Sadly, two great figures in the modern arts have died this week. Sol Lewitt, master of conceptualism, and Kurt Vonnegut, master of literary counter-culture.
April 12, 2007
April 11, 2007
Of Will Ferrell and Swedes
When work gets boring, you gotta spice life up. I can usually rely on architecture and the cool people who work in it for excitement, but with this new higher paying job, it hasn’t been so. So, bored as the beams that hold up the floors under our feet, K and I spiced up our Tuesday nights with Will Ferrell and things Swedish. We started off our night with Blades of Glory. Let me put my poems in you, mind bottlingly funny. Talladega nights was funny, but this was FUNNY. How I love Will. I was pretty tired after the movie, considering that I’ve been on my way to getting sick with this crazy up and down weather and the tiring 24 hour weekend trips I’ve been taking to see friends and family, but a coworker told me about an ice-bar event at the Swedish House that night. So, after the movie, we crossed the street to the Swedish House where they’ve brought ice sculptures made from Sweden’s Torne River to melt into the Potomac River. While taking photographs of the blocks of ice and pondering how we could get inside to get in on the free liquor, a photographer who had too much to drink starts talking photography with us and gets us in. The instant we walk in, we feel stares upon us and hear a couple commenting on how we just walked off the streets and into the event. What is it with people needing to feel special and VIP that they can’t share art and liquor. Nonetheless we hang out for a bit, admire the ice bar and other sculptures, ignore the event’s emphasis on “to see and be seen”, and partake in many Absolut cocktails.
And to add some Swedish hot to our night, after all that Swedish cool, K and I head over to Saint-Ex for their Swedish dance party where K’s beau was going to be for the night. A few of our friends were able to make it out as well. Good music, more liquor, awesome company, and a cute Norwegian =) Couldn’t have asked for a better Tuesday night.
April 10, 2007
April 6, 2007
April 3, 2007
If you need a book to read…
I highly recommend Tom Robbin’s Skinny Legs and All.
Comical, political, cultural, philosophical, lyrical, it covers the fantastical, the everyday, and current events. Everything a good book should be. The complexity of it makes me want to compare it to the my favorite movie of the moment Pan’s Labyrinth. But with more relevance to the present. And with more absurd characters, starring the Arab and Jew duo, the NYC artist duo from evangelical Virginia, and not to mention the quintet of animate objects the Painted Stick, the Conch Shell, the Can o Beans, the Dirty Sock, and the Silver Spoon.
It paints imagery from ”as twilight was buttering the stones of the city” to an applicable description of the state of dating ”bachelors…having been hurt at point A, they insured themselves against being hurt again at point C, by becoming assholes at point B.” Love it.
March 16, 2007
Miami HOT
A house on the beach with video screens of the beach as facade:
March 15, 2007
Italian HOT
A library building with terra-cotta books as facade, care of Domus:
by Archea Associati
March 9, 2007
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
This just in: The World’s Richest. Time to write the next Harry Potter book or go into the apparel, construction, or real estate industry. But since I took the “Do I Have What it Takes to be a Billionaire” quiz and scored 34/100, it looks like my best bet is to marry one of the bachelors. sike.
March 8, 2007
yet another reason to love europe…
Maybe it’s the cold medicine, or maybe it’s the idea of European electronic music which I fell in love with during my 8-month stay in Spain, but this concept got me really excited: Sustainable night clubs.
March 6, 2007
monday night madness
If you were in DC last night, in Dupont Circle, in front of the Citibank on Connecticut Avenue, around 9pm, and saw a gang of 8 running and screaming on piggyback , that would have been a mojito-ed up group of my friends and myself =)
