i'm off to amsterdam tonight with my fellow gradschoolers, (sounds a bit like pre-schoolers, which is better than pee-schoolers, imho), to attend and live-blog sonic acts 12: the cinematic experience festival. stay tuned for constant updates over the next few days.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Sonic Acts 12: The Cinematic Experience
Insane Domino Setup in Art Museum
the perrucci brothers set up this massive dominoes chain at the brattleboro museum and art center
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
mind mapping
i've started using this opensource mindmapping software called "freemind" to help organize my thoughts. and i love it. it is a really flexible tool for plotting and showing the interconnections between my many ostensibly disparate thoughts. i have so many ideas all the time that i often lose track of the ones that are worth while. this results in dropping many projects that have real promise and not being able to fully develop my ideas and feelings. this is a png of my mind map as it sits at this moment (8:02pm CEST, sunday, feb17, 2008). eventually i hope to have an interactive applet of my mind map up on this site so you can see how my ideas take root and branch off. (turn the image 90 deg counterclockwise).
Ghent'd
not much of a travelogue of the ghent trip to see paul mccarthy at SMAK, sorry. i did enjoy the exhibition more than i thought i was going to. i've seen a few of his videos before (via the intertubes) and they've always struck me as needless sh(ti)ock art. but after seeing an entire museum transformed for his labyrinth of depravity and ketchup, i must say i'm dulled. and impressed. my overall impression is of becoming numb after twenty minutes or so of walking through spaces bombarding my visual and aural senses. and then frantically seeking beer and fresh air. i'm glad i went, i just never will again. but this opinion may temper as the visceral memory of the experience fades and i've had more time to try to pull something meaningful out it. :S
so the reason why i'm not writing more about the trip at the moment is that i've been getting ready for a presentation i'm giving on wednesday (ala the magic of freemind) and also for going to amsterdam wednesday night for five fun-filled days of sonic acts 12. at which i'll be one of many "live" bloggers. look for posts here and at the sonic acts blog. cheers.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Going to Ghent
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tomorrow! fmi has organized an excursion to SMAK in ghent tomorrow to see the exhibition of paul mccarthy (link is to a web-article praising mccarthy; not exactly the stance i would take, but it has heaps of information). personally, i'm not a huge fan of his flavor of art, but i've been assured that ghent is a beautiful city and well worth the trip and it's only setting me back €17. look for an travelogue in the next few days.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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