Mythology
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about myths. I came across this link a couple of weeks ago and I still find it fascinating. Take a look if you have the 45 minutes to spare. It is well worth a viewing.
Onion Moon Landing
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Moon Landing
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THE BANANA SPLITS
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Computing accidents
As I was writing the last post, I realized that I deleted a folder with a lot of important work. I backed it up before I left the US, but haven’t since I’ve been here. Luckily, I was able to recover the files, but some have now been corrupted. I’m lucky that I tend to over shoot when I’m photographing. I’ve lost a few good ones, but most were crap anyway. I’ll upload some new images once I’ve finished this unpleasant process of ones and zeros.
España
I just returned from a week in Spain and am now back in the damp land of Pont-Aven. Just as I’ve always been told, Madrid is pleasant, but Barcelona is far more beautiful and interesting to explore. Our group spent most of the time in Madrid, since there was a different museum to explore each day. Within seven days I saw the Prado, the ARCO art fair, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Reina Sofia, and the Caxia foundation in Madrid. In Barcelona I saw MACBA and another location of the Caxia foundation. Most of the time in Barcelona was spent walking and exploring a large section of the city. At the end of yesterday my legs were incredibly sore. The art-viewing was great, but proved to be extremely exhausting. There is only so much that one can visually process in a day and I think I pushed those limits.
Each site had quite a bit that I found interesting. Of course there were the obvious, important pieces, but I also discovered a number of new artists and presentation ideas. I was glad to see ARCO, but felt it was an enormous flea market of art-work. MACBA had interesting artists in it’s permanent collection, but not terribly interesting work. Overall, I was most impressed with both Caxia foundation locations. They had the most contemporary collections as well as the most interesting architecture. The Barcelona location had an interesting Charlie Chaplain exhibition and another by Mryzk and Moriceau, who I was introduced to a few years ago when the did an installation at LACMA.
Outside of the art experience, I found that Spanish was still much easier to remember than French. I also discoveres MAOS, a fast-food vegetarian falafel restaurant. I had lots of good Spanish food and wine, but that was one of the cheapest and best meals I’ve had so far. Since protein seems to come largely from Meat and Cheese in the places I’ve visited so far, I’ve come to appreciate good food that also involves a good amount of vegetable protein. Here in Pont-Aven, I plan my shopping needs around the weekly trip to the art store in Quimper so I can see if I can sneak off to the neary-by organic market.
French Thrift
Here is a nice bit of transportation I saw at the thrift store on Saturday:
Here are a couple of the items I purchased while I was there:
Quote of the day
“I’ve never considered the softness of cats” — Me
This is from a conversation I just had with David Eckard about my presentation this afternoon.
Illumination
A few days ago I walked a couple of my fellow students home after most lights in the town had gone out. Once we reached the top of a nearby hill I realized that I had never seen stars that bright before. It was the most beautiful and intense sky I had ever seen.
