Contempory Art Sucks!

I just have not had that much to say lately.

I don't care about NCAA basketball,the Brewers are a week away from the season, and frankly . . .nothing.

For all of you Downton Abby fans here is a not yet releases Arby's commercial which is a hoot.

http://screen.yahoo.com/downton-arby-s-28723019.html

Yea - OK!!   Thanks




OK - I'm going to come right out and say it.

CONTEMPORARY ART SUCKS!

I walk past the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and am appalled!  Seriously?  That is art?  A boot hanging from a ceiling by long ropes that spins around making the boot flop?  How much? $10,000?    Is this a joke? 

I saw one where it was a big empty room and someone with a roller had rolled a straight line of paint that slowly faded!   WOW - BRILLIANT!!!  A CERTAIN OTHERNESS!!

Contemporary art started as a joke and now people seem to think it's real!

I bring this up because next week at Hydro Street Brewery I'm hanging seven new pieces of art called

"What Was, What Could Be - a impressionistic look at the Columbus Auditorium".  I'm still deciding if Hydro and I will have a press release.  It seems rather  . . . .braggerish but . . . . . .

I have them framed and DJ was looking at them exclaiming that they look so much better framed instead of the raw images and I had to agree.  What got me was one of my "extra" images, one of the ones that was low in the batting order drew her attention. 

Art is so weird.  I liked the image (as I like all of them) but was surprised she liked it so much.

That is the "problem" I'm having with this whole art thing. You just never know what will flip a switch.

So if you have a chance sometime later next week check out Hydro Street Brewing.

In June I'm hoping to have images of Civil War Reenactors which has always been one of my more favorite things to photograph. I took a whole year on the Civil War In High School. Sat through the 4 hour Gettysburg movie (awesome awesome movie). My brother had the original Avalon Hill Gettysburg war game BEFORE hexagons were invented (I believe a Russian invented hexagons accidentally when looking to invent a Sputnik Cap).

So I'm pretty pumped that Columbus will have a Civil War (like Columbus needs an excuse) in June. 

Then there is this whole Pink Slime thing.  All of a sudden we find out that because social media has killed the addition of pink slime in hamburger, which is 100% edible, nutritious and good for you . . . .hey, you puree ANY hamburger it becomes pink slime . . . because they have shut down 4 of the 5 places that make it, we now need to kill 1.5 MILLION more cattle and beef prices are about to zoom up!

THANK YOU!!!    Maybe we should talk about how many pounds of bugs are in Cheerios.  Did you know that we eat TWO POUNDS of bugs a year? 
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The Game of Thrones returns SUNDAY!    There is an Unofficial Game of Thrones Cookbook?  mmmmmmmm  How about  "Khaleesi's Heart".  Yes you can infuse your unborn child with the horse-riding spirit of the Dothraki — it's basically beef heart with veggies and red wine vinegar.  Or The Imp's Wild Strawberry Fool—a dessert light enough to make Tyrion smile

 
   On this day in 1981 President Ronald Reagen was shot.  There was a show on Discovery called "Saving Ronald Regan" that was outstanding.  Actual footage from inside the operating room and I actually liked Ronald a little more afterward.   Then there was a show right afterward about how facts are NOW starting to come out about a VERY VERY VERY close nuclear war we had in the early eighties.

My God.  Were we bumbling buffoons!  Two countries that do not trust each other at all and we have war games that simulate nuclear destruction?  We had operators stationed all around the world transmitting fake messages about starting a nuclear war??   Seriously?  Of course the Russians are listening,    AND THEY THINK IT'S REAL!!!   They think that this is a clever idea and we are FAKING a fake war game!

Yea - what could possibly go wrong!   Reagan - what a bumbling buffoon! 

Well - as I said - I really don't have anything to say so I'll stop before I think of anything!

OH - we also purchased Alaska in 1867.  "Seward's folly," which in turn created Sarah Palin "Mccain's folly".


Have a great weekend. 

Rod