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flower girls on tall stalks

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.07.08

Tonight by happy chance I came across a trio of performance artists swaying on tall stalks in long flower-shaped dresses.

The stalks were about four meters long and made of flexible (metal? rubberised plastic?) that let them bend and sway and circle about in unison. The bell-shaped skirts and matching petal-like bits of fabric each wore around her were simple and effective in completing the image of three blue blossoms swaying in the breeze.

I only caught the final moments but it really brightened up what was otherwise another grueling day of audit documents. Just for fun I also somehow managed to contract a terrible system virus so bad that a ground-up rebuild of my PC burned off the last two hours of my working day. Monday's going to suck all 'round. But that's a weekend away.

rand()m quote

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould