<p>Bears, I was in a ‘grand lodge’ style restaurant a few years back along Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and every single waiter was from Belarus. All from Minsk even! They must recruit them for the summer and the guys are so happy to be going to the US that they don’t realize they’ll be stuck on top of a mountain without a car.</p>
<p>G
I had no idea where in the world is Carmen San Diego - Belarus is, however it sounded intriguing like, Bear and Walrus together or something.
It is in those fuzzy Eastern Europe I don’t know for I quitted social study in 7th grade as well.
I worked once with girl from Lithuania. She had some amazing story to tell how ended up in here. assuming those Gymnast girls are Ukrainian, they do got same sort of looks, either regional, or this “somehow ended up here” look. I actually know few former rhythmic gymnasts turned showgirls.
at least you get to go wherever you want 24/7 once master the MTA going your way! maze /spiderweb/ varicose veins of NYC subway system; not like those guys on the mountain top.
eventually they’d find OK boyfriend who can help them or pursuer whatever academia / athletics /arts that they are meant to be pursuing, for I doubt those tourist trap eatery job is their aspired goal. yet yet, you just want to tip them more when somehow make you feel the place more authentic-er, are pleasant to look at, or knowing their pain ( dollar / hour customary wage only, tips are your bread and butter)
OK
back to 70 bucks/week Trader Joes /fruit guys budget now, noodle pulling, cabbage stuffing party is over!!</p>
<p>aghhhh 13,200 views!!
wanna go read books about Peter or at least get out to museums or some…
hey, maybe loveblue’d come with her bunny in tow.
I can then write about bears and dogs and bunny.</p>
<p>^ shoot that is “After the launch” thread talk, sorry folks. all are fuzzy.</p>
<p>helloo 13,500 views and up
Thursday!
means gallery openings.
what you need to do is go down to Chelsea and scan the street 6PM-sh. if you spot mass of black clothing-ed skinny kids, follow them. That’s where free wine is.
there are fancy places with catered food tray still plastic wrap covered and few black tie cute boys fussing around, you are not invited. don’t even try.
supposedly get cold wave toward morning but it was nice evening for Feb. I zigged zagged six galleries until finally scored one plastic cup full of vinegary white.
since economic downtime, no more snack, California roll, no free flowing drinks. just eh… art.
Tomory Dodge
Purdy Eaton
Jose Manuel Ciria
Gregory Johnston
Chen Wei
who are they? I have no idea.
blob of paint scraped with palette knife
figure with disco mirror ball head
photo of the behind of a bull with naked woman over scanned in
my kid could have done it
but of course my kid won’t be showing solo at bigtime ground floor gallery for very long time if ever…
awww conceptu contemp how are you going ever so… who’s gonna buy that cr*p???
tomorrow, free Friday@ MoMA long time no see.
good to be free from (some) deadline and Cooper duper stress.
Good luck ED defer-er, RDer. long live Peter Cooper!!!</p>
<p>13,600 views!!
I haven’t made it to MoMA yet. I hear Picasso’s guitar show is on. It should be better than Met’s guitar hero.
do they talk between and plan together what to show? there were crisscrossing of related theme/artist in the past. It’s confusing.</p>
<p>We say in Japan, “shoshi kantetsu” roughly meaning, stick with your intention, work hard and don’t you forget .
When Peter Coper was young, he had an idea of operating ferry in NY harbor on the chain powered by tide. It was called endless chain, because the ferry was pulled by the chain that goes around pushed by compressed air from the tide. There was detailed illustration in the YA book about Peter. The copy is now in the oompa loompa vault because Donnel library where it belonged is closed and who knows when it will reopen if ever.
I have vague memory of how that thing worked, sort of like mousetrap game.
Anyway, Peter experimented many times and when he felt ready, invited important city folks for show and tell. The mayor was impressed, but bigshot inventor of his day, Robert Fulton wasn’t. It was more of because Peter was nobody, not because of the value of his invention.
It did not materialized after all. Peter was upset, kept part of the chain link in his drawer afterward as a reminder of where he is coming from, even after he became rich and famous. </p>
<p>now,
I do art and craft for living. I work in nice sunny office overlooking manhattan. in there yards and yards of fabrics, shelves full of reference books, pantone binders of all colors, swatch books, occasional free snack and ever welcomed dogs and small children. hours are lax as long as I do what I need to do, noone breathing on my neck or try to back stab or steal my lunch ( good one, smarty “launch” lunch thread) I do lose some milk here there but that’s OK.
when I was a kid back in fishy coastal town of nowhere Japan, behind my tiger -actually they are born year of rooster- parents’ back, drawing and making stuff while supposedly doing homework and drilling math chart, kanji (chinese letters) writing, harmonica or recorder practice (they’d test you in front of entire class to see if you mastered the tune, then shame you if haven’t) memorizing 47 prefectures of Japan and names of samurai guys dead hundreds years ago, figuring out differences between ginkgo trees and evergreen… homework homework prep recap memorize drill practice repeat.
If anyone told me
“kid, you are gonna do that for living, as a job, for money!!! and it’s gonna be meriken (American) money, in Nyu Yo-ku!!”
