October 24, 2011 at 11:36am
I feel like Urban Outfitters is trying to tell me something.
October 14, 2011 at 1:31pm
Fun-lance #1: Cross Fire in “Talk to Me” @ the MoMA
Part of the, er, joys of freelance is the ability to do fun things I wouldn’t otherwise be able to do in a traditional 9 to 5 job. Downtime is unpredictable, and these are things I do to make my ‘free’ time, ‘fun’ time.
After finishing a writing assignment this past Monday, I decided to take advantage of my MoMA membership. Usually on the weekends and Fridays, the museum is such a zoo it’s hard to really enjoy the art. Not that I spend much time luxuriating over the meaning of a painting, but I like to have a little personal space while I look. I went with the express intetion to see the de Kooning retrospective which illuminated to me the fact that I don’t really get abstract expressionism. Alas.
After 30 minutes breezing through a still-crowded de Kooning, I went downstairs to their other big exhibit “Talk to Me.” At the entrance, the above film called “Cross-Fire” was projected onto the wall. Maybe this is me judging a whole book on its cover, but I was pretty taken with it. The video illustrates an argument between two people through conventional table settings- the argument physically reverberates through the dishes and glass. The audio was from one of the dinner-table scenes from American Beauty.
Not only did it look cool, but all of the elements were hand-created. Seems like the kind of thing that could’ve been created entirely in post, but instead they sculpted different versions of the dinnerware to represent each motion. That’s what makes it art, right?
FUN TIMES.
