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Went to the Neue Gallerie today with my friend Kenna. Beautiful building with a great cafe but 2/3 of the museum were closed so there was literally just one room open with some pretty impressive Gustav Klimts. The day was absolutely beautiful, too. Today looks like it will be even better. I snapped this photo in the museum.
Poster in a hallway at the Neue Gallerie
Tags: gustav klimt, museum, neue gallerie
my insomnia has eased and i am sleeping again. The NYTimes has been running a fantastic series on insomnia. Sometimes you feel like the only person in the world who can’t sleep. I love this quote in particular: Because insomnia is triggered, at least in part, by anxiety about insomnia, the worst thing we can do is think about not being able to sleep.
I went to a new doctor today and it was one of the strangest experiences i have ever had. What was supposed to be a routing checkup and prescription renewal for Ambien turned into a 2 hour lecture on how men are leaders and women partners and how i should pray before bed and read the Bible. He also put me in some sort of Medieval-looking contraption to check my posture and it turns out I have mild scoliosis and one shoulder is higher than the other. I probably should have gotten up and left near the beginning but i was so shocked and fascinated as to where he was going I stayed and listened. I eventually got my prescription. I will not see him again, though.
Here is a link to a great story called “So You Call Yourself a Designer?”
http://designreviver.com/articles/so-you-call-yourself-a-designer/
What a rough few nights i’ve had. My insomnia is back in a big way. Time to get that ambien refilled. I fell asleep in Documentary class yesterday morning very embarrassing. The worst part is not having the energy to do the things I want to like hit the MoMA or Noguchi museums like I had hoped. Hopefully it will pass soon, it usually does after a few days. I’m very excited about going to the tennis exhibition at The Garden tomorrow. Serena and Kim Clijsters will be there. I’m reading some poems for my Gotham class and am thinking that I should be putting some of my thoughts down to paper while I’m in this dark place. I used to love writing poetry.
Here’s a great color theory web page i grabbed off of Twitter:
Tags: insomnia, kim clijsters, poetry, serena williams, tennis
It finally snowed the other night, about 10 slushy inches. Now everything is coated with ice. I stupidly tried to go running today and nearly broke a leg.
More is apparently on the way Monday night. Quite a Winter we are having here in NYC.
I’m spending this Valentine’s Day with my friend January. We’re going to maybe see the movie The Last Station with Helen Mirren and then dinner at Motorino (best pizza in the world).
School is going really well. Both of my professors are incredibly interesting people. Just found out that my professor Jill Magi is considered one of the top 50 writers by Poets & Writers magazine.
Tags: helen mirren, jill magi, motorino, poets & writers, running, snow, the last station, valentine's day
Went on a fantastic photo shoot yesterday for the New York Enterprise Report with the CEO of A&M/Octone records, a really cool gentleman by the name of James Diener. He was really pleasant, charming and even brought us over to his ridiculously sick house off of University Place in the Village.
He has the most lovable English Bloodhound and the craziest collection of guitars i’ve ever seen. Very personable, down to earth guy, though. The shots came out fantastic and I can’t wait to get my hands on them and start working on the cover. Thanks to George Koroneos for the fantastic shots.
I’ve been having a rough couple of weeks personally, but school has started and I am enjoying my courses so far. Would love some more freelance work, though. Hire me!
Went out last night with friends and had a great dinner at Aurora, a wonderful Italian restaurant in Williamsburg.
Afterwards, we went dancing at Sugarland, a small but fantastic club on North 9th. The place was wall to wall packed. $6 vodka tonics, you can’t find that in Manhattan, that’s for sure.
I didn’t get in until 2am last night, and that hasn’t happened in a long time.
I also started my Documentary Forms class at City College yesterday. Should be a really interesting class. We watched Nanook of the North, which I had heard about but had no idea how moving and groundbreaking it was.
It was filmed in 1922 and follows an Eskimo (their word, not mine) in the Hudson Bay area of North Canada as he and his family live off of the harsh land, including spearing walrus and seals and skinning them and eating their meat. I found it hard to watch at points and was glad it was in B&W. In the opening, they describe the Eskimo as simply and happy-go-lucky, but it seemed there was very little actually simply about how they live. Our lives seem remarkably tame by comparison.
So apple released the iPad upon the world today. Seemed at first like the beautiful marriage of a kindle and an iPod touch. I still don’t understand the inability to multitask and the lack of any camera whatsoever. I think I’ll pass and wait to see what’s inside iPad 2.0.
Working from home now for the first time in my life. It has its ups and downs.
I love being able to get up and start working when i first get up, which is admittedly earlier than the rest of the East Coast.
Tags: east coast, freelance
Hey world, this is my first attempt to post to my blog from my iPhone. This could change my world. Hope it works.
genius. i found out today that i can get a wordpress app for my iphone, allowing me to post on the go. i am obviously a terrible blogger but now that i know i can do it on the go, much like tweeting, i expect to do much more blogging “from the road.”
Tomorrow I have my orientation at City College. I am really excited about starting school again and finishing my art history degree. What I do after that is still unclear. I’m almost 39 so starting over in a new field is challenging and scary, especially considering I’ve spent the past 10 years establishing myself as a graphic designer and art director. Thank goodness my monetary demands are small and I’m able to work a job now that pays 2/3 what I was making just six months ago, and one that allows me to give a lot of time to furthering my education.
I’m hoping to see Avatar for the third time this weekend. I can’t explain why I love this movie so much. Maybe it’s the incredible visual beauty of it or the incredible action, and I’m even a sucker for the probably hokey love story.
I watched a great doc tonight on Jeff Koons, an artist I am conflicted about. I was a big fan of his in the early 90s but his blatant attempt to recreate Warhol’s Factory leave me a bit cold to his most recent work, save “Puppy.” I loved “Puppy.”
Tags: app, art director, art history, Avatar, city college, graphic design, iphone, jeff koons, twitter, wordpress
