modern luminescence
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yamamanamaIt was too nice to last, of course.
It felt like there was a lot more empty space at the MFA, perhaps because there aren't many people there on a Sunday morning and perhaps because they rearranged the impressionism and post-impression galleries to show Monet's predecessors in the hallway and then a gallery devoted entirely to Monet.
I saw the pairs of Picasso, TechStyle, a few of the Megacities Asia works that were scattered about the museum, prints of London and Edo, and Lawren Harris' paintings of Canadian snowscapes, before I had to go.
London is depicted in subdued pastels, while Edo is colorful and bold.
Snake Ceiling
Inspired by a visit to a school destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, where he saw scattered backpacks and pencils. It's designed to evoke not just a snake but a line of children walking to school hand in hand.
Chaosmos Mandala
This was made by a Korean artist and if you can't tell by looking at it, the room is lined with reflective watery stuff and there's a rotating chandelier covered in multicolored lights that represents the celestial realm and a chair you can sit in so you may be part of the art.
Remind me to get the description of this when I inevitably go to see the rest of Megacities Asia. There are descriptions for #3, #8, Doors Away From Home, #6, and Venu out there on the Tumblrverse.
Alchemy
Illuminated pillars made from cheap plastic containers.
Living With Pigeons
This was intentionally placed in the room with the Boddhisatva statues. Song Dong says "my work being here is not an honor for me, but for those living in poverty"
Song lived in a courtyard-style house, where the cramped living style would foster community.
As Beijing expanded, these houses were demolished.
Forever
An enclosure of 64 Forever brand bicycles. Ai Weiwei left a Beijing of cyclists and tree-lined avenues for New York City for twelve years and then returned to a Beijing of multilane highways and traffic jams.
Marcel Duchamp made Readymades, one of which is an inverted bicycle wheel and fork on a wooden stool.
Breathing Flower
It looks like it's made from inflatable pool rafts and is meant to contrast with the natural but carefully manicured lawn.
Fruit Tree and Zodiac Heads are elsewhere in Boston.
I don't know, I lost my pamphlet, probably while playing with Leo the Bernedoodle, which is a Bernese mountain dog and poodle mix.
#techstyle is pun for the whole family.
there was a dress with solar panels that could charge a phone. I swear John Brunner predicted stuff like this in Stand on Zanzibar. There are people with purple-dyed hair in Brunner's 2010 as well as at the MFA in the real 2016. In Stand on Zanzibar, one woman wears a dress with a printed circuit and she can shift her belt buckle to change the broadcast, which doesn't require fabric printed with circuits in real life.
Giger Shoes
There's an iPad and you can have the dress display hearts or stars or snowfall, or in by far the most popular case, Hokusai's Great Wave. In the background is Pinhead's formal wear. When Pinhead's shirt is turned on, the pins vibrate with the ambient noise and voices in the gallery.
hey, it's an animated gif of the wave.
Here's the dress with stars instead of the Great Wave.
I have no idea what setting it's on.
splash dress
in real life, it looks more like glass and less like water.
Harmonograph
It's based on sound waves.
The Bird and the Beetle
It looks like some sort of armor.
Speaking of armor, there's a mesh of interlocking 3D printed bits that feel more like armor than clothing.
A tuxedo made from the night sky.
Wearable art.
She had a leg deformity and chose to have it amputated.
Visiting Picasso paintings:
The Rape of the Sabine Women, inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Someone said the lines in her face represent her aging but the painting she was paired with was made later.
Head of a Woman (portrait of Marie-Therese Walter)
The Rescue. As you've seen with The Rape of the Sabine Women, Picasso gave the same title to multiple works. A painting titled The Rescue sold for 31.5 million dollars at an auction. This is not that painting. The flecks of white are narcissus flowers.
the human form reduced to its constituent lines and curves.
Seven Diadems
From above, they look like walnuts, not submerged heads.
I don't know what beaverboard is but it sounds Canadian. Brand name of pressed paper, apparently.
He mostly depicted the arctic as sparse, desolate, empty, and unpopulated, but one painting depicts an Inuit dwelling, so life, even human life, finds a way. It's hard to imagine anything living in his landscapes, and no sounds but for that of dancing chill winds cold enough to freeze time itself. When there are trees, they look like they have been dead for millennia.
Most of the ruins are ancient. There are some Piranesi prints. There are a few pictures of Palmyra; the captions remind us that the objects depicted in these photographs are now destroyed and I have a hard time being sad about that. I wasn't going to see them, not as long as Bashar al-Assad and his wife live.
There aren't any pictures of The Dopey Lion. Seriously, he looks stupid and should be Syria's mascot. Maybe he could be seated upon a throne of corpses, propped up by a donkey and an elephant.
No ruins of the modern age: Aleppo, Detroit, Ordos, Varosha, or Pripyat.
I ganked this. I had a burning question about whether Sad Puppies 5 will happen because they've become irrelevant and they nominate works based on not wanting everyone else to figure out how few of them there are and there's really nothing else you can do with Sad Puppies but strap them to the backs of people who list their relationship status as single when they're not until they decompose.
burning question: if the color of your teeth no longer reflects personal hygiene, will people start wearing like neon green or purple teeth or whatever matches their outfit?
