a view from a height
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yamamanamaI'd say that Jose has outstayed his welcome but he's outstayed his welcome on Tuesday. I said something about Maria's threat level diminishing but I don't know what the fuck Maria is doing. From what I can tell, it looks like she's going to make a sharp turn eastward when she reaches North Carolina.
Shane never smiles. I probably should have pointed this out earlier, back when there were photographs of cats at the Gardner Museum: ironically, dogs do not have resting bitch face. but cats do. Cats are resting bitch face: the animal.
I mean, I'd imagine they're still there. I don't know when the sound exhibit ends. Back when I was there, anyway.
The other people in the group were Hannah and Sara, and you know what, I'm going to spell it without an H, because only about one in five I meet spell it S-a-r-a even if it is the superior way. I think Hannah had purple hair and bangs. Fuck if I can remember the name of the other girl in the group I didn't draw. I think it was like Ellerith or something. A nice name. Lucia. Illandra. Alisha. Maridel.
I know I didn't draw Thomas.
Most of the people in Nagoya have Japanese names aside from December.
Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada.
Kunisada was famous during his lifetime for his portraits of kabuki actors and historical scenes, while Kuniyoshi is popular today for his scenes of monsters and tattooed warriors and cats. Kuniyoshi was himself heavily tattooed.
In the early 19th century, there were prohibitions on close-up portraits because it glorified the common people, and a ban on political content. There's a print of a hero playing Go and the Earth Spider is sending nightmares in the form of a , and there were rumors abound that the sleeper was the Shogun and the demons were citizens of Edo upset about the Tenpo reforms. There was no proof of this and he evaded prison. There were sumptuary laws. There were erotic books depicting phallic monsters that reminded me of Persona or Rick & Morty. Erotica was technically banned but the bans went unenforced. I wouldn't want to live in early 19th century Japan but then again, I wouldn't want to live in early 19th century anywhere. And things didn't really improve. Yeah, I know, Tokugawa Japan was an isolationist police state but at least they didn't invade anyone.
I spent an hour in that room.
There's an exhibit of Meiji-era works, including an articulated metal dragon. In 1868, the tozama (daimyō (feudal lords) pissed off about the Tokugawa shōgunate (a shogun is basically your modern day banana republic/junta El Presidente) allowing Perry into their country) staged a coup, removed the Tokugawa Shogunate from power, gave power to the emperor Meiji, restructured their aristocracy using British peerage titles, moved the capital from Kyoto to Edo, banned tattooing, and tried to mimic Europe (mostly Germany) in every way possible. Progress comes at a high price, though.
Now I'm wondering if people in Europe are as heavily tattooed as people in the northeast US. Hm, maybe I'll ask Ashley when I see her. Assuming she even noticed these things.
There's an upcoming exhibit on a contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami juxtaposed with traditional Japanese art, and an upcoming exhibit on contemporary Japanese works in black and white.
One of the European rooms has transformed in my absence, and now the dinner table is covered in silver dishes and Iago's Mirror is on the wall, I guess with Political Intent being dismantled and the lack of a contemporary gallery due to the special exhibits, they're juxtaposing them with older works.
I'm not that well-versed on Japanese history, though.
I'll have to ask Rachel if she comes back from Japan for the holidays. Italian/Hungarian/French-Canadian Rachel, not Portuguese Rachel.
One of the docents has a sun and moon tattoo on her back and one of the docents, Eva, has purple hair.
Someone asked if the mummies smell bad. We're still waiting on a response.
Someone's 20th birthday was recently and she got a shot glass from someone who was unaware that Canada is a thing and equally unaware that you can drink non-alcoholic drinks from shot glasses if you desire. I was going to draw her but then I saw Ariel and I could hardly see anyone else with everyone standing anyway.
Ariel had a Yoda backpack which I thought was a puppet and when I got on the train, I thought it was a dog, so that she can walk around with Yoda hanging on her back like Luke in The Empire Strikes Back. She was impressed because I said "Amariel?" which google tells me, after an unnecessary capcha, is an actual name used by actual people, the meaning of which can nonetheless not be gleaned, "Hmm, nice. Oh… Ariel, like in The Tempest?" and she was like "you have no idea how happy that makes me. Everyone else asks about The Little Mermaid." Leah would be proud. Ariel has really big eyes. She was dressed in bright lime green.
