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6/1/2019

pop up cat cafe is today! ft lauderdale!

The little Red Cat will be this upset if you don't make it to the Cat Cafe. Won't you make him happy by enjoying some cats and treats for both cats and humans?

Come and see Pop Up Cat Cafe for Abandoned Pet Rescue Org, Adopt a Cat
Saturday, June 1st, 2019, noon to 3pm at Blanco y Blanco Arts located at 1147 NE 9th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 which can be found at https://goo.gl/maps/bpFVHRvafeshgcBj8 and more info at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop-up-cat-cafe-tickets-55483208771?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Can't make it there in person? Any Goofy Cat paintings sold online before June 1st, 2019, will still have funds donated to Abandoned Pet Rescue! See more here: https://www.angelinemarie.net/store/c8/Cats_Paintings_for_Adoption.html

5/31/2019

1 cat nap lfet to pop up cat cafe

Come and see Pop Up Cat Cafe for Abandoned Pet Rescue Org, Adopt a Cat
Saturday, June 1st, 2019, noon to 3pm at Blanco y Blanco Arts located at 1147 NE 9th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 which can be found at https://goo.gl/maps/bpFVHRvafeshgcBj8 and more info at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop-up-cat-cafe-tickets-55483208771?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Can't make it there in person? Any Goofy Cat paintings sold online before June 1st, 2019, will still have funds donated to Abandoned Pet Rescue! See more here: https://www.angelinemarie.net/store/c8/Cats_Paintings_for_Adoption.html

5/30/2019

cat cafe and abandoned pet rescue june 1st 2019

Why am I excited to support Abandoned Pet Rescue (APR) this June 1st with my Goofy Cats?
Well, first, Love is Guaranteed and there is So Much Love to Give!

That's because Abandoned Pet Rescue
is the LARGEST No Kill shelter in Florida!
believes and supports in Trap/Neuter/Return
offers resources to all pet owners via PetJunction.com
cares for pets in their shelter as well as in pet foster homes.

Saturday, June 1st, 2019 is the first day of National Adopt a Cat and National Adopt a Shelter Cat Month.

Abandoned Pet Rescue will have many live kittens and cats looking for their furrever homes. C'mon by and play with some kittens, look at some Goofy Cats, and support this awesome organization!

5/29/2019

video of pop up cat cafe from 2018

Coffee, cupcakes, and kittens! The Cat Cafe is a not-to-be-missed fundraising event sponsored by Abandoned Pet Rescue, a no-kill shelter in Fort Lauderdale. Enjoy home-made baked goods and beverages while you play with adoptable kittens and cats. What could be better?

The video below gives such a great idea of what we can look forward to this Saturday, June 1st, 2019.

I am sooooo excited to have my Goofy Cats featured at their event. Abandoned Pet Rescue was wonderful to invite me to share them with all of you.

Cat Cafe from Goodtastic Films on Vimeo.

If you cannot see the video, please go to this video of one of the last Cat Cafes that was hosted by Abandoned Pet Rescue https://vimeo.com/265775239

5/28/2019

Cat Cafes -a tiny history

Cat Cafes began in Taiwan in 1998.

It's a way to enjoy cats in a coffee shop atmosphere. The idea is for people to be able to be with the cats even if they could not take a cat home. The cats would be out of the shelters and where they could be with people. It's a winning situation for everyone involved.

The upcoming June 1st Pop Up Cat Cafe is a once event. Abandoned Pet Rescue brings their friendliest cats to an art gallery where you may enjoy their company and some fun baked goods and coffee and teas. This the only Cat Cafe in South Florida!

5/23/2019

Pop Up Cat Cafe June 1st 2019!

Come on out and play with some cool kittens, cats, and see my Goofy Cat paintings, too, at this super fun event!

It happens on the first day of National Shelter Cat Month and Adopt a Cat Month!

Sat, June 1, 2019
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Here's a few more details!

1147 NE 9th Ave.
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl
33304
https://goo.gl/maps/bpFVHRvafeshgcBj8
For information call 954-292-4148
www.blancoyblancoarts.com/

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop-up-cat-cafe-tickets-55483208771?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Sat, June 1, 2019
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Fort Lauderdale's newest animal rescue experience: Abandoned Pet Rescue's POP-UP CAT CAFE!!!!Come play with the kitties over coffee, tea, and pastries and meet your FUR-EVER friend at this beautiful venue. Enjoy cat themed crafting for kids, indulge in treats, and meet APR's adoptable pets. Shelter tours available next door at 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. This event is family and kid friendly!Donations and canned cat food are appreciated. Donations are tax deductible.

Video Highlights: https://vimeo.com/265775239

FAQs
What are my parking options?
Free street parking is availabile along Flagler Drive. (Please do NOT park at Apartments or Storage business lot)

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email us at: APRCatCafe@gmail.com

May I volunteer for the event?
Yes! We welcome volunteers. Please email us at APRCatCafe@gmail.com

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No need to print your ticket. Pre-registering on Eventbrite will show on our records.

Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends?
Yes. It is okay if your ticket name does not match the person who attends.

Is this a free event?
Yes, the event is free! Suggested donations for cafe treats, coffee, tea, and lemonade; all proceeds will benefit Abandoned Pet Rescue (APR). Some local vendors may display cat/pet themed crafts and products for sale, and a percentage of their proceeds benefit APR. Donations at the door are welcomed in the form of credit card, check, or cash, and/or canned cat food.

5/16/2019

a cool art nun actually lived!

I stumbled upon Sister Wendy's video series while I was meandering through a Miami library. I don't remember if I watched all the episodes, but I loved the ones I watched! If you want to learn more about art, art history, etc., Sister Wendy's videos are a great place to begin. She's fun!

I mention her on my blog because her library is offered up for sale. She passed away in 2018. I can only imagine the books she had in her collection!!! WOW! Stuff of my dreams! It's a shame it's a book collection that's being split. Too bad the collection couldn't go to a library for most of us to enjoy. I can easily imagine adding a Sister Wendy Art Book Library to my bucket list of places to visit.

For more about Sister Wendy:
Wikipedia: Wendy Mary Beckett, better known as Sister Wendy, was a British religious sister, hermit, consecrated virgin and art historian who became well known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art.

For more about Sister Wendy's book collection:
LONDON.- London dealer Thomas Heneage has purchased a Library belonging to the late Wendy Mary Beckett, TV Art Historian and nun, better-known as Sister Wendy. Heneage will offer a large number of books from Sister Wendy’s Library for sale at TEFAF Maastricht (16 – 24 March 2019).

After her death at the end of last year, BBC director of arts Jonty Claypole paid tribute to Sister Wendy, describing her "unique presentation style” as well as her “deep knowledge of and passion for the arts". Sister Wendy’s purpose-built library was next to the caravan she lived in and is made up of some fascinating books, on subjects ranging from Chinese paintings and manuscripts to Old Master Paintings, and contemporary art. This collection of books demonstrates Sister Wendy’s breadth of knowledge and fascination with all areas of the art world.

For more about the auction that already happened: Thomas Heaneage offers Sister Wendy's library for sale.

5/9/2019

Pets buried in backyards: illegal

I heard that my area has laws against burying your loved best furry friend in your yard. I recently learned this is a law across the USA.

I also heard a story of a cat being eaten by a gator because the gator was lured by fish bait dumped in the yard.

Yes, I live in a very interesting place called Redlands, Miami, Florida. We also have pythons eating gators but those are different stories.

Hence the subject of this blog, lol, don't bury your pet in your yard. The article explains that IF your pet is found by another animal, that animal could get sick.

Trying to dig in any yard in South Florida either gets you to water or through a ton of small rocks. So the rules in the link of burying your loved pet 3 feet deep will take you a while of back breaking work. Andy & I had holes 3 feet deep dug, but they were with a rented machine to move some plants...!

As a painting artist who loves to paint your cats and dogs for you, I've noticed that some paintings are done for the memory. The first dog I painted for some was Wilson, as a keepsake memory of Karla's best furry friend. Please keep in mind all the furry (and scaly) friends that are outside, and act responsibly when choosing how to lay your pet to rest. I'm sure our veterinarians will guide us when these sad days arrive.

Anyway. If you're interested in not-gory-but-factual-details of what might happen if a pet is buried in a yard, here's the original link: Stop-burying-your-pets-in-the-backyard

Below is Halloween Still Life, 22x33 inches, acrylics on paper

5/1/2019

ghost in photo - do you have ghostly experiences?

I live in the Redlands of Miami...where there seem to be few ghost stories.

I know Miami has to have some ghost stories, but most are probably in the original downtown and older areas. I know of ghost stories around Vizcaya and the Deering Estate...but few others.

The article link takes you to a photograph that has a ghost. Makes me wonder if I go back through all of my photos...what would I see? Would I see any ghosts other than those I loved in them?

It's a cool story. You can find it here: How a Photographer Captured a Ghost - a Photo Archived Over 75 Years

Below is a Spooky Postcard Skeletogenous Painter, by me, 2018.

4/24/2019

for all the vermeers in the world

I've read Girl with the Pearl Earring.

I'd love to travel the world just to see all of Vermeer's paintings in person.

Like you, I can only dream, but wait! NOW, THERE'S AN APP for that!

I'll be seeing all the Vermeers in the world through that app! I've downloaded it, and when I get the most anxious, I start scrolling thru the paintings.

The app has an ad at the bottom of it - with some moving type - but what do you expect for a FREE app!? Occasionally, a full screen pop ad that you have close at the "X" will annoy, too.

It lets you crop sections, see details larger, and has the paintings by years. It's really wonderful to zoom in and see the marble floors Vermeer painted in his painting. One painting has a painting in it, lol!

