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yamamanamaA woman with purple hair had tattoos of stars on her feet and the word "65 roses" written on her wrist.
A woman listening to a guy playing fiddle had a tattoo of Famfrit's sigil surrounded by a great torrent threatening to consume all. The map of Harvard Square looks like someone threw a rock at a glass panel.
The guy who painted Doug as the Vitruvian Man has a new painting of The Scream with Kevin McCallister. A woman laughed really hard at Homer Simpson in The Scream. By the way, I found a picture of The Scream from an earlier Treehouse of Horror and it's not Homer, it's Lisa.
"I want to go to the future please."
Pechstein: Woman with Animals
Klinger: Dead Mother
(image unavailable)
Münter: Pink Still Life
Muche: Picture 21, 1915
Four Fallen Soldiers in Cosmic Space
Klee: Dried Up Cataract
Marc: Grazing Horses IV
The Nazis tried to get rid of it for being degenerate and we ended up with it.
Someone did this in chalk at the Mayfair.
Ernst: Heavenly and Earthly Love
Kandinsky: Jocular Sounds
Proun 12E
Sigueros: el fin del mundo
A response to the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and imperialist aggression. How relevant. There's a Kek flag that's pretty much a Nazi war ensign colored green, with the iron cross replaced with the 4chan clover symbol.
Available Portrait Colors
These are all the colors called flesh-hued. Light skin is the default setting.
The Blessed Damosel
A Sea Spell
The Triumph of the Innocents
For the special exhibit, they reconstructed the Philosophy Chamber and showcased its orrery and other scientific paraphernalia, art, artifacts, and specimens. Dighton Rock is a rock covered in lines, shapes, drawings of people, and what could be writing. There are many crackpot theories about ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians, mostly meant to erase indigenous history.
I got ahold of The Gospel of Corax and Tex & Molly in the Afterlife, which is by Richard Grant and in the same contemporary setting as In The Land Of Winter (which I thought was ok) and Kaspian Lost (which I loved) and not in the same future united states wracked by climate change setting as Through The Heart (which I loved), for myself and not for Ashley. Maybe she just forgot our earlier conversation where she said she would be happy if I got it for her or maybe she just doesn't feel right accepting gifts from people who aren't super-close. There wasn't any note from Ashley and nobody tried to sabotage me by writing "te szerettél volna" so I thought she just left it behind by mistake.
I haven't been having bad dreams even with all my doubts about the integrity of my friendship with Ashley. I had a romantic dream when I started to feel this. This morning, I dreamt of fish and other aquatic creatures from an alternate timeline where life never colonized the land.
Someone wrote on a Lush posterboard (cosmetics, not band) #haltallexecutions
If you ask me, best to abolish the death penalty entirely.
I had lychee juice and it was amazing.
Allison Reed made a video of stop-motion elephants with blue eyes and trying to navigate in a world made of eggshells.
Devon Guinn's The Hedgehog Dilemma is a short film about a man who befriends a hedgehog and then falls in love with a woman and asks the hedgehog for advice but the hedgehog just doubts himself. The Hedgehog's Dilemma is about wanting to get close to someone but fearing you'll just end up hurting them with your spinities but being alone is just as painful. You can hold a plush hedgehog and it will vibrate throughout the film. All of the characters talk in glossolalia and I think there's a barred owl call amongst some free jazz. Meanwhile, I can't help but think I'm being overly clingy and pushing her away and doubting myself with regards to interpersonal relationships.
Serena Eggers paints blurry-faced portraits in encaustic.
Gigi Kisela encases objects in cubes of resin, deconstructing herself to understand herself.
Hali Nelson painted empty rooms, removing the subject matter to make the space they inhabit the subject.
Some people made slogans in ceramic.
The Gardner Museum was not participating in Free Museum Day because nobody told them about it so I didn't get to see the sound exhibit but I did get to see the cool mural called I Need A Hero by Ambreen Butt, a Pakistani artist known for painting miniatures, they had outside the building and even helped Olivia and Lauren and Diana find the MFA and someone else find the Gardner Museum. Diana said that she's never been an artist's model before. Lauren looks kind of contemplative in the portrait.
In the Matisse exhibit, objects from his studio, ranging from mundane jars and vases and coffeepots to statuettes from Indochina and West Africa, wall hangings and furniture from North Africa were, juxtaposed with paintings and abstract assemblages made from cut-out shapes he made while bedridden and suffering from cancer. We did things like that in high school art class and I can't help but think it was in imitation of Matisse. Some of our other assignments were to make works in the styles of Klee or Mondrian or Chagall (don't listen to Rebecca's lies! Most sources uncritically repeat the information that he was born on 7 July 1887, without specifying whether this was a Gregorian or Julian date. However, this date is incorrect. He was born on 24 June 1887 under the then Julian calendar, which translates to 6 July 1887 in the Gregorian calendar, the gap between the calendars in 1887 being 12 days. Chagall himself miscalculated the Gregorian date when he arrived in Paris in 1910, using the 13-day gap that then applied, not realising that this applied only from 1900 onwards.).
