{"id":1053,"date":"2007-12-09T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2007-12-09T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:22:12","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-40-featuring-gabriela-bohm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp&#8217;s 7 Kicks #40: Featuring Gabriela B\u00f6hm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/gratitude.jpg\"><strong>Jules<\/strong>: Today, we&#8217;re happy to feature art work from German blogger and painter Gabriela B\u00f6hm, whose blog, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kampfhorn.de\/\">Kampfhorn<\/a><\/strong> (&#8220;wee but powerful&#8221;), caught my eye a few weeks ago. And when it did, I saw this illustration we&#8217;re featuring here, and I fell in love with it (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kampfhorn.de\/?p=48\">here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> the post where I initially saw the illustration, entitled &#8220;Gratitude is a force&#8221;). And then I saw posts like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kampfhorn.de\/?p=54\">this<\/a><\/strong> (oh yes! Rilke) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kampfhorn.de\/?paged=3\">this<\/a><\/strong>, the Goddess of Illustration. I love it. So, I asked her if we could feature some of her paintings here. For the record, Gabriela, who goes by Ella, is not an illustrator of children&#8217;s books (though don&#8217;t you think she should try her hand at it one day?), and I know that&#8217;s who we usually feature here. But her paintings were too good to pass up. Here&#8217;s a little bit about Ella, which she shared with us:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"990000\"><em>&#8220;Three facts about me and my art:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because I love photography, you will sometimes find photographic effects in my drawings or paintings such as vignetting, fisheye perspective and grading. (Short) animation and movies are also a huge influence.<\/li>\n<li>Experimenting with different textures (e.g. Nepalese paper) &#8212; either to paint on or to use as part of an image &#8212; is also something I am excited about.<\/li>\n<li>Animals fascinate me and often find their way into my work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Why is it so hard to talk about what you do?!?)&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p>You can also read more about her <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kampfhorn.de\/?page_id=2\">here<\/a><\/strong> at her blog&#8217;s &#8220;About&#8221; page (she&#8217;s a fighting squirrel, but you&#8217;ll have to go read to find out what that means). We thank her for letting us feature &#8220;Gratitude is a force,&#8221; and she also sent us a new illustration, &#8220;Trick or Treat,&#8221; which would have been <em>perfect<\/em> for Halloween (but is just as perfect now, too). Just look at that! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/trick or treat.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that fabulous? I love that perspective, as if we&#8217;ve just stumbled upon that spooky cat. Or is he friendly? Or both? I dunno, but I&#8217;m glad she shared with us, even though she finds it hard to talk about her work. In my humble opinion, I think she&#8217;s a painter going places, and if she illustrated a children&#8217;s book, I&#8217;d be first in line. Thanks, Ella!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>By way of explanation for any new folks (who we hope will leave their lists), our weekly 7 Kicks list is the meeting ground for listing Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week (whether book-related or not) that happened to you. <\/p>\n<p><center>*******<strong>Jules&#8217; kicks<\/strong>*******<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/golden compass1.JPG\">1). I&#8217;ve actually been under the weather all dang week (it&#8217;s starting to get on my nerves; I&#8217;ve got stuff to do, germs. Go away), but I am feeling a bit better as I type this, which is Saturday night . . . and just in time for kick #1: My husband and I have a date tomorrow to see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldencompassmovie.com\/\">&#8220;The Golden Compass.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> Oh yes! Pumping my arms in the air!<\/p>\n<p>2). <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildrosereader.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/and-winner-is.html\">I won<\/a><\/strong> a small print of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracelin.com\/content.php?page=book_robertssnow\"><strong><em>Robert&#8217;s Snow<\/em><\/strong><\/a> mouse &#8212; and signed by Grace Lin &#8212; from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildrosereader.blogspot.com\">Elaine Magliaro&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Blogging for a Cure contest. I tried to get her to give it to a participating blogger, but she wouldn&#8217;t let me. And I&#8217;m glad she did. I got it this week, and it&#8217;s lovely and wonderful to have. Thanks to Elaine and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/asolitarygrace.blogspot.com\/\">Grace<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>3). <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.cornell.edu\/pages\/bs16\/Christmas\/6_to_8_black_men.txt\">This<\/a><\/strong> holiday essay by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barclayagency.com\/sedaris.html\">David Sedaris<\/a><\/strong>, which <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watat.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/athey_might_jus.html\">Adrienne posted this week<\/a><\/strong>. O. MY. GOD. So funny. Thank you, Adrienne. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/kitten tale1.jpg\">4). <em>A Kitten Tale<\/em><\/a> by Eric Rohmann. I blabbed about it <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1052\">here<\/a><\/strong> yesterday (it will be released in early, early January &#8212; the 8th, I believe it is). <\/p>\n<p>5). <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ellsworthsjournal.blogspot.com\/\">Candice Ransom<\/a><\/strong> sent me a beautiful, hand-made card with a wonderful Margaret Wise Brown snow poem in it. <\/p>\n<p>6). Ella&#8217;s art work this week. I know this sounds perhaps a bit too earnest or whatever, but going out of my way to show my gratitude when gratitude is called for in life is important to me and is something I&#8217;m trying to pass on to my daughters, so I particularly <em>love<\/em> that first painting Ella shared with us this week. <\/p>\n<p>7). I&#8217;ve been listening to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Raising-Robert-Plant-Alison-Krauss\/dp\/B000UMQDHC\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1197174927&#038;sr=8-1\">&#8220;Raising Sand&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> lately (the new CD from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss), and on it is the cover of a new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/samphillipsmusic.com\/\">Sam Phillips<\/a><\/strong> song called &#8220;Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us.&#8221; Which is beautiful. Which is not a surprise, &#8217;cause Sam wrote it. Anyway, so I finally got around to looking at some YouTube footage of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosetta_Tharpe\">Sister Rosetta Tharpe<\/a><\/strong> singing and wailin&#8217; on her guitar. Awesome. Here&#8217;s the song that, quite obviously, inspired Sam to write her gorgeous song, seeing as how Sam&#8217;s lyrics include &#8220;Strange things are happening everyday\/ I hear the music up above my head\/ Though the sight of my heart has left me again\/ I hear music up above.&#8221; I believe this is circa early-&#8217;60s, but don&#8217;t quote me on that. You&#8217;ve <em>got<\/em> to see her burn up that guitar in the middle portion of this performance. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JeaBNAXfHfQ&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JeaBNAXfHfQ&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Eisha couldn&#8217;t make her kicks in time. I hope it&#8217;s &#8217;cause she was out, having fun. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll add hers later. 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And when it did, I saw this illustration we&#8217;re featuring here, and I fell in love with it (here&#8217;s the post where I initially saw the illustration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}