4/25/08
youch
I am feeling why it's not a good idea to start drinking beer at 2 in the afternoon, when it is light until ten....
Now I have a cold glass of SCHWIP SCHWAP, which is also probably not a good idea since despite it's catchy name it tastes of bad cola and maybe an orange flavour tablet or sachet (TANG!) and is vaguely cloudy looking.
And I have some kunstschmertzen, after visiting the Neue National Gallery yesterday for the biennale. It's a handsome giant glass cube. The outside is strewn with coloured flags, I was already charmed... Inside, was kind of disappointing, on a piece by piece basis I wasn't that into it, but as a whole, a series of ephemeral pleasures, the spaces between the art were evocative and interesting, sometimes only because of the people walking around the pieces...
Big glassy spaces are hard to pin down, and despite my essential un-feeling towards any single piece, I actually loved the experience of the thing as a whole. That may be more about the architecture than anything. I liked the dirtied up window, and the recordings of disappearing and extinct languages. Anyways, here are some snippets from my day...
Now I have a cold glass of SCHWIP SCHWAP, which is also probably not a good idea since despite it's catchy name it tastes of bad cola and maybe an orange flavour tablet or sachet (TANG!) and is vaguely cloudy looking.
And I have some kunstschmertzen, after visiting the Neue National Gallery yesterday for the biennale. It's a handsome giant glass cube. The outside is strewn with coloured flags, I was already charmed... Inside, was kind of disappointing, on a piece by piece basis I wasn't that into it, but as a whole, a series of ephemeral pleasures, the spaces between the art were evocative and interesting, sometimes only because of the people walking around the pieces...
Big glassy spaces are hard to pin down, and despite my essential un-feeling towards any single piece, I actually loved the experience of the thing as a whole. That may be more about the architecture than anything. I liked the dirtied up window, and the recordings of disappearing and extinct languages. Anyways, here are some snippets from my day...
4/24/08
hanging about
A nice post about my rainbow over here along with lots of lovely textiles, if that's what you're into...
4/23/08
entertaining the monkeys
We've been watching Metalocalypse, in between annoying old LOST... pretty good... Metalocalypse that is... Dethklok Dethklok DETHKLOK... They have such good faces for cartoons...
Adam is nursing some injuries, trying to cultivate impressive bruises... He is also playing some game with persistent atmospheric loops and horsey sounds, and when I look over his shoulder I just see a flapping cape (bad sign) in the woods, a sword fight with a lady in a swimsuit and some smoking fires, and I ask about the object of his game, and he doesn't know... 'maybe just to kill the others...'
Anyway it's kinotag so we are going to the movies... OMG big screen... Like tv... But bigger, and more discerning, kinda.
* we just saw 'be kind rewind' and have vague plans to swede a music video or something... Also, I am a little in love with Mos Def and Michel Gondry...
Adam is nursing some injuries, trying to cultivate impressive bruises... He is also playing some game with persistent atmospheric loops and horsey sounds, and when I look over his shoulder I just see a flapping cape (bad sign) in the woods, a sword fight with a lady in a swimsuit and some smoking fires, and I ask about the object of his game, and he doesn't know... 'maybe just to kill the others...'
Anyway it's kinotag so we are going to the movies... OMG big screen... Like tv... But bigger, and more discerning, kinda.
* we just saw 'be kind rewind' and have vague plans to swede a music video or something... Also, I am a little in love with Mos Def and Michel Gondry...
4/22/08
yesterday...
We visited Potsdam, which is lovely... Sanssouci Park & the Royal Palaces... A picnic in the pleasure gardens, peeking at gilt tea houses, Roccoco extravagance and a marble statue every few metres, precocious cherubs, lusty young men and maidens, gods and romans. I swear there were thousands of them... Climbing the manicured terraces and wandering about aimlessly in appreciation of trees shaped like pyramids and mushrooms and knobbly old beasts... We had our eyes out for pilze, but perhaps a little too distracted for that... We didn't go inside any palaces, palaces are closed on mondays, which is why there weren't too many people there, which was nice...
I was surprised how easy it is on the train, and how close. I've got to get out of town more, also got to look around town more, as I get this horrible feeling I'm running out of time here... I hate that, despite looking forward to the other stuff. Holland and HOME.
4/16/08
big day
You know when you have one of those days where it's all happening...
All at once... This ones for you baby...
From discovering your favourite ever creatures just hanging out in the neighbourhood, mandarin ducks in tiergarten and giant hairy donkeys through the fence at the zoo, to finding new shoes for 5 euros, to getting your first ever international train fine, to losing a hard drive with the last 6 months of photos of adventures on it, along with all the work and music, to hanging out in the park in the sunshine with hundreds of people bbqing, drinking beers, buying drugs and watching dogs and children...
That was saturday... Ever since we have been in recovery. Though might never recover from the sadness of losing photos...
Bad things happen to good kids. Good things do too.
All at once... This ones for you baby...
From discovering your favourite ever creatures just hanging out in the neighbourhood, mandarin ducks in tiergarten and giant hairy donkeys through the fence at the zoo, to finding new shoes for 5 euros, to getting your first ever international train fine, to losing a hard drive with the last 6 months of photos of adventures on it, along with all the work and music, to hanging out in the park in the sunshine with hundreds of people bbqing, drinking beers, buying drugs and watching dogs and children...
That was saturday... Ever since we have been in recovery. Though might never recover from the sadness of losing photos...
