whats with this whole art thing anway? and why do i love it?
Clear the Noise
Welcome to my tumblelog, it is like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Depending on how disciplined I am (and wether or not my technology fails me) I will also throw in the occasional twitter. Also, some may experience formatting errors; I strongly recommend using Safari. Why aren't you on a mac?
Email me: here.
finished stata and off to yoga in lastarria
Molly!!
Late Night Conversations Between Two Friends
- Colleen: You're leaving?
- Katie: I have to go to church.
- Colleen: Church?
- Katie: Yeah, it's on Sunday.
- Colleen: I don't keep track of church.
Reblogged from BRITTICISMS
A Balade of Complaint
Compleyne ne koude, ne might myn herte never,
My peynes halve, ne what torment I have,
Though that I sholde in your presence ben ever,
Myn hertes lady, as wisly he me save
That Bountee made, and Beautee list to grave
In your persone, and bad hem bothe in-fere
Ever t’awayte, and ay be wher ye were.
As wisly he gye alle my joyes here
As I am youres, and to yow sad and trewe,
And ye, my lyf and cause of my gode chere,
And deeth also, whan ye my peynes newe,
My worldes joye, whom I wol serve and sewe,
Myn heven hool, and al my suffisaunce,
Whom for to serve is set al my plesaunce.
Beseching yow in my most humble wyse
T’accepte in worth this litel pore dyte,
And for my trouthe my servyce not despyse,
Myn observaunce eke have not in despyte,
Ne yit to longe to suffren in this plyte;
I yow beseche, myn hertes lady, here,
Sith I yow serve, and so wil yeer by yere.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Me in the Spree Forest.
I’m still coming off a rather solemn mood from Finland. I didn’t know a lot about the country’s nationalism, the epic Kalevala myth or the intense nature - inspired art and imagery that seems to permeate it all. Take a look at this site:
http://www.vaasapages.com/Gallery/AkseliGallen-Kallela.htm
And look up the Kalevala. Something I had no clue about. It’s all very intense, dark and again, somewhat solemn, but rich and honest.
NY Times feature on the Berlin wall
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/over-the-wall/
This guy isn’t necessarily one of my favorite Berlin-based NY-Times contributors, but this entry about the wall and the Bernauer neighborhood I share with him struck a chord.
From Kalle Hamm’s Fall of Man.
Still lost among the suomalaiset
I am still in Helsinki at this microbiology and public health conference. It has been 4 days and I am near ready to get the hell out of here. Tomorrow I give my talk and then I will be flying back to Berlin in the evening. Finland has been a trip. Totally quiet and small, a bit Scandinavian but not in a Viking kinda way, mostly a weirder mix of very blonde, eastern Europeanish, forest dwelling, sea-locked people. Anyway, I did manage to venture out and find a pretty good Museum of Contemporary arts, with mostly Finnish artists. And one exhibit was smashing. It is called (Un)naturally and explored men, the idea of men through gender stretching, role shifting and questioning norms. Sounds pretty standard. A reverse feminism if you will, but without dissing feminism and almost employing the same critical structure. Looking further, in a place like Scandinavia where women’s rights are a long time here, reexamining men and men’s roles is actually quite interesting. So a piece spoke out to me called Fall of Man by a guy called Kalle Hamm, about various gays or queer-related figures throughout history. Either with a quote or a relevant historical reference to their relevance. Each man is allocated a rough screen-print poster in black and white and presented next to one another. It was very effective and I found it to be one of the most poignant and vivid I’ve seen in a while - while still remaining politically neutral. And this where one of the figures featured is a blindfolded “Muhammed.” The only thing I could find on the piece was a Swedish site, so for those of you who read Swedish here you go: http://www.kulturstan.se/nyheter/museum/?idart=3705&SEO=Fall%20of%20Man%20på%20Finlandsinstitutet For those who can, well, maybe a glimpse at the picture will speak out.
Peace.
(1/12)
next »
