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Recent project: Editing the photos and journal of my China trip. Most frustrating ongoing project: So-far-unsuccessfully trying to photograph in two dimensions the fluid spatial and formal relationships in my favorite, fourteen-element mobile, "Complex Composition."
The photograph is with a class of students I met in the Virupaksha Temple in Hampi, India in 2003, a country rich in several millennia of overlaying cultures. For India photos, go to flickr.com -- paulsikora. For mobiles and earlier photos, go to www.lightspaceart.com.
About my libraryI have been addicted to books and used book stores since age fourteen. I seek no cure. My favorite: The full-sized, thirteen-volume hardbound Oxford English Dictionary, 1937 edition, acquired in 1971 while programming computers for a living. I love the English Language. My most hard-won skill: writing. (I was not a very good programmer.)
Based on the number of rereadings, my favorite books are Ursula LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" and Mark Helprin's "Winter's Tale" and "Refiner's Fire." Others are the dark, murky World War II espionage novels by Alan Furst, especially "Dark Star" and "Night Soldiers." My favorite in college and for a decade thereafter was "Catch 22," still the funniest book I have read and, as later experience demonstrated, the best guide to bureaucracy.
My favorite writer's style manual has always been the highly compressed, one-paragraph to one-page stories in Hemingway's second book, "In Our Time." He demonstrated that the more tightly compressed the thoughts and the more tangible the images, the more powerful their impact.
Re the arts, note the varied books tagged "studio."
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Have you tried www.casca.net? Its the Casca fans website and has everything there about the series, fans feedback and news about forthcoming books coming out soon.
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posted by Cascawebsite at 1:13 pm (EST) on Mar 4, 2008
posted by Ecrivaine32 at 11:25 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007
You said you had some India photos. I would love to see then. And yes, I do have a keen interest in Eastern religions. I was trying to read the Gita at one point, because I find it intriguing and I visited a local temple in Maryland when I first moved here, just on the right day to see a puja to Lord Vishnu -- very colorful and amazing.
You also asked if I am a writer. I'm an Army Guard journalist, and I'd like to write creatively outside of that, but I've never really tried. Here is what I wrote from my personal perspective for a local publication in Wyoming, however, after I got back from duty during post-Hurricane Katrina ops in New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005, by Jennifer Sardam
posted by Ecrivaine32 at 11:22 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007
July 18, 2007 - Book Club
Meals to Come: A history of the Future of Food
By Warren Belasco
Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level, 5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW
Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm
If you can drop by, say hello, introduce yourself. Fun to meet fellow lawyer LT'er in the area.
posted by keylawk at 5:50 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2007
posted by keylawk at 1:52 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2007
Thanks. Jen
posted by Ecrivaine32 at 2:22 pm (EST) on Dec 7, 2006