Rod Summers in Venice

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Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 24, 2009 at 8:54pm

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 24, 2009 at 8:54pm

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 24, 2009 at 8:53pm

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 24, 2009 at 8:52pm

I have just uploaded our 1981 song 'Mail-art dada Skank' to my page on IUOMA, go listen for some mail art history.
No text this evening as I have to get up early to get out and give the space to the cleaning lady... but here are today's photos

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 24, 2009 at 5:44pm

You will have noticed Roland that Franca was suffering from the thinness of the air and I am not usually that pink. Today, three no four days after the event I am still suffering from altitude sickness... even down here at sea level!
Todays blog follows shortly.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on February 24, 2009 at 4:09pm

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 24, 2009 at 1:02am

Pu leese... I'm starving and a million miles from my own kitchen and freezer, I have nothing in the cupboard here except half a packet of pasta and a bottle of olive oil... oh but I do have some rather delicious cheese in the fridge and a bottle of water... artichoke hearts why do you torture me this way? oh oh oh, I'd better try to sleep until the market opens in the morning.
I spent the whole evening getting the video we made on Saturday uploaded onto youtube, check it out I'm there under the name 'vecdor' oh oh oh. chicken curry oh why the torture you are cru ell!

Comment by Judy Skolnick on February 23, 2009 at 11:22pm

Chantal, you keep having fun with Rod, you are making us all hungry. Veal Marsala, I like veal any way. Artichoke hearts with it, butter sauce, garlic and lemon.

Comment by Judy Skolnick on February 23, 2009 at 9:17pm

Sounds wonderfully busy and fun and hard work. I look forward to more of your photos. Have fun and work hard

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on February 23, 2009 at 8:59pm

Ah the sanctuary of my own blog! No vitriol here I trust.
I admit to feeling rather proud of myself on two counts today. One I brought the washing machine to life and had it wash my clothes in Italian, thoroughly washed and spin dried I might add, my so sanitized clothing now hangs on a rack in yonder kitchen. I fear however such exertions may have added my sweat and scales to the already considerable pollution of the lagoon.
The second cause for my elation is that, this afternoon, I walked to the railway station and booked my ticket to Viareggio to visit Vittore Baroni, and made the journey in both directions without getting lost once, yes there was a moment or two when I took an unnecessary unintended detour but, by and large, it was straight to the station and back via the grocery store with the friendly bloke there to buy a tube of mustard.
It might be gunstig… advisable, at this juncture to explain a misconception that I had about Venice, a misconception dispelled the day after my arrival here. I was under the misapprehension that the visitor to this exquisite city was required to take to the water in order to get from any point A to any point B. Now I know there are interconnecting brick lined alleys and stone bridges that make normal perambulation not just possible but an actual treat in execution. I must have taken 30 to 40 photographs on the ticket purchasing trip today.
Other news today, I have heard from Enzo (all hail the chief) Minarelli (I have two CDs here for you EM) and from Anna Bosci and Luciano Zarotti.
I go to Viareggio on Friday to hang out with VB and family. We will do a live performance (via Skype) on Amsterdam TV Saturday night. On Sunday weather permitting we will ogle the outstanding Viareggio carnival before we return here together on Monday when I will make a portrait of VB the VEC VIP in the Venice post office which I have already reconnoitered. On Tuesday at 11:00 precisely I will meet Luciano outside the Art Academy and there make a portrait of him and his family. Dates for EM and Anna who will travel with Bruno Capatti have yet to be fixed. Oh how nicely things are coming together.
Tomorrow morning I will pop just around the corner to the market to buy some vegetables as pasta and pizza are nice in their own way but after a week of such a diet they tend to become just a tad samey to this gardener’s jaded palate. Carrots, beans and potatoes are the objects of my lust and tomorrow I shall satisfy my desire. I might even go for a cut of cod as the fish market is between me and the vegetable market.
Later this evening I hope to post the video onto Youtube, I’m waiting for my wife Liz to come online with Skype so that I can ask her to get my Youtube password as I forgot to bring it with me.
Meanwhile here is a small selection of today’s crop of photos.
Thanks for reading Rod

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