Archive for July, 2007

Jul 31 2007

working it out…

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I think the worst thing about having a boring office job IS the fact that it is a boring office job. How tech support companies make money and stay open is beyond me. I’d say you’d be hard-pressed to say we generate any REAL work here. I for instance do maybe 2 hours of REAL, honest to god work here in an 8 hour shift. The rest of my time is spent trying to invent new ways to NOT work. The internet proxies at these places are always downright oppressive. You can’t get to anything good, so you’re forced to read every article that’s ever been written on wikipedia, and CNN.com. That really only gets you so far into the day. Sometimes I find myself trying to sleep just so the time will pass. Blogs sometimes get you through the day, but eventually you’ve read all of the “older posts” and then you have to wait for them to be updated. So you update your own blog with a bunch of useless crap about how your job sucks, while you wait for somebody else to update their blog about how much their job sucks. Technology has brought us so far.

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Jul 06 2007

we’re digging it: the grand scale sculptures of Ron Mueck

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Ron Mueck: Sculptures

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

June 24 - October 21, 2007

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
http://www.themodern.org/
817-738-9215
3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, TX 76110 map

For those children of the 80’s out there Ron Mueck was part of Jim Henson’s creature shop back when they made Labyrinth. He has a fine art career now doing large scale installation sculptures like the one above (In Bed, 2005. Mixed media, 63 3/4 x 255 7/8 x 155 1/2 in. (161.9 x 649.9 x 395 cm). He has 13 of his works on display at the Ft. Worth modern right now they are worth checking out.

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Jul 06 2007

stuff I’m digging: the deceptive work of Kirk Hayes

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Burning Castle, 2005, oil on signboard, 44×27

Kirk Hayes…I’m not usually a huge fan of trompe L’oeil because I think it is widely used to evil ends but these oil paintings are amazing if you didn’t know any better you would just dismiss them as more of that found object collage that is so popular with the kids these days…Hayes is represented by conduit gallery in Dallas Texas.(photo from www.conduitgallery.com)

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Jul 06 2007

too much rain

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so lake Texoma should crest soon…this could be exciting…
(photo from cnn.com)

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