I would have thought it’s crazy. America was as far as moon. Nixon was the president. one dollar equalled 360 yen.
slowly it became attainable dream. I got networked. yen got stronger.
My chain link is long forgotten. How I wished I could be where I am now?
SS number, Green card, NY state driver’s license, legit bank account, legit health insurance and CC account (LOL)
I’m a working poor but owe nobody nothing. not even a penny. how great is that?
what,
am I complaining!?!?!?!?
shoulda put my reminder chain link in my drawer instead of that Barbie doll and ramen noodle packets.
lonely endless bear skin sewing continue…</p>
<p>kanji (chinese letters)!
My dad visited me here once. His fly is: from China to Japan(Tokyo) and then American.
On the fly from Tokyo to American, there is a Japan old guy sit near by him. my dad only know Chinese and they communicate by write kanji and it really worked!</p>
<p>we owe everything to china. since these guy called “kento shi” roughly meaning let’s spy the China! gang - went to visit in what was the year? 740? 800? see, I don’t remember anything I learned. Tiger mom style education never works. Ok, did not work for me.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kentoshi_route.png[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kentoshi_route.png</a>
wow so it was 600s to 800s many spying trip…</p>
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<p>Bears,
I remembering reading that even the tigers (as in tiger mom) in the old Japanese paintings and woodcuts were imported images from China as tigers are not indigenous to Japan!</p>
<p>However the fascinating thing about Japanese culture is that there is definitely a history of adopting things from other cultures but then there’s always a Japanese spin to it. Are the Japanese the original “greenies”, they reuse, recycles and respin but give it their unique slant.</p>
<p>And of course I meant I am remembering and they reuse, recycle and respin
This weather is freezing my brain, I looked out over my yard this am and found it very difficult to believe that all that snow could possibly melt away.</p>
<p>Bears: thinking of you as D sews 3D soft sculpture deer head with gold antlers. She had to teach the boys how to run the sewing machine, made her very popular and sought after!</p>
<p>thanks all for reply and I am seeing in my manga brain how different smarty’s back yard (NH?) and redbugs (FL: carl Hiaassen land) are at this very moment.
NY is 45-50 sh today, suspiciously warm. don’t put away coats and mittens just yet, it will come again end March, even Apr.</p>
<p>for 13,700 views now
It came back! Tiger cramming education’s residue, or more of from manga residue.
[Kenzuishi</a> - SamuraiWiki](<a href=“http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Kenzuishi]Kenzuishi”>http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Kenzuishi)
there were “kenzui shi” before kento shi.
Zui (loveblue, is it “Sui” to you?) was a dynasty before To. First batch of spy mission was to Zui.
here^ link says, should translate as “ambassadors dispatched to Sui” for kanji letter “ken” means dispatcher of sort.
thou in fact we know it was spying and bringing back all goodies by tricking good Chinese folks with fake friendly smile and some hostess gifts.<br>
there is manga about Asuka era, super human prince (prince!) Shotoku Taishi.
we learned about French revolution(Rose of Versailles) and Japanese history thru great manga saga. honestly, better than cramming school books. </p>
<p>[Hi</a> Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Izuru_Tokoro_no_Tenshi]Hi”>Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi - Wikipedia)
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I can’t believe you could google it^^
for those folks with right mindset, no worry, we knew as kids when it was fictional and/or some middle aged lonely often awful looking manga artists’ fantasy gone too far.
used to be said that awful the artist looked prettier the work is.
I do worry kids in Japan today, thou. or anywhere for that matter.</p>
<p>I guess it is like:
ken-to-shi: ken mean send; to: Tang dynasty and shi mean people
ken-zui-shi: zui: is Sui in Chinese</p>
<p>Sui(zui) is a short dynasty and it is right before Tang(to). I am not good at history and my Dad helped me and my brother through stories. we had a chart having all the dynasties and one by one he told us story. It helped me a lot to remember all the dynasty in the right order and many of the famous kings. Too bad we don’t have Manga when I was a kid.</p>
<p>I think it was not faking friendship though. It is fine whatever … all in the old time.</p>
<p>When I try to understand “kanji”, I thought it is a translation from chinese:
Han-Zi (Han mean Chinese people and Zi mean word). It look like I am wrong on that</p>
<p>I think, “han” is “kan” I mean, “kan” written in kanji letter means “Chinese” in general.
trouble is, if you go by sound “kan” could mean also Korea (uses diferent kanji) could be “can” like tuna can (again, different kanji) could be “room” “time period”“dry” “sweat” “nice guy” “finished” “printed issue” etc etc…all depends on the situation, all using different kanji, but read same, sound same.
I feel bad for people learning Japanese.</p>
<p>happy soon to be 14,100 views
went to MoMA while in the bear cage muzzled and all.
The Picasso’s guitar! lots of it!
there is the famous paper one and the sheet metal one, funny they are almost identical. He might have had template/ pattern somewhere.
