Seventh Ave. at 20th Street. Everything is priced to sell. There will be a live webcast viewable here: www.ArtBazaar.tv. Then fireworks. Loves, L.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Art Bazaar at Lyons Wier
Prrrrobably showing a bunch of my paintings July 4-5 at Lyons Wier's Art Bazaar.
Seventh Ave. at 20th Street. Everything is priced to sell. There will be a live webcast viewable here: www.ArtBazaar.tv. Then fireworks. Loves, L.
Seventh Ave. at 20th Street. Everything is priced to sell. There will be a live webcast viewable here: www.ArtBazaar.tv. Then fireworks. Loves, L.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
And when the groove is dead and gone
Cab driver last night was awesome enough to turn the MJ way up. That Rod Temperton line in Rock With U made me tear up. "And when the groove is dead and gone. You know that love survives. So we can rock forever."
Michael Jackson brought so much joy and fun to the planet. All that glitter echoes out. When I heard the news I was sitting on my bed with Chani, Hershy and Mary singing a song we just made up called "Good Love." Rest in peace and love, MJ.
Michael Jackson brought so much joy and fun to the planet. All that glitter echoes out. When I heard the news I was sitting on my bed with Chani, Hershy and Mary singing a song we just made up called "Good Love." Rest in peace and love, MJ.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Amazing Things Are Happening Here
Jennifer Leigh Aschoff sent me this awesome message today:
LB! I saw this huge sign last night, driving by the NY Presbyterian Hospital and I thought of you! I hope you enjoy this too...the sign is really large!!!! I love it! XO
YAY! I so appreciate this. I'm working daily on a discipline to re-program my negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones. It's an experiment - switching focus to safety and joy. The only thing that holds me back is negativity in my head...
LB! I saw this huge sign last night, driving by the NY Presbyterian Hospital and I thought of you! I hope you enjoy this too...the sign is really large!!!! I love it! XO
YAY! I so appreciate this. I'm working daily on a discipline to re-program my negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones. It's an experiment - switching focus to safety and joy. The only thing that holds me back is negativity in my head...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Using My Voice
Last year I wrote an entry about the part of my job where I help run conferences at big hotels and coordinated with top brass government speakers like Colin Powell, Tom Daschle, Giuliani, etc.
A part of me wants to participate in Q&A and give my opinions or ask some intense questions and then the work-employee part of me never lets that happen.
I had an opportunity yesterday to speak up again. After Paul Begala's speech (I know.. he's not top brass, but he's pretty deeply in the scene), someone questioned him about North Korea. He said he was sure Hillary would be very strong in pushing N. Korea to disarm and shut down their nuclear program. He said it was upsetting and scary. Course I was thinking how come no acknowledgment that America is the only country that's actually used nukes to kill pple? How come our stash is ok? Couldn't we set an example and disarm first?
So I caught him after and asked him myself.
The affirmations I do in the morning mention "my actions are aligned with my thinking" and how fantastic for me to do something that made that a fact.
It just made sense for me to be myself and go ahead and tell Begala my opinion. Did it my own way - in private, with softness and interest in his reply. So I feel great. He said Obama is on top of disarmament with a project called Global Zero. Sounds rad, and I'm hopeful but also really skeptical. It'll have to come from below. But lots of great things get started with small steps.
From my twitter. Clicking on it makes it big:
A part of me wants to participate in Q&A and give my opinions or ask some intense questions and then the work-employee part of me never lets that happen.
I had an opportunity yesterday to speak up again. After Paul Begala's speech (I know.. he's not top brass, but he's pretty deeply in the scene), someone questioned him about North Korea. He said he was sure Hillary would be very strong in pushing N. Korea to disarm and shut down their nuclear program. He said it was upsetting and scary. Course I was thinking how come no acknowledgment that America is the only country that's actually used nukes to kill pple? How come our stash is ok? Couldn't we set an example and disarm first?
So I caught him after and asked him myself.