It felt like there was a lot more empty space at the MFA, perhaps because there aren't many people there on a Sunday morning and perhaps because they rearranged the impressionism and post-impression galleries to show Monet's predecessors in the hallway and then a gallery devoted entirely to Monet.
I saw the pairs of Picasso, TechStyle, a few of the Megacities Asia works that were scattered about the museum, prints of London and Edo, and Lawren Harris' paintings of Canadian snowscapes, before I had to go.
London is depicted in subdued pastels, while Edo is colorful and bold.
Snake Ceiling
Inspired by a visit to a school destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, where he saw scattered backpacks and pencils. It's designed to evoke not just a snake but a line of children walking to school hand in hand.
Chaosmos Mandala
This was made by a Korean artist and if you can't tell by looking at it, the room is lined with reflective watery stuff and there's a rotating chandelier covered in multicolored lights that represents the celestial realm and a chair you can sit in so you may be part of the art.
Remind me to get the description of this when I inevitably go to see the rest of Megacities Asia. There are descriptions for #3, #8, Doors Away From Home, #6, and Venu out there on the Tumblrverse.
Alchemy
Illuminated pillars made from cheap plastic containers.
Living With Pigeons
This was intentionally placed in the room with the Boddhisatva statues. Song Dong says "my work being here is not an honor for me, but for those living in poverty"
Song lived in a courtyard-style house, where the cramped living style would foster community.
As Beijing expanded, these houses were demolished.
Forever
An enclosure of 64 Forever brand bicycles. Ai Weiwei left a Beijing of cyclists and tree-lined avenues for New York City for twelve years and then returned to a Beijing of multilane highways and traffic jams.
Marcel Duchamp made Readymades, one of which is an inverted bicycle wheel and fork on a wooden stool.
Breathing Flower
It looks like it's made from inflatable pool rafts and is meant to contrast with the natural but carefully manicured lawn.
Fruit Tree and Zodiac Heads are elsewhere in Boston.
I don't know, I lost my pamphlet, probably while playing with Leo the Bernedoodle, which is a Bernese mountain dog and poodle mix.
#techstyle is pun for the whole family.
there was a dress with solar panels that could charge a phone. I swear John Brunner predicted stuff like this in Stand on Zanzibar. There are people with purple-dyed hair in Brunner's 2010 as well as at the MFA in the real 2016. In Stand on Zanzibar, one woman wears a dress with a printed circuit and she can shift her belt buckle to change the broadcast, which doesn't require fabric printed with circuits in real life.
Giger Shoes
There's an iPad and you can have the dress display hearts or stars or snowfall, or in by far the most popular case, Hokusai's Great Wave. In the background is Pinhead's formal wear. When Pinhead's shirt is turned on, the pins vibrate with the ambient noise and voices in the gallery.
hey, it's an animated gif of the wave.
Here's the dress with stars instead of the Great Wave.
I have no idea what setting it's on.
splash dress
in real life, it looks more like glass and less like water.
Harmonograph
It's based on sound waves.
The Bird and the Beetle
It looks like some sort of armor.
Speaking of armor, there's a mesh of interlocking 3D printed bits that feel more like armor than clothing.
A tuxedo made from the night sky.
Wearable art.
She had a leg deformity and chose to have it amputated.
Visiting Picasso paintings:
The Rape of the Sabine Women, inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Someone said the lines in her face represent her aging but the painting she was paired with was made later.
Head of a Woman (portrait of Marie-Therese Walter)
The Rescue. As you've seen with The Rape of the Sabine Women, Picasso gave the same title to multiple works. A painting titled The Rescue sold for 31.5 million dollars at an auction. This is not that painting. The flecks of white are narcissus flowers.
the human form reduced to its constituent lines and curves.
Seven Diadems
From above, they look like walnuts, not submerged heads.
I don't know what beaverboard is but it sounds Canadian. Brand name of pressed paper, apparently.
He mostly depicted the arctic as sparse, desolate, empty, and unpopulated, but one painting depicts an Inuit dwelling, so life, even human life, finds a way. It's hard to imagine anything living in his landscapes, and no sounds but for that of dancing chill winds cold enough to freeze time itself. When there are trees, they look like they have been dead for millennia.
Most of the ruins are ancient. There are some Piranesi prints. There are a few pictures of Palmyra; the captions remind us that the objects depicted in these photographs are now destroyed and I have a hard time being sad about that. I wasn't going to see them, not as long as Bashar al-Assad and his wife live.
There aren't any pictures of The Dopey Lion. Seriously, he looks stupid and should be Syria's mascot. Maybe he could be seated upon a throne of corpses, propped up by a donkey and an elephant.
No ruins of the modern age: Aleppo, Detroit, Ordos, Varosha, or Pripyat.
I ganked this. I had a burning question about whether Sad Puppies 5 will happen because they've become irrelevant and they nominate works based on not wanting everyone else to figure out how few of them there are and there's really nothing else you can do with Sad Puppies but strap them to the backs of people who list their relationship status as single when they're not until they decompose.
burning question: if the color of your teeth no longer reflects personal hygiene, will people start wearing like neon green or purple teeth or whatever matches their outfit?
