Dan went to Nepal and he climbed up some shit. Then he came back, made a little documentary and sent it to Current TV. Listen to him as he narrates about climbing, Everest and the plight of the sherpa.
Here is a link to the actual video. I am having troubles like whoa cracking the intricate code of HTML otherwise I would’ve had the image link to the video instead of posting a shitty screenshot. Whatever. We’re not all perfect. Just watch the thing. It’s great.
Photograph a scar and write about it.
I got this scar on my knee at a Halloween party 2 years ago when I first moved to San Francisco. Wendy and I were sitting in her room and I was helping her glue pieces of cardboard bacon to her shirt for her costume as “breakfast”. I was changing the hot glue stick and drinking. I didn’t realize there was still glue inside so when I pushed the new stick in, a large string of hot glue fell out and onto my knee. When I peeled it off, skin came off as well. It now serves as a reminder of my dear friend Wendy and also as a cautionary tale against using craft items while drinking vodka tonics out of red Solo cups.
I’m a bit late to the Miranda July train. I saw her amazing movie “Me, You and Everyone We Know”. I am eagerly anticipating the moment I have a job and can purchase for myself her delightful collection of short stories. I just received the book that goes along with her phenomenal earlier work “Learning to Love You More”. Please see the site.
What Ms. July has done is compiled a list of simple assignments and offered them to the world. She collected her findings on the site above and then trotted the results around the world to various museums and other venues. I saw this first at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The book just came out and it is beautiful. There’s a lot of trite crap I could say about it and a lot of studenty I’ve-taken-an-art-crit-class-and-now-I’m-smart things I could say as well. I will avoid all those cliches. I am not nearly as knowledgeable about art as I could be and my musings will be nothing more than regurgitations of what others have said about Miranda July and about the kind of work she does. I simply ask you to look at the website. Do one of the assignments. She is really great. She is really fucking great.
I think I’m going to do this. I’m going to do some of these assignments, the little ones, the ones that I have time for and I will send them in to the site and I will also cross-post them here. I’ve got to do something with myself. I’ve cried twice looking at the book. This can only be a good thing.
Misadventures. 