Odds and end and a "art" vent

There is a headline in the USA Today (a paper that Columbus does can not get and I will refuse to say Columbus is in the 20th Century until it gets here) that reads.

How do you brace for death?

Hey - I'm sorry, I choose to brace for life!! Move on.
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I hope some of you stayed up to watch the 4th quarter of the football game last night. WOW! Five lead changes, 35 points and some of the most exciting plays I have seen out of two teams I could care less about.

Actually the Dolphs are a pretty interesting team. In their last drive they used 3 Quarterbacks, not because of injury but because each brought a unique talent to the table. Although in a Wildcat formation is the guy behind the center actually called the QB?
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I hope everyone in Columbus takes a drive through Main Street Sun Prairie (but not all at once). I took a real good look at what they did and while it looks pretty nice now (for a strip mall-ish Main Street) in 10-15 years it will look amazing. Once all of those Maple trees (?) get large that area will look utterly beautiful. I hope Columbus has it's act together to make our downtown Main Street destruction/redesign look half as good.
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I hope every one saw Good Morning America Saturday - there is/was a link behind this sentence to the Circus/Columbus show.
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We went to the Madison Center for Performing Arts . . . or the Civic Center art place or what ever it's called Sunday. I had to take photos of the Bartell Theatre for a client (yea - that sounds weird don't it (I was going to say "doesn't it" but that sounds to formal for a proper English Tuesday and notice the use of double paren's to finish this sub subject)) so we thought we would check out that art place on State Street.

We walked in and were looking at what someone must think is art but I think it was . . . . well . . . I would not pay a dollar to look at it again, I mean come on, really?

It's OK I guess but is it a major museum piece? And there were like 20 of them. I guess if you have 20 then you can talk someone into making a semi-permanent collection.

Although this one did intrigue me

What is that that the naked woman is carrying, is that a pet dog? Is it alive? What is the story behind this, did she just give it a bath in Nair? Does she know there is glass that she is stepping on? Where did the glass come from.

ANYWAY - the actual building is pretty cool and I'll show some photos this week. What I found disgusting was as we were looking about some guy above us had a big spit that almost hit us.

WHOA - that was a close one. Caught it in mid air before it hit the floor.

And yes - I asked permission before I took the photo.

One time I was walking past this place and they had a whole bunch of rope and it was tied to a boot. The rope would slowly twirl making the boot flop about. That was it, the entire exhibit! Awesome. Brilliant! Bravo! Another time there was a paint brush line across the wall. All the way around, maybe a 100 foot line and every so often there was some paint drips and at the end the brush runs out of paint and fades.

That was the exhibit. There were pamphlets explaining what it all meant. So very deep. Two pages about a painted line and how this is related to life, death and society and the certain otherness of it all.

And we tax payers pay for this.

Wait - this is not Modern art - "Modern art refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s".

How about this. Is this art??

Three panels all painted white. The artist says they represent, "nothing". Odd - I see nothing also, we're on the same page on this one. Can I buy one of those to put something on it?

I see art in many things and think I have a good eye but when I see something like the above I'm thinking that someone in this museum spent a little too long in the 70's if you know what I mean.

I don't think it takes much to call something "art". If you create it and you like it, it's art. But seriously, you need SOME skill besides the ability to hold a paintbrush with your butt cheeks.

OK - Andy Rooney just tapped me on the shoulder and he wants me to stop.

Have a Tuesday and remember . . . .ummmm . . nevermind!

Cheers!
Rod