Descending Ashtray

I guess we’ll find out. I had an eye exam about two weeks ago that identified me with astigmatism. Basically, my eye is shape d more like a football when it should be round like a basketball. Sarah helped me pick out some frames (made right here in Portland), and here I am.

I am getting so old.

Question for discussion: Did any famous artists have glasses?

Also - I watched “Modigliani” this weekend in preparation for my upcoming post, “Top 5 Films About Artists.” This will not be in the top 5. Pretty interesting story, but very spotty acting and the premise of it “not being a true story” from the get go seemed to color things negatively for me. That and the slowness. The end was more exciting, but the first 100 minutes dragged on a lot. Horribly uneven soundtrack, too, from period jazz to techno opera in the space of 10 minutes. Bleh.

This Old House magazine has posted two galleries full of “worst practices” (I, II) in remodeling/home repair projects. I found some of them laugh-out-loud funny, and others all too true. My friend Dan had a virtual garden similar to this one growing in his gutters a couple of years ago.

I’ve spent all weekend applying finishing touches to the Labyrinth. I will post more photos tonight or tomorrow, but it’s been too much work to post! Here’s about 45 minutes worth of this weekend’s work compressed to 2.5 minutes. Enjoy.

For any readers (hello?) in the Portland area, PICA’s TBA:06 festival begins tomorrow. I am planning on checking out the visual art exhibits, perhaps the opening music performance by John King tomorrow, as well as the Scout Niblett show.

Gabe sent me this amazing video last week with the following note attached:

Dave,

Gabe

I love this blog. Click the thumbnail above to download Gabe’s movie. It’s a 51 MB Quicktime movie.

This is a nice overlap of interests - a site I designed for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, or PICA.