things are out (peppers ok, no citrus)</li>
<li>Limits are imposed by economics (price of green peppers), storage (bowl) or other factors</li>
<li>Collected items may have utility but need not be used (watches not worn are still ok)</li>
<li>Items in the collection must have a tolerably long life span (collecting ice cubes wouldn't work)</li>
<li>Changes may occur over time as tastes evolve or the collected items deteriorate (get eaten)</li>
<li>If someone else uses item from the collection, the collector bristles (shouts, removes from reach)</li>
<li>Collected items must invite the collector to arrange and rearrange them (beauty in combination)</li>
<li>A collection must please the collector and at least one other (collections are best shared, admired and envied)</li>
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I looked at one set of items in my kitchen. I think it's the beginning of a collection but my wife and other friends disagreed. They say it's an accumulation. Or just utilitarian cookware. What do you say?</div>
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These are all cast-iron pans. You can see round 7", round 8", round 9", square 10" and round 12" skillets. A 10" Dutch oven, and a 7-compartment biscuit pan. The makers I can identify include Griswold, Lodge and Wagner Ware. Several are devoid of any maker's marks. All are oiled, seasoned, virtually indestructible, and constantly used (except the biscuit pan).</div>
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We got the largest skillet by accident from a relative and we liked cooking in it. I hunted down the rest of the round skillets. I bought the square one just to cook bacon and grilled cheese sandwiches. I purchased the Dutch oven specifically, so I could bake country bread loaves in it. I have no idea why I bought the biscuit pan.</div>
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I haven't pursued this collection for awhile. I'm busy with collecting other things. But when I go into antique (or kitchen supply) shops, I look at the cast-iron pans. If I see something I like, I might buy it. Does that constitute "intent"? Is it premeditated? Is this collecting in the first degree?</div>
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Are my cast-iron pans a collection? Or an accumulation? You tell me. They're certainly not colorful.</div>
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My <a href="http://cazalea.blogspot.com/2012/02/bright-colors-part-ii.html">second post on bright colors</a> involved putting fruits and vegetables on the white Corian kitchen counter. It made me hungry.</div>
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You should not that some things that appeal to me visually are not edible. For example, here's a bottle of Chambord-infused vodka. It's actually filled with colored water now, since the liquor is long gone. [click any image to enlarge]</div>
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Not all items have to be photographed on our white Corian counter, otherwise we'd never get dinner ready. So this group of cobalt blue glass is in the living room. I washed and dried most of these pieces in preparation for the photo, because the camera is merciless at exposing lint.</div>
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There are a couple of vases, a superb wine bucket I bought at a thrift store about 10 years ago, some candle holders, and a flattened blue wine bottle given to me by my brother Brian.</div>
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<i>Note: When I was researching the meaning of "curating" I used the old Webster's Third International Dictionary (unabridged). I have a Second Edition too, somewhere. While flipping through pages looking for <b>Curate</b>, I saw <b>Cobalt Blue</b>. Did you know there is a <b>Cobalt Green</b>? Direct random-access-searching is not always preferable to browsing! [click to enlarge]</i></div>
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But I'm not fixated solely on blue. I've got a few favorite red pieces of glass too. The left one is a paperweight commemorating the development of the Concorde Super-Sonic Transport. The right one looks like a fresnel lens from a lighthouse, but it's "just" a square container. A container that turns to fire when the sun hits it.</div>
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I did a multi-part series about glass on my Excelmath blog, entitled <b>It's Not Clear To Me</b>. If you are interested you can read one of them <a href="http://excelmathmike.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-not-clear-to-me-part-iii.html">[click here]</a> or if not, just consider the following image:</div>
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<br />CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-42017492854587788752012-02-03T11:03:00.000-08:002012-02-03T11:06:11.969-08:00Which watch to wear?I have a collection of watches. People often ask me why, because <i>You can only wear one at a time, right? </i>That's not the point. You can only wear one pair of socks at a time and no one worries about how full their sock drawers are, do they? You can only look at a few paintings at a time, but most art lovers have many more than will fit in front of their eyes at once.<br />
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This morning before 6 am as I was reaching consciousness, I was thinking about which watch to wear. I don't normally sleep with a watch, although I know plenty of people who do.<br />
