Cats & a weekend
Aug. 5th, 2007 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomMuch as I like my iMac, with its light weight, and its flat screen that adjusts easily, those advantages turn into a drawback if you have a cat who thinks that the desk space in front of your computer is her natural napping place. "Oh, did I tilt your screen down when I stretched out? Well, whose space is this, anyway? I am the cat!"
Ah, but she's far too cute for me to get too annoyed with her!
Yesterday, I sat around waiting for the cable guy. About twenty minutes after the latest time he was supposed to get here, I called the cable company and said, "what gives?" After checking around, the customer "service" guy informed me that my service call had been cancelled, as there had been an outage and they assumed that my service was restored. Hello? How about checking with me? So now I'm without cable for another week, and will have to sit around all next Saturday afternoon. NOT the way I like to spend a summer Saturday.
In the afternoon, I wandered over to the Hyde Park Art Center. They were having an outdoor, "open to all", non-juried sculpture show and barbecue. They didn't have a whole lot of entries, probably because the call for entries was fairly off-putting. Artworks submitted must be weather-proof, or otherwise able to sustain any weather related damage that may happen on said date. The event will be postponed due to rain or other hazards, in which case upon request artworks could be kept until a later scheduled Clothesline event.
While all submissions are accepted, the art center can not guarantee the time commitment for installation of difficult or time-consuming works. Any artist with ambitious installation needs is encouraged to install the work themselves or arrange special attention with the show organizer. The Hyde Park Art Center is not responsible for damage to insufficiently wrapped works, and will only return all works to their original wrapping. All artists are responsible for picking up artwork within a period of one week from the date of the exhibition. Any artwork left behind after one week from closing of show will become unrestricted property of the Hyde Park Art Center unless arrangements have been made. We do not have the storage space to keep any art. For this show, all artists must sign a damage waiver and loan form.
For this show artists are encouraged to make work that deals with climate, interacts with the environment, or is weather-proof enough to sustain damage due to direct sunlight, wind, possible rain and pedestrian traffic. Although sculpture is encouraged, 2 dimensional work is welcome, keeping in mind that there are no walls to hang from and each artist is responsible for their own hanging hardware (no drilling into brick or steel).
Today started out to be the kind of day that makes me think about having my Sunday paper delivered. I intentionally do not, as having to go down the street to get it makes me get up and dressed and moving. However, when it is pouring rain (or freezing cold), I think this is not such a good idea. The rain did let up around nine o'clock, though, and that's when I went out.
This afternoon was quite Germanic. I'd seen an announcement of a free concert by a string quartet at the Smart Museum, and decided that that would be a pleasant way to spend an hour on a Sunday afternoon. I got there early so that I could see the shows that were up. They have three separate shows that together cover "The Print in Germany". One was The World Writ Small: Early Northern European Prints, 15th-17th century woodcuts and engravings, Dürer and the like, in one of the small galleries. The second was Majestic Nature/Golden History, nineteenth-century German Romantic art, primarily lithographs and etchings. The third is their major show, Living Modern: German and Austrian Art and Design, 1890-1933. This was huge: Dix, Kokoschka, Kollewitz and many other printmakers, as well as decorative arts by members of the Wiener Werkstätte and others.
The concert, therefore, was also Germanic: Mendelssohn and Brahms. The small gallery where the quartet played was a bit too small for the louder movements of the Brahms, but I nevertheless enjoyed it. I ran into some old friends while I was there, a couple I've known since I was a kid (friends of my parents). I'm always running into them, particularly at Hyde Park events. It's almost a joke between us.
Ah, but she's far too cute for me to get too annoyed with her!
Yesterday, I sat around waiting for the cable guy. About twenty minutes after the latest time he was supposed to get here, I called the cable company and said, "what gives?" After checking around, the customer "service" guy informed me that my service call had been cancelled, as there had been an outage and they assumed that my service was restored. Hello? How about checking with me? So now I'm without cable for another week, and will have to sit around all next Saturday afternoon. NOT the way I like to spend a summer Saturday.
In the afternoon, I wandered over to the Hyde Park Art Center. They were having an outdoor, "open to all", non-juried sculpture show and barbecue. They didn't have a whole lot of entries, probably because the call for entries was fairly off-putting. Artworks submitted must be weather-proof, or otherwise able to sustain any weather related damage that may happen on said date. The event will be postponed due to rain or other hazards, in which case upon request artworks could be kept until a later scheduled Clothesline event.
While all submissions are accepted, the art center can not guarantee the time commitment for installation of difficult or time-consuming works. Any artist with ambitious installation needs is encouraged to install the work themselves or arrange special attention with the show organizer. The Hyde Park Art Center is not responsible for damage to insufficiently wrapped works, and will only return all works to their original wrapping. All artists are responsible for picking up artwork within a period of one week from the date of the exhibition. Any artwork left behind after one week from closing of show will become unrestricted property of the Hyde Park Art Center unless arrangements have been made. We do not have the storage space to keep any art. For this show, all artists must sign a damage waiver and loan form.
For this show artists are encouraged to make work that deals with climate, interacts with the environment, or is weather-proof enough to sustain damage due to direct sunlight, wind, possible rain and pedestrian traffic. Although sculpture is encouraged, 2 dimensional work is welcome, keeping in mind that there are no walls to hang from and each artist is responsible for their own hanging hardware (no drilling into brick or steel).
Today started out to be the kind of day that makes me think about having my Sunday paper delivered. I intentionally do not, as having to go down the street to get it makes me get up and dressed and moving. However, when it is pouring rain (or freezing cold), I think this is not such a good idea. The rain did let up around nine o'clock, though, and that's when I went out.
This afternoon was quite Germanic. I'd seen an announcement of a free concert by a string quartet at the Smart Museum, and decided that that would be a pleasant way to spend an hour on a Sunday afternoon. I got there early so that I could see the shows that were up. They have three separate shows that together cover "The Print in Germany". One was The World Writ Small: Early Northern European Prints, 15th-17th century woodcuts and engravings, Dürer and the like, in one of the small galleries. The second was Majestic Nature/Golden History, nineteenth-century German Romantic art, primarily lithographs and etchings. The third is their major show, Living Modern: German and Austrian Art and Design, 1890-1933. This was huge: Dix, Kokoschka, Kollewitz and many other printmakers, as well as decorative arts by members of the Wiener Werkstätte and others.
The concert, therefore, was also Germanic: Mendelssohn and Brahms. The small gallery where the quartet played was a bit too small for the louder movements of the Brahms, but I nevertheless enjoyed it. I ran into some old friends while I was there, a couple I've known since I was a kid (friends of my parents). I'm always running into them, particularly at Hyde Park events. It's almost a joke between us.