Bad things happen to good kids. Good things do too.
4/14/08
big day
Went for a walk through the tier garten, saw a brown mouse in the bushes and amazing Mandarin ducks and Canada geese. Had breakfast by the canal surrounded by people drinking giant beers and eating salty bretzels.
Walked around the outside of the zoo and caught peeks at flamingoes, vultures, a cassowary, storks, camels, hairy mountain alpacas, and best of all, springy baby goats and a pair of giant hairy donkeys.
Caught the train to kreutzberg, got our first train fine by the friendliest tram police ever, walked through the park, drank beer in the sun, watched dogs and punks fighting, and people BBQing.
Came home to hard drive meltdown disasters. All is not good in the land of precious data and photos from the last 6 months. Unable to watch any episodes of Lost or Scrubs as a diversion we were forced to entertain ourselves by cutting up cardboard. Now we have super glue for fingertips and a kitchen table that looks like edward scissorhands lives here.
Walked around the outside of the zoo and caught peeks at flamingoes, vultures, a cassowary, storks, camels, hairy mountain alpacas, and best of all, springy baby goats and a pair of giant hairy donkeys.
Caught the train to kreutzberg, got our first train fine by the friendliest tram police ever, walked through the park, drank beer in the sun, watched dogs and punks fighting, and people BBQing.
Came home to hard drive meltdown disasters. All is not good in the land of precious data and photos from the last 6 months. Unable to watch any episodes of Lost or Scrubs as a diversion we were forced to entertain ourselves by cutting up cardboard. Now we have super glue for fingertips and a kitchen table that looks like edward scissorhands lives here.
4/11/08
WHEN THINGS CAST NO SHADOW
The Berlin Biennal opened last week, so there's a hectic art schedule. Have seen a million shows, and haven't even been to the main venues yet... Last night we went to the opening of Pushwagner at the Schinkel Pavillion. Pretty amazing to see, in the grand honeycomb ceilinged octagonal space, crazy detailed, huge mad paintings of the apocalypse. It seemed kind of perfect to me, GDR modernism meets sci-fi stage set presenting apocalyptic visions. The man himself looked pretty sharp last night, here he is, fresh* off the internet...
Went to the Kunstlerhaus Bethanian for open studios, saw some beautiful work and got some studio envy. Saw some BAD stuff too... It's hard to have much recall. I've been pretty vague, hopefully I remember some of it.
We are making plans, moving to The Netherlands in June for two months in a studio, thinking of packing up in a month makes me feel abit sad and anxious... But excited, we are going to live on a street between canals full of sweet little boats and beautiful old buildings. How delightful.
Went to the Kunstlerhaus Bethanian for open studios, saw some beautiful work and got some studio envy. Saw some BAD stuff too... It's hard to have much recall. I've been pretty vague, hopefully I remember some of it.
We are making plans, moving to The Netherlands in June for two months in a studio, thinking of packing up in a month makes me feel abit sad and anxious... But excited, we are going to live on a street between canals full of sweet little boats and beautiful old buildings. How delightful.
4/8/08
mythology
I've been doing some vague research on mythology, triggered by a picture and discussion about the Klabautermann, A helpful ghost of the Baltic sea, dressed as a sailor smoking a pipe, assisting sailors and fishermen and rescuing men overboard, not to mention an unsupressable musical talent....
After reading of the nixie I was reminded of an aboriginal river mermaid, I came across (read about) camping in the southern Queensland hinterland, can't remember if it was 'york york' or 'yawk yawk' but it's got me reading a bit on aboriginal mythology and reminded me of these stories I loved as a kid of the spirits and creatures who formed the land.
We would talk about Damarri, who laid down to form the mountain as we drove by it. And I distinctly remember Lake Euramo and an overwhelming feeling of wanting to stay away, it had swallowed up people, since it's beginnings. All those beautiful lakes did. And if you swim in Lake Eacham on a day the tourists are away or on a rainy evening you get the feeling the stories are right.
Stories of the female spirit at the boulders who called out to her lost love and lured young men to the waterhole, only to drown them amongst the treacherous rocks. Easy to believe when told them by your father at an impressionable age. Makes me curious to go back there, see if I'd still feel that way.
After reading of the nixie I was reminded of an aboriginal river mermaid, I came across (read about) camping in the southern Queensland hinterland, can't remember if it was 'york york' or 'yawk yawk' but it's got me reading a bit on aboriginal mythology and reminded me of these stories I loved as a kid of the spirits and creatures who formed the land.
We would talk about Damarri, who laid down to form the mountain as we drove by it. And I distinctly remember Lake Euramo and an overwhelming feeling of wanting to stay away, it had swallowed up people, since it's beginnings. All those beautiful lakes did. And if you swim in Lake Eacham on a day the tourists are away or on a rainy evening you get the feeling the stories are right.
Stories of the female spirit at the boulders who called out to her lost love and lured young men to the waterhole, only to drown them amongst the treacherous rocks. Easy to believe when told them by your father at an impressionable age. Makes me curious to go back there, see if I'd still feel that way.
4/4/08
dresden
... was all stormy and silver and grand yesterday...
It's the first time I've seen working fountains in awhile...
It's the first time I've seen working fountains in awhile...
4/3/08
just in case...
... you hadn't remembered how funny it is to watch videos of talking cats and dogs...
Yes, I know, I'm sorry...
Yes, I know, I'm sorry...
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