Will you go check it out and let me know what you think? The app is named "Vermeer" and has a close up of the girl with a pearl earring as its screen icon.

To read more about the app and how it was developed, please continue below by signature:

In the meantime, smiles with paint on my hands, Angeline

Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance
Meet Vermeer, a new augmented-reality app from the Mauritshuis museum and Google, is a virtual museum containing images of all authenticated Vermeer paintings. From left, an overhead view of the galleries in miniature; a look inside the space; and “Girl With a Pearl Earring” on the wall.
Credit
via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Cultur

Meet Vermeer, a new augmented-reality app from the Mauritshuis museum and Google, is a virtual museum containing images of all authenticated Vermeer paintings. From left, an overhead view of the galleries in miniature; a look inside the space; and “Girl With a Pearl Earring” on the wall.

CreditCreditvia Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture
By Nina Siegal
Dec. 3, 2018

AMSTERDAM — Johannes Vermeer, whose acute eye captured the quiet beauty of Dutch domestic life, was not a prolific artist: Just 36 paintings are widely acknowledged as his work. Still, anyone who wanted to see them all had to travel far and wide — to New York, London, Paris and beyond.
Until now.
The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which owns what is perhaps Vermeer’s best-known masterpiece, “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture in Paris to build an augmented-reality app that creates a virtual museum featuring all of the artist’s works.
For the app, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has contributed images of all five of its Vermeer masterpieces, while the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, each with four, have also given photographs of theirs. Two more have come from the Louvre, and three from the Frick Collection. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has shared an image of “The Concert,” the Vermeer that disappeared after being stolen from the museum’s collection in 1990.
That painting will be on view once again in Meet Vermeer, the digital museum. Starting Monday, the free app will be accessible to anyone with a camera-equipped smartphone.
A detail of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” perhaps Vermeer’s best-known work. Users of the app can zoom in on all the paintings.
Credit
via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture

A detail of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” perhaps Vermeer’s best-known work. Users of the app can zoom in on all the paintings.Creditvia Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture
“This is one of these moments when technology does something that you can never do in real life, and that’s because these paintings could never be brought together in real life,” said Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis.
She explained that some of the 17th-century paintings were too fragile to travel, while some were in private collections, and the Gardner’s was lost. But even under different circumstances, it would be unlikely that all the owners would be willing to part with all of their prized Vermeers at the same time.
The 18 museums and private collections that own Vermeer paintings, however, were willing to provide high-resolution digital image files of their Vermeers to the project.
Vermeer, a somewhat mysterious figure who lived and worked in Delft, the Netherlands, is thought to have created about 45 paintings during a career spanning nearly two decades. Some are believed to have gone missing. Besides the 36 works that a majority of Vermeer scholars accept as authentic, other paintings have been attributed to him. Because the art world continues to debate their authorship, Ms. Gordenker said this virtual museum would not include them.
Although many of these images are already on the museums’ websites, Ms. Gordenker said she wanted to give the public a sense of the paintings’ size in relation to one another — something that is hard to convey in a flat picture on a screen.

All the institutions contributing to the app sent high-resolution digital images of their Vermeers. Here, “The Procuress” being photographed for the project at the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums.
Credit
Dresden State Art Museums, via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture

All the institutions contributing to the app sent high-resolution digital images of their Vermeers. Here, “The Procuress” being photographed for the project at the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums.CreditDresden State Art Museums, via Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture
Opening the app, visitors gaze down at a museum with no ceiling. To enter one of the rooms displayed, they touch the phone’s surface, pinching their fingers together and then opening them. As they land in a gallery, the perspective shifts so that they face the walls, where the framed paintings hang. Zooming in, they can approach each work and examine it closely.
The first room is devoted to Vermeer’s earliest works. The rest of the museum is organized thematically, exploring subjects such as “contemplation” and the studies of faces known as “tronies.”
Laurent Gaveau, director of Google’s Arts and Culture Lab, a nonprofit developed to experiment with new ways to make art and culture accessible to the public, said this was the first virtual museum that Google had created, but that he could certainly imagine making more.
“We could think about all kinds of museums that never existed,” he said in a telephone interview, although he added that no other such projects were yet in the works. “We want to first see how people will react to this, and we want to see, from a technological standpoint and a user standpoint, if it’s right and how it can be improved.”

Paintings by Vermeer have long been reproduced in all types of formats, from posters to patterns on handbags and umbrellas. But as the technology improves and visitors have the artificial but intimate experience of seeing high-quality reproductions in a museum setting, does Ms. Gordenker worry that they will be less motivated to travel for the real thing?
No, she said.
“The more information we share, including images, the more I think that people want to have the authentic experience of seeing the work in its home,” she said, “and seeing it as an actual physical presence. One of the reasons that museums have becoming increasingly relevant, and why attendance is going up, is that we’ve been able to harness these digital technologies. It breaks down barriers, and makes what we have much more accessible.”

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 4, 2018, on Page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: All the World’s Vermeers, Under One Virtual Roof.