wow, as if quilts weren’t complicated and layered enough. i love the seemingly abstract, but completely logical and practical look of Ian’s work. like the gee’s bend collective that had an exhibit at the whitney, quilts aren’t necessarily ‘kitchy patchwork, they are and can be beautifully complex. if only i wasn’t such a slow hand sewer, or i could borrow my parents’ sewing machine – think of the creations! the possibilities!
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video about the Alive Gallery in Seoul, South Korea hologram art exhibit.
reasoning:
my first reaction to this video was that somehow by making these most famous works of art into talking holograms, it would be cheapening their importance, their value, commercializing them further to the point of kitsch, and that this would be something the hoity-toity, and exclusive art world would frown upon in disgust. there’s “art” and then there’s art, i guess. but the more i watch this video, the cooler it seems. i’m all about expanding, and broadening the limited, esoteric, and restricted to a greater audience, to make things more accessible, and have people add their experiences, or their opinions and have the walls between the elite and the “common” broken down. that’s why i love blogs, youtube, banksy, and this exhibit, the pros of user-generated content far outweight the cons of people being general assholes b/c of internet anonymity. plus, how cool is it that mona lisa and michelangelo speak in korean?
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Michelle Obama’s appearance on The View, greeting all the co-hosts with the fist bump, or “terrorist fist jab“.
reasoning:
what the media has decided to cover has been all over the place: election coverage has been crazy – either totally serious, and contentious, or completely ridiculous. it’s hard to look at the game of politics sometimes b/c how the politicians react, what they say, what they do can ultimately affect the decision of who is going to be chosen president, who is going to lead this country and represent us to the rest of the world. but if one is reassured that even if the worst candidate is chosen, there are enough checks and balances in place that the country will go, then the absurdity of American politics is kind of fun.
that said, i love seeing Michelle Obama everywhere on the news, internet, and political blogs.
so you know these things you always get in the mail?
they come with credit card offers, mail catalog orders, and soliciting non-profit organizations. consider the envelopes junk mail, spam, or postal refuse, my plan with this blog is to make good use of them. i won’t be applying for credit cards or buying kitschy wind chimes or sending checks, but sending papered goods love in place. over the course of my 2 decades on earth, i’ve seen the rate for a postage stamp rise almost exponentially- the United States Postal System has raised its price practically 3 times in the past 2 years. i don’t contend to be an old soul, but yet i find myself saying, “i remember a time when stamps were 29 cents and gas was 99 cents”.
people claim to love getting mail, but yet not many actually send substantial letters to each other anymore. i love sending letters, postcards, and packages as much as i can afford to do so, sometimes it doesn’t even matter who the recipient is. here, with the postage already paid by the corporation/organization, i intend to make more use of the USPS, collecting these envelopes and sending back paper trinkets of whatever i feel like. this is a roundabout way of somewhat reusing and recycling the paper that is already out there. i figure, the postal service system will be able to derive a bit more business, and plus there has to be someone on the other side of these mailings who has to open all the envelopes. perhaps a recipe or a poem will brighten their day, it seems to be a win-win from all sides… even the trees.