Fun fact: I ended up taking Drawing & Painting and Advanced Drawing & Painting in the same semester due to a bureaucratic snafu.
A guy had a tattoo of the rebel alliance crest, the jedi order crest, the imperial insignia (which is based on birds-eye views of 18th century fortifications), below Boba Fett's sigil (a tusked skull).
Someone's iphone alarm went off and I immediately reached for my pocket and I'm like wait, that's not me, and someone laughed and said that she's done that thing where she thinks her phone is going off when it isn't and I told her about how I've reached for my phone when I hear one ring when I don't even have my phone with me. One time a girl in my art class said she heard the phone ring and yelled "Doorbell!" I can't remember her name but I do remember that she had the same birthday as my dog. Our friend asked if she yells "telephone!" when she hears the doorbell and that he'd yell "platypus!" or "molasses!" They said I would go on to make the next Star Wars and not to forget about them.
There's a painting in the Boticelli room depicting the Judgment of Paris and someone wondered why all three goddesses are wearing chokers, possibly because it's the stylet at the time, but why Aphrodite's choker doesn't have a pendant but Athena's and Hera's do.
Someone asked if acrylics and tempera are the same thing and they're not so I tried to show him some acrylic paintings I did and compare them with tempera paintings I did but I realized I don't have any tempera paintings scanned in. In tempera, pigment is mixed with typically egg yolk. Acrylics are very recent, only about 75 years old ago they figured out how to suspend pigments in refined plastics. I've never used oil paint. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Importantly, watercolors, acrylics, and tempera are a lot easier to clean up than oils are.
Apparently they make water-soluble oil paints so you can get a best of both worlds of acrylics and oils.
Photographs, real and imaginary, people want to preserve: Bob Ross wearing a speedo; a photo of my best friend's ex girlfriend blowing smoke at the camera wearing all white in the dark living room during a party, the only light pink and coming from bulbs shaped like flamingoes; photos are alive, they transport the soul of the person to the viewer; a photograph of my husband weaning our newborn baby, laughing with his best friend, almost 2 years before he took his life; photography is a way of feeling, touching, and loving; a picture of Leah.
I didn't write the last one. But I sometimes feel that way. Or maybe a drawing of Leah. Anything to remember her by.
Lessons learned: you are never alone; capture life but remember to live it; you don't always need a photograph to save a memory; I remembered because I never had grandparents; art is everywhere, love is everything; gay love is magic; if you want to know what a person loves, watch what they photograph; I am sad.
As a proud Social Justice Zealot, I had to deface a sticker that said Kek with "ZERG RUSH!!!" Yeah, whatever, we just had a Dark Archon mind control a few Zerg worker units and now we have our own Social Justice Zerg Swarm.
someone wrote in Telugu and English about when you look at history, what is there to be proud of? I don't have a Telugu font myself but the Latin transliteration of this is: Mīru caritranu cūsinappuḍu, garvapaḍavalasinadēmiṭi?
there were messages in Greek, Chinese, Korean, French, Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese, Italian, and Portuguese.
A woman with rose colored hair said "the garden of eden is where people are larger than all the animals." Her friend had black and green hair.
There is a koi brooch, gold with scales of opals and eyes of emerald.
In Building With Light, kids from Boston used translucent materials and paints and objects to make assemblages, which were lit up.
Stephanie could tell the first few pictures in my sketchbook weren't from the same day because someone was wearing a winter hat and it reached 95°F although on the way in, I saw a man who looked a bit like Dr. Wily and/or Albert Einstein dressed in a leather jacket which seemed hardly appropriate and lo and behold, there's a guy dressed in a heavy winter coat on the train with us. I once said that there's always a guy on campus who wears shorts and sandals when it's below zero F and someone who wears a winter coat when it's 70°. Maybe not 95°. Stephanie has a tripartite bracelet with a stone, a necklace with a small gold triangle, a necklace with small gems, a necklace that looks like a waxing crescent as seen on the equator, a ring with a peace sign, which is derived from the semaphore N and D for nuclear disarmament.
One woman says she's neither very artistic nor very domestic because I brought up someone who said that she wasn't an artist but loved cooking.
burning question: I just used tesseracted as a verb. I don't say someone cubed when they move about in 3 dimensions, do you? Maybe I should use spacetime vorpaled instead, even though vorpal is an adjective. Vorpal isn't a real word, it was invented by Lewis Carroll for The Jabberwocky.
