Work and art

[kippurbird]

Welp.

For the past couple of weekends my dad has brought home movies to watch. They've been Israeli movies and because of that, they've been movies that I cataloged at work. I couldn't watch them. I really couldn't watch them. I mean I watched them, for a little bit, because we were eating dinner in front of them, but I had a huge unhappy fit. Obviously this is going to lead to some problems if I have to go back to work at the university itself. If I can't handle a movie that I cataloged, how am I supposed to handle being on campus. My mom agrees and once again this changes our strategy. SO annoying.

Meanwhile they sent me a check for double my sick leave and double my vacation time and wanted to know if I'm resigning or not. Have not deposited the checks yet. Going to ask lawyer if it's okay or not.

SO COMPLICATED.

Went to MOCA yesterday (the Museum of Modern Art) to see a photography exhibit on Weegee. Interesting guy. I looked at some of the other exhibits - the actual modern art stuff- and felt like banging my head against the wall.

Some of it was okay and I liked it, until I read the "what this thing is about". Like there was a hallway crisscrossed with red, yellow and green string that I thought was rather pretty and interesting to look at. Then I read the blurb and apparently it was trying to get across the "ideal of a hot dog". I don't even know what that means. Then there was the empty cat litter box, the cat blanket and the cat toys laid out on the floor. This was apparently an installation piece. I am not sure why. I just wondered where the cat was. (I'm sorry but my definition of art does not include things that are just set out on the floor.) I was so stupefied by this that I don't even remember what the blurb said. Then there was the plank of wood that was varnished sparkly red. It was leaned against the wall. This was apparently discussing the fact that there are spaces between things that are touching. Like the plank was touching the wall since it is leaned up against it.

Yeah.

I dunno.

Comments

[fritters.livejournal.com]

Sorry the work stuff messed with you. You didn't go to Galley this weekend?

I've long ago thought that most art today is just whether or not you have the ability to BS well enough about what it's supposed to be.

I once created a piece of "art" called Rabbit Ears. I decided it was a commentary on the social aspect of information, alluding to universality and the primitive aspects, with an underlying optimism counterpointed with a negative fading implication. It was to be an installation piece done in a chalk medium on pavement in the art quad at my college to promote the communicativeness and etherealness of the subject. The primary colors denote the basicness of the subject, and yet you don't/can't see the subject(s).

http://fritters.deviantart.com/gallery/31242484?offset=24#/d13gnux


...sorta like that.

It's a picture I got in my head once and I decided to see if I could BS it enough to make it seem like "real" "modern" art.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I did not go to Galley this weekend. I did not get my tickets in time/too worried about money/ to tired from Disneyland/not in the right brain space for it. Next year, hopefully!

I have a watercolor painting I did to try out my new set of watercolors. It was in the same vein as this one. (http://kippur.deviantart.com/art/THINGY-in-black-and-white-258142318) For a while I was going around the autism conference circuit and showing my art. We made cards of some of the pieces and tried to sell them. The watercolor piece didn't sell very well until we decided one conference to label it "autism".

It sold very well as people tried to figure why it was "autism". Why it was called it. It was kind of funny.

The bunny ears thing is awesome.

[fritters.livejournal.com]

You have to go to Galley next year. Next year is where we all go to Encounters at LAX for lunch/dinner.

Are you going to post your new watercolor? And I would have loved to have heard people trying to puzzle out why it was called that. That's perfect. We should both just make a big pile of abstracts and show them around with names like "Deconstruction of a Philosophy"

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Even if I don't go to Galley I can still go to Encounters, it is still pretty close to where I live.

Actually it's an old watercolor... done in the late 1990s? I don't even know where the original is any more.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

I think 90% of the "high concept modern art" these days should be renamed "random crap with a long and nonsensical description".

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

You should take an open can of cat food, put it on the floor and label it that.

You'll make millions.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

I'd rather use it to feed a cat. I can't stand the kind of pretentious asshole who comes up with that kind of stuff.

Now a used box of litter might be an option. ;)

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes, that would be much better.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Even better, used litter is something I have in abundance. ;)

[faded-enmity.livejournal.com]

I hate modern art.

Though, I've been tempted to get into it since it seems really easy as long as you know how to bullshit.

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

The problem with modern art is that towards the end of the 19th Century they decided art was about breaking boundaries. Now all the boundaries are broken and there's nothing to do.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Me too. It really does seem easy.