hmm...

"The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.  Its function is nostalgic.  It is the final empty claim for the continuing values of an oligarchic, undemocratic culture.  If the image is no longer unique and exclusive, the art object, the thing, must be made mysteriously so."

-Ways of Seeing, John Berger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mona-lisa_in_the_Louvre.jpg

on art.

"The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.  Sometimes the painting was transportable.  But it could never be seen in two places at the same time.  When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image.  As a result its meaning changes.  Or, more exactly, its meaning multiplies and fragments into many meanings."

-Ways of Seeing, John Berger

how does this happen...

first day of classes; less than a week of living in my dorm room, and already my desk looks like a tornado swept across it.

okay, an excuse to put off the neuroscience and biology reading at least another hour.  must. clean. room.

to escala's [intense] palladio.

vespa time!

fashion @ the mfa

I went to this exhibit earlier this week - hadn't been too familiar with Richard Avedon's work before, but now...wow!

some of my favorites - from the series In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort

and I especially love his 1950s work (maybe it's just because I love the glamorous New Look)...

Dovima with Elephants

cambridgetime!

OH THE HEAT.  And then good ol' Hurricane Earl's supposed to come...

Anyway, I put my camera around my neck, put it on "continuous" mode, and randomly held down the shutter button while walking down the street.  With interesting results.  Most of them rather bad, or of the sidewalk or something.  But interesting - to me, anyway!

approaching lady...

ooh, i'm a fast walker; past the lady and onto construction!

my shadow...

travelling.

back in cambridge, mass. - and getting ready for school!  first day of classes next wednesday!

took these pictures of, presumably, l.a., from my airplane window, all lit up and fascinating! plus you can see one of the wings in the background. the purple around the bottom border is from the lighting in the inside of the plane...leave it to virgin (america) to try to make things hip.