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Because I have many watches, it can take me a while to make up my mind. Today I chose the Reverso - the watch for the man who <u>can't</u> make up his mind.<br />
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For those of you who don't know this watch, it's built by Swiss watchmakers Jaeger-LeCoultre. Various models have been in production for about 75 years. It has one movement that can be turned over, either to expose a bare metal back (originally to protect the crystal while playing polo), a view of the movement, or a second dial.<br />
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I have only owned 2 Reversos. The first was called the Grande Date. It has an 8-day power reserve, which is a very long time for a watch to run on one winding. The power reserve is shown at the top left corner of the dial. A small seconds hand appears at the lower right corner. The date is shown in big numerals at the lower left corner, hence the name Grande Date. [click on any image to enlarge it]<br />
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You can see the movement through a transparent sapphire glass window on the back. I took these photos almost 5 years ago when I wanted to sell the watch. For symmetry's sake, I grabbed that dusty copper dish full of pennies and took another set of photos a few moments ago. My current JLC Reverso is called the Grande GMT.</div>
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The Grande GMT is more complex and expensive than the Grande Date. The front looks similar with small seconds at bottom right, and large date at bottom left. Instead of a power reserve at top left it has a day-night indicator at top right. This is necessary for the traveler, to know if it's day or night "back home." The Grande GMT has a second dial on the back side of the watch, with 4 functions. </div>
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The large center dial shows time in any time zone you wish. By pressing a button on the side, the hour hand is shifted ahead (top button) or back (bottom button) an hour at a time.<br />
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The smaller dial on the left displays the <i>HOME</i> location of the watch and how many hours that location is east or west of GMT (Greenwich, England). The bottom right dial is another day-night indicator for your second location. The power reserve indication is at the top right of this back dial. The hands and the 3, 6, 9 and 12 are luminous so you can check it in the dark in that strange hotel room...<br />
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I got both a strap and a bracelet with this watch, but I didn't like either very much. When I saw this custom strap that a friend had ordered (but didn't like) I knew I'd found the right one.<br />
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It is black water buffalo with white double-stitching, held closed by the JLC deployant (quick-release) buckle.<br />
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I don't know what led me to using this dressy watch as a prop in the garden rather than in an office situation, but I like the contrast and resulting photos. What do you think?<br />
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In case the reversing part isn't clear to you, consider this pair of images. You slide the watch to one side, flip it over, and slide it back.<br />
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A few months ago I made this video, put it up on YouTube, and it's been viewed over 4200 times.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/UPq6_Bg3HyA?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-69506321013655468432012-02-02T10:22:00.000-08:002012-02-02T19:22:51.984-08:00Bright Colors, Part IIThis blog is supposed to be about curating the art in our house. Today it has gotten out of control. I started with a definite theme in mind, but colorful foods have run away with me. As my publisher buddy Mike Bentley says, "<i>There's often a story inside you itching to come out.</i>"<br />
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We've had a hard time getting our kitchen restored / remodeled / freshened / modernized. After working at it for 2 years, our friends see little success or outward change.<br />
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But we have learned a great deal about our house, and ourselves. Our 70-year-old kitchen is middle-of-the-road. It's neither tiny nor large, fancy nor plain. We have no fancy countertops, few electrical outlets and skimpy lighting.<br />
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However, the layout is well thought out. The location is excellent, facing south-east so the sun rises on our breakfast table. It's like the wheelhouse of a ship - we have an excellent view outside into the trees. Best of all, the bright white Corian counter serves as a blank canvas to highlight FOOD prepared there.<br />
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As a follow-up to my post on Bright Colors, here are some photos taken in our kitchen over the past five years. They were NOT originally intended to be published. The reddish tint in some is due to the dark wallpaper on the ceiling, and the brick fireplace.<br />