The affirmations I do in the morning mention "my actions are aligned with my thinking" and how fantastic for me to do something that made that a fact.
It just made sense for me to be myself and go ahead and tell Begala my opinion. Did it my own way - in private, with softness and interest in his reply. So I feel great. He said Obama is on top of disarmament with a project called Global Zero. Sounds rad, and I'm hopeful but also really skeptical. It'll have to come from below. But lots of great things get started with small steps.
From my twitter. Clicking on it makes it big:
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Literally
As of yesterday, 5,000 U.S. servicemember deaths reported in Iraq & Afghanistan.
I think 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001. The number of civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan is unclear. As many as 100,000 to more than a million. Millions of families are now displaced.
I was taught in 2nd grade Hebrew school that the bible says "an eye for an eye." I thought it was jarring and gruesome. I wanted to believe it was the word of god, but I wondered how the teacher could let that sentence roll off her tongue to a room of seven year olds. I figured she had to be telling the truth. I took it literally.
That was my second year in Hebrew school and the start of my doubts about this new religious business that my Mom was really getting into.
“We’ve given war, pestilence, hate, greed, judgment, ego, self-sufficiency a good try, and it failed. We need a new paradigm that consists of kindness, courtesy, justice, love and respect in all our relationships.” - from a March 2008 speech by Dr. George Tiller before the Feminist Majority Foundation (courtesy of Democracy Now!)
I think 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001. The number of civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan is unclear. As many as 100,000 to more than a million. Millions of families are now displaced.
I was taught in 2nd grade Hebrew school that the bible says "an eye for an eye." I thought it was jarring and gruesome. I wanted to believe it was the word of god, but I wondered how the teacher could let that sentence roll off her tongue to a room of seven year olds. I figured she had to be telling the truth. I took it literally.
That was my second year in Hebrew school and the start of my doubts about this new religious business that my Mom was really getting into.
“We’ve given war, pestilence, hate, greed, judgment, ego, self-sufficiency a good try, and it failed. We need a new paradigm that consists of kindness, courtesy, justice, love and respect in all our relationships.” - from a March 2008 speech by Dr. George Tiller before the Feminist Majority Foundation (courtesy of Democracy Now!)
Monday, May 25, 2009
Thrilled & stoked & giddy at Late Night
Wayne gave us a posh tour.
Debbie on the floor.
This was Conan's old dressing room. I was trying to inhale all the residual genius from the air.
Fallon studio floor (thrilled!)
and in the doorway of Conan's old studio (stoked!!). I squealed!
The Amazing Kreskin told us to never stop asking questions.
Got to shake Questlove's hand and tell him how awesome he is. Behind us, David Cook and Kreskin do a photo.
All this after the Beastie Boys played a song with The Roots. SO FUN! (giddy)
Debbie on the floor.
This was Conan's old dressing room. I was trying to inhale all the residual genius from the air.
Fallon studio floor (thrilled!)
and in the doorway of Conan's old studio (stoked!!). I squealed!
The Amazing Kreskin told us to never stop asking questions.
Got to shake Questlove's hand and tell him how awesome he is. Behind us, David Cook and Kreskin do a photo.
All this after the Beastie Boys played a song with The Roots. SO FUN! (giddy)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Ross & Laura May 24 + dance party!
Ross & Laura plus special friends playing our silly hearts out for free on Sunday night, May 24th. We're opening for our amazing friends Americans in France from Chapel Hill, NC. Afterwards, Ross and I are DJing with more friends at Happy Ending Lounge. The venues are around the corner from each other. I'm really excited too because my gorgeous and talented friend Debbie is going to be in the house from LA. Hayy yo!
Ross designed the flier. I love it.
The theme here is friends, I'm seeing...and fun. There's a lot to celebrate including those 2 great things. Come out and dance in your pants.
Ross designed the flier. I love it.
