Here is my cool New York City moment of the week. I went down to Chinatown with my man to meet up with a friend of ours for dim sum. It doesn't get more gay in the city than dim sum for brunch on a Sunday afternoon. We had all filled our bellies with yummy morsels and were standing outside saying our good-byes when one of our company looked past my shoulder and said "Is that Chuck Close?" I had seen him speak at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of years ago, watched every documentary of him, and flipped through or own every book on him. "Yes it is..." I replied. It took all of my will to not go over and bother the guy and tell him how awesome I think he is and that his work has inspired me more than most artist. I am by no means a name dropping a-hole, I swear, flip back in this blog if you don't believe me. Seeing Chuck Close in Chinatown is definitely up there in NYC highlights for me...I love the degeruetype process he has been using lately...I am facinated by some of the first photographic processes.
1 comments:
Trippy, man. That big huge eye Got me!
I feel the same way about Lawrence Ferlinghetti as you do about Mr. Close.
I been thinkin bout you and some very good quality thoughts if i do say so myself...
I'm reading a book called "When Your Kids Drive You Crazy" and it talks about a social worker doing an experiment...he got a grant and rented a brownstone then moved in some very troubled youth (along with therapists and nurses and nutritionists etc.)These kids had been shuffled thru foster care...They were older and nobody wanted them because they were "damaged" and unable to adapt...so this social worker came up with the idea to let the children revert back to the time when they were babies. They were allowed to have bottles and cribs and were held and given the attention a baby would get for as long as they wanted. Once they had had enuf they could stop. Well, do you know after this experience 80% of those kids were placed in a home and Stayed...pretty cool, huh?
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