If I Had a Voice I Would Sing, 2009 by Michelle Arcila

So it seems, summer is over. It’s the first week of September and already the weather is cooling off; the city is once again flooded with people returning from their vacations, new students are arriving to begin college, no more concerts in the Park, no more beach trips… and I’m not ready. Everyone is back to the grind, and with all the rain we had this summer, I’m not wiling to surrender to September just yet. Here are some ways I’m trying to keep the relaxing days of summer with me as long as I can. Please, come with me!

Take one last—or first, if you were tragically stranded in the city—summer retreat with this animated video by New York Times contributor Jeff Scher, titled Summer Retreat. It’s a relaxing, beautiful short that manages to make you feel like it’s July at the beach in only one and a half minutes.

I keep going back to Hot Shot Michelle Arcila’s photographs; her work never ceases to amaze. I especially love her set In August from her Flickr Photostream, which Jeffrey linked to in an earlier post, also about the end of summer. The set contains some beautifully serene photographs, including staple summer scenes like lake-swimming and a blanket blowing in the wind of the woods.

For an away-from-the-computer-and-outside activity, I’m looking forward to checking out Dome Colony X at the San Gabriels created by Fritz Haeg at x-initiative on 22nd Street between 10th and 11th Ave. The show space contains, “a shifting encampment or colony of four geodesic dome tents for occupations, gatherings, regular meetings, and intimate organized activities,” all set within a mural of LA’s own San Gabriel mountains. As a native Los Angeleno myself, I’m very interested in seeing this 8000 square foot “Mountain Colony.” Find out more on their website or just go! It’s running until October 24, Wed.-Sat. 11am-6pm.

Am I the only one who hasn’t been to the High Line? I’m going this weekend. Also, just watched this video on Governors Island— perfect summer activity, seven minute ferry ride away and it’s open year-round. It’s still warm enough and I don’t have a pile of work on my desk just yet, so I’m going to get on it before the leaves change and the wind picks up and the snow starts to fall…

This entry was posted on Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 3:00 pm by Jeffrey Teuton and is filed under Uncategorized, elsewhere, events, exhibitions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.