There's a place for us.

Somehow we gotta get these kids together in the new year! Dontcha think??

2010 is the future

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Chris Eigeman Quotes-Part Two

Kicking and Screaming-Max
1.
Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it.
Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for?
Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.

2.
Max: What I used to able to pass off as a bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life.

Victorian Photocollage

Overview: Sixty years ahead of the avant-garde, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects.

With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of photography in the 1860s and 1870s on their heads. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as accomplished hands of their makers, as they take on new theories of evolution, the changing role of photography, and the strict conventions of aristocratic society. Together they provide a fascinating window into the creative possibilities of photography in the Victorian era and enduring inspiration for photographic experimentation today.

(Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 2 – May 9, 2010,)

It's gonna be a good year.

The Walkmen. Filmed in one continuous shot on August 14, 2009 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. (Thanks Laura for the link!)

A dishonest man lives here

Been watching the Mad Men these days. For those of you familiar with the first season, here is a list of "hobo" signs as referenced in episode 8, "The Hobo Code".

(Dishonest Man is third from the right, bottom row)

Ode to Chris Eigeman: Part One

Oh Chris Eigeman, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

No one can pull off delightfully self-hating, uppercrusty, quasi-bourgeois, sincerely sarcastic yet slightly feigned outrage like you. I will be posting some of my favorite quotes from your oeuvre, starting with The Last Days of Disco. 

The Last Days of Disco-Des McGrath

1. "Group social life has its place, but at a certain point other biological factors come into play. Our bodies weren't really designed for group social life. A certain amount of pairing off was always part of the original plan."

2. "You know that Shakespearean admonition: "To thine own self be true"? It's premised on the idea that "thine own self" is something pretty good, being true to which is commendable. But what if "thine own self"is not so good? What if it's pretty bad? Would it be better, in that case, *not* to be true to thine own self?...See that's my situation.