From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #234 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, September 26 2000 Volume 05 : Number 234 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: music and painting [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: music and painting [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: music and painting [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: OT: job woes [Beth Meyer ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:25:20 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: music and painting At 18:56 2000.09.22, you wrote: >The mention of Matisse and Dolby together as creative influences for the >band Venus Hum makes me think again of all the ways in which music and >painting are similar. (Lovely quote snipped for brevity's sake) >Anyway... thanks for listening. I'm feeling inspired all over again by >the forward Thomas sent! Interesting that this should come up now, as I ran into a similar example of artistic fusion just a few days ago. I spotted the current issue of Handwoven on a shopping trip last week, and when I picked it up to thumb through, discovered that the feature articles this time are on how to weave music. It's a little complex, but what it breaks down to is assigning each note a colour or shade and then setting up and weaving your piece using the sheet music of whatever tune you've chosen as the pattern. I couldn't help wondering what Budapest By Blimp would look like as a piece of cloth. Intriguing, isn't it? Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:35:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: music and painting Robyn.. this really is *very* inspiring to me, as you may recall I've been trying to teach myself some fiber arts/embroidery etc. Hmm, Budapest By Blimp as a woven textile... Though I don't do any weaving, sadly, I've been getting a little better/more adventurous at embroidery over the years, and right now I'm trying to design a quilt for my husband and I that illustrates particular meanings for us in each square. To somehow work out an embroidery that goes along with the sheet music for one of Thomas' songs - that would be truly meaningful to me in the quilt! Also the quilt will keep me even warmer on those cold winter nights, with Thomas music woven right into it :) The sheer alchemy of it all is mind boggling. Robyn, thanks for mentioning this!! Are you thinking of trying it? xxxxx Robin T - --- Robyn Moore wrote: > It's a little complex, but what it breaks > down to is assigning each > note a colour or shade and then setting up and > weaving your piece using the > sheet music of whatever tune you've chosen as the > pattern. I couldn't help > wondering what Budapest By Blimp would look like as > a piece of cloth. > Intriguing, isn't it? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:51:13 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: music and painting At 14:35 2000.09.25, you wrote: >Robyn, thanks for mentioning this!! Are you thinking >of trying it? Anytime. :) I don't have time to try it right now - I'm already supposed to be working on knitting an afghan for Kevin. However, I'll probably pick up a copy of the magazine so I'll have the reference when I do have the time. Good luck on your needlework. :) Robyn M ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:57:09 -0400 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Alloy: OT: job woes Hi, folks; FYI, since I've alluded to my uncertain job situation on this list before, I thought you deserved an update. (If you don't care, delete at will...) My husband and I both worked in the same organization, the research and advanced development organization of the former U S WEST. This company was recently bought by another company (Qwest), which then decided that it really didn't need a separate research organization and split us up all over the company. They then announced massive layoffs. My husband was laid off last Wednesday. However, he had already been pursuing another job, and should get that offer this week, so this was a really good situation for him. Basically, he gets the large severance package and gets to make the job move he was planning to make anyway. I found out recently that I am NOT being laid off. Unfortunately, the extremely close-knit and uniformly excellent group of 27 people, in which I've been working since I got out here in '98, is being cut down to eight people (myself included). And four of them owe their jobs to the fact that they were moved into different organizations. I'm losing my incredibly wonderful boss, both the new colleague and the intern who I had spent many hours training this year, and most of the people who were the reason I wanted to work there in the first place. The people who will remain generally would have preferred getting a severance package to having to stay and rattle around an almost-empty office suite. It appears that the rest of the whole former R&D organization is being similarly decimated. That said, however, I absolutely must count my blessings. While my job has gone from being a wonderful stimulating challenge to the mere source of a paycheck, it IS a paycheck after all, which is a far sight better than going without one for an extended period of time. While most of my colleagues who are now cleaning out their desks wanted the severance package under the circumstances, many of them are still sort of scratching their heads and trying to figure out what they are going to do with themselves. And with Mark laid off, it's nice to know that at least one of us has health insurance that covers our daughter. So the good news is, as far as Mark and I were concerned, we've gotten about the best outcome we could get. Just don't be surprised if messages from me still have a bit of a bummed-out tone for a while... Cheers, Beth (enduring the corporate takeover from hell!!!!) - ------------------------------ bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #234 ***************************