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Mushrooms are one of my favorite (and probably most expensive) ingredients. These came from several markets, and the front yard. This composition was very carefully arranged - mostly so that we wouldn't die of liver failure afterwards. I didn't eat the yard ones and didn't let them touch the others. </div>
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This bunch of grapes came from the yard next door, and were the very first of the season. We were given these as a gift and told we could have more. Later in the season we jumped over the wall and snagged a few more bunches.</div>
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This assortment of food came from one afternoon's scavenging and picking (or picking up) from trees in our neighborhood. It helps that we are in an old part of town with lots of mature trees with branches hanging over the property line, and we have a Mediterranean climate.</div>
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Heirloom tomatoes really look good on a white surface. I took this picture because our local market was selling for $2.99 a pound and we couldn't eat more than this amount in a day or two, no matter how creative we were. [see below and click on any image to enlarge]<br />
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Jamie Oliver's mothership tomato salad is a big hit. It just takes a variety of fresh ripe tomatoes, a giant handful of basil, some olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.</div>
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Here are some of the fixings, with a watch of mine. Ignore the watch, for the moment. I can't go there today.<br />
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Here's a look at that salad. It's ready to be served on the patio for an autumn lunch.</div>
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Eventually the tomato crop runs out and we have to look for other colorful foods. (How do these watches keep sneaking in?) It appears that we have peppers and apples now.</div>
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This picture depicts the apples used to make<u> </u>just <u>one</u> pie in the manner we learned from my sister Kathy. She's a slow foodie from Seattle and has inspired my interest in pie-baking and old-fashioned apples.</div>
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This pie to celebrate a notable birthday was made from berries picked in our back canyon. This project contributed a lot of color to the Corian which we thought would be there forever (berry stains) but they came right up with some scrubbing.</div>
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Variations on the question include:<br />
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<li>why that when this one is cheaper / bigger / brighter / newer?</li>
<li>why that instead of this one by a famous artist?</li>
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Speaking only for myself - I find these questions irritating, but I think they can be answered.</div>
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Many purchase and display decisions are not entirely rational - they are driven by emotion, memory, intangible sensations of pleasure or pain - and they are hard to defend because you can't put all that into the mind of your questioner. You may want to share everything, or you may not. You might just want to look at the piece in peace!<br />
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This is a collage built from old architecture books. We bought it at KD Fine Art, in Compton, Surrey. We have nothing else like it, and have never seen this artist's works since (<a href="http://www.kevinblackham.com/index.htm">the website</a>). When I look at it, I end up half-way 'round the world in an English county, a decade ago, on a hot summer day.<br />
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We were walking in Painshill Park looking for follies, and being chased by angry geese. Follies are peculiar buildings, constructed with no thought for practicality - grottos, towers, gazebos. Ted was our tour guide.<br />
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We explored lots of gardens that summer - Painshill, Wisley, even the Chelsea Garden Show - but we kept on looking for follies. And we found plenty up and down the length of England.<br />
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We fell in love with Watts Chapel, in Compton, 50 miles south of London, and made several trips to explore the paintings, the gallery, the chapel, the cemetery and the neighborhood.<br />
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And eventually, would stroll home quietly down the lane.<br />
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Anyway, in the middle of that summer, I bought this picture. Already framed. I took it back to where were staying and constructed a nifty crate for it. My friend Ted (shown here) is in a better place now and no longer with us. But I still have the crate. And the artwork.<br />
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I like these flowers assembled for my mother-in-law's memorial service.<br />
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And this rubber Michelin Man clock I got in Paris about 20 years ago.<br />
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Our friend Joe Nyiri is a Wisconsin-born but San Diego-loving artist who has had a long relationship with the San Diego Zoo. He paints, sculpts, welds, and plays tennis. Here he is showing his customary attitude towards the world.<br />
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We got our first Nyiri artwork by accident - won in a raffle at my wife's school. Joe had donated this piece for the school's annual fundraising campaign. I had no idea what it was about. I wasn't sure I liked it. I tried to give it back.<br />
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But we took it home and hung it up in the bedroom. When I get that feeling "<i>I'd rather gouge my eyes out than go to work, or do the dishes, or ...</i>" this painting makes me think twice. "<i>No, eye gouging won't help.</i>"<br />
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A few years later Joe invited us to his annual painting sale. He does dozens of artsy animal pieces, then sells them out of his back yard on the Friday after Thanksgiving (when <i><b>real</b></i> shoppers are at the mall). About 10 years ago I bought this goat with my own money. No raffle, no pressure. Some people think it's a dog, but Joe and I agreed it's a goat, so GOAT it is. I liked the ear assymmetry, and the attitude. I also like the aggressive brush strokes.<br />
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The Cat came the following year; chosen for the blue-green-purple color range and its expression (we've had cats for 35 years).<br />
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Then the Crow, I think, chosen primarily for the explosive orange-red. I don't really like crows, but lots of visitors to our <strike>museum</strike> home seem to. <br />
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This "Dog" joined us this Fall, although Joe painted it about 10 years ago. Personally, I don't think it looks much like a dog, but I liked the color themes in its hair. I failed to buy it at least 5 times before, but this year it grabbed me, and it complemented my new hanging scheme.<br />
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The Berkshire Pig was painted outside a field where the "model" pig resided. This was purchased for the yellow-orange tones, and his thoughtful eyes and set of his mouth and chin.<br />
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This Dog is named Iris. It looks like a Dingo to me, and it's not afraid to stare right back at you without giving away a clue as to its thoughts about you.<br />
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I like the bright green tones of this Cow and its friendly face.<br />
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These are baby Cooper's Hawks. Joe painted a whole series of Cooper's Hawks as a memorial for the parents of a young boy named Cooper who died recently.<br />
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These two Crows were our most recent purchase - chosen primarily because we liked the way Joe painted the branches down and over the edge of the picture frame, and secondarily because they would fit nicely at the top of our collection. We're almost scraping the ceiling, but that's ok with us.</div>
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The collection looks approximately like this today. We have it in our main hallway so we can enjoy it as we run up and down the hall. It's hard to get a photo of all the pieces together because you can't back away enough, even with a wide lens. (The painting of two birds looking down was taken back and traded in for a new image.)</div>
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As you can see, we have a wide range of colors. Since the color tones run freely up and down and across each painting, I have enjoyed the challenge of moving them around in this composition - to get a mix of vertical and landscape formats as I blended the colors and shapes across the whole wall.</div>
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Leaving Joe's works beyond us, we move on to the following painting which also came from my wife's school. Painted on butcher paper for a school play, it lay in a cupboard for more than 10 years. The principal found the picture and put it up for auction. I failed to win the auction, but the high bidder let me make a digital photo and we printed a life-size copy.<br />
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I used to hang it at my office, but some ladies complained that it was too spooky - glaring at them all day - so we brought it home. It's 20 x 30 inches and has real presence.<br />
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My wife found this fish scene in a different closet at school. The upper corner was missing, and kids had inked grafitti on the bottom, but I wanted to keep it. We asked Joe to repair it, and several other painters, but they all said <i>"Not mine, I won't touch it."</i> So I learned something valuable about painters ... and I decided to restore it myself. I glued some heavy paper into the corner and let it dry. Then using paints left over from my mother's "<i>painting</i> <i>phase</i>" I covered up all the grafitti, and touched up the rest of the scene. Here's the result:<br />
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I'm could go on and on, but I will finish now with a piece that I love very much. I bought this in 1988 on our first trip to Europe. It's a Swiss school poster entitled "Dangers of Disorderly Traffic." It was designed to teach kids how to behave safely around crowded intersections.<br />
