{"id":42,"date":"2008-08-17T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/sunday-morning\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T11:51:00","slug":"sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_1yi19FVf0u0\/SKh3F5RkkjI\/AAAAAAAAAEQ\/uR9gTEAfpEM\/s1600-h\/Billy+Budd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_1yi19FVf0u0\/SKh3F5RkkjI\/AAAAAAAAAEQ\/uR9gTEAfpEM\/s200\/Billy+Budd.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235565509975773746\" \/><\/a><br \/>Meeting this morning with the visual artist, Torben Torp-Smith, to review his portfolio and look at how we might collaborate on future projects. Torben does mostly theater design and sculpture so a morning with Torben is always visually stimulating and leaves me with asking him the question, How did you make THAT?  This photo is from Torben&#8217;s MFA thesis presentation for the opera, Billy Budd. It is a cross-section of an armed Man-of-War navigating in the two fluid media of wind and waves. It is a metaphor for deck levels of class identity rigidly regulated by an unmoving and inflexible matrix of law and custom. Wow! For more inspiration visit, www.torpsmith.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting this morning with the visual artist, Torben Torp-Smith, to review his portfolio and look at how we might collaborate on future projects. Torben does mostly theater design and sculpture so a morning with Torben is always visually stimulating and leaves me with asking him the question, How did you make THAT? This photo is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,59,58,66,60,61,63,62,67,57,65],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artist","tag-artwork","tag-benjamin-britten","tag-billy-budd","tag-class","tag-herman-melville","tag-inspiration","tag-metaphors","tag-opera","tag-theater","tag-visual-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}