big bang theory

Big Bang / With U

This is a video from my current pop obsession, Korean boy band, Big Bang. Randomly surfing on youtube for Uhm Jun Hwa videos I came across the group. One of the boys, T.O.P., raps on Uhm's hit D.I.S.C.O. Anyway, I'm totally in love with this video and the song. The band members are G-Dragon, T.O.P., Tae Young, Dae Sung, Seung Ri. I ended up searching for their music and now have their two English language albums.

madonna and child

Check out the new images from Madonna's photo shoot for the new issue of W Magazine. Apparently the shoot was inspired by the film the Graduate. The young model, Jesus Luz, is also rumored to be Madonna's current love interest. I doubt the irony of Madonn and Jesus has been lost on the material girl. Hotness!

happy st. valentine's day

Happy Valentine's Day!

It doesn't matter who you love, just as long as you get love and give it in return.

b o u n d to art

This past Wednesday I attended the opening of a new exhibition at Clark titled " bound." The exhibition shows the work of sculpture Diana Cherbuliez, painter Naoe Suzuki, and installation artist Marguerite White. All three artists, working in their different respective mediums, confront ideas around the term bound and the idea of bondage versus infinite possibility and space. One of the artists, Marguerite White, is a personal friend and I was thrilled to see her work in relation to the work of Diana and Naoe.

White's installation piece which consisted of charcoal drawings of taxidermy birds, chalk drawn boxes, and silhouettes, titled "Archive" was an interesting look at the idea go between life and death transitional space. Images that reflect birds in flight while frozen and death and restricted to the boundaries of the paper, were an interesting juxtaposition to the small delicate paintings of Suzuki of conjoined twins. Cherbuliez's bridges and other sculptures were mind boggling in their intricacy and obsessive quality. The opening was a great success and I was thrilled to go out with them after the show for drinks and talk more about their work and other generalities.

Check out some of the images below from the show:

rando connections

So, last week I got a phone call from a really old friend of mine. I had totally forgotten that I had ran into her sister a week or so a go outside of Fusion and had given her my number to pass along to her sister. Needless to say when my brash friend called me out of the blue I was a little bewildered until I pieced it all together.

Anyway, it was great catching up with each other and hopefully we will stay in contact more often. Though I swear the phone call was a little serendipitous because my old BFF informed me that she is seriously considering going through the process of becoming a man. This had been like the fourth time I had a conversation that week about f2m transsexuals and now a friend was reveling her own inclination transform their gender. Not that it was a huge shock, I always suspected and even asked her point blank about it many years ago. Either way I am happy for her and hope it all works out.

I just hope she doesn't take it all to seriously like a lot of f2m and haves some fun with it. Speaking of which, how annoying is Max on the L word? I can't deal with his storyline any more!!

see wall shake

Last night I went out to Boston to attend the opening of artist Tim Murdoch's sculpture exhibition "See Wall." I've known Tim for a while, he teaches at Clark, but I had yet to actually see any of his work. I went to the opening with our mutual friend fellow artist Marguerite White.

The opening took place in South Boston at the FPCA Gallery on Summer Street. Tim Incorporated industrial bed springs as bases and then tops them with mirrors. These are all connected to motors that cause the mirror to shake and vibrate, creating a buzzing noise. When the mirrors did begin to shake it creating an unsettling experience causing you to do a double take to make sure you saw what you thought you saw. The mirrors were activate by a motion detector that caught pedestrian movement on the street above.

The other art in the gallery was annoying. The artists that was exhibiting with Tim's sculptural installation used large digital prints of extreme closeups of colored sand. Boring! No matter how large you can make a picture, it doesn't make it any more interesting. Also, the sand color was digitally enhanced and looked like it came from those tacky sand bottles people keep in their bathrooms. Plus the presentation was very sloppy with bulletin board style tacks holding up the paper to the wall.

Check out some more pictures of Tim's installation below: