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yamamanama63 days until the Vernal Equinox
It's cold again but at least after the rains and the May-like warmth, that mirrored morass broken up by rivers of snowmelt and giant puddles isn't coming back. And we're halfway through January. That makes me somewhat happy.
A woman who didn't speak English had a chihuahua with her, dressed in a purple sweater and wrapped up in a blanket with "sweet dreams" and Hello Kitty on it.
A woman had a bracelet of beads that look like eyeballs.
I've never seen the spelling variation Abbey before.
Jack was wearing a hat with a floral motif and some scarves and I really hope he's a better photographer than the Jack we all know.
Christina says that at least I got her hair right. I tried to draw her in between Downtown Crossing and Park Street and there's not a lot of distance between the two stations.
Laura pronounced her name in the Spanish manner and not in the English manner. I can't describe it but just take my word for it.
Antonella has a nice name (a diminutive of Antonia, which has nothing to do with Antenora, the place where many SS members ended up according to Dante and a character from Wild Arms 2 (speaking of Antenora and Wild Arms, I once compared Drow and her dumbass husband to Liz and Ard and I take that back because even Liz understands that "no means no.") and has black hair with the greenish remnants of blonde dye. The Green Line train was relatively empty, in that everyone could have a seat to themselves without sitting next to anyone, with many seats left over, and she said it isn't peak hours.
Anna is studying forensic anthropology but her sister was an art student.
Geese had completely conquered the sidewalks outside. Someone remarked that the geese weren't at all afraid of us and I'm thinking "no duh, they're GEESE. Geese feel only one emotion: RAGE."
I thought Lineage of Eccentrics would be taking works by Murakami and comparing them to older Japanese works at the MFA but that is not quite so. Some of the works are blatantly inspired by MFA works. A few of them were created specifically for the MFA.
There's an explanation that all the cutesy-ness (that's not a real word? Okay) and weirdness and playfulness and eccentricity in Japanese art is the result of cultural repression, say, back during the Edo period.
A guy did an imitation of this netsuke.
There's a netsuke in the form of a "badger" with huge testicles and I'm not sure if they're mixing up badgers and raccoon dogs or if badgers have that same "giant testicle thing" that raccoon dogs do.
I've never actually seen art from the fascist period, aside from propaganda posters of nauseatingly cute children waving Axis power flags.
Someone said that a boddhisatva was like a saint.
He compared this painting to a movie, possibly The Ring or Ringu. If you look closely, the white background is all skulls.
Inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog and Doraemon.
It says "courtesy of the artist" so I think it's the MFA's now. I really hope so. It's made with gold leaf, platinum leaf, and acrylics, and the sheer size of it makes it very difficult to photograph. Superflat describes both his visual style and the metaphorical compression of the space between high art and low art.
Reminds me of Louise Belcher in Kuchi Kopi's style.
I found a picture of Kristi in front of this. This isn't about nice. Today's all about... sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows.
"That's a face you don't want to see," although he thinks the flowers were scarier.
Reminds me of one of those tomato enemies in Final Fantasy XII.
I was hoping I could find a picture of the two Boddhisatva scrolls, but alas, it is not so. One of them is red and one of them has faces in his face and is riding a water buffalo, associated with the god of Death.
"he reminds me of the combustion man from Avatar."
The title of this painting is Dragon In Clouds - Red Mutation: The version i painted myself in annoyance after Professor Tsuji told me, "Why don't' you paint something yourself for once?" and no I am not going to attempt to give you the Japanese version. He made this in 24 hours and it's 59 feet long.
It's based on this.
The woman at the gift shop had a venus sigil pendant and a bunch of pins about peace.
They were selling a giant 3000 dollarydoo flower pillow and some books on cute bento box ideas and sushi socks and Miyazaki DVDs or BluRays.
I told a girl who was drawing a happy flower in Crayola markers that she'd be the next Murakami (who has been called the Japanese Andy Warhol) if she keeps at it.
Two women had keys on their necklaces, one had a silver fern frond with each set of pinnae moved independently. Or maybe it was an ash branch. There was a woman with bathypelagic blue hair, and a woman with really beautifully amplified rose colored hair.
I can't help but think that (un)expected families was chosen as a response to the Trump presidency and his pandering to the right's deep-seated fear of all things alien to the good old days of racism, sexism, and anti-gblt sentiments.
One of the visitors apparently photoshopped his girlfriend's ex-husband's head off and replaced it with his own, which isn't nearly as hilariously sad or sadly hilarious as replacing his ex-girlfriend's husband's head with his own.
There is an exhibition of Greek artifacts depicting everyday life.
They were showcasing some of the new Dutch collection, which included a few religious paintings, and then, after the Protestant Reformation, paintings of churches stripped of all décor, still lives of food and flowers, portraits were always en vogue, and scenes from mythology. If you're wondering just why the fuck it's called Dutch, it's because it's an old Germanic word meaning "the people."
Puppy!
Someone told me this once: Cheetahs have dots, leopards have broken rosettes that have darker brown inside, and jaguars have rosettes with dots inside them and also dots. Cheetahs also meow, not roar.
Burning Question: What are jaguars and macaws doing in Ancient Greece? A man told me I underestimate the allure of Orpheus' music.
