I am presently sorting through my 500+ photos to pick the bestest and brightest-est, so in the meantime, please look at this painting by Sebastian Gomez de la Torre.
Archive for April, 2013
I have returned from the rainforest! (Surprise – it’s rainy.)
Saturday, April 13th, 2013Nick Cave. No, not that one.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013I was familiar with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds band because many people in my college were visual arts students and had the posters on their walls. I didn’t listen to NC and the BS because they sounded slow and gloomypants and I was not down with that. I was obsessively listening to this and this and hoo boy, lots of this (NSFW). That was the only Nick Cave I knew. Recently I was made aware of another Nick Cave who makes something called Sound Suits. I think they’re great. They are big body-covering art pieces that drastically alter the outline of one’s body. And often they make a noise when one moves, hence the name. Here are some samples.
How awesome are those? (Correct answer: super-awesome.) Then I found out he was bringing some of his pieces to Grand Central and I was like, “Oh goody, I go through there every day! How convenient!” He brought a troupe of horses covered in fake straw that sat on wooden stands for most of the day and looked like this:
And twice a day, dancers from the Alvin Ailey school came, put the horse-suits on and danced around the hall. I had to work every time they came ’round, but lots of people took video, so I got the basic idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXonnyNg4QA
You can see that for part of the dancing, the back end and the front end of the horse come apart and dance separately. I hope a museum in New York does an exhibition of a lot of Nick Cave’s work so I can see all his major pieces at once. That would be something I would love to go to.
I’m going going, back back, to Costa Costa…
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013(Here is a link to the song I am referencing in the title in case you are not that familiar with Biggie’s works.)
I went to Costa Rica in January of 2012 and I liked it so much, I am returning to see even more awesome beastacular creatures. I love it there so much. It’s close (five-hour flight!), it’s relatively inexpensive, and awesomeness abounds. The one thing I was bummed about last time was that I was unable to go to the Sloth Sanctuary. Guess what, people? I’m going this time! Here’s a video on it:
I am also going to a waterfall garden, a volcano, a serpentarium, a hummingbird facility, a butterfly exhibit and a scientific research laboratory located in the middle of the rainforest. I am so very excited. I may die because there is a bunch of hiking through muggy hot allergy-ridden forest, but it will be totally worth it. You know I will have tons of pictures on my return. Get emotionally prepared now.