Cosplay... Is An Art: GIST'17

via Kutudaki Zeplin

Marian McPartland

Music Appreciation

Born on March 20, 1918, Margaret Marian McPartland was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer. At an early age, Marian learned how to play the piano by ear. In 1935, she was then accepted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She became a concert pianist and then developed an appreciation for American jazz music.

During World War II, Marian joined the United Services Organization (USO), where she then met Jimmy McPartland at a jam session in Belgium. After the war, Jimmy and Marian moved to Chicago, then Manhattan.

In the early 1950s, Marian started her trio and then McPartland, Crow, and Morello. In 1958, she was among a group picture of 57 notable jazz musicians.

She then began reviewing jazz and blues albums for Down Beat magazine, in the late 1960s. She was then the host of the Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.

Marian has received many recognition and awards such as the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2000, the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004, and inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007.

She passed away on August 20, 2013.

via roger bridgland

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_McPartland

Linnea Tobias

Art Appreciation

While surfing one of my favorite art blogs, Art Odyssey, I came across a painting of an Eastern bluebird standing on a abstract circular pattern branch with two large flower bursts of magenta and orange in the background. The painting titled, "Eastern Bird #3" is by Washington artist Linnea Tobias.

Tobias is known for her incorporating textile design and patterns with her watercolor and acrylic paintings of birds, trees, and plants.

You can see more of her work HERE.

Expect to Fly via linneatobias

Eastern Bird #3 via artodyssey1

Toast and Eggs via sirjohnlawesart

Sources:

http://linneatobias.com/
https://www.facebook.com/linneatobias/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LinneaTobias
http://linneatobias.blogspot.com/
http://sirjohnlawesart.blogspot.com/2015/01/together-and-or-apart-reflections-still.html
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2013/12/linnea-tobias.html

Spacehog - In the Meantime

Music Appreciation

"In the Meantime" is a song by English-American alternative rock band Spacehog, from their debut album Resident Alien. It hit the top of the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The band was formed in 1994 when Antony Langdon and Jonny Cragg met at a New York City espresso bar.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Meantime_(Spacehog_song)
http://www.radioparadise.com/rp_2.php#name=songinfo&song_id=20208

Pattie Boyd

Fashion Model Appreciation

Pattie Boyd is probably best known as an English fashion model.

Born on March 17, 1944, Boyd started her modeling career in 1962, soon after moving to London. She was cast for a role in the Beatles' 1964 film, A Hard Day's Night, where she met George Harrison. About two years later, they were married.

Due to infidelity, alcohol and drugs, their marriage failed, and they divorced in 1977. Boyd then married Eric Clapton in 1979.

Pattie Boyd is also a photographer. She has exhibited a collection of photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, internationally. You can see her photographs HERE.

Pattie Boyd and the Rolling Stones
by John French via alfredogarcia70 

Pattie Boyd posing on a park bench by Michael Ward via pleasurephoto

Pattie Boyd for Vogue by Norman Parkinson via pleasurephoto

Sources:

http://www.pattieboyd.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie_Boyd
http://lottieslott.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-favourite-pattie-boyd-photos-i-60s.html
http://truthaboutthebeatlesgirls.tumblr.com/page/69
https://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/category/pattie-boyd/
http://fuckinpattieboyd.tumblr.com/page/2
http://beatlephotoblog.com/george-and-patti-1972
https://alfredogarcia70.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/happy-birthday-pattie-boyd/pattie-boyd-rolling-stones/
https://simritadhillon.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/happy-birthday-patti-hansen-and-pattie-boyd/
http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com/2010/02/pattie-boyd-pictures_23.html

Anna Atkins

Photography Appreciation

Born in Kent, England on March 16, 1799, Anna Atkins, an English botanist, is considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. By many, she is considered the first woman to create a photograph.

She learned the "photographic drawing" or calotype technique from photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, a family friend.

You can see more of her cyanotypes HERE.

Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state;
and in fruit via scientificamerican

Peacock Feathers via blog.hrc.utexas.edu

Poppy via vam.ac.uk

Sources:

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1507/anna-atkins-british-1799-1871/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-surprising-subject-of-the-first-book-of-photographs/
http://blog.hrc.utexas.edu/tag/anna-atkins/
http://usbuzzblog7.blogspot.com/2015/03/anna-atkins-at-lherbier-through-lens.html
https://blog.fotolia.com/us/2015/03/16/female-first-in-photography-anna-atkins/

Dance: Chris Brown feat. Usher - Party

Choreography: Brian Esperon

via: Brian Esperon