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posted by Anonymous @ 11:13 PM 0 comments

OK, I can admit it now. I've been a delinquent blogger.
But that is only because I have been soooo busy! I've been working hard
at the museum to impart my wisdom (haha) to 6 -11 year olds, and at Nexus,
working on the flash demo for ENERGYprism,
their new software. When it is done, I'll have a really nice addition
to my flash portfolio.



In local news, the Ansel Adams exhibit at the MFA opens on Monday. I am going to a staff preview of the show in about 20 minutes. I will tell you how the show is (although it couldn't be anything less than amazing). The Quilts of Gee's Bend is also closing on Monday, which is a really amazing quilt exhibit made by poor rural farmers--mostly the descendants of slaves. The quilts were made out of necessity to keep warm (obvious by the the materials that they are made out of--old clothes) but they come out so beautiful that they could have been abstract paintings beloved by Clement
Greenberg (ok, this isn't an original idea, I got it from the Globe,
but I wholeheartedly agree). In personal news, it is exactly one month
until I turn 20. No more teenagerhood for me.

Anyhow, must go get ready to see Ansel Adams! I really
hope that they have my favorite photo of his (see below).

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The bain of my existence! I'm trying to connect an OSX machine to a Win2000 Pro machine over a VPN. Neither remote desktop nor VNC is working for me. I think I am coming up on 10 hours of trying to get this to work. I can be very persistant at times. In other news, I love my new job! How many people can say that they walked by one of the most important Gauguins, two El Grecos and a Velazquez while they were at work. Not too many! It is interesting to note that the MFA does not deem the Velazquez shown below important enough to be in their online collection. I am shocked! This work is beautiful and important, not to mention well-known.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Paul Gauguin 1897-1898	Saint Catherine El Greco 1610-14	Saint Dominic in Prayer El Greco about 1605	The Infant Don Balthasar Carlos Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez 1631

Happy Belated 4th of July! I had a great time, got to attend two parties, with Tucker's aunt (who is the shoe queen) and ended up with a very cute pair of

That's all for now, must go back to work.
PS- Tucker is now fully toothed, I swear! He won't let me a take a picture to prove it, though. For those of you not following the mellowdrama, Tucker was missing his front tooth for over a year.

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posted by Anonymous @ 9:48 PM 0 comments

Winona Ryder

Keanu Reeves

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posted by Anonymous @ 10:16 PM 1 comments

So, I've been reading Modernism by Richard Weston for one of my art history classes and really enjoying it! Weston manages to turn a scholarly approach to studying architecture into a page-turning (at least for me) book. I would definately reccomend this for anyone interested in modern architecture.

Now, to completely change the subject, I think that everyone should play this new game, Pac-Mondrian. What an ingenious game! You are pac-man, running around gobbling up squares
from Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" to the sounds of the jazz that Mondrian listened to. The game takes on a somewhat improvisational quality, as each time you eat a square, a different sound is added to the background music. The game was created by the Prize Budget For Boys, an online artist group.

Speaking of online artist collectives, The Yes Men comes out tomorrow! I am so excited, it is already on my Netflix queue. Don't know who The Yes Men are? I don't even know where to begin. For one, they are responsible for several "hijinks" including gwbush.com (an anti-Bush site posing as a Bush supporting site) and gatt.org (an imitation WTO site). The Bush site actually created a small scandal, which led Bush to proclaim, "There ought to be limits to freedom." Read about the story for yourself. As for the WTO site, The Yes Men have actually
gotten invitations to conferences as the WTO and attended, only to espouse ridiculous theories. See The Horribly Stupid Stunt for actual video of The Yes Men impersonating WTO officials. Go to their site if you want to know more, I personally love these international pranksters.

Speaking of general disallusionment, we have Outfoxed right now on Netflix, and I plan to watch it soon.

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