The theme here is friends, I'm seeing...and fun. There's a lot to celebrate including those 2 great things. Come out and dance in your pants.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Take Care of Yourself
"Love, life and death - all of that is the most mundane material for artists. It amuses me because people often say, doesn't it bother you to show your private life? I say, well if you ruled out private life, you would have to eliminate all poetry. Victor Hugo, Baudelaire and Verlaine use their emotional life as subject matter."
- Sophie Calle in 2007Moved to tears
power of making private pain public
sharing
support
female friends
dissection
openness
throroughness
the woman laughing
the comedy with tragedy
the sharing of something real and the stage, the theatrics of life's drama
the value in personal despair being exposed
we can all relate
i wondered about her childhood
her mother and father
why we choose to pursue people who deny us
love and addiction
self defeating choices
demands
affairs
the heart
on my street where i sleep and eat and make my paintings!!!
Take Care of Yourself by Sophie Calle at Paula Cooper Gallery 534 W. 21 Street till May 22.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sleep Dealer
Saw this movie Sleep Dealer yesterday. Wow. Kind of a Philip K. Dick look at the future. Really moving, chilling and warm at the same time. The power of film is undeniable and amazing to me.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Letter to Hitler on Forgiving
dear adolf hitler,
and also to all the people involved in poland and germany and all the places where the murdering and torturing ideas developed into minds and hearts,
tracing back the anguish and issues in my family it leads to you guys. yes, there's judgment in my heart for you guys. i know i don't want to judge, but the horror...
i know you were doing your best, but it scares me to see the depths of the lows. it saddens me a lot, and i see the similarities i have in my character. you all must have had very unhappy childhood conditioning and experiences, and i forgive you. and all of us. and me. we are all doing our very best. and mistakes are part of this experience.
i believe there is a place for it all, and there's a place for disastrous mistakes.
even my anger i feel when i'm typing this and thinking about this is the same root feeling of what you all acted on.
the truth is, i want to forgive and i am willing to forgive. so, i forgive myself for my daily mistakes and inauthentic-ness and i forgive you for your dishonesty to the true human soulful kind spirit.
and i accept that all of your experiences were none of my business. and i must acknowledge that my experience with all the trickled down fallout from WW2 has been a real gift in more ways than a shitstorm, since i've been blessed with the desire to change and the tragic things that have happened really have forced that desire to spark alive and shine.
thank you for this opportunity for me to really stretch and grow kinder.
love, laura
and also to all the people involved in poland and germany and all the places where the murdering and torturing ideas developed into minds and hearts,
tracing back the anguish and issues in my family it leads to you guys. yes, there's judgment in my heart for you guys. i know i don't want to judge, but the horror...
i know you were doing your best, but it scares me to see the depths of the lows. it saddens me a lot, and i see the similarities i have in my character. you all must have had very unhappy childhood conditioning and experiences, and i forgive you. and all of us. and me. we are all doing our very best. and mistakes are part of this experience.
i believe there is a place for it all, and there's a place for disastrous mistakes.
even my anger i feel when i'm typing this and thinking about this is the same root feeling of what you all acted on.
the truth is, i want to forgive and i am willing to forgive. so, i forgive myself for my daily mistakes and inauthentic-ness and i forgive you for your dishonesty to the true human soulful kind spirit.
and i accept that all of your experiences were none of my business. and i must acknowledge that my experience with all the trickled down fallout from WW2 has been a real gift in more ways than a shitstorm, since i've been blessed with the desire to change and the tragic things that have happened really have forced that desire to spark alive and shine.
thank you for this opportunity for me to really stretch and grow kinder.
love, laura
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
The Beautiful Truth
Just watched this documentary The Beautiful Truth. A beautiful film about drug-free method of curing terminal illnesses.
1. Throw out your fluoride toothpaste. Fluoride is toxic.
2. Don't eat anything with MSG or aspartame in it. Cancerous. Stay away from processed foods.
3. Old "silver" dental fillings contain mercury. Cancer causing. Get them replaced safely.
4. Organic vegan diet is a big step towards healing from within. Proven to work.
Must See. Netflix it immediately.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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