Heartbreaking romantic/defiant/he's an asshole but I love him music of the moment to semi-take the place of Rilo Kiley for now: Kate Nash "Made of Bricks"
It is raining and one of the reasons I thought I liked Minnesota in the winter so much is because it didn't rain - it just snowed. Unfortunately, I forgot about the fall. Still, it's supposed to be brisk and chilly, not moderate and rainy, so why aren't the leaves changing yet? We have dozens of red, yellow, and orange leaves all around our house right now (for last night's Fall Back Fall Back/Beerluck/Birthday party) but I'm looking forward to collecting some real leaves from the ground and maybe eventually replacing the mylar and paper leaves with them.
ESKIMOS:
Doug's RBG Hex Chart - I've been using this guys chart for ages. It's about time I gave him some props.
Tara Donovan - The mention of mylar up above reminded me of this fantastic artist.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
company name
Back to things that are not specifically artistic or reliant on links, I plan on taking photos of my new neighborhood for several purposes,
one - to let my friends see where i live now/what my house looks like
two - to document for myself the reasons i love the neighborhood, in case i ever forget
three - to learn more about my new camera/spend quality time with my pink bicycle
Yesterday when I was driving home I drove through (or at least I was approaching) a perfectly arched rainbow, a half-circle hugging the earth. If that wasn't perfect enough, there was a hint of a double rainbow surrounding it.
Nothing new. I am unproductive at home (what should I be working on? somebody else's website and a paper I was hoping to publish, along with home organization, bank changes, job apps and the like) and must renew two books out of which I have only read one essay, total. Tomorrow promises to be the busiest birthday I've ever had, what with my plans of biking over Stone Arch to the Mill City farmer's market, my grandma taking me to the Museum of Russian Art and out to lunch, and then a housewarming/birthday party to get ready for. It sounds like a perfectly wonderful day. I hope the weather (this subject in conversation is unavoidable) suits itself to my plans.
Have started several bad habits over the past couple months: coffee every morning and a cigarette or two every day. It seems fitting. Free, not forced. Accepting, something.
one - to let my friends see where i live now/what my house looks like
two - to document for myself the reasons i love the neighborhood, in case i ever forget
three - to learn more about my new camera/spend quality time with my pink bicycle
Yesterday when I was driving home I drove through (or at least I was approaching) a perfectly arched rainbow, a half-circle hugging the earth. If that wasn't perfect enough, there was a hint of a double rainbow surrounding it.
Nothing new. I am unproductive at home (what should I be working on? somebody else's website and a paper I was hoping to publish, along with home organization, bank changes, job apps and the like) and must renew two books out of which I have only read one essay, total. Tomorrow promises to be the busiest birthday I've ever had, what with my plans of biking over Stone Arch to the Mill City farmer's market, my grandma taking me to the Museum of Russian Art and out to lunch, and then a housewarming/birthday party to get ready for. It sounds like a perfectly wonderful day. I hope the weather (this subject in conversation is unavoidable) suits itself to my plans.
Have started several bad habits over the past couple months: coffee every morning and a cigarette or two every day. It seems fitting. Free, not forced. Accepting, something.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
art and lunch
I decided to settle in to the second half of my lunch break with a few turns of Scrabulous.
But, my god, it's down! They're trying to work out some "kinks," so please excuse them! So disappointing. So not Fabulous.
ESKIMOS:
- Controversy at the Massachusetts MoCA: Do you side with the museum or the artist? Obviously, the New York Times sides with the artist. I think it was hardly in the museum's best interest (legally and artistically) to let visitors in Building 5 with tarps over all the unfinished installation. Why would they want to let visitors see the clear failure of major project? Museum donors are, obviously, balking at the $300,000 price tag. I doubt it assuages their concerns much to walk into a warehouse of crap collected for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nevertheless, this Christoph Buchel is clearly a head case, and I think the museum's big mistake was, as Tyler Green puts it, not saying 'no' soon enough, or, in a better-case scenario, legally making the artist finish his installation in the initial contract. But give us none of this Visual Artist Rights Act. Buchel, as 1/2 of the artist-museum relationship, should have finished his installation. He had the power to finish it and decide how he wanted it shown. MassMoCA, $300,000 in the hole, was right to seek legal action at Buchel's abandonment but it does make me cringe to hear that they opened it, tarp-covered, BEFORE they went to court.
Here is a rundown of the court case, which Buchel lost. I am not well-versed in the law and how court cases work (I don't even watch lawyer TV shows or movies, so everything I know I learned from To Kill A Mockingbird), so I don't know why the judge is talking about how it's the most moving piece of contemporary art he's ever seen, he woke up at night thinking about it, yadda yadda. Is that his job?
- Paper Monument - A Mr. Kelsey brought his over to our abode last night and I am in love with this publication. The essay from the editors is sassy and smart, and I am particularly gleeful whenever New York is put in its place, as it is by Christopher Hsu. Icing on the cake is the inclusion of some portfolio work by one of my favorites, Jon Pylypchuk. Discovering this made my day feel productive.
- Writer's Rooms - Also brought to my attention by Mr. Kelsey. This is AWESOME. So far: Alain de Botton wins for his explanation; Jonathan Safran Foer loses.
