Another friend had visited the MoMA earlier in the week and when I asked him his opinion, he responded that it was very "Modern". Fair enough. Then he told me that there was a Video Game exhibition on.
Showing posts with label Museum of Modern Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum of Modern Art. Show all posts
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Reasons to Visit the MoMA: For Art, For Jokers, and For an "Arcade"
Last Thursday on a whim and at the kindness of a friend, I visited
the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Why did he really send me there? I
suspect it has something to do with the fact that he thinks that I am an
uncultured peon. Bless his heart...
Another friend had visited the MoMA earlier in the week and when I asked him his opinion, he responded that it was very "Modern". Fair enough. Then he told me that there was a Video Game exhibition on.
Another friend had visited the MoMA earlier in the week and when I asked him his opinion, he responded that it was very "Modern". Fair enough. Then he told me that there was a Video Game exhibition on.
Monday, June 16, 2008
OOF, Not Entirely
The day began with McDonald's brekkie. After the third time of having a half day sickness from the buiscuit from previous McDs' experiences, I decided to get a bagel instead. Surprise, surprise, that seems to have worked for me. I thought it was just everything about that place that got me ill but I guess it was just my beloved buiscuit. Meh.
We then went to the Virgin Megastore where they were having their awesome $10.00 summer sale. I came out empty-handed. What's so awesome about that sale? It just is, okay? It just so turns out that I already had copies of what was on sale though I have to say it really pissed me off to see Radiohead's Pablo Honey on sale for $10.00 after convincing myself 10 years after it's release that I would never find it for anything less than 16.99, and finally took the plunge and bought it at that time at that price. Curses!
The only thing I would have picked up was Jeff Buckley's Grace but like an ass, I didn't. I don't know why I didn't either because I've known I'm supposed to have that thing for years now, and expect to be judged now for saying I don't. Curses!
Maybe the recession made me walk out of there with all my cash intact or maybe it was the fact that I knew I'd be spending money when Chrissy Lee and I visited the MOMA, that's the Museum of Modern Art for you peons who don't know (see how one trip there makes me smug? Now I know how Apple users feel!).
$20.00 a piece later, we ran around the great space that is that building and saw naked lady statues, tried to flip coins to be caught in pictures in front of naked lady statues, surrounded ourselves by a racist visual exhibit by Olafur Eliasson in which everyone under the yellow lights became, and to quote Chrissy Lee, "the same pale colour" (sounds racist to you guys too, right? Yeah. The exhibit was still very cool though...you know, minus the racist factor), walked around some suspect pieces of 'art', viewed ourselves from a window x50 instead of a building across the street and questioned the value of OOF (let it be known though that there's nothing greater than OOF!).
Random photos from the Museum I:
Like H1 and Sons before us, I will attempt to rename some of the things I saw today.
I call this one - Where's the coin?!
It's barely obscured by the... never you mind that.
Vertigo to a Hippie and to Me!
I Like It, The Girl is Not Included but Makes For Some Goo'd Times
I Don't Know What's Up With The Duck Ass Either...
...But The True Beauty is That The Picture's Not Coming Off The Wall, Not That I'm Saying There's Anything Beautiful About a Lady Duck Ass
Since Blogger's being a PITA currently, part II will come in the near future.
After scouring the museum for 1.45 hours, Chrissy Lee realised that he had not seen the apple cube. I had to explain to him that it was not a permanent fixture (and who would want that shart as a permanent exhibit, really?) but he insisted we must have missed it. So off he tried to go to the paintings and sculpture section to which I held my head in shame and asked him if he was sure that would be in that section.
Coming to his senses, we wandered back to the trash...uh, I mean, the floor for architecture and something, something and discovered that an IBM had taken its place. Hahahahahahaha. Ah, no, not really but it was gone. And even though it's not as if Chrissy Lee's room at home isn't a museum itself housing the same cube apple thingie that used to be at the MOMA, I guess it was kind of rough on him not seeing it there.
After much disappointment (for him), we went to Pongsri after dodging the KFC and had some good time Thai Food. Then it was off to work for me to drop off the remaining food. See that? I can never have a day off without being OOF completely, even if I go there to not work but what do I care? I got to use the bathroom and drink water.
Not much happened after that - we walked around some more to find a wallet, drank java bits frappucino from Starbucks and ate Ben & Jerry's that was not the one I wanted. Instead of the effin' "Imagine Whirled Peace", I ended up eating "Cinnamon Bun". Those people wanted me to start a war up in there.
So that's it, we went to collect H1 from her horrid day at the jorb and then we went home and played Lexitron on the train, as we escaped a terrible thunderstorm.
Now my head hurts and I'm OOF to shower.
Heehee, that is a gross misuse of the word OOF.
Still the greatest piece eva'!