It's cold again but at least after the rains and the May-like warmth, that mirrored morass broken up by rivers of snowmelt and giant puddles isn't coming back. And we're halfway through January. That makes me somewhat happy.
A woman who didn't speak English had a chihuahua with her, dressed in a purple sweater and wrapped up in a blanket with "sweet dreams" and Hello Kitty on it.
A woman had a bracelet of beads that look like eyeballs.
I've never seen the spelling variation Abbey before.
Jack was wearing a hat with a floral motif and some scarves and I really hope he's a better photographer than the Jack we all know.
Christina says that at least I got her hair right. I tried to draw her in between Downtown Crossing and Park Street and there's not a lot of distance between the two stations.
Laura pronounced her name in the Spanish manner and not in the English manner. I can't describe it but just take my word for it.
Antonella has a nice name (a diminutive of Antonia, which has nothing to do with Antenora, the place where many SS members ended up according to Dante and a character from Wild Arms 2 (speaking of Antenora and Wild Arms, I once compared Drow and her dumbass husband to Liz and Ard and I take that back because even Liz understands that "no means no.") and has black hair with the greenish remnants of blonde dye. The Green Line train was relatively empty, in that everyone could have a seat to themselves without sitting next to anyone, with many seats left over, and she said it isn't peak hours.
Anna is studying forensic anthropology but her sister was an art student.
Geese had completely conquered the sidewalks outside. Someone remarked that the geese weren't at all afraid of us and I'm thinking "no duh, they're GEESE. Geese feel only one emotion: RAGE."
I thought Lineage of Eccentrics would be taking works by Murakami and comparing them to older Japanese works at the MFA but that is not quite so. Some of the works are blatantly inspired by MFA works. A few of them were created specifically for the MFA.
There's an explanation that all the cutesy-ness (that's not a real word? Okay) and weirdness and playfulness and eccentricity in Japanese art is the result of cultural repression, say, back during the Edo period.
A guy did an imitation of this netsuke.
There's a netsuke in the form of a "badger" with huge testicles and I'm not sure if they're mixing up badgers and raccoon dogs or if badgers have that same "giant testicle thing" that raccoon dogs do.
I've never actually seen art from the fascist period, aside from propaganda posters of nauseatingly cute children waving Axis power flags.
Someone said that a boddhisatva was like a saint.
He compared this painting to a movie, possibly The Ring or Ringu. If you look closely, the white background is all skulls.
Inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog and Doraemon.
It says "courtesy of the artist" so I think it's the MFA's now. I really hope so. It's made with gold leaf, platinum leaf, and acrylics, and the sheer size of it makes it very difficult to photograph. Superflat describes both his visual style and the metaphorical compression of the space between high art and low art.
Reminds me of Louise Belcher in Kuchi Kopi's style.
I found a picture of Kristi in front of this. This isn't about nice. Today's all about... sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows.
"That's a face you don't want to see," although he thinks the flowers were scarier.
Reminds me of one of those tomato enemies in Final Fantasy XII.
I was hoping I could find a picture of the two Boddhisatva scrolls, but alas, it is not so. One of them is red and one of them has faces in his face and is riding a water buffalo, associated with the god of Death.
"he reminds me of the combustion man from Avatar."
The title of this painting is Dragon In Clouds - Red Mutation: The version i painted myself in annoyance after Professor Tsuji told me, "Why don't' you paint something yourself for once?" and no I am not going to attempt to give you the Japanese version. He made this in 24 hours and it's 59 feet long.
It's based on this.
The woman at the gift shop had a venus sigil pendant and a bunch of pins about peace.
They were selling a giant 3000 dollarydoo flower pillow and some books on cute bento box ideas and sushi socks and Miyazaki DVDs or BluRays.
I told a girl who was drawing a happy flower in Crayola markers that she'd be the next Murakami (who has been called the Japanese Andy Warhol) if she keeps at it.
Two women had keys on their necklaces, one had a silver fern frond with each set of pinnae moved independently. Or maybe it was an ash branch. There was a woman with bathypelagic blue hair, and a woman with really beautifully amplified rose colored hair.
I can't help but think that (un)expected families was chosen as a response to the Trump presidency and his pandering to the right's deep-seated fear of all things alien to the good old days of racism, sexism, and anti-gblt sentiments.
One of the visitors apparently photoshopped his girlfriend's ex-husband's head off and replaced it with his own, which isn't nearly as hilariously sad or sadly hilarious as replacing his ex-girlfriend's husband's head with his own.
There is an exhibition of Greek artifacts depicting everyday life.
They were showcasing some of the new Dutch collection, which included a few religious paintings, and then, after the Protestant Reformation, paintings of churches stripped of all décor, still lives of food and flowers, portraits were always en vogue, and scenes from mythology. If you're wondering just why the fuck it's called Dutch, it's because it's an old Germanic word meaning "the people."
Puppy!
Someone told me this once: Cheetahs have dots, leopards have broken rosettes that have darker brown inside, and jaguars have rosettes with dots inside them and also dots. Cheetahs also meow, not roar.
Burning Question: What are jaguars and macaws doing in Ancient Greece? A man told me I underestimate the allure of Orpheus' music.