A woman listening to a guy playing fiddle had a tattoo of Famfrit's sigil surrounded by a great torrent threatening to consume all. The map of Harvard Square looks like someone threw a rock at a glass panel.
The guy who painted Doug as the Vitruvian Man has a new painting of The Scream with Kevin McCallister. A woman laughed really hard at Homer Simpson in The Scream. By the way, I found a picture of The Scream from an earlier Treehouse of Horror and it's not Homer, it's Lisa.
"I want to go to the future please."
Pechstein: Woman with Animals
Klinger: Dead Mother
(image unavailable)
Münter: Pink Still Life
Muche: Picture 21, 1915
Four Fallen Soldiers in Cosmic Space
Klee: Dried Up Cataract
Marc: Grazing Horses IV
The Nazis tried to get rid of it for being degenerate and we ended up with it.
Someone did this in chalk at the Mayfair.
Ernst: Heavenly and Earthly Love
Kandinsky: Jocular Sounds
Proun 12E
Sigueros: el fin del mundo
A response to the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and imperialist aggression. How relevant. There's a Kek flag that's pretty much a Nazi war ensign colored green, with the iron cross replaced with the 4chan clover symbol.
Available Portrait Colors
These are all the colors called flesh-hued. Light skin is the default setting.
The Blessed Damosel
A Sea Spell
The Triumph of the Innocents
For the special exhibit, they reconstructed the Philosophy Chamber and showcased its orrery and other scientific paraphernalia, art, artifacts, and specimens. Dighton Rock is a rock covered in lines, shapes, drawings of people, and what could be writing. There are many crackpot theories about ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians, mostly meant to erase indigenous history.
I got ahold of The Gospel of Corax and Tex & Molly in the Afterlife, which is by Richard Grant and in the same contemporary setting as In The Land Of Winter (which I thought was ok) and Kaspian Lost (which I loved) and not in the same future united states wracked by climate change setting as Through The Heart (which I loved), for myself and not for Ashley. Maybe she just forgot our earlier conversation where she said she would be happy if I got it for her or maybe she just doesn't feel right accepting gifts from people who aren't super-close. There wasn't any note from Ashley and nobody tried to sabotage me by writing "te szerettél volna" so I thought she just left it behind by mistake.
I haven't been having bad dreams even with all my doubts about the integrity of my friendship with Ashley. I had a romantic dream when I started to feel this. This morning, I dreamt of fish and other aquatic creatures from an alternate timeline where life never colonized the land.
Someone wrote on a Lush posterboard (cosmetics, not band) #haltallexecutions
If you ask me, best to abolish the death penalty entirely.
I had lychee juice and it was amazing.
Allison Reed made a video of stop-motion elephants with blue eyes and trying to navigate in a world made of eggshells.
Devon Guinn's The Hedgehog Dilemma is a short film about a man who befriends a hedgehog and then falls in love with a woman and asks the hedgehog for advice but the hedgehog just doubts himself. The Hedgehog's Dilemma is about wanting to get close to someone but fearing you'll just end up hurting them with your spinities but being alone is just as painful. You can hold a plush hedgehog and it will vibrate throughout the film. All of the characters talk in glossolalia and I think there's a barred owl call amongst some free jazz. Meanwhile, I can't help but think I'm being overly clingy and pushing her away and doubting myself with regards to interpersonal relationships.
Serena Eggers paints blurry-faced portraits in encaustic.
Gigi Kisela encases objects in cubes of resin, deconstructing herself to understand herself.
Hali Nelson painted empty rooms, removing the subject matter to make the space they inhabit the subject.
Some people made slogans in ceramic.
The Gardner Museum was not participating in Free Museum Day because nobody told them about it so I didn't get to see the sound exhibit but I did get to see the cool mural called I Need A Hero by Ambreen Butt, a Pakistani artist known for painting miniatures, they had outside the building and even helped Olivia and Lauren and Diana find the MFA and someone else find the Gardner Museum. Diana said that she's never been an artist's model before. Lauren looks kind of contemplative in the portrait.
In the Matisse exhibit, objects from his studio, ranging from mundane jars and vases and coffeepots to statuettes from Indochina and West Africa, wall hangings and furniture from North Africa were, juxtaposed with paintings and abstract assemblages made from cut-out shapes he made while bedridden and suffering from cancer. We did things like that in high school art class and I can't help but think it was in imitation of Matisse. Some of our other assignments were to make works in the styles of Klee or Mondrian or Chagall (don't listen to Rebecca's lies! Most sources uncritically repeat the information that he was born on 7 July 1887, without specifying whether this was a Gregorian or Julian date. However, this date is incorrect. He was born on 24 June 1887 under the then Julian calendar, which translates to 6 July 1887 in the Gregorian calendar, the gap between the calendars in 1887 being 12 days. Chagall himself miscalculated the Gregorian date when he arrived in Paris in 1910, using the 13-day gap that then applied, not realising that this applied only from 1900 onwards.).
