After a few years of using the blue ripples as my Gravatar, recently I’ve created a new one. It combines several of my interests… at present. I designed the set and took the photo in a mini makeshift ‘studio’, a little corner on a desk.
This Gravatar depicts pages rippling in fight, the soaring power of words. From the symbolic to the actual, most noticeable in the background is my bird book, guide to a new-found passion.
Underneath the pages in flight is Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. While Hemingway may not be my favorite writer, the title of this book is significant, albeit you can’t see it here. Less noticeable is the screenplay I’m writing at the base of the pile. Can you see the brad? And oh, the title of the open book? Roger Ebert’s memoir Life Itself.
Books, films, birds and screenplay in progress… a moveable feast.
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Thanks to Alyce of At Home With Books for hosting Saturday Snapshot.
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A Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemingway
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I love the way you put this together.
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Thanks readerbuzz.
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A wonderful configuration of some elements that define you at this moment. I like the rippling pages very well.
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Yes, nikkipolani, defining me at this moment. I like that.
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Very nice. I love your header btw…
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Thanks for stopping by, Ellen. Glad you noticed the header. 😉
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That’s a great photo composition. I love how you put it together.
Here’s my Snapshot.
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Bev,
Thanks for stopping by and the link to your Snapshot. Precious memory for you there.
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Arti you are clever with words and i like the idea of the book rippling and exposing its word power. And we all would like to know more about your script and the message.
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Thanks Hedda for your kind words. I hope one day I can really show you all what my screenplay is about … on screen. 😉
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That is a beautiful photo. My Snapshot is at http://goo.gl/CQuKI
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Thanks Christine for stopping by. I always learn something whenever I visit your informative posts. Thanks for sharing the link to your Snapshot.
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How cool is that! I’m not a big fan of Hemingway either, but I did like A Moveable Feast! I wish more of his books were like that.
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Trish,
Yes, I can really appreciate him more after reading A Moveable Feast. Even though he may not be my fave, I’ve enjoyed his style and the power of simple and direct prose.
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A nice way to show the significant goings-on in your life!
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Alyce,
Yes, I had in mind designing a Gravatar like writing my About page. So here’s the visual version of it. Thanks for hosting Saturday Snapshot.
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Ordinary Words….Feels like you are getting all your ducks in a row, so to speak….here’s to progress/success♫♪
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Imkazmlerczak,
You’re spot on with the pun. Designing and taking the photo of my Gravatar can definitely clarify the moment for me.
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Great picture. You’ve thought it through to make it symbolic. I’ve been meaning to read A Moveable Feast for some time, I’m off to read your post first.
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Louise,
You know, what prompted me to read AMF was reading Paula McLain’s book The Paris Wife, about Hemingway’s first wife. Maybe you’d also like to read that book too. It’s really good.
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How awesome; well done.
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Thanks Diane! Appreciate your stopping by and leaving me your encouraging words.
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I love your new gravatar, and the way you put it together, but I love most everything you do.
A Moveable Feast was the novel which finally convinced me to love Hemingway; despite my high school teacher’s best intentions, they could not complete that feat. But, understanding him through that novel made me appreciate his others. Much more than I ever did before.
Looking forward to our Anna posts, coming in five days. I hope that I can condense what I want to say into meaningful bits; I’m looking forward to your thoughts very much.
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Bellezza,
You’re always the encourager. Thanks for your kind words. I’ve enjoyed our exchanges. And you know what, even if there are differences of opinion, we still keep our mutual visits. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it, re. this magnificent space called the blogosphere. I look forward to your thoughts on Anna K. too. I’m curious to see if we share similar or diff. views on it, and esp. about Anna. Nov. 15, yes, that’s the date when we wrap up the book and release us to see the movie. 😉
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I just love how that one image holds so many meanings altogether. Perhaps one day you might write something we’d be able to read, in published form? 🙂
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Claire,
I hope so too. 😉 Thanks for stopping by and leaving your kind words.
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I’d noticed the new avatar but hadn’t gotten around to commenting, and now I’m glad I didn’t. It gave you a chance to introduce it properly, and a wonderful job you did – both in the construction and the explanation!
I’ve no inclination to change mine, but it does suddenly amuse me to think again that “she” is from Mucha’s “Poetry”. He did “Dance”, “Music”, and “Painting” as well – I wonder what “Prose” would have looked like, if he’d illustrated her? 😉
Do you know what I like best about the avatar-as-photo? The brads in the filmscript. Those bits of “real world” are a wonderful counterpoint.
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Linda,
I’ve always wanted to ask you about your Gravatar. Thanks for sharing here. I admit I’m not familiar with Mucha, so this is just great. What an impressive set of paintings with titles like those… makes me think of the Muses.
Also, the smallest thing can be the most significant, isn’t it? You’re spot on about the brad. Just that tiny brass head represent so much work, frustration, uncertainty, and hope…
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SO much significance in one small image, and very pleasing to the eye, too. Well done!
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Thank you JoAnn!
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I think the new gravatar is lovely, and I very much enjoyed reading about the thought and the symbolism that went into it. There is always so much care and attention to detail in what you do, Arti – wonderful.
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Thanks litlove for your kind words. Alas, a fastidious perfectionist has to pay her price… often it’s time. 😉
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Very nice Arti! I like it!
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Thanks Stefanie!
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Arti, I just love how you included so gracefully all your interests! This really is a perfect gravatar for Ripple Effects and I love it as a piece of personal art as well! Very nice indeed.
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Jeanie,
Thanks! At least for the time being I’ll stick with it… until I think of something else. I miss the blue water already.
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Nice! You put a lot more thought into it than most of us do. I just cropped an apple blossom from a large photo of my tree.
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O Leslie, in your case, an apple blossom is the most apt image for your blog ‘Under My Apple Tree’. I’ve enjoyed seeing it all along. 😉
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Okay, you haven’t posted AK yet! So I’ll wait and hope to read your words before boarding my painting ladder in an hour or so… It will be hours before I come down. So if I miss being an early commenter, know I’ll be looking forward to reading your thoughts this evening, when I’ll all holy good and tired like Levin coming in from the fields.
In the meantime, I’ll gush over your new avatar. I like how your image brings to mind the wings of a soaring bird and how it’s anchored by your budding dream of a screenplay. Gosh, Arti, don’t all great works begin with a dream — perhaps fueled by other great works — and at least for some, maybe a prayer or two, that we hope “will rise on wings like eagles?”
Bravo. Truly, it’s a moveable feast hero sandwich with that open book on top written by your own hero of art critics. 🙂
Don’t rush. Waiting is good for me.
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Janell,
I think you just missed it by a minute. Anyway, enjoy your painting. Aren’t we all grateful for artistic outlets. The moveable sandwich, LOL! So true, never thought of it. Great idea. And yes, I await too of your pebble in the pond for my Anna K. wrap-up post. Don’t rush. Waiting is good for me. 😉
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Lovely, and full of meaning. Nice!
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Thanks Shari. And I’m glad you’re joining Sat. Snapshot too. I don’t post every Sat. But I know where to go on Sat. 😉
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