Prepare for your mind to be blown away in this eggscellent home video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wubgAIiWpY&fmt=18]
A couple Mondays ago, I enjoyed a staycation by visiting Dia: Beacon, "a must-see spot on the contemporary-art circuit" located in Beacon, New York, approximately an 80 minute Metro-North train ride from Grand Central.
Walking over from the train station, we passed this sign. Beacon Day!
Dia: Beacon!
The weather was perfect this day.
Surrounding perfectly shaped trees.
A pose.
Pre-jump.
Lame jump.
John Chamberlain's intricately disordered sculptures made from crushed auto parts.
On Kawara obsessive compulsive date paintings.
Michael Heizer, "Negative Megalith No. 5" was one of my favorite pieces. The effect of turning a corner and abruptly encountering a large boulder embedded in the gallery wall was dazzling.
Robert Smithson's organic piles.
More Smithson.
Dan Flavin's light installations.
More Flavin.
This photo does not do any justice to the level of intricacy in the pieces by Sol LeWitt.
Louise Bourgeois's creepy "Spider."
Yay to running around inside Richard Serra's steel installations.
This Met pin amused me.
Lastly, BACON.
Scenic train ride back to the City.
Danish artist Jeppe Hein's "Appearing Rooms" is a nice aquatic twist on the ubiquitous water sculptures found at plazas around corporate buildings. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKnO3HPeuEs&fmt=18]
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Monopoly City Streets, a new collaborative effort between Hasbro and Google, is an online massively multiplayer game that brings the classic Monopoly board game into the digital age. In this updated version using Google Maps format, players with an initial sum of 3 million Monopoly dollars can now buy and sell real streets and property around the world. This game is launching tomorrow on 9/09/09.
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Danny DeVito recently jumped on the Twitter bandwagon a few days ago and is doing a remarkable job of elevating online discussions with gems such as his bellwether overshare tweet, "I just joined Twitter! I don't really get this site or how it works. My nuts are on fire," and insightful koans, "Happy Labor Day Bitches." His profile photo is also quite a work of art:
This puppy can't flip itself upright and instead is left sadly struggling back and forth like a rocking chair. One day when this dog is older it's going bite the crap out of the owner as revenge. Mark my words. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-Sv6YnxEc&fmt=18]
Mustache gloves for the winter from Jack Spade.
From the always amazing This Is Why You're Fat are eggs served in a martini formed from bacon.
[Thanks Sam!]
Keetra Dean Dixon's series "Just Between You and Me: Objects of Co-Dependancy" is quite clever.
Keep an eye on you.
Every breath you take.
Significant spooning.
I've got your back.
Just between you and me.
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Looks like some designers at Birkenstock were inspired by Crocs. Introducing the "Birkies." These sandals are filed under "YES."
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Last month I went on a weekend roadtrip to Montreal with Stan. Here are some random photos from the trip.
The weather was all around rainy and crappy on the drive up.
We stopped off at one of my favorite roadside restaurants, Cracker Barrel!
Good country cookin' indeed!
I know it don't look like much, but this is basically a plateful of heaven. Believe that.
We hit minimal traffic until we got to the border and them wham! A whole of stop and go traffic. After 20 minutes of nothing moving, Stan got a little upset. Haha. Calm down Stan.
Stan Makes Fun of Statues.
Apparently we were there at the same time as a comic convention because we ran into all sorts of people dressed in costumes. I thought I was being sneaky taking a hip level photo, but this Star Wars storm trooper tourist was on to my ways.
Haha.
GYLLENHAAL: Your affection for dirty rap is something that people really don’t know about you, which I think is fascinating. You do incredible things for the world, and then you listen to just completely obscene hip-hop music.
PORTMAN: Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. Those are like my two favorite things, so combined . . . I’ve been listening a lot lately to “Wait (The Whisper Song)” by the Ying Yang Twins, where the lyrics are like, “Wait ’til you see my dick”—which is just amazing because it’s whispered. [whispers] “Wait ’til you see my dick . . . ” [laughs] Crazy. So I just listen to it like I’m a five-year-old, like, “Oh my god! I can’t believe he just said that!”
Connecticut legislatures playing solitaire and reading ESPN "as the House convenes to vote on a new budget for the fiscal year."
Solitaire? Is this 1996? Someone send them World of Warcraft please.
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