This is a crossover blog, harkening back to the time-tested comic book tradition of having comic hero B appear in comic hero A's issue, then A appears in B. One of the best examples is Spiderman/X-Force from 1990:
(Yes, the issues were printed sideways/landscape-orientation, and meant to be read sideways [don't be stupid and turn your head sideways]). The plots might be silly, but the art was EXCELLENT: Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man and Rob Liefeld’s X-Force!!
What makes this a crossover is dixonheadingwest concerns itself with Art Museums and National Parks, while dixonheadingnorth documents my hiking endeavors - 4000-footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine. So today is the Colby College Museum of Art and Counting Crows concert in Bangor, while tomorrow will cover hiking the Knife Edge Trail and Baxter Peak up on Mount Katahdin in Maine.
Got up to Colby College Museum of Art by 4 PM. They have a WONDERFUL collection, displayed in a lot of space, so everything can breath and be appreciated on its own. Highlights include:
Frederic Edwin Church - View from Olana in the Snow, c. 1871
Frederic Edwin Church - Final Study for The Icebergs, 1860
Winslow Homer - The Trapper, 1870
Sanford Robinson Gifford - The Marshes of the Hudson, 1878
Virgil Williams - View of Mt. Katahdin from the West Branch of the Penobscot River, 1870
(where I am going hiking tomorrow!)
John Singer Sargent - Rosina, 1878
Two excellent paintings by Thomas Moran:
Morning, Outskirts of Venice, 1907
Acoma, 1902
Alfred Jacob Miller - Buffalo Hunt with Lances, 1858
detail:
Albert Bierstadt - View of Chimney Rock, Ohalilah Sioux Village in the Foreground, 1860
which reminds me of my visit to Chimney Rock (Sept. 30, 2013)
It was an hour to get up the road to Bangor - "Bangor Waterfront" (right alongside the Penobscot River) was the location for tonight's concert. It was a beautiful afternoon/evening:
Rob Thomas and his band did a great set
and then it was me with The Crows - Right Here, Right Now!
My favorite part was them doing "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" followed by a killer version of "Recovering the Satellites"!!
As the show was ending, Adam comes out and makes his "public service announcements". And he said "You know, we never played a gig in Maine until we did an awesome show in Portland last year, and this has been fantastic! We Will Be Back!"
Only had to drive a couple of miles to the night at the Day's Inn Airport in Bangor (very nice room - clean and spacious). Thank you God for a GREAT DAY!
Music today - windows rolled down, so I took advantage of this time-chunk to listen to The Brit Box: UK Indie Shoegaze & Brit Pop Gems:
To quote the product description: The Brit Box features all of the styles that wormed their way into the hearts of the music lovers during the late '80s, all through the '90s and beyond including Indie, Shoegaze, Baggy and Brit-Pop.
I'm sorry, but of the 78-songs-over-4-cds, I only like maybe a dozen. So time for some "cleaning" (yes, I do "get rid of stuff" once in a while!)
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine (I will be hiking Mt. Katahdin and Knife Edge Trail tomorrow)
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