The Maroon Vol. 2… No. 90 Thursday, November 17, 2022
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: TikTok
Macky’s New York: Central Park South With Fog and Plants
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame: Made For & Inspired By RHS Alumni
RHS Tired Teens: Later School Start Times
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
Deborah Bryant Handwoven: Wooden Hand Loom Woven Textiles
Jeff Meyers: How Did Music Evolve?
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Kathy & Ross Petras: You’re Saying It Wrong
Observer
TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video app. Influencers/creators are transforming stiff brand messages into videos by consistently engaging people in a fun & authentic ways. TikTok boasts about recommendations instead of algorithms to keep it simple to explain their own popularity:
”A stream of videos curated to your interests, making it easy to find content and creators you love … powered by a recommendation system that delivers content to each user that is likely to be of interest to that particular user.”
Here is one to get you started featuring RHS:
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
November 1, 2022 - Central Park
Central Park South With Fog and Plants
This is the last photo from my walk in Central Park today - it was cold and warm...it was dry and wet all at the same time as I stood by the edge of the Pond and shot this reflection with fog on the building tops and the last of the surviving leaves in the frame.
Looking south west.
Time 1030am
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
Looking down at the "underpass" from the Southbound side of the train station.
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Made For & Inspired By RHS Alumni
Visit The RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Digital Printing for the RHS Hall of Fame provided by Tim Boucher, RHS 1988
RHS Tired Teens
Later School Start Times
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
M + A is a destination devoted to art, artists, artisans and design. We are inspired by art as it relates to design: the soul, the spark that ignites beautiful ideas. We are equally as motivated by craft traditions passed down from generations.
Shop home décor and wearable accessories at www.mplusanyc.com
Jeff Meyers
How Did Music Evolve?
how did music evolve?
in the beginning was rhythm
rainfall,
rocks set loose,
feet tromping along...
ah, but melody's origins
are more elusive,
wind blowing through trees -
the speed changes,
thunder rolls along...
insects, frogs
bird after bird call,
and, soon enough,
harmony came along -
insect, frog, bird
called to one another,
imitating the wind,
playing on a pine needle,
talking together, or amongst themselves
to make sense of each storm,
trying to find a way
to speak
and listen...
and, after that
or maybe
along
with
it
came
dance.
Deborah Bryant Handwoven
Wooden Hand Loom Woven Textiles
"All work is completed by me on one of two wooden hand looms in my bright mountain studio.”
Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
Today was supposed to be the day we pulled the dock out of the river. John even made a special trip home to help out. But discretion is telling us otherwise. It's not the cold. It's that the snow is making everything too slippery to mess around with a 200 pound dock. Maybe it's just a day to go exploring. If the dock gets frozen in for the winter, well then, that's too bad for the dock.
Kathy & Ross Petras
You’re Saying It Wrong
facetious / sarcastic
“‘Please try Obamacare today,’ Seinfeld says to the camera with a facetious smile.” —MSNBC.COM
In reading this, we’re not smiling factiously, chiefly because there is no such thing as a facetious smile. Facetious refers to words not actions. What you say is facetious, but the accompanying smile isn’t.
A facetious remark is jocular, more gentle; a sarcastic one is cutting, sneering.
That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Ross & Kathy’s podcast: