First things first. Say Hi to Ethel...
I’m sure you’ll all be delighted by the glorious color picture of Ethel (my rubber duck) and myself on display here! Ethel is the proud third prize winner of the 1994 Yukon River Rubber Duck Race in Whitehorse. With our tenth anniversary come and gone, we’ve been together longer than any other woman has put up with me!
Travel, music, writing; these are the things that preoccupy my personal side...
The following will give you a search page for the archives of MIT’s august student newspaper The Tech. Enter “Jonathan Richmond” to get access to my many writings for them, mostly arts reviews. Here’s a review of conductor David Epstein’s wonderful final concert with the MIT Symphony Orchestra on March 14, 1998. And here’s my write-up of the Lowell House Opera world premiere performance of Harvard mathematician Noam Elkies’astonishing opera, Yossele Solovey.
If you really didn’t think that MIT people had artsy instincts, you could also try Jeremy Hylton’s web compilation of The Complete Works of Shakespeare. And you could look at Dan Stevenson’s equally amazing Internet Classics Archive. Whether one would call the web page for Eric Plosky’s Free Transfer artsy or just a little bit scary, there is no doubt that Eric is as clever as he is quirky, and that his TV chat show (streamed online as well as on Channel 9, Cambridge, Wednesdays at 7 pm) is well worth a look. Yours truly was his guest on-air, August 13, 2003.
The self-portrait stage-right was taken at the spectacular new Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The flowers in the museum’s garden are arranged to form artworks of themselves. So why not make visitors part of the show, too? If this picture isn’t artistic enough for your tastes, however, you can take a Web’s-Eye view of the Mona Lisa, or browse through the excellent Louvre collection as a whole.
If this is all too Eurocentric, here’s an attractive Japanese scene. And the following is included over Ethel’s objections! .
To reach a small collection of ancient personal pictures (everyone looks far too young there!), you’ll need to click on Narcissus, stage right!!! For young, but more recent, I’ve started a page for for my nephews Noah and Sam. For old but more recent, I have a Real slide show from my 2002 birthday party, where you can see, if not hear, a visiting South African Supreme Court judge singing his country’s national anthem in Zulu.I am planning to add a substantial number of travel pictures, but alas haven’t had the time yet. Here are a few, nonetheless, from my trip to Peru and Bolivia over summer 1999 and to Indianapolis the following October. Ain’t misbehavin’, I promise, but please note that the pictures may load a little slowly. It’s worth the wait!
Enjoy!
