sigh... sorry tae-yeoun. i leave the 13th... but....if you're ever in boston over the summer, i'm gonna be there. please visit me... sigh...

posted by Bryan Lee   [1:59 PM]

if any of you have access to yesterday's austin-american statesman, i highly suggest checking out the life & arts section

posted by Kelsey   [12:28 PM]

ack bryan when's mid-june for you?
i get in seoul in mid-june, i.e. the 15th, and will be there till mid-august.
what will you be doing in korea?

or you can stop by manila before you come... :)

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:23 PM]

hey... anyone in korea for a little bit for the beginning to mid june... send an email my way... peace home-slices

posted by Bryan Lee   [8:04 PM]

i am in a postkarten-writing mood...send me your postal addresses and i will send you mail

or, if you're feeling nice:
Kelsey Innis
IES Berlin
Johannisstrasse 6
10117 Berlin
Germany
for the next three weeks

posted by Kelsey   [6:11 AM]

Done!!! Packing (and laundry) doesn't count. Now, to find housing for the next six days. Of course, I could always make an acquaintance with the lady with one-dreadlock near Harvard Coop...maybe she'll share her corner. On another note, both Bryan and I are going to be in Cambridge with real housing after June 6th (I'm leaving early August)--so feel free to stop by and visit. Though reunions in Cambridge may be less exotic than those in Europe, I assure you that the products of our theoretical cooking skills--or at least mine--will provide adequate compensation. (Read as: Come feed Eunice).

posted by Eunice   [7:42 PM]

im done but i screwed up this entire semester... pity, eh?

I am professing my love to john lin, who this morning was my pseudo-girlfriend and got up early to give me a hug. how nice is that. yay.

posted by Bryan Lee   [3:41 PM]

'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.'

- T.H. White, The Once and Future King
read at Yale's baccalaureate this morning by its dean.

Mushy, yes, but so was TASP, just exquisitely so.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [9:30 PM]

Photography is cheating, but she is a lovely mistress. Cambridge people, it was great to visit.
Alex, call me (708-703-7636), I'm hear till the 23rd.

right.
On photos again... I feel that it isn't all the artist doing it. No matter how completely manipulated the set up, the beauty and meaning in a photograph come mostly from the subject, and secondarily from the artist. Photographers are much more technicians and directors than say painters or sculptors, though of course there are exceptions in all directions.

hope you're all warm wherever you are.

posted by Adrian   [11:19 PM]

i'm leaving for berlin in three days! who's gonna be on the same continent as me this summer?

posted by Kelsey   [8:33 AM]

Photographs! Tae-Yeoun descends to uncultured summer mode (because Tae-Yeoun is on break!) and the third person, and diverts the discussion from art. Tae-Yeoun went to the bookstore today to buy some envelopes (after a nightmarish packing experience, Tae-Yeoun is not buying any more books) and bought a postcard featuring a Beatles photo (the one with the umbrellas). Beatles photographers don't seem to be cited much, but Beatles photos in general just make Tae-Yeoun happy.

Tae-Yeoun is also into Beatles music not sung by the Beatles. Yay summer.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [6:11 PM]

Cartier Bresson. One of my all time favorite photos. Also, one of my all time favorite photographers.

posted by Eunice   [5:06 PM]

I think it's interesting that no one has mentioned photography yet. Perhaps photography isn't "art" enough to make it as someone's favorite piece of art. Indeed, I'm not sure if any photos are even in my top ten. But at the same time, I spend way way more time with photography than I do other art. Conventional art, for all intents and purposes, plays almost no roll in my life. Photography is a mistress I can't break. That sounds pratentious but it does a good job showing how I feal about photography. In love with it, obsessed with it, embarressed about it, defensive of it, and of course pretentious as shit.

My favorite photographers lately are cindy sherman and sally mann. Here are some favorites, and classics:

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(About the last one from Untitled Film Stills:  Cindy Sherman was twenty-three years old when she began making
these pictures in 1977... She stopped, she has explained, when
she ran out of cliches.)

posted by john owens-ream   [8:01 PM]

"He Lost His Mind, Undressed, and Ran Away Naked"
While we're on the subject of Russian artists (I think I share your taste for them)--Alex, do you like Kabakov? My piano professor has two of his extremely early works, when he was still painting on fruit crates instead of doing room "installations" such as the one I named above. I can't say I understand him, but I feel like he sort of exudes the earnest pretentiousness you describe.

posted by Eunice   [6:26 AM]

Hey guys. Just thought I'd let you know I just won our game of assassins. It took long hours of stalking, running, and sneaking, but it's over. Ah memories

posted by Adam   [11:42 AM]

Awesome Alex. I'm going to make a comment about the second pic as if I understand it, but honestly, I don't.

"Notice how the apparently three dimensional aspects of the work are all incompletely drawn or intentionally mis-rendered, providing the illusion of depth and at the same time the means to destroying that illusion. Moreover, the powerful central red square makes no attempts at disguising its two-dimensionality despite its vital location in this roughly anthromorphic figure."

???

-2 questions-
1. When do you leave Chicago? I'll be in town either after the 11th or the 13th (I'm going to try to swing by Cambridge on the 11th) and I think it'd be good to catch up-
2. How did you post two images at once? I'm terrible with computers, so can't figure this out.

posted by Adrian   [8:23 AM]

My dad always said; "if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it"
He also commented to me that societies idolize or romanticize an age only after it is truly dead. That's why people pretended to be Cowboys in the 50's and Astronauts in the 80's... by 1955 it was O.K. to idealize the cowboy because he was for the most part dead, and by the time every child fantasized about being an astronaut, we weren't sending people up there anymore-

That is a good quote, Alex.

posted by Adrian   [10:10 AM]

brilliant colors:



(i'm sorry. i couldn't resist.)


but not entirely in response to the quote (that i'm still trying to wrap my head around) it might be possible that we do prefer brighter colors as we enter new ages. the most immediate and irrelevant example that comes to mind is that the standard A pitch was significantly lower in the Baroque period than it is now: we don't tune to 440 Hz anymore, because people have just been preferring brighter tones. but i have to go eat. i will say something substantial eventually.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [3:00 PM]

Possibly my favorite painting. What do you all think?
Notice how a person cannot stand so, and how she floats.

O Grace.
O Chemistry on the Last Day to Study.
Do any of you understand nuclear chemistry or the chemistry of the transitional metals?

Really though, the unity of the composition is remarkable, and the muted palette is more powerful here than what most painters get with all vibrancy of color.

posted by Adrian   [6:27 AM]

This simply is beautiful. O Hopper my love.
I wish I could paint like this...that is, would like to be able to convey feeling so (apparently) effortlessly. Only the important details remain, as if you walked by the window and took this entire scene in in a moment and then walked on with it in your mind, glowing a little.

Hey, will everyone with the "Hello" program post their favorite painting or photograph?

posted by Adrian   [6:24 AM]

And all the people rejoiced and said:
"God Save the King!"
"Long Live the King!"
"May the King Live Forever and Ever!"
"Amen"
(coronation anthem which will be sung at commencement in a few feeks)

Has anyone heard about the dude (senator? rep?) in Arizona who is trying to reform gun control law there so that it is legal to carry a firearm into an establishment that serves alcohol!? I mean, I think its a good idea.

posted by Adrian   [6:23 AM]

reasonably amusing. unfortunately. 

posted by Adrian   [6:23 AM]

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