Renaissance Impressions The artist Georg Baselitz collects strange and powerful German Renaissance chiaroscuro woodcuts; his collection is supplemented by works from the Albertina in Vienna to create what should be a fascinating encounter with witches and other visions.
I like to collect strange facts about them; sloths move so slowly, they grow moss.
According to its Web site, the nonprofit museum collects "strange artifacts and objects removed from their narratives," which include a package of melted gummy worms, a Hitler matryoshka doll and an air-conditioning vent that belonged to the filmmaker Van Neistat.
She mucked in wherever necessary, sanding down models of the baby's head, collecting strange props such as dust balls, and back-combing Nance's hair to achieve his character's tombstone-shaped bouffant.
As I grew up and started collecting strange stories of the supernatural variety, I found that this kind of manifestation is actually fairly common.
Sometimes the gift of your time and exploring trails together can be the best gift, but along the way, pick flowers, pick up frogs and discuss the things you see, collect strange life like lizards, bugs, and odd shaped leaves.
The short stories collected in STRANGE TRAVELERS (Tor, $25.95) -- all written and first published in the 1990's -- share a fascination with inertia.
Perhaps I needed the perspective of exile to unlock my imagination, to regain the feeling I had in 1975, when in one month I wrote the stories collected in "Strange Things Happen Here". Those were violent times too, but somehow the violence seemed out in the open then.
Over the years of creative life I'd collected a strange array of seemingly disparate, not-particularly-valuable skills, but when I began working in TV, I realised that, in this environment, they weren't disparate at all.
