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From inhabitat.com, a story about San Francisco banning plastic bags.

Strangely enough, I found this site through a search for tetris (I’ve been playing a lot of it lately.) Banning plastic shopping bags is interesting though and a good idea. People will either have to bring their own totes or use paper.

I forgot to mention the three Rs in the things I love when I mentioned art, design and architecture… recycling/reducing/reusing! I find composting especially fun. It is such a sensible idea and fascinating to watch veggie waste and whatnot gradually turn back into dirt. That, or I am just weird.

music: other music: art

I wanted to listen to music while getting dressed but I wasn’t really sure what I was in the mood for, so scrolling through I stopped on Belle & Sebastian. Turned out to be a good decision… sometimes certain music just seems so right, if that makes sense. Like listening to Broken Social Scene the other night… not a good band to mix with others on shuffle, but to listen to an entire album of theirs is so amazing. Actually, I listened to two albums. Mike got me the sandisk sansa express, which I’d been wanting for awhile now. I loaded a bunch of Broken Social Scene on there and listened for a few hours before finally falling asleep…

Speaking of musicians starting with “b,” although I don’t listen to her much, I have a better appreciation for Björk after seeing a Nan Goldin slideshow last summer at the Pompidou and hearing her voice to accompany it. I read a review of that particular body of work, “Heart beat,” that didn’t seem to have many good things to say about it but the reviewer was also comparing it to her previous work. Not having seen all of the earlier work, just selected photographs and certainly lacking the slide show effect, I thought it was quite impressive. Reviews are lame. People need to form their own opinions. Isn’t that one of the more remarkable things about art- that someone can’t decide for everyone else whether or not the work is good? There are no objective views because it always has the potential to jog memories and create different meanings for each individual viewer?

I found my old Andy Warhol stamps. As you can see, there are only two left. I have a cool idea about what I’ll do with them! I’m heading out now to see if I can find what I need for this project… this is the problem with leaving for Spain soon. I need to be getting ready to go but instead I keep coming up with new things to work on. Ugh!

Burgos to Bilbao

I leave for Burgos, Spain on Sunday. I’ll be there for five weeks, studying medieval Spanish art and architecture and learning to speak Spanish. The program itself seems wonderful- it was actually the requirement of producing your own art to accompany each written assignment that sold me on the art history class! Burgos is only about an hour away from Bilbao. I wasn’t too concerned with visiting the Guggenheim there, I’m not sure why… perhaps because I have received frighteningly few details of the trip and I am more concerned with whether or not I am expected to bring my own towels. However, yesterday I checked out its website and it is suddenly a priority! Even though I am not certain of the career paths I will choose to pursue, I know the museum is so interesting because it houses everything I love… clever design, art (especially modern and contemporary) and undoubtedly amazing architecture.

coffee beans!

The chocolate covered coffee beans I purchased at Wegmans last night will keep me energized today, for sure. I have to save some for tomorrow as well, since I am scheduled to be in at work at 7am! My default attentiveness and commitment to accuracy seem to have earned me a special spot doing inventory.

More exciting than that though, is this: I found a page of internships at the Met in NY, which would be cool, I’m sure, but I am more into contemporary art. I was already thinking I’d do an internship at the Albright-Knox next summer, after I graduate. What if I combined an internship in contemporary art with an internship in NY?

“Full-time, twelve-month internships with stipends are offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career whose academic and/or professional experience combines art history with one or more of the following areas: arts administration, museum studies, arts management, development, studio art or related studies. The focused departmental training is integrated with the fall, spring and summer lecture series and complemented with financial provisions for the interns to attend a national conference of their choice. At the end of the internship, interns may seek career planning and job placement counseling from the Internship Coordinators and the Department of Human Resources. Twelve-month internships provide training in specific museum fields through close work with a professional staff member; familiarity with modern and contemporary art through seminars and discussions; an educational program that exposes interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole and considers the role of museums in the broader cultural context. Twelve-month interns will also be given the opportunity to develop and regularly deliver public gallery talks about the Museum’s permanent collection.

Length 12 months beginning in mid-September
Required commitment Full-time (Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Recent graduates of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs
Stipend Awarded based on available funding ($21,000) plus standard health benefits, two weeks paid vacation, and additional $1,000 to cover travel expenses and registration fees for one approved professional conference”

I’d be so excited if I got this! It covers so many aspects of the field and looks like it would be an AMAZING experience. I am sure it is hard to get, but I have a little bit of confidence now that I am starting to look pretty good on paper… BFA in visual studies, studio practice and a BA in art history… will graduate at least cum laude… two art-related study abroad experiences… mortar board… people like those things, right?

this is the day

Une fine couche de sucre et un coeur tout chocolat au lait! Bien sûr! The song for the current M&Ms commercial (The The: This is the Day) sounds so French with that accordion. I love it!

When I was in Paris, while riding the métro, there was a guy going train to train playing the accordion. (This seemed to be a very normal occurrence.) It was the most stereotypical French sounding music… it was awesome. Thanks to him, I was hearing it live in Paris, not in some introduction to an instructional French language video. Due to my fear of interaction with strangers in unfamiliar environments, I didn’t give him any money. I still feel bad about it. I don’t think anyone on our train gave him money. He looked discouraged but that must happen often… I saw him once more before leaving Paris as he stepped off a different train.

lethargy.

I can’t seem to leave the house anymore… I have a lot to do, but none of it seems too important, just a lot of little things. A lot of little things that can be done later?

“strange logic” as used in the name of this blog is derived from a Morrissey song. But it hadn’t occurred to me right away that other people may make a different association when hearing such a phrase. example: “What is strange logic? Why is it strange, and where does it come from? Am I using strange logic right now, by asking this?!”

No, I don’t think anyone will really be asking these things… I did, however, do a google search for strange logic, just to see what would come up. One of the search results was a “strange logic” quiz.  I did rather well on it.

But anyway, this is fun… spell with flickr!