Fun fact: I ended up taking Drawing & Painting and Advanced Drawing & Painting in the same semester due to a bureaucratic snafu.
A guy had a tattoo of the rebel alliance crest, the jedi order crest, the imperial insignia (which is based on birds-eye views of 18th century fortifications), below Boba Fett's sigil (a tusked skull).
Someone's iphone alarm went off and I immediately reached for my pocket and I'm like wait, that's not me, and someone laughed and said that she's done that thing where she thinks her phone is going off when it isn't and I told her about how I've reached for my phone when I hear one ring when I don't even have my phone with me. One time a girl in my art class said she heard the phone ring and yelled "Doorbell!" I can't remember her name but I do remember that she had the same birthday as my dog. Our friend asked if she yells "telephone!" when she hears the doorbell and that he'd yell "platypus!" or "molasses!" They said I would go on to make the next Star Wars and not to forget about them.
There's a painting in the Boticelli room depicting the Judgment of Paris and someone wondered why all three goddesses are wearing chokers, possibly because it's the stylet at the time, but why Aphrodite's choker doesn't have a pendant but Athena's and Hera's do.
Someone asked if acrylics and tempera are the same thing and they're not so I tried to show him some acrylic paintings I did and compare them with tempera paintings I did but I realized I don't have any tempera paintings scanned in. In tempera, pigment is mixed with typically egg yolk. Acrylics are very recent, only about 75 years old ago they figured out how to suspend pigments in refined plastics. I've never used oil paint. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Importantly, watercolors, acrylics, and tempera are a lot easier to clean up than oils are.
Apparently they make water-soluble oil paints so you can get a best of both worlds of acrylics and oils.
Photographs, real and imaginary, people want to preserve: Bob Ross wearing a speedo; a photo of my best friend's ex girlfriend blowing smoke at the camera wearing all white in the dark living room during a party, the only light pink and coming from bulbs shaped like flamingoes; photos are alive, they transport the soul of the person to the viewer; a photograph of my husband weaning our newborn baby, laughing with his best friend, almost 2 years before he took his life; photography is a way of feeling, touching, and loving; a picture of Leah.
I didn't write the last one. But I sometimes feel that way. Or maybe a drawing of Leah. Anything to remember her by.
Lessons learned: you are never alone; capture life but remember to live it; you don't always need a photograph to save a memory; I remembered because I never had grandparents; art is everywhere, love is everything; gay love is magic; if you want to know what a person loves, watch what they photograph; I am sad.
As a proud Social Justice Zealot, I had to deface a sticker that said Kek with "ZERG RUSH!!!" Yeah, whatever, we just had a Dark Archon mind control a few Zerg worker units and now we have our own Social Justice Zerg Swarm.
someone wrote in Telugu and English about when you look at history, what is there to be proud of? I don't have a Telugu font myself but the Latin transliteration of this is: Mīru caritranu cūsinappuḍu, garvapaḍavalasinadēmiṭi?
there were messages in Greek, Chinese, Korean, French, Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese, Italian, and Portuguese.
A woman with rose colored hair said "the garden of eden is where people are larger than all the animals." Her friend had black and green hair.
There is a koi brooch, gold with scales of opals and eyes of emerald.
In Building With Light, kids from Boston used translucent materials and paints and objects to make assemblages, which were lit up.
Stephanie could tell the first few pictures in my sketchbook weren't from the same day because someone was wearing a winter hat and it reached 95°F although on the way in, I saw a man who looked a bit like Dr. Wily and/or Albert Einstein dressed in a leather jacket which seemed hardly appropriate and lo and behold, there's a guy dressed in a heavy winter coat on the train with us. I once said that there's always a guy on campus who wears shorts and sandals when it's below zero F and someone who wears a winter coat when it's 70°. Maybe not 95°. Stephanie has a tripartite bracelet with a stone, a necklace with a small gold triangle, a necklace with small gems, a necklace that looks like a waxing crescent as seen on the equator, a ring with a peace sign, which is derived from the semaphore N and D for nuclear disarmament.
One woman says she's neither very artistic nor very domestic because I brought up someone who said that she wasn't an artist but loved cooking.
burning question: I just used tesseracted as a verb. I don't say someone cubed when they move about in 3 dimensions, do you? Maybe I should use spacetime vorpaled instead, even though vorpal is an adjective. Vorpal isn't a real word, it was invented by Lewis Carroll for The Jabberwocky.