Picasso was not a musician but being from Spain, must have felt some tenderness toward the instrument, or its shape there of.
collages, drawings and photographs. The guy was OCD. during 1912-1914 sh, guitar, guitar, guitar and guitar.
the cutest one was actually of violin. sandwiched between glued paper is a cutout shape of the instrument but looking more like modern kid friendly illustration of a face: scroll for curly Q, f-holes for eyes, bridge for nose, chin rest is a happy mouth; that’s what I saw anyway. It is placed in front of the lightbox so you get to see thru silhouette of the secret inside.
now
the first ever guitar piece MoMA acquired was a metal sculpture one, which then old grump Picasso didn’t give up to MoMA’s bigshot director nor trustee but when this new kid asked if he can have it trading with some Cezanne MoMA got?
Picasso said yes, and no, did not even take up Cezanne offer. </p>
<p>^ this was a story in the Artnews Feb issue. isn’t it intriguing?
Picasso played favoritism, not only with girlfriends but collectors, museum folks and friends’ kids and grandkids. There are few lucky ones happened to be liked by grump then, now publishing memoir or photo books and brag about their time with great Picasso.
and somehow, the grump must have liked this William S Rubin.
his long bio is here
<a href=“http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/rubinw.htm[/url]”>http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/rubinw.htm</a>
to make it short, born nice, Fieldston educated then B. A. from Columbia in 1949 in Italian language and literature. chum with MoMA bigshot since young age.
Columbia M.A was supposed to be history then switched to art history, teach at SLC, help mount shows then hired by MoMA.
He was already established chief curator of painting and sculpture and 40 some year old when guitar thing happened, not like some kid just went up to mighty Picasso and asked if he can have the cool guitar, as I imagined.
however, that acquisition made him famous, on the cover of NYT. I can’t read the whole archive I guess you have to be paid member or some, maybe G or switters could.</p>
<p>NYT archive
Picasso Gives Work to Museum Here; Picasso’s ‘Guitar’ Given to Museum
By HILTON KRAMER
February 11, 1971,
Section , Page 1, Column , words
Pablo Picasso has donated to the Museum of Modern Art one of the rarest and most sought-after sculptures of the classic Cubist period -“Guitar” (1912), a construction made of sheet metal and wire that virtually changed the course of sculpture in this century.</p>
<p>while I was in the bear cage, somewhere in here was a talk about museum career or PhD.
as a rule, you’d need BA, MA, maybe MFA, then let’s see. you’d need to be fluent with German, maybe French, Italian, plus one more if you can pull it off. UCLA and other niceUs, Ivies, LACs are better off in this regard. art-art school kids have to somehow catch up if one wants to become academiac and taken seriously by hi intelle people who runs all these association that give you jobs and grants.
someone I knew started out at hi LAC BA, SAIC BFA, academic MFA, study abroad, then finally PhD. and respectable steady job. it took almost 15 years.</p>
<p>then
things are changing. art is no longer definable in the same way as, say, this William Rubin’s time. funny to think that what he did was outrageous at his own time, abstract ex, African arts inspired shows and such.
now some of successful (it could mean many things however you want to define “success”) curators, writers, educators and practicing artists have no legit bachelors degree let alone masters.
Since “idea” is the art of today, whoever got the best ideas and right venue with right people working for them could mount super sell out show.
once made your name that way, everything a go. noone would come checking on your school’s prestige or how well you did at the said school if you went to one.
problem is, you’d have to keep doing it, over and over and over again, one after the other, better than ever, stakes get higher and higher.
here, I think is where grueling education helps. it prepares you to be flexible, organized, compartmentalized, get up and go and go. if you ever need lawyer, banker, liability insurance guy in case someone get hit by your metal sculpture, grants writer, bartender, mover and shaker, chances are they were your roommate or old date (and their generous parents) from your college years.
yet yet no matter how so-called talented, hard working good person and how much money and time spent for education, there is no guarantee whatso ever.
you never know what next big idea would be. like ipad, like Jonas brothers. comes and goes.
then again, I look at those guitar collages about a century old and they are like, so new. new at his time, still as new now in year 2011.
folks did good job conserving them but that’s not what I meant.
like this one titled “head” the blue, the white. the line. gray of the “guitar”
art,
is totally worth gambling your life for. you go kids!!!</p>
<p>14,200 views yet? excuse me but check this out now.
I don’t know how you can do it but you can podcast if you are not in the vicinity, or repeat sometime later night.
Leonard Lopate is Brooklyn working class born artschool grad turned one of our fav talk show host. guests ate NYT guy and critics and such. NY artworld today. why armory show, etc
[The</a> Leonard Lopate Show: Art in New York City - WNYC](<a href=“http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/mar/11/art-new-york-city/]The”>http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/mar/11/art-new-york-city/)</p>
<p>doh!! segment ended.
repeat would be 12AM to 2AM. the talk should be around 1AM
FM 93.9
enjoy!!</p>
<p>OK
now you can hear it from the site directly as “on demand” by clicking audio bar.
wow sound is so much clear-er than my scratchy radio at my job. Leonard sounds twenty years younger. ( if I know how, I would make heart symbol here.)</p>