You'd think I'd won an award or something
I'd like to thank
Grim Skunk for making music that helps on days when your hands hurt and your eyeballs are all tingley and you keep clutching your face like it's melting. I'd also like thank
symbolic links for many of the same reasons. Finally, I'd like to thank spring for making an impromptu appearance today so that I could take a walk and cool off. Most people thought I was nuts to move back to Montreal in February, but it's worth it to be here when the warm weather finally comes. (It's only March, I will be surprised if it doesn't snow atleast once more.) The leaves are on the trees and people are outside and happy and giddy and psyched and it's great to be around. When I lived in Halifax, I used to wonder
how many times I could say "I hate this place." Now, it's pretty much the opposite. Hee hee hee hee...
I had a lovely time at the 5 a 7
last night with with
Mikel,
Ed,
Heather and
David. I made a conscious effort not to bring a digital camera but I admit that things seemed a little strange until others broke out theirs. Truth be told, I thought it would be more fun to sketch the affair but decided that, since I'd never met any of them before, it might weird people out. So, if we do it again, you've been warned :-)
Web Reference Tutorial : CSS Floats
"If parade floats stay afloat by virtue of being filled with hydrogen, it's a wonder people at Microsoft and Netscape aren't tied to the ground on account of the vacuum that exists in their heads at the point where most people have that part of the brain that is used to implement CSS in browsers..." Ah, the voice of reason.
Lev Manovitch : Postmodernism and Photoshop
I hope all the software engineers out there realize that "computer software 'naturalizes' the model of authorship as selection from libraries of pre-defined objects." Please, someone make post-modernism go away.
NY Times : Gallery Accused of Cheating Prominent Artist
"The papers paint a complex picture of how the suit alleges the gallery took control of the most minute aspects of [Francis] Bacon's financial and personal life -- to the point of paying his laundry bills and handing him spending money -- and then used this grip to deprive him of the true value of his work. According to the lawsuit, the Marlborough connection continued after his death, when a director of Marlborough's London gallery was named an executor of his estate and ran it to the detriment of Bacon's sole heir, John Edwards..." It's the last bit that makes me wonder; the rest of it, if you believe all the other stories about Bacon, sounds like it would have been much to his liking. If you ever have the opportunity to see
this painting, even if it is the only Bacon in a group show, go go go. I first saw it at the
Hirshhorn's Bacon retrospective. I came around the side of a baffle wall and the painting was hung in such a way that it occupied my entire field of vision. The colours and the forms are gripping enough but then there's the bit on the left of the center panel...well,
just go see it.
The Francis Bacon Image Gallery
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Boston Phoenix : Annals of Confection
Since returning to Montreal
the weekly
flatfishnight has been replaced by let's eat dinner at 23h00 night. Perhaps this week I will suggest a simple meal of
peanut butter and ramen sandwitches. via
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