Yesterday I did the tourist thing and ran around London with my digital camera. I took lots of photos of Big Ben and the Thames River. There are a lot of strangers in my photos. I like to think about how many times I am in the background of other people’s tourist photos.
During the past […]
In art museums all of the visitors are on the same level; the museum owns the art, and the visitors are there to look at it. But in galleries and art fairs, everyone is not on the same level: some people are lookers and others are buyers. Lookers are there to appreciate the art. They […]
I have a new project idea for my off-campus study program. A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would create a series of videos featuring a bouncy ball that I bought at MoMA. Here in London I tried to take some footage of the bouncy ball, but this proved difficult because the bouncy […]
They see me when I walk down the street, when I walk into a store, when I enter a tube station, when I stroll in the park… In London, CCTV surveillance cameras are everywhere. They transmit live video feeds from around the city to a few major surveillance centers where police officers and government officials […]
Double-decker buses are amazing. I rode on one for the first time today; I sat on the top in the very front row. From now on I am going to ride buses around the city instead of the tube.
I also went to Regent’s Park today and lay on the grass in the sun. It was […]
Minimalist art has been approaching zero for too long. It is getting closer and closer to actually being nothing. If this trend continues, minimalist art soon will cease to exist.
We have made solid black paintings such as Bob Law’s Bordeaux Black Blue Black (1977). We have even written about the idea of art as nothingness […]
I love the rhythm of iambic pentameter. I also like alliteration, rhymes, and how words sound when sung melodically. When I listen to music, the words become part of the song’s melody and the singer’s voice becomes another instrument.
Yesterday I saw A Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe. I tried to listen to the meanings […]
I arrived in London this morning. On the airplane I saw the most beautiful sunrise that I ever seen. The sky was a perfect gradient from black to deep blue to deep orange. My favorite part of sunrises and sunsets is the line near the horizon where the blue turns into orange. I also like […]