So, we went to momentum last night, and there were a couple interesting things… an odd performance piece where this girl was grating beets. WTF do you grate beets for in the real world anyway? And seriously, WTF was that supposed to mean? I’m all for performance art. But man, I don’t know about that one. I could go down the list of weird shit I didn’t get for a while, but shooting down art that falls flat in Oklahoma is far too easy (and the performance piece above was actually better than a lot of what was there). Overall, this year’s Momentum just lacked a lot of the charm and whimsy that has marked it in the past. Like the guy from last year who was putting up signs on all the sold pieces that said something like “This is no longer Art,” or the Womb Room from the year before (or was that 2009?). Even the really good pieces that were chosen seemed to be playing it safe on the part of the curators. I’ve been doing a lot of streets and clouds lately. Sometimes I’m just looking for that perfect moment when the light in the sky is balanced by the streetlights, and other times, I just want to take a picture of something to see how it looks. Photos (mostly) unrelated: <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0001.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0002.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0003.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0004.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0005.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0006.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/we_went_to_momentum…/711/0007.jpg” /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-03-11T10:45:20Z GMT
It’s too dark outside to do this with the phone, so I pulled out the big iron, and shot the moon. As it turned out though, the clouds were more interesting. <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/just_photos_of_the_clouds/712/0001.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/just_photos_of_the_clouds/712/0002.jpg” /> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/just_photos_of_the_clouds/712/0003.jpg” /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-03-08T23:23:20Z GMT
The nightmare was my twitter got hacked. This is how good my life is right now, that’s the worst my subconscious could come up with. Of course, I’m sure the world is going to come up with something much worse, now that I’ve said that. I haven’t blogged for a while, but I’m not giving up. I thought about rebooting and redesigning and using another domain that already points here: <a href=”http://photounrelated.com”>photounrelated.com</a>. That may still happen. Of course, since all my traffic comes from twitter and facebook anyway, it doesn’t matter, so long as the old links and the new ones still work. Photo Unrelated: <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/i_had_a_nightmare_last_night/713/mom.jpg” /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2012-02-25T10:23:20Z GMT
So I woke up at the ungodly hour of 5am after all that madness and grabbed all my stuff and walked over to the gf’s (who wasn’t yet anything other than an interesting friend) house, and woke her up, and she drove me to the airport. I like morning flights, you never end up done with everything and having hours to kill before them. It’s always wake up and go. Anyway, I get through security and put my shoes back on and have just enough time to get a burrito before I get on what might be only the second or third direct flight of my life; really quite nice to get on one plane and get off at your destination after a nice litle nap. Anyway, I disembarked, got on the bart and headed to my hotel; even napping on the plane I was still exhausted, so I took another nap. Then we went out to Seemant’s house boat, docked in Oakland, and had steaks and chips and a ton of beer. People talked, I got reasonably inebriated, and then we all tried to take the ferry, but it was closed early for fleet week. So, we all got back on the BART and went back to our respective hotels. Then I did something that seemed like a good idea at the time: I opened the window. Long story short, I was sick for two days with what I thought was a bad head cold, but turned out to be bad allergies. A day of cold medicine and a day of sudafed and then finally claritin did me right and reduced my symptoms to a headache. Which is why, in case any of the people who were there are wondering, I looked and felt slightly off all week. Other than that, it was a week of meetings and eating spectacular food and a lot of walking. LOT of walking. <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0001.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0002.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0003.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0004.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0005.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0006.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0007.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0008.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0009.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0010.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0011.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0012.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0013.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0014.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0015.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0016.jpg” > <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/then_i_got_on_a_plane/715/0017.jpg” > </div>
Posted by matt on 2011-11-12T21:30:20Z GMT