There was a girl who looked like Rachel. Not enough like Rachel to fool me. Portuguese Rachel, not Italian/Hungarian/French-Canadian Rachel. She was dressed in drab swamp green.
burning question: why would anyone ever take a newspaper owned by Kushner seriously?
Shane never smiles. I probably should have pointed this out earlier, back when there were photographs of cats at the Gardner Museum: ironically, dogs do not have resting bitch face. but cats do. Cats are resting bitch face: the animal.
I mean, I'd imagine they're still there. I don't know when the sound exhibit ends. Back when I was there, anyway.
The other people in the group were Hannah and Sara, and you know what, I'm going to spell it without an H, because only about one in five I meet spell it S-a-r-a even if it is the superior way. I think Hannah had purple hair and bangs. Fuck if I can remember the name of the other girl in the group I didn't draw. I think it was like Ellerith or something. A nice name. Lucia. Illandra. Alisha. Maridel.
I know I didn't draw Thomas.
Most of the people in Nagoya have Japanese names aside from December.
Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada.
Kunisada was famous during his lifetime for his portraits of kabuki actors and historical scenes, while Kuniyoshi is popular today for his scenes of monsters and tattooed warriors and cats. Kuniyoshi was himself heavily tattooed.
In the early 19th century, there were prohibitions on close-up portraits because it glorified the common people, and a ban on political content. There's a print of a hero playing Go and the Earth Spider is sending nightmares in the form of a , and there were rumors abound that the sleeper was the Shogun and the demons were citizens of Edo upset about the Tenpo reforms. There was no proof of this and he evaded prison. There were sumptuary laws. There were erotic books depicting phallic monsters that reminded me of Persona or Rick & Morty. Erotica was technically banned but the bans went unenforced. I wouldn't want to live in early 19th century Japan but then again, I wouldn't want to live in early 19th century anywhere. And things didn't really improve. Yeah, I know, Tokugawa Japan was an isolationist police state but at least they didn't invade anyone.
I spent an hour in that room.
There's an exhibit of Meiji-era works, including an articulated metal dragon. In 1868, the tozama (daimyō (feudal lords) pissed off about the Tokugawa shōgunate (a shogun is basically your modern day banana republic/junta El Presidente) allowing Perry into their country) staged a coup, removed the Tokugawa Shogunate from power, gave power to the emperor Meiji, restructured their aristocracy using British peerage titles, moved the capital from Kyoto to Edo, banned tattooing, and tried to mimic Europe (mostly Germany) in every way possible. Progress comes at a high price, though.
Now I'm wondering if people in Europe are as heavily tattooed as people in the northeast US. Hm, maybe I'll ask Ashley when I see her. Assuming she even noticed these things.
There's an upcoming exhibit on a contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami juxtaposed with traditional Japanese art, and an upcoming exhibit on contemporary Japanese works in black and white.
One of the European rooms has transformed in my absence, and now the dinner table is covered in silver dishes and Iago's Mirror is on the wall, I guess with Political Intent being dismantled and the lack of a contemporary gallery due to the special exhibits, they're juxtaposing them with older works.
I'm not that well-versed on Japanese history, though.
I'll have to ask Rachel if she comes back from Japan for the holidays. Italian/Hungarian/French-Canadian Rachel, not Portuguese Rachel.
One of the docents has a sun and moon tattoo on her back and one of the docents, Eva, has purple hair.
Someone asked if the mummies smell bad. We're still waiting on a response.
Someone's 20th birthday was recently and she got a shot glass from someone who was unaware that Canada is a thing and equally unaware that you can drink non-alcoholic drinks from shot glasses if you desire. I was going to draw her but then I saw Ariel and I could hardly see anyone else with everyone standing anyway.
Ariel had a Yoda backpack which I thought was a puppet and when I got on the train, I thought it was a dog, so that she can walk around with Yoda hanging on her back like Luke in The Empire Strikes Back. She was impressed because I said "Amariel?" which google tells me, after an unnecessary capcha, is an actual name used by actual people, the meaning of which can nonetheless not be gleaned, "Hmm, nice. Oh… Ariel, like in The Tempest?" and she was like "you have no idea how happy that makes me. Everyone else asks about The Little Mermaid." Leah would be proud. Ariel has really big eyes. She was dressed in bright lime green.
There was a girl who looked like Rachel. Not enough like Rachel to fool me. Portuguese Rachel, not Italian/Hungarian/French-Canadian Rachel. She was dressed in drab swamp green.
burning question: why would anyone ever take a newspaper owned by Kushner seriously?