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It shows everything they could do wrong (incentive to fool around, I think). It's been hanging directly across the room from my desk for the last 10 years.<br />
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We have another 50 or 60 pieces of art that <u>do not</u> have bright colors. I'll get to them someday soon.CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-3442577863204640642012-01-29T16:07:00.000-08:002012-01-29T23:08:49.225-08:00Telling Time VI: In Wacky WaysIn this sixth of a series of posts, I'll present a few wacky ways of telling time.<br />
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I'm not talking about making the day 11 hours, or putting 45 larger minutes into the existing hour - just displaying the same old time in an unconventional fashion.<br />
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This is a Silberstein Wandering Eye watch. The hour appears within
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hand revolves conventionally, with a few twists and turns for amusement. I came very close to buying this but passed it along to my friend Alec.<br />
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Keeping to our same watchmaker, this colorful watch is called the Titanium Pikto Smileday. A single hand (<b><span style="color: red;">the red end</span></b>) takes care of the hours and minutes (carefully marked on the perimeter of the dial), and the <span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">wavy yellow</span> hand indicates the seconds.<br />
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The smileday indicator above the date and 6 lets you know the day of the week. The watch is displaying Friday, when people smile at the thought of the weekend.<br />
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This is an Audemars Piguet Starwheel watch owned by my pal Graham. A set of 3 transparent discs, interlinked on a lower wheel, indicate the time on scale at the top of the watch. As the discs rotate, the hour number (printed on the wheel) appears against the white background, and a small arrow points to the minutes.<br />
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A Urwerk watch uses a similar concept (but different mechanism) to indicate time. This Model 110 is one owned by my buddy Jonathan. Revolving rectangles with pointers are moved along a scale to indicate the time. Notice the scale is on the right side, so it's most likely to peek out from under your cuff if the watch is worn on the left arm.<br />
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This Ferrara watch belonging to Graham uses two separate tracks and wandering hands to point out the time. A conventional second hand in the center revolves as usual. <br />
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Although there are dozens more ways to indicate the time, I'm going to stop with a watch from MB&F. This model is known as the "Chocolate Frog" because it's brown - and well - I think you can see the frog-eye appearance for yourself. Revolving domes indicate the hours and minutes.<br />
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This Sinn aviator watch displays the most common approach - put a luminous (glow-in-the-dark) material on the hands and display markers. If they are "charged" with ambient light before you go in a dark place, you can see them glow. This particular watch is exceptionally efficient and is readable all night long. </div>
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Another way to do the same thing is to have a light-colored dial that glows in the dark. This Sinn watch uses a luminous material on the entire dial. It's not very long-lasting illumination, but you can read it for about 2 hours after you've gone to bed.<br />
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Finally, some watches, such as The Ball watches, or this pile of Prometheus watches, use tubes of glowing material. They do not need a battery or a sunlight charge in order to work, but make a nice display on your dresser at night!<br />
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Another way to tell the time, and a much older way, is to listen for bells ringing. On your wrist, we call this a minute repeater, or chiming watch. This is an extremely nice watch (a friend of mine has one of these). You press a sliding button on the side of the case to check the time, and it rings the hours, the quarters (15 minutes) and the minutes. The watch in the movie is going to strike 9 hours, 3 quarters and 13 minutes.<br />
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Clocks commonly strike the quarters and the hours - although modern ones have a blocking feature so the chiming doesn't wake you in the middle of the night. I have at least a dozen striking clocks - here is one that we have in our living room, about to strike 12.CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-86537061418058314652012-01-29T15:58:00.000-08:002012-01-29T16:45:52.353-08:00Telling Time IV: With FingersIn this fourth of a series of posts, I'll review a few of the ways that we can tell time with our fingers.<br />
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<i>Fingers?</i> you ask, in wonder. <i>Yes, how do you suppose blind people tell the time without asking?</i><br />