YOUR WEEKEND:
- Friends With You/Judith G. Levy @ SooVAC - AWESOME! SooVAC is becoming my favorite gallery around here...
Lunch time is OVER. Scrabulous, I'm coming back for you later.
But, my god, it's down! They're trying to work out some "kinks," so please excuse them! So disappointing. So not Fabulous.
ESKIMOS:
- Controversy at the Massachusetts MoCA: Do you side with the museum or the artist? Obviously, the New York Times sides with the artist. I think it was hardly in the museum's best interest (legally and artistically) to let visitors in Building 5 with tarps over all the unfinished installation. Why would they want to let visitors see the clear failure of major project? Museum donors are, obviously, balking at the $300,000 price tag. I doubt it assuages their concerns much to walk into a warehouse of crap collected for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nevertheless, this Christoph Buchel is clearly a head case, and I think the museum's big mistake was, as Tyler Green puts it, not saying 'no' soon enough, or, in a better-case scenario, legally making the artist finish his installation in the initial contract. But give us none of this Visual Artist Rights Act. Buchel, as 1/2 of the artist-museum relationship, should have finished his installation. He had the power to finish it and decide how he wanted it shown. MassMoCA, $300,000 in the hole, was right to seek legal action at Buchel's abandonment but it does make me cringe to hear that they opened it, tarp-covered, BEFORE they went to court.
Here is a rundown of the court case, which Buchel lost. I am not well-versed in the law and how court cases work (I don't even watch lawyer TV shows or movies, so everything I know I learned from To Kill A Mockingbird), so I don't know why the judge is talking about how it's the most moving piece of contemporary art he's ever seen, he woke up at night thinking about it, yadda yadda. Is that his job?
- Paper Monument - A Mr. Kelsey brought his over to our abode last night and I am in love with this publication. The essay from the editors is sassy and smart, and I am particularly gleeful whenever New York is put in its place, as it is by Christopher Hsu. Icing on the cake is the inclusion of some portfolio work by one of my favorites, Jon Pylypchuk. Discovering this made my day feel productive.
- Writer's Rooms - Also brought to my attention by Mr. Kelsey. This is AWESOME. So far: Alain de Botton wins for his explanation; Jonathan Safran Foer loses.
YOUR WEEKEND:
- Friends With You/Judith G. Levy @ SooVAC - AWESOME! SooVAC is becoming my favorite gallery around here...
Lunch time is OVER. Scrabulous, I'm coming back for you later.
crazy, crazy
Big news: The former director of the Walker is the new director at the NY MOMA. Crazy, crazy. It makes sense, though. Apparently she's going there to improve contemporary art offerings. It's a good goal, and what I hope will be accomplished in her place by Olga Viso here (I am at work right now, actually, and everybody is scattering about with this WAC->MoMA press.) Big day for press clippings.
Friday, September 14, 2007
our clawfoot tub actually has claws
After two weeks of living here, I noticed this morning that our clawfoot tub actually has claws. I will have to wait until Science Museum Erin comes home, but I gather that they are specifically the talons of a large hunting bird. An eagle might be too obvious, but they might be the claws of an eagle, because if you look north at the detailing around the top of the "foot," there seems to be patterns and details resembling feathers.
Photos upcoming.
Del.icio.us is a stupid name for something designed to track bookmarks. I will call this part of my blog "Imagine a London Underground Travelcard as a Bookmark Here, Virtually." (IALUTAABHV, perhaps IALUT for short, which sounds kind of like INUIT who are eskimos, so this section will just be called ESKIMOS.)
ESKIMOS:
Science Museum of Minnesota - Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination - Guess what! There is no science in Star Wars. It is mythology! This is the third time I've been in a city with a Star Wars exhibition, most recently Paris where they pretended to honestly ponder scientific questions like "Is the force real?" or "Is it possible to take a Gungan through the core of a planet?" and "Will we ever able to travel in hyperspeed?" instead of questions like "Is this exhibition's profits going to take us sailing through the next fiscal year?" But, hell, everybody loves Star Wars. I am particularly interested in asking the question of how awesome a life size Millennium Falcon cockpit replica and Han Solo's 'rogue' outfit will be. Be sure to sign up for Star Wars Priority Email Ticket Club - I sure did.
Photos upcoming.
Del.icio.us is a stupid name for something designed to track bookmarks. I will call this part of my blog "Imagine a London Underground Travelcard as a Bookmark Here, Virtually." (IALUTAABHV, perhaps IALUT for short, which sounds kind of like INUIT who are eskimos, so this section will just be called ESKIMOS.)
ESKIMOS:
Science Museum of Minnesota - Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination - Guess what! There is no science in Star Wars. It is mythology! This is the third time I've been in a city with a Star Wars exhibition, most recently Paris where they pretended to honestly ponder scientific questions like "Is the force real?" or "Is it possible to take a Gungan through the core of a planet?" and "Will we ever able to travel in hyperspeed?" instead of questions like "Is this exhibition's profits going to take us sailing through the next fiscal year?" But, hell, everybody loves Star Wars. I am particularly interested in asking the question of how awesome a life size Millennium Falcon cockpit replica and Han Solo's 'rogue' outfit will be. Be sure to sign up for Star Wars Priority Email Ticket Club - I sure did.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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