Memorable Quotes and Conversations of the Day:
Chrissy Lee: H1, you should have seen these nasty bagels that looked like lumps of shit.
Or 2: They weren't bagels. They were croissants. Covered in paint. Red and blue. I don't know what lumps of shit he was talking about.
Alex: Maybe he crushed that butterfly because you know, the butterfly was sickly and retarded.
Chrissy Lee: So you crush it because it's a little slow?!
While watching Independence Day,
Or 2: Did they (the humans) outfit the alien spaceships with seatbelts?
Chrissy Lee: I don't know...
Or 2: Huh. I guess the aliens did it. Who knew (that aliens were so conscious about safety)?
We then went to the Virgin Megastore where they were having their awesome $10.00 summer sale. I came out empty-handed. What's so awesome about that sale? It just is, okay? It just so turns out that I already had copies of what was on sale though I have to say it really pissed me off to see Radiohead's Pablo Honey on sale for $10.00 after convincing myself 10 years after it's release that I would never find it for anything less than 16.99, and finally took the plunge and bought it at that time at that price. Curses!
The only thing I would have picked up was Jeff Buckley's Grace but like an ass, I didn't. I don't know why I didn't either because I've known I'm supposed to have that thing for years now, and expect to be judged now for saying I don't. Curses!
Maybe the recession made me walk out of there with all my cash intact or maybe it was the fact that I knew I'd be spending money when Chrissy Lee and I visited the MOMA, that's the Museum of Modern Art for you peons who don't know (see how one trip there makes me smug? Now I know how Apple users feel!).
$20.00 a piece later, we ran around the great space that is that building and saw naked lady statues, tried to flip coins to be caught in pictures in front of naked lady statues, surrounded ourselves by a racist visual exhibit by Olafur Eliasson in which everyone under the yellow lights became, and to quote Chrissy Lee, "the same pale colour" (sounds racist to you guys too, right? Yeah. The exhibit was still very cool though...you know, minus the racist factor), walked around some suspect pieces of 'art', viewed ourselves from a window x50 instead of a building across the street and questioned the value of OOF (let it be known though that there's nothing greater than OOF!).
Random photos from the Museum I:
Like H1 and Sons before us, I will attempt to rename some of the things I saw today.
I call this one - Where's the coin?!
It's barely obscured by the... never you mind that.
Vertigo to a Hippie and to Me!
I Like It, The Girl is Not Included but Makes For Some Goo'd Times
I Don't Know What's Up With The Duck Ass Either...
...But The True Beauty is That The Picture's Not Coming Off The Wall, Not That I'm Saying There's Anything Beautiful About a Lady Duck Ass
Since Blogger's being a PITA currently, part II will come in the near future.
After scouring the museum for 1.45 hours, Chrissy Lee realised that he had not seen the apple cube. I had to explain to him that it was not a permanent fixture (and who would want that shart as a permanent exhibit, really?) but he insisted we must have missed it. So off he tried to go to the paintings and sculpture section to which I held my head in shame and asked him if he was sure that would be in that section.
Coming to his senses, we wandered back to the trash...uh, I mean, the floor for architecture and something, something and discovered that an IBM had taken its place. Hahahahahahaha. Ah, no, not really but it was gone. And even though it's not as if Chrissy Lee's room at home isn't a museum itself housing the same cube apple thingie that used to be at the MOMA, I guess it was kind of rough on him not seeing it there.
After much disappointment (for him), we went to Pongsri after dodging the KFC and had some good time Thai Food. Then it was off to work for me to drop off the remaining food. See that? I can never have a day off without being OOF completely, even if I go there to not work but what do I care? I got to use the bathroom and drink water.
Not much happened after that - we walked around some more to find a wallet, drank java bits frappucino from Starbucks and ate Ben & Jerry's that was not the one I wanted. Instead of the effin' "Imagine Whirled Peace", I ended up eating "Cinnamon Bun". Those people wanted me to start a war up in there.
So that's it, we went to collect H1 from her horrid day at the jorb and then we went home and played Lexitron on the train, as we escaped a terrible thunderstorm.
Now my head hurts and I'm OOF to shower.
Heehee, that is a gross misuse of the word OOF.
Still the greatest piece eva'!
Memorable Quotes and Conversations of the Day:
Chrissy Lee: H1, you should have seen these nasty bagels that looked like lumps of shit.
Or 2: They weren't bagels. They were croissants. Covered in paint. Red and blue. I don't know what lumps of shit he was talking about.
Alex: Maybe he crushed that butterfly because you know, the butterfly was sickly and retarded.
Chrissy Lee: So you crush it because it's a little slow?!
While watching Independence Day,
Or 2: Did they (the humans) outfit the alien spaceships with seatbelts?
Chrissy Lee: I don't know...
Or 2: Huh. I guess the aliens did it. Who knew (that aliens were so conscious about safety)?
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