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Of course there are "talking clocks" where you press a button and are told the time, but this post is about telling the time yourself with your fingers.<br />
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Here's an analog Wakmann watch (with hands) that uses Arabic numerals AND a tactile display. A button at 2 o'clock releases the spring-loaded, hinged crystal, so the wearer can touch the hands and feel what time it is. There's a raised bar at 12, pairs of raised dots and 3, 6, and 9, and single dots at all the other others. You might wonder if I own this and all the other crazy watches I'm showing you. Not all, but most of them are mine.</div>
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This is a Seiko quartz alarm clock for blind folks. They can touch the hands to tell the time (orange is minutes, yellow is hours). There are bumps on the hands and on the hour markers. The 12, 3, 6, and 9 markers are raised bars rather than dots. There's an extra indicator (barely visible near 9 o'clock) which is the alarm time. A large button at the left turns the alarm off and on.<br />
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Personally, I find this clock very handy next to the bed as the alarm on/off button is the most convenient of any alarm clock we own. And there's no light glaring at me.<br />
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The next post in this series will tackle telling time in the dark, without fingers.CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-85938469730113882962012-01-29T15:53:00.000-08:002012-01-29T16:46:19.303-08:00Telling Time III: Without handsIn this third of a series of posts, I'll review one of the most common practices in time-telling today:
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As described in the previous post, we use the term "digital" for the watches and clocks that don't have hands. They simply display the digits. It's important to know that digital displays are NOT new. We have had them for over 100 years.<br />
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This Chronoswiss Delphis watch displays time in a combination of ways - it's a jumping hour display at the top, a 180-degree minute display with jumping retrograde minute hand in the middle, and conventional second hand at the bottom. This is a mechanical watch with no electronic parts.<br />
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This is the display on my mobile phone. The date is spelled out underneath. It's an electronic display with no mechanical parts. The Apple guys have also created analog clock displays for these digital devices, because some people just can't do without hands.</div>
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Here's a watch for athletes and Timex fans. It dates to 1994 and was in near-perfect condition until it was passed along to a teenager. I haven't had the courage to ask him how it's doing. We can see the day of the week, the month and day (top line) and hours (24 hr), minutes and seconds (bottom line). The array of buttons around the watch control other functions.</div>
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This big titanium Swiss Army Watch has both analog and digital displays. You can read the same time either way, or show something else on the two digital display panels. In this photo, the digital panels are showing a stop watch counter (Chronograph).</div>
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The Cartier clock in this photo is on the dashboard of a 1970's Lincoln. Revolving drums with numbers show the hours and minutes. The colon separator is stationary. On the right, there's a drum with 10-second intervals in gold.</div>
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This digital flip clock demonstrates one of the first digital display technologies. No LEDs are required, just a constant-speed motor and some gears. Two wheels with cards that have numerals on them rotate toward you, and the cards flip over and fall down to show the time. Tiny fingers at the top keep the card from falling too early. This has been running on my desk for about 5 years.<br />
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This elaborate digital clock gets its signal from the GPS satellite network. It's designed to stay within 10 nanoseconds of official time! The small indication at the top shows the consecutive day of the year (073), then the hour in 24 hour format (22), then the minutes and seconds. The larger display at the bottom is currently interpreting the days, and showing us that 073 = March 14, 2011. It can also display the time in large numerals, or show consecutive seconds of the year, etc.</div>
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I have to admit that I've gone a bit overboard on my master clock array, although some of them are now deployed around the house so I can set all the wind-up timekeepers to nanosecond accuracy! I may devote an entire blog to the stack.</div>
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Finally, the Nixie clock uses heat- and numeral-generating vacuum tubes (valves) to display the time. I tried to catch 3:33:03 but wasn't quick enough. Nor bright enough to wait for 3:33:33. So you see I ended up with 3:33.09.</div>
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As described in the previous post, we use the term "analog" for the stereotypical round clock or watch with 2 or 3 hands. Let's look at the possible variations with <b>Roman numerals</b>:</div>
