{"id":46391,"date":"2012-09-11T20:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46391"},"modified":"2012-09-12T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:01:21","slug":"nicole-strafacis-gorgeous-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46391","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Strafaci&#8217;s Gorgeous Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a fascinating artist, designer, model, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/30stories30days.tumblr.com\/\">writer<\/a> and performer tonight at Terrie Silverman&#8217;s <A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45860\">Gorgeous Stories show<\/a> at Beyond Baroque in Venice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m performing tomorrow night at the same place.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/collagephilosophy.com\/profile_2.htm\">Nicole Strafaci operates CollagePhilosophy.com<\/a>: &#8220;I have always been greatly influenced by books. Literature, biographies, and some contemporary fiction have provided endless hours of enjoyment and education. Some of my favorites: Hermann Hesse, Truman Capote, John Updike, Henry Miller, Anais Nin and Collette. Visual art, lacking in verbal expression is complete for me when I read, as I enjoy connecting visual and verbal ideas. Discovering my love of collage in college and in my mother&#8217;s vintage business, I also found a magical story By Anais Nin. Nin, also loved collage in both its physical and psychological dimension. Her diaries and autobiographical fiction combined and recombined thoughts and poetry in a continuous, complex cycle. Known to the masses as a writer of poetic erotica, she was more importantly an independent thinker, a philosopher, and an artist. &#8220;Collage Philosophy,&#8221; is a tribute to her for uniting my visual and literary worlds. In Nin&#8217;s &#8220;Ragtime,&#8221; a man walks the streets collecting a wild assortment of broken objects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last night I met a nude model who designed clothes. Talk about the complete package! So many times in my life I&#8217;ve met women who excelled at taking clothes off while other women I knew excelled at putting them on. Now I&#8217;ve met one who does it all. Any assistance I can render her will bring me a share of her mitzvos of clothing the naked! Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I&#8217;ll dwell in the House of the Lord forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a fascinating artist, designer, model, writer and performer tonight at Terrie Silverman&#8217;s Gorgeous Stories show at Beyond Baroque in Venice. I&#8217;m performing tomorrow night at the same place. Nicole Strafaci operates CollagePhilosophy.com: &#8220;I have always been greatly influenced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46395,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46391\/revisions\/46395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}