Westcott Fair Report
Sep. 20th, 2015 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI had a good time during my brief presence at the fair. I realized after photographing a quarter of the parade that I'd forgotten my memory card; someday I'll learn to check the slot every single time I pick up the camera.
The parade made me homesick for renaissance faires. There were huge body puppets, a stilt-walker, a group that looked like some version of morris dancers, lots of local groups like churches and an LGBTQ group with hand-made banners, belly dancers, and other more mainstream organizations like police and business groups. The streetside booths included a couple people from the SCA in full garb; I chatted with them briefly. I also talked to a volunteer who was soliciting volunteers and donations for an agricultural workers' rights organization. It sounds like they do some really great stuff, including getting doctors and dentists out to migrant labor camps for free care. It's as fantastic to see that happening as it is outrageous that it must happen. It's one of many things I can see myself getting involved in, someday when I have time.
The library book sale's book selection was actually not all that interesting to me. But, I *did* pick up eight CDs and a movie in addition to a single book. Find of the day: Laurie Anderson's "Life on a String." I saw it while going through a bin and exclaimed "Oh wow!" I also picked up albums by Nick Drake (two of them!), Enya, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits, Yo-Yo Ma, and Beck.
The book, perhaps, reflects the same sort of eclectic taste for the odd that's part of why I like Anderson. I got a copy of a book of residential photography called Weird Rooms. From the Amazon.com description:
The photographs in here are wonderful!
The parade made me homesick for renaissance faires. There were huge body puppets, a stilt-walker, a group that looked like some version of morris dancers, lots of local groups like churches and an LGBTQ group with hand-made banners, belly dancers, and other more mainstream organizations like police and business groups. The streetside booths included a couple people from the SCA in full garb; I chatted with them briefly. I also talked to a volunteer who was soliciting volunteers and donations for an agricultural workers' rights organization. It sounds like they do some really great stuff, including getting doctors and dentists out to migrant labor camps for free care. It's as fantastic to see that happening as it is outrageous that it must happen. It's one of many things I can see myself getting involved in, someday when I have time.
The library book sale's book selection was actually not all that interesting to me. But, I *did* pick up eight CDs and a movie in addition to a single book. Find of the day: Laurie Anderson's "Life on a String." I saw it while going through a bin and exclaimed "Oh wow!" I also picked up albums by Nick Drake (two of them!), Enya, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits, Yo-Yo Ma, and Beck.
The book, perhaps, reflects the same sort of eclectic taste for the odd that's part of why I like Anderson. I got a copy of a book of residential photography called Weird Rooms. From the Amazon.com description:
"The authors sought out people whose personal obsessions and fetishes have led them to transform their domestic environments into quite unusual places. Some rooms are designed solely to enshrine pop icons, like a Kennedy Room or an Elvis Room. One man transformed his entire apartment into a spaceship with rolls of duct tape, tin foil, and a few dozen computers and television sets; another turned his bedroom into a Lego City, complete with an airport, cathedral, and city hall."
The photographs in here are wonderful!