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This classy gold Daniel Roth two-hand watch has all twelve hours indicated with Roman numerals. There are no other features (date, seconds, etc.) to confuse us. It's not a round case, but the dial is round.<br />
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This beautiful new watch was completely hand-made by Roger Smith, in England. It has a small seconds indicator at VI and a date window between IX and X. The hands are carved from gold rods. It costs a fortune and is a real work of art. That's my hand holding it.</div>
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My wife's Sinn watch has a mother-of-pearl dial, a date window in place of the VI, and raised Roman numerals for all the other hour indications. There are dots on the outer perimeter of the dial to indicate minutes. The hands glow in the dark (faintly).<br />
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This Chronoswiss Regulator watch has three hands on separate arbors (shafts), like old "<i>grandfather</i>" clocks. The hours are shown on the top subdial, indicated with Roman numerals. The minute hand is in the middle with Arabic numerals every 5 minutes around the outside of the minute track. The seconds are on the bottom subdial, which is also labeled with Arabic numerals.</div>
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Here's a last sample, a dressy regulator watch with hours at 2 o'clock, indicated by tiny Roman numerals. The minutes hand revolves around the center arbor, the seconds are on the subdial at 6, and the phase of the moon shown at 10. The hands are made like arrows, to reflects the company's name, which translates in English as Gold Arrow.</div>
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<br /></div>CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-79374697699167584942012-01-29T15:16:00.000-08:002012-01-29T23:00:36.265-08:00Telling Time I: With Arabic HandsIn this short series of posts, I'll review a few of the many different ways that we can tell time. I'm thinking how we've done it in the last hundred years, though - no sundials or Mesopotamian exotica.<br />
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As I've been writing for elementary math students for the past decade, I tend to think about concepts introduced in math class. Telling time is one of those. As Head of <b>Curating Cazalea</b>, of course I own most of these watches. Or I did once. Even if I don't admit it to my wife.<br />
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<b>TELLING TIME WITH ARABIC NUMERALS & HANDS</b></div>
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We have adopted the general term "<i><b>analog</b></i>" to describe the stereotypical round clock or watch with 2 or 3 hands that revolve around a central arbor. The hands point at numerals. Let's look at the possible variations for clocks and watches with hands pointing to <b>Arabic numerals</b>:</div>
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Here's a favorite watch I formerly owned. This has 12 very distinct <b>Arabic</b> <b>numerals</b>, a short wide<b> hour hand</b>, a longer, narrower <b>minute hand</b>, and a delicate <b>second hand</b>. In addition, the <b>minute track</b> is clearly indicated and the<b> minute hand</b> and <b>second hands</b> reach right into it, so you need not guess at the minutes or seconds.</div>
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This Eterna KonTiki also is clear and easy to read, even though it only has the <b>even</b> numbers. The <b>odd</b> numbers are implied by raised <b>index markers</b> (indices). The <b>minute</b> and <b>hour hands</b> are obviously different lengths and easy to tell apart. They have fine tips to point directly at a target. The <b>second hand</b> has a bright red tip. The <b>minute</b> and<b> second track</b> is clearly marked. This watch adds a<b> date indication</b> window at the 3 o'clock position.<br />
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Now you can see I've chosen a watch made specifically for kids. It's a clean and simple black dial, with very clear, contrasting orange numerals. It has no markers, minute track, logos or distractions. </div>
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This fancy Ulysse Nardin watch is the exact opposite of the previous sample. It uses very elaborate Art Deco Arabic numerals. The company logo is at the 3 o'clock position, the <b>date window</b> and a <b>small seconds display</b> are at 6 o'clock, and a<b> power reserve indicator</b> is below the 12. The four hands are blued (a heat treatment applied to the metal) so they stand out from the dial and are easier to see. The power reserve indicator simply shows you if the watch is fully wound or about to run down. [I never owned this watch]</div>
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This Grand Seiko watch is a simpler 3-hand timepiece, with no <b>numerals</b> at all. The <b>second</b>, <b>minute</b> and<b> hour hands</b> are obviously of different length and width, so we can easily tell them apart. They do not end right at their axis, but have a tail that extends beyond the point about which they rotate. The indices are similar to one another, but thicker (wider) on the 3, 6, 9 and 12. </div>
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Finally, the Movado "Museum" watch is about as simple as a watch with hands can be. It has a spot at 12 to indicate the top, a faint logo at the bottom, and nothing else on the dial. So we have a hard time telling the exact minutes, and can't see seconds at all. But at a glance, we can see hours and minutes. [Never owned this one either]</div>
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<br /></div>CAZALEAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13186014453390821886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431691841382686656.post-19488019244269751952012-01-29T15:01:00.000-08:002019-07-29T16:24:09.880-07:00Curating CazaleaMay I introduce myself?<br />
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My name is <b>Citromike</b> - a combination of <b>Citro-</b>en (I've owned dozens of the cars) and <b>Mike</b> (my real middle name). I've used Citromike as part of my email address for nearly 20 years.<br />
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For 44 years I've been gainfully employed in publishing, as writer, editor, publisher and consultant. You'll soon see that I like organization and heirarchy and headings in bold fonts; that I worked in technical and educational publishing rather than magazines; and that I like to define my terms. For example, "<i><b>Monetizing</b></i>" is not a word that I'd choose to repeat in polite company.<br />
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I've been blogging for 30 months now - creating nearly 600 posts. Every weekday, day in and day out, with only the occasional day off for holidays. <a href="http://excelmathmike.blogspot.com/">You can find them at excelmathmike.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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But I've retired now, and I'm heading in a new direction, taking on a new identity, and a new mission. <br />
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In the meantime, millions of other bloggers in the world have taken all the easy and obvious blog titles. So I have titled this blog <b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Curating Cazalea</span></b>. Google likes this unique name, and I believe it reflects the task I am taking on.<br />
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<i>How so? </i>you may ask, <i>What does it mean?</i> <br />
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1. A <b>curator</b> (from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <span lang="la"><i>cura</i></span> meaning "care") is a manager or overseer. A <b>curator</b> is keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library, etc.) and a content specialist responsible for its collections and material. A <b>curator</b> is concerned with tangible objects - artwork, collectibles, historic items or scientific collections.<br />
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<i>Note: as in the case of this definition, I may adopt small bits and pieces from Wikipedia. I contribute both money and content to Wikipedia, and I encourage you to do the same. However, since I am an incurable editor, I tend to condense and clarify the somewhat verbose definitions found there ...</i><br />
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2. In the same way that a <b>museum</b> <b>curator</b> may acquire objects
or an <b>art curator</b> may interpret a work of art, technology's impact on every aspect of life has caused the emergence of<b> technology
curators</b>; able to disentangle and interpret a
particular technology and apply it to real world situations and society. <br />
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3. A <b>curate</b> (from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i>cūrātus,</i> from <i>cūra</i> meaning "spiritual oversight") a clergyman appointed to assist a parish priest; a clergyman who has charge of a parish.<br />
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4. <i>(Irish)</i> an assistant barman.<br />
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Enough of that word, now to the other one. <b>Cazalea</b> is a term we created out of thin air to describe our home in California. <br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Interpretation</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
These words could define me! A jack-of-all-trades and master of one or two. I have collections, I want to interpret them, I look to their spiritual significance, and I am not adverse to pouring an occasional glass ... in fact <i><b>Curating</b></i> intrigues me, and I look forward to learning more about it.<br />
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As I look around <b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cazalea</span></b>, I seem to have collections of all sorts. In fact, my most notable vice is collecting: <br />
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<li>clocks</li>
<li>oriental rugs</li>
<li>oriental rug books </li>
<li>Russian icons</li>
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<li>copper objects</li>
<li>Mr Bibendum (the Michelin Man)</li>
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<li>muselet (champagne caps)</li>
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I suppose I should consider <b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Curating the Collections at Cazalea</span></b> as the long title, and object of this blog. Thanks for stopping by. The next post will be up momentarily ...</div>
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