Sunday 01/19/2025
Out the door at 8am for an outing. There is a CH bus planned for next Friday to go to the Legion of Honor museum to see an exhibition of paintings by Mary Cassatt. For some reason when this was announced, I was sure I had a conflict, and didn’t sign up. Looking at my calendar now, I don’t see the issue — but the trip is already over-subscribed. So either way I can’t take the bus. So I decided to go on my own, this morning. The museum opens at 9:30, so I zipped over to Cafe Zoe for a quick breakfast and then on to the city. Nice exhibit. Cassatt was a buddy of Degas and other impressionists, but she specialized in painting women, usually in domestic scenes. Took pictures of a few that impressed me.
Got home in time for lunch. Then sat down to put together the video that will accompany Annie’s Song. The audio provides the timeline. Then I placed the art that I had generated using the Midjourney AI along the timeline, sync’d to the lyrics. So as I sing “You fill up my senses like a night in the forest,” it will show
and so on. I am especially pleased with the image I got for “Come let me love you, let me give my life to you” —
Anyway got the video all nicely organized so the pictures change as I sing along.
After supper it was time for an event, which I was not doing the AV for, (thank you David G!), one of our most valued residents is Arlene, 90+ years old and still an excellent pop pianist, can play any song you name, transposed to any key you want. She was a regional child star around 1940-45, called by some the Shirley Temple of Chinatown. Stew, who organizes the monthly Sunday@Home events, interviewed her, showed some great slides, and she played and sang “Any Bonds Today” which she sang as part of US Bond drives during the war, and “God Bless America” as